Alan Phillips was tracked down with the help of genetic genealogy software nearly four decades after the 1982 murders of Annette Schnee and Barbara Oberholtzer.
The burglary attempt came shortly before major media attention shifted to Sandra Lee's former longtime boyfriend, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, over sexual harassment allegations.
"Be looking in fields, in dumpsters, on the side of the road, anything like that," the Salt Lake City sheriff said of the search for the body of Conzuelo "Nicole" Solorio-Romeo.
"The investigation is suggesting at this point that she knew the offender," Putnam County Sheriff's Office Col. Joseph Wells said in a news conference about the death of Nyeisha Nelson.
Dean Taylor has been charged with false imprisonment, kidnapping, criminal threats and inflicting unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering on a child.
Police in Connecticut escorted Qinxuan Pan back to his hotel after he was found stuck on railroad tracks with a flat tire, not yet realizing the car he was driving didn't belong to him.