Cold Cases

Louise Springer was a well-off hairdresser in Los Angeles before her murder in the 1940s. Her case is filled with plenty of suspects, but few answers.

A teen, Courtney Coco, was found dead in an abandoned building in Texas in 2004 and police in Louisiana now say they have arrested the murder suspect.

California police are set to make a major announcement in connection to the Kristin Smart disappearance case. Reports are officers have made an arrest in the case.

A man already in prison for killing his girlfriend in 2009 was recently given another 40 years behind bars after he confessed to the 1989 murder of his estranged wife.

Police are now using DNA tracing to help solve cold cases involving the death of newborn babies. Here are three recent cases that authorities made arrests thanks to DNA technology.

Two teenage girls were murdered in New Hampshire in 1973 and their case is now cold. But, a former detective named a suspect with little evidence and divided a town.

Police in Colorado said they have arrested a suspect in connection to a 36-year-old cold case murder. The victim was found dead at his home in 1985. DNA helped nab the suspect decades later.

An anonymous donor has given money to Indiana police to help capture whoever killed Abigail Williams and Liberty German in Delphi. The reward is now $325,000.

Virginia Hannon was murdered in 1984 and her case went cold. Until 2020, when a man confessed on his death bed that he killed the school lunch lady.

A graduate student at San Fransisco State in California was killed days after submitting his thesis and weeks before graduation in 2017. Years later, he is a cold case with no arrests.

Police in Pennsylanvia arrested a man in conneciton to a 45-year-old cold case murder. They also identified the pregnant teenager who was the victim in the case.

Lindsey Baum went missing in 2009 and her remains were found years later. While there have been persons of interest, police have yet to make an arrest in the murder case.

Police in Georgia said they arrested a suspect in connection to a 16-year-old cold case. They also say the same person is a suspect in a sexual assault case.

Here is the story of a triple homicide at Lava Lake in Oregon. All fingers point to one suspect, but why was he never charged with the murders?

An 18-year-old was shot and killed in New Orleans the day before he left for the U.S. Air Force in 2012. Police have yet to make an arrest in the cold case.

Starr Faithfull was a socialite in the early 20th Century. But, allegations of child sex abuse and a life of drugs and sex sent her spiraling. Did it play a part in her death?

For more than 30 years, the youngest victim of the "Green River Killer" was unnamed. That changed this year thanks to DNA. Here is her story.

Mary Alice Ellicott was murdered 40 years ago and her killer was never caught. Michigan police are reopening the case and asking for the public's help to solve it.

Police in California are conducting a new search in connection to Kristen Smart, who went missing 25 years ago. Dogs searched the home of the father of a key suspect.

Two people were murdered in the Paradise neighborhood of Las Vegas in 2017. Three years later, police have yet to make an arrest in the case.

Bob Crane was known for his role on "Hogan's Heroes," but he was living a secret life steeped in sex. He was found murdered in his apartment, but who did remains a mystery.

Tavon Derron Lavar Hill, 20, is accused of bludgeoning a man to death and wrapping the body in a tarp. He was arrested years after the alleged crime.

Marinthia Ann McCoy went missing in Florida more than 30 years ago. While police continue to ask for information in her cold case, her family believes she is dead.

A man in Milwaukee faces more than 70 years in prison after police charged him in connection to the fatal shooting of a convenience store worker in 2012.

A 21-year-old and another person were gunned down in Chicago in 2017. Three years later, police have not made any arrests in the case.

Genetic genealogy helped connect Alan Lee Phillips, a semi-retired mechanic, with the victims and solve a decades-old Colorado cold case.

Here are the stories of four people murdered by serial killers, though their identities have never been confirmed.

The 'Ice Box Murders' shocked and horryified Houston when they happened, but is the suspect tied to the killing of JFK? Here is a look at the crime that shocked Texas.

Friends and family of Melanie Meleney insist she was murdered in Maryland and some of her body parts have been found. But, police continue to investigate her disaperance as a missing person case.

Las Vegas area police say a man confessed to two separate killings that have been unsolved for 25 years. But, now he says he wasn't the shooter.

Police in Colorado announced they arrested a man in connection to a murder from 1981. The cold-case murder was helped solved by DNA from a Coke can.

For more than 40 years, police didn't know the ID of a woman found dead in a Florida canal. Last year, she was identified as Nicki Elkins, but police still want help finding her killer.

Alexis Murphy went missing in 2013 and a man was convicted of her murder, without the body being found. Virginia officials announced they found the remains.

The half-brother of JonBenet Ramsey is set to be on the Dr. Oz show to talk new DNA efforts. The Colorado pageant child's killing still garners interest decades later.

Here are some of the most notable cold cases at U.S. National Parks. They include tales of death and disappearance.

The remains of two Indiana teenagers were found on Valentine's Day 2017. Three years later, their killer remains free.

A man who reported his girlfriend’s death in North Carolina on Christmas Eve 2003, now faces accusations of her murder 17 years later.