Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County Police are still investigating the unsolved homicide of Montgomery County Special Deputy Sheriff Captain James Tappen Hall that took place 50 years ago. According to a press release, Hall was found lying face down in the parking lot of the Manor Country Club in Rockville with a gunshot wound to his head at […]

The Montgomery County Police Department has identified the suspect involved in a 1992 homicide after a fatal shooting in Virginia Beach Wednesday. MCPD’s Cold Case Unit identified the suspect as 51-year-old Hans Huitz of Virginia Beach, Va. On March 22, 1992 at around 6 p.m., 57-year-old James Essel was found dead inside Sugarloaf Mountain Market […]

Cold Case Unit detectives from Montgomery County Police Department have released several photographs of items that were found buried in a Silver Spring park in late summer 2019. In a statement released Wednesday, police said that the items were found buried in Nolte Local Park, located at 200 Denver Road. Police described the situation “suspicious” […]

A Year Has Passed Since Brenda Lee Hopkins’ Disappearance A year after Brenda Lee Hopkins was reported missing, police are again asking the public’s help in finding her. Hopkins, now 69, was reported as missing to police on Aug. 9, 2018. Hopkins of the 11700 block of Eden Road in Silver Spring is described as […]

A number of public safety officers were honored at this year’s 45 Annual Public Safety Awards Luncheon at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & County Conference Center in North Bethesda. The event was emceed by NBC4’s Leon Harris and Doug Kammerer. The event is organized by the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce. Make sure to […]

Montgomery County police believe they have identified the man who committed two unsolved rapes and an unsolved murder, all nearly 25 years ago, using DNA and genealogy. The culprit, identified as Kenneth Earl Day, died in March 2017 in Upshur County, West Virginia, when he was 52, police said. The two unsolved crimes in which […]

Fernando Asturizaga, who was named Thursday as a “person of interest” in the 18-year-old disappearance of a Bethesda woman, was found dead in his Cumberland jail cell Thursday night, Montgomery County police reported Friday. “Inmate Fernando Asturizaga was found unresponsive last night at about 8:45 p.m. in Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland, MD, where he […]

Montgomery County police said Thursday they believe they have a “person of interest” in an 18-year-old case involving a Bethesda woman first thought of as a missing person but later considered a homicide. Police and family members of Alison Thresher are asking the public for any information they might have about Fernando Asturizaga, 51, who […]

Here are five things to know today, June 12, in Montgomery County: 1. Scorcher: Temperatures are expected to be in the 90’s again today. Montgomery County officials are advising residents to take protective measures. 2. Cold Case: Montgomery County police officers are expected to release some new information about an unsolved homicide that dates back […]

Montgomery County police officers are asking for your help to solve a homicide, and it’s considered a cold case because it occurred 24 years ago on March 22, 1992. That’s when police said James Essel was stabbed inside the Sugarloaf Mountain Market at 23800 Old Hundred Road in Comus. Police believe the murder occurred between the […]