Hitchhikers were once a familiar sight on roads around the world. That is until increased private car ownership, long haul buses and a spate of road-based serial killers made the practice seem no just ...

A Colorado man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the cold case slayings of two women whose bodies were found near the mountain resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado, in ...

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Investigators in Wisconsin used genetic genealogy to solve a 50-year-old cold case this week, charging an 84-year-old Minnesota man with killing a woman who was found dead in 1974, authorities said.

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - Albany Police are looking for a man who appeared to be a good samaritan by giving a ride to a woman who was walking in the rain, but the woman says the driver did something that ...

Hitching a ride at the side of the road used to be a common practice, but now it's rarely heard of. So where have all the hitchhikers gone, and... In the summer of 1970, Joyce McKenny's friend asked ...

ASHEVILLE - A couple was found guilty — one by jury and the other by plea deal in federal court — of kidnapping a 71-year-old Murphy woman after she offered them a ride from the side of a northern ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC/Gray News) – An 84-year-old man has been arrested in the 1974 murder of a hitchhiker. Mary Schlias was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago when the then-25-year-old was ...

SANTA ANA (CBSLA) — A woman hitchhiking along State Route 241 in Santa Ana was struck by a vehicle and killed Sunday. Authorities reported that she died at the scene. The collision occurred in the ...

Norma Jean Jalovec says she gave Laundrie a ride on Aug. 29 to the Spread Creek Dispersed Camping Area in Grand Teton National Park, where the body of his fiancée, Gabby Petito, was found weeks later ...

When you're looking to travel across America, do you book yourself a flight or would you prefer to spend hours on a train as the countryside flashes by? If you don't fancy either and prefer to not ...