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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.

An arrest has been made in the death of a 13-year-old Bronx girl. Anjali Hemphill reports.

Investigators said that the grisly cold case may have finally been cracked after police said that they were led to the alleged killer by familial DNA evidence — the first time that the technology had been used in New York City to solve a case, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s office.

Investigators said that a cold case murder of a Bronx teen from 22 years ago may have finally been cracked, with an arrest finally made in the grisly slaying after police said DNA evidence led them to the alleged killer.

NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

This week marks the 30 year anniversary of the disappearance of Mark Himebaugh. Ted Greenberg reports.

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.

A 74-year-old New York City man was arrested and charged with murder on Wednesday following the 2019 discovery of buried remains in the yard of a Queens home that’s believed to have been there for several decades. The murder mystery in Richmond Hill began after a woman called police to say she knew about a murder that happened in the…

A 69-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing to death a National City convenience store clerk nearly half a century ago, police said Thursday.

Authorities say genetic genealogy helped lead to the arrest and indictment of a man in the 1999 slaying of a New Jersey teenager.

Police have arrested a man they said is responsible for the 1999 killing of a New Jersey high school student that had become one of Middlesex County’s oldest unsolved homicide cases.

The man accused of kidnapping and killing 17-year-old Western Hills High School junior Carla Walker in 1974 waived his right to a jury trial and changed his plea to guilty Tuesday morning.

Detectives say the 22-year-old Pata was walking from his car toward the stairs at the apartment building on Nov. 7, 2006 when he was shot.

More than 20 years after a 19-year-old woman was kidnapped and raped by a man in Escondido, an arrest has been made in the heinous case that was once cold, police announced Thursday.

After spending 24 years in prison, the Queens district attorney dropped murder charges against three men convicted in a high-profile double homicide in 1996. NBC New York’s Sarah Wallace reports.

The mother claimed at the time of 2014 arrest that her 5-year-old son disappeared when the two were at a carnival in May 1991, but investigators doubted her story — which changed several times

Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his death last week, a prosecutor said Monday. Incriminating admissions Richard Lavigne made in a series of recent interviews while in a medical facility further implicated the longtime suspect in…

The cold case of a missing Delaware County teenage girl is now a homicide investigation as police dig for evidence in the wooded area where they believe she went missing exactly 46 years ago.

San Diego County Sheriff’s Detectives had exhausted all leads to determine whose legs were found in a dumpster in Rancho San Diego in 2003. But two decades later – with the help of public genealogy databases mixed with their own investigative tools – detectives were finally able to crack the case, officials announced Friday.

A New Jersey serial killer known as the “Torso Killer” pleaded guilty Tuesday to two 1974 murders, finally closing the cold-case deaths of teenage friends who had left home for a trip to the mall and never returned. Richard Cottingham, 74, is currently in state prison on a life sentence for other murders. He has claimed he was responsible for up...