EVELYN SHANK SHOT TO DEATH IN VEGAS IN 1959

She is the oldest unsolved murder victim in a city that has seen plenty of them during its wild existence. Evelyn Shank was the night clerk at the Travelodge and the victim of a kidnap/robbery, Vegas cops say. Her relief worker arrived to discover the switchboard/desk area unoccupied. When he could not locate Shank he called cops. Detectives learned that $174.50 had been taken from the till and an all-points bulletin was broadcast and road blocks were set up throughout the vicinity.
On February 7, 1959, Shank's body was found. A gunshot to the head delivered death. Cops say a 1949-1950 Ford sedan (possibly dark blue) with the headlights on was seen parked near the front door by the co-worker. When he returned from searching for Shank -- the car was gone. Anyone with information is urged call Las Vegas Metro Homicide Cold Case Detail at 702-828-COLD.

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MICHAEL NADEAU GUILTY OF 2002 KATHLEEN WHITE SLAY

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A 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 inside the Irving, TX home, cops said.
But for over eight years, investigators were baffled by the gruesome crime until DNA matched evidence gathered at White’s home.
They picked up 49-year-old Michael Nadeau in an El Paso homeless shelter and charged him with capital murder.
But rather than face the death penalty, he pleaded guilty in exchanged for a life sentence. 
White’s neighbors told Fox4 they are glad to finally have closure in the case.
Anna Ayala said: “That’s something good to know, and that gives us a sigh of relief that they did finally find the person that did this to her.
"Everybody had alarm systems put in because of that. It was scary because we didn’t know who it was that did it.”

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ARRESTS MADE IN TROYA SHECKLES 2009 EXECUTION

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THEY 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, with the arrests of Steven Pettway and DeJuan Hammond for the 2009 murder.
At the time she was killed, Sheckles was scheduled to testify against Dejuan's brother Lloyd Hammond who is charged with murdering her boyfriend.
Cops say after murdering her they went on to kill again as they has been in jail since June for shooting a woman in the head while breaking into her home.
Louisville Metro Police Lt Barry Wilkerson said it's a sign of just how dangerous these men are, adding that Pettway had been a juvenile at the time of the murder, which is why it had taken time to get an indictment.  
He told Wave 3: "That's why the detectives were very persistent in trying to get enough info to get these individuals off the street."
He added that Sheckles'  family have been waiting patiently for this day.
One relative told the station: "They cut a beautiful, vibrant woman's life short." 
Cops added that they are going to do what they can to bring them justice, while maintaining that they are still interviewing people involved and there could be even more arrests.

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COPS NAB DAVID GRIMES IN 1974 MURDER OF WIDOW, 75

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SHE was smothered to death in her bed 34-years ago, but although cops had a suspect they didn't have enough to nail him.
At the time they suspected David Grimes, now 64, in the death of 75-year-old Ruth VanHouten, because he'd been arrested several times near her Ithaca, NY home for residential burglaries. 
Many of the cases involved residential burglaries and the assault of elderly women who lived alone.  But thanks to their excellent and painstaking evidence collection at the time, in January 2010, when Lieutenant Christopher Townsend reviewed the case he got a break.
When he sent it the New York State Police Forensic Investigation Center in Albany, using current technology, DNA was gathered from the evidence and entered into a DNA database.
It came back with a match - the man they'd suspected all along. 
Grimes is currently an inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York  and when investigators gathered a DNA sample from Grimes in prison, which came back positive for a match.
As he is currently serving a 50 years to life sentence for burglary, robbery and assault convictions from crimes he committed in Ithaca VanHouten's family made the decision not to hold a criminal trial.

His first scheduled parole hearing in 2040, when he will be 93 years old, so they took that into account that Grimes is serving a life sentence, and did not want to relive the events of the crime.

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