Cold Cases
Unsolved crimes, official failures, and what reopened files reveal about how investigations go cold — and what it takes to bring them back.
4 articlesLatest Cold Cases
The Witness Who Never Came Forward
She drove past the house twice that morning. Once at 6:14, once at 7:02. She watched the second car pull in. For thirty-one years she said nothing — until a 2024 cold-case task force found her name on a Costco receipt.
The Bricked House on Hadley Lane
A walled-off basement, a missing-persons report no one followed, and three decades of the wrong question being asked.
The Ledger Found in the Walls
A 2024 renovation pulled drywall in a 1960s ranch house and dropped a ring-bound ledger onto the kitchen floor. The first entry was dated June 1971. The last was three weeks before the original owner went missing.
What The Second Search Warrant Found
The first warrant was for a phone. The second was for a chest freezer. Most prosecutions hinge on what the second warrant turns up — and on whether a judge signs it.