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Man arrested for murder of woman beaten to death in 1983

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A man has been arrested for the murder of a woman who was beaten to death in 1983 in Northern California. A man has been arrested for the murder of a woman who was beaten to death in 1983 in Northern California, authorities said. Alfredo Carretero Jr., who was one of the original persons of interest in the case, was arrested this week at age 65 for the murder of Noelle Russo, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said. On June 27, 1983, Russo was found naked and beaten to death in Rohnert Park, authorities said. An undated photo of Noelle Russo who was killed in June 1983. Sonoma Sheriff MORE: Baltimore police release video of persons of interest in Morgan State University shooting Over the years, police collected evidence, conducted interviews and "developed certain persons of interest," but no one was ever arrested , the sheriff's office said. Detectives continued to work on the case, and from 2010 to 2023, pieces of evidence were submitted for DNA analysis, the she...

'Devil Woman': How investigators cracked the 2014 murder of Michigan resident Chris Regan

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After investigators learn a missing man was having an affair with a married woman, a search turns up clues that only scratch the surface of the disturbing truth. When Christopher Regan vanished in 2014, the case would test investigators' resolve, and eventually involve two murders, an undercover informant and an alleged bizarre marriage pact. During the investigation, law enforcement officials learned Regan was having an affair with his married co-worker, Kelly Cochran, and initially began to suspect that Cochran’s husband Jason may have played a role in Regan's disappearance. “Jason really had motive. He was the husband who was being cheated on,” former Iron River Police Chief Laura Frizzo said in an interview with “20/20.” Frizzo ran a tiny police force of only four officers in the tightknit community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. “What I came to learn about this marriage was that it had been in trouble for a while. Kelly was living a life of a single person.” Former I...