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  • Cold Case: Police still purse leads in Johns Hopkins grad student's slayings

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

    The disappearance of a Johns Hopkins University graduate student once gripped the region and became known as the "Route 29 Stalker" investigation, but 17 years later her case remains unsolved. On March 2, 1996, the 25-year-old Alicia Showalter Reynolds was driving along Route 29 to...

  • Cold Case: Murder of former House staffer remains unsolved

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, May 12, 2013

    Former congressional staffer Walter Graham was found strangled to death in his Mount Vernon-area apartment more than 20 years ago, and his killing remains a mystery. Graham's case is one of thousands of unsolved homicides in the D.C. area, and Fairfax County Police are still seeking any bit of...

  • Cold Case: Lyon sisters went missing in Montgomery County in 1975

    Naomi Jagoda

    Published: Tue, May 7, 2013

    It's been 38 years since two young Montgomery County sisters disappeared. On the morning of March 25, 1975, 12-year-old Sheila Lyon and 10-year-old Katherine Lyon walked from their Kensington home to the Wheaton Plaza shopping center in order to have lunch at the Orange Bowl restaurant....

  • Cold Case: Father of three's Christmas Eve slaying remains unsolved

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, May 5, 2013

    Joel "Buddy" Simpson was running out of time on Christmas Eve 1991. Simpson called his mother to let her know that he still had to pick up his three children. They were all supposed to spend the night at her house in Southeast Washington and open presents the next morning. But Simpson never...

  • Cold Case: Aspiring model found dead near school

    Scott McCabe

    Published: Sun, Apr 28, 2013

    Audrey Hamilton, an aspiring beautician and model, told her friends at a McDonalds restaurant that she was tired and was going home. It was near midnight, Aug. 29, 1993. The several blocks walk through Congress Heights would be dangerous. To protect herself, Audrey, 18, carried an empty glass...