Dad Shook Infant Son To Death, Officials In Virginia Find 39 Years Later
William Faulkner famously once said “the past is never dead. It’s not even past,” and that proved to be true in Prince William County, where police solved a 37-year cold case involving an infant this week.
Samuel Harry Dicola, 58, who has no fixed address, has been charged with murder i connection to the death of his infant son in their former family home in the 9600 block of Lafayette Avenue in Manassas in 1984.
Then, the initial investigation determined that on Nov. 29, 1984, the victim, a 3-month-old boy, was in the care of Dicola, who was 20 at the time, at their Manassas home when, at …
Four Decades Later, Police In Maryland Identify, Arrest Alleged Serial Rapist
A man accused of raping women in Prince George's County over forty years ago has been arrested, authorities say.
Marion Edward Pearson Jr., 65, was linked to the crime through the FBI's National DNA Index System on Monday, Oct. 31 after Cold Case detectives submitted evidence from the open rape case to the system in March of 2022, according to Montgomery County Police.
Pearson Jr. lived in Prince George's County, and frequented the University of Maryland/College Park area during the time of the crime. He had been arrested several times for assault, indecent exposure, and had recently been r…
New Technology Helps Police In Arlington Close 34-Year-Old Sexual Assault Cold Case
New technology helped authorities solve a 34-year-old sexual assault cold case in Virginia.
George Thomas Jr., 61, of Arlington, was arrested Monday, Nov. 21 for his role in the rape, sodomy, and abduction of a 22-year-old woman on Aug. 24, 1988, according to the Fairfax County Police Department.
Police said that fingerprints prints taken from the victim's vehicle at the time were recently confirmed to be a match to Thomas Jr. and his late brother, Gregory Allen Thomas, of Arlington.
A department fingerprint examiner linked the second set of fingerprints to new and unrelated arr…
Suspect In Custody For 30-Year Cold Case Murder Of Virginia Teen Found In Maryland
Thirty years after a Virginia teen was brutally murdered in Maryland, police have identified and arrested a suspect in the cold case.
Ron Wright, 47, of Wimauma, Florida, has been charged by Metropolitan Police investigators in DC for the 1992 murder of Falls Church, Virginia resident Ricardo Burbano, authorities announced on Thursday, Oct. 20.
On Tuesday, March 31, 1992, officers from the Prince George's County Police Department in Maryland found Burbano unconscious in the back of a building in Hyattsville, where he was pronounced dead.
The teen’s remains were transported to the Office o…
