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TAMPA, FL. – On March 6, 2005, at approximately 10:53 a.m., the Florida Highway Patrol responded to a traffic crash on the southbound exit ramp of Interstate 75 onto Interstate 4. Upon arrival, troopers found what appeared to be a single-vehicle crash involving a 1990…
Read More Florida Cold Case 2005: David Addison Neel, Shot While Driving And Exiting I-75
On October 10, 2008, at 9:50 am, the victim, Lawrence P. Higgins, 61, was found deceased in the garage of his residence located at 11523 Trotting Down Dr., Odessa. Higgins died as a result of upper body trauma; therefore his death was ruled as a homicide, according to…
Read More Florida Cold Case 2008: Lawrence P. Higgins Found Murdered In His Garage
TAMPA, FL. – The 2012 double murder of two sisters remains a cold case in Tampa, and your help is needed to bring the person(s) responsible for these murders to justice. On April 12, 2012, Tampa Police say 54-year-old Vickie Sterling and her sister, 62-year-old…
Read More Florida Cold Case 2012: Two Sisters Murdered In Their Tampa Home
TAMPA, Fla. – A Florida man is behind bars after a genealogy DNA match led investigators to the suspect in a 2007 sexual battery cold case. On January 27, 2007, an unknown male, offered to assist the victim in getting home, where she was then…
Read More Florida Man Arrested In 2007 Sexual Battery After Familial DNA Match
The following cases are currently unsolved but police are continuing to investigate diligently as new leads come in. Please help bring the persons responsible for these crimes to justice. In an effort to gain new information on these cold case homicides, the City of Gainesville…
Read More Florida Cold Case Files: Four Murders, No Suspects, Can You Help Police?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Baltimore Field Office is seeking the public’s assistance with identifying a woman whose body was found at Catoctin Mountain Park in Thurmont, Maryland, on Saturday, June 12, 2021. Law Enforcement Agencies responded to the National Park Saturday afternoon after a portion of…
Read More FBI: Seeking Info On Body Of Woman Found In Maryland, Discovered By Hikers
Twenty-five years ago, two young female hikers decided to do what many people do for exercise, relaxation, and sport—hike through the Shenandoah National Park; however, their journey ended when they were murdered at their backcountry campsite near Skyland Resort in Virginia. The bodies of 24…
Read More FBI: Shenandoah National Park Murders 25 Years Later
PASCO COUNTY Fla. – Investigators described the slaying of a man in his home by an intruder as an ‘execution’. On February 14, 2004, Todd George Novak, 43, was attacked in his living room when he got home late that Saturday night, Pasco County sheriff’s…
Read More Cold Case: Todd George Novak, Attacked In His Living Room
Gail Ann Russell was last seen inside her family’s trailer in the vicinity of the 7100 block of Oakley Avenue in Bayonet Point, Florida on September 4, 1995. She and her live-in boyfriend, Larry Podolski, went to bed at midnight. Podolski told authorities that they…
Read More Florida Cold Case: Gail Ann Russell, Loving Mother – Missing Since 1995
Decades after they were murdered, two victims of two separate homicides in Volusia County, Florida, have been identified thanks to DNA matches. The cases of Howard “Kip” Evans, who was found dead in 1986, and Doris Regina Chavers, who was last seen alive in 1989,…
Read More Florida Cold Case: DNA Reveals the Identity of Jane and John Doe
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