Woman's 1979 cold case rape, murder solved with genetic genealogy; 82-year-old suspect arrested. There was no apparent connection between the victim and the suspect.

Last week, 12-year-old Lesia Mitchell Jackson's murder case was officially closed by police-- 42 years after the young girl's body was found on September 13, 1979.. The girl disappeared a week ...

A man has been arrested in a woman’s 1979 cold case murder after investigators used genetic genealogy to zero in on his identity, Prince George’s County police announced. On March 3, 1979, the ...

A suspect in the 1979 cold case murder of Patricia Carnahan in El Dorado County, has been arrested after investigators found a DNA match for an unrelated crime in Washington state.

However, last week, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release that the case had been solved using forensic genealogy, closing the over-45-year cold case. The cold ...

'It needed to be solved': Cold case detective discusses hunt for Salem teen's killer Landers was a patient at Fairview Training Center when she went missing March 9, 1979.

Nearly 50 years after the cold case murder of a 19-year-old who went missing from her Illinois village, authorities have identified her killer through new DNA evidence.. In March of 1979, Kathy ...

A man has been arrested in a woman's 1979 cold case murder after investigators used genetic genealogy to zero in on his identity, police in Maryland announced. On March 3, 1979, the body of 31 ...

ABC News. Woman's 1979 cold case rape, murder solved with genetic genealogy. Posted: March 18, 2025 | Last updated: March 18, 2025. A man has been arrested in a woman's 1979 cold case murder after ...