Five Florida Cold Cases FINALLY Solved in 2025
- Chris McAndrew
- 1 day ago
- 1 min read
For decades, these murders seemed impossible to solve.
Evidence sat boxed in police storage rooms. Families waited for answers that never came. And the killers believed they had gotten away with it.
But in 2025, everything changed.
Across Florida, investigators reopened long-forgotten files and used modern forensic science to crack cases that had remained unsolved for 30, 40, even 50 years.
In this episode of Twisted Crimes, we examine five Florida cold cases that were finally solved in 2025, revealing the shocking truth behind murders that haunted investigators and families for generations.
These cases include:
-- The brutal 1994 murder of Tina Heins, a pregnant Navy wife whose brother-in-law spent 13 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit before DNA revealed the real killer.
-- The mysterious 1997 killing of Stephen Edenfield, where the word “Greed” was written in blood at the crime scene.
-- The 1986 workplace murder of real estate executive Shirley Brant, solved nearly four decades later by a fingerprint once considered unusable.
-- The tragic 1991 killing of Julia Wilbanks, a case finally cracked using genetic genealogy and a discarded straw.
-- And the haunting 1975 double murder of 14-year-old best friends Barbara Schreiber and Darlene Zetterower, solved almost 50 years later through DNA genealogy.
These stories prove something investigators often say about cold cases:
Justice doesn’t expire.
Advances in DNA testing, genetic genealogy, and forensic technology are helping detectives solve crimes that once seemed impossible to solve.
And in these five cases, the truth finally caught up with the people responsible.
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