For years these files sat in boxes. Then a lab ran old evidence again, or a family tree turned up a match. Cases where DNA finally gave an answer, sometimes after the person responsible could no longer be tried.
In 2011 police found a woman’s skeleton in a Delaware park. In 2026 DNA named her: Hannah Graham Kleitz, who died in 1907. Her remains had been taken from her mausoleum in 2002.
In October 1974, a Utah police chief’s 17-year-old daughter vanished after leaving a pizza restaurant. Ted Bundy was a suspect, but nobody was ever named. In 2026, a second girl’s DNA finally closed the case. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
In 1986, Mary Ann Turner was searching Spokane’s streets for her runaway daughter. She was found strangled in an alley. Forty years later, police say a licked envelope tied a 74-year-old man to her death. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.
Police once stopped him while he wore a victim’s watch, and let him go. The true story of South Korea’s Hwaseong serial murders, the case behind Memories of Murder. Listen to the narrated true crime podcast episode.