Long Beach cold case files

Homicide Victim Identified After 37 Years, Cold Case Investigators Seek Perpetrators

On November 10, 1974, officers from the Long Beach Police Department responded to a large condominium complex in the area of Spring Street near the 605 Freeway, where the nude body of a deceased adult male was found. The victim would remain unidentified and the official cause of his death undetermined until recently, when police [...]

New DNA Technology and NIJ Grant Help LBPD Solve 1989 Murder of Wilson High Student

In 1989, Long Beach Police Department Homicide detectives began an investigation into the murder of a 15-year-old Wilson High School student who was found deceased in her residence. The case would go unsolved for 22 years until advances in DNA technology and a grant to help solve cold cases gave detectives the resources they needed [...]