Newsroom & Case Dispatches
Original investigative reporting, statutory public-records litigation, court proceedings, and forensic cold-case breakthroughs. Built from the official file, not from other coverage.
BREAKING DISPATCH
Kentucky State Police Disclose Crystal Rogers Case Records Following Brooks Houck Life Sentence
Following the murder conviction and life sentence of Brooks Houck, Kentucky State Police has released an initial batch of investigative records under the Open Records Act. Crime Docket has cataloged the filing and appealed remaining ballistics redactions.
FOIA & RECORDS DISPUTE
Orange County Sheriff Closes Sarah Boone Records Request as ‘Not a Public Records Request’
Hours after receiving a Chapter 119 request for the closed Sarah Boone homicide file, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office closed it with a one-line reason and no cited exemption. Crime Docket has asked the office to reopen it.
FOIA & RECORDS DISPUTE
Las Vegas Police Withhold the Jeff German Case File Two Years After Robert Telles’s Conviction
LVMPD answered a public-records request for the Telles investigation with a form ‘open investigation’ withholding letter. Crime Docket has filed a renewed request under NRS Chapter 239.
COURT DOCKET & TRIAL
The House Remembered: The Record Behind Our Richard Dabate Documentary
How the arrest-warrant timeline, the interrogation, the 2022 trial and the Connecticut Supreme Court’s 2025 opinion fit together – the sourcing behind Crime Docket’s documentary on the Connie Dabate case.
FORENSIC & COLD CASE
IAFIS Fingerprint Match Solves 33-Year-Old Omaha Cold Case
Within five hours of uploading digitized latent prints to the FBI’s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System IAFIS, the Omaha Police Department’s Cold Case Unit generated a primary suspect profile that had eluded investigators for over
FORENSIC & COLD CASE
KSP Crime Lab Results Pending in 2023 Meade County Murder
More than 32 months after deputies responded to an Old Mill Road residence, investigators remain dependent on pending forensic analysis from the Kentucky State Police KSP Forensic Lab to advance the Meade County murder investigation of Rhonda Aeberso
FORENSIC & COLD CASE
Fingerprint and DNA Evidence Break Cesar Sayoc Pipe Bomb Case
A single latent fingerprint an invisible friction ridge impression left by sweat and oil recovered from a manila envelope proved to the catalyst in the nationwide 2018 pipe bomb investigation. According to an October 26, 2018, Department of Justice p
FORENSIC & COLD CASE
Ballistics and CCTV Solve 2023 Las Vegas Cold Case Murder
Seventy spent cartridge casings recovered from a residential intersection and high-definition hospital surveillance footage provided the forensic foundation that led Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department LVMPD detectives to arrest four men in a 20
FORENSIC & COLD CASE
Houston ‘Lovers Lane’ Cold Case Solved Via Forensic Genealogy
Forensic genetic genealogy familial DNA testing has provided the critical link to solve the August 1990 Houston “Lovers’ Lane” murders cold case, resulting in the apprehension of a suspect nearly 36 years after the discovery of the crime scene. By cr
FORENSIC & COLD CASE
DNA Match Cracks 1990 Houston Lovers Lane Murders Cold Case
A previously unentered DNA profile extracted from a 1996 sexual assault investigation has matched biological evidence recovered at the 1990 crime scene of the Houston Lovers Lane murders, culminating in the March 25, 2026, arrest of a 64-year-old Neb
FORENSIC & COLD CASE
Yogurt Shop Murders DNA Link Solves 1998 Cold Cases
Advancements in Y-STR DNA profiling analysis of genetic markers on the male-specific Y chromosome and comparative ballistics have closed one of Texas’s most notorious unsolved crimes while simultaneously resolving multiple 1998 cold cases across the
FORENSIC & COLD CASE
Hillsboro Cold Case DNA Solves 1992 Murder by Serial Killer
Male DNA extracted from 33-year-old clothing swabs has officially closed the 1992 murder investigation of Elizabeth Burtis Wasson. The Washington County District Attorney’s Office and the Hillsboro Police Department announced on Feb. 10, 2026, that a
COURT DOCKET & TRIAL
Lethal Fentanyl Dosing Yields 60 Years in Ohio Serial Murders
Toxicology findings and a verified pattern of lethal fentanyl administration culminated in a 60-year-to-life sentence for 35-year-old Rebecca Auborn. On February 19, 2026, a Franklin County judge handed down four consecutive terms of 15 years to life
COURT DOCKET & TRIAL
Joseph Koenig Guilty in Jefferson County Rock-Throwing Murder
After seven hours of deliberation, a Jefferson County jury convicted 18-year-old Joseph Koenig on 19 charges, including first-degree murder, concluding the highly publicized Colorado rock-throwing murder trial. The prosecution’s case against Koenig h
FORENSIC & COLD CASE
DNA Links Clark Perry Baldwin to 1990s Interstate Serial Murders
A single male DNA profile extracted from a victim’s pantyhose in Tennessee provided the crucial link to two unsolved Wyoming homicides, bridging a 30-year investigative gap and leading to the 2025 conviction of interstate serial killer Clark Perry Ba