Cold Case

Mark Stanley Personette, an 80-year-old Colorado man, has been convicted of first-degree murder in the 1978 killing of 15-year-old Marissa Rolf Harvey — a landmark verdict that finally closes one of San Francisco’s most haunting cold cases. The decision, delivered on November 13, 2025, comes nearly 47 years after Harvey vanished during a visit to the city.

In a case that haunted Maryland for nearly three decades, the 1998 murder of Sheryl “Sherry” Crandell, a 50-year-old patient care coordinator at Prince George’s Hospital Center in Cheverly, has finally been solved—thanks to cutting-edge forensic DNA and genetic genealogy technology.

William Schrader has been identified as the perpetrator behind the tragic 1962 rape and murder of 9-year-old Carol Ann Dougherty inside St. Mark Roman Catholic Church in Bristol Borough.

After 57 years, authorities have finally identified Myrtle Holcomb as the victim in North Carolina’s oldest solved cold case, thanks to groundbreaking forensic genealogy. Discover how modern DNA technology closed a half-century mystery.

On May 2, 2001, the quiet community of Chevy Chase, Maryland, was rocked by the brutal murder of Leslie Preer

Susan Smith, a 23-year-old mother from Union, South Carolina, committed an unthinkable act that reverberated across the nation.

The case of Scott Peterson, convicted in 2004 for the murders of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson

"Bakersfield 3," have been meticulously explored in a new three-part true crime docuseries

Karen Schepers, a 23-year-old computer programmer from Elgin, Illinois, vanished without a trace after a night out with coworkers.

Willie Eugene Sims, a 69-year-old man from Jefferson, Ohio, was arrested on May 7, 2025, and charged with the murder of Jeanette Ralston