Tracing family trees to catch killers Inside the genetic genealogy being used to solve crimes 13:49 Authorities have identified a woman whose body was found on a California cliff nearly 60 years ago. The remains were found near the end of a road in Tiburon, California by a hunter on Dec. 18, 1966. Authorities were…
Authorities planned to pull several vehicles from the Columbia River on Thursday, including a car believed to have belonged to a Portland couple who vanished in 1958 while out for a drive with their three daughters, including two whose bodies washed up at a dam the following year. The station wagon believed to belong to…
A Florida man has confessed to murdering another man in 1997, closing a cold case that’s more than a quarter-century old, officials said. Stephen Edenfield was found stabbed and beaten inside his Tampa, Florida, condo on Feb. 1, 1997, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Monday. The night before he was found…
Nearly four decades after an 18-year-old woman was found dead inside her home in Phoenix, Arizona, police have made an arrest. Alfred Earl Green was arrested last Thursday in connection with the killing of Lachelle “Shelley” Waite. He was charged with first-degree murder, the Phoenix Police Department said in a press release on Friday. Waite was…
A suspect has been arrested 36 years after a mother of five was found dead in northern Michigan, authorities announced Tuesday. The body of 41-year-old Linda Marie Meteer was found in Michigan’s Hoosier Valley on April 27, 1989, the Grand Traverse County Sheriff’s Office said in a news conference. Meteer, from Traverse City, Michigan, had…
The remains of a man who disappeared more than 20 years ago when he was on his way to his family’s cabin have been found inside a submerged car in a Utah reservoir. The Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that human remains recovered last year from a reservoir in Duchesne County have been…
A woman who was found dead in 1982 has finally been identified, more than 40 years after her death. The remains were found by a real estate agent assessing land in Loxahatchee, Florida, in December 1982, according to a news release from Othram, a company that uses genetic genealogy to help solve cold cases. Loxahatchee…
Authorities in Utah have arrested a suspect accused of stabbing a man to death 20 years ago, in a case that went unsolved before recent technological advancements allowed an investigation to move forward. Jason Royter’s girlfriend found him dead on Aug. 6, 2005, at his residence in the Salt Lake City area. He was 33….
New DNA technology allows investigator better chance at solving decades old cold cases New DNA technology allows investigator better chance at solving decades old cold cases 02:47 Police have arrested a suspect in the unsolved murder of a Honolulu teenager, whose death rocked the high school where her body was discovered almost five decades ago….