The Boston Strangler DNA Breakthrough: A Murder Mystery Revisited After 50 Years
For decades, uncertainty surrounded the identity of the Boston Strangler and the murders attributed to him. In 2013, DNA evidence linked Alb...
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COLD CASES SOLVED
A podcast dedicated to highlighting cold cases that have been solved and closed. We share these cases to highlight their resolution and bring closure to the victims and the community
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20 of 182 episodesThe Murder of Edric Hinton: Unearthing the Truth Behind a Lansing Cold Case
On a summer night in 2009, nineteen-year-old Edric Hinton was senselessly gunned down outside a Lansing apartment complex in a tragedy that...
The Murder of April Tinsley: The Taunting Trail and the DNA That Broke a 30-Year Mystery
When eight-year-old April Tinsley vanished from a Fort Wayne neighborhood in 1988, a community was plunged into a decades-long nightmare mar...
The Woman Who Vanished After Appearing on The People’s Court
In November 2011, 33-year-old Florida mother Michelle Parker disappeared on the same day an episode of The People’s Court aired featuring a...
The Cigarette Butts That Solved a 64-Year-Old Double Murder
In 1962, Charles Hale and Lester McCollum were murdered near Battle Ground, Washington, leaving investigators with a mystery that would rema...
The Detective Who Was the Killer: A 65-Year-Old Chicago Murder Mystery Finally Solved
In 1960, eight-year-old Gloria Kowalewicz was abducted and murdered in Chicago, leaving investigators with a mystery that would endure for m...
The Evidence Left Behind: Can Forensic Science Identify Mexico's Missing?
When remains are too badly damaged for visual identification — burned, skeletonized, or decomposed beyond recognition — the work of putting...
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre: The Case That Remains Open in History
n 1929, seven men were murdered in a Chicago garage, and suspicion fell on Al Capone’s organization. Forensic ballistics provided important...
The Crew Cut Killer: A 57-Year-Old Murder Mystery and the Girl Finally Identified
In 1969, a 16-year-old girl was murdered in California, leaving investigators with a mystery that would span more than half a century. Decad...
The Boy in the Box: How Philadelphia Finally Gave a Name to Joseph Augustus Zarelli
For more than six decades, he was known only as the “Boy in the Box,” one of America’s most haunting unidentified murder victims. His batter...
The DNA That Waited 39 Years: The Teresa Ann Houck Cold Case
In October 1986, 23-year-old Teresa Ann Houck left the Baltimore club where she worked and was never seen alive again. Hours later, she was...
The Murder Solved by a Family Tree: How Genetic Genealogy Changed Cold Cases
For decades, investigators could possess a killer’s DNA yet have no suspect to compare it against. Investigative genetic genealogy changed t...
The Murder Solved by a Family Tree: How Genetic Genealogy Changed Cold Cases
For decades, investigators could possess a killer’s DNA yet have no suspect to compare it against. Investigative genetic genealogy changed t...
The Name That Was There All Along: The 23-Year Hunt for Joshua Crawford’s Killer
Joshua Wayne Crawford was found murdered inside his Maryland apartment on the day he turned 21, leaving investigators with a violent crime s...
Six Years, One Scene, and Evidence That Waited: The Tyler Hall Case
On September 17, 2026, the GBI announced murder and related charges against Rashad Jackson in the 2020 death of Tyler Hall in Norcross, Geor...
The Mile Marker
May 1973 two New Jersey sisters on a Florida Keys vacation were last seen hitchhiking on Stock Island; the next day their bodies were found...
The Night That Waited
Two assaults, decades apart and a thousand miles from each other, sat in evidence rooms until the science caught up. In Lawrence, Kansas, a...
Forty Years Later: How DNA Closed Jefferson Parish’s Airline Park Rape Spree
In 1986, a masked intruder terrorized East Jefferson homes and vanished. Nearly four decades later, a Georgia inmate already serving life wa...
A Drop of Blood, a Plastic Fork, and Fourteen Years
Irasema Chavez was stabbed more than 100 times in her Arlington, Texas, apartment in January 2012. After CODIS produced no hit, FBI investig...
: The AA Meeting Killer: DNA, a Grave, and Two Murders Sixteen Years Apart
In May 1991, 30-year-old mother Sherrie Bridgewater was raped and strangled in her Las Vegas apartment. Decades later, the same DNA profile...