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Police are hoping new DNA and digital imaging technology can help them solve a nearly 45-year-old killing of a young woman in Davie.

Police said Glen Samuel McCurley was in custody Tuesday in connection with the 1974 murder of Carla Walker, who was 17 years old when she was abducted, held captive and eventually murdered.

Yaser Abdel Said, a Lewisville cab driver wanted in connection with brutal slayings of his two teenage daughters, is in custody in North Texas after 12 years on the run.

A DNA match has solved the strangulation murder of a teenager in southeast Alaska, a case that was cold for 24 years and saw another man acquitted of the crime after confessing, Alaska State Troopers said Tuesday. DNA obtained from Steve Branch, 66, of Austin, Arkansas, at an autopsy matched that of a sample left at the scene where Jessica…

More than three decades after a 26-year-old woman was found strangled to death on the embankment of a Carlsbad roadway, the man believed to be responsible for her slaying has been arrested, the Carlsbad Police Department announced Friday.

Officials say they’ve solved the 1991 murder case of a teenager who was raped and strangled with her bikini top on Valentine’s Day in the Florida Keys.

Walter Ogrod was convicted of killing 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in 1988. But the evidence showed there was no way he could’ve done it.

Detectives are struggling to connect with victims through thick masks, and investigators accustomed to wearing plainclothes are digging out their dusty uniforms for patrol duty as the coronavirus pandemic rages

Authorities served another search warrant Wednesday morning at the San Pedro home of a former classmate of Kristin Smart, a California college student who disappeared in 1996.  The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that it served a search warrant at the home of Paul Flores, who is considered a person of interest in Smart’s...

A Florida police department says it solved a 35-year-old homicide by using DNA to find a relative of the alleged killer and then creating a family tree to track him down.

Detectives in Northern California say they have solved a decades old killing after using the same genealogy tool credited with the arrest of the alleged Golden State killer. Vallejo police said Thursday they identified the suspect accused of raping and strangling Naomi Sanders inside her apartment in February 1973. The 57-year-old divorcee lived alone and was the apartment building’s manager…

Police served search warrants at the home of the man who was last seen with 19-year-old Kristin Smart before she disappeared on her college campus in 1996. Angie Crouch reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020.

Police in Antioch are crediting advancements in technology for a recent arrest in the 15-year-old homicide of a teenage boy.

Adam Brundage went missing in 2004. This month, his former roommate admitted to beating him in the head with a baseball bat and burying his body at a Bucks County quarry.

Police have arrested a man they say was involved in dozens of attacks on women in South Florida during the 1980s.

A woman in Virginia has been charged in the death of a newborn baby nearly 17 years after his body was found in a park. A grand jury in the city of Chesapeake indicted Melissa Sue Chrisman, 41, on charges of felony murder and felony child abuse and neglect, The Virginian-Pilot reported. Police spokesman Leo Kosinski declined to identify Chrisman’s…

FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service have been searching for Jose Angel Solorio since he fled to Mexico after the June 7, 1987 gun attack inside an apartment in Ramona

Detectives solved the 1981 murder of a Florida woman by using advanced DNA testing to discover the suspect was the football coach of one of her sons, police said. The Lakeland Police Department said Joseph Clinton Mills, 58, has been arrested on charges he raped and killed Linda Patterson Slaten, on Sept. 4, 1981, when she was 31. Slaten was…

A Bakersfield man pleaded not guilty Thursday in the murders of two young women in the 1980s, including a Reseda resident whose body was found in the trunk of her car in a Burbank parking lot. The case against Horace Van Vaultz Jr. marks the first criminal prosecution in Los Angeles County involving investigative genetic genealogy, in which detectives access…