Cold Case

Authorities in Hayward on Monday charged 59-year-old David Misch in the cold case kidnapping and killing of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht, who disappeared 32 years ago.

The ex-boyfriend of a South Florida woman whose body was found inside a suitcase in a Miami canal in 2001 has been arrested in connection with her murder nearly 20 years later, authorities said Tuesday. According to an arrest affidavit, 45-year-old Berkley Curtis Jr. is facing charges for the April 2001 murder of Rebeca Pena. Pena’s body was discovered inside…

The ex-boyfriend of a South Florida woman whose body was found inside a suitcase in a Miami canal in 2001 was arrested in connection to her murder, authorities said. According to an arrest affidavit, 45-year-old Berkley Curtis Jr. is facing charges for the 2001 murder of Rebeca Pena.

Miami police detectives say they have solved a 45-year-old cold case with the arrest of 68-year-old Hipolito Guzman. The 1975 arrest warrant of the incident alleges that while the victim, Jose Caesar Pacheco, was being stabbed to death, Guzman discouraged witnesses and later served as the getaway driver. “Your honor we are trying to put together whether or not this…

A man who prosecutors say was involved in the murder of a South Florida man was arrested 45 years later. NBC 6’s Claudia DoCampo reports

Authorities in Colorado used DNA to identify a man who was found dead by hikers 46 years ago, while his wife remains missing.

There’s a new push for answers in a decades-old cold case out of Davie.  Still the biggest mystery to solve is identifying the victim and figuring out what led up to her death.  “A young female was walking down the canal and she observed what appeared to be a body floating in the water,” said Davie Detective Eddy Velazquez. ...

Police are hoping new DNA and digital imaging technology can help them solve a nearly 45-year-old killing of a young woman in Davie.

The stepfather of a 16-year-old girl who was found murdered in a northwest Miami-Dade home in 2004 has been arrested in connection with her killing, authorities said. Officers arrested 46-year-old Raul Mata at his home in California and charged him with first-degree murder in the September 17, 2004 killing of Dilcia Mejia, Miami-Dade Police said Thursday. “This individual had established…

Police took the victim’s former stepfather, Raul Mata, into custody at his home in California for the death of his 16-year-old stepdaughter, Dilcia Mejia.

Police said Glen Samuel McCurley was in custody Tuesday in connection with the 1974 murder of Carla Walker, who was 17 years old when she was abducted, held captive and eventually murdered.

Yaser Abdel Said, a Lewisville cab driver wanted in connection with brutal slayings of his two teenage daughters, is in custody in North Texas after 12 years on the run.

A DNA match has solved the strangulation murder of a teenager in southeast Alaska, a case that was cold for 24 years and saw another man acquitted of the crime after confessing, Alaska State Troopers said Tuesday. DNA obtained from Steve Branch, 66, of Austin, Arkansas, at an autopsy matched that of a sample left at the scene where Jessica…

Officials say they’ve solved the 1991 murder case of a teenager who was raped and strangled with her bikini top on Valentine’s Day in the Florida Keys.

Walter Ogrod was convicted of killing 4-year-old Barbara Jean Horn in 1988. But the evidence showed there was no way he could’ve done it.

Detectives are struggling to connect with victims through thick masks, and investigators accustomed to wearing plainclothes are digging out their dusty uniforms for patrol duty as the coronavirus pandemic rages

Authorities served another search warrant Wednesday morning at the San Pedro home of a former classmate of Kristin Smart, a California college student who disappeared in 1996.  The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that it served a search warrant at the home of Paul Flores, who is considered a person of interest in Smart’s...

Authorities said a man arrested last month in a 35-year-old Florida Panhandle slaying has been found dead in jail from an apparent suicide

A Florida police department says it solved a 35-year-old homicide by using DNA to find a relative of the alleged killer and then creating a family tree to track him down.