CORTNEY CLAYTON MURDER: SUSPICIONS RUN DEEP

Cortney Clayton went for an evening walk on the evening of Sept. 2, 1988 to get a soda from a nearby convenience store in her tiny hometown of Stamford, Texas. The pretty little girl never came home and on Sunday, March 26, 1989 the 7-year-old's remains were discovered in a field 50 miles away.
Her family said that she was a smart, adventurous and happy child. With just 4,000 people, many townspeople have always felt the killer was from Stamford.
''I have always felt that somebody here in town knows something,''  Candy Clayton, Cortney's mother, said in 2007. ''Even if they don't know they know it. 'One good thing about living in Stamford is that people here haven't forgotten about Cortney." By the time Cortney's body was found by a hunter, there was little evidence at the scene.
Anyone with information is asked to submit a tip thru the Texas Rangers’ Cold Case website or contact us at the Missing Persons Watts Line: 1-800-346-3243 .

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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EVELYN SHANK SHOT TO DEATH IN VEGAS IN 1959

She is the oldest unsolved murder victim in a city that has seen plenty of them during its wild existence. Evelyn Shank was the night clerk at the Travelodge and the victim of a kidnap/robbery, Vegas cops say. Her relief worker arrived to discover the switchboard/desk area unoccupied. When he could not locate Shank he called cops. Detectives learned that $174.50 had been taken from the till and an all-points bulletin was broadcast and road blocks were set up throughout the vicinity.
On February 7, 1959, Shank's body was found. A gunshot to the head delivered death. Cops say a 1949-1950 Ford sedan (possibly dark blue) with the headlights on was seen parked near the front door by the co-worker. When he returned from searching for Shank -- the car was gone. Anyone with information is urged call Las Vegas Metro Homicide Cold Case Detail at 702-828-COLD.

D.B COOPER WAS MY UNCLE: MYSTERY SOLVED

SOLVED?

LYNN DOYLE COOPER

AN ASTONISHING development could the see case of the mysterious hijacker D.B Cooper closed after more than 40-years. 
An Oregon woman who says her uncle was the elusive criminal known and is now claiming that agents have told her that it is enough for them to close the file. 
Marla Cooper told 14 News is claiming her uncle, a man named Lynn Doyle Cooper, is the man who escaped with $200,000 after parachuting out of the Northwest Orient Airlines 727 flight, back in 1971.

HEATHER LYNN MAYO'S 911 CALL LEADS TO OWN ARREST

BUSTED

TALK about getting what you deserve.
Heather Lynn Mayo called in the cops to help her boot her boyfriend from their apartment, but she ended up implicating herself in a fatal hit and run, when he told them all the details of the case.
Back in February Jeannie Fisher was run down in Palm Harbor, FL, but despite a large police investigation, no one was ever caught for the crime.
But 10 months after the case went cold Mayo called in the deputies to remove her boyfriend Robert Worden, who had just gotten out of jail, where he'd been serving a 40 day sentence for check fraud.     
According to the Sun Sentinel Worden agreed to leave but as he walked out with the deputies, he pointed to a damaged black 1997 Ford Ranger in the apartment complex parking lot and said he had a story to tell them.

WHO MURDERED ANNE MARIE TINSLEY, 8, IN 1988?

ON APRIL 1, 1988, April Marie Tinsley vanished on her way home from school in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Despite a desperate manhunt for the 8-year-old cutie, it ended in tears on April 4, 1988 when her body was found in a ditch in southeastern DeKalb County. She had been raped and murdered. If you have any information on this heinous crime contact: Indiana State Police District Investigative Commander 5811 Ellison Road Fort Wayne, IN 46804 1-260-432-8661 or 1-800-552-0976.
America's Most Wanted has a superb report on this shocking case.
MORE ON ANNE MARIE TINSLEY

WAS ROBYN GARDNER IN ON INSURANCE SCAM?

 WHEN party girl Robyn Gardner, 35, vanished during a sex trip to Aruba on August 2, police on the Caribbean island thought they had their man: her companion, Gary V. Giordano. But now it appears that he is going to be sprung tomorrow. Cops think he's lying but there is little evidence. Now, a new possibility has emerged: Was the blonde swinger in on her own "death"?
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NEW LEADS IN MELANIE MELANSON 1989 DISAPPEARANCE

'NEW LEADS'

SHE VANISHED over 21 years ago, but now a private detective believes that he has new leads in the mysterious disappearance of Melanie Melanson.
The 14-year-old was last seen at a high school party in a woods near her home in Woburn MA and then she vanished without trace.
But 22-years on P.I Michael Garrigan, who has worked the case from the very beginning says he has "credible leads" which could see people in the woods that night prosecuted.
He told Fox 25: "I developed some leads over the past year, we can’t discuss those at this time, but very credible leads from several sources.”
And with the help of trained cadaver dogs he hopes he's hoping to confirm that traces of human decomposition in the woods, which he believes hold the key to discovering the truth.  

JENNIFER PERSIA, 16, MURDERED DURING '94 BURGLARY

 

JENNIFER PERSIA was just 16 when she was found murdered on the living room floor of her home in Magnolia, New Jersey. She had been stabbed multiple times and cops soon discovered containers of coins and silver certificates were missing. That was April 4, 1994. The case is still unsolved. For information leading to an arrest and conviction in the slaying of Jennifer Lynne Persia. Anyone with information should call the Camden County Prosecutor's Office hotline at (856) 225-8476 or e-mail tipline@co.camden.nj.us. Offering a REWARD of more than $15,000.  SEE THE CLIP ABOVE

HOESCHELE THOMAS 2007 KILLER BUSTED

THOMAS

HE was a loving father in the wrong place at the wrong time, but now four years on cops say they've caught Hoeschele Thomas's killer.
The 48-year-old was minding his own business outside his Largo, FL home when a vehicle approached him and the guys inside asked him if he wanted to buy drugs.
When he refused, an argument erupted and someone in the car blasted him.
The case went cold until Detective John Spoor began reviewing the case again this summer and was able to make a connection between the weapon used in Thomas' murder and one used in a drive-by shooting that occurred several weeks later.
And that weapon was in the hands of Lloyd Neal, 22, who is already serving a life sentence at the Taylor Correctional Institution in Perry for a 2007 Clearwater murder case.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING: LIGHT POSTING FOR HOLIDAYS

HEY, WE deserve a break too so we're going to kick back and take it easy this weekend. Sadly, some horrific crime usually occurs on the Thanksgiving holiday but it would be nice if this year was an exception. Have a fabulous, safe holiday. God Bless.
The team at COLD CASE USA

COPS SEEK CLUES IN COLD 1988 DEBRA BAKER HOMICIDE

DEBRA Baker was savagely murdered on Jan. 13, 1988 in Austin, Texas. Now, cops believe a man named Mark Norwood is linked to the brutal murder but need more evidence. MORE ON DEBRA BAKER MURDER

D.B COOPER MYSTERY: DID HIJACKER PUBLISH MEMOIR??

REAL?

THE MYSTERIOUS crook who pulled off America's biggest hijacking may have released a memoir, taunting authorities about his audacious crime.  

The newly unearthed autobiography, tauntingly called "HA-HA-HA" has a drawing of a man in a suit holding a briefcase while parachuting from a jet.  

The author claims to be D.B Cooper - the name given by the mystery passenger who escaped with $200,000 during the 1971 crime.  As we reported here the man waited until the Northwest Orient Airlines 727 flight took off before the man who gave his name as Dan, handed a flight attendant a note: 'Miss, I've got a bomb, come sit next to me — you're being hijacked.'

GA. COPS SEEK KILLER OF LEVI FRADY; SLAIN IN 1997

LEVI FRADY, 11, was last seen alive Oct. 22, 1997 on Little Mill Road in Forsyth County. As night was falling he was looking forward to watching Game 5 of the World Series. It would be a game he did not see. His body was found the next day in Dawson Forest Wildlife Management Area. He had been shot once in the head and twice in the chest, his body was partially submerged in a pit of water.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent John Cagle said: "It's really a tough investigation. There's really not much [evidence]."