cold case

Nearly two decades after a 16-year-old girl vanished in Florida, authorities have found human remains amid an investigation into her suspected burial site.

February marks the 19th anniversary of a gruesome discovery in Queens: The body of a child found on the shore of Rockaway Beach. Now, thanks to old-school police work and high-tech science, one team is refusing to let this case go cold. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

The family of a Florida woman who suddenly disappeared in 2012, has confirmed that the human remains found in a pond near Disney World are hers.

Authorities in New Jersey are asking for the public’s help in identifying a newborn that was discovered dead a day after Thanksgiving 37 year ago. According to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, on the morning of Nov. 28, 1986, sanitation workers in South Orange found the baby on top of a trash can behind an apartment building on Cottage Street….

Detectives in New Jersey are looking for help to solve a cold case nearly four decades after a newborn baby was found dead in the trash.

The mother of an unidentified newborn found dead on Christmas Eve in 1984 is now being charged. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

The notorious New Jersey cold case of “Baby Mary” dating back four decades has finally been solved, as police now know who her parents were — and one of them is facing charges.

Two dozen Las Vegas police body camera videos show the moment a man and woman exited a home raided in July in connection with the cold case killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.

The man who killed a beauty school student in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, more than four decades ago has been identified, authorities said Thursday. Laura Kempton, 23, was found dead of massive head trauma at an apartment on Chapel Street on Monday, Sept. 28, 1981, according to an unsolved homicides page on the city’s website. Through DNA information and other investigative…

A suspect has been taken into custody and charged with three counts of murder, over a decade after the remains of 11 people were found along a beach in Suffolk County. Here’s what you need to know.

Four decades after a mother was found killed in a wooded area of Charles County, Maryland, authorities say they have arrested the man responsible with the help of advancements in DNA testing technology.

More than a decade without a name, but officials hope that by asking for the public’s help that they can identify the woman struck and killed by a train in the Jersey Shore area. NJ Transit Police says it continues its investigation in order to identify the woman who was struck by a train 15 years ago — on June…

Convicted killer Wanda Veguilla was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her girlfriend back in 2012. Marc Santia reports.

A man wanted in the 1984 killing of a Florida woman has been arrested in California nearly four decades later, authorities said Thursday.

A Brooklyn man was convicted of murder in the cold case killing of a 31-year-old man found naked and bludgeoned in his Queens home in 2011, the local district attorney announced. Gerald Griffin, 46 and of Brooklyn, was convicted by a jury of murder in the second degree, burglary in the first degree, robbery in the first and second degrees,…

Detectives can’t quite crack a pair of cold case murders around Mother’s Day 2018. News 4’s Marc Santia reports.

Two days before Mother’s Day in 2018, 62-year-old Ana del Valle was found dead inside the Brooklyn apartment she shared with her daughter. A few days later, her neighbor next door was discovered shot to death inside his apartment. Detectives with the NYPD know the murders are connected, but in the five years since the killings they have not been…

More than six decades after a man’s dinner outing with his wife ended with him gunned down in his car in North Miami, detectives believe they’ve solved his murder.

The suspect in a high-profile murder case could soon be a free man. Chris Jose reports.

There was a major setback in a 20-year-old New York cold case police said they had cracked — and it’s a mistake that set the alleged killer free. Last week, New York State Police announced an arrest in the 2003 murder of Megan McDonald, whose baffling case featured on “Dateline” ahead of the milestone anniversary of her slaying. His name…