Archive - The Cold Cases

The Oldest Cold Case in Jackson County, Oregon: The Disappearance of Christie Lynn Farni

A 6-year-old vanished while walking to school in Medford on Dec. 14, 1978. Nearly five decades later, the case remains unsolved.

Mar 22 • Jacqueline Bowser

Cold Cases Do Not End for the Families

What Victims’ Families Still Carry While the Internet Turns Them Into Content

Mar 22 • Dr. Mozelle Martin

Interview: Jacob Wenzel Missing Since 2022 in Wisconsin

Jacob Wenzel Stepped Out to Talk to Someone and was Never Seen Again

Mar 21 • Dustin Reed Terry

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Kelley Gaffield: The Webster Cold Case Still Shadowed by Silence

Kelley Gaffield was 16 when she disappeared in Webster in August 1995. Her body was found two months later, and the case still has no answers.

Mar 21 • Ron Vroman

The Unsolved Murder of Jimmie Retha Brown and the Man Who May Hold the Answers

Nearly 50 years after a 16-year-old El Paso girl was found bound and strangled in the New Mexico desert, one name keeps surfacing — and justice has…

Mar 21 • Dustin Reed Terry

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Douglas Shondel's Mother Seeks Answers in His Cold Case

A Case That Should Be Looked At and Prosecuted

Mar 21 • Dustin Reed Terry

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Claude Wendell Johnson Found Dead in 1981 in Tennessee

Claude Wendell Johnson was rowdy but that was no reason to be killed.

Mar 20 • Dustin Reed Terry

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Urgent Plea for Shianne Turner: Let Her Go Now

Let Her Go or More People Will Ask Questions.

Mar 19 • Dustin Reed Terry

13-Year-Old Matthew Margolies Disappears in Greenwich, Connecticut

Boy’s murder remains unsolved more than four decades as authorities continue to seek new leads and public tips

Mar 19 • Jacqueline Bowser

The Alphabet Murders: Three Rochester Girls, Three Unsolved Killings, and a Mystery That Never Left

The murders of Carmen Colón, Wanda Walkowicz, and Michele Maenza still haunt Rochester more than 50 years later.

Mar 18 • Ron Vroman

The 1983 St. Louis Jane Doe: The Unidentified Headless Child of Clemens Avenue

In 1983, a decapitated girl was discovered in a St. Louis basement. Forty years later, investigators still do not know her identity or who killed her.

Mar 18 • Zoe Rosenthal

Something Isn’t Adding Up in Venango County

Suspicious deaths in Venango County

Mar 17 • Dustin Reed Terry

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