A startling discovery in a decades-old unsolved homicide turned a classic cold case suddenly warm this week in Pennsylvania.
DNA tests done on the dismembered Garfield Park toddler (see sketch below) and the mother of a missing Indiana boy are a mismatch, authorities from two states announced this week.
“Secretive” cult church members Bruce Leonard, 65, and his 59-year-old wife Deborah Leonard have been charged with first-degree manslaughter in the beating death of their son Lucas.
Three-year-old Brendan Link Creato was allegedly staying at his father’s apartment in Haddon Township NJ when he “wandered off” dressed only in pajamas and slippers.
The neighbor of Kirsten Hatfield (shown below) and the prime suspect in her kidnapping cold case has finally been arrested for the 8-year-old girl’s disappearance and murder in 1997.
Shown below, missing Dallas teen Zoe Hastings has been found slain.
ALERT: Sierra Nevada College student Dianne Thatcher (shown in the snapshot below) has been missing in southern California for over a week now.
On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the city’s firefighters. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick O’Connor, the facts—or a lack of them—didn’t add up. Justice on Fire is OConnor’s detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters’ deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Also available from Amazon
