Nancy Anderson was 19 and had just started a new life in Hawaii when her life was taken. — When teenager Nancy Anderson moved from Michigan to the Aloha State in 1971, it should have been the start of an exciting new chapter in her life. But mere months later, the trusting young woman was dead — and it would take five decades before the person who took her…

He terrorised St Louis briefly in the 1990s before disappearing, but police can now put a face to the infamous name. — Authorities in Missouri have announced at a press conference that they have finally been able to arrest and charge a man in connection with four murders that happened more than 30 years ago. The so-called Package Killer has been named as 73-year-old Gary Muehlberg, who was already incarcerated for life…

Joette Marie Smith’s killer has been unmasked, but he took his own life as cops closed in. — Authorities in Santa Cruz have announced they have finally cracked a cold murder case that had tormented detectives for nearly four decades. The body of 33-year-old Joette Marie Smith was discovered in 1983, and investigators must have feared they would never be able to prove their hunch about who took…

Examining a cold case from 2000 brings up the tantalising possibility that the Washington woman fell victim to someone stalking the highway. — Sharon Christine Anderson — Shari to her loved ones — was heading out to do some Christmas shopping on December 7th 2000. However, no one could have guessed that after she casually left her home she would never be seen again. And delving into the circumstances of the disappearance opens…

A discarded napkin from a hockey game finally provided justice nearly 30 years after a brutal crime. — A man has been sentenced to life in prison for a murder he committed almost three decades ago in another triumph for the technology behind genetic genealogy. Jerry Westrom was found guilty in August of killing Jeanne Childs in her Minneapolis apartment back in 1993, and a judge said this…

The 18-year-old was abducted from a California highway, and there are chilling reports about who might have picked her up. — Robin Graham had been doing what most 18-year-olds like to do on November 14th 1970: she had been for an evening out after a shift at her part-time job. …

The teenager vanished in 1972 and was never heard from again, although she is now presumed murdered. — Police in the Californian city of Hayward have said they still hold out hope of one day solving the disappearance and presumed murder of 19-year-old Christine Marie Eastin, who vanished from a public car wash late at night. The teenager had borrowed her boyfriend’s car to go out shopping with…

Stacey Lyn Chahorski can at last be brought home and her case put to rest. — Hot on the heels of announcing the identity of a Jane Doe in a cold murder case, investigators in Michigan have now revealed they also know who it was that took her life. Stacey Lyn Chahorski was just 19 when she telephoned her mother in September 1988 to say she…

After a spectacular miscarriage of justice let the real killer walk free, police now believe forensics will zoom in on Holly Staker’s murderer. — Investigators have hinted that new analysis of forensic evidence could finally allow them to catch the killer who escaped justice for the shocking murder of 11-year-old Holly Staker in Chicago in 1992. It was the 30th anniversary of the crime on August 17th 2022, and Waukegan Police Chief Keith Zupec…