Missing persons

    Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer speaks during a news conference at the OCDA's office in Santa Ana, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. Cold case detectives have arrested suspects in the separate Southern California murders of a girl in 1973 and a boy in 1990, authorities said Wednesday. Both victims disappeared while walking home from school. (Paul Bersebach/The Orange County Register via AP)
    February 20, 2019 - 7:23 pm

    Girl's death haunted police until arrest made 45 years later

    SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Investigators searched for decades for the killer of an 11-year-old girl who disappeared while walking home from summer school in a case that gripped a California seaside community. A photo of a smiling Linda O'Keefe has hung for years on the wall of the police department...
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    Patrick Frazee is escorted to an awaiting SUV after a hearing at the Teller County Courthouse in Cripple Creek, Colo., on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. Following the daylong hearing, Teller County Judge Scott Sells found there is enough evidence for Frazee to stand trial for murder and other charges. He was arrested in Dec. 2018, about a month after Kelsey Berreth, 29, was last seen alive on Thanksgiving Day. Frazee and the victim, Berreth, have an infant daughter together. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP)
    February 20, 2019 - 12:06 pm

    The Latest: Blood found on missing woman's fiance's property

    DENVER (AP) — The Latest on the criminal cases tied to a Colorado woman's death (all times local): 10 a.m. Police investigating the disappearance of a Colorado woman found blood on a bottle of bleach and a mop during a mid-December search of her fiance's property. The information is contained in...
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    This March 20, 2018 photo provided on Jan. 3, 2019 by Italian senator Valentino Perin, shows the senator, right, posing for a photo with then North Korean diplomat Jo Song Gil on the occasion of a cultural event with the Veneto region at a restaurant in San Pietro di Felletto, near Treviso, northern Italy. Italy's foreign minister said Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019 that Italy is investigating whether the 17-year-old daughter of former North Korean diplomat Jo Song Gil was forcibly returned to Pyongyang as her parents apparently tried to defect. (Valentino Perin via AP)
    February 20, 2019 - 12:00 pm

    Italy's checking if NKorean envoy's daughter was forced back

    ROME (AP) — Italy is investigating if the daughter of a former North Korean diplomat posted to Italy had been forcibly returned to Pyongyang after her parents disappeared in an apparent defection, the Italian foreign minister said Wednesday, as lawmakers and rights activists demanded to know what...
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    February 20, 2019 - 10:38 am

    Croatian court detains sister after body found in freezer

    ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A Croatian court on Wednesday ordered one month's detention for a woman suspected of killing her younger sister, whose body was found in a freezer more than 18 years after she went missing. The news came as hundreds of people attended the funeral Wednesday for the missing...
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    Patrick Frazee is escorted to an awaiting SUV after a hearing at the Teller County Courthouse in Cripple Creek, Colo., on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. Following the daylong hearing, Teller County Judge Scott Sells found there is enough evidence for Frazee to stand trial for murder and other charges. He was arrested in Dec. 2018, about a month after Kelsey Berreth, 29, was last seen alive on Thanksgiving Day. Frazee and the victim, Berreth, have an infant daughter together. (Jerilee Bennett/The Gazette via AP)
    February 20, 2019 - 12:33 am

    Woman says man told her to kill fiancee before fatal beating

    DENVER (AP) — Investigators say a Colorado man beat his fiancee to death with a baseball bat after failing to convince a woman he was having an affair with to commit the killing. The grim details revealed in a Colorado courtroom Tuesday provided the first public account of what led prosecutors to...
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    February 19, 2019 - 8:53 pm

    Coast Guard recovers body in search for swimmer off Georgia

    TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — The Coast Guard has recovered a body during a search for a swimmer missing off the coast of Georgia. News outlets report a Coast Guard helicopter spotted the body off Tybee Island on Tuesday, the day after a 33-year-old man was reported missing. The missing swimmer's name...
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    FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2018 file photo, Patrick Frazee leaves the Teller County District Court in Cripple Creek, Colo. Frazee, charged with murder and solicitation to commit murder in the death of his missing fiancee, Kelsey Berreth, is scheduled to appear in court, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. Frazee, who has not entered a plea, has been jailed since his arrest. (Chappin Everett/The Gazette via AP, File)
    February 19, 2019 - 8:35 pm

    Key witness says Colorado man fatally beat fiancee with bat

    DENVER (AP) — A man beat his fiancee to death with a baseball bat, convinced a woman he was having an affair with to clean up the bloody crime scene and then burned the victim's remains while she watched, investigators said Tuesday. Dramatic testimony at a Colorado hearing relied heavily on what...
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    In this February 12, 2019 photo, a burned patch of grass and weeds along Beaman Road show where a body was dumped and burned sometime late Monday night, Feb. 11, a few miles west of New Bern, N.C. The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office tells news outlets it's charged 23-year-old Norris Dwayne Rochelle Jr. with murder in the death of his 40-year-old roommate, Nicholas Williams. (Bill Hand/Sun Journal via AP)
    February 13, 2019 - 3:53 pm

    2 charged after missing man's burned body found

    NEW BERN, N.C. (AP) — Authorities in North Carolina have charged two men in the death of a man who was reported missing. The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office tells news outlets it's charged 23-year-old Norris Dwayne Rochelle Jr. with murder in the death of his 40-year-old roommate, Nicholas Williams...
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    FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2019 file photo Rene Ann Goodrich, of Superior with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, leads the procession though the streets of St. Paul during the Women's March at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. Lawmakers in at least seven states have introduced legislation to address the unsolved deaths and disappearances of numerous Native American women and girls. (Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune via AP, file)
    February 13, 2019 - 2:40 pm

    States weigh bills addressing Native deaths, disappearances

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Lawmakers in at least seven states have introduced legislation to address the unsolved deaths and disappearances of numerous Native American women and girls. The legislation calls for state-funded task forces and other actions amid deepening concerns that law enforcement...
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    Rescue workers continue to remove rubble from an eight-story building which collapsed two days earlier in Istanbul, Friday, Feb. 8, 2019. Turkish rescue workers on Friday pulled out a 16-year-old boy from the rubble of an eight-story apartment building in Istanbul two days after it collapsed, Turkey's interior minister Suleyman Soylu said. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
    February 09, 2019 - 7:10 am

    The Latest: Funeral for family in Turkey building collapse

    ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the Istanbul apartment building collapse (all times local): 2:55 p.m. Funeral prayers have been performed for nine members of a family who died in the building collapse in Istanbul. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, officials and hundreds of people attended the...
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