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A Las Vegas man has been charged in a cold case that dates back to December 1983, when an argument led to a fatal shooting on the city’s east side. George Lawson, 51, was arrested after detectives said they matched a print from his little finger to one found at the crime scene. The victim, 66-year-old Ismael Ceballos, was killed in the parking lot of the 9th Street Motel, on Ninth Street near Ogden Avenue in downtown Las Vegas. Lawson had a criminal record, having been convicted of robbery in 1979. But at the time of Ceballos’ killing, police did...

None of the boys had been in trouble and all were good and weren't likely to be runaways. Leaving the community and families at a total loss as to where the teens were. Not a trace of any of the 5 boys was found back in 1978 or in the years following. A complete disappearance of the 5 teen boys. The case went cold.

DENVER (AP) -- Police on a cold case hunt have finally identified a woman whose nude and battered body was found along a Boulder creek 55 years ago. But it's not over - they want to name the killer. She was buried under a headstone that read "Jane Doe" and remained anonymous until a DNA test revealed that she was Dorothy Gay Howard of Phoenix, officials announced Wednesday. Howard had been reported missing in March 1954 when she was 18. The ID was resolved by the Boulder County Sheriff's Department, Internet research and the persistence of local historian Silvia Pettem....

Donald Peterson can still remember the day more than 30 years ago when his St. Paul neighborhood became the scene of a murder mystery. "I haven't thought about that in a long, long, time," he says. "Nobody ever found the guy who did it." In May 1977, 30-year-old Mark Shemukenas was found dead in his apartment. His body had been mutilated. And according to news reports from that time, he had been sexually assaulted and castrated. "It was very brutal and very bloody, several instruments were used," says Sgt. Anita Muldoon with the St. Paul Police Department. But the case...

JEFFERSON — The defense attorney for 76-year-old Edward Wayne Edwards said his client’s mood Thursday was "appropriate for the gravity" of the situation: a charge of double murder. Public defender Jeffrey De La Rosa said Edwards was "serious, reserved, and definitely not taking the charges lightly" before Edwards was brought into court in a wheelchair. With victims’ family members filling the first two rows of spectator seats, Jefferson County Circuit Judge Randy Koschnick ordered Edwards held on $2 million bail in the 1980 slayings of Timothy Hack and Kelly Drew, two Fort Atkinson-area high school sweethearts. A preliminary hearing was...

Fort Payne authorities say they have solved a murder committed 23 years ago and the killer was a man who has since died of cancer. On April 19, 1986 at 7:40pm, the police got a call that a man had been shot at his home on Scenic Drive. Paramedics rushed 25 year old Mark Allen Phillips to Dekalb Hospital in Fort Payne where he was pronounced dead. Police say facts came to light recently. Certain facts of the case were not released to the public in 1986 and those facts have helped to verify that the person that we have...

A city police officer found himself in the spotlight this week for solving a 1992 missing person case and identifying those responsible for the 22-year-old woman's death. Full details of the investigation, including the victim's name, have yet to be made public, but the officer responsible for clearing the case has been identified as Patrolman Kenneth Lee Mains, a city officer since 2003. Mains' unusual investigation, done largely on his own time, was made public Thursday night when he was named the Williamsport Bureau of Police "officer of the year" during a ceremony at the start of the City Council...

LAPD Det. Stephanie Lazarus was led into L.A. County Superior Court at about 10 a.m. to formally face charges of premeditated murder in connection with the fatal shooting two decades ago of her ex-boyfriend's wife. Instead, her arraignment was continued to July 6. Lazarus, 49, was dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit; her curly hair was styled straight. She was represented by attorney Mark Pachowicz. She was wearing handcuffs chained to her waist, and sat in a chair with her legs crossed in the suspect pen. She spoke with her attorney through a narrow, barred window. Lazarus could face the...

Nearly three decades after the sexual assault and brutal slaying of a woman, Los Angeles cold-case detectives announced Friday that they have identified a suspect and have asked the public for help in tracking him down. In 1980, 39-year-old Lois Hale's teenage daughter found her stabbed to death in her North Hollywood home. Detectives worked the case for years without solving it, police officials said. In 2006, Los Angeles Police Department cold-case detectives Thomas Townsend and Timothy Kirkpatrick reopened the case file, examining DNA evidence, fingerprints and crime scene photographs. Guadalupe Gonzalez Jimenez Lois HaleAdvances in DNA technology and expanded...

Horry County Police arrested three people in connection with a cold case murder. According to press release, 35 year-old Isaac Deshone Smith of Aynor, 29 year-old Quinte Shacar Taylor of Florence, and 32 year-old Darren Nathaniel Monroe of Marion were charged with Murder, Assault and Battery With Intent to Kill, Burglary 1st Degree, and Possession of a Firearm during the Commission of a Crime. All of these charges stem from a shooting incident back in November 2001. Police said on November 26, 2001 at approximately 8:30pm, officers responded to 3273 Edwards Rd. in the Aynor section of Horry County in...

Sierra Vista Police Department reopened the file in 2001A 1977 cold case that was reopened by the Sierra Vista Police Department in 2001, has led to the arrest of a former city resident on charges of murder, rape and aggravated assault. Kent A. DeHaven was arrested on Feb. 13 at his home in Mesa, charged in the death of Barbara Rhodes of Bisbee, said Detective Lt. Jim Adams. DeHaven, 50, is being held on a $500,000 bond in the Cochise County Jail after being transported from Mesa to Bisbee, Adams said. DeHaven was the initial suspect and had been charged...

Police in Marion believe they have solved a homicide that has been on the books since 1979. 67-year-old Alfred Lee Solomon is jailed and charged with murder in the death of Terry Headley. Police say Headley's body was discovered in his girlfriend's Marion apartment in March of 1979, where he had been stabbed and shot. Investigators believe robbery was the motive.

A local cold case is solved. After more than four years, police in Santa Maria say they know who killed Jeremy Grinder. Grinder's family reported him missing from Santa Maria in September of 2004. On January 11, 2005, police found Grinder's remains the unincorporated part of the county. Now, three people are charged with murder and criminal street gang terrorism. Police revealed the victim and the three suspects were all a part of the same local street gang. With these arrests, Grinder's family says they finally have a little bit of closure. Grinder was only 21 years old when police...

A former town police constable was arrested for second-degree murder in a four-decades-old missing person’s case, officials confirmed Monday. Nelson Costello was arrested by the State Police in Cohoes last week and is being held at the Saratoga County Jail without bail for allegedly murdering David M. Bacon in Waterford in 1969. The case was originally handled as a missing person caseuntil new information was obtained by the Troy and Cohoes police departments in recent months, police said. Stokeswoman Trooper Maureen Tuffey said the State Police likely will have a press conference on the case later in the week but...

Trial starts with new evidence, as most had been destroyedWilma Williams' death didn't get much attention in 1981. Found stabbed to death in her South Seattle apartment July 22 of that year, the 22-year-old's passing was marked by scant media attention and a short-lived investigation that ground on for years without generating any substantive leads. Her case was deemed cold in 1984, with most of the evidence destroyed years later. Williams' slaying did little but gather dust until 2005, when a Seattle Police Department cold case team reopened it to find that, in a fluke, the Medical Examiner's Office had...

Detectives of the Fairfax County Police Department Cold Case Squad recently closed a case that was 30 years old. In January 1979, John Bell, 68 at the time, and his sister Mary Bell, 84 at the time, were the victims of a burglary. Mary Bell lived at 2910 Hunter Mill Road in Oakton. During that burglary, a struggle ensued and John Bell died as a result of multiple stab wounds. Mary Bell was also injured but survived the attack. John Bell, it is believed, was able to fight the intruder. The suspect's hair was pulled out and a bandana fell...

The case reads something like a TV crime drama, with evidence sitting cold for years. The murder of Jenece Marie Wilson. Over 20 years later a grant allowed detectives to send the crime scene evidence to a private lab for testing. A Texas lab then pulled DNA from the evidence, which consisted of clothing. It connected Samuel Posada, a 41-year-old man from Toppenish. Posada was a Toppenish High School classmate with Jenece Marie Wilson. During the summer of 1987 Wilson's body was found in an orchard outside of Granger. She was beaten so badly the coroner had to use dental...

Investigators hope new technology can help find remains correct the address and the occupancy status of the house. State investigators returned to Carolina Beach on Thursday, 67 years after a mother and her young daughter disappeared. They brought with them ground-penetrating radar – modern technology they hope will finally solve a case that stumped the agency in 1941. After Leila Bryan, 36, and her 4-year-old daughter Mary Rachel disappeared on May 10, 1941, agents with the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement officials tracked leads from New York to Florida looking for them, according to old newspaper...

A recently reopened investigation into the slaying of a Pacific Beach man more than 35 years ago led Tuesday to the arrest in Texas of his alleged killer, authorities reported.Gerald Metcalf, 60, surrendered to authorities Tuesday afternoon in Henderson County, Texas and was booked on suspicion of murdering 27-year-old Gerald Jackson in the victim's home in late December 1971 or early January 1972, according to San Diego police. Several days after Jackson's body was discovered, his stolen car turned up, abandoned, in Mexicali, Mexico, SDPD homicide Lt. Terry McManus said. At a nearby pawnshop, detectives recovered other possessions that had...

CNN is following four Bauder College students as they build their case files in the Chandra Levy and Natalee Holloway investigations. The Campus Crime Club is part of CNNU, which features student perspectives on news and trends from colleges across the United States. 1 of 3 ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The homicide cop, the prosecutor, the stalking expert and the psychic fielded questions about two unsolved mysteries in a large, sunny room with a skeleton laid out on a table and timelines posted on the walls. The topic was Chandra Levy, the 24-year-old Bureau of Prisons intern whose 2001 disappearance...