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Sunday · 3 min
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 Albert DeSalvo to the 1964 murder of Mary Brown, also known as Beverly Brown, correcting a common confusion in...
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October 26 · 3 min
The 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 haunted his family and community for seventeen years. With the perpetrators unidentified and the murder weapon...
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October 25 · 2 min
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 marked by sinister, handwritten threats. For thirty years, local detectives and federal profilers pursued a...
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October 20 · 3 min
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 dispute with her former fiancé, Dale Smith Jr. For nearly 15 years, investigators searched for answers, but...
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October 19 · 3 min
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 remain unresolved for more than six decades. Despite the passage of time, two seemingly insignificant pieces of...
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October 18 · 3 min
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 more than six decades. In October 2026, police announced that modern forensic techniques had identified their...
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October 18 · 3 min
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 a name to them falls to forensic anthropology. This episode examines how specialists reconstruct identity from...
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October 12 · 3 min
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 investigative leads, but the perpetrators were never convicted. Explore what investigators established and why...
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October 11 · 2 min
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. Decades later, renewed investigative work helped identify Joanne Yvonne Burdick and brought attention to a suspect...
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October 6 · 2 min
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 battered body was discovered outside Philadelphia in 1957, but despite thousands of leads, investigators could not...
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October 4 · 2 min
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 found shot to death in Druid Hill Park, leaving investigators with evidence but no identified killer. Nearly...
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October 1 · 3 min
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 that equation by allowing investigators to search for relatives rather than only exact database matches. The...
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September 30 · 3 min
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 that equation by allowing investigators to search for relatives rather than only exact database matches. The...
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September 27 · 3 min
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 scene but no arrest. For 23 years, detectives revisited leads, retested evidence, and waited for forensic...
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September 21 · 2 min
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, Georgia. Hall, 21, was found shot in his home in August 2020. The breakthrough came from advanced DNA and genealogy...
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September 13 · 2 min
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 in the woods off U.S. 1 in Key Largo. Fifty-three years later, forensic genetic genealogy named David Allen...
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September 13 · 2 min
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 2009 stranger rape on a darkened sidewalk finally produced a living defendant after a 1-in-848-trillion DNA...
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September 9 · 2 min
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 was linked by DNA and a palm print to six aggravated rape counts. A Jefferson Parish jury needed only 45 minutes...
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September 7 · 3 min
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 investigative genetic genealogy pointed to her friend Mayra Velasquez; police later matched crime-scene blood to DNA...
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August 31 · 2 min
: 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 tied her death to the 1975 slaying of Teree Becker in a Westminster, Colorado field. Investigators identified...
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