More than 30 years after a young mother was found dead in a park, investigators say DNA testing has identified her killer.

A woman was arrested by Texas authorities and charged with murder after FBI DNA testing linked her to a murder case that was stuck in limbo for 14 years. Mayra Velasquez, 42, was arrested by Arlington Police on July 16 in connection with the January 2012 homicide of her friend Irasema Chavez,

The case has mystified investigators and historians for over a century.

Three cold cases in Tampa Bay have been solved through advances in DNA technology, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office announced.

Irasema Chavez was found dead with over 100 stab wounds in her Arlington, Texas, apartment on January 19, 2012

For 14 years, the brutal killing of Irasema Chavez, who was stabbed more than 100 times in her Texas apartment in 2012, has remained a mystery.

Authorities have identified a suspect in a decades-old cold case in Springfield.

DNA testing has identified a suspect in the 2005 murder of Daniel Zeisler in Las Vegas, according to a forensic lab.

A San Bernardino County teen’s murder has finally been solved 40 years later after detectives used DNA from a discarded Wingstop cup to identify a suspect.

For more than a decade, one question remained unanswered: Who killed Irasema Chavez? Now, Arlington police and the FBI say advances in DNA technology have led to a major break in the 2012 cold case. Authorities announced the arrest of 42-year-old Mayra Velasquez,

The hardest part of it was that we weren’t given the chance to give our love to her and say our goodbyes ...” — daughter of murder victim, Gloria Covington. At the live p