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fromBoston.com
3 days ago

New DNA testing confirms serial killer Ted Bundy killed a Utah teen in 1974

New DNA testing confirmed Ted Bundy killed 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime in 1974, linking him to another unsolved murder.
#homicide
California
fromABC7 San Francisco
4 days ago

DNA on cigarette links suspect to 'brutal' San Rafael homicide cold case, solving 1966 murder

A 60-year-old homicide case was solved using DNA evidence from cigarette butts, identifying James Switzer as the suspect in Marjorie Rudolph's murder.
SOMA, SF
fromSan Jose Inside
5 days ago

DA Hires Stanford Grad to Run County Crime Lab

Sandra Burnham Sachs is the new chief of the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Crime Lab, succeeding Dr. Ian Fitch.
Roam Research
fromArs Technica
6 days ago

What happened to Amelia Earhart? New book takes on the case.

Rachel Hartigan's book, Lost, explores Amelia Earhart's mysterious disappearance and the theories surrounding her life and fate.
DC food
fromTruthout
1 week ago

How Maryland's Medical Examiner Helped Conceal Suspicious Deaths

Dr. David Fowler's controversial rulings on deaths in police custody have sparked significant media scrutiny and debate over his use of the excited delirium theory.
Pets
fromIndependent
1 week ago

'I was sure there was someone in that grave': Fresh dig at land linked to Larry Murphy

A cadaver dog named Charlie searched for human remains in a wooded area after a local farmer's tip.
#murder
London politics
fromwww.bbc.com
1 week ago

Man denies murdering two women and raping another

A man has pleaded not guilty to murdering two women in London and faces multiple charges including rape and grievous bodily harm.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Jamie Lee Curtis to lead Murder, She Wrote reboot movie

Jamie Lee Curtis will star as Jessica Fletcher in a film reboot of Murder, She Wrote, set for release on December 22, 2027.
fromwww.npr.org
1 week ago

Her mother murdered her father in an infamous case. Now, she's telling her own story

Didion describes San Bernadino County as 'the country of the teased hair and the Capris and the girls for whom all life's promise comes down to a waltz-length white wedding dress and the birth of a Kimberly or a Sherry or a Debbi and a Tijuana divorce and a return to hairdressers' school.'
Arts
#cold-case
US news
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

She was found nude in a ditch. L.A. prosecutors say they've solved tragic 30-year mystery

DNA evidence linked 63-year-old Brian Walton to the 1996 sexual assault and fatal stabbing of 23-year-old Claudia Guevara; he was charged with murder.
US news
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 months ago

San Jose: Toilet bowl phlegm leads to arrest in 1997 killing of elderly woman

A DNA and genealogy match from mucus found in a victim's toilet led to the arrest and extradition of a suspect in a 1997 homicide.
US news
fromSFGATE
2 weeks ago

Missing mother identified as Sierra's mysterious Emigrant Gap Jane Doe

A woman identified nearly 50 years after being found strangled in a snowbank in the Sierra.
California
fromSFGATE
2 weeks ago

Arrest made in extremely rare Lafayette homicide case

A welfare check in Lafayette led to a homicide arrest, marking a rare incident in the city's history of low crime rates.
SF parents
fromUs Weekly
3 weeks ago

Murder of NY Mom Solved Five Decades After She Was Killed

Investigative genetic genealogy solved the 52-year-old murder of Barbara Waldman, identifying sanitation worker Thomas Generazio as the killer, who died in 2004 before charges could be filed.
SF LGBT
fromLGBTQ Nation
3 weeks ago

Amateur gay detectives finally crack the case of "The Gay Dahlia" - LGBTQ Nation

A documentary about murdered gay adult film performer Bill Newton evolved into a true crime investigation that solved his 1990 unsolved murder case through amateur detectives and resulted in an on-camera confession.
Books
fromThe New Yorker
3 weeks ago

Patricia Cornwell on Crime and Creativity

Fear is the primary obstacle to creativity; overcoming it and persisting through rejection enables successful creative work.
US news
fromParade
2 weeks ago

Nancy Guthrie Exclusive: Retired Detective Flags Curious Detail in WiFi Jammer Theory

A WiFi jammer may have disrupted surveillance cameras during Nancy Guthrie's disappearance, aiding in her alleged kidnapping.
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 weeks ago

Muriel McKay family speak out after bone found in search was non-human

Mark Dyer, Ms McKay's grandson, stated that the family has experienced a rollercoaster of emotions since the bone found was confirmed not to be human. He expressed a sense of calm, stating, 'We're surprised but I feel sanguine about all of this.'
London politics
Women
fromSilicon Canals
4 weeks ago

Psychology says the true crime audience is overwhelmingly women not because women are morbid but because women are the primary targets of the crimes being described - and learning the patterns isn't entertainment, it's threat intelligence dressed up as a podcast - Silicon Canals

Women's high consumption of true crime content represents threat assessment and safety education rather than morbid entertainment preference.
#cold-case-resolution
SF parents
fromNew York Post
3 weeks ago

Long Island cops break decades-old cold case of woman bound, murdered in home invasion

Long Island police identified sanitation worker Thomas Generazio as the killer in a 1974 murder case using familial DNA, exonerating the victim's father who faced decades of social stigma.
SF parents
fromNew York Post
3 weeks ago

Long Island cops break decades-old cold case of woman bound, murdered in home invasion

Long Island police identified sanitation worker Thomas Generazio as the killer in a 1974 murder case using familial DNA, exonerating the victim's father who faced decades of social stigma.
#black-dahlia-murder
Boston
fromBoston.com
1 month ago

Foul play suspected after human remains found in Shirley, police say

Human remains discovered in Shirley water near Maritime Veterans Memorial Bridge with suspected foul play under investigation by police and state detectives.
US news
fromSFGATE
3 weeks ago

Arrest made in killing of Calif. woman who livestreamed sister's death

Obdulia Sanchez, who livestreamed a deadly 2017 car crash, was killed in a shooting in December; a woman was arrested on suspicion of her murder.
SOMA, SF
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

2 women found dead a week apart in same Northern California motel room

Two women died a week apart at the Lamplighter Inn in Eureka from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by malfunctioning heating systems and missing detectors.
UK news
fromwww.bbc.com
1 month ago

Officers face probe over murdered women contact

Ten Met Police officers face misconduct notices for failing to properly investigate reports from two women murdered by the same man, including dismissing a murder call as a hoax.
#homicide-investigation
fromIndependent
1 month ago

Larry Murphy buried vehicles on land now being searched in missing-women investigation, new witness statement claims

Convicted rapist Larry Murphy was seen burying two vehicles on land now being searched by ­gardaí investigating the murders of Jo Jo Dullard and ­Deirdre Jacob, cold case investigators have been told.
Miscellaneous
#kidnapping-investigation
Science
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

How a recent shift in DNA sleuthing might help investigators in the Nancy Guthrie case

Investigators are using forensic investigative genetic genealogy and additional DNA methods to find a suspect and locate 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie after CODIS returned no matches.
US news
fromMen's Journal
1 month ago

Nancy Guthrie Update: Detective Makes Startling Claim About Case

Gated communities' security features may paradoxically create vulnerabilities by fostering disconnected residents and predictable routines that criminals exploit.
fromThe Conversation
1 month ago

Revisiting the story of Clementine Barnabet, a Black woman blamed for serial murders in the Jim Crow South

From November 1909 until August 1912, an unknown assailant - or assailants - zigzagged across southwestern Louisiana and southeastern Texas. Many Black families were slaughtered in their homes under the cover of darkness. An ax - the telltale weapon - was almost always found in the bloody aftermath. All but one of the scenes were located within a mile of the Southern Pacific Railroad's Sunset Route. In each case, a mother and child were always among the victims.
Philosophy
World news
fromwww.independent.co.uk
2 months ago

Identity of Thames torso murderer may finally have been uncovered

A possible identity for the Thames Torso Murderer has emerged after 139 years of reinvestigation, linking a forgotten Victorian killer to multiple dismemberments.
History
fromwww.standard.co.uk
2 months ago

Historian Lucy Worsley believes team have solved Thames Torso murder mystery

Historians identify James Crick, a violent bargeman, as the likely Thames Torso Murderer who dismembered multiple women in late Victorian London.
Television
fromBoston.com
2 months ago

Separating fact from fiction in the Karen Read Lifetime movie

Lifetime's film condenses Karen Read's three-year legal saga into under 90 minutes, recreating key scenes while taking liberties and omitting details.
Podcast
fromwww.ocregister.com
2 months ago

Michael Connelly says same killer committed Black Dahlia, Zodiac murders

A researcher links the 1947 Black Dahlia murder and the Zodiac killings to one suspect, prompting Michael Connelly's podcast and renewed investigation.
Miscellaneous
fromIndependent
2 months ago

Three forensic reports examined as inquiry into Kelly Marie Lynch's death nears completion

Kelly Marie Lynch, 23, found dead in the Ulster Canal with 93 injuries; Garda peer review of three pathology reports nears completion.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Amateur YouTube detectives' constant streams put cases in jeopardy: It's clickbait'

On the 10th day of the search for Nancy Guthrie, reporters camped outside of the missing woman's home noticed a strange man strut right up to the front door. It had been more than a week since the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie had disappeared, and authorities had just announced they had a new lead from Ring footage of what looked like a potential subject attempting to tamper with the doorbell camera on the morning of her disappearance.
US news
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Genealogical sites have helped solve major crimes. Police in Nancy Guthrie's case might turn to them

Investigators may use DNA genealogy databases to match DNA from Nancy Guthrie's case and potentially identify suspects or relatives when CODIS yields no matches.
#missing-person
fromFortune
1 month ago
US news

FBI's search for Nancy Guthrie has few leads, with potential break in the case fizzling | Fortune

fromFortune
1 month ago
US news

FBI's search for Nancy Guthrie has few leads, with potential break in the case fizzling | Fortune

fromFortune
1 month ago

Desperate federal investigators weigh using DNA genealogy websites for Nancy Guthrie case | Fortune

The strategy could be fruitful: If unidentified DNA evidence can be connected to someone - even a distant relative - in a common genealogy database, it would give investigators more information and possibly lead to a suspect in Guthrie's kidnapping in Arizona. "It's a fantastic tool," said Ruth Ballard, a geneticist in California who specializes in DNA and has testified in hundreds of court cases. "If it's a good quality sample and they're able to get a profile, they could find a hit on that fairly quickly."
US news
US news
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Nancy Guthrie case continues to captivate the public three weeks after her disappearance

Extensive U.S. media coverage has focused on the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, mother of journalist Savannah Guthrie, amid possible kidnapping and ransom claims.
#nancy-guthrie-disappearance
#nancy-guthrie
#savannah-guthrie
fromIndependent
1 month ago
US news

'Uniquely complex' - Countless questions remain around the mysterious kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie

fromIndependent
1 month ago
US news

'Uniquely complex' - Countless questions remain around the mysterious kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie

#missing-person-case
US news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

US serial killer confesses to 1965 murder of 18-year old woman in New Jersey

Richard Cottingham confessed to killing 18-year-old Alys Eberhardt in 1965, prompting New Jersey police to close the cold case.
US news
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

FBI says it arrested a 'total imposter' for trying to profit off Nancy Guthrie's disappearance with a bogus ransom

FBI arrested an alleged imposter who sent a bogus ransom demand tied to the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie.
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