COPS CRACK 1974 EILEEN FERRO COLD CASE MURDER

Eileen Ferro was just 21-year-old when she was viciously stabbed to death in her Shrewsbury, Massachusetts home. Now, 40 years later cops have finally made an arrest in the grisly crime. Thanks to DNA evidence detectives arrested a 69-year-old Austell, Georgia man, Lonzo Guthrie and charged him with mCNN
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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.    

JILTED RICARDO CRUZ STABBED EX'S MOM: COPS

CRUZ

A JILTED lover will now face a murder charge for the brutal November 2003 stabbing of his girlfriend's mom.
Ricardo Cruz, now 34, had known Honey Vitagliano, 31, since high school and the two began to date several years later.
But although he showered her with expensive gifts including $900 pair of diamond earrings, and took her on several outings to upscale restaurants and a Mendocino Coast resort, she made it clear she was not her boyfriend. 
She told a Santa Rosa CA, court: "He spent a ridiculous amount of money for someone who wasn't a boyfriend, but I went along. It was a good time."
She added that Cruz made a habit of calling her mom Kathryn, 55, for relationship advice and would go round while she was at work.

MELVIN PARKER GUILTY IN 1994 DOROTHY PAIGE SLAY

PARKER

PAIGE

THEY SUSPECTED him at the time, but when Melvin Parker's wife and the chief witness against him went into hiding, the case collapsed.
Fast forward 17-years and cops reopen the case of Dorothy Paige, who in August 1994 was found brutally stabbed and strangled in her Madison, WI, apartment.
And the cold case detectives immediately focus in on Melvin Parker, now 48, who just five years after Paige's murder was jailed on child abuse and burglary convictions.

ARREST MADE IN CANDY LADY MARY WRIGHT MURDER

KILLER?

CANDY LADY

SHE was a beloved grandma, known locally as the Candy Lady, because she gave out sweets and treats to the children in her Lubbock, TX neighborhood.
But Mary Wright's delightful tradition came to an end, after cops found her brutally stabbed body on her home. 
Concerned neighbors who had raised the alarm because they hadn't seen her for a few days, were stunned by the news that the popular pensioner had been taken from them.

FRANK NARVAEZ KILLER HAD OKC CONNECTION: COPS

DETECTIVES in Texas have found an Oklahoma City connection to the three decade old cold case killing of businessman Francisco "Frank" Narvaez. Narvaez, 42, was found stabbed to death on Sept. 30, 1983 in a Denton, Texas hotel. His car--a 1983 gray Oldsmobile Cutlass--was later found abandoned in Oklahoma City. Det. Kevin Smith said: “We feel strongly that the suspect has ties to the area where the vehicle was left. We hope to generate some interest in the

WHO MURDERED U. STUDENT BRITTANY ZIMMERMAN?

COPS in Madison, Wisconsin are certain a big break isn't far away in solving the tragic Brittany Zimmerman. The pretty 21-year-old was a student at the University of Wisconsin when she was stabbed and strangled to death in her Madison apartment during lunch hour. The murder in April 2008 stunned the quiet college town and triggered a wave of terror. Police said the outside door was forced open. Last December, police said there might have been a link between Brittany's murder and a tavern burglary a few months later which involved three teens with gang connections. That went nowhere. Police say detectives are still actively investigating

JANE & CATHRYN JOHNSON'S MURDER 'NOT GOING AWAY'

TRAGIC

YOU know what they say about Mounties always getting their man.
Well 15-years have passed but they're still working on the brutal murder of a pregnant mom and her eight-year-old daughter and they've vowed not to stop until they catch their killer.    
Back in September 1996 were Jane Johnson, who was five-months pregnant, and her eight-year-old daughter Cathryn in their Turner Valley, B.C home.
And despite the length of time cops are confident that someone who moved away to Parksville, 150 kilometres northwest of Victoria, is holding the deadly secret which will unlock the case.
Sgt. Patrick Webb told the Calgary Herald: "Investigators firmly believe that there are persons who know the final details which, if they came forward, would be enough to lay a charge and provide some closure to the family and friends of this 15-year-old crime.

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.

DAVID DIXON BUSTED FOR 32-YEAR-OLD MURDER

JUSTICE AT LAST?

HE MUST have thought that after more than three decades they had got away with the vicious murder of security guard Rachel Moncrief.
But now thanks to improvements in DNA technology, cops have arrested David Dixon, now 61, in connection with the 1979 killing which saw her stabbed more than 30 times.
It is the third result for the recently reopened cold case unit at the Santa Clara County district attorney's office who did DNA testing of blood on the victim's clothing and a marijuana cigarette.
The cold case leader Ted Kajani said: "When the lab found that blood stain, obtained a DNA profile, they uploaded it into the system and got a hit."

MISSING TIMOTHY PITZEN: BLOOD FOUND IN MOM'S CAR

MISSING

COPS investigating the strange disappearance of six-year-old Timothy Pitzen have said there was a "concerning" amount of the boys blood on the backseat of his mother's SUV.  Three months ago tragic Amy Fry-Pitzen picked up her only son from his Aurora, IL school, stopped off at the zoo and water parks, but then she killed herself.

Timothy has yet to be found and three months on cops have released a few more details in the hope that it may spark some more help from the general public.