Roberta Walls was twenty two years old when she was found murdered in Virginia Beach, Virginia (USA) in May of 1986. Nearly forty years to the day she lost her life, Charles Berry from Connecticut was arrested for her murder as a result of extensive DNA testing. The crime was vicious and in sexual assault and Walls had been stabbed. There are several unsolved cases of women murdered in the town and surrounding areas where Berry was last living.

Source: https://people.com/suspect-arrested-40-years-after-22-year-old-woman-was-found-raped-and-murdered-near-library-where-she-worked-11979096

It was a bizarre discovery, a hunter in Haddam, Connecticut (USA) finding a human skull on the shore of the Connecticut River. Through DNA testing, it is revealed that the skull belonged to 37 year old Brian Cranfield. Cranfield had been missing and presumed drowned after he and another man had gone missing after their boat overturned on the Connecticut River in Vermont at Sumner Falls in 2001. The other man’s body had been recovered a month after the incident. No other remains of Cranfields have been identified.

Source: WFSB https://www.wfsb.com/2026/05/06/state-police-solve-quarter-century-old-cold-case/