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Westport Police Ask for Help Solving 1989 Cold Case Murder
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…
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Long Island Mother's Plea for Help to Find Son's Killer
Family and friends of Danie Philistin publicly plea for people to come forward with information about his death. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.
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Brooklyn Mom Pleads for Help Finding Son's Killer, Fast Cash Reward Now on Table
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.
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FBI Offers $25K Reward in Hunt for 1987 East Village Murder Suspect
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…
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Long Island Children Get Shopping Spree Thanks to ‘Shop With a Cop' Program
Fifty children were selected from the Westbury school district to shop with a cop. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.
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Oregon Man Arrested in 1974 Cold Case Murders of 2 Teens
An Oregon man was arrested this week after being linked to the 1974 cold case homicides of two teenagers, authorities said.
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Police Seek Info on Man ‘Lady of the Dunes' Married Months Before Her Death
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.
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FBI Identifies ‘Lady of the Dunes,' Murder Victim Found Nearly 50 Years Ago in Massachusetts
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.
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New DNA Technology Solves 1976 Cold Case Murder of WWI Veteran
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.
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Mystery 1976 Cold Case Murder of WWI Veteran in NYC Finally Solved With New DNA Tech
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.
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Body of Virginia 17-Year-Old Who Went Missing in 1975 Identified
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.
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Prosecutors: Inmate Confessed to Killing 4 Women in 1990
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...
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Colorado Man Convicted in 1982 Slayings of 2 Women
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…
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66-Year-Old Indicted in NYC Pregnant Woman's Strangling Death Years After Killing Another
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.
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DNA Leads to Arrest of Hawaii Man in Brutal 1982 Slaying of California Teen Who Disappeared From Bus Stop
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.
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Bronx Man Charged In 1996 Cold Case Murder
Today a man was charged with murder nearly three decades after the crime. Ida Siegal reports.
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Jasmine Porter Case: Man Charged With Murder in NYC Woman's 1996 Killing
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…
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DNA Helps Investigators ID Teen Victim of Serial Killer 41 Years Later
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.
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Alleged Killer Charged 40 Years After Death of Long Island Teen ‘Princess Doe'
Authorities have identified one of New Jersey’s oldest cold case victims.
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‘Princess Doe' in 1982 NJ Cold Case Identified as Long Island Teen; Killer Charged 40 Years Later
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…