CALI COPS CLEAR 1987 MILDRED PORTER HOMICIDE

CALIFORNIA cops believe they've solved a vicious 24-year-old murder. Detectives in Riverside County say that on Jan. 27, 1987 the body of Mildred Porter, 79, was found inside her mobile home. She had been bound and gagged and had been asphixiated. Several items had been missing from her home--including her car keys, a small camera and a...

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ON DEATHBED RUSSELL SMREKAR ADMITS '75 SLAY

A CONVICTED killer on his deathbed has confessed to the 1975 murder of his college roommate of Illinois. Michael Mansfield, 19, vanished while on home on Christmas break on Dec. 31. he was never seen again. But his disappearance came just six days before he was supposed to testify against Russell Smrekar--his Lincoln College roommate--who...

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PI: 'I KNOW WHO MURDERED CONNIE EVANS IN 1964'

NO ONE will ever know for sure who murdered Mary Constance Evans on her 15th birthday--Oct. 24, 1964. The main suspect is dead but a private eye says the riddle is solved. Connie Evans vanished after leaving her West Goshen Township home on a two-mile walk to West Chester, Pennsylvania. The search dragged on for weeks with hundreds of volunteers...

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HITCHIKER THEORY IN 1975 RUPERT MURDER DISPUTED

CHARLES and Leslie Rupert were newlyweds, deeply in love and passionate about the rehabilitation of ex-convicts. And then, in a flash, their lives were mysteriously snuffed out in February 1975. The University of Arizona grad students were found shot execution-style in a drainage ditch. On Feb. 1, 1975, the couple were driving home after...

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TODDLER THE ONLY WITNESS DELORES THOMPSON SLAY

BLUDGEONEDHE witnessed something no one should see, let alone a two-and-a-half year old boy.But Delores Thompson's son is still the only person who saw what happened to his 27-year-old mom and her pal Gwendolyne Fulce, 21, when they were viciously beaten back in September 1973.Sadly he can't remember what happened, but by the time his father...

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FREEZER BODY: FRANK JULIAN 'REFUSED LIE DETECTOR'

KILLER?A MAN who kept a woman's body hidden in a storage unit refused to take a lie detector test after his girlfriend went missing, a retired detective revealed yesterday.As we reported here Frank Julian's relatives found the hidden corpse in an unplugged freezer, when they were cleaning up after his death.Cops now suspect it may be...

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TEXAS KILLING FIELDS: REAL STORY OF THE I-45 KILLER

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MICHAEL NADEAU GUILTY OF 2002 KATHLEEN WHITE SLAY

CAUGHTA VICIOUS thief who strangled a 79-year-old senior to death and killer her dog, during a deadly 2002 home invasion, has pleaded guilty to her murder.Kathleen White’s body was discovered found stuffed inside her car’s trunk in her garage during a welfare check.  The widow’s only companion, a poodle, had also been killed and left...

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ROBERT DURST STILL SUSPECT IN WIFE'S MURDER

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PREGNANT MARY GENCY'S 1974 KILLERS GET JUSTICE

JUSTICEA VICIOUS boyfriend who brutally battered his pregnant girlfriend to death has been brought to justice 34-years after the murder.Back in 1974 Mary Irene Gency was just 16, when her nude, frozen body was found near the Sportsman's club in North Charleroi, PA, with multiple skull fractures inflicted by heavy object.But it was only recent...

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COPS REFUSE TO GIVE UP ON PAIGE RENKOSKI COLD CASE

VANISHEDSUSPECTIT'S 21years since Paige Renkoski vanished but cops are still determined to find out why she mysteriously disappeared. Back in 1990 the 30-year-old was last seen on the Interstate near her DeWitt Township, MI, home talking to a man.But while cops found her unlocked 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass in the same location, with the engine...

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DAD ARRESTED IN 1978 SEX SLAYING OF SHERRI TAYLOR

COLD CASE detectives in Biloxi, Mississippi have made an arrest in the baffling 1978 homicide of a pretty teen girl. Sherri Taylor, 15, was raped and murdered on July 11, 1978. Now, her father William Taylor has been charged with statutory rape as a muddy case gets clearer.Police say Sherri's father claimed he discovered her body in the...

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FREEZER BODY MAY BE MISSING KITTY WARDWELL: COPS

KILLER?THE body of a Maine woman missing for almost 30 years may have been found in a freezer belonging to her ex-boyfriend, cops say. Kitty Wardwell was reported missing by her on-again, off again boyfriend, Frank Julian, back in July 1983 and was never seen again.  But after he died earlier this month, aged 80, relatives were...

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COPS CLOSING IN ON DONNA CANNADAY'S KILLER?

DANCE teacher Donna Cannaday never would have left her house without her shoes. And the doors were open. Money was left behind. On Oct. 19 1989, the 22-year-old beauty disappeared--but on ly for a short time. Hours later  her brother, fiance and a pal found her dumped in an irrigation ditch in a soybean field not far from the Chesapeake...

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LEESA JO SHANER KILLER JAILED FOR '73 HOMICIDE

The ruthless killer of Leesa Jo Shaner, who was kidnapped from her car at Tuscon International Airport, violently murdered and left in a shallow grave 38 years ago, has finally been sentenced. William Zamastill was already serving a life sentence in a Wisconsin prison for kidnapping, raping and murdering a woman in that state in 1978. While...

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EPIFANEO JAIMES ARROYO BUSTED FOR 1980 STAB

'KILLER'A FUGITIVE murder suspect who allegedly stabbed a man to death after a vicious 1980 nightclub brawl, before going on the run, has been busted for murder.Miguel Frias was partying with pals in north Houston, when a fight broke out between his pals and another group in a nightclub.As it spilled out into the car park Epifaneo...

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UPDATE: NEW DETAILS EMERGE IN MARY RIVERA CASE

CAUGHTTHE ELDERLY fugitive who was busted for the murder of her husband 41-years after he died, killed him by "pouring hot grease and other liquids" on him, cops say. As we reported here, the ailing 76-year-old was picked up in her Georgia home, stunning friends and neighbors, who knew her as a mild mannered waitress. Court records...

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MURDER CATCHES UP WITH MARY RIVERA 41-YEARS ON

FOUR decades after her husband was murdered, cops have busted Mary Rivera for the 1970 killing.Cops say that back in 1971, the 76-year-old killed her husband but, shortly after his death she moved with her children, who are now all grown up, to Georgia from her Houston TX.The Harris County Cold Case Squad, recently reopened the case and unlike...

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MISSING BENITA RODRIGUEZ IN 'HOUSE OF HORRORS'

EVILMISSINGTHE MYSTERY surrounding the Philadelphia house of horrors deepened yesterday when a missing Florida teen was found with the group. Benita Rodriguez, 15, disappeared from her West Palm Beach home in July, but according to authorities, she was not kept in the squalid basement, but with the three suspects in the case. In...

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MYSTERY UNRAVELS IN 1946 BEDDIE WALRAVEN MURDER

IT WAS the end of a long life and Kitty Hodges had something to say on her death bed. It was 1994 and she drifted in an out of consciousness. And that's when she told her granddaughter Becky Herrera a bizarre tale of murder. She had been stunning once but the last years had been hard, living in squalor with a staggering 87 cats. In the end,...

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REED JEPPSON DISAPPEARED INTO THIN AIR IN 1964

ON OCT. 11, 1964 after church Reed Jeppson took his two German short hair pointers for a walk--and was never seen again. There was never anything to indicate foul play or that he had run away. Reed Jeppson was simply gone. At the time of his disappearance, he was 15, 5'6", 130 lbs, blonde hair and blue eyes. He wore braces at the time and...

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CHEESE NABS ELEONARA KNOERNSCHILD'S 1984 KILLERS

MURDEREDA PIECE of cheese helped cops finally catch up with the brothers who viciously battered and strangled an senior back in 1984.Cops had long suspected Brian McBenge, now 49, in the horrific murder of Eleonara Knoernschild, 84, but at the time there was insufficient evidence to charge him with the heinous crime in St Charles, MO.  ...

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ARRESTS MADE IN TROYA SHECKLES 2009 EXECUTION

EXECUTEDTHEY walked up to her in a crowded park and executed her in broad daylight, yet shamefully, despite a huge number of potential witnesses no one came forward to help cops with their investigation. But despite a lack of information, cops persisted, determined to find out who whacked Troya Sheckles and earlier this week that paid off,...

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SISTER OF HELEN KILGORE 'REFUSING TO GIVE UP'

MURDEREDPLAQUETHE SISTER of a Texas teen, who's severely beaten body was found wrapped in a blue moving blanket with a single gunshot wound to her head is refusing to give up. Back in 1984 Helen Marie Kilgore's death shocked the Corpus Christi, TX community and left her sister Kelly devastated.But 27-years on, this week after gaining approval...

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COPS CHARGE JAMES MILES IN 2000 CALI COLD CASE

COPS in Santa Maria, California have arrested a 70-year-old man in the 2000 murder of his roommate. James 'Angry Jim' Miles was arrested and charged Thursday. According to cops, Miles was suspected at the time of the murder of David Wayne Anderson, who was shot to death in his home. The case went cold but was reopened in July and that was...

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MYRON TRAYLOR MISSING SINCE 1988; FOUL PLAY EYED

Myron Traylor, 13, vanished from Phoenix, Arizona, on July 28, 1988. He is 5’5", 106 lbs., black hair, brown eyes. At the time of his disappearance he was wearing a red and white striped shirt, white/blue print shorts, and white tennis shoes. He has a ½ inch scar on the right side of his head.Cops say Myron and his mother were walking to...

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JILTED RICARDO CRUZ STABBED EX'S MOM: COPS

CRUZA JILTED lover will now face a murder charge for the brutal November 2003 stabbing of his girlfriend's mom.Ricardo Cruz, now 34, had known Honey Vitagliano, 31, since high school and the two began to date several years later.But although he showered her with expensive gifts including $900 pair of diamond earrings, and took her on several...

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ACCUSED MARIA RIDULPH KILLER FACES RAPE BEEF FIRST

PROSECUTORS in Illinois say they're going to try Jack Daniel McCullough for a rape charge before trying him in the 1957 kidnapping sex slaying of Maria Ridulph, 7. The onetime police officer, now 71, will be tried January 9, 2012 on the rape beef. He has pleaded not guilty. Pretty Maria vanished from her neighborhood on Dec. 3, 1957,...

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DNA NABS RAPIST LUIS GARCIA FOR 2000 ATTACK

RAPISTA SADISTIC rapist who posed as a good Samaritan before viciously attacking a woman has been busted after DNA linked him to the 2000 crime.The victim who's car had broken down was waiting at a bus stop when Luis Garcia allegedly offered her a ride with his pal.But instead of driving her for help they went punched and kicked her and dragged...

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COPS BUST SUSPECT IN 1983 OK OLA KIRK HOMICIDE

LESTER BLACKBEAR was one day away from freedom--then the past caught up with him. Blackbear was charged with first-degree murder in the 1983 unsolved slaying of Ola Kirk, 77, in Geary, Oklahoma. Blackbear--a lifelong criminal--was always on the periphery over three decades and now, kindly Ola's family is finally at peace.Kay Mathews said:...

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MICH. COMIC BOOK KILLER MICHAEL GEORGE GUILTY!

MICHAEL GEORGE is guilty. The accused Comic Book Store Killer was convicted in Macomb County, Michigan yesterday of first-degree murder in the July 13, 1990 death of his wife Barbara who was found shot to death. The largely circumstantial case was sealed by a customer's chance call to the comic book store on the day of the murder. According...

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STILL NO SIGN OF MISSING JENNIFER LYNN PENTILLA

PENTILLAA MISSING missionary who was on her way to Mexico when she vanished continues to baffle authorities almost 20-years since she vanished. Dedicated Jennifer Lynn Pentilla, was just 18-years-old when she decided to meet a missionary group in Las Cruces, NM and help the poor, before heading south of the border. Armed with a...

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CONCRETE THE KEY IN DAVID PARKER RAY MURDERS

RAYTROIATHE TWISTED "Toy Box Killer" may never have been caught because he buried his victims in concrete, it was revealed yesterday.  As we reported here, David Parker Ray, repeatedly bragged about torturing and killing over 40 women in his 20ft white trailer which he called the "toy box" including Air Force worker Jill Troia, who vanished...

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LAURA KEMPTON'S 1981 MURDER LINKED TO '82 SLAYING

On Monday, September 28, 1981 at 9:30am, the body of Laura Kempton, 23 years old, was found murdered in her apartment located at 20 Chapel St.in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The autopsy conducted by the NH Medical Examiner reported that Kempton died of massive head trauma, consistent with being struck by a blunt object, causing contusions...

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NM COPS HUNT FOR BODIES OF JILL TROIA, 40 OTHERS

COPS in New Mexico are searching for up to 40 bodies after a killer boasted his tally was sky high. And they've reopened the case of Jill Troia, 22, who disappeared in 1995 and is suspected to be a victim of David Parker Ray. It's believed Parker Ray dumped bodies near the Elephant Butte Reservoir and caves. Troia vanished in 1995.According...

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