Unsolved: Worcester

It's January 25, 2000. Dominick Maiorana is notified by Worcester Police Department Records Bureau that his vehicle - a silver 1999 Lexus CS300 - was towed weeks earlier to Pat's Service Center on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester. Dominick's son Paul is the only person who drove the car a nd Dominick hasn't seen his son since the day after Christmas, nearly a month ago. Later that same night, Paul's...

On the evening of Feb. 3, 1992, Bridget DiIorio Volungis dropped her husband off at their home on Porter Street in Worcester. An hour later, DiIorio returned home to find her husband, John Volungis Jr., dead inside the entrance to their duplex home.  John had been stabbed 18 times. His throat had been slit.  Police believe whoever killed him was waiting inside the home for him to arrive. 

It's been 10 years since Nathan Otero was found shot dead near the Indian Lake Park beach area at the end of Clason Road in Worcester. It was October 18, 2012 at 2:15 a.m. when Worcester Police received reports of gunshots from Clason Road residents. The 27-year-old man was killed in the darkness at the east side of Indian Lake. He was shot in the head. 

It's been over 20 years since 32-year-old Candace Scola was found dead on the kitchen floor of her home on Knox Street in Worcester.  She had been stabbed 13 times, including multiple stabbings in her chest.  The only suspect in the case is her estranged husband.  He was the last person to see her alive. This is Part 2 of our two-part episode series on the murder of Candace Scola.

It's been over 20 years since 32-year-old Candace Scola was found dead on the kitchen floor of her home on Knox Street in Worcester.  She had been stabbed 13 times, including multiple stabbings in her chest.  The only suspect in the case is her estranged husband.  He was the last person to see her alive. This is Part 1 of our two-part episode series on the murder of Candace Scola.

It's around 9:45 p.m. on Halloween night, Oct. 31, 2007, when buzzers start ringing loudly for all apartment units at the entrance of 4 North Ashland Street. A first floor resident -- hearing the repeated buzzing at the front door -- approaches the entrance and sees two men standing outside the door.  He opens the door to see what they want. but the men force themselves in. They sprint up the stai...

The lack of evidence around the crime scene is nearly as peculiar as the lack of evidence on the bodies of William Vega and Elizabeth Matos. There was no murder weapon at the scene. And police couldn't pin down a motive. The teenagers hadn't been robbed. There were no drugs, drug paraphernalia, cell phones, beepers, or weapons on their bodies to indicate the murders were drug-related.

Unsolved: Worcester, a series of narrative episodes examining the dozens of unsolved cold cases on file with the Worcester Police Department, will release its first episode on Oct. 18, 2022. New episodes will debut on Tuesdays and Thursdays over five-week periods in 10-episode series.