Despite what some people may think, solving these cases does not always bring closure to families. They are looking for ...

Cold case files typically outlast the eras they originated in. Headlines fade, and investigators retire, but certain mysteries resurface in public memory, renewed by updated theories and modern ...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. – Cold case breakthroughs were punctuated Tuesday with hugs between grieving family members and a college intern who helped get answers. One case involved Jeanette Smith’s son, Truman ...

In July 1965, police officer Edward Nugent shot and killed John Wesley Wilder, a Black man outside a cafe in Ruston, Louisiana. The officer — who fired five times and claimed his actions were in ...

The three-part docuseries began streaming on Prime Video on Monday (July 13).

A 61-year-old Fresno man whose DNA was linked to a cold-case murder and two rape cases from the early 2000s could be responsible for other crimes, authorities said. Robert Castillo was arrested April ...

High-tech DNA testing has solved two gruesome crimes that have baffled investigators for nearly three decades — the murder and rape of two elderly Long Island psychiatric patients, prosecutors said.

Eugene Gligor has carried a relaxed and studious bearing since being locked up for a case that took police two decades to solve. He helps teach jailhouse yoga, leads “trauma talks” and has completed ...

WMU’s Cold Case Program is a force multiplier for law enforcement agencies as they work to resolve a backlog of cold case homicide investigations. “From my investigative experience,” he continued, ...

Hamilton County is pulling old overdose files back off the shelf, launching a new cold-case review panel that will reopen ...

The genealogy site’s clarification of its terms and conditions has barred those working on unsolved crimes from access to the company’s vast trove of records. By Corey Kilgannon Since online genealogy ...

A DeKalb County woman now knows the truth of what happened to her grandmother due to records being released by the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board. Now, a new bipartisan bill authored by ...