#cold-case

#cold-case

The identification was made through a joint effort by the Criminal Investigation Resource Center at Russell Sage College and other forensic and investigative agencies, authorities said. The work, which spanned several years, eventually allowed authorities to match DNA from the crime scene with DNA from Nowakowski, whose body was recently exhumed as part of the investigation, Albany Police Commander Melissa Morey said. Nowakowski's relatives cooperated with the investigation, she said.

Austin police revealed Friday that Robert Eugene Brashers had been identified as a suspect in the murders through a wide range of DNA testing. Brashers, who had a lengthy criminal history, died by suicide in 1999 at age 40 during a standoff with police in Missouri. The Austin police's announcement follows August's release of a widely watched HBO docuseries that was based on the quadruple homicide and garnered renewed attention to the case.

On Dec. 12, 1989, a woman was found dead on Old Temple Bar Road off White Hills Road, just 50 miles south of Las Vegas. She had been stabbed multiple times and left nude in the desert. At the time, police were unable to identify the victim or any suspects involved in her death, but homicide investigators were able to obtain a DNA profile from the victim.

"For over three decades, the disappearance of Annie McCarrick has generated countless theories, ranging from involvement of local criminals to speculation about foreign serial killers in her case."

"I felt it," he said. "I felt it all over."

It's really about working with our law enforcement partners on the ground and making sure they are using every avenue available to them to try to solve these cases.

The recent searches in the Slieve Bloom mountains are part of an ongoing investigation into the 1996 disappearance and murder of Fiona Pender, prompted by credible new information.

Vivian Moss was her name. My Office knows it. I know it. Her family knows it. And now our community knows it. One day soon, I hope we will know the depraved person who took her life and left her in a field, hoping she would be forgotten. If her murderer is still alive, they will know that we don't forget in Santa Clara County.