Cold Case Homicides

A Florida man has been arrested this week in connection with a 1993 execution-style double murder in the Bronx that left a married couple dead while their child was inside their home, authorities said (Fox News).

A 73-year-old Oregon man was sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty in the 1983 killing of his then-girlfriend. Mark Sanfratello pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in Josephine County Circuit Court in Grants Pass, Oregon. Prosecutors said his then-girlfriend, 27-year-old Teresa Peroni, was last seen walking with him into the woods after a house party in Selma, Oregon, in July 1983. Peroni's skull was found on private property in 1997, and no other remains have been recovered despite later searches.

A Maryland man has been charged with first-degree murder in his wife's 2002 disappearance. Authorities say prosecutors filed the charge after investigators re-examined the decades-old case and found evidence contradicting the husband's account. Police have not publicly released full details about the evidence or any motive.

A Texas woman was charged in the 2002 murder of her husband at Lake Lewisville after investigators cited a new forensic-technology break. Authorities arrested the suspect this week, ending a decades-long cold case, Fox News reported. Officials said the investigation was reinvigorated by a technological development that linked the woman to the crime, though Fox News did not detail the exact method used.

A man was arrested after DNA linked him to the 1990 killing of Lisa McBride in New Jersey. Authorities said the match tied him to biological evidence collected at the decades-old crime scene. Police announced the arrest this week and gave few immediate details about how investigators made the genetic connection.

A Washington man pleaded guilty in two decades-old murders after DNA from chewing gum linked him to the crimes. Authorities said the DNA match came from a discarded piece of chewing gum tied to the cold cases. The plea ends years of investigation into killings that had remained unsolved for decades. Officials described him as a longtime sexual predator whose alleged crimes stretched across many years.