Cold Case

August 04August 04
Reward Offered for Conviction in Decades-Old Riverside Homicide Case
- Crime
Police Wednesday announced that a $50,000 reward was being offered for information leading to a conviction in a 55-year-old homicide case that occurred on the Riverside Community College campus. On Halloween morning 1966, Joseph Bates called the Riverside Police Department to report his daughter, Cheri Jo Bates, missing. He told police that Cheri had left […]

Ceci Partridge
September 24September 24
Man sentenced 25 years to life following a 1990 murder case
- Crime
- Local
A Canadian man was sentenced Thursday 25 years to life in prison for the 1990 murder of Marie Darling. 63-year-old Anton Kubica was convicted of 78-year-old Darling’s murder in November 2019. The 78-year-old victim was a widow and lived alone in Palm Springs. She was last seen alive in early June 1990 and her body […]

Taylor Martinez
June 17June 17
Man Charged in Riverside, Corona Sexual Assaults Going Back Quarter Century
- Crime
RIVERSIDE (CNS) – A convicted felon who allegedly committed at least six sexual assaults in Corona and Riverside over an 11-year span, gaining control over victims with a knife or gun in extended attacks, is behind bars and facing multiple counts of forcible rape and other felony charges, authorities announced Wednesday. “These were extremely violent […]

Taylor Martinez
February 05February 05
Investigators conducting searches in the case of Kristin Smart, a Cal Poly student who went missing in 1996
- Crime
- Entertainment
Police have served search warrants in the case of Kristin Smart, a young woman who went missing from a central California college campus in 1996, but authorities and Smart’s family are mum on what spurred the latest development in the case. In San Pedro, the site of one of the searches, FBI agents and local sheriff’s […]
December 17December 17
Suspect in San Diego and Riverside County Rape Series Pleads Guilty
- Crime
- Local
An Arizona man who carried out a series of knifepoint rapes in the city of San Diego 24 years ago will be sentenced to 50 years to life in state prison early next year following his guilty plea to six rape counts. Christopher VanBuskirk, 47, of Goodyear, pleaded guilty Monday to threatening the victims with […]
December 17December 17
Third Man Accused In Two-Decade-Old Temescal Valley Murder Arrested
- Crime
- Local
A third man sought in the murder of a woman whose body was dumped near a lake in the Temescal Valley two decades ago was in custody Tuesday, more than a year after another man originally convicted in the murder was exonerated and released from jail following a review of forensic evidence. Googie Rene Harris […]
July 25July 25
Body of Colorado girl missing for 34 years found at pipeline site
- Entertainment
The remains of a 12-year-girl who disappeared in Weld County, Colorado, in 1984 have been recovered and identified, authorities said Thursday. A work crew discovered the remains Tuesday while excavating for a pipeline, said Greeley Police Sgt. Joe Tymkowych. They are of Jonelle Matthews, based on evidence found at the scene and a coroner’s examination, […]
July 12July 12
Texas Woman, 84, Arrested in 1984 Shooting Death of Husband
- Entertainment
A Texas sheriff says a reality-based detective show played a role in the recent arrest of an 84-year-old woman in the 1984 shooting death of her husband. Leon County Sheriff Kevin Ellis said Wednesday that the arrest last week of Norma Allbritton was aided by the program “Cold Justice,” which contributed its own investigator, a […]

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