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Justice delayed is not always justice denied. Join us as we count down some of the most chilling cold cases that were eventually cracked wide open.
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00:00After more than 30 years, the mystery was finally solved.
00:06Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:07And today we're looking at 30 cold cases from the past that were finally put to rest.
00:12And I look and I say, what's up?
00:14And she's like, I've been trapped in here and he won't let me out.
00:18It's me and my baby.
00:20The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders.
00:22More than a quarter century ago, in a circumstance much like this today,
00:27I said that Austin lost its innocence.
00:31Today, we have some closure.
00:33On December 6th, 1991, four teenage girls were found bound, shot, and burned inside an Austin, Texas yogurt shop.
00:41For years, four local teens bore the blame.
00:44Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott were even convicted based on coerced confessions.
00:48And the men lived under a cloud of suspicion for decades.
00:51But in late 2025, genetic genealogy finally cracked the case.
00:56By matching an unknown DNA profile from the crime scene against national databases,
01:00investigators linked the brutal murders to Robert Eugene Brashears, a serial killer who died in 1999.
01:06The original suspects were officially exonerated in 2026 and awarded a $35 million settlement.
01:13The families of the victims say they are finally getting the answers they've been waiting for for so long.
01:19The murder of Carla Walker.
01:20Since there are no matches from the CODIS National Database, detectives decide to use another and newer forensic technique.
01:30The same one that cracked the infamous Golden State Killer case.
01:34It's called genetic genealogy.
01:3717-year-old Carla Walker was kidnapped back in 1974,
01:40and her body was later discovered in a culvert near Benbrook Lake in Fort Worth, Texas.
01:45Her tragic case haunted the community and remained a mystery for a staggering 46 years.
01:51However, advancements in DNA technology finally pointed investigators toward a man named Glenn Samuel McCurley.
01:57McCurley went on trial in August 2021 at the age of 78.
02:01And after the jury watched a video of him openly confessing to police,
02:05McCurley unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty right in the middle of the trial.
02:09He was sentenced to life in prison, finally bringing a long-awaited sense of justice to Carla's family.
02:15I did do it, I guess.
02:18How did you kill her?
02:22I think I struck her.
02:25The murder of Christy Marak.
02:27I remember I was staggering, going from apartment to apartment, pounding on the door, just screaming.
02:36And finally somebody let me inside.
02:41And I called 911.
02:43This 25-year-old schoolteacher was brutally beaten, strangled,
02:47and sexually assaulted in her Lancaster, Pennsylvania apartment on December 21st, 1992.
02:52Despite a wide pool of suspects, the case went unsolved for nearly 30 years.
02:57The ultimate break came when the killer's sister uploaded her DNA profile to a public genealogy website,
03:03leading detective straight to one Raymond Rowe.
03:05Rowe was a well-known local entertainer who performed under the name DJ Freeze.
03:09Arrested in 2018, Rowe eventually accepted a plea deal and admitted his guilt in exchange for a sentence of life
03:16in prison.
03:17They were able to compare it to multiple swabs that were taken from Christy's body at autopsy.
03:26So there was no question that Raymond Rowe was responsible for this murder.
03:34The murder of Reina Marrakeen.
03:36Finally, he managed to breach the seal.
03:40The stench was staggering and unmistakable.
03:44In 1999, a homeowner in Jericho, New York, discovered a heavy 55-gallon drum hidden in their crawlspace.
03:51Inside were the mummified remains of Reina Marrakeen, a 28-year-old pregnant woman who had vanished three decades earlier.
03:58The case seemed impossible to crack until investigators found a soggy address book inside the drum.
04:04Using special infrared lighting, forensic technicians miraculously extracted a few legible phone numbers from the ruined pages.
04:11One of those numbers belonged to a friend of Marrakeen's, who told police that she had become pregnant by her
04:16married boss, Howard Elkins, before disappearing.
04:19Not coincidentally, records showed that Elkins had owned that exact Jericho house back in 1969.
04:25He was questioned by investigators and quickly took his own life.
04:29I stood right in front of him, and I said, Ms. Elkins, we're leaving.
04:33I want you to know something.
04:35We're going to get a court order.
04:37I'm going to get a court order for your blood.
04:39I'm going to match your blood up to the dead baby and that dead woman.
04:42And we're going to come back and we're going to put you in jail for the rest of your life.
04:45The murder of Jody Loomis.
04:47Young man and woman were going target shooting in Bothell, Washington.
04:50And when they got out of their car to move along, they discovered a young woman lying there with blood
04:55all around her.
04:56In August 1972, 20-year-old Jody Loomis set out on her bicycle to see her horse in Snohomish County,
05:02Washington.
05:03Along the way, she was confronted by an unknown assailant, shot, and murdered.
05:07The investigation into the random crime stalled until 2008,
05:10when a crime lab technician discovered bodily fluids on a boot that Loomis had been wearing.
05:15Still, it wasn't until 2018 that forensic genealogy finally cracked the case,
05:20leading police to 77-year-old Terrence Miller.
05:22Miller stood trial for first-degree murder in 2020,
05:26but he took his own life before the jury returned to deliver their verdict.
05:29Despite his death, the jury found him guilty,
05:32finally bringing a measure of closure to the Loomis family.
05:35We didn't quite know what was going to come out of it,
05:38but it was exciting.
05:40You knew it was something on the horizon.
05:43And then interesting that those boots would be the turning point almost 50 years later.
05:48The murder of Angie Dodge.
05:50It's been nearly 25 years to the day that 18-year-old Angie Dodge was murdered in her Idaho Falls
05:56apartment.
05:57Now her family is finally receiving justice.
05:59The 1996 murder and assault of 18-year-old Angie Dodge is a tragic case with two victims of the
06:05justice system.
06:06Initially, a man named Christopher Tapp was convicted of Dodge's sexual assault and murder based on a coerced confession,
06:12despite DNA evidence at the scene not matching his.
06:15Tapp spent a full 20 years behind bars for the crime, a crime he didn't commit.
06:20In 2019, genetic genealogy finally identified the real perpetrator as Brian Lee Dripps Sr., who quickly confessed.
06:27Dripps pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.
06:31And Tapp was completely exonerated, receiving nearly $12 million from the city for his wrongful conviction.
06:36With his family behind him, Brian Dripps was sentenced to 20 years to life after reaching a plea agreement with
06:43prosecutors.
06:44Angie's family, sitting a few feet away from Dripps, said that sentence falls tremendously short.
06:49The murder of Mary Silvani.
06:51In the late summer of 2018, using these prints, detectives and criminals were able to confirm the identity of Sheep's
06:58Flat Jane Doe as Mary Silvani.
07:00For 37 years, a woman whose body was found near a Lake Tahoe hiking trail was known only as Sheep's
07:07Flat Jane Doe.
07:08In 2019, forensic genealogists using DNA evidence successfully identified Doe as Mary Silvani, a woman originally from Michigan.
07:16But the breakthroughs didn't stop there.
07:19Investigators also utilized an online genealogy database to unmask her killer, James Richard Curry.
07:25While he couldn't be brought to trial for Silvani's death, justice had already caught up with him in a different
07:29way.
07:30You see, Curry had been arrested in California all the way back in 1983 for a series of other murders
07:35and took his own life before facing a jury.
07:38It feels really good to see that done because I really feel that now with any cold cases with DNA,
07:44you really have a good chance now to identify as suspects and victims.
07:49The murder of Linda O'Keefe.
07:50How relieved were you?
07:52I was relieved. I never really ever thought the day would come.
07:56The seaside community of Newport Beach, California was rattled by a heinous crime on July 6th, 1973.
08:02That's when 11-year-old Linda Ann O'Keefe was abducted and murdered while walking home from summer school.
08:08For nearly half a century, the hunt for her killer remained a cold case.
08:11Then in 2019, new life was breathed into the investigation with genetic genealogy pointing to a 72-year-old man
08:19named James Allen Neal.
08:20Neal was living in Colorado at the time, so he was extradited to California and charged with O'Keefe's murder.
08:26Although the community finally had a name, Neal died in custody and was never officially convicted for the crime.
08:32This was a day that made parents in our community think twice before they let their children walk to school,
08:37walk out the front door, bike down the street, or play with their friends.
08:41The disappearance of William Moult.
08:43William Moult was last seen in Lake Worth, Florida back in 1997.
08:47He was placed on the missing persons list, and for 22 years, his family never gave up hope, even when
08:53his case went cold.
08:5440-year-old William Moult disappeared in 1997 after leaving a Florida nightclub, and his case quickly grew cold.
09:01For over two decades, authorities had virtually zero leads, and no one knew where Moult had gone.
09:07However, the mystery was finally unraveled in August 2019 through a highly unusual tool, Google Earth.
09:14While looking at satellite imagery of a Wellington, Florida neighborhood, a user spotted what looked like a submerged car in
09:19a retention pond.
09:20A resident confirmed the sighting using a drone and contacted the police.
09:24When authorities pulled the calcified white sedan from the water, they discovered Moult's skeletal remains inside.
09:30The medical examiner's office confirmed it was Moult inside the car, but how he ended up there is still unknown.
09:36You never know what you're going to find, what's in your neighborhood when you move in.
09:40The kidnapping of Carlina White
09:42Her gut told her that something just wasn't right. Her hard work cracked the case.
09:46And tonight we heard for the first time from the young woman who solved her own kidnapping after 23 years.
09:52Carlina White was just 19 days old when she was snatched from a Harlem hospital by a woman posing as
09:57a nurse.
09:58For 23 years, no one knew who the mystery woman was or what happened to young Carlina.
10:03But she was okay. Her abductor was one Anne Pettway, who was raising Carlina in Connecticut under the name Nedra
10:10Nance.
10:10As she grew older, Carlina became suspicious of her past because Pettway could not produce a valid birth certificate.
10:16Beginning in 2010, Carlina began searching the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
10:22and stumbled upon an age-progressed photo that she thought looked remarkably like herself.
10:27Carlina called the hotline and subsequent tests confirmed her true identity.
10:31This decades-old cold case was cracked by none other than the victim herself.
10:36What would you say to this person who kidnapped Carlina?
10:39You're going to jail.
10:40She need help for her to take someone's child and make that person suffer like that.
10:46The death of Nova Welsh
10:48In 1981, 24-year-old mother of two Nova Welsh had just split from her partner, Osmond Bell, and was
10:56starting to date again.
10:57Welsh had reportedly left Bell because he was violent towards her.
11:00On August 18th that year, her body was found in a cupboard at her home.
11:05A piece of chewing gum had been used to keep the cupboard closed.
11:08Welsh's friend received an anonymous handwritten letter purporting to be from a woman who saw Welsh being attacked by the
11:14man she was dating.
11:15In 2017, over 35 years later, Bell was charged with Welsh's murder after his DNA was found on the chewing
11:23gum and the envelope of the letter.
11:25He was found guilty of manslaughter and received a 12-year sentence.
11:31The abduction of Jacob Wetterling
11:33For nearly three decades, the disappearance of young Jacob Wetterling remained unsolved.
11:38On October 22nd, 1989, Wetterling was biking home when he was abducted by a man wearing a stocking cap mask.
11:45He was never seen again.
11:47It's something that really changed the lives of both children and parents here in the state.
11:52Multiple people were questioned about the incident, but no one was ever officially charged.
11:57It wasn't until 2014, when investigators revisited the case, that the name Danny Heinrich rose to the surface.
12:04After police found illicit materials in his house, Heinrich decided to come clean and took responsibility for Wetterling's death.
12:11He struck a plea deal with the authorities, which prevented him from being charged with the murder.
12:16Heinrich later told police where he buried Jacob's body in exchange for prosecutors dropping potential kidnapping and murder charges.
12:24Instead, he was handed a 20-year jail term for possession of the illicit materials.
12:29The murder of Anna Palmer
12:31It took over a decade, but groundbreaking DNA techniques finally brought closure to this case.
12:37In September 1998, young Anna Palmer was coming back from seeing a friend when she was attacked on the front
12:43porch of her family home in Salt Lake City, Utah.
12:46Palmer's mother returned home to find her daughter pale and cold, with several stab wounds.
12:51She was pronounced dead at the hospital.
12:53In 2010, DNA evidence from Palmer's fingernails was examined and linked to a man named Matthew Breck.
13:00And 13 years after her murder, Anna Palmer's family found closure when forensic experts found DNA under her fingernails that
13:08led them to her killer, a man already serving a 10-year sentence in Idaho.
13:13Breck, who lived close to the Palmers at the time, was sentenced to life in prison.
13:18The murder of Joyce McLean
13:19August 8, 1980 was the last night high school student Joyce McLean was seen by her family.
13:25That evening, McLean had gone out jogging and never returned home.
13:29That night was one of the first times I didn't worry, because she was on foot.
13:35What was the last thing she said?
13:37See you later, Mom.
13:38Her body was found two days later, right behind her school.
13:42A few hours after McLean disappeared, a young man named Philip Fournier got into a serious accident after stealing a
13:48truck.
13:49The crash left him with serious head injuries.
13:51However, he eventually confessed to his priest and his mother that he had killed McLean.
13:56These confessions remained secret until 2016, when he was arrested and charged with McLean's murder.
14:02Police say Fournier was a person of interest from the start, but it is only now that they felt they
14:07had the evidence they needed.
14:09Fournier's defense claimed his head trauma distorted his memory, leading to the hasty confessions.
14:15Regardless, he was found guilty.
14:17The murder of Irene Garza
14:19It took 56 years for Irene Garza's killer to be charged.
14:24Today, we can say that after a long wait of approximately 56 years is the beginning of bringing justice to
14:32the community.
14:32Garza was a schoolteacher and beauty queen in McAllen, Texas, who went to church for confession in April 1960 and
14:39was never seen alive again.
14:40Her body was discovered days later in a canal.
14:43The first and pretty much only suspect in the case was Father John Fite, the priest who'd heard Garza's confession.
14:50Fite was the prime suspect almost from day one.
14:53His slide projector had been found in the canal near Irene's body, and he had scratches on his hands.
15:01Yet somehow the case grew cold.
15:03Fite confessed to church officials, who kept his secret for decades.
15:06He pled no contest in a separate sexual assault case, but remained in the priesthood.
15:12It wasn't until a new DA took office that Fite was tried and convicted of Garza's murder, dying in prison
15:18in 2020.
15:20The murder of Sherry Rasmussen
15:22Sherry Rasmussen lived a seemingly perfect life.
15:25She was married to her loving husband John Rutten, and at 29, she was already the director of nursing at
15:32a medical center.
15:32That all came to a gloomy end on February 24th, 1986, when Rutten returned home to find Rasmussen dead on
15:40the living room floor.
15:41Sherry was bludgeoned and then shot, and shot several times at close range in the chest by rounds of almost
15:48olive, which would have been fatal immediately.
15:50But not before fighting for her life against her killer.
15:54Investigators concluded that it was a burglary gone wrong, but Rasmussen's father was convinced it was LAPD officer Stephanie Lazarus,
16:01who had had a relationship with Rutten.
16:04Detectives scoffed at the idea, telling him he watched too much TV.
16:08It took 23 years for Lazarus to be convicted using DNA evidence.
16:12Within a few months, they put together a case implicating one of their own colleagues, one of the most shocking
16:18outcomes of a murder investigation in the history of the LAPD.
16:22Lazarus is currently serving 27 years to life in prison.
16:29Brothers John and Anton Schuessler and their friend Robert Peterson left their home in Chicago on October 16th, 1955, and
16:37never returned.
16:38The boys had made the trip downtown to see a screening of the Disney documentary The African Lion, and fell
16:43prey to an unknown killer.
16:45Their bodies were found in a ditch after two days.
16:48Over two decades later, while investigating the disappearance of millionaire heiress Helen Voorhees-Brock, police learned that stable hand Kenneth
16:56Hansen had allegedly boasted about killing the three boys.
17:00Almost another two decades passed before Hansen was arrested and charged with the boys' deaths.
17:05He maintained his innocence, but died in prison.
17:10For 18 years, J.C. Lee Dugard seemed to have disappeared from the surface of the earth.
17:16In 1991, Dugard was on her way to the bus stop in Myers, California, when convicted sex offender Philip Garrido
17:23and his wife Nancy abducted her.
17:25She reaches the road, a gray car pulls up, a stranger rolls down the window.
17:30And his hand shoots out, and I just feel numb.
17:35He had shocked her with a stun gun.
17:37The incident was witnessed by Dugard's stepfather, who unsuccessfully tried to chase down the car.
17:42She remained in captivity, where she gave birth to two daughters, until 2009, when Garrido made a trip to a
17:49college campus with the two girls.
17:50Observing his suspicious behavior, a campus official alerted the parole office.
17:55This is the place where J.C. was held prisoner for 18 years, and where police say she was forced
18:01to raise the two children she had with the kidnapper.
18:03Garrido was brought in for questioning, accompanied by Nancy, Dugard, and her daughters.
18:08During interrogation, Garrido cracked and confessed.
18:12Dugard and her daughters were finally free.
18:14The murder of Jessica Lynn Keene
18:17Jessica Lynn Keene was a bright student and cheerleader, whose promising life came to a brutal end on March 16,
18:241991.
18:25Jessica was a popular cheerleader, an honor student, and a talented performer, who could possibly want this young, talented girl
18:34dead.
18:35After disappearing for two days, Keene's badly beaten body was found at a cemetery in West Jefferson, Ohio.
18:42Police first suspected her boyfriend, but this was ruled out by the DNA evidence.
18:47The actual killer was caught 17 years later, when DNA from the crime scene matched that of Marvin Lee Smith.
18:53Smith had been out on bond, and was living in Columbus, Ohio, when the incident occurred.
18:5817 years to the day after Jessica Keene was murdered, detectives on the case learned that a DNA match had
19:06been found.
19:12In exchange for avoiding the death penalty, Smith pleaded guilty to the crime, and was sentenced to 30 years to
19:18life.
19:19The murders of Minnie and Ed Morin
19:21On Christmas Eve 1985, the bodies of Minnie and Ed Morin were found in a secluded wooded area in Washington
19:28State.
19:29The elderly couple had been shot in the backs and dumped in the woods.
19:32I was out scouring the different county roads when I got the call over the radio and said they had
19:38found their bodies.
19:40The eyes of suspicion were cast onto two brothers, local drug dealers John and Rick Reif.
19:46But police lacked enough evidence to bring the men to trial.
19:49Reportedly, witnesses were too afraid to speak out.
19:52In 2012, nearly three decades after the initial crime, police had enough incriminating statements to travel to Alaska to arrest
20:01the brothers.
20:02Unfortunately, justice could only be served to one half of the murderous duo, as John Reif died one week prior
20:08to the arrest.
20:09You know, we spend all these years working up to this, and the day we get the warrant, he's dead.
20:14But I knew that Rick Reif was still alive, so we knew we had to get on this now.
20:18Rick was found guilty and sentenced to 103 years in prison.
20:23The murder of Diane Maxwell
20:2525-year-old Diane Maxwell worked as a phone operator for the telecommunications company Southwestern Bell.
20:32On December 14, 1969, she was on her way back to work when she was taken to a nearby shack,
20:38assaulted and slain.
20:39Diane was just 25 years old, a single mother of a four-year-old son.
20:45Well, I would tell you that it was the most devastating thing I'd ever experienced.
20:50The investigation failed to turn up promising leads, but police preserved a set of fingerprints found on Maxwell's car.
20:56The case was reopened in 2003 at the insistence of Maxwell's brother.
21:01By this time, the fingerprints were able to be traced to James Ray Davis, a criminal with a long rap
21:07sheet.
21:07James Ray Davis spent the majority of his adult life incarcerated, auto theft, forgery, assaults.
21:16Davis confessed to the murder and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
21:21The Double El Segundo Murders
21:24By the time he was arrested in 2003 for killing two El Segundo, California, police officers,
21:30George Mason was a 69-year-old grandfather living a quiet life in a South Carolina suburb.
21:35Back in 1957, Mason assaulted two teenage couples and stole their vehicle.
21:40The man, a white male in his early 20s, demanded their money and jewelry.
21:47Then he ordered the two couples to get out of the car.
21:50He was fleeing the scene when officers Richard Phillips and Milton Curtis pulled him over for a traffic violation.
21:55Fearing that he'd be arrested for his earlier crime, Mason discharged his firearm at the officers, fatally wounding them.
22:02Mason's fingerprint on the abandoned vehicle and a scar he sustained from a bullet fired by Officer Phillips were instrumental
22:09in nailing him.
22:10Nearly five decades after the crime, Mason was arrested and charged with murder.
22:17The Mysterious Shooting of Roy McCaleb
22:19When Roy Joe McCaleb was shot and killed in his sleep on September 22, 1985, his wife, Carolyn Crizen Wilson,
22:27claimed it was the work of an intruder.
22:29When she was questioned, Crizen Wilson told police that she had been attacked by a man 10 days prior and
22:35the same man had struck again.
22:37With no known suspects, the case eventually grew cold until 23 years later when it was reopened and re-examined.
22:44We knew it and everybody that knew the situation knew it, but some of her friends, oh, she couldn't do
22:50that.
22:50But she said, I did it now and that's what we really wanted to hear.
22:53Crizen Wilson was arrested after investigators uncovered a ploy to cash out two life insurance policies on McCaleb.
23:00At the time of her arrest, Crizen Wilson was 71 and suffering from lupus and Alzheimer's disease.
23:06She pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to just six months in jail.
23:10There's not a lot of evidence to go on and you can find yourself in a situation where you know
23:15someone's guilty, but you might not have the kind of proof you need to get it to court.
23:19The murder of Susan Schwartz.
23:21A deck of cold case playing cards was instrumental in solving the 1979 murder of 22-year-old Susan Schwartz.
23:29Investigators handed out 52 unsolved cold case playing cards, including Susan's in state prisons three years ago, hoping to solve
23:36over 60 homicides and missing persons cases.
23:39Schwartz met her end at the hands of her friend's husband, Gregory Johnson.
23:43Johnson was reportedly violent towards his wife and Schwartz helped her move out of his house and out of state
23:48with their child.
23:49This act of friendship didn't go down well with Johnson, who detested Schwartz for meddling in his marriage.
23:55Johnson drove to her house, dragged her out of the shower and shot her dead.
23:59Police say the 57-year-old suspect shot and killed Susan Schwartz in 1979 inside her Linwood home.
24:05He remained free until 2010, when a prison inmate saw Schwartz's face on a cold case card and recalled Johnson
24:13confessing to the murder.
24:14Johnson was arrested and dealt a 24-year prison sentence.
24:19The Familial Crimes of John List.
24:21On November 9, 1971, John List wiped out his entire family in their Westfield, New Jersey home and basically disappeared.
24:30When police arrived, they entered the house through an unlocked window.
24:34The house was cold and there were no signs of activity, but they heard music.
24:39The brutal massacre wasn't discovered until almost a full month later, and by that time, List was already hundreds of
24:46miles away from home.
24:47Over the next 18 years, List settled in Denver, Colorado, where he took up a new name, became an accountant,
24:53and even got remarried.
24:55By 1989, the case was nearly ice cold when it was featured on America's Most Wanted.
25:00A neighbor of List watched the segment and quickly called the police on him.
25:05And it just all started adding up gradually, that he was an accountant and a Lutheran, and that he had
25:12a scar behind his ear, and that he was well put together and a classy dresser.
25:19He was arrested at his workplace and extradited back to New Jersey, where he stood trial for his crimes.
25:24He died in prison in 2008.
25:27The Accidental Drowning of Dalbert Aposian
25:30The oldest case on our list, the apparent murder of Dalbert Aposian took over 70 years to be solved.
25:37In July 1933, young Aposian was declared missing by his family, and six days later, his body was found floating
25:44in the San Diego Bay.
25:46Aposian's body was mutilated, sparking fears in the city of a degenerate killer.
25:50While investigating the case, police spoke with Jack Confer, a friend of Aposian, who claimed to have been fishing with
25:57the boy when he accidentally fell into the bay.
25:59However, this possibility was ruled out by the coroner.
26:03It was decades later in 2005, when detectives officially ruled it an accident, chalking up the boy's wounds to crustaceans
26:10and fish.
26:11The Disappearance of Eitan Pates
26:14Eitan Pates left home for his school bus stop on the morning of May 25, 1979, and was never seen
26:20by his loved ones again.
26:22At the end of the school day, when he didn't come home, his mom calls police.
26:27By that time, several hours had passed before anyone had any idea that there was something wrong.
26:32Those were crucial hours for an investigation.
26:34The young boy's disappearance gained nationwide attention and helped establish several movements that were instrumental in curbing child abductions.
26:42With no promising leads, Pates was declared legally dead in 2001.
26:47The case, however, was officially reopened in 2010.
26:50Two years later, police received a tip from the brother-in-law of Pedro Hernandez, who had worked at a
26:56nearby bodega at the time of Pates' disappearance.
26:58The Pates family has waited a long time, but we finally have found some measure of justice for our wonderful
27:09little boy Eitan.
27:10Hernandez had allegedly confessed to his prayer group in the 80s.
27:13He admitted to police that he had attacked Pates, and is currently serving a life sentence.
27:18The BTK killings began in 1974, when the Otero family of Wichita, Kansas, lost four of its members on January
27:2815th.
27:29From that time till 1991, the killer claimed six more lives and sent mysterious letters to police in which he
27:36bragged of his crimes.
27:37His spree lasted from 1974 to 1991, during which time he claimed 10 lives.
27:44After 1991, the deaths ceased, and so did the letters.
27:48The case gradually became cold, and would probably have stayed that way had the killer not rekindled his written correspondence
27:55to authorities.
27:56Police later discovered that the BTK killer was a church official named Dennis Rader.
28:00A local Boy Scout leader, churchgoer, Air Force veteran, husband and father, admitted to being BTK.
28:08Rader had sent his writings on a floppy disk, and the metadata on it was traced back to him.
28:13He was handed 10 consecutive life sentences for his crimes.
28:19Starting in 2002, Ariel Castro kidnapped three young women and held them prisoner in his home for more than a
28:26decade.
28:27All three women, Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Georgina DeJesus, were assaulted by Castro throughout their time in captivity.
28:34This nondescript house played a huge role in the fact that it could help Ariel Castro in keeping a human
28:43prison going.
28:44On May 6, 2013, a full 10 years after she was abducted, Berry managed to escape from Castro's house with
28:52her six-year-old daughter.
28:53A neighbor helped her call the police, leading to the rescue of the other women and the arrest of Castro.
28:58Our first glimpse at those tense moments when Cleveland police pried open the front door of Ariel Castro's home, freeing
29:05Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight.
29:07He was indicted on nearly a thousand criminal counts, including kidnapping, assault, child endangerment, and aggravated murder.
29:15He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but hanged himself in his cell about a month later.
29:20The Golden State Killer.
29:22It's one of the most notorious cold cases in crime history.
29:26Between 1974 and 1986, a series of crimes prevailed across the state of California that were thought to have been
29:34committed by three different people.
29:35The Golden State Killer vanished in the 80s, gone for decades until investigators say a key piece of DNA evidence
29:42connected the dots just days ago.
29:45As DNA technology advanced over the years, samples from the different crimes showed that they were all orchestrated by one
29:51person.
29:52Crime writer Michelle McNamara named him the Golden State Killer.
29:56In April 2018, former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo was arrested after investigators matched crime scene DNA with that of
30:04one of his relatives.
30:05Law enforcement sources telling ABC News they used a genealogy website to help connect Joseph DeAngelo's DNA to past crime
30:13scenes,
30:14taking that evidence and then comparing it with family members within the online database until they found their suspect.
30:20D'Angelo was 74 years old before he was sent to prison for life without the possibility of parole.
30:27Did you think we would ever see an end to these mysteries?
30:30Let us know in the comments.
30:31Let us know in the comments.
30:32Alles
30:33Maybe it.
30:35Maybe it happens.
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