A young mother told friends that she’d be “back in 10 minutes.” She never returned, and the police in San Jose have now ...

The man charged with the brutal murder of 15-year-old Karen Stitt from 1982 finally received his sentence in a Santa Clara County courtroom on Monday. The investigation went cold after decades without ...

Authorities in California believe they may have solved a cold case that’s remained a mystery for nearly half a century.

Gary Ramirez was identified using DNA evidence in 2022 as the man who raped 15-year-old Karen Stitt and stabbed her 59 times in Sunnyvale, California.

This was a brutal, calculated murder that shattered the lives of Laurie’s loved ones, who then had to endure nearly 20 years ...

Robert Castillo, 61, was arrested April 10 after DNA evidence allegedly linked him to the death of a 43-year-old Fresno woman ...

The WCCO Original, "Footprint to Murder," follows the Minnesota cold case story that ... followed the Golden State Killer case in which investigative genealogy was used. It was really striking when we ...

A 1986 cold case murder of a teen has been solved after a DNA match led investigators ... the baby girl was found dead in a dumpster in California, authorities said. Warren Luther Alexander ...

That DNA profile was taken to Identifiers International, a forensic genealogy company in California. The combined resources of the company and the cold case team were able to identify a suspect in ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) – Authorities in California believe they may have solved a cold case that’s remained a mystery for nearly half a century. A suspect in a 1977 murder has been identified ...