Editing Cold case (section)

=== 1970s ===
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! scope="col" | Victim(s)
! scope="col" | Suspect
! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" | Crime date
! scope="col" | Breakthrough date
! scope="col" | Description
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| [[Murder of Arlis Perry|Arlis Perry]]
| Stephen Blake Crawford
| [[Stanford, California]], US
| October 12, 1974
| June 28, 2018
| <small>A 19-year-old newlywed who was sodomized with a candlestick and murdered while praying at [[Stanford Memorial Church]] in [[Stanford University]]. Crawford, the security guard who found the body, was identified as the culprit after a DNA test was performed on [[semen]] found at the scene. The same evidence had earlier excluded Crawford after being tested with more primitive technology. Crawford shot himself when police arrived at his residence with a search warrant.</small>
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| Suzanne Marie Sevakis
|[[Franklin Delano Floyd]]
| [[North Carolina]], US
| 1975
| October 2014
| <small>A young girl kidnapped by Floyd, her stepfather, while her mother was serving a month sentence in prison. Floyd subsequently raised and married Sevakis under different aliases. Sevakis, then known as "Sharon Marshall", died in a suspicious hit and run in 1990 and her real identity remained a mystery until 2014. In 1995, several photographs depicting Sevakis being sexually abused were found in a truck stolen and abandoned shortly after by Floyd. She could be as young as four years old in some images.</small>
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| Claude and Beth Snelling, William McGowen
| rowspan="3"|[[Joseph James DeAngelo]]
| [[Visalia, California]], US
| September 11 – December 12, 1975
| rowspan="3"|April 25, 2018
| <small>Claude Snelling, a 45-year-old journalism professor, was fatally shot when he intervened in the attempted kidnapping of his 16-year-old daughter by the prolific, unidentified [[burglar]] known as the [[Visalia Ransacker]]; McGowen, a detective, was non-fatally shot by the Ransacker when he tried to arrest him. The Ransacker escaped and vanished afterward. In 2018, police announced that the Ransacker was also the unidentified serial killer known as the [[Original Night Stalker]], and that his real identity was DeAngelo, who was identified as the Stalker by a DNA match. DeAngelo was a police officer in nearby [[Exeter, California|Exeter]] during the Ransacker's spree. DeAngelo was charged with Snelling's murder because of undisclosed, non-genetic evidence.</small>
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| Brian and Katie Maggiore
| [[Rancho Cordova, California]], US
| February 2, 1978
| <small>A young couple chased and fatally shot while walking their dog at night. The murders were attributed to the unidentified East Area Rapist, who committed over 50 home invasions and rapes around the time in [[Northern California]], after pre-tied shoelaces with his signature diamond-type knot were found at the crime scene. The EAR was discovered to be the Original Night Stalker after DNA from both sprees was matched in 2001, and in turn, identified as DeAngelo through family DNA in 2018.</small>
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| Robert Offerman and Debra Manning
| [[Goleta, California]], US
| December 30, 1979
| <small>The two first victims of the Original Night Stalker in his [[Southern California]] spree. DeAngelo was charged with their murders.</small>
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| [[Bear Brook Murders|Allenstown Four]]
| [[Terry Peder Rasmussen|Terrence Peder Rasmussen]]
| [[Allenstown, New Hampshire]], US
| 1978–1984
| 2017
| <small>A woman and three young girls, all of them unidentified, whose bodies were found inside two steel barrels abandoned in [[Bear Brook State Park]]. The woman and two of the girls were maternally related, and the third girl, aged 4, was identified as Rasmussen's biological daughter in 2017. Rasmussen had worked for the owner of the property between 1977 and 1981, using the alias "Robert Evans". He died in prison in 2010, while serving a sentence for murdering his wife in 2002.<ref name="bostonglobe.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/05/13/finding-lisa-story-murders-mysteries-loss-and-incredibly-new-life/vCCxbYYUD63kjIoIMJQiWM/story.html|title=Finding Lisa: A story of murders, mysteries, loss, and, incredibly, new life |website=BostonGlobe.com}}</ref></small>
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