The race car driver's death led to the creation of the "Chris Trickle" law, allowing murder and manslaughter charges to be filed in Nevada no matter when a victim dies.
The Anne Arundel County Police Department in Maryland identified Forest Clyde Williams III as the killer of Pamela Conyers, 16, whose death by strangulation in 1970 stumped detectives for decades.
Devarus Hampton, long considered a suspect in the 2011 shooting death of Todd Lampley, has now been charged with murder after DNA from a sweet potato used as a silencer during the crime was matched to a sample collected from Hampton.
A Jane Doe discovered inside a refrigerator submerged in a California irrigation canal in 1995 has been identified as 29-year-old Amanda Lynn Schumann Deza.
"He would be 83 today, but there is not a cop in this building who would not happily put handcuffs on him," Burning Police Chief Murad John said of William DeRoo, who died of a drug overdose in 1986, years after allegedly killing 24-year-old Rita Curran.