Remains in century-old cold case identified thanks to DNA technology
Human remains found in a Wilmington, Delaware, park in 2011 have been identified as a woman who died in 1909.
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Human remains found in a Wilmington, Delaware, park in 2011 have been identified as a woman who died in 1909.
New reward announced seven years after Susan Ledyard's body was recovered from the Brandywine River.
A suspect was linked to the murders of 24-year-old Marebeth Welsh in 1993 and 16-year-old Jennifer Persia in 1994, prosecutors said.
More than 30 years later, a suspect has been linked through DNA evidence to the previously unsolved killings of two young women in Camden County, New Jersey, in the 1990s. CBS News Philadelphia's Joe Holden reports.
An unsealed autopsy report revealed details from the 2003 homicide of Baltimore prosecutor Jonathan Luna, confirming he died from drowning and stab wounds to his neck.
About one year after evidence was sent to a Texas lab for DNA analysis, DA Jennifer Schorn discussed the 1962 murder of 9-year-old Carol Ann Dougherty.
Officials in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, say William Schrader killed Carol Ann Dougherty in 1962 in Bristol Borough. DNA evidence helped investigators solve the decades-old case. Schrader died in 2002.
The woman at the center of a 1971 cold case homicide in Maryland was identified as a Pennsylvania mother, police said.
The body of a boy found in Virginia in 1972 has been identified as Carl Bryant, a 4-year-old from Philadelphia, thanks to advances in technology. Investigators are asking anyone with more information about this case to come forward.
May 17, 1975 marks 50 years since Wendy Eaton, a teenager from Delaware County vanished while walking to Media Borough.
Allen Gould, of Malvern, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged with killing his wife, Anna Maciejewska, who has been missing since 2017. Maciejewska was a beloved mother who lived in Chester County and a woman with a strong circle of friends who prosecutors said would never have up and left.
There are major developments in the long-running case of Philadelphia school teacher Ellen Greenberg.
A jury found 84-year-old David Zandstra not guilty in the 1975 cold case murder of 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington of Broomall.
A hearing was held Wednesday morning in Philadelphia in the case of Ellen Greenberg, a Manayunk teacher who died in 2011.
An arrest has been made in a 50-year-old murder case thanks to the diligent work of some New Jersey college students.
Philadelphia teacher Ellen Greenberg died in 2011 in what was ruled a suicide – but her parents argue Ellen was murdered.
Police have begun exhuming unidentified human remains in Northeast Philadelphia to identify victims who died under suspicious circumstances.
There's been a crack in a decades-old cold case. Derek Michael Mason's remains were found in Lancaster County in 1992, but he was last seen in West Philadelphia in 1991.
Investigators believe the 2018 murder of 17-year-old Sandrea Williams in Philadelphia stemmed from a feud between two groups that she was not involved with.
The Philadelphia District Attorney's Office announced the arrest of Devin Bryant. Investigators believe the gunfire was between two rival groups in the neighborhood. Williams was part of neither.
Investigators believe the 2018 murder of 17-year-old Sandrea Williams in Philadelphia stemmed from a feud between two groups that she was not involved with.
The Lehigh County District Attorney announced charges against Michael Breisch, 65, for the murder of 78-year-old widow Rose Hnath in 1989 outside Allentown, Pennsylvania.
After more than three decades, a man has been arrested in Ohio for his connection with the 1989 killing of a woman in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley thanks to advances in DNA.
Wilmington police are asking for the public's help identifying an unknown man they found in a Delaware landfill in 1978.
Two men were charged in connection with the murder of 47-year-old Leroy Julious, who was killed in 2008 in Ewing Township.
