COLD CASE USA MAKES ITS DEBUT TUESDAY!

IN THE USA, there are tens of thousands of unsolved murders, disappearances and killers who've gotten away with it. We want to make a difference. CRIME SCENE USA is pleased to announce that we will soon be launching a brand new blog: Cold Case USA. Cold Case USA will focus on America's unsolved crimes, its missing people and finding its most heinous criminals. We debut Tuesday.

COLD CASE USA MAKES ITS DEBUT NEXT WEEK!

IN THE USA, there are tens of thousands of unsolved murders, disappearances and killers who've gotten away with it. We want to make a difference. CRIME SCENE USA is pleased to announce that we will soon be launching a brand new blog: Cold Case USA. Cold Case USA will focus on America's unsolved crimes, its missing people and finding its most heinous criminals. Stay tuned!

COLD CASE USA MAKES ITS BIG DEBUT AUG. 2!

IN THE USA, there are tens of thousands of unsolved murders, disappearances and killers who've gotten away with it. We want to make a difference. CRIME SCENE USA is pleased to announce that we will soon be launching a brand new blog: Cold Case USA. Cold Case USA will focus on America's unsolved crimes, its missing people and finding its most heinous criminals. Stay tuned!

NEW CLUE IN UNSOLVED KRISTY WESSELMAN MURDER

IT HAS been 26 long years since Kristy Wesselman, 15, was stabbed to death. A long wait for justice since there have been no arrests in the heartbreaking case. Yesterday marked the grim anniversary of the unsolved murder in DuPage, Illinois. But her mom has never given up hope.
Sandy Wesselman said: “I silently promised her I would never stop trying to find the person who killed her. My silent promise to Kristy has remained steadfast."
Now, detectives have revealed a new piece of evidence they feel could help solve the slaying. Kristy was wearing an antique pearl ring with a gold mounting when she was raped and murdered on July 21, 1985 while walking through a field on her way home from the supermarket, Sgt. Robert
Harris said. Her ring — size 4 1/2 with a small chip in the pearl— was never recovered and taken by the killer as a sick souvenir, Harris said. It never turned up

Sandy Wesselman said: “There’s a man out there who thinks he got away with murder. Please help us take away his dream. He stole all of Kristy’s.” MORE ON THE KRISTY WESSELMAN MURDER

COLD CASE USA IS COMING SOON!

CRIME SCENE USA is pleased to announce that we will soon be launching a brand new blog: Cold Case USA. Cold Case USA will focus its energies on America's unsolved crimes, missing people and most wanted criminals. Stay tuned!

COLD CASE USA IS COMING SOON!

CRIME SCENE USA is pleased to announce that we will soon be launching a brand new blog: Cold Case USA. Cold Case USA will focus its energies on America's unsolved crimes, missing people and most wanted criminals. Stay tuned!

FLA. COPS SOLVE 1971 GINA JUSTI COLD CASE MURDER

FOR NEARLY 40 years, the Justi family has desperately wondered who killed Gina Justi. Just 14-years-old when she was raped and murdered in August 1971 and left to die in an orange grove, the family now has some answers. Florida cops announced yesterday that they got a DNA hit on a man named Jerry Fletcher, now 69, who is serving a life sentence for killing another teenage girl in Illinois in 1974.
Fletcher had worked as a painter in the Tampa area at the time of the vicious slaying but his name never came up until the DNA match. When detectives interviewed him, he quickly clued into why they were there
and clammed up.

James Justi was only 12 when his sister was murdered. He said the Gina was never far from their minds but they had long given up hope that there would be an arrest.
He said: "It kind of came out of the blue. We were totally, totally shocked. We totally gave up on it."
His brother Tony told the Tampa Tribune that Gina was a typical teen and that her family just had moved to Town 'N Country from Saugerties, NY, when she left her home on Aug. 6, 1971.
She had gone out that day to look at a puppy.
MORE ON A 40 YEAR TRAGEDY

KIRK RIVERS CONFESSES TO UNSOLVED 2007 MURDER

WAS IT A guilty conscience? His motive is unclear but in a homicide case that generated zero suspects after four hard years, detectives will take what they can get. Kirk Jared Rivers, 22, on the left, calmly walked into Sacramento County Sheriff’s department Monday morning bearing a note in which he claimed responsibility for the 2007 killing of John Pogacar, 39, according to spokesman Jason Ramos. Rivers, 18 at the time of the killing, gave no immediate indication of his motive for the crime, nor for waiting four years to confess. Cops, naturally enough, were immediately skeptical.

It was a case that generated few leads but after an interview cops claim that Rivers was privy to details that only the killer could know. John Pogacar was viciously stabbed several times at his home near Rancho Cardova – his body discovered by his father. With the news of Rivers’ confession, friends and relatives are ecstatic at the prospect of closure. One of Pogacar’s close friends, Jesse Jurado said: "We are overjoyed; we are so happy. We’ve been praying to God that this is what we’ve been waiting for. His family needs closure.”
Rivers is charged with murder without bail at the Sacramento County Main Jail. He arraignment takes place later this week.

VA. COP'S '84 SUICIDE REOPENED AS HOMICIDE PROBE

THE shots rang out in Gates County, North Carolina. It was March 1984. Three shots, then a fourth. For most of the past three decades, investigators believed the dead man lying face down in the creek had killed himself. He was Portsmouth, VA police officer Garland L. Joyner. Investigation revealed Joyner had killed imself over bad debts and had even pumped up his life insurance policies--tell tale signs of a suicide.
Resident Keith Mundie told the Virginian-Pilot: "The buttons from his shirt were laying on the bridge. His wallet, his cards, all of the paperwork from his wallet,
it was all floating in the creek. His wallet was out there, too. That won't no suicide."
And now, after all these years, apparently cops agree and have reopened the case as a homicide investigation. All cops are saying is that there are new leads. The dead policeman--by all accounts an excellent officer--told his wife Lillie he had been working on "something big." She never believed her husband had killed himself. She hired a private investigator - Billy Franklin from Virginia Beach - to report to the insurance company that carried the life insurance policies on her husband.
Franklin said at the time: "I've seen dog-biting cases that were worked better than this one.
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