cold case

John Martin and Mike Sullivan, two half-brothers from Florida, have made a name for themselves using sonar technology to locate submerged vehicles and help solve cold case mysteries throughout the Sunshine State.

A former pastor has been arrested in connection to the 1975 murder of an eight-year-old girl named Gretchen Harrington in Marple Township, Pennsylvania.

A suspect has finally been arrested in a more than four-decades-old California murder case after DNA from a 1994 rape helped identify him.

Authorities say they have finally identified a California woman found in a refrigerator 27 years ago with the help of DNA technology.

The mother of a newborn who was found dead off the Florida coast in 2018 is facing a first degree murder charge.

A man from Pennsylvania has been accused of killing a 19-year-old woman nearly 50 years ago after investigators were finally able to get his DNA sample.

The CEO of software company ReadyTech, John Woodward, has been arrested in connection with the 1992 murder of computer engineer Laurie Houts in Mountain View, California, the heart of Silicon Valley. Woodward has faced trial twice in the murder, with both trials ending in hung juries. Authorities believe that new DNA techniques have finally provided the evidence needed to prove their case.

A podcast focusing on the 1996 disappearance of college freshman Kristin Smart has helped California police make arrests in the 25-year-old cold case. Law enforcement officials credit the Your Own Backyard podcast with bringing “valuable” evidence forward that led to murder charges against the long-time suspect in Smart’s disappearance.

Three arrests have been made in connection with the cold case of 16-year-old Amber Woods, who was found dead 14 years ago along a Florida road.

A Texas sheriff’s cold case unit is bringing comfort and some degree of closure to the families of victims who have long-since gone missing. In the past year, the unit uncovered two victims who had been unidentified for 30 and 40 years, respectively.

After more than 45 years, James Alan Neal has been arrested for the alleged murder of 11-year-old Linda O’Keefe in July 1973 in California.

59-year-old John Miller was arrested on Sunday for the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl on Good Friday thirty years ago.

A suspect confessed to a 32-year-old cold case murder and turned himself in because he felt he had to “right the wrong that he had done.”

Public DNA profiles are being used to lead police investigators to suspected murderers from “cold cases,” with at least four men arrested since April, according to a report.

Alleged “Golden State Killer” Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested this week after being tracked down by thanks to advances in DNA technology — and the emergence of genealogy websites.