Man charged 32 years after Arkansas woman's body found by hunters
Rick Allen Headley, 48, was charged with first-degree murder in the 1991 death of 19-year-old Sabrina Lynn Underwood, police said.
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Rick Allen Headley, 48, was charged with first-degree murder in the 1991 death of 19-year-old Sabrina Lynn Underwood, police said.
On April 8, 1981, Gordon and Karen Alexander were found stabbed in their home by police officers.
An important link between the California Department of Justice and a genealogy lab dedicated to law enforcement investigations helped to close a decades-old cold case and bring closure to the family of Rodney Rumsey of Sacramento.
The killer had no criminal history, officials said, but was identified through family DNA analysis.
"This man was seared into the memory of a young girl who survived a heinous crime many years ago," Ohio's attorney general said.
A comprehensive genealogical profile helped lead to the identification of Suzanne Kjellenberg, who authorities say was killed by Keith Jesperson, the "Happy Face" serial killer.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 60, has been charged with one count of murder with use of a deadly weapon with a gang enhancement.
Krista Martin's case was the first in which the Wichita Police Department used Investigative Genetic Genealogy technology.
Authorities have officially closed Roslin Kruse's cold case murder after DNA profiling led them to the man believed to be her killer.
After Linda Slaten was murdered in her home in 1981, her sons Jeff and Tim spent nearly four decades living in fear of the man they called "the Monster." The killer was someone they knew and trusted.
Joseph Mills, a coach and role model to the victim's youngest son, was sentenced to life in prison without parole 41 years after the rape and murder of Linda Slaten in her Lakeland home.
DNA profiling and forensic genealogy allowed investigators to identify the remains of Lisa Coburn Kesler, who was 20 when she was killed in 1990.
A 6-year-old boy was kidnapped from Solano County and killed more than 30 years ago. Now, the man accused of the shocking crime is expected back in California soon after his arrest last week in Oregon.
Bridgette Mathews allegedly knew Charles Jackson Jr., who was killed in a hit-and-run in 2014. His body has never been found, officials said.
Gary Dion Davis is accused of killing Christina King, who was found dead on Christmas Day in 1996 and Pearl Barnes, whose body was found a month earlier.
Thanks to DNA testing, investigators finally know who killed a 9-year-old girl in Georgia in 1972.
A young mother is killed in her bed, her toddler unharmed. Unsolved for 40 years, how the unusual crime scene helped close the case. "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports.
Steven Smerk, 51, will face second-degree murder charges in Virginia.
A man walked into an FBI field office in Oregon and confessed to bludgeoning a woman to death more than four decades ago, prosecutors say.
The infant, dubbed "Baby Mary" by a police chaplain, was found by two young boys in a secluded park in Mendham Township.
Nearly 50 years after the "Lady of the Dunes" was found dead in Massachusetts, police have identified the murderer as her husband.
Other hikers heard Sposito scream for help but she was dead by the time they got to her, the sheriff said.
Gabriella Vargas was determined to solve the Roxanne Wood cold murder case even though the odds seemed impossible.
Roxanne Wood's murder in 1987 went cold for more than three decades before a genetic genealogist made a breakthrough.
A look at how investigators solved the murder of Roxanne Wood after more than three decades with no leads, and a tiny DNA sample the size of a human cell.