Cold case

Hamilton was linked to the Lewis' killing after investigators submitted evidence to a DNA lab last year that connected him to the 1996 murder.

The juror had experience of violence against a woman and didn't know if she, as a mother, could remain unbiased during the trial, she said.

David Neal Cox, the first man executed in Mississippi since 2012, confessed to a 2007 murder of his sister-in-law before his death for killing his wife.

David Reed was indicted last week in the 2001 death of Rose Marie Moniz after a Massachusetts cold case unit found a hair inside the shell.

Police in Nevada said Thursday the identity of a 1980 murder victim was confirmed through new DNA testing, and are reopening the investigation into her death.

"I played this in my head a thousand times," the woman's sister said. "I never thought this day would come."

On May 16, 1986, the infant boy was found deceased in a sanitation truck in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Using a genealogy database, police were able to identify the murderer from unidentified blood that was left at the original crime scene.

"After 45 years, the alleged killer of a WWI Veteran is being held accountable and brought to justice," Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said.

Winston Arthur Maxey III was 15 years old when he left his Boise home to pursue a better life in the spring of 1971. He was found dead weeks later in Oregon.

The prosecutor's office confirmed that a DNA test linked a former police officer to one of France's largest cold cases from the 1980s and 1990s.

Sonia Carmen Herok-Stone was a single mother when she was killed in 1981.

"Our success depends on info found in public genealogy databases, where participants—and this is important—must opt-in for law enforcement matches."

"We hope this arrest can begin to bring some closure to the Vegas family who have been living with questions about Diane's death for nearly 44 years," Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said in a statement.

"This is now a very active investigation after laying dormant for years," the Kenner Police Department said in a press release on Friday. "Additional arrests are expected."

FBI agents used DNA evidence to bring charges against a Tennessee man who is suspected of having shot and killed a mother and her 4-year-old daughter nearly three decades ago.

Michaela Garecht, 9, was abducted from the parking lot of a convenience store on the morning of November 19, 1988.

Investigators said the body of 17-year-old high school student Mary London was found on a then-rural stretch of San Juan Road in North Sacramento in 1981.

Nearly three decades after Denise Kulb's death, police say they've tied her murder to her boyfriend, Theodore Donahue, using enhanced photo technology to match a sock found at Donahue's home to one found on Kulb's body.

Researchers say skull found in a Transylvania cave is clear evidence of interpersonal violence among ancient Europeans.

Cops have provided the public with an updated age progression image based on their original 1975 sketch.

Chris Dawson, 70, is suspected of murdering his wife in 1982.

Sunday marks 98 years since a 100-pound bomb turned the iconic street into a scene of bloody chaos.

The private team of investigators has claimed the man D.B. Cooper is actually Vietnam veteran Robert Rackstraw.

Police initially believed that Welch's case was tied to the murder of 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian—until DNA proved two men were involved.

Jose Ferreira, 50, was charged with the second-degree murder of Carrie Ann Jopek.