Computer Helps Reopen Dozens of Chicago Cold Murder Cases
A nonprofit group and a computer algorithm are helping Chicago detectives review dozens of cold murder cases by revealing potential connections.
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FBI Document Suggests Klan Behind Unsolved 1960 Bombing
For decades, rumors swirled around who was behind the 1960 bombing that killed a black housewife in Ringgold, Georgia. A document recently uncovered by Courthouse News points to the Ku Klux Klan.
Read moreCivil Rights Cold-Case Bill Drafted by High Schoolers Becomes Law
Conceived by a group of New Jersey high school students, a bill President Donald Trump signed this week mandates the public disclosure of the FBI’s closed case files on murders of black people during the civil rights movement.
Read moreNinth Circuit Considers What Detective Knew on Cold-Case Warrant
A Ninth Circuit hearing Thursday focused on what a San Diego detective knew as it considered whether officers who sought a search warrant to investigate a retired criminalist’s home after his DNA connected him to a cold case murder investigation should be entitled to qualified immunity.
Read moreTop NY Court Dents Press Shield in ‘Baby Hope’ Case
Rebuking her colleagues for piercing press-shield laws to help prosecutors close a 22-year-old cold case, a judge accused New York’s highest court on Wednesday of undermining a tradition dating back to pre-Revolutionary times.
Read more‘Baby Hope’ Cold Case Could Freeze New York Press Shield
In their zeal to solve a 22-year-old cold case, Manhattan prosecutors could wind up chilling the state’s expansive press-shield laws, a First Amendment attorney told New York’s highest court on Tuesday.
Read moreCold-Case Murder Trial of Toddler Opens in San Diego
A cold-case murder trial began Thursday in San Diego, with a stepfather accused of the murder of his 2-year-old stepson Jahi Turner, one week after what would have been the boy’s 18th birthday.
Read moreDB Cooper Sleuths Tout New Evidence on Infamous Hijacking
Triggering a collective of citizen sleuths known as Cooperites to circle the wagons, a cold-case team says their code-breaker has definitively identified the man who hijacked a commercial plane in 1971 and parachuted off with a $200,00 ransom, never to be seen again.
Read moreRobert Wagner a ‘Person of Interest’ in Natalie Wood Death
Investigators are now calling 87-year-old actor Robert Wagner a “person of interest” in the 1981 death of his wife Natalie Wood.
Read moreMistrial Avoided in Former Priest’s Murder Case
An expert witness’s brief mention of John Feit’s 1960 polygraph during testimony in the former Catholic priest’s murder case is not enough to declare a mistrial, a Texas judge ruled from the bench Wednesday.
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Jury Process Begins in Ex-Priest’s Cold-Case Murder Trial
Hundreds of potential jurors streamed through a South Texas courthouse auditorium Tuesday for the trial of a former Catholic priest charged with the 1960 murder of a local beauty queen, his former parishioner.
Read moreFormer Priest’s Murder Trial Stays in South Texas
A state judge declined Wednesday to move the trial of a former Catholic priest charged with the 1960 murder of a South Texas beauty queen outside of the county where the crime occurred.
Read moreEx-Priest Gets Trial Date in Cold-Case Murder
An April trial date has been set for the former Catholic priest charged with the 1960 murder of a South Texas beauty queen whose body was found dumped in an irrigation canal after she confessed to him.
Read moreDNA Solves Murder of Singer’s Wife, 41 Years Later
Investigators have solved the 41-year-old murder of Karen Klaas, the ex-wife of Righteous Brothers member Bill Medley, after familial DNA linked the crime to a man who police shot and killed 35 years ago.
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