Tag Archives: cold case

Serial killings prosecutor reveals details of unidentified victim’s violent death

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney revealed new information about the Gilgo Beach serial slayings on Monday, as a multi-agency task force continues to dig into unsolved cold case murders following the indictment of local architect Rex Heuermann in connection with a half-dozen slayings in the same area. In the months after 23-year-old Shannan Gilbert placed a panicked 911 call …

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Suspected Long Island serial killer's notes outlined meticulous murder plot: court docs

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. – Prosecutors now say suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann kept meticulous notes on how to kill and get away with it as his alleged methodology changed over the course of nearly two decades and at least six murders he is accused of committing. Graphic content warning A deleted document investigators say they recovered from his computer shows he …

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Cherrie Mahan’s mom reacts to woman claiming to be girl who vanished from school bus stop nearly 40 years ago

A woman is claiming to be Cherrie Mahan, who infamously disappeared from a school bus stop as an 8-year-old girl nearly four decades ago. Cherrie vanished after getting off her school bus about 50 feet from her Pennsylvania home on Feb. 22, 1985. After 13 years of dead ends, Cherrie was declared legally dead in November 1998. But an unnamed …

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Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect allegedly has more victims, hunting grounds than police first imagined

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. – Suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann returned to a New York courthouse Thursday to be charged with killing two more women. Heuermann was indicted on two new murder charges in the deaths of Jessica Taylor in July 2003 and Sandra Costilla in November 1993. Authorities also revealed in court records that during their investigation they found …

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JonBenet Ramsey’s father John claims Colorado police officer said they are ‘just waiting' for him to die

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – John Ramsey, father of slain 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, continues to keep pressure on police nearly 28 years later, even though he says authorities are eager for him to stop asking questions. JonBenet was found beaten and strangled to death with a garrote around her neck in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado, the day …

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Gilgo Beach investigators link another victim to suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann, sources say

Long Island, New York, investigators have linked a fifth alleged victim to Rex Heuermann, the suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer who was accused last year of murdering four women and dumping their bodies along a remote highway more than a decade ago, sources tell Fox News Digital. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment but acknowledged that Heuermann …

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Florida man indicted in 15-year-old cold case murder of uncle after investigators match DNA from fork

A Florida man was indicted in New York in the 15-year-old cold case murder of his uncle after investigators matched the DNA on a plastic fork he threw away at the crime scene, the Queens District Attorney’s Office said. Anthony Scalici, 41, was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday and arraigned on a second-degree murder charge, Queens District Attorney …

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Parents of baby found dead on Vermont roadside in 1982 identified, will not face charges

More than 40 years after some Vermont children waiting for a school bus discovered a dead baby off the side of the road, state police have announced that they found the infant’s parents and no charges will be filed. The deceased infant was found in Northfield on April 1, 1982, state police said Wednesday. Investigators determined that the deceased baby …

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Dog bed DNA could put death penalty into play for Gilgo suspect Rex Heuermann – here's how: cold case expert

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. – Suspected Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann is under new scrutiny as investigators have returned to his home nearly a year after his arrest on multiple murder charges in the Gilgo Beach case, which perplexed authorities for over a decade until last year. After a New York task force placed Heuermann under arrest last year, he …

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Parole hearing delayed for former LAPD detective who killed ex-boyfriend's wife

A chance for parole was delayed this week for a former Los Angeles police detective serving a sentence of 27 years to life in the cold-case slaying of her ex-boyfriend’s wife in 1986. Stephanie Lazarus was convicted in 2012 of killing Sherri Rasmussen, a 29-year-old nurse who was bludgeoned and shot to death in the condo she shared with her …

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