BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A discarded cigarette found near the body of a 24-year-old Vermont school teacher in her apartment nearly 52 years ago helped lead investigators to an upstairs neighbor ...

A 65-year-old man is behind bars for the murder of a woman some four decades ago. Kenneth Duane Kundert of Clinton, Ark., is charged with the first degree murder of Dorothy Silzel “while committing ...

CHANDLER, Okla. – Investigators say they were able to use DNA from a discarded cigarette butt to crack a 33-year-old cold case. The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office says the cigarette butt and ...

They ended up with two shopping bags full of the little eyesores, or almost seven kilograms. If each cigarette butt is estimated to weigh about 0.2 grams, that represents about 35,000 smokes.

Police say the case is now closed on Burlington's oldest unsolved murder. Tuesday, they named the killer in the 1971 slaying of Rita Curran.