Tag Archives: cold case

Rex Heuermann’s family kept gruesome piece of evidence, source says

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. – EXCLUSIVE: Shortly before New York police made a surprise return to the Long Island home of suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann, his family was still in possession of a gruesome album of crime scene photos, according to a source with knowledge of the incident. The book, “Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective’s Scrapbook,” is a collection of …

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Gary Allen Srery: US predator tied to 4 murders and counting in Canada while running from feds

A convicted U.S. sexual predator killed at least four women in Canada after he fled the country while on bail, and authorities believe there are more victims. Gary Allen Srery — who died in a U.S. prison in 2011 — made a run for the northern border after posting bail for a 1974 rape charge in Los Angeles and hid …

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Suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann's home searched again

MASSAPEQUA PARK, N.Y. – Long Island police have returned to the Massapequa Park home of suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann. His wife Asa Ellerup, who filed for divorce shortly after his arrest last summer, and their adult children were not home at the time, according to her lawyer, Bob Macedonio. Investigators from both the New York State Police and Suffolk …

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Alabama middle-school assistant principal arrested in 2013 cold-case triple murder in Georgia

A middle-school principal in Alabama was among four suspects arrested in connection with a decade-old triple murder in Georgia, authorities said Friday. Keante Harris, 45, was arrested on three counts of malice murder without incident in connection to the murders that happened in Union City, Georgia, in January 2013, the Clayton County Police Department said. Harris is an assistant principal …

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Skeletal remains found on Florida beach traced to woman last seen in 1968 with killer boyfriend

A Florida sheriff’s office recently announced that it has identified the victim in a homicide case nearly four decades after the investigation went cold. The St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office said in a May 8 press release that human remains were found in a shallow grave on Crescent Beach in April 1985. Crescent Beach is located around 50 miles south …

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Georgia man charged with murdering law student, setting fire to apartment in 23-year-old cold case denied bond

A 48-year-old Georgia man charged with murdering 23-year-old first-year law student Tara Louise Baker and setting fire to her apartment 23 years ago has been denied bond in Athens. Edrick Lamont Faust has been charged with murder, two counts of felony murder, one count of aggravated assault, concealing the death of another, arson, possession of a knife during the commission …

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33-year-old California cold case homicide solved as victim's sister says 'prayers were answered'

The sister of a woman found brutally murdered in California in 1991 says her prayers have been “answered” after investigators announced this week that they have solved the cold case homicide more than three decades later. The Ventura Police Department says by using “advanced forensic genetic genealogy techniques,” Larry Welch has been identified as the perpetrator in the killing of …

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Remains identified as Vietnam veteran nearly 50 years after farmers chasing pig stumbled upon skeleton

Skeletal remains discovered nearly five decades ago in Arizona have been identified as a Vietnam veteran from Minnesota, authorities said Wednesday. The remains of Gerald Francis Long were first found 40 miles east of Flagstaff off Meteor City Road on April 19, 1975, by farmers chasing a runaway pig, the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office said. Over 49 years, detectives developed …

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Oklahoma teen military hopeful's family 'can't imagine' he was murdered, offers theory about his last hours

An Oklahoma family is still searching for answers nearly a year later for Noah Presgrove, who was found naked and dead along a rural highway on Labor Day. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Presgrove’s body was found in the early hours of Sept. 4, 2023, alongside U.S. Highway 81 approximately 1.2 miles north of Terral, Oklahoma, in Jefferson County. Presgrove’s …

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More than 50-year-old New York City cold case victim identified after DNA matched with 9/11 victim

Patricia Kathleen McGlone went more than 20 years without a name and for more than 50 years she was missing after being murdered and left inside a building on 46th Street in Manhattan, the NYPD confirmed to Fox News Digital. She was known after her remains were found in 2003 as the “Midtown Jane Doe.” “When knocking through a concrete …

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