Woman found in suitcase in 1988 is ID'd but death remains a "mystery"
Kim was wrapped with plastic and duct tape, naked inside a brown canvas suitcase that had been placed in a trash bin.
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Kim was wrapped with plastic and duct tape, naked inside a brown canvas suitcase that had been placed in a trash bin.
In 1997 four families are shattered when their daughters go missing. As they grieve, one man claims to have answers. Can he be trusted? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports on the final chapter of a case she started covering more than two decades ago.
When a Texas girl first went missing in 1997, what no one knew at the time was that she had been the victim of a serial killer. William Reece would go on to murder three young women that same year before he was eventually identified by DNA.
Within a 10-month span, two young women were sexually assaulted and viciously murdered after going for bike rides along a canal in Phoenix. Decades later, detectives zeroed in on the alleged killer, and set up an elaborate sting at a Chili's restaurant.
In 1997 four families are shattered when their daughters go missing. As they grieve, one man claims to have answers. Can he be trusted? "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty reports on the final chapter of a case she started covering more than two decades ago Saturday, Oct. 21 at 9/8c on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
The case began in 1996 when Herbert Baumeister's 15-year-old son discovered a human skull about 60 yards away from the home.
The killer had no criminal history, officials said, but was identified through family DNA analysis.
Virgil Renner's remains were found in 1982 along with a tattered shirt, denim pants, one argyle sock, a can opener and a toothbrush.
Post-conviction DNA testing from a rape kit showed Perry Lott did not commit the 1987 crime.
Benjamin Adams' remains have been identified after New Hampshire authorities used modern DNA testing technology.
"People didn't think it could really be done," Marc Friedländer, an associate professor in molecular biology at Stockholm University, told CBS News.
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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.
DNA evidence tied the murders of the two Michigan teens to the same suspect.
Sherman George died from a gunshot wound to the head, was buried in a shallow grave and may have been a homicide victim, officials said.
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.
New York City's medical examiner has now been able to link remains to 1,649 World Trade Center victims, a painstaking process that relies on leading-edge DNA sequencing techniques.
The infant, dubbed "Baby Mary" by a police chaplain, was found by two young boys in a secluded park in Mendham Township.
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."
After more than five decades, a relative was found and a DNA sample allowed them to identify the British mountaineer, police said.
Arthur Barrett, a Vermont native, was among thousands of service members captured and held at prisoner of war camps.
Hospital workers took Maria Angelica Gonzalez' son from her arms right after birth in 1981 and later told her he had died.
Other hikers heard Sposito scream for help but she was dead by the time they got to her, the sheriff said.
Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and Annette Schnee were murdered in 1982. That same night, Alan Lee Phillips was rescued from a snowy mountain pass. Police now know he became stranded after dumping their bodies.
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