In September of 2013, a fisherman near the state’s Brule Creek noticed a car submerged upside down in the water. In that year, Sherri Miller and Pam Jackson, both 17, disappeared while driving on rural roads to a party at a gravel pit in a 1960 Studebaker Lark. The Disappearance of Sherri Miller and Pam Jackson, 1971 : Solved by a fisherman.Īn alert fisherman may have helped solve this cold case, which has been unresolved since 1971. Simpson, now 46, was arrested in Florida in September of this year.
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The DNA matched to a Joseph Michael Simpson, who had been a resort bus driver in the area at the time.
In fact, a tool called a forensic vacuum allowed for the DNA extraction.
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Leads at the time only led to dead-ends, but investigators finally got somewhere in 2013, when new forensic technologies, taking a full day, were used to extract touch DNA from the granite rock that crushed her skull. A prostitute, her body was found in 1995 along the Provo River. Beslanowitch was 17 years old when she died from a crushing blow to the skull. As The Huffington Post reports, Sheriff Todd Bonner just couldn’t let the case go. Cold Case Murder of Krystal Beslanowitch, 1995 : Solved through forensic technologies.Ī determined cop who was the original investigator into the murder of Krystal Beslanowitch 18 years ago in Utah helped bring resolution to this case. You’ll see how forensics techniques help to bring closure to many cases, but also how, occasionally, other things propel a case toward resolution. Take a look at our list of 10 solved cold cases below.
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The good thing is that families can reach better closure about what has happened, even though this can mean re-living many painful details at a trial or hearing.Ĭonvictions can result, and prison sentences be given, and, as in the case of three cold cases included on this list, inmates already in prison can receive much longer sentences. A witness or suspect may decide to talk, or people might be more forthcoming about details after time has passed. Sometimes it’s forensic evidence and sometimes it’s merely re-examining clues, but cold cases do occasionally get solved. This past summer, Rush sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray to address the unsolved missing person and murder cases. Bobby Rush is trying to raise awareness around the missing women and has called for a special task force to find them. “They get their stories romanticized, they get humanized,” McCollum said. While some cases of missing white women get much national coverage, that’s not the reality for the cases of Black women, according to McCollum.
They have stories as well,” McCollum said. These were mothers, cousins, grandmothers. She spoke to a mother of one victim who said police had not even spoken with the father of her daughter’s unborn child. The series, hosted and produced by morning news anchor at WVON Candace McCollum, also examines why – with so many women missing – coverage and attention on the cases has been minimal.įamilies that McCollum spoke to said they don’t think the Chicago Police Department is doing enough and that the cases have not been addressed with urgency.
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