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. Th...
21 Syys 2min
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 late...
13 Syys 2min
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...
13 Syys 2min
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 coun...
9 Syys 2min
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 Velasque...
7 Syys 3min
: 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 West...
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A Serial Killer Across Four States: DNA Links Ricky Dawson to a 1992 San Francisco Murder
After more than three decades, San Francisco prosecutors have charged Ricky Dawson in the 1992 rape and strangulation of Nancy Hernandez, a 45-year-old woman found dead in a Chinatown alley. Dawson, a...
31 Heinä 2min
Silent Evidence Awakens: DNA and Persistence Resolve the 1987 Murder of Opal Weil
: In 1987, the murder of 82-year-old Opal Weil in her Pinellas County home left a community in fear and her family searching for answers amid a cluster of similar attacks on elderly residents. Despite...
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