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Detective hopes to piece together Ada Kaplan Moore’s life to solve her 2011 homicide

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Tammy McAdams

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Daughter turns to DNA in her mother’s 1985 cold case

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Ohio investigators take a deeper look at 2007 “Llama Lady” cold case

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Family and investigators still fighting for answers in the 1999 disappearance of Ohio girl Erica Baker

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Pennsylvania’s Penny Doe identified 36 years later

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Children seek answers in 1975 cold case homicide of Norris “Snookie” Evans

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Loved ones dedicated to getting justice for Joyce LePage 55 years later

Laurie Travis

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More than 40 years after disappearance, Rose Marie Gayhart’s remains are identified

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Loved ones hope to find Mississippi mom who vanished nearly 25 years ago

Jason Hans

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Maryland authorities seeking tips in unsolved October 2002 Prince George’s County shooting of Irina Hans

Velina Guy

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FBI investigates 2002 Fourth of July disappearance of Navajo Nation woman Laverda Sorrell

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Minnesota’s Bone Lake Jane Doe identified as Denise Elaine Sexton Hartley

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Widow of Nick Cordova fights for justice six years later

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30 years later, Juan Leon Laureles’s 1996 homicide is still a mystery

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61 years later, Lillian Randolph’s Iowa homicide remains unsolved

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Salt Lake County Sheriff’s Office determined to solve murder of Valaine Briggs

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Coleman-Baker Act reexamines Georgia cold cases

Diane Hill

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More than 50 years later, Denise Newsom Porch remains missing

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Arkansas mother continues to seek justice for her son Marquis Martin’s 2020 homicide

Heather Means

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Who killed Washington, D.C. press secretary Sally Heet in 1986?

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What happened to William Huff and James Crosby? The 54-year-old mystery continues

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Five years later, an Oklahoma mother’s death remains a mystery

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Philadelphia Police Department reviews UPenn grad student Julie Revsin’s cold case

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Not guilty verdict in Megan McDonald case

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St. Clair, Illinois, authorities working to solve 1977 homicide of Sharrey Case

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North Carolina woman Michele Hundley Smith located safe 24 years later

Suanne Burt Sardi

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Family hopes justice can still be served in 1991 Arlington, Virginia, cold case homicide

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Tennessee's Vandy Jane Doe identified, case still under review

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St. Clair County Sheriff’s Department working to solve 1986 Illinois homicide

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Additional Colonial Parkway Murders resolved nearly 40 years later

Kessiah Young

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Family fights for answers in 1992 North Carolina cold case homicide

John Pippin Jr.

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Perpetrator believed found in 1980 Corpus Christi homicide

State of California Department of Justice Office of the Attorney General

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California teen vanished along the Hollywood Freeway in 1970

Left: NCMEC, Right: Placer County Sheriff's OfficePlacer County Sheriff's Office

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Loved ones searching for truth in Halloween 1989 death of young mom

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Case still unsolved of Florida “Julie Doe” found in September 1988, identified decades later as Pamela Leigh Walton

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Five decades later, still no answers in brutal slaying of Syracuse high school senior in 1967

The 17-year-old high school senior was brutally beaten and strangled to death in the early morning hours of September 23, 1967.

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Can you help solve Wilma Nissen’s 1978 Iowa homicide?

For 27 years, she was an unidentified Iowa Jane Doe. Today, Wilma Nissen’s daughter is determined to uncover who killed her nearly half a century ago.

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Iowa Police say they know who killed Jamedia Hines in 1987 but ask community to help prove it

The 22-year-old was found strangled and beaten to death in 1987.

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Wife of Memphis barber still looking for answers in his 2021 homicide

On August 25, 2021, 48-year-old Marcus Cason decided to skip Bible study. That decision cost him his life. His killer has still not been caught.

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More than 40 years later, niece advocates for aunt’s unsolved New Jersey homicide

15-year-old Sharon Thor entered a car with two men on October 26, 1982. Her remains were found in the woods three days later.

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Parents of 7-year-old Elkhart, Indiana, girl still looking for answers in her 2012 homicide

Kristyana Jackson had just returned home from a football game with her mother when she and her father were both shot.

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Moline police make arrest in 1996 disappearance of Trudy Appleby

The 11-year-old was last seen in Moline on August 21, 1996, getting into a gray vehicle with a man in his early 20s with brown, curly hair. Trudy has still not been found, but authorities have now charged a man with her murder.

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Texas family wants justice in 2019 garage sale shooting

Liz Barraza was murdered in her Tomball, Texas, driveway on the morning of January 25, 2019.

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Texas family still hoping for answers in 2006 disappearance of Brandi Wells

The 23-year-old vanished after a night out in Longview, Texas, in August 2006. Not long after she vanished, her vehicle was found off Interstate 20, but she was nowhere to be found.

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Family of young West Virginia mother missing since 2006 fills the void by advocating for other families of the missing

The 21-year-old mom of three vanished on July 19, 2006, from Belle, West Virginia.

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Retired Maryland investigator shares the three cases he can’t forget

Donna Lee Dustin was murdered in November 1973. Elizabeth Greenberg was found dead on the 4th of July weekend in 1988. Nancy Snow vanished without a trace in November 1980.

Donna Lee Dustin, Elizabeth Greenberg, Nancy Snow