The son of the Brooklyn livery driver killed and dumped on the side of the road in Connecticut in 2005, said he had stopped holding onto hope that the cold case would be solved as decades passed.

BARABOO, Wis. — Audrey Backeberg's case had long been considered cold. Backeberg was 20 years old in July 1962 when she went missing from Reedsburg, Wisconsin, a small town about 55 miles ...