The 17-year-old’s body was found in 1997 and no one was ever charged with murder. — Law enforcement representatives in the US states of Oregon and Washington are appealing to the public for help in solving a cold case murder dating all the way back to 1997. The Vancouver Police Department of Washington state and Crime Stoppers of Oregon have teamed up to call for any…

The killer of 16-year-old Krisann Baxter has been unmasked after nearly 45 years. — Authorities in Washington’s Spokane County have announced they have identified the killer of a 16-year-old girl in a brutal murder and sexual assault that took place nearly 45 years ago. Krisann Baxter was a student at the then-Joseph Jantsch High School in September 1978, but she had run away from…

A former classmate of Susan Ovington and Eyvonne Bender is hoping $10,000 will persuade someone to come forward with information. — A new reward is being offered in a cold case dating all the way back to 1979 in the hope that it will provide fresh information that could lead to a conviction. The case is the double murder of Susan Ovington and her best friend Eyvonne Bender, who were both…

An unreliable narrator, rich people drama and a dark family secret keep you turning the pages in this psychological thriller. — I was hooked on this book from the very beginning, when we join our narrator Nadine as she stands over the body of an unidentified man in the basement of her home as a party swings on upstairs. The novel then takes us back in time to much earlier in…

Ada Fritz has now been identified as a cold case murder victim in Alabama. — Authorities in Alabama have been able to close a cold case dating back almost 50 years thanks to a tiny piece of evidence found in a dental impression. The mystery began in 1976, when the body of a woman was found in Grand Bay by a couple of teenage boys…

Authorities in California have a man facing murder charges after nearly four decades. — Detectives in Modesto have announced they have arrested a man in connection with a cold case disappearance that occurred in the spring of 1986. Raymond Lewis Stafford from Texas was taken into custody this week (August 2023) accused of murder with special circumstances in the case of Susan Robin Bender. …

The disappearance of Patricia Lynn Swanberg is under fresh scrutiny. — Police in the Oregon city of Corvallis have appealed for the public’s help in solving the disappearance of a 34-year-old woman that took place in 1992. Patricia Lynn Swanberg was reported missing by her employer at a home for the elderly when she failed to show up for work on…

There have never been any arrests or leads in the 1994 cold case. — It was 1994, and Beth-Ellen Vinson was a 17-year-old girl from small-town North Carolina who had dreams of making it big. She was a talented dancer and the shows she had entered so far in her young life were not fulfilling her passion — instead, she wanted to go all…

It has been more than 40 years since the six-year-old was killed in her bed, but a landmark ruling may finally see the case solved. — Detectives in New Zealand investigating the cold case murder of a six-year-old girl are hopeful that the decision to allow them to use advanced forensic technology on the evidence could see a suspect finally being named. Genetic genealogy has been a revelation in a number of cold case murders in…