Cold Cases in Boston, Massachusetts
ColdCaseIndex documents 6 cases in Boston, Massachusetts, dated 1962 to 2026. 3 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Boston Strangler Victims (1962) and the most recent is Sreeja Koya (2026).
- Unsolved 3 (50%)
- Partly resolved 1 (17%)
- Solved or convicted 2 (33%)
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Sreeja Koya
Sreeja Koya, a 23-year-old University of Massachusetts Boston graduate student from Telangana, India, was last seen leaving her residence in the Edison Green area of Boston's Dorchester neighborhood at about 9:45 p.m.
Amy Lord
Twenty-four-year-old Amy Lord was kidnapped from her South Boston apartment, forced to withdraw money from ATMs, then murdered. Edwin Alemany was convicted and sentenced to life.
Karina Holmer
Karina Holmer was a 20-year-old Swedish au pair whose dismembered body was found in a Boston dumpster in June 1996, roughly a day after she was last seen leaving a nightclub. The grisly killing has never been solved.
Carol Stuart
Carol Stuart, 30 and pregnant, was shot in a car in Boston's Mission Hill on October 23, 1989 and died the next morning; her son, delivered by caesarean, lived 17 days. Her husband Charles blamed a Black gunman.
Joan Webster
Joan Webster, a 25-year-old Harvard graduate student, vanished from the taxi line at Boston's Logan Airport in November 1981. Her skeletal remains were found in Hamilton, Massachusetts in 1990, and although a convicted killer…
Boston Strangler Victims
Thirteen women were strangled in the Boston area between 1962 and 1964. Albert DeSalvo confessed to all 13 murders but was never tried for them. DNA evidence collected in 2013 linked DeSalvo to the last victim, Mary Sullivan.