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45 Years Later, California Murder Mystery Solved Through DNA Evidence
17-year-old Esther Gonzalez's body was found in a snowpack near a highway in Riverside County, California, on February 10, 1979.
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TikToker Takes Ancestry DNA Test. It Solves 27-Year-Old Murder Mystery
A 23-year-old girl has claimed that her decision to take an ancestry DNA test may have helped police solve the 27-year-old Baby Garnet case, sending her grandmother to jail.
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Dutch Police Use Hologram To Solve 2009 Amsterdam Sex Worker's Murder
The Netherlands Police are using an innovative life-size hologram of a sex worker, killed in Amsterdam in February 2009, to uncover new information about the cold case and bring her killer or killers to justice.
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South Korean Man Arrested 16 Years After Burying Girlfriend In Cement On Balcony
A construction worker repairing a leak on the rooftop balcony stumbled upon a travel suitcase encased in concrete and bricks, containing the partially preserved remains of the victim.
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How A 44-Year-Old Cold Case Murder In US Was Solved With A Cigarette Butt
A 30-year-old Boeing instructor and part-time pizza worker was found raped and strangled in her Kent, Washington condo in February 1980.
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US Serial Killer Confesses To Kidnapping, Killing 18-Year-Old Woman 44 Years After Case Went Cold
Decades after committing the crime, a convicted serial killer admitted to murdering a young woman in Florida, US, in 1980.
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Bracelet, Rose Tattoo: Interpol Shares Clues To Solve Decades-Old Murders
Interpol on Wednesday launched a campaign asking members of the public to come forward if they can help identify the bodies of 22 women believed to have been murdered in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in recent decades.
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DNA On A Cigarette Butt Solved A 52-Year-Old Murder Case In US
By identifying the killer's DNA on a cigarette butt left at the crime scene, police in the United States were able to solve a 52-year-old cold case murder of a schoolteacher.
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Delhi Car Accident Victim's Family Press For Murder Charges, Stage Protest
Braving biting cold, family members of Kanjhawala case victim Anjali Singh on Tuesday staged a dharna outside Sultanpuri police station here and demanded that the accused be charged with murder.
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How Delhi Cops Posing As Insurance Agents Cracked 25-Year-Old Murder Case
Kishan Lal, who lived in Tughlaqabad area of Delhi, was stabbed to death on a cold February night in 1997 and the killer was untraceable.
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French Murder Cracked 36 Years After Crime
French prosecutors said Thursday they had cracked a 36-year-old cold case after charging a man with the murder of a young woman who disappeared in a small Alpine town in the 1980s.
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"No One Ever Had Doubt": Amit Shah's Attack After Sajjan Kumar Conviction
BJP president Amit Shah on Monday seized on the conviction of Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case to target the Congress, saying no one had any doubt on its role in the riots and alleged its "leaders and workers went on rampage raising provocative slogans" and "murdering men in cold blood".
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DNA Leads To Murderer Of 8-Year-Old US Girl, 30 Years After Crime
A 59-year-old Indiana man will be formally charged on Thursday with the 1988 murder of an eight-year-old girl after the decades-old cold case was cracked open by DNA evidence linked to a genealogical website, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Priest Sentenced To Life For Murdering Texas Beauty Queen In 1960
A retired Catholic priest convicted of murdering a former beauty queen who came to him for confession was sentenced to life in prison by a jury in south Texas on Friday, local media reported, ending a cold case that has troubled the community for nearly 60 years.
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After 43 Years, Investigator 'With Free Time' Cracks California Girls' Murder Case
An investigator "with a bit of free time" decided to send for testing DNA samples from a long-dormant cold case, which led authorities to arrest a pair of men linked to the 1973 shotgun slayings of two young girls, authorities said.
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45 Years Later, California Murder Mystery Solved Through DNA Evidence
17-year-old Esther Gonzalez's body was found in a snowpack near a highway in Riverside County, California, on February 10, 1979.
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TikToker Takes Ancestry DNA Test. It Solves 27-Year-Old Murder Mystery
A 23-year-old girl has claimed that her decision to take an ancestry DNA test may have helped police solve the 27-year-old Baby Garnet case, sending her grandmother to jail.
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Dutch Police Use Hologram To Solve 2009 Amsterdam Sex Worker's Murder
The Netherlands Police are using an innovative life-size hologram of a sex worker, killed in Amsterdam in February 2009, to uncover new information about the cold case and bring her killer or killers to justice.
-
South Korean Man Arrested 16 Years After Burying Girlfriend In Cement On Balcony
A construction worker repairing a leak on the rooftop balcony stumbled upon a travel suitcase encased in concrete and bricks, containing the partially preserved remains of the victim.
-
How A 44-Year-Old Cold Case Murder In US Was Solved With A Cigarette Butt
A 30-year-old Boeing instructor and part-time pizza worker was found raped and strangled in her Kent, Washington condo in February 1980.
-
US Serial Killer Confesses To Kidnapping, Killing 18-Year-Old Woman 44 Years After Case Went Cold
Decades after committing the crime, a convicted serial killer admitted to murdering a young woman in Florida, US, in 1980.
-
Bracelet, Rose Tattoo: Interpol Shares Clues To Solve Decades-Old Murders
Interpol on Wednesday launched a campaign asking members of the public to come forward if they can help identify the bodies of 22 women believed to have been murdered in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands in recent decades.
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DNA On A Cigarette Butt Solved A 52-Year-Old Murder Case In US
By identifying the killer's DNA on a cigarette butt left at the crime scene, police in the United States were able to solve a 52-year-old cold case murder of a schoolteacher.
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Delhi Car Accident Victim's Family Press For Murder Charges, Stage Protest
Braving biting cold, family members of Kanjhawala case victim Anjali Singh on Tuesday staged a dharna outside Sultanpuri police station here and demanded that the accused be charged with murder.
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How Delhi Cops Posing As Insurance Agents Cracked 25-Year-Old Murder Case
Kishan Lal, who lived in Tughlaqabad area of Delhi, was stabbed to death on a cold February night in 1997 and the killer was untraceable.
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French Murder Cracked 36 Years After Crime
French prosecutors said Thursday they had cracked a 36-year-old cold case after charging a man with the murder of a young woman who disappeared in a small Alpine town in the 1980s.
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"No One Ever Had Doubt": Amit Shah's Attack After Sajjan Kumar Conviction
BJP president Amit Shah on Monday seized on the conviction of Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case to target the Congress, saying no one had any doubt on its role in the riots and alleged its "leaders and workers went on rampage raising provocative slogans" and "murdering men in cold blood".
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DNA Leads To Murderer Of 8-Year-Old US Girl, 30 Years After Crime
A 59-year-old Indiana man will be formally charged on Thursday with the 1988 murder of an eight-year-old girl after the decades-old cold case was cracked open by DNA evidence linked to a genealogical website, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Priest Sentenced To Life For Murdering Texas Beauty Queen In 1960
A retired Catholic priest convicted of murdering a former beauty queen who came to him for confession was sentenced to life in prison by a jury in south Texas on Friday, local media reported, ending a cold case that has troubled the community for nearly 60 years.
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After 43 Years, Investigator 'With Free Time' Cracks California Girls' Murder Case
An investigator "with a bit of free time" decided to send for testing DNA samples from a long-dormant cold case, which led authorities to arrest a pair of men linked to the 1973 shotgun slayings of two young girls, authorities said.
