Cold Cases

FROM THE VAULT: A TRUE CRIME PODCAST THREAD! (Formerly True Cold Case Files)

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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COLD CASES: General discussion

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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RECENTLY SOLVED 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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Historic Unsolved Cold Cases *General Discussion*

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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TAMMY ZYWICKI: Who killed this Grinnell College senior in Iowa - August 1992

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...

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Are the Amber Tuccaro murder case and West Mesa Bone Collector case connected?

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...

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HAILEY DUNN: 13-year-old murdered in Texas - 28 Dec 2010 *ARREST*

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...

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Hogan's Heroes star BOB CRANE was murdered in Scottsdale, Arizona - 1978

BOB CRANE was found murdered in his Scottsdale apartment on June 29, 1978, his skull bashed in with a blunt object and an electrical cord around his neck. His death — and the sordid revelations that followed — stunned Hollywood, his fans and his family. And though it's been 40 years, and though he now knows things that he wishes he didn't, hardly a day goes by that Bob Crane Jr. doesn't think about his father. The one-time Los Angeles radio personality had only one hit television show, and it didn't even get a farewell episode because they didn't do them back then. Bob Crane Jr. said there are a number of reasons why the public still craves information about his father. First, the show is still on TV. Its World War II setting makes...

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JENNIFER JESSE March 11, 2020 Union City, Oklahoma

Jennifer was a member of the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma. OSBI RENEWING REWARD FOR INFORMATION IN THE JENNIFER JESSE HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 22, 2021 CONTACT: Brook Arbeitman (405) 879-2591 brook.arbeitman@osbi.ok.gov OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) is renewing a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the identification of a suspect in the murder of 30-year-old Jennifer Jesse. On March 11, 2020, Jesse was found deceased by Union City police officers. A passerby called 9-1-1 after discovering her body on SW 44th near Gregory Road. Jesse was positively identified on March 13, 2020. The medical examiner determined she had been shot multiple times. On March...

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MELISSA TREMBLAY: Man arrested in 1988 killing of 11-year-old girl from Salem, New Hampshire

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...

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JONBENET RAMSEY - Found dead in Boulder, Colorado on Christmas Day 1996 - Age 6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_JonBenét_Ramsey#/media/File:Jonbenet-ramsey.jpg

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ELIZABETH COLLINS & LYRIC COOK: Young cousins kidnapped and murdered in Evansdale, IA - July 2012

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...

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The Zodiac Killer in California - Identified?

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.

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TARA BAKER: Murdered in Athens, GA - 19 Jan 2001

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...

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Connecticut River Valley Killer NH - VT

2023 updated site Connecticut River Valley Killer with new timeline and information. This was done to aid in the conversation and take all scattered information and put into one place.

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Shirley(87) & Russell(88) Dermond: Murdered in Putnam Co, GA in May 2014

Missing wife of decapitated Georgia man found dead in lake May 17, 2014 With the discovery of the body of an 87-year-old Georgia woman whose disappearance came to light after her husband’s decapitated body was found in their waterfront home, authorities not only want to know who did it, but also why. Shirley Dermond’s body was found in Lake Oconee, south of Athens, Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills told reporters Friday. “We now, unfortunately, know that Shirley Dermond was murdered,” Sills said. Sills declined to discuss the condition of the body other than to say, “the head was not removed or anything like that.” The discovery adds an element to the investigation – the possibility that a boat was a mode of transportation in the...

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LINDSEY BAUM: 10-year-old abducted and murdered in McCleary, WA - June 2009 / Remains found 2017

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...

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D.B COOPER HIJACKING MYSTERY CASE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper Citizen Sleuths – citizen scientists' group's ongoing investigation "D.B. Cooper" Cold Case Team FBI Reading Room Files of the D.B. Cooper Case D. B. Cooper is a media epithet used to refer to an unidentified man who hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in United States airspace between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, on the afternoon of November 24, 1971.[1][2] He extorted $200,000 in ransom (equivalent to $1,278,000 in 2020) and parachuted to an uncertain fate over southwestern Washington. The man purchased his airline ticket using the alias Dan Cooper but, because of a news miscommunication, became known in popular lore as D. B. Cooper. The FBI maintained an active investigation for...

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AMY MIHALJEVIC: 10-year-old kidnapped and murdered in Bay Village, OH - Oct 1989

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...

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RAE ELAINE TOURTILLOT: Murdered on the Menominee Indian Reservation, WI - 15 October 1986

RAE ELAINE TOURTILLOTT Murder Victim Menominee Indian Reservation, Wisconsin October 15, 1986 Reward: The FBI is offering a reward of up to $15,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for the death of Rae Elaine Tourtillott. Details: The FBI and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin are seeking information regarding the murder of 18-year-old Rae Elaine Tourtillott. On October 15, 1986, Rae Elaine Tourtillott, an enrolled member of the Menominee Indian Tribe, was seen by multiple individuals attending a birthday party on the Menominee Indian Reservation. After the party dispersed,Tourtillott was picked up in a vehicle driven by two individuals. Tourtillott was reportedly last seen alive...

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FAITH HEDGEPETH: Murdered in Chapel Hill, NC - 2012 *ARREST*

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/

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CAROL RYAN: Brutally killed in Jamesville, NY - 1 Sept 1996 - $10,000 REWARD

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.

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The Burger Chef Murders: November 17, 1978

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...

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CANADA - HIGHWAY OF TEARS CASE

Highway of Tears https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_of_Tears The Highway of Tears is a 725-kilometre (450 mi) corridor of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in British Columbia, Canada, which has been the location of many missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) beginning in 1970. The phrase was coined during a vigil held in Terrace, British Columbia in 1998, by Florence Naziel, who was thinking of the victims' families crying over their loved ones. There is a disproportionately high number of Indigenous women on the list of victims. Proposed explanations for the years-long endurance of the crimes and the limited progress in identifying culprits include poverty, drug abuse, widespread domestic violence...

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