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 Jul 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...
10 Jul 4min
51 Years, a Landfill, and a Pension: How DNA Finally Caught a Killer in Tucson
October 1975, the partial remains of a 73-year-old Tucson man named William Reginald Sipfle were found in a landfill near Ryan Airfield, with no identification, no missing person report, and no answer...
8 Jun 6min
Shadows in the Bottling Plant: The Long Road to Justice in the Sun Drop Murders
On a quiet Friday morning in June 2008, an armed intruder entered the Sun Drop Bottling Company in Concord, North Carolina, and brutally murdered office manager Donna Barnhardt and job applicant Darre...
26 Mai 6min
Unmasking Bundy: New DNA Evidence Closes a 52-Year-Old Utah Cold Case and Opens Doors to Others
In a groundbreaking forensic breakthrough, advanced DNA technology has definitively linked notorious serial killer Ted Bundy to the 1974 murder of 17-year-old Laura Ann Aime in Utah. This episode exam...
19 Mai 3min
Predatory Drift —How Serial Killers Change Hunting Grounds and Vanish Into Cold Cases
Why do some serial offenders suddenly abandon one hunting ground and reappear hundreds of miles away years later? In this deep forensic investigation, we examine the phenomenon of “predatory drift” — ...
18 Mai 23min
45 Years Later: How Genetic Forensics Solved the 1981 Murder of Lois Marshall
For nearly five decades, the brutal 1981 murder of 22-year-old Lois Marshall in Galveston, Texas, remained an icy cold case with no answers. In a stunning breakthrough, modern forensic technology and ...
15 Mai 5min
Closing the File: The 2007 Murder of Carrie Hicks in Acworth
In February 2007, 25-year-old Carrie Hicks was found dead in a rural New Hampshire home with two gunshot wounds to the head, launching a nearly two-decade-long cold case investigation. New forensic an...
12 Mai 4min
