Undercover detectives used gas station coffee spoons and a restaurant promotion to collect DNA evidence against Michael Lapniewski Jr., then arrested him for the 1987 cold case murder of Opal Weil.
Using genetic genealogy testing, the Mohave County Sheriffs Office was able to identify a Jane Doe discovered in a sack alongside the road in 1971 as Colleen Audrey Rice. Now, the department is looking to the public, and for family members, to help find her killer.
The remains of a young girl known as "Opelika Jane Doe" were found scattered behind an Alabama residence in 2012. Police now say the once-unidentified child was Amore Joveah Wiggins.
East Greenbush police now say that Jeremiah Guyette, then 17, is the person who bludgeoned 81-year-old Wilomeana "Violet" Filkins to death nearly 30 years ago.
Since the body of a bruised little boy found dumped in a box in 1957 has finally been identified as Joseph Augustus Zarelli, mourners unveiled a new gravestone for him in a ceremony this week.
More than 500 people have confessed to the gruesome murder of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, found nude and bisected in a vacant L.A. lot in 1947, but none of their stories have been deemed credible. LAPD detectives still receive tips in the 76-year-old case that gripped the nation.
Mike Clardy is now charged with the murder of Deanna Howland, whose unidentified torso was found by a Missouri rest area maintenance worker nearly 20 years ago.
