DNA Breakthrough Spurs Springfield Effort for Slain Sisters

DNA breakthrough spurs Springfield effort for slain sisters

Efforts are underway in Springfield to remember Black and Brown women whose homicides remain unsolved and to pursue justice in cold cases.

There Are an Estimated 350,000 Unsolved Homicides in the US Dating Back to 1965, and Experts Say the Thing That Cracks Them Open Isn’t DNA

Most cold cases don’t break because of a lab breakthrough. They break because the people protecting a killer eventually stop. Here’s how investigators say decades-old homicides actually get solved — and why the tools that crack them can’t promise families the one thing they’re told to hope for. Decades after a killer thinks he’s gotten away with it, the marriage ends, the friendship sours, and the person who kept his secret stops keeping it. Inv…