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After Remains Of Missing Woman Found In Area Woods, Police Push For Answers In Cold Case After Remains Of Missing Woman Found In Area Woods, Police Push For Answers In Cold Case
After Remains Of Missing Woman Found In Area Woods, Police Push For Answers In Cold Case Police are renewing calls for information after human remains discovered in a wooded preserve in upstate New York were identified as a woman who disappeared a decade earlier. The remains of Amanda King, 27, were found in the Burden Pond Preserve in Troy, near Campbell Avenue, on Oct. 20, 2024, according to Troy Police Assistant Chief Steven Barker. A local resident stumbled upon the remains, leading police to the scene. Now, investigators are asking for the public’s help in piecing together how King’s remains ended up in Troy and what led to her death. “We urge anyone who may have informat…

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Gilgo Beach Murders: New Images Of 'Asian Doe' Released In Effort To ID Male Victim Gilgo Beach Murders: New Images Of 'Asian Doe' Released In Effort To ID Male Victim
Gilgo Beach Murders: New Images Of 'Asian Doe' Released In Effort To ID Male Victim Investigators are hoping newly released images will lead to the identification of another victim in the Gilgo Beach serial murders. On Long Island, the Gilgo Beach Task Force distributed facial reconstructions of who they've long referred to as "Asian Doe" during a press conference in Brentwood on Monday morning, Sept. 16. Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney said the man’s skeletal remains were found along Ocean Parkway in Gilgo Beach on April 4, 2011, though it’s believed he “suffered a violent death” sometime before 2006. Earlier Report: Heuermann Used 'Planning Doc' …

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by Michael Mashburn
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Headless Body Found In Travel Trunk Decades Ago In Hudson Valley ID'd As Woman Reported Missing Headless Body Found In Travel Trunk Decades Ago In Hudson Valley ID'd As Woman Reported Missing
Headless Body Found In Travel Trunk Decades Ago In Hudson Valley ID'd As Woman Reported Missing Forty-two years after a New York woman’s mutilated body was found discarded in a travel trunk near a dumpster at a Hudson Valley apartment complex, investigators have finally made a positive identification. New York State Police identified the victim as Anna L. Papalardo-Blake, of New York City. She was 44 years old at the time. Papalardo-Blake’s headless body was discovered in Dutchess County in March 1980 at the Hudson View Apartments in the town of Fishkill. Both of her hands had also been removed, according to police. The Dutchess County Medical Examiner concluded that she had been ki…

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Police Reopen Cold Case Of Hudson Valley Hair Stylist Fatally Beaten At Her Salon Police Reopen Cold Case Of Hudson Valley Hair Stylist Fatally Beaten At Her Salon
Police Reopen Cold Case Of Hudson Valley Hair Stylist Fatally Beaten At Her Salon New York State Police are renewing efforts to solve the 18-year-old murder of a Hudson Valley hair stylist and mother of two killed inside her salon. Orange County resident Yvonne Torch was found dead on the morning of June 9, 2004 inside of His and Hers Salon on SR-9W in the Town of Newburgh, according to police. Investigators said the 31-year-old owner and operator had been brutally beaten to death. Torch’s husband of 13 years, Pierre, told NBC’s Dateline that police initially considered him a suspect in the killing but eventually ruled him out after three weeks of “sheer hell.” Despite…

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by Michael Mashburn