Victim of "Scorecard Killer" identified as Iowa teen 49 years after murder
Michael Ray Schlicht has long been thought to be an early victim of Randy Kraft, dubbed the "Scorecard Killer," authorities said.
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Michael Ray Schlicht has long been thought to be an early victim of Randy Kraft, dubbed the "Scorecard Killer," authorities said.
Kabeh Cummings, 35, faces several charges related to kidnapping and sexually assaulting three known victims, according to law enforcement.
Thirty-five-year-old Kabeh Cummings was extradited back to Sacramento Friday. He is accused of raping two women in Sacramento and another woman several years later in Sacramento County. He will appear in court Wednesday at 3 p.m. He faces 180 years to life in prison.
Authorities say they used a relatively new DNA profiling technique to capture an alleged sexual predator in New York, wanted for several assaults in Sacramento.
Authorities say they used a relatively new DNA profiling technique to capture an alleged sexual predator in New York, wanted for several assaults in Sacramento.
The D.A. says Kabeh Cummings will be arraigned Wednesday afternoon on charges of forcible rape and oral sex, sodomy, and kidnapping to commit rape. If convicted, he faces up to 180 years to life.
Leonard Mack, who served seven and half years in prison for the crime, said, "I never lost hope that one day that I would be proven innocent."
Radiation from nail dryers may damage DNA and cause cancer-causing mutations in human cells, a study has found — and that might have you wondering whether your regular gel mani-pedi is worth the risk.
A quail hunter found the skull on the outskirts of Mentone, a small community about 65 miles east of Los Angeles.
Police said that after confirming the woman's identity, they are constructing a timeline of her life to try to solve her murder.
The victims "walked right into my spider web," Samuel Little told "60 Minutes" in 2019.
The sheriff's office hasn't publicly disclosed the cause of Christine Lester's death because it doesn't want to jeopardize the investigation,
Scientists sequenced the genome of the sled dog, who led a team of dogs carrying a life-saving diphtheria serum to Nome, Alaska, in 1925.
Should you have the right to know that the state is storing your child's DNA and that they may sell it to researchers or give it to law enforcement without your consent? The sponsors of a new bill think you should. California has been storing DNA from every child since the '80s -- something many parents don't know about.
After over 40 years, authorities have arrested a suspect in the murder of a woman at a South Lake Tahoe campground in 1979.
The District Attorney's Office hasn't decided whether to seek the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
"Justice delayed doesn't have to be justice denied in this case," authorities said.
Maurice Hastings, who has maintained he was innocent since the time of his arrest, said he "prayed for many years that this day would come."
In 1921, over 1,000 homes were burned, hundreds were looted and a thriving business district known as Black Wall Street was destroyed.
A woman known only as Delta Jane Doe for the last 14 years has been identified through genetic genealogy.
A new California law prohibits law enforcement from using threats or lies to get a minor to confess to a crime. The law faced opposition, but now a conservative district attorney is urging law enforcement to take it a step further and voluntarily stop lying to all suspects due to an increased risk of false confessions.
A Redding mother of two was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend.
A former deputy Nevada attorney general who ran for the state Supreme Court and was later affiliated with the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel has been arrested in Reno as a suspect in a 1972 homicide in Hawaii.
The bones were discovered on Jan. 22, 1991 -- two weeks after what would have been Coffey's 37th birthday.
Michael Green has entered a no-contest plea to charges of second-degree murder in the killing Jane Hylton in 1985. He faces 15 years to life behind bars. He was arrested in 2020 after new DNA evidence led investigators to him.