cold case

Police are looking for your help in a cold case murder investigation that happened decades ago in Westport. Authorities say then-38-year-old Joan Werktin allegedly left her home on the evening of May 24 to go grocery shopping but never returned home. Officers and firefighters were called to a reported blaze in the back of the shopping plaza at 337 Main…

Family and friends of Danie Philistin publicly plea for people to come forward with information about his death. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A Brooklyn public school student known for his football acumen was murdered on Long Island in 2021. Now Danie Philistin’s mother is speaking out.

A Manhattan murder cold case stretching back more than 35 years is getting renewed attention from federal investigators and local police with a reward offering $25,000 for information leading to an arrest. Danny Liggett is the focus of a fugitive manhunt, wanted for the 1987 killing of Kissoon Adams in a drug-buy gone wrong. The FBI New York/NYPD Joint Violent…

Fifty children were selected from the Westbury school district to shop with a cop. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

An Oregon man was arrested this week after being linked to the 1974 cold case homicides of two teenagers, authorities said.

Detectives looking into the unsolved killing of Ruth Marie Terry, known for years only as “The Lady of the Dunes,” are focusing on the woman’s relationships — including her last husband, a man who had once drawn FBI scrutiny in another killing, sources told the NBC10 Boston Investigators.

Ruth Marie Terry has been identified nearly 50 years after she was found dead on Cape Cod, east of Race Point Ranger Station on July 26, 1974.

With new DNA evidence coming to light, a man from Queens pleaded guilty to the murder of a WWI veteran who was killed and buried in a backyard in 1976. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

After an investigation that spanned five states and lasted over four decades, a man from Queens has pleaded guilty to the murder of a WWI veteran who was killed and buried in a backyard back in 1976.

A family finally has some answers about what happened to a 17-year-old girl who went missing from Northern Virginia nearly 50 years ago.

St. Louis-area prosecutors say a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for killing a man in 1995 has confessed to strangling four women five years earlier. Prosecutors from Lincoln, St. Charles and St. Louis counties, which was where the victims’ bodies were found, said Monday that Gary Muehlberg, a 73-year-old inmate at the Potosi Correctional Center in southeastern Missouri, confessed...

A Colorado man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the cold case slayings of two women whose bodies were found near the mountain resort town of Breckenridge in 1982. Alan Lee Phillips, 71, was arrested last year in the mountain hamlet of Dumont, west of Denver, after local, state and federal authorities using DNA evidence identified…

Jasmine Porter, 36, was choked to death in her NYC apartment in 1996. Her 5-year-old son was home when she was murdered — and sat alone with her body for two days before she was found.

A 75-year-old resident of Hawaii has been arrested and charged in the rape and stabbing death of a 15-year-old Palo Alto girl in 1982, authorities announced Tuesday.

Today a man was charged with murder nearly three decades after the crime. Ida Siegal reports.

An arrest was made Monday in the 1996 killing of a 33-year-old woman in the Bronx, NYPD officials announced. Gregory Fleetwood, 66, also of the Bronx, was arrested murder charges for the death of Jasmine Porter. The circumstances surrounding his arrest weren’t immediately clear, but officials said DNA was key to the investigation, as the cold case was cracked thanks…

Investigators have confirmed that remains unearthed in a Florida junk yard 41 years ago match a missing teenager, the victim of a serial killer now imprisoned for life in California, sheriff’s officials said.

Authorities have identified one of New Jersey’s oldest cold case victims.

Authorities have identified one of New Jersey’s oldest cold case victims, a female known for 40 years only as “Princess Doe” following the discovery of her body behind a cemetery off of a highway in New Jersey’s Blairstown Township in 1982. They also announced an arrest, 40 years to the day the female’s body was found behind Cedar Ridge Cemetery…