California cold cases solved after DNA helped 'badass detective' to identify teens' killers

Matt Hutchison, known as the "badass detective," has made arrests in at least seven cold cases, including the murders of ...
San Jose Inside

DNA Leads San Jose Cold Case Detectives to Suspect in 28-year-old Homicide

DNA evidence from East San Jose house where 84-year-old Alice Sharitz was murdered in 1997 led to the December arrest of ...

Man arrested in 1997 murder of then 84-year-old Bay Area woman, investigators say

Santa Clara County investigators say they have solved a murder that dates back to the late 1990's. Alice Sharitz, 84, was ...
Hoodline

Decades-Old San Jose Murder Solved: Suspect Arrested Through Genealogy DNA Analysis

San Jose Police solve a 1997 murder using forensic genealogy, arresting Joe Contreras for Alice Sharitz's death.
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The cold case that changed forensic history

In 1956, teenagers Patricia Joyce Kolitsky and Lloyd Dwayne Vogel were murdered near Great Falls, Montana. The case went cold ...
The Spokesman-Review

Spokane 1997 cold-case killing of floral designer, mother of 2 solved through DNA

After 28 years of no answers, DNA has helped solve the cold-case homicide of a floral designer and mother of two who was raped, bludgeoned to death and left face down in a Spokane alley in 1997. The ...
The Providence Journal

Two RI cold case murders solved decades later. Who killed Debra Stone and Cynthia McKenna?

Rhode Island's Cold Case Unit has solved two decades-old murders. The 1984 murder of Debra Stone and the 2007 murder of Cynthia McKenna were closed. The identified suspects in both murders are ...