California woman killed in 1977 identified by cold case team

Remains were identified after a possible match was found between DNA of possible relatives and DNA in a state missing persons database, January 20, 2022RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California woman who was killed in 1977 has been identified by a cold case...

Ex-Kern County deputy Logan August released from prison

August stole high-grade marijuana from a sheriff’s office evidence room in March 2015 January 11, 2022BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Logan August, a former Kern County deputy who stole hundreds of pounds of marijuana and conspired with another deputy to put the...

Former South Coast Sheriff’s deputy gets jail sentence after prosecutors say he destroyed evidence in a case

Prosecutors say the deputy threw away a drug test for a woman which showed negative results. December 22, 2021A former deputy sheriff on the South Coast has been sentenced to jail for destroying evidence in a case.Prosecutors say Richard Charles Barrios threw away key...

SFPD Arrests 76-Year-Old Colorado Man in Cold-Case Murder From 1978

Marissa was found strangled after she left to go horseback riding in Golden Gate Park,”  December 21, 2021Teenager Marissa Rolf Harvey was found dead in Sutro Heights in 1978, but thanks to “advanced forensic investigative techniques,” SFPD...

Suspect charged in 25-year-old cold case murder in Northern California

Investigators submitted additional DNA evidence to the crime lab in 2020 where it was able to be analyzed for the first time and it matched a California inmate. December 10, 2021Authorities in Northern California have charged a suspect already serving a life sentence...

The O.C. sheriff fired a deputy for tossing evidence. Now he has to be reinstated

Torres was terminated in 2019 after he admitted to discarding a gram of white powder, a methamphetamine pipe, a replica gun and several hypodermic syringes that he had not booked into evidence Enter Article DATE HEREThe Orange County Sheriff’s Department...