COLD CASE

De’Shaun Hollins was murdered in West Houston in 1992. When KPRC 2 began on this story, Parson did not know where her son’s body had been left. Thanks to the good Samaritans who found De’Shaun’s body and reached out to Zach Lashway after his initial report aired in July, Annette now has some answers.

There are hundreds of thousands of cold cases across the country, according to data from Project: Cold Case.

‘The Evidence Room’ is an award-winning true crime docuseries that brings a fresh perspective to the Houston area’s most notorious crimes and convictions through unprecedented access to the Harris County criminal archives.

Currently, there are more than 330,000 unsolved murders in the U.S., according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report data. Cold cases, some decades old are being cracked in Houston because of technology at Othram, a first-of-its-kind lab in the world that was purposefully built to identify perpetrators or victims from crime scenes. The technology is capable of testing evidence with degraded or trace amounts of DNA.

The suspect in the 2013 west Houston murder is a convicted killer who served time for a murder involving similar circumstances.

The Texas Rangers have made an arrest in a 42-year-old cold case. On April 13, the Rangers arrested 68-year-old Larry Allen West for the murder of 18-year-old Carol Joyce Deleon. He was taken into custody at his residence in San Antonio.

The family of a cold case victim is finally getting justice after a man was charged with murder in connection to the deadly stabbing.

Crime Stoppers and the Houston Police Department’s Homicide Division need the public’s assistance tracking down the person responsible for killing Julian Martinez.

The Fort Bend County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday that it has made an arrest in the six-year-old case involving the murder of a Houston woman who was shot to death by her boyfriend.

A man has been charged with murder three-and-a-half years after his neighbor’s body was found near a trail at Sam Houston National Forest, the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Tuesday.

On Wednesday, investigators with the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office met with the family of Alisha Cooks and told them that remains found 36 years ago have been positively identified as the missing woman.

Texas Rangers and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office are hoping someone will step forward to help solve the 1974 murder of Deputy Edd Williams.

A man who fled to Mexico after police say he shot and killed another man in 2004 was extradited back to Harris County Friday where he will stand trial for his role in the shooting, according to the Houston Police Department.

DNA evidence has solved the cold case of a 12-year-old Montgomery County girl killed more than 40 years ago. The murderer will not have the opportunity to stand before any judge or jury, however, because he has already been put to death for another murder, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.

After nearly 20 years on the run, a man who robbed, shot and killed a convenience store owner is being punished for the crime, thanks to the persistence of a detective who just would not give up.

The family of “Baby Holly” can now find peace in knowing she’s alive and well thanks to the collaborative efforts of the Texas Attorney General’s Office Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit, the Lewisville Police Department, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, the Harris County Sheriff’s Office, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

On Nov. 28, 1996, Wilson did not arrive at her family’s home for Thanksgiving dinner. Her parents went to her apartment on Meadowglen Lane in southwest Houston and found the door unlocked and Wilson deceased inside.

The Texas Department of Public Safety announced Tuesday that it is seeking leads in the 1981 cold case homicide of Karen Lynn Douglas, of Harris County.

A 1980 cold case murder victim has now been identified. On Halloween night, 41 years ago, a teen girl arrived in Huntsville, Texas. She was alone, and asking strangers for directions. We now know who she is.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said a man is now charged with capital murder in a 2014 cold case in northeast Harris County.

A man has been arrested and charged in connection with a murder from 2011, according to officials.

More than a decade later, a man has been arrested and charged in connection with the death of a Mitchell County eighth-grader.

An arrest has been made in a decades-long cold case of a Houston woman who was found dead in 1983 in Montgomery County, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

A New Jersey serial killer known as the “Torso Killer” has pleaded guilty to two 1974 murders, finally closing the cold case deaths of teenage friends who had left home for a trip to the mall and never returned.

U.S. Marshals said a capital murder suspect is once again in custody and back behind bars in Montgomery County.

MASON COUNTY, Texas – A reward in a 19-year-old Texas cold case killing has been increased to $6,000. The Texas Rangers hope the public can help them solve the murder of James Charles “Jimmy” Schuessler, a Mason County man who was found dead in his rural ranch house on Oct. 14, 2001. A reward of as much as $6,000 — an increase from the typical $3,000 —is being offered for information that leads to the arrests of those responsible, if the tip is received before next month’s featured Texas Rangers case is announced. Anyone with information on Schuessler’s death is urged to come forward by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-252-8477. Individuals can also submit information online through the Texas Rangers cold case website or by calling the DPS Missing Persons Hotline at 1-800-346-3243.

(WBBH/NBC News) – Detectives in Punta Gorda, Florida say they’ve cracked a 30-year-old homicide case has using DNA evidence. Members of the Charlotte County Cold Case Unit held a press conference Monday about the murder of Sharon Gill, a woman who was killed in her home on March 21, 1990. Roland “Rollie” Thomas Davis, 68, has been linked to the murder after detectives confirmed DNA evidence connected him to the crime. Davis is currently on death row in Ohio for the stabbing death of an 86-year-old woman. As for a motive, detectives believe Davis is “probably just a psychopath,” and say he could be connected to other murders both in Florida and other states.

FORT WORTH, Texas – A man was arrested and charged in the 1974 killing of a Texas teenage girl after nearly 50 years of investigation and the advancement of DNA technology, police said Tuesday. Glen McCurley, 77, of Fort Worth, was arrested early Monday and charged with capital murder in the abduction, torture, rape and slaying of 17-year-old Carla Walker. Police had said the Fort Worth high school student was in a car with her boyfriend outside a Valentine's Day party at a bowling alley the night of Feb. 17, 1974, when a man pistol-whipped the boy and grabbed the girl. Her body was found three days later stuffed in a culvert near Lake Benbrook, which is near where the abduction happened. Only when DNA technology advanced to the point where a complete genetic profile could be developed from evidence gleaned from the girl’s brassiere could a solid link be made, Detective Leah Wagner said.