CHEESE NABS ELEONARA KNOERNSCHILD'S 1984 KILLERS

MURDERED

A PIECE of cheese helped cops finally catch up with the brothers who viciously battered and strangled an senior back in 1984.
Cops had long suspected Brian McBenge, now 49, in the horrific murder of Eleonara Knoernschild, 84, but at the time there was insufficient evidence to charge him with the heinous crime in St Charles, MO.    

SISTER OF HELEN KILGORE 'REFUSING TO GIVE UP'

MURDERED

PLAQUE

THE SISTER of a Texas teen, who's severely beaten body was found wrapped in a blue moving blanket with a single gunshot wound to her head is refusing to give up.
Back in 1984 Helen Marie Kilgore's death shocked the Corpus Christi, TX community and left her sister Kelly devastated.
But 27-years on, this week after gaining approval to erect a cross and plaque at the spot where she was found, her sister Kelly vowed to keep her sister's memory alive.

COVER UP IN 1984 MATTHEW MARGOLIES MURDER?

IN ONE of the most tony towns in America, murder reared it's ugly head in September 1984 and to this day, the case remains colds. Matthew Margolies was just 13 and lived in the Pemberwick area of Greenwich when he was found murdered on Sept. 5, 1984--five days after he vanished. Over the years cops have identified as many as eight suspects in the cold-blooded killing but there have been no arrests and many fear there never will be because of moneyed families that inhabit the area.

FRANCES MARIE WAITES KILLER GUILTY, 27 YEARS ON

SOLVED

CAUGHT

THE trail of blood told it's own horrifying story.
Frances Marie Waites had been stabbed in her bedroom, before running through the kitchen to lock herself in a back room.
But her killer had followed, smashing his way through  to reach her,
By the time her friend arrived at her Portland, OR home to pick her up for work the next morning, she'd been sexually assaulted and stabbed numerous times.
Her arms and hands had been cut in what police call defensive wounds — signs that she'd fought for her life — and her throat had been slit almost to the bone.

COULD SAFE CRACK RICHARD CHARTRAND MURDER?

ANSWERS?

A HUGE safe found hidden away in an old casino could help police finally crack the 1968 murder of former casino boss.
Richard Chartrand was blown up in his South Lake Tahoe, NV neighborhood by a sophisticated bomb but his killers were never caught.
It's current owner, attorney Mike Laub said last Thursday crews discovered a secret four foot safe behind the walls, completely sealed off. 
He told KSDK: "There is a pirate part of your personality that hopes to find diamonds and gold."
"I can't go anywhere without being stopped and asked what is inside the safe. I had no idea this would become such a distraction."

GAL PAL BUSTED IN 1985 JOHN MAYERCHAK MURDER

KILLER

FOR over a quarter of a century the death of John Mayerchak has remained a mystery. Found dead from a shotgun blast to the face in his Northampton, PA apartment, the jolly 51-year-old's murder baffled detectives for more than 26-years. With seemingly no enemies, no links to organized crime and no signs of forced entry at his home, authorities suspected the divorcee who liked women was killed by one of several he was known to consort with.
But with little to go on, the case quickly went cold.
Now however, Lucinda A. Andrews, 56, has admitted to the killing, just 12-days before the 26th anniversary of his death.
In court Monday, according to the Allentown Morning Call the now gray and bent woman offered just a hint of an explanation for what defense attorney Robert Sletvold called a "horrible incident."

NEW CLUE MAY CRACK SUSAN POWELL MISSING CASE

FOR THE past two years cops in Utah have been baffled by the disappearance of mom of two Susan Powell, 28. But they've never made a secret of the fact they think her husband Josh murdered the bubbly brunette. Now, detectives say that new information could solve the riddle and bring the fiend responsible to justice. Powell vanished on Dec. 6 2008 from her home in West Valley City.
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COPS HOPE DNA IDs 1969 JANE DOE MURDER VICTIM

COPS IN Washington State have exhumed the remains of a woman found murdered in 1969 in the hope her DNA could crack two cold cases. King County detectives say the bodies of two women were found on a rural road. On June 5, 1969, Jane Doe's decomposed body was found off a dirt road a mile west of the Tolt River Bridge in east King County. Cops named the unidentified murder victim “Tolt Hill Jane Doe.”
A portion of a skull from a second victim--a young adult female--was found in 2006 about three blocks from where Jane Doe's lifeless body was found. The second victim has also never been identified. Now, cold case cops suspect the two slayings may be linked.
Sgt. John Urquhart said: “They hope to first find out who the person was, then find her killer."

SCHOOLGIRL TINA FAELZ 1984 SLAY SOLVED: COPS

THE BRUTAL 1984 slaying of schoolgirl Tina Faelz has finally been solved after 27 years, cops say.
More than a quarter-of-a-century ago the 14-year-old's body was found viciously stabbed over 15 times near a dark culvert, which she had used as a shortcut home from school in Santa Cruz, CA. Yet despite huge community outcry and massive investigation by police, no one was ever charged with her murder. But now police believe that thanks to new DNA technology they have caught their killer - a fellow pupil at the time, Steven John Carlson, now 43. Carlson, who would have been 16 at the time of the murder, was