STAFFORD COUNTY, Va. March 7th, 2024 Deputies with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) arrested a man accused of killing two women in Virginia in the 1980s, nearly four decades after the murders. On Nov. 14, 1986, 32-year-old Jaqueline Lard was working at Mount Vernon Realty in the 300 block of Garrisonville Rd. SCSO said she […]
Philadelphia Pa. July 25, 2023 A retired minister in Georgia has been charged with murder in the slaying of an 8-year-old girl whose remains were found in southeastern Pennsylvania almost a half-century ago. David Zandstra, 83, of the Atlanta suburb of Marietta is charged with criminal homicide, first–, second- and third-degree murder, kidnapping of a […]
Ozark Alabama June 15, 2023 In 1999, two 17-year-old girls in south Alabama made calls from a payphone, telling their parents they were lost on the way home from a birthday party. The next day, they were found shot dead in the trunk of their car parked near a small hospital in Ozark. The crime went […]
Canada May 19, 2023 Provincial police have identified human remains pulled from a car at the bottom of Lake Ontario as those of David Hannah, a prison guard who disappeared more than 40 years ago. Police divers stumbled across his car while searching for a completely separate, submerged vehicle in January. It was hauled to […]
Montgomery County MD September 9 2022 Maryland police said Wednesday that detectives cracked the 51-year-old cold case murder of a fellow officer. Larry David Smith, also known as Larry David Becker, was arrested last week for the slaying of Montgomery County Special Deputy Sheriff James Tappen Hall in 1971. “The murder of Special Deputy Sheriff […]
CHARLOTTE NC July 30 2022 — The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has announced a new partnership to help solve cold cases. The department is working with the North Carolina Unidentified Project, a group that helps departments pay for the advanced forensic technology needed to identify victims. Channel 9 learned the partnership is already paying off. CMPD said […]
Richmond VA June 25 2022 In 1991, three teenagers stumbled upon a headless, handless body which had lied for months near a busy Virginia Beach intersection. Without fingerprints or teeth, police were unable to identify person, presumed to be a young white male. The body of John Doe has remained unidentified — and his killing unsolved […]
LAS VEGAS NV April 29 2022 DNA found in a Las Vegas murder victim’s pocket led to the arrest of a man nearly a decade later, the 8 News Now I-Team has learned. Police took Alvin Harrison, Jr., who detectives said was 17 at the time of the murder, into custody last Friday, records showed. On […]
CULLMAN, Ala. April 28 2022 Investigators with a north Alabama sheriff’s office arrested a 74-year-old man in connection to a cold case murder investigation beginning over 30 years ago. WAFF reported that on Tuesday, Marvin McClendon, 74, was arrested by the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office and charged with a murder that he allegedly committed in 1988 […]
HAZLETON, Pa. Feb 15, 2022— DNA and a 20-year-old genealogy expert helped state police identify the man who abducted, raped and murdered a young girl in a cold case that rattled a Pennsylvania coal town nearly six decades ago, officials said. State police exhumed the long-dead assailant’s body last month and said his DNA precisely […]