Man convicted in 1982 cold case murder of Palo Alto student Karen Stitt
The man accused of killing a Palo Alto teen in 1982 was convicted of first-degree murder on Monday, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said.
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The man accused of killing a Palo Alto teen in 1982 was convicted of first-degree murder on Monday, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said.
The cold case murder of a Berkeley woman in Tilden Regional Park has been solved using advanced DNA techniques, authorities announced Wednesday.
The 1990 murder of Maria Weidhofer in Tilden Regional Park east of Berkeley was resolved using advanced DNA techniques, authorities announced Wednesday.
A convicted killer who has also been charged in the 1988 disappearance of Michaela Garecht was sentenced Tuesday in connection with the murders of two Fremont women nearly four decades ago, authorities said.
More than 30 years after a woman was murdered in an alley in San Francisco's Chinatown, police said they have located the suspect as he awaits trial for another murder in Colorado.
A convicted sex offender already serving time at prison may never see life outside bars again after he was found guilty of committing a violent mall robbery more than three decades ago in San Jose.
Hundreds of people gathered in the 1500 block of Grove Street in San Francisco on Wednesday in a mood both solemn and celebratory as the street was renamed for Aubrey Abrakasa Jr., a 17-year-old boy who was killed there 18 years ago.
Fifty years after a San Francisco man was killed during a trip to Florida, authorities are asking for the public's help in solving the cold case murder.
More than 37 years after a man was killed in San Jose, the man suspected in his death has been arrested following a cold case investigation.
On the corner of Baker and Grove Streets in San Francisco, Paulette Brown staples a crime bulletin with a photo of her son, Aubrey Abrakasa Jr. on it.
Nearly 40 years after a Daly City woman was found fatally shot in her home, the woman's ex-husband was arrested in El Salvador, prosecutors said.
Authorities in the South Bay on Tuesday announced the arrest of a suspect living in Indiana in connection with a brutal San Jose home invasion sexual assault that happened 15 years ago.
In its first success story, the sheriff's office announced Wednesday that the project has identified a body they pulled from the Miner Slough in Rio Vista in 2001 as Craig Ott of Sacramento.
A man killed in a shootout with the FBI in Ohio in 2007 has been identified as the suspect in a gang shooting that killed a San Jose teen more than three decades ago, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Two people were arrested in connection with a cold case homicide that took place in East San Jose in 2020, police announced Friday.
Investigators used DNA to track down and arrest a suspect this week in the 1973 sexual assault and killing of a woman in Marin County.
A San Francisco mother continues to seek justice for her son, who was killed in 2006, and on Wednesday San Francisco leaders were by her side as she spoke at an event.
Police in San Jose are seeking additional leads and released photos in connection with homicides that took place in 2018 and 2020, with the hope of solving the cold cases.
Cloverdale police announced an arrest Monday in the 1982 rape and killing of a 13-year-old girl.
Monterey County District Attorney Jeannine Pacioni announced charges Tuesday for the 1991 cold case killings of an elderly woman and her son-in-law in Prunedale.
Marin County authorities have positively identified the body of a man who was found in the Muir Woods National Monument over four decades ago.
Nearly two years after a 24-year-old Newark man died from injuries suffered during an altercation, police are seeking clues to help solve the case.
After the forensic findings were posted to Facebook, a woman reached out to investigators and said she believed she was the victim's missing mother.
It's been 23 years to the day since Maria Hsiao was shot and killed outside a Palo Alto nightclub, but her family and investigators hold out hope that someone somewhere will come forward with information needed to finally close the case.
Police in Oakley believe they have cracked a more than 20-year-old sexual assault cold case after a man's DNA popped up the national database upon his arrest in Idaho in 2022.