, Washington State Patrol’s Cold Case Homicide Team will analyze evidence from a 1994 crime scene with new technologies in hopes of finding the DNA of the killer.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office in Florida hopes the wild success of Netflix’s “Tiger King” documentary will help out with a cold case.

Marsi Leah Belecz ran away from her home in the East Central Neighborhood on the night of Aug. 3, 1985, and her mutilated body was discovered two days later in a nearby towing yard. Despite hundreds of interviews and other exhaustive police work, Marsi’s killer went unnamed for decades.

The story in the June 1916 Idaho newspaper was alarming: A man suspected of brutally murdering his wife "escaped on May 18 from custody and has not been caught." He was never seen again. Now, authorities say that dismembered remains found in a remote cave 40 years ago have been identified as those of the suspected murderer - an apparent victim of frontier justice.

The government is still investigating the brutal slaying of a black teenager that helped spur the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago.

A jury convicted a Washington state man Friday in the killings of a young Canadian couple more than three decades ago – a case that was finally solved when investigators turned to powerful genealogy software to build a family tree of the then-unknown suspect.

Seattle police said Tuesday they have solved a murder from nearly 52 years ago with the help of DNA and a family tree – a method that has revolutionized cold-case investigations across the U.S. in the past year.

A cold case murder trial in Snohomish County will be the first to include genetic genealogy as an investigative tool as law enforcement embraces technology to solve crimes.

A truck-driving preacher accused in the killing of two teenage girls from Alabama decades ago was found with the same genealogy database techniques that were used to identify a suspect last year in the notorious “Golden State” serial killings.

A former Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy was under investigation for the cold case murders of three women – two of them believed to be pregnant – in the summer of 1967. Last week, before deputies could arrest him, he died in Alabama.

The podcast begins where Zachary Lamb’s life ended – on the historic streets of the lower South Hill, just outside of his apartment at 10th Avenue and Elm Street.

A popular DJ pleaded guilty Tuesday to raping and strangling a schoolteacher in 1992 after being identified as a suspect as a result of DNA a relative had submitted to a genealogy database.

A Boise man was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder Wednesday night in connection with a homicide in Washington from 1992.

Possibly solving a second high-profile cold case murder in two months, Tacoma police on Wednesday arrested a man suspected of killing 12-year-old Michella Welch more than three decades ago.