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Totally Botched: The Investigation into Joan Webster’s Murder
Sept. 3, 2012Joan WebsterOn Saturday November 28, 1981, Joan Webster, a 25-year-old Harvard graduate student, landed at Logan Airport in Boston aboard Eastern flight #960. Shortly after retrieving a...
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The Murder of the “Beautiful Cigar Girl”
Dec. 10, 2012Mary Rogers The disappearance and murder of Mary Rogers in 1841 became a major tabloid story for the New York newspapers. Edgar Allan Poe wrote a mystery story about it, but Mary’s...
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Criminal Profile: Il Monstro
Jan. 24, 2013“Il Monstro” or “The Monster of Florence” killed and mutilated eight couples in the Italian countryside between 1968 and 1985. Although the crimes took place sporadically over 17 years,...
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Dirty Laundry: Cold Case 84-137640
March 4, 2013For survivors, cold case investigators and the public, solving old homicide cases offers the perfect win- win situation. Beyond the altruistic benefits, though, cold case squads provide a...
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Cold Case: the Murder of Jean Welch
May 6, 2013 From the cold case files: the 1965 murder of Jean Welch in Cumberland, Maryland by James Rada, Jr.Jean Welch carried her basket of wet laundry outside to dry on the clothesline behind her...
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America’s Worst Unsolved Crime: The 1913 Italian Hall Disaster
June 1, 2013Italian Hall, December 1913by David RobbMichigan’s Upper Peninsula is cold in the winter, with temperatures often dipping below zero, but Christmas Eve 1913 was particularly cold. The...
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The Polaroid
July 22, 2013A Polaroid photo found in a busy parking lot in Florida gave two families in New Mexico hope that their children were still alive.by Paul BuchananOn June 15, 1989, a woman in Port St. Joe,...
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Cold Case: The Keddie Murders
Aug. 22, 2013Sharp familyCold Case: The most brutal murders in Plumas County history occurred on April 11, 1981 in Keddie, California, a down on its heels resort town that time had passed by. No one...
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Walking in a Killer’s Footsteps
Sept. 2, 2013An edited extract from Cold Case Files: Past crimes solved by new forensic science– winner of Australia’s 2012 Davitt Award for best true crime book and available for Kindle in the United...
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Justice in New Zealand Cold Case
Sept. 9, 2013Menzies HallettFor 33 years, Menzies Hallett got away with murder because a New Zealand law prohibited Hallett’s wife from testifying against him without his permission. by Lisa AgnesBy...
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The Ultimate Cold Case: The Murder of the Black Dahlia
Jan. 3, 2014Elizabeth ShortWhen the severed, mutilated corpse of Elizabeth Short was discovered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles on January 15, 1947, the search for the murderer of the “Black Dahlia”...
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Forever 5: The Kidnap and Murder of Doreen Heskett
Doreen Heskett When the badly decomposed remains of 5-year-old Doreen Heskett were discovered in a cow pasture eight months after she was abducted from a busy street, the citizens of Napa discovered...
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Searching For A Link To A Broken Lifeline
Fifteen years after the rape and murder of high school senior Noa Eyal, a man was arrested on a charge of domestic violence and was forced to provide a DNA sample. A year later, in 2014, that sample...
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Burlington, Kansas, Skin Labs: A Revenge Story
The brutal murder of Ted Brown and his teenage son would have been a capital crime had Brown Sr. not been a sex-offender in Burlington, Kansas, for years, a fact authorities tried to keep under wraps...
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Cold Case: The Murder of Betsy Aardsma at Penn State
Twenty-two-year-old grad student, Betsy Aardsma, was stabbed to death among the book shelves of the Pattee Library at Penn State University in 1969. Her murder remains unsolved. by Cal Schoonover The...
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