Nineteen-year-old Melissa Witt was abducted, then murdered on her way to an Arkansas bowling alley to surprise her mother in December 1994.Nearly 30 years later, her killer has still not been apprehended. Investigators would find blood and signs of an apparent struggle in the Fort Smith Bowling World parking lot and in Witt’s abandoned car....
A suspected serial killer has been charged with the murders of three women in Southern California nearly 50 years ago. Kimberly Fritz, 18, Velvet Sanchez, 31, and Lorraine Rodriguez, 21,were all strangled to death in 1977, but investigators ran out of leads at the time. “While believing these three crimes were indeed connected, leads ran...
Nearly three decades after a teenage Montana girl was found dead near a fishing access point, a married father of two identified as her suspected killer took his own life, hours after being interviewed by investigators, authorities said Thursday. Advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy led authorities to identify 55-year-old Paul Hutchinson as the...
An Abilene, Texas, man who was arrested last year after being linked by DNA to a 1982 cold case has died while out on bond and awaiting trial. The Abilene Police Department said on Facebook that 66-year-old Billye Brown, the suspect in an ongoing cold case murder investigation into the 1982 deaths of then 30-year-old...
A California woman’s plan to fake her own kidnapping in 2016 has brought some renewed attention to the unsolved disappearance of 16-year-old Tera Smith, who vanished from a run nearly 26 years ago. While Sherri Papini’s hoax kidnapping inspired a Hulu documentary series, “The Perfect Wife,” which premiered earlier this year and made national headlines,...
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. – A year after the arrest of Rex Heuermann, a New York City architect accused of living a double life in the family-friendly Massapequa Park suburb, a task force is still pulling new evidence out of the trove of items seized during a 12-day search of his house. On July 13, 2023, Suffolk...
A suspect has been arrested in connection with a brutal 20-year-old cold case murder of a young Arizona girl. The Phoenix Police Department (PPD) confirmed to Fox News Digital in a statement that Sergio Francisco Reyes, 37, was arrested on Wednesday for the 2004 murder of 15-year-old Elena Lasswell. Reyes’ arrest comes exactly 20 years,...
California detectives arrested a man who allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered an elderly woman in 1984, when he was just 19 years old. Richard Moore had been living under the alias “Woody” or “Woody on Fairbanks,” the Sacramento News & Review reported, before he was arrested last month. Now 59, Moore pleaded not guilty to...
