Editing Cold case (section)

=== 1980s ===
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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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| Charlene and Lyman Smith, Keith and Patrice Harrington, Manuela Witthun, Cheri Domingo and Gregory Sanchez, Janelle Cruz
| [[Joseph James DeAngelo]]
| [[Ventura, California|Ventura]], [[Dana Point, California|Dana Point]], [[Irvine, California|Irvine]], and Goleta, California, US
| March 13, 1980 – May 4, 1986
| April 24, 2018
| <small>Southern California couples and lone women targeted by the Original Night Stalker, whose M.O. included stalking his victims for a prolonged time, invading their homes, binding them, raping the women while the men watched, and then killing both by either shooting or bludgeoning. DeAngelo was identified by police after DNA from the crime scenes was uploaded to a fake profile in the open-source DNA database [[GEDmatch]], and found to have distant relatives among its users. DeAngelo was charged with all murders and is pending trial.</small>
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| [[Stabbing of Suzanne Bombardier|Suzanne Bombardier]]
| Mitchell Lynn Bacom
| [[Antioch, California]], US
| June 22, 1980
| December 11, 2017
| <small>A 14-year-old girl kidnapped, raped and stabbed to death. Her body was found floating in the [[San Joaquin River]]. DNA found in the body was matched to Bacom, a registered sex offender with three prison sentences served.</small>
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| Denise and Dawn Beaudin
| [[Terry Peder Rasmussen|Terrence Peder Rasmussen]]
| [[Manchester, New Hampshire]], US
| October 12, 1981
| July 2016
| <small>A woman, Denise, and her six-month-old daughter, Dawn, who disappeared with Rasmussen. The daughter was abandoned by Rasmussen in [[Scotts Valley, California]] in 1986, after raising her alone for some time, and also neglecting and molesting her. Dawn discovered her real identity through genealogy websites when she was 35. Denise Beaudin was excluded as the unidentified adult decedent at Allenstown and her whereabouts are unknown, but she is presumed murdered by Rasmussen.<ref name="bostonglobe.com"/></small>
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| [[Murder of Brenda Gerow|Brenda Gerow]]
| John "Jack" Kalhauser
| [[Tucson]], [[Arizona]], US
| c. April 6, 1981
| April 2015
| <small>A 20-year-old woman last seen alive when she left her family home in the company of Kalhauser, her boyfriend, in 1980. Her body was discovered in Arizona in 1981 and remained unidentified for 34 years, during which she was known as the "[[Pima County]] [[Jane Doe]]". In 1995, a photograph of Gerow while she was still alive surfaced in the possession of Kalhauser, who was pending trial for the murder of his wife, Diane Van Reeth. Police announced that they believed the photograph to be connected to the unidentified decedent in 2014 and confirmed this when they matched the body's DNA to Gerow's family.</small>
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| [[Murder of Adam Walsh|Adam Walsh]]
| [[Ottis Toole]]
| [[Hollywood, Florida]], US
| July 27, 1981
| December 16, 2008
| <small>A six-year-old boy abducted from a department store; only his head, severed post-mortem, was found two weeks later. Though Toole confessed to the murder already in 1983, the fact that he and his sometimes associate [[Henry Lee Lucas]] made false confessions to several other murders cast doubt on his testimony, and he eventually recanted. The prosecution was further complicated when police lost Toole's car and a machete before proper testing could be done. Nevertheless, the police and Walsh's family made a joint announcement in 2008 about their confidence in Toole's guilt based on circumstantial evidence. The investigation of Walsh's murder was then officially closed. Among the evidence was Toole's niece's claim that he had again confessed the murder and decapitation of Walsh while on his deathbed in 1996, seemingly unprompted.</small>
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| [[Murder of Tina Harmon|Tina Harmon]]
| [[Robert Anthony Buell]]
| [[Lodi, Ohio]], US
| October 29, 1981
| 2010
| <small>A 12-year-old girl who was abducted, raped and murdered. A man was convicted for her murder in 1982 but released after winning a retrial in 1983. In 2010, DNA found at the murder scene was matched to Buell, who had been executed in 2002 for the 1982 [[murder of Krista Harrison]]. Further matches were made between fibers found on Harmon and Harrison's bodies, and between dog hair found on Harmon and a dog buried in Buell's yard.</small>
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| Lisa Stasi
| John Edward Robinson
| Overland Park, Kansas, US
| January 9, 1985
| October 2002
| <small>The mother of Tiffany Stasi. See above.</small>
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| [[Wanda Jean Mays]]
| Herself
| [[Georgia Mountain]], Alabama, US
| May 12, 1986
| 2008
| <small>A 26-year-old woman, prone to [[panic attack]]s, who disappeared while sleeping in her aunt and uncle's country home. Her room's door was locked and her blood was found in a window, which had been broken from the inside; her gown, which was found discarded on a boat dock; and on a [[canoe]] found adrift on [[Guntersville Lake]]. Her bones were found at the bottom of a cliff by a [[ginseng]] hunter in 2003 and identified by the [[FBI]] five years later. Because of the lack of foul play evidence, the death was ruled accidental.</small>
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| Hashimoto <small>(first name unknown)</small>
| Miyoko Sumida
| [[Amagasaki]], [[Hyōgo Prefecture|Hyōgo]], Japan
| 1987
| November 2011
| <small>Believed to be the first victim of the [[Amagasaki Serial Murder Incident]] discovered in 2011. The victim, the mother of later victim Jiro Hashimoto, disappeared when she and Sumida were in their 30s. The case is not under investigation because the Japanese [[statute of limitation]]s had already run out when it was tied to Sumida.</small>
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| Sherry Perisho
| [[Charlie Brandt]]
| [[Big Pine Key]], Florida, US
| July 16, 1989
| May 6, 2006
| <small>A homeless woman whose body was found floating on a canal, after being nearly decapitated and having her heart extracted. The [[dinghy]] she lived in was found inland and with signs of having been used as a cutting board. Brandt, who committed suicide after murdering his wife and niece on September 13, 2004, was officially named as the perpetrator of Perisho's murder in 2006. He lived 1,000 feet from the murder scene, strongly resembled a [[composite sketch]] of a man seen fleeing the scene, was seen with bloody clothes in his home after the murder, and performed a nearly identical mutilation on his niece's body.</small>
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