May 17, 2012
LAPD Detective Arrested in Death of Wife
A retired LAPD homicide detective was arrested this week in the fatal beating of his wife in Hawaii six years ago. He had been a suspect since her death. Dan DeJarnette, 59, was taken into custody without incident Monday night at his home on the Big Island in connection with the slaying of his wife, Yu Dejarnette. He appeared in a Hawaii courtroom to face formal charges. He said at the time of her November 2006 death that he had awakened and found her lying on a lava embankment about 20 feet from the couple's home in Ka'u on the southern end of the island. Read more...
May 12, 2012
Man Confesses After 3 Decades
Three decades have passed since Robert and Goldie Huntbach were found tied up and shot to death in their Waterloo, Iowa, home, and no suspects were ever arrested in the elderly couple's murders -- until this week, when one of them voluntarily walked into police headquarters and confessed. Read more...
May 04, 2012
Man in Jail for 1966 Slaying Commits Suicide
A coroner says a western Pennsylvania man behind bars for a notorious 1966 murder has committed suicide in his state prison cell in Greene County. Seventy-four-year-old Jon Yount took his own life just days before the 46-year anniversary of the rape and murder of Pamela Sue Rimer on April 28, 1966. Yount stopped the DuBois Area High School senior as she walked home from her school bus stop. The math teacher beat, raped and stabbed his 18-year-old student before slitting her throat and leaving her to die in the woods near her Luthersburg home. Read more...
May 02, 2012
Husband Arrested After Wife's Body Found Under Barn
Police have arrested the husband of a woman whose body was found inside a well under a barn in Newtown, Conn. Elizabeth Gough Heath was reported missing in April 1984, just days after John Heath filed for divorce. She was 30 years old at the time. A father and son found Elizabeth Gough Heath's remains in April 2010 as they were renovating the barn at 89 Poverty Hallow Road in Newtown. Read more...
April 25, 2012
Man Admits to Oklahoma Killing 25 Years Later
Clifford Eagle strolled into Billings, Mont., police station on April 18 and told police that he wanted to get something off his chest. As one of the officers was leaving the station house, Eagle allegedly told authorities that a quarter century ago, when he was 28 years old, he and another man got into a heated argument with a third man in Oklahoma about property, and he ended up shooting the man dead. He was then interviewed at the station and authorities in Oklahoma were alerted. The Billings Gazette reported that he stayed voluntarily until officers made the arrest. Read more...
April 23, 2012
Man Arrested in 1981 Slaying
A 51-year-old Northern California man has been charged with murder after he was linked through DNA to the 1981 rape and strangulation of a Whittier woman who had been a high school classmate. Joseph Allen Thornton of Auburn, northeast of Sacramento, is expected to be arraigned in Superior Court in Whittier on a charge of murder with a special circumstance allegation of rape. He was taken into custody by Whittier police at his home. Read more...
April 05, 2012
Man Accused of Involvement in 1976 Rape, Murder
For decades, Westfield police were baffled by the death of Lena Triano, a quiet secretary who lived alone in the Ripley Place home where she was killed in 1976. Now, nearly four decades after her death, police say they've used forensic evidence to solve her slaying, and that the truth may be more bizarre than anything they could have imagined. Read more...
February 22, 2012
Body Found in 1975 Identified
A nude woman's body found floating in a Texas river 37 years ago has finally been identified by Houston forensic experts. The body has been identified Gloria Faye Stringer, a 22-year-old mother who disappeared shortly after moving to Texas City in 1975. The identification has prompted an investigation into the death of the former Tennessee woman. Read more...
February 13, 2012
Ohio Coroner Changes Ruling in 1972 Death
A coroner in southeast Ohio has changed the ruling in the 1972 death of a woman after her widower killed three relatives and himself last month in front of his cancer-stricken second wife — the first wife's sister. Hocking County Coroner David Cummin said Friday that he changed the ruling of suicide in Carolyn Gilkey's death to undetermined after reviewing decades-old photos and reports. She suffered a shotgun wound to the head. Read more...
February 08, 2012
Group Wants DNA Test in 1992 Killing
When Rhonda Sue Warford died in a rural field near Brandenburg, she had multiple stab wounds to her chest, back and neck, including one that destroyed her brain stem, and two gray hairs clenched in her right hand. Two decades later, those hairs are at the center of a legal battle over DNA testing that appellate attorneys hope will upend the convictions of two men serving life in prison for Warford's murder. Read more...
February 02, 2012
Arrest Made in 1983 Murder
A man is set to be arraigned in San Francisco Superior Court for allegedly killing another man in 1983. San Francisco District Attorney George Gasc—n announced this week that William Payne, 47, would be charged with first-degree murder in the death of Nikolaus Crumbley, a 41-year-old Texas resident. According to the DA's office, on November 16, 1983, Crumbley was found dead at the intersection of John Shelley Drive and Mansell Street in John McLaren Park. The San Francisco Medical Examiner's office ruled the death a homicide and the cause of death from ligature strangulation, the DA's staff said. Read more...
January 23, 2012
Man Charged in 1989 Honolulu Murder
The 52-year-old man arrested in connection with a murder that happened more than 20 years ago has been charged with murder and sex assault. Gerald Austin remains in police custody unable to post a $200,000 bail. In 1989, 81-year-old Edith Skinner was found dead in her apartment on Kalakaua Avenue. Witnesses say they saw a man leaving the apartment that morning, but the case went cold. Authorities say DNA linked Austin to the case. Read more...
