cold case

A retired Massachusetts Department of Corrections employee has been arrested in connection with the murder of 11-year-old Melissa Tremblay nearly 35 years ago in Lawrence. Marvin “Skip” McClendon Jr., 74, of Breman, Alabama, was arrested Tuesday night in Alabama, Essex District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett announced at a press conference Wednesday morning. He was charged as a fugitive from justice and…

Fairfax County police arrested and charged an Ashburn, Virginia, man with the 1987 abduction and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl. William Clark, 59, was charged for the alleged crime that began outside a radio station. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had a lawyer. The arrest 35 years after the assault was made possible through advancements in DNA and…

The break in a decades-old cold case came from a lucky break by out-of-state police. Law enforcement officials will not discuss how they solved the case, but the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has learned it started with Oklahoma police finding a private journal with a confession to a crime nearly 1,500 miles away.

The break in a decades-old cold case came from a lucky break by out-of-state police. Law enforcement officials will not discuss how they solved the case, but the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has learned it started with Oklahoma police finding a private journal with a confession to a crime nearly 1,500 miles away. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken has...

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday announced it has made an arrest in a decades-long cold case homicide. Stephanie Magallon reports.

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday announced it has made an arrest in a decades-long cold case homicide.

Alameda police believe they have solved a murder 45 years after it happened thanks to new technology.

Alameda police believe they have solved a murder 45 years after it happened thanks to new technology. Marianne Favro reports.

An Alameda cold case homicide has been solved 45 years after the crime was reported.

The identity of the man who killed Michelle Marie Veal more than 25 years ago is now known, according to investigators with the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office.

San Francisco police on Thursday doubled the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the “Doodler,” a notorious serial killer who terrorized the city’s gay community in the 1970s, and identified a possible sixth victim in the case.

San Francisco police on Thursday doubled the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the “Doodler,” a notorious serial killer who terrorized the city’s gay community in the 1970s, and identified a possible sixth victim in the case.

San Francisco police on Thursday reportedly plan to announce that they’re doubling the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the “Doodler,” a notorious serial killer who terrorized the city’s gay community in the 1970s.

A Colorado man suspected in the 1978 slaying of a 15-year-old girl visiting San Francisco will be arraigned on murder charges Thursday, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said Wednesday.

A Southern California woman killed in 1977 has been identified by a cold case team, after skeletal remains found in 1986 were identified this week as those of a missing Riverside woman.

Police said Sunday they have cracked a decades-old cold case with the arrest last week of a Colorado man in connection the slaying of a 15-year-old girl visiting San Francisco in 1978.

Police said Sunday they have cracked a decades-old cold case with the arrest last week of a Colorado man in connection the slaying of a 15-year-old girl visiting San Francisco in 1978.

Sheriff’s officials say they have discovered the 1974 Pinto a 22-year-old student was driving on his way back to Auburn University from Georgia when he disappeared more than 45 years ago

DNA recovered from the interior of a conch shell thought to have been used as a weapon in the 2001 killing of a Massachusetts woman has led to the indictment on a murder charge of the victim’s half-brother, prosecutors said.

The FBI wouldn’t specifically link the Jimmy Hoffa case to its recent search at the Pulaski Skyway, but it’s right near an old landfill where the former Teamsters boss was rumored to have been buried in a steel drum.