Richard Sommerhalder, who died in 1994, was named a suspect in Karen Percifield’s 1976 slaying, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office said in an April 3 Facebook post. A woman’s body was found near ...

Authorities in Santa Cruz County have identified a man who was a person of interest in a 1976 homicide near Aptos Village Park as the suspect in that murder.

A Santa Cruz family is receiving closure after authorities officially named a suspect in a woman's murder in 1976 on Thursday ...

A notorious California killer has been named as a suspect in the 1976 murder of a woman in Aptos, the small seaside town bordering Santa Cruz. In May 1976, Karen Percifield, 25, was in California ...

After remaining unsolved for nearly five decades, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office has identified 25-year-old Karen ...

Advanced DNA testing and forensic genetic genealogy leads to the ID of a suspect in the 1976 murder of 25-year-old Karen Percifield in Aptos, Calif.

A man convicted for two murders in Santa Cruz County in 1976 has now been linked to another murder from that year almost 50 years later.

The most recent case solved - Karen Percifield. Her sister Annie Goheen told me over the phone her nickname was 'Cookie.' "She was as sweet as she was beautiful," Goheen said. MORE: Cold case ...

Karen Percifield was found dead near Aptos Village Park on May 28, 1976, Santa Cruz County deputies said. Photo from Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office Nearly five decades after a 25-year-old ...