The Mansfield Police Department has announced a press conference to provide updates on a decades-old homicide case. Authorities will hold the presser on Monday, Dec. 30, at 2 p.m. 3News plans to ...

FOX 8 News has obtained Mansfield police investigative files that shed new light on how cold case detectives pursued a suspect in the 1981 murder of a young Richland County woman.

“Their findings were staggering.” The chief said a “firm DNA profile” of James Vanest, at the time Miller’s 26-year-old upstairs neighbor, emerged from evidence left from the room. Vanest had been ...

Her case remained a mystery, until now. Police in Mansfield say Miller was killed by James Vanest, a 68-year-old suspect killed last month during a shootout with police in Stark County ...

He was identified as James Vanest, according to Mansfield police. Police said he is also responsible for the murder of 18-year-old Deborah Lee Miller in Mansfield in 1981. "With the continual ...

A groundbreaking DNA analysis has finally identified James Vanest as the perpetrator in the brutal 1981 murder of Debra Miller, an 18-year-old waitress in Mansfield, Ohio. The case, which remained ...

Mansfield Police Chief Jason Bammann told WEWS Monday that James Vanest has been positively identified as Miller's killer. However, Vanest was killed last month during a standoff with police.

Ohio officials say they have solved a cold case murder from more than 40 years ago.The suspect, James Vanest, died during a shootout with officers at a motel near Canton last month.Police say he's ...