On September 4, 2024, a Missouri man named Dana Shepherd was charged in the 1993 rape and murder of 19-year-old Carmen Van Huss from Indianapolis.

His arrest was made possible when DNA evidence matched samples found at the crime scene and on the victim's body.

Shepherd has been charged with murder, felony murder, and rape and is currently held without bond in Missouri.

The use of genetic genealogy analysis aided in identifying Shepherd as a suspect after the case had gone cold.

This breakthrough has brought some closure to Van Huss' family, who have been seeking justice for over three decades.

Warren Luther Alexander, a suspected serial killer and former long-haul truck driver from Diamondhead, Mississippi, has been charged with the murders of three women in Southern California in 1977.

Kimberly Fritz, 18, Velvet Sanchez, 31, and Lorraine Rodriguez, 21, were all strangled to death, with the case going cold due to lack of leads.

Alexander was linked to the murders through DNA analysis in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).

Investigators suspect he may be connected to other unsolved murders during his time as a truck driver from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Alexander is being held without bail, and investigations are ongoing.

On September 25, 1996, just before midnight, a 911 call reported intense gunfire and multiple casualties at a home. Police, fire, and EMTs arrived to find a bloodied young man proclaiming, "They shot them all." The brutal 1996 Cell Phone Murders were truly a massacre.