Credit: Placer County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook The Placer County Sheriff’s Office (California) has officially identified the remains of a woman found on March 20, 2001 as Zania Lynette Williams, also known as Zenia Williams. Williams, 34 years old at the time of her disappearance, was last seen around Christmas of 2000 at her residence in …
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Appeals Court Hears DNA Privacy Arguments in UAF Cold Case Murder Conviction
The Alaska Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Monday in the case of a 50-year-old Maine man convicted of the 1993 rape and murder of a University of Alaska Fairbanks student. Steven Harris Downs was convicted in 2022 of the rape and murder of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie and sentenced to 75 years in prison. Investigators cracked the cold case …
He Lived Quietly for Decades. Now the ‘Nice Fella’ Next Door Is Accused of Stabbing Woman 17 Times
Authorities in Florida have arrested a suspect in the 34-year-old cold case murder of a single mother who was brutally stabbed and left to die on the side of the road. The St. Cloud Police Department announced the arrest of Gene Stuller, 72, who is now charged with the murder of 27-year-old Julia Wilbanks in …