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Woman Steps on Skull,
10-Year Mystery Begins

Oct 19, 2013 8:55 AM CDT

Woman Steps on Skull, 10-Year Mystery Begins

Police want help solving 'Members Only case'

(Newser) - In 2004, a young mother skidded off Long Island's Northern State Parkway—and, upon exiting her car to get help, stepped on a human skull. In the almost 10 years since, New York police have been mystified as to who the man is and what happened to him. Now...

Body Found
in Hospital Stairwell Is Missing Patient

Oct 9, 2013 2:37 PM CDT

Body Found in Hospital Stairwell Is Missing Patient

She disappeared from room last month

(Newser) - A body discovered in a San Francisco hospital stairwell was that of a female patient at the facility who disappeared more than two weeks ago, hospital officials said today. San Francisco General Hospital Chief Medical Officer Todd May said officials were still awaiting confirmation on the identity from the medical...

Cops ID Mom of Girl Found
in Cooler 22 Years Ago

UPDATED

Oct 8, 2013 12:27 PM CDT

Cops ID Mom of Girl Found in Cooler 22 Years Ago

NYPD makes breakthrough in Baby Hope case

(Newser) - New York police have made a breakthrough in a case that horrified the city in the summer of 1991. Thanks to a tip and DNA evidence, they've identified and brought in for questioning the mother of the dead little girl who became known as "Baby Hope," the...

There Is No
Jack the Ripper:
Detective

11-year investigation

Sep 25, 2013 9:16 AM CDT

There Is No Jack the Ripper: Detective

Says reporter invented Ripper, but German sailor to blame for some murders

(Newser) - Trevor Marriott, a former Bedfordshire detective, has been investigating the Jack the Ripper murders for 11 years—and he's come to the conclusion that the Ripper doesn't exist, or at least not as he's traditionally portrayed. Though Jack was supposedly responsible for five grisly murders, Marriott has...

13 Unsolved
Hollywood
Mysteries

Jun 30, 2013 5:10 PM CDT

13 Unsolved Hollywood Mysteries

The Black Dahlia, Superman, and more

(Newser) - Long before people started speculating whether someone sinister was behind Michael Jackson's death, Hollywood had seen its fair share of unsolved mysteries. Radar rounds up 13, from the comedian accused of rupturing an actress' bladder—but never convicted—to the actress who was rumored to have let her teenage...

America's Oldest Unsolved Murder May Be Solved

Jamestown researchers think they've identified remains

(Newser) - Colonial America's oldest unsolved mystery involved remains that have been known only as "JR102C," or "JR" for short, but their owner's true name may have finally been uncovered. The bones were found, buried in a coffin, under an old roadbed in Jamestown in 1996, WTKR...

Woman Hunts Down Dad's Killer Online, 26 Years Later

Jun 11, 2013 9:13 AM CDT

Woman Hunts Down Dad's Killer Online, 26 Years Later

Determined Joselyn Martinez 'basically solved the case'

(Newser) - In 1986, Justo Santos and another teen walked into Jose Martinez's New York restaurant and, allegedly, started harassing Martinez's wife. Martinez kicked him out, and as they argued on the sidewalk, witnesses say Santos shot Martinez dead. Police identified Santos as the suspected killer immediately, but he fled...

NC Hotel Mystery as Room Sees 3rd Death in 2 Months

Jun 10, 2013 11:55 AM CDT

NC Hotel Mystery as Room Sees 3rd Death in 2 Months

Carbon monoxide found in hotel, but no word yet on official cause of death

(Newser) - Three people have died in the same North Carolina hotel room since April, in a mystery authorities are still investigating. On Saturday, Jeannie Williams and her 11-year-old son, Jeffrey, were found unresponsive in the Best Western room in Boone. Jeffrey was pronounced dead; his mother awoke from her coma yesterday....

Sisters' Unsolved Murders
Get a New Look,
57 Years Later

May 30, 2013 12:20 PM CDT

Sisters' Unsolved Murders Get a New Look, 57 Years Later

Retired cop, amateur detectives putting heads together

(Newser) - No one knows what happened to Patricia and Barbara Grimes in December 1956, when the teenage sisters left their Chicago home to watch an Elvis Presley movie and never returned. Their bodies were found, a month later, naked along a rural road; their deaths were officially attributed to exposure to...

Cops: We Can't Solve Susan Powell Case

May 21, 2013 4:08 PM CDT

Cops: We Can't Solve Susan Powell Case

Release new details, including husband's alleged affair

(Newser) - Josh Powell reportedly had an affair just months before his wife disappeared, and his brother may have been "heavily involved" in getting rid of her body, Utah police revealed as they announced they couldn't solve the sensational case. The West Valley City Police Department yesterday opened its books...

China Wants
US Help With
19-Year-Old
Poisoning
Mystery

May 6, 2013 10:41 AM CDT

China Wants US Help With 19-Year-Old Poisoning Mystery

Zhu Ling's poisoning was never solved

(Newser) - An unsolved poisoning case has enthralled China, 19 years after the fact, and now more than 112,000 people have signed a petition asking the White House to investigate and deport a former suspect who is said to have moved to the US. Zhu Ling was a chemistry student at...

Hindenburg Mystery
Finally Put to Rest

Hindenburg Mystery Finally Put to Rest

76 years later, experts say static electricity was to blame

(Newser) - A 21st-century team of researchers has solved an enduring 20th-century mystery: What sparked the fire that caused the Hindenburg to explode and plummet to the ground? Static electricity, asserts the British-US team, which tested a number of the theories that have been floated for the last 76 years on 79-foot...

Experts Point to
New Suspect as
Jack the Ripper

Sep 4, 2012 9:34 AM CDT

Experts Point to New Suspect as Jack the Ripper

Say he was lowly cart driver Charles Cross

(Newser) - The last time we checked in on the identity of Jack the Ripper, he was a woman . The latest theory, as reported by the Telegraph , restores his gender to male but points the finger at a new suspect: a cart driver. Ripper experts Christer Holmgren and Edward Stow have IDed...

DNA Found at Occupy Site
a Clue to 2004 Murder?

Jul 11, 2012 9:54 AM CDT

DNA Found at Occupy Site a Clue to 2004 Murder?

Sarah Fox's killer never found

(Newser) - Could DNA found at an Occupy Wall Street protest site help to solve a 2004 murder? In March, a chain was used to prop open a subway emergency exit door, allowing Occupiers to ride free. Police ran the DNA found on the chain in hopes of tracking down the culprit—...

DNA Ties 1991 Murder
to 17th-Century Family

DNA Ties 1991 Murder to 17th-Century Family

Police believe results will narrow search for Sarah Yarborough's killer

(Newser) - In December, stumped Washington state authorities sent a DNA sample from an unsolved 1991 murder to a forensic consultant in California—and though she didn't return with a match to the murderer himself, she did figure out who his 17th-century ancestors were. The DNA profile closely matched the family...

10 Most Nagging
Mysteries of 2011

year in review

Dec 31, 2011 10:19 AM CST

10 Most Nagging Mysteries of 2011

From murder mysteries to murky maladies

(Newser) - A lot of big news happened in 2011 ... and some of it only half-happened. The Atlantic Wire took a look at the most frustrating unanswered questions of the year, and keeps its fingers crossed that 2012 will bring new details. Highlights from its list of the year's 10 most...

Tourist Finds Human Leg
on Florida Beach

Dec 28, 2011 2:27 PM CST

Tourist Finds Human Leg on Florida Beach

Police mystified by cleanly cut limb

(Newser) - A family visiting St. Petersburg, Florida, got a nasty surprise yesterday, when they stumbled upon a severed human leg that had washed ashore on a small beach tucked behind a waterfront neighborhood. The leg was pale, white, and shaven, bent at the knee and cut with eerie cleanness at the...

Woman Says
DB Cooper
Was Her Uncle

Aug 3, 2011 10:35 AM CDT

Woman Says DB Cooper Was Her Uncle

Actually, his name was Lynn Doyle Cooper, says Marla Cooper

(Newser) - Marla Cooper (yes, Cooper) says she knows the true identity of "skyjacker" DB Cooper: His name was Lynn Doyle Cooper, known to family members as LD, and he was her uncle, Marla tells ABC News . She recalls a suspicious conversation between LD and another uncle she overheard as an...

Accused 1957 Killer:
Train Ticket Proves Nothing

Jul 8, 2011 9:03 AM CDT

Accused 1957 Killer: Train Ticket Proves Nothing

Jack Daniel McCullough says he still has 'iron-clad alibi'

(Newser) - Despite the fact that a recently unearthed, unused train ticket led to the arrest of Jack Daniel McCullough for an unsolved 1957 murder, the 71-year-old is sticking with his original story. "I have an iron-clad alibi," McCullough tells the AP from a Seattle jail. "I did not...

Old Train Ticket Leads to Arrest in 1957 Murder of Girl

Jul 2, 2011 4:40 PM CDT