2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (373+ words) Officials in Utah have formally closed a 51-year-old cold case after using new DNA technology to identify a murdered teenager as a victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Laura Ann Aime, 17, disappeared after leaving a party on Halloween in 1974. Her…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (579+ words) A care home resident choked to death after wrongly being given steak pie for his dinner, a fatal accident inquiry has found. Robert McPaul died on 30 March 2018 while at Sir Gabriel Wood's Mariners' Home in Greenock. The 70-year-old was on…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1313+ words) Cold-blooded, brutal and outlandish, if the plan Stephen McCullagh set in motion to kill his pregnant partner was the plot of one of his video games, it may have been dismissed as being too far-fetched. But from the 36-year-old's first…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (522+ words) US television presenter Savannah Guthrie and her family have appealed to the public to continue to help search for their missing mother, who police believe was abducted seven weeks ago. "We desperately ask this community for renewed attention to our…...

2+ week, 3+ hour ago  (395+ words) A desert community in Arizona has broken the record for the highest temperature ever recorded in March in the US. Temperatures reached 43C (110F) in the area, located just outside Martinez Lake in the Yuma Desert on Thursday, according to the National…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (485+ words) Patty Hearst was abducted by a revolutionary group in 1974, as reported by the BBC. But 50 years ago, on 20 March 1976, she was found guilty of siding with her captors. With the ingredients of high society, psychological trauma and radical violence, Hearst's…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago  (429+ words) The sheriff investigating the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, mother of US TV presenter Savannah Guthrie, says authorities believe they have a motive, but have not identified a suspect. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told NBC News that "we believe we…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (423+ words) Savannah Guthrie, a host of NBC's Today programme, has visited the network's office in New York as she makes plans to return to the airwaves while the search for her missing mother continues. Guthrie's 84 year-old mother Nancy has been missing…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (200+ words) A 40-year-old man has been arrested by police investigating the disappearance and murder of 25-year-old Lisa Dorrian. He was arrested in Millisle on Wednesday on suspicion of assisting offenders and withholding information. The arrest comes days after the 21st anniversary of…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (618+ words) The Metropolitan Police is still missing nearly half of its officers' DNA from its database, and more than a fifth of their fingerprints. Elimination databases are used to exclude police officers' DNA or fingerprints from crime scene samples, helping to…...