Investigators have arrested an Idaho resident on suspicion of murdering a San Rafael woman in 1973, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday. Michael Eugene Mullen, 75, was linked by DNA evidence to the case of Nina Fischer, who was slain at her home on Point San Pedro Road. Fischer was 31 years old. Authorities … Read more
By Cheri Mossburg | CNN Los Angeles — Following a happenstance case break, detectives in Southern California found the person responsible for an unsolved 1986 homicide of a 19-year-old woman – a serial killer already on death row, Los Angeles county sheriff’s officials said Tuesday. Cathy Small’s body was found February 22, 1986, when South … Read more
By Melissa Alonso and Steve Almasy | CNN Cold case investigators have arrested a 55-year-old woman in North Carolina in connection with the death of a newborn girl found in a California dumpster 37 years ago, according to the Riverside Police Department. Through DNA testing, detectives identified the baby’s mother as Melissa Jean Allen Avila, … Read more
By Dave Pehling, Lauren Toms | KTVT Northern California (KTVT) — Police in Contra Costa County on Tuesday helped U.S. Marshals arrest a fugitive wanted in a Massachusetts rape case nearly two decades after he fled that state during his trial, authorities said. According to a press release issued by the U.S. Marshals Service, the … Read more
By Faith Karimi | CNN On the surface, Timothy Stephenson had an enviable life. He was married to a doctor, and they lived in a $2 million home with their twin daughters in a quiet suburb east of San Francisco. But Stephenson harbored a secret: About two decades earlier, he had shot and killed a … Read more
By John Miller and Sabrina Shulman | CNN After four years on the run, a senior leader of MS-13 – one of the largest transnational criminal organizations – was captured this month in Southern California on terrorism charges, court documents say. Freddy Ivan Jandres-Parada was accused by federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New … Read more
The mother of a 5-year-old boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana in 2022 was arrested near Arcadia on Thursday, March 15. Sgt. Carey Huls, a spokesman for the Indiana State Police, said investigators from Sellersburg were en route to Southern California on Friday to pick up Dejaune L. Anderson, who was … Read more
“Be a good girl, and you won’t get hurt.” Those are the words a young secretary heard as she was jolted awake in the early morning hours of May 1, 1981, by an intruder who had slipped into her Miami apartment through a balcony door. He yanked a pillowcase over her head and raped her … Read more
A DNA laboratory comparison done by the California Department of Justice has led to the identification of the body of a Vallejo woman last seen alive in 1992. Skeletal remains found in a creek bed off of Pine Flat Road near Healdsburg more than 30 years ago have now been identified as Robin Fay Hedrick. … Read more
By Kelsy Mittauer, Doug Dunbar | KVTV NORTH TEXAS (KTVT) — It was a murder case that captivated the world: the grisly stabbing deaths of OJ Simpson’s ex-wife and Ron Goldman. It happened in 1994 and while the case remains officially unsolved, a man in North Texas has spent the last 30 years trying to … Read more