cold cases

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein has laid out priorities that he wants the General Assembly to address this year. The Democratic nominee for governor held a news conference Wednesday with several police chiefs and sheriffs.

A drop of blood that was subjected to modern DNA testing enabled Vermont State Police detectives to make an arrest in the 1989 murder of a couple found stabbed to death in their home, police said.

New technology and the help of a volunteer college student help solve what is believed to be the fourth-oldest cold case in the U.S. using genetic genealogy.

In 1988, American mathematician Scott Johnson died after falling off a cliff in Sydney. Police now believe his death was among a number of anti-gay hate crimes that took place over several decades.

A suspect in the "Ramsey Street Rapist" case in Fayetteville, N.C., was located after a search through a public genealogy database. It's the same process used in the case of the Golden State Killer.

Detectives worked the case for years but couldn't convince prosecutors they had enough evidence. Sheila Keen Warren was arrested at the home she shares with her husband, who was married to the victim.

A judge agreed to vacate Christopher Abernathy's 1987 conviction in the killing of a 15-year-old girl after a request from the prosecutor. Abernathy, now 48, spent nearly 30 years in prison.