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A cold case that has haunted Garfield Heights residents for more than six decades has moved one step closer to being solved.
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Cold Case of Woman Found Murdered Behind Florida Apartments Is Now Closed, Sheriff Says
The cold case murder of Tammy Fickey, a woman who was found dead behind an apartment building in Tampa, Florida, more than 20 years ago, is officially closed, Us Weekly has learned. Fickey, 31, was killed inside a Tampa apartment on March 12,
Whether it was a sentencing in the Baby Moses case, an arrest in the 20-year-old murder of Gretchen Perham, or a discovery in who killed Catherine Blackburn, 2025 was a year for cold cases.
I showed him recognition software that they used, and he just looks at me and he goes, ‘You can close the case, that’s my brother, case is done.'”
The Lawrence, Kansas, Police Department has made progress in a more than 20-year-old criminal investigation. Police, along with the Douglas County district attorney, announced formal charges against David James Zimbrick in connection with the sexual assault of two children in 2000 and 2003.
The Will County Sheriff's Office has returned Flint, Michigan resident Gilbert Bernal to the Will County Jail. He goes to court Monday.
Darious Ashley, 50 — who was already serving a 45-year sentence for rape and kidnapping — was arrested for the murder of 14-year-old honor student Gretchen Perham in 2005.
Franklinton, La (WVUE) - When Donna Arceneaux’s body was found at her home in Franklinton in 2017, she had a gunshot wound to the chest. Her case was initially investigated as an unclassified death, but an autopsy later determined it was a homicide. Seven years later, on Dec. 23, authorities announced they had arrested a local man for the killing.
NICEVILLE, Fla. -- An Okaloosa County cold case is closed after more than half a century. The body of 19-year-old college student Debra Espey was found in a wooded area in Niceville on March 12, 1973. Investigators said she was beaten to death, then buried in a shallow grave.
State Attorney Amira Fox created the Cold Case Homicide Unit upon taking office in January 2019. In Lee County, the four cases range from as long ago as 1999 and more recently, 2016.
Serial killer Richard Cottingham, known as the 'Torso Killer,' has confessed to the 1965 murder of 18-year-old nursing student Alys Eberhardt in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Cottingham, 79, provided previously unreleased details of the crime, bringing closure to one of the town's oldest unsolved cases.