Larry Drotleff, 81, confessed to dismembering his father and disposing of remains in suitcases in Ohio, now facing federal theft charges, police say.

Authorities have identified human remains found in two suitcases in 1998, resolving a decades-old cold case and leading to charges against the victim’s son, the Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

A decades-old investigation that began with the discovery of human remains in two suitcases in 1998 has been solved through modern DNA testing, according to the Tuscarawas County Sheriff’s Office.

A grisly Tuscarawas County cold case dating back to 1998 has been solved after investigators used advanced DNA testing to identify both the victim and the suspe

State police have identified a man through DNA evidence in connection with two cold cases in Plymouth County dating back more than 30 years.

Aloysius Winthrop James was sentenced to life without parole for the 1988 murder of Ofelia Sandoval after a covert FBI DNA sample cracked the cold case.

The Michigan Attorney General's Office said advances in DNA testing helped lead to a suspect in the 2003 murder.