Cold Cases

Robert “Bobbie” Ronald Soden was roughly 30 years old the last time anyone saw him. On Tuesday, his remains were identified as one of the eight discovered in an East Fort Myers field in 2007 using DNA and other techniques.

A conversation with investigative reporter and founder of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Jerry Mitchell about how his work led to convictions of KKK members in the 1963 Birmingham Church Bombing, the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers, the 1966 fatal firebombing of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer, and the killings of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner during the Freedom Summer of 1964. Mitchell comes to FGCU for free lecture that’s open to the public on Wednesday, Feb. 16.

The Fort Myers Police Department released new facial reconstructions that were made from unidentified human skeletons that were found in 2007.Originally…

UPDATE, Aug. 12, 2017: In April, we shined a light on the nearly five decade-old case of an unidentified homicide victim who became known as Mountain Jane…

In rural Kentucky, a cold case is reopened after 45 years, and investigators dig up an unidentified murder victim in an attempt to give her back her name.…

Ryan Backmann doesn’t know who killed his father. His dad, Clifford Backmann, 56, was a construction worker. He was working a side job in the middle of...

The Department of Justice awarded grants to several Florida police departments to help them work on cold cases. This includes the Fort Myers Police…