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.
Convicted killer John Getreu was linked to the long-unsolved murder of Leslie Perlov in 2018, when experts examined DNA found underneath the victim's fingernails. The same DNA would help convict him in the 1974 sexually-motivated murder of Janet Ann Taylor, in what prosecutors have called "The Stanford Murders."
Jorge Rueda Landeros was charged with the beating and strangulation death of professor Sue Marcum more than a decade ago, but has been working as a yoga instructor under a fake name for much of the time since then.
Joseph Jowers was fatally shot in the head outside a Tuscaloosa club as he walked his girlfriend to her car more than 26 years ago. Thomas Terry Johnson Jr. is now charged with his murder.
