

NPR reports that the vehicle was removed from the creek the following day, and skeletal remains, thought to be of the two girls, were found inside. In September of 2013, a fisherman near the state’s Brule Creek noticed a car submerged upside down in the water. In that year, Sherri Miller and Pam Jackson, both 17, disappeared while driving on rural roads to a party at a gravel pit in a 1960 Studebaker Lark. The Disappearance of Sherri Miller and Pam Jackson, 1971 : Solved by a fisherman.Īn alert fisherman may have helped solve this cold case, which has been unresolved since 1971. Simpson, now 46, was arrested in Florida in September of this year.
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The DNA matched to a Joseph Michael Simpson, who had been a resort bus driver in the area at the time. In fact, a tool called a forensic vacuum allowed for the DNA extraction.
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Leads at the time only led to dead-ends, but investigators finally got somewhere in 2013, when new forensic technologies, taking a full day, were used to extract touch DNA from the granite rock that crushed her skull. A prostitute, her body was found in 1995 along the Provo River. Beslanowitch was 17 years old when she died from a crushing blow to the skull. As The Huffington Post reports, Sheriff Todd Bonner just couldn’t let the case go. Cold Case Murder of Krystal Beslanowitch, 1995 : Solved through forensic technologies.Ī determined cop who was the original investigator into the murder of Krystal Beslanowitch 18 years ago in Utah helped bring resolution to this case. You’ll see how forensics techniques help to bring closure to many cases, but also how, occasionally, other things propel a case toward resolution.

Take a look at our list of 10 solved cold cases below.
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The good thing is that families can reach better closure about what has happened, even though this can mean re-living many painful details at a trial or hearing.Ĭonvictions can result, and prison sentences be given, and, as in the case of three cold cases included on this list, inmates already in prison can receive much longer sentences. A witness or suspect may decide to talk, or people might be more forthcoming about details after time has passed. Sometimes it’s forensic evidence and sometimes it’s merely re-examining clues, but cold cases do occasionally get solved.
