Episodes

  • The Crew Cut Killer: A 57-Year-Old Murder Mystery and the Girl Finally Identified

    The Crew Cut Killer: A 57-Year-Old Murder Mystery and the Girl Finally Identified
    Oct 11 2026
    In 1969, a 16-year-old girl was murdered in California, leaving investigators with a mystery that would span more than half a century. Decades later, renewed investigative work helped identify Joanne Yvonne Burdick and brought attention to a suspect known as the Crew Cut Killer. This episode explores how old evidence, criminal profiling, and persistent detective work can revive a case long believed to be beyond resolution.
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    3 mins
  • The Boy in the Box: How Philadelphia Finally Gave a Name to Joseph Augustus Zarelli

    The Boy in the Box: How Philadelphia Finally Gave a Name to Joseph Augustus Zarelli
    Oct 6 2026
    For more than six decades, he was known only as the “Boy in the Box,” one of America’s most haunting unidentified murder victims. His battered body was discovered outside Philadelphia in 1957, but despite thousands of leads, investigators could not determine who he was. Generations of detectives worked the case, while advances in DNA technology slowly created possibilities that investigators in the 1950s could never have imagined. In 2022, forensic genetic genealogy finally gave the child something investigators had been searching for for 65 years: his name, Joseph Augustus Zarelli. But identifying Joseph solved only one mystery, because the question of who killed him remains unanswered.
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    2 mins
  • The DNA That Waited 39 Years: The Teresa Ann Houck Cold Case

    The DNA That Waited 39 Years: The Teresa Ann Houck Cold Case
    Oct 4 2026
    In October 1986, 23-year-old Teresa Ann Houck left the Baltimore club where she worked and was never seen alive again. Hours later, she was found shot to death in Druid Hill Park, leaving investigators with evidence but no identified killer. Nearly four decades later, a routine DNA database search produced the match prosecutors say finally gave the cold case a name.
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    3 mins
  • The Murder Solved by a Family Tree: How Genetic Genealogy Changed Cold Cases

    The Murder Solved by a Family Tree: How Genetic Genealogy Changed Cold Cases
    Oct 1 2026
    For decades, investigators could possess a killer’s DNA yet have no suspect to compare it against. Investigative genetic genealogy changed that equation by allowing investigators to search for relatives rather than only exact database matches. The identification of the Golden State Killer demonstrated how a decades-old biological clue could suddenly become the beginning of an investigation rather than the end.
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    3 mins
  • The Murder Solved by a Family Tree: How Genetic Genealogy Changed Cold Cases

    The Murder Solved by a Family Tree: How Genetic Genealogy Changed Cold Cases
    Sep 30 2026
    For decades, investigators could possess a killer’s DNA yet have no suspect to compare it against. Investigative genetic genealogy changed that equation by allowing investigators to search for relatives rather than only exact database matches. The identification of the Golden State Killer demonstrated how a decades-old biological clue could suddenly become the beginning of an investigation rather than the end.
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    3 mins
  • The Name That Was There All Along: The 23-Year Hunt for Joshua Crawford’s Killer

    The Name That Was There All Along: The 23-Year Hunt for Joshua Crawford’s Killer
    Sep 27 2026
    Joshua Wayne Crawford was found murdered inside his Maryland apartment on the day he turned 21, leaving investigators with a violent crime scene but no arrest. For 23 years, detectives revisited leads, retested evidence, and waited for forensic technology to catch up with the evidence left behind. Then, in September 2026, investigators announced an arrest—and revealed an extraordinary detail: the accused man’s name had apparently been sitting in a funeral visitation book for more than two decades.
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    3 mins
  • Six Years, One Scene, and Evidence That Waited: The Tyler Hall Case

    Six Years, One Scene, and Evidence That Waited: The Tyler Hall Case
    Sep 21 2026
    On September 17, 2026, the GBI announced murder and related charges against Rashad Jackson in the 2020 death of Tyler Hall in Norcross, Georgia. Hall, 21, was found shot in his home in August 2020. The breakthrough came from advanced DNA and genealogy work by the GBI Cold Case Unit and Othram. Jackson is charged, not convicted, and the investigation remains active.
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    2 mins
  • The Mile Marker

    The Mile Marker
    Sep 13 2026
    May 1973 two New Jersey sisters on a Florida Keys vacation were last seen hitchhiking on Stock Island; the next day their bodies were found in the woods off U.S. 1 in Key Largo. Fifty-three years later, forensic genetic genealogy named David Allen Snyder, a former Key West resident who died in Idaho in 2008. There will be no trial—only a name, a timeline, and the end of an unanswered question.
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    3 mins