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As the Boston murder case of Swedish nanny Karina Holmer reaches 30 years without resolution, law enforcement across the region is solving or working on other cold cases. Here are some of those ...

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SOUTHFIELD, MI - Advances in DNA and fingerprint technology have led to an arrest in the 1997 killing of a Southfield woman, closing a cold case that went unsolved for nearly three decades. Police ...

Detectives in Camden County said they were able to solve a decades-old homicide case involving two young women who were brutally murdered in the 1990s. Using an array of new DNA testing systems, ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Cold case units in Arizona solved at least two major cases this week, bringing answers to families who waited years for closure. In 1994, 13-year-old Christina “Tina” Plante ...