cold case

In July 1992, 23 year-old Rachel Nickell was attacked and murdered while walking with her two-year-old son on Wimbledon Common in London. The case quickly became one of Britain’s most high-profile murder investigations. Police initially focused heavily on Colin Stagg, who lived locally, and used...

In March 1998, 23 year old Amy Lynn Bradley disappeared while travelling with her family aboard the cruise ship Rhapsody of the Seas in the Caribbean. She had been seen late at night and again in the early hours while the ship was approaching Curaçao, but by the time her family realised she was...

Between 1968 and 1969, three women Patricia Docker, Jemima McDonald and Helen Puttock were murdered in Glasgow. All three had visited the Barrowland Ballroom before their deaths, and police came to believe the same man may have been responsible. The unidentified suspect became known as Bible...

In 1922, six people were murdered at a remote farmstead known as Hinterkaifeck in Bavaria, Germany. The victims included farmer Andreas Gruber, his wife, their widowed daughter, her two children and a newly arrived maid. In the days before the murders, Andreas reportedly noticed strange...

On 30 December 2000, four members of the Miyazawa family were murdered inside their home in the Setagaya district of Tokyo, Japan. More than 25 years later, the case remains unsolved despite investigators possessing an extraordinary amount of evidence believed to have been left behind by the...

In February 1986, 29 year-old nursing director Sherri Rasmussen was found murdered inside the Los Angeles home she shared with her husband, John Ruetten. She had been beaten, bitten and shot three times in the chest. At first, investigators believed she had been killed during a burglary that had...

Oakland, California (AP) — Luis Armando Albino was 6 years old in 1951 when he was abducted while playing at an Oakland, California, park. Now, more than seven decades later, Albino has been found thanks to help from an online ancestry test, old photos and newspaper clippings. The Bay Area News...

On 31 March 2006, 27-year-old medical student Brian Shaffer went out with friends in Columbus, Ohio. During the night they visited the Ugly Tuna Saloona, a bar located inside a shopping complex. CCTV captured Brian outside the bar talking to two women shortly before closing time, but after that...

In October 1984, a German food engineer named Günther Stoll died in circumstances that have never been fully explained. Before his death, Stoll had reportedly become increasingly convinced that people were following him or trying to harm him, although exactly who he feared was never established...

A potentially important new development has emerged in the unsolved 2012 murders of a British family and a French cyclist near Chevaline in the French Alps. Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife Ikbal, 47, her mother Suhaila al-Allaf, 74, and cyclist Sylvain Mollier, 45, were shot dead on 5 September 2012...

Luke Durbin was just 19 years old when he disappeared after a night out in Ipswich in May 2006. Twenty years later, his family still do not know what happened to him and there has never been a confirmed sighting that has provided the breakthrough investigators need. On Thursday 11 May 2006, Luke...