Cold Case

Fourteen years after the mysterious murder of a British family and a local cyclist in the French Alps, investigators may have a lead. British tourists discovered a rare Swiss pistol at the bottom of Lake Annecy, matching the type of weapon used in the 2012 attack.

The defendant, whose identity remains confidential, admitted at the start of his trial to the 1994 murder of 24-year-old American tourist Amy Lopez. He lured her into an isolated room at the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz, where he bound, sexually assaulted, and stabbed her to death. The case was solved earlier this year after modern DNA analysis linked him to the crime.