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Police arrested a D.J. in Pennsylvania and a nurse in Washington State this week, the latest examples of the use of an open-source ancestry site since the break in the Golden State killer case.

Even one unsolved mystery is too many for the families affected, so it's a relief the loved ones of the victims described below got closure — or, at least, a semblance of closure...

Retirement took an unexpected turn for Margaret Press, a Sonoma County grandmother and crime novelist who helps identify cold case murder victims.

Reddit users have helped to crack open the 17 year old cold case - but those wishing to find out Stevik's real name might be disappointed

The mystery started in 2001, when authorities in Grays Harbor County, Wash., responded to an emergency call from the tiny town of Amanda Park.

THE truth has finally been revealed about a mystery man who killed himself days after 9/11, fuelling a string of conspiracy theories. The man checked into a hotel in Amanda Park, Washington, in Sep…

Redditors and forum users invest time trying to solve incidents involving total strangers, only to be left hanging when their research pays off.

In September 2001, investigators in Washington state found the body of a man who checked into a motel in Amanda Park under the name ‘Lyle Stevik.’

After 1,900 hours and a team spanning the country, the skeletal remains found on a North Creek property in January 2015 were identified as Nathaniel Terrence "Terry" (Davies) Deggs from New York. He had been living in a shed on the property for decades. He was known by a few people in Mill Creek as "Jerry." Who was the man in the shed Jay Worden li...

MILL CREEK, Wash. — The Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office on Monday identified remains found in Mill Creek in 2015.

Found dead in 2015, his name was unknown. Exhaustive genealogy work restored an identity to Terry Deggs.

Anthony Redgrave is among a small community of civilian sleuths called forensic genetic genealogists.

The DNA Doe Project is a national nonprofit which works to pair unidentified remains to missing persons cases. 19 News has told you about them before, as they helped to solve several high-profile cold cases.

The mystery of the woman known as 'belle in the well' is solved using DNA analysis.

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IRONTON, Ohio — Thirty-eight years after being killed and tossed into a cistern to be forgotten, Louise Virginia Peterson Flesher — known for decades as “Belle in the Well” —

The same technique that is being used to catch cold case killers is also being used to identify unidentified cold case bodies.

The case was known as "Belle in the Well."

IRONTON - A Thirty Eight year old mystery cold case identity has been solved through extensive DNA and genealogy. According to a press release the cold case was reopened in 2009 when a forensic anthropologist Elizabeth Murray PhD, and Professor at Mount St. Joseph University and consultant of N

Colleen Fitzpatrick ’76 grew up surrounded by living history. “I was very close to all of my grandparents,” the New Orleans native says. “I knew some of their brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles quite well, and my grandparents often spoke to me about the ones who had already passed. As I got older, I was more formally researching, asking questions on my own and getting motivated to interview people in the family.”

IRONTON, Ohio (AP) — Investigators say they used complex forensic techniques to figure out the identity of a woman found dead in an Ohio well nearly four decades ago. Lawrence County, Ohio,...

Investigators say they used complex forensic techniques to figure out the identity of a woman found dead in an Ohio well nearly four decades ago. Lawrence County, Ohio, officials and experts from the nonprofit DNA Doe Project announced Monday that real name of the notorious

It was a long path to discover name of women found in well in 1981 Louise Virginia Peterson Flesher. Four decades after her murder, the woman’s whose body was found in the cistern in Lawrence County and was only known by the nickname of “Belle in the Well,” finally has her name back. Email newsletter […]

For nearly 40 years a woman who was strangled and dumped in an abandoned cistern in rural Ohio was known as the 'Belle in the Well'.

The Jane Doe known as 'The Belle in the Well' was found in 1981 and identified in 2019.

More details emerge about investigative genetic genealogy.

An American case with similarities to 'Mary Ellen’s' story emerges.