In Portishead, a dusty box of forgotten files led Jo Smith and her team to a criminal who had escaped justice for more than half a century. This was the longest-running cold case to be solved in the ...

Despite having cracked 30 cases in the last three years, the Oakland Police Department’s cold case homicide detail is being dissolved as the department scrambles to deal with staff losses and budget ...

The Wake County Sheriff’s Office has identified a woman killed in a 1968 homicide using partner agencies and advancements in forensic genealogy. On Thursday, the sheriff’s office and State Bureau of ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - Genetic genealogy has helped solve hundreds of cold cases in recent years. The process uses DNA ...

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Cold Case Unit was established within the Washington attorney general's office in 2023.

Nearly two decades after a Florida woman vanished from her apartment building without a trace, authorities have announced a new break that could breathe new life into a formerly cold case. Jennifer ...

IOWA (KWWL) -- In the latest initiative to help solve Iowa's cold cases, the State Attorney General's Office has announced a new cold case playing card deck- to be distributed at Iowa's prisons. "They ...

After six years, the Alaska State Troopers have updated their list of cold case homicides. There are 96 murders now classified as unsolved, compared to the 69 that appeared on a list the troopers ...

On a Friday evening back in 1999, police were called to a basement apartment in Northeast D.C. Inside that apartment, they found 24-year-old Susan Cvengros dead. Now, D.C. police has said it solved ...

Ashley Paul joined the WJZ team in December 2024 as a reporter, and could not be happier to call Charm City home! Ashley has told stories all across the country, including in Maine, Central ...