America’s Worst Unsolved Crime: The 1913 Italian Hall Disaster
June 1, 2013Italian Hall, December 1913by David RobbMichigan’s Upper Peninsula is cold in the winter, with temperatures often dipping below zero, but Christmas Eve 1913 was particularly cold. The...
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July 22, 2013A Polaroid photo found in a busy parking lot in Florida gave two families in New Mexico hope that their children were still alive.by Paul BuchananOn June 15, 1989, a woman in Port St. Joe,...
View ArticleCold Case: The Keddie Murders
Aug. 22, 2013Sharp familyCold Case: The most brutal murders in Plumas County history occurred on April 11, 1981 in Keddie, California, a down on its heels resort town that time had passed by. No one...
View ArticleWalking in a Killer’s Footsteps
Sept. 2, 2013An edited extract from Cold Case Files: Past crimes solved by new forensic science– winner of Australia’s 2012 Davitt Award for best true crime book and available for Kindle in the United...
View ArticleJustice in New Zealand Cold Case
Sept. 9, 2013Menzies HallettFor 33 years, Menzies Hallett got away with murder because a New Zealand law prohibited Hallett’s wife from testifying against him without his permission. by Lisa AgnesBy...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Cold Case: The Murder of the Black Dahlia
Jan. 3, 2014Elizabeth ShortWhen the severed, mutilated corpse of Elizabeth Short was discovered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947, the search for the murderer of the “Black Dahlia”...
View ArticleForever 5: The Kidnap and Murder of Doreen Heskett
Doreen Heskett When the badly decomposed remains of 5-year-old Doreen Heskett were discovered in a cow pasture eight months after she was abducted from a busy street, the citizens of Napa discovered...
View ArticleSearching For A Link To A Broken Lifeline
Fifteen years after the rape and murder of high school senior Noa Eyal, a man was arrested on a charge of domestic violence and was forced to provide a DNA sample. A year later, in 2014, that sample...
View ArticleBurlington, Kansas, Skin Labs: A Revenge Story
The brutal murder of Ted Brown and his teenage son would have been a capital crime had Brown Sr. not been a sex-offender in Burlington, Kansas, for years, a fact authorities tried to keep under wraps...
View ArticleCold Case: The Murder of Betsy Aardsma at Penn State
Twenty-two-year-old grad student, Betsy Aardsma, was stabbed to death among the book shelves of the Pattee Library at Penn State University in 1969. Her murder remains unsolved. by Cal Schoonover The...
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