Rienzi man to serve life for 30-year-old Starkville murder
Julia Kathryn Holt said she wanted to see Michael Devaughn’s face when she spoke to him from the stand of the courtroom in Lowndes County Courthouse during his sentencing hearing Tuesday.
High profile arrest led Alabama police to genealogy testing
A truck-driving preacher arrested for killing two teenage girls from Alabama nearly 20 years ago was found by the same genealogy database techniques used to apprehend the suspected “Golden State Killer” last year.
Year in review: 2018 sees arrest in Starkville’s most infamous cold case
This year Starkville saw the first ever arrest in one of its oldest and most infamous cold cases.
Illinois investigators believe 1976 murder victim may have had Columbus ties
Authorities in Columbus and Illinois are asking the public’s help in identifying the victim in a 42-year-old murder case.
Labor Day murders: ‘The family has suffered too long’
Monday was Betty Jones’ birthday.
It was also the day Starkville Police Department investigators announced they may finally have her killer in custody.
Science-based crime-solving: Private labs use growing number of resources to help law enforcement match suspects to DNA profiles
In 2010, forensic DNA analyst Kathryn Rodgers created a DNA profile of the suspect in a 30-year-old sexual assault.
Arrest made in 1990 Labor Day murder case
Starkville police have arrested a man believed to be connected to the infamous Labor Day murders of 1990.
Searching for answers: Grandsons of victim in 25-year-old cold case record true crime podcast in her memory
For most of their lives, Nashville resident Jason B. Jones and his brother Simon have wanted the answer to one question: Who killed their step-grandmother, Betty Jones, and her friend Kathryn Crigler in Starkville on Labor Day 1990?
Police release more details on cold case murder arrest
Columbus police have arrested a suspect in a more than 20-year-old capital murder case, city officials confirmed today.
Prosecutor: ‘Mississippi Burning’ civil rights case closed
One day short of the 52nd anniversary of three civil rights workers’ disappearance during Mississippi’s “Freedom Summer,” state and federal prosecutors said Monday that the investigation into the slayings is over.
Miss. woman has helped solve 8 cases around the country
From her desk in Orange Grove, Ellen Leach helped identify a skull found in a bucket of cement at a Missouri truck stop.
Virginia police: Forensic evidence links two cases
They both were walking alone, separated from their friends late at night on or near the University of Virginia campus. One was found dead nearly five years ago. The other is still missing.
DNA links man to 2004 Brookhaven killing
After two other men were arrested and let go, DNA results have linked a man jailed in Texas to a 2004 murder in Mississippi.
Florida man wanted for murder arrested in Columbus
A man wanted in connection with a 1979 cold case murder in Florida has been arrested in Columbus.
High court schedules arguments in cold case
Lawyers for a man convicted in the killing of a woman in Tunica County nearly two decades ago will argue his innocence on March 18 before the Mississippi Supreme Court.
Relative charged in NYC ‘Baby Hope’ killing
NEW YORK — Detectives solved the decades-old mystery of “Baby Hope,” a little girl whose body was discovered inside a picnic cooler beside a Manhattan
What really happened to Jimmie Lee Griffith: 48 years later, Sturgis man’s death remains shrouded in mystery
Something felt wrong.
A nagging unrest. A shadow lurking in her mind. She couldn’t figure out what it was. It made her worry, though, and stayed all day long.
This was a Friday nearly a half-century ago. It was almost fall, before the leaves turn, and she remembers her son had a high school football game that night. She didn’t want to go. Whatever unseen ghost was bothering her had not gone away. But she gave in and off they went, a carload of family and friends heading south through Winston County to watch a game.
Tyler Perry offers $100K reward in Fla. cold cases
Filmmaker Tyler Perry is offering a $100,000 reward for information in the decade-old case of two men who went missing after separate encounters with a sheriff’s deputy in southwestern Florida.
Grand jury fails to indict Hinton on murder charge
A Columbus man has been released from the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center after being charged with murder.
Murder suspect released
A Columbus man has been released from the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center after being charged with murder.
Curtis Hinton, 47, 2523 5th Ave. N in Columbus, turned himself in to the police on Thursday, July 5 after a warrant was issued for his arrest in June for his alleged involvement in the cold case murder of George Wilbanks. Hinton was arraigned on a capital murder charge and his bond was set at $2 million.