This is a general discussion thread for cold cases, cold case innovations, or possibly to break out into a thread, if the interest goes that way.
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Cold Cases
1998 sexual assault cold case solved with blood sample from suspect’s autopsy
The suspect died in 2014, but his fingerprint and blood sample matched DNA collected in 1998
West Falls Church VA
Aug. 17, 1998 the suspect appeared as an exterminator and forced entry into a 32-year-old woman's home. The man threatened the victim with a gun and sexually assaulted her before she jumped two stories from a balcony to escape.
DNA and fingerprints were taken as evidence from the scene, but the suspect's identity was not found. In early 2019, detectives resubmitted suspect's DNA and fingerprints and received a fingerprint hit for Juan Johnson of Maryland. Johnson died in 2014 at age 48, but a blood sample from an autopsy allowed the Virginia...
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This is a general thread for short discussions on very old unsolved cold cases.
Please note that if the case starts an active discussion, moderators may create a new thread highlighting said case.
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Hello Crimewatchers! I am so glad to be back after that little hiatus during the new year! I have some news to share with everyone concerning TCCF, and because of the awesomeness that CW has offered toward my project, I am happy to release some things in advance of tomorrow's important announcement.
1. We Ran Into A Little Problem: TCCF has always been the place for Daisy and I to discuss cold cases that rarely ever get the attention that they deserved. We tried our best to help bring these cases to light in an attempt to reinvigorate said cases. In fact, we have an interesting number of people who tune into the Anchor podcast vs. our YouTube channel. However we had some issues ranging from a creative "snag" on my end, in which I kinda...
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You may remember this case:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-massachusetts-corrections-officer-arrested-1988-slaying-11-year-old-girl
Melissa Ann Tremblay disappeared in Lawrence, Massachusetts, at the age of 11 on a Sunday evening in 1988 and was found the next day after being stabbed to death and hit by a train.
More than three decades later, her alleged killer was arrested in Alabama and will be returned to Massachusetts to face justice. Marvin McClendon, Jr., a 74-year-old retired Massachusetts Department of Corrections officer, was taken into custody by the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office and will be arraigned in an Alabama court later this week.
Tremblay went with her mother to LaSalle Social Club in Lawrence on September 11...
2007 Boca Raton mall murders: Watch what police have to say
The slayings of Nancy Bochicchio, 47, and her daughter, Joey Bochicchio-Hauser, 7, shocked the community and drew national attention. They were found bound and shot in an SUV in the parking lot of the Town Center mall shortly before midnight Dec. 12, 2007.
Boca Raton police, in an interview with the Sun Sentinel and a video released Tuesday, are updating the public on what’s known about the Bochicchios’ case and a separate kidnapping likely carried out by the same man.
As the 10-year anniversary nears, finding the killer remains a high priority.
“We’re still working this. We’re going to continue to work this,” says Police Capt. Matthew Duggan, whose agency has combed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_JonBenét_Ramsey#/media/File:Jonbenet-ramsey.jpg
Texas father still looking for answers, justice in 2010 death of Hailey Dunn
https://www.reporternews.com/story/news/2019/12/27/father-clint-dunn-seeks-answers-death-hailey-dunn-colorado-city-texas-2010-cold-case/2752190001/
The disappearance of 13-year-old middle school student Hailey Dunn in Colorado City hits its nine-year anniversary this month with her father, Clint Dunn, still looking for answers.
"I feel like I'm left in the darkness because law enforcement is not communicating with me at all," said Clint Dunn, speaking via telephone this week. "... This needs to move forward."
Hailey's death remains unsolved, though her remains were found in 2013 in Scurry County.
Investigators named Shawn Adkins, the live-in boyfriend of...
Faith was a 19-year-old junior at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill when, on the morning of Sept. 7, 2012, a returning roommate discovered her body in a bedroom of the off-campus apartment they shared, according to the roommate's 911 call.
An autopsy revealed Faith died after a severe beating to the head; investigators believed the weapon was an empty but unbroken bottle of Bacardi peach-flavored rum found at the scene, covered in blood.
From that moment on, police have searched unsuccessfully for an assailant.
https://people.com/crime/faith-hedgepeth/
https://www.wthr.com/article/burger-chef-murders-25-year-old-mystery
Burger Chef murders, a 25-year-old mystery
Who did it? Who robbed the Burger Chef restaurant? Who murdered four employees?
"That ended up, as of today, the only unsolved major case in my career." Ken York, former detective with the Indiana State Police, is one of the original investigators on the Burger Chef murder case.
He's retired now, a private investigator.
The case may be unsolved, but York thinks he knows who did it. "Unless someone proves differently or someone confesses between now and then, I'll go to my death bed believing I know who killed those kids."
It happened in November 1978 at the Speedway Burger Chef. A Friday night. Four employees on duty...
:geek: OK everyone. I'm looking at a really old case here...
Timeline: 1977 to 1987 and possibly beyond...
Victims:
Cathy Millican
Bernice Coutermache
Ellen Fried
Elizabeth Critchley
Eva Morse
Lynda Moore
Barbara Agnew
With the exception of Lynda Moore {who was killed at home} all of the victims were taken away alive and killed later. Their bodies were all found in woodland areas that suuround rivers. The Conneticut River mainly and the Little Sugar River. This offender is kn own for stabbing his victims numerous times and leaving them in woodland areas. Not sure though if the victims are killed in the woods. Many of these woodland areas surround rivers. The stabbing is the penetration with this offender. He chooses sites first and...
On July 13th, 2012 Elizabeth Collins, age 8, and her cousin Lyric Cook, age 10, went for a bike ride in Evansdale. The two never returned and their abandoned bikes were later located on a trail in the southeast corner of Meyers Lake later in that day. A large search was executed in Evansdale and their disappearance was investigated by local, state and federal officials.
On December 5th, 2012 hunters in the Seven Bridges Wildlife Park discovered the bodies of Elizabeth and Lyric. Seven Bridges Wildlife Park is approximately 25 miles from where they disappeared.
To this day, no arrests in their disappearance and murder have been made.
Tips may be submitted by calling the Evansdale Police Department at 319-232-6682, emailing the Iowa...
David Michael Grubbs
BIRTH 23 Nov 1987
DEATH 19 Nov 2011 (aged 23)
David was 23 when he was attacked & killed by an unknown assailant while walking home from work along the central bike bath in Ashland Oregon near Hunter Park.
A sharp edged blade was used in the attack and David was nearly decapitated.
David was found by someone using the bike path at approximately 5:30 pm and 911 was called.
Anyone with additional related information to contact the Ashland Police Department at 541-488-2211.
Find-A-Grave
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/99432526/david-michael-grubbs
Timeline
https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/grubbs-murder
November 15 2012...
Just starting another thread since one hasn't been re-started since the crash of '20.
The SFPD said, soon after the GSK was nabbed, that they'd use a similar technique with the Zodiac's DNA. Due to the amount of time that has passed, I'm assuming nothing came of it.
After a decade, knowing didn’t bring relief
Melissa Baum wears a silver necklace holding a small silver pendant with a ruby. Contained within the pendant are half the remains of her daughter, Lindsey.
It’s been 10 years since Lindsey disappeared during a 10-minute walk to her home in McCleary on a hot summer evening June 26, 2009. It’s been a little more than a year since Melissa Baum was told her daughter’s partial remains had been found hundreds of miles away in the middle of the state and she knew for sure her daughter had been murdered.
During the decade that followed her daughter’s disappearance, Melissa has seen her daughter’s friends grow up, graduate from high school, go to college, marry, have children of their own. Melissa...
On a sweltering August day in 1992, Tammy Jo Zywicki dropped her younger brother off at Northwestern University in Illinois, and set out for Grinnell College in Iowa, excited for her senior year.
The 21-year-old never made it.
Hours after Tammy left the Chicago area and headed west toward Iowa on I-80, her white 1985 Pontiac 1000 hatchback was found abandoned on the side of the road, five miles east of LaSalle, Illinois.
Tammy — an upbeat, athletic, talented amateur photographer from Marlton, New Jersey — was nowhere to be found.
For nine days, her family, friends and the police looked for her.
Their...
Hello! This new site is fantastic. Thank you to the Admins for the new look. 🙏🏼❤
I wanted to re-create a thread here that was on the last crimewatchers.net site and is no longer 😢
in 2015, I was very interested in looking back into the West Mesa Bone Collector case. I have an admittedly OCD fascination with tracking serial killers who have yet to be apprehended and theorizing their movements/potential victims etc. With that being said, I decided to attempt a comparison between the West Mesa victims unearthed in 2009 and any other crimes fitting a similar MO. (For those who need a quick update on the West Mesa Bone Collector Case, here’s some quick info: West Mesa murders - Wikipedia )
While I was studying the West Mesa case I...
https://celebrity.nine.com.au/latest/natalie-wood-death-what-happened-lookback/e51ae3c9-7ae7-4b1d-8154-bf58e5b7bb12
On December 1, 2017, at approximately 7:00 pm, deputies with the Park County Sheriff's Office were dispatched to a house fire located at 3763 County Road 43 in Bailey, Colorado. It was reported in a 9-1-1 call that people were inside the residence causing damage. At least one male was on the property. After the fire was extinguished at the residence, Maggie Long's remains were discovered by fire rescue personnel. The El Paso County Coroner's Office later ruled her death a homicide. Long was 17 years old at the time of her death. Investigative efforts at the scene revealed a physical altercation took place between Long and her assailants before the fire started. The suspects stole a Beretta handgun, an AK-47-style rifle, 2,000 rounds of...
This has been a long time coming.
A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after murdering a couple he lured to buy a classic car almost a decade ago.
Ronnie Adrian “Jay” Towns pleaded guilty to two counts of malice murder in connection to the deaths of Bud and June Runion. Towns was sentenced to two concurrent life without parole sentences.
The Runions, who were from Cobb County, Georgia, were robbed and shot to death before their bodies were found in Telfair County, Georgia, in January 2015.
Authorities said the couple drove three hours to Telfair County to meet someone offering to sell Bud Runion a 1966 Mustang.
Law enforcement officials said Towns lured the Runions to Telfair County by replying to a Craigslist...
Alonzo Brooks was last seen on the evening of April 3, 2004 attending a party at a rural home outside of La Cygne, Kansas. His family reported him missing after he did'nt returned home. Alonzo's body was found in a nearby creek on May 1, 2004. He was 23 years old at the time of his murder.
Department of Justice and FBI are investigating Alonzo's death as a racially motivated hate crime.
https://www.crimewatchers.net/media/before-he-was-murdered-alonzo-brooks-was-last-seen-on-the-evening-of-april-3-2004-attending-a-party-at-a-rural-home-outside-of-la-cygne-kansas.528/
Watch as this 19 year old case is experiencing a resurgence by 2 very determined men who
remember the murder & seeing her burned home near their apartment.
TARA LOUISE BAKER
Tara was murdered in a heinous fashion on January 19, 2001 one day shy of her 24th birthday. The epitome of overkill: Tara was beaten, stabbed, and strangled. A sexual assault was not ruled out. The killer even went so far as to set her apartment on fire. Her laptop was stolen.
According to the Augusta Chronicle: "Investigators identified at least three possible suspects after the murder, including a man Baker was dating, a fellow law school student, and an attorney at a local firm Baker worked for. Authorities will not say if the men still are under suspicion...
Carol Ryan was last seen on September 1, 1996 leaving East Room Bar off of James Street at approximately 2 a.m. Several hours later she was found seriously injured and left to die on Route 91 in Jamesville, NY. Carol was taken to the hospital where she died from her injuries after five hours of surgery.
Authorities stated that Carol had been brutally beaten and somebody had inserted an explosive device into her vagina. No one was been charged in this case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Amy_Mihaljevic
Amy Renee Mihaljevic (December 11, 1978 – October 27, 1989) was a ten-year-old American elementary school student who was kidnapped and murdered in the U.S. state of Ohio in 1989. Her murder case received national attention. The story of her unsolved kidnapping and murder was presented by John Walsh on the television show America's Most Wanted during the program's early years. To date, her killer has not been found, yet the case remains active; new information in 2007 and 2013 has increased hopes of resolving the case.
Disappearance and murder
On October 27, 1989, Amy Mihaljevic was kidnapped from the Bay Square Shopping Center in Bay Village, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.[1] The...