Imagine two women, Cathy Swartz and Catherine Edwards, living their lives in different parts of the country, unaware that their fates would be tragically linked by a brutal end and a decades-long mystery. Cathy, a young mother of 19, was found dead in her Michigan home in 1988. Her fiancé, Mike Warner, discovered her body in their bedroom, her throat slashed and stra...
Wayne Adam Ford's chilling words, "I hurt some people, " opened the door to a dark world. This world was explored by a Southern California author who spent years investigating Ford's deadly compulsion. The author's book, "Body Parts: A Serial Killer's Deadly Compulsions, " sheds new light on Ford's first victim, identified 25 years after her brutal murder. T...
On a chilly December day in 2003, a disturbing discovery was made on Long Island. Neighbors found the door of Edna Schubert's home in North Bay Shore, N. Y. , wide open. Inside, they saw a shattered window and papers flying in the wind. But the worst was yet to be seen. Edna Schubert, a 88-year-old retired government worker, had been brutally attacked and killed in h...
It's been nearly 50 years since the body of Dawn Momohara, a 16-year-old student from McKinley High School in Honolulu, was found. The close-knit community was shaken by the tragic discovery. Dawn was partially clothed, with an orange cloth around her neck, and signs of sexual assault. The case remained unsolved for decades. Recently, modern DNA testing has led to a ...
Imagine digging up crimes from the past. That's what happened when DNA testing finally caught up with Kurt Alan Rillema, a Michigan business owner. Police found that Rillema, 51, was the FBI behind two sexual assault cases way back in 1999 and 2000—at golf courses in Oakland County and Penn State University. Both victims had been attacked 20 years ago, with one woman...
Did you know that Norway is jumping on the DNA detective bandwagon? With the help of commercial DNA databases, a new tool called Investigative Genetic Genealogy (IGG) is heating up old crime scenes. This isn’t your typical CSI stuff; IGG uses family trees to find suspects. And guess what? They’ve already cracked two cold cases! Imagine a country like Norway, where r...
In an incredible turn of events, a jury convicted a 67-year-old man last week for a 1994 kidnapping at the Oakridge Mall, thanks to a cold-case investigation that relied on DNA evidence. Thomas John Loguidice was found guilty of felony kidnapping with the intent to rob, after he was linked to the crime during his time in state prison for an unrelated offense. Loguid...
John Ramsey, father of JonBenét Ramsey, thinks advancements in DNA technology could finally solve his daughter's mysterious murder. This shocking crime happened over 28 years ago, in 1996, when JonBenét was found dead in their Boulder, Colorado home. A ransom note with a strange demand of $118, 000, the exact amount of John's bonus, was found nearby. Police initially...
In Indiana, a former CVS employee named Richard Allen was found guilty of murdering two teenage girls back in 2017. The trial lasted four weeks, with the jury hearing from many witnesses over 17 days. They finally reached a decision on Monday. Allen, who is 52, was accused of killing Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, on February 13, 2017. The girls were f...
For years, the mystery of two teenagers' deaths in Indiana remained unsolved. Then, a volunteer stumbled upon an old tip that seemed to fit the puzzle pieces together. The tip, from a man named Richard Allen, mentioned he saw three girls on the trail around the time the teens went missing. No one had noticed it before, but when Kathy Shank, a volunteer receptionist, ...