Cold Cases of the 2000s
137 documented cases in which the crime or disappearance took place between 2000 and 2009. 72 are recorded as unsolved.
- Unsolved 72 (53%)
- Partly resolved 3 (2%)
- Charges or trial pending 2 (1%)
- Solved or convicted 52 (38%)
- Closed without conviction 8 (6%)
By type
All 137 cases
Amber Dubois
Fourteen-year-old Amber Dubois disappeared while walking to Escondido High School in February 2009. Registered sex offender John Gardner abducted and killed her; her remains were found in March 2010.
Brittanee Drexel
Seventeen-year-old Brittanee Drexel disappeared from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina during spring break in 2009. In 2022, Raymond Moody pleaded guilty to her kidnapping, rape, and murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
Claudia Lawrence
Claudia Lawrence, a 35-year-old chef at the University of York, was last seen on March 18, 2009, walking towards her home in Heworth, York, and failed to arrive for work the next morning.
Gabriel Johnson
Eight-month-old Gabriel Johnson vanished after his mother, Elizabeth Johnson, took him from Tempe, Arizona, to San Antonio, Texas, in December 2009. She was convicted of custodial interference but Gabriel has never been found.
Haleigh Cummings
Five-year-old Haleigh Cummings was last seen on the evening of February 9, 2009, at her father's mobile home in Satsuma, Florida, and was reported missing early the next morning.
Jamison Family
Bobby Jamison, 44, his wife Sherilynn, 40, and their six-year-old daughter Madyson vanished on October 8, 2009, after traveling from their Eufaula home to look at rural land near Red Oak, Oklahoma.
Kayla Berg
Kayla Berg, a 15-year-old from Antigo, Wisconsin, vanished on August 11, 2009, after an acquaintance said he dropped her off at a boyfriend's house in Wausau.
Lindsey Baum
Lindsey Baum, 10, vanished while walking home from a friend's house in McCleary, Washington, in June 2009. Her remains were found by hunters in remote eastern Washington in 2017 and identified in 2018, turning the case into a…
Mitrice Richardson
Mitrice Richardson, a 24-year-old woman, vanished in September 2009 after being released in the middle of the night from a Los Angeles County sheriff's station in Malibu with no phone, money, or transportation.
Morgan Harrington
Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, 20, disappeared on October 17, 2009, after leaving a Metallica concert at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville. Her remains were found on an Albemarle County farm in January 2010.
Oscar Grant
Oscar Grant was shot by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on the Fruitvale station platform in Oakland on January 1, 2009, and died hours later. Mehserle testified he mistook his gun for his Taser.
Pamela Butler
Pamela Butler, a 47-year-old Environmental Protection Agency analyst, vanished from her Washington, D.C. home in February 2009. Her boyfriend Jose Rodriguez-Cruz was arrested in 2017, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and…
Sandra Cantu
Eight-year-old Sandra Cantu disappeared from the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park in Tracy, California, on March 27, 2009. Her body was found ten days later in a suitcase in an irrigation pond.
Shele Covlin
Shele Danishefsky Covlin, a 47-year-old Wall Street money manager, was found dead in the bathtub of her Upper West Side apartment on New Year's Eve 2009.
Steven Koecher
Steven Thell Koecher, a 30-year-old resident of St. George, Utah, was last seen at midday on December 13, 2009, when home security cameras recorded him parking his Chevrolet Cavalier in a cul-de-sac in the Anthem community of…
Susan Powell
Susan Powell vanished from her West Valley City, Utah home while her husband Josh claimed to have taken their two young sons camping at night in freezing temperatures.
The West Mesa Murders (West Mesa Bone Collector)
In February 2009, the buried remains of 11 women and one unborn child were discovered on Albuquerque's West Mesa, victims of an unidentified killer nicknamed the 'West Mesa Bone Collector.' The women, mostly connected to sex…
York County Jane Doe (Biddeford Jane Doe)
On July 25, 2009, the cranium of a teenage girl or young woman was found wrapped in seaweed near the tide line on a beach in Biddeford, Maine.
Amina and Sarah Said
Sisters Amina Said, 18, and Sarah Said, 17, were found shot to death in a taxi outside a hotel in Irving, Texas, on January 1, 2008.
Brandon Victor Swanson
Brandon Swanson, 19, drove his car into a ditch on a rural gravel road in the early hours of May 14, 2008, while driving home to Marshall, Minnesota, from Canby.
Caylee Anthony
Two-year-old Caylee Anthony disappeared in June 2008. Her mother Casey Anthony waited 31 days before reporting her missing. Caylee's skeletal remains were found near the family home in December 2008.
Darnell Donerson, Jason Hudson & Julian King
Actress Jennifer Hudson's mother Darnell Donerson and brother Jason Hudson were shot to death in their Chicago home on October 24, 2008; her seven-year-old nephew Julian King was found shot dead three days later in an abandoned…
Denise Amber Lee
Twenty-one-year-old Denise Amber Lee was abducted by Michael King from her North Port, Florida home on January 17, 2008, and murdered.
Josef Fritzl Case
Josef Fritzl imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth in a cellar for 24 years, fathering seven children with her. The case was discovered in 2008 when one of the children needed hospital care.
Andrew Gosden
Andrew Gosden, 14, has been missing since September 14, 2007, when he skipped school in Doncaster, withdrew about £200 and travelled alone by train to London on a one-way ticket.
Anthony Sowell Victims
Anthony Sowell was convicted of murdering 11 women in Cleveland whose bodies were found in and around his home in 2009. He preyed on vulnerable women in his neighborhood.
Barbara Bolick
Barbara Bolick, 55, of Corvallis, Montana, disappeared on July 18, 2007 while hiking near Bear Creek Overlook in the Bitterroot Mountains outside Victor.
Chris Benoit Family Murders
Professional wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife Nancy and seven-year-old son Daniel in their Fayetteville, Georgia home over the weekend of June 22-24, 2007, then hanged himself.
Jaliek Rainwalker
Jaliek Rainwalker, a 12-year-old adopted boy, disappeared from Greenwich, New York, in November 2007 after spending the night alone with his adoptive father.
Jessie Davis
Jessie Davis, 26 and nearly nine months pregnant, was killed at her home in Lake Township, Stark County, Ohio, on June 14, 2007. Her body was found nine days later in a Summit County park.
Joey Lynn Offutt
Joey Lynn Offutt, 33, was found to be missing on July 12, 2007, when a deliberately set fire destroyed her home in Sykesville, Pennsylvania, and the body of her six-week-old son was found inside.
Kara Kopetsky
Kara Kopetsky, 17, disappeared after leaving Belton High School in Missouri on May 4, 2007. Her remains were found in woods in Cass County in April 2017, beside those of Jessica Runions, and were identified that August.
Kyle Fleischmann
Kyle Fleischmann, 24, disappeared in the early hours of November 9, 2007, after leaving the Buckhead Saloon in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina.
Lisa Stebic
Lisa Stebic, a 37-year-old mother of two, was last seen at her home in Plainfield, Illinois, on the evening of April 30, 2007, while she and her husband were divorcing. Her phone and credit cards were never used again.
Long Island Serial Killer Victims
The remains of roughly ten people — mostly women who had worked as escorts — were found along Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach on Long Island, New York, in 2010 and 2011.
Madeleine McCann
Three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared on May 3, 2007, from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, while her parents dined at a nearby restaurant.
Meredith Kercher
British exchange student Meredith Kercher, 21, was killed in her bedroom in Perugia, Italy, on November 1, 2007. Rudy Guede was convicted of murder and sexual assault in 2008 and released in 2021 after serving 13 years of a…
Stacy Peterson
Stacy Peterson, 23, disappeared from her home in Bolingbrook, Illinois, on October 28, 2007. Her husband Drew Peterson, a former police sergeant, has been publicly named a suspect by investigators but has never been charged in…
Alexander Litvinenko
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium-210 in London. A British inquiry concluded Russian President Putin probably approved the operation. Two suspects were identified.
Brandy Hall
Firefighter Brandy Hall vanished on August 17, 2006 after leaving the Malabar fire station in Brevard County, Florida, where she volunteered.
Brian Shaffer
Brian Shaffer, a 27-year-old Ohio State medical student, vanished in the early hours of April 1, 2006, after being recorded on security cameras outside the Ugly Tuna Saloona bar in Columbus.
Cassie Jo Stoddart
Cassie Jo Stoddart, 16, was stabbed to death on September 22, 2006, while house-sitting for relatives near Pocatello, Idaho. Classmates Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik, both 16, were convicted of first-degree murder in separate…
Dana Lynn Dodd (Lavender Doe)
On October 29, 2006, the burning body of an unidentified young woman was found on an oil lease near Kilgore, Texas; she became known as Lavender Doe after the sweater she wore.
Jennifer Kesse
Twenty-four-year-old Jennifer Kesse disappeared from her Orlando condominium complex. Surveillance footage captured an unidentified person driving her car.
Jessie Foster
Jessica "Jessie" Foster, a 21-year-old Canadian woman from Kamloops, British Columbia, was last heard from by telephone at her North Las Vegas residence on March 28, 2006.
Lena Chapin
Lena Chapin, 20, was last seen on February 14, 2006, at her apartment outside Steelville, Missouri. Relatives say she had described witnessing the 1999 death of her stepfather, Gary McCullough, who is also missing.
Nina Reiser
Nina Reiser, 31, disappeared on September 3, 2006, after dropping her two children at her estranged husband's home in Oakland, California.
Peter Tobin Victims
Peter Tobin was convicted of murdering Angelika Kluk, 23, in Glasgow in 2006, and of the 1991 murders of Vicky Hamilton, 15, and Dinah McNicol, 18, whose remains were found in 2007 at a house in Margate, Kent, where he had once…
Rachel & Lillian Entwistle
Rachel Entwistle, 27, and her nine-month-old daughter Lillian Rose were shot dead in their rented home in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, on January 20, 2006; police found them two days later.
Rey Rivera
Rey Rivera, a 32-year-old writer and videographer, vanished from his Baltimore home in May 2006 after a phone call and was found dead a week later beneath a hole in the roof of the historic Belvedere Hotel.
Robert Wone
Attorney Robert Wone, 32, was found stabbed to death on August 2, 2006 in the guest room of a friend's townhouse on Swann Street in Washington, D.C. No one has been charged with his murder.
The Eastbound Strangler (Atlantic City Four)
Four women, all involved in sex work and struggling with addiction, were found strangled and posed face-down in a drainage ditch behind the Golden Key Motel outside Atlantic City in November 2006.
Trenton Duckett
Trenton Duckett, a 2-year-old boy, disappeared from his Leesburg, Florida, bedroom in 2006, with a cut window screen the only sign of an intruder.
Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone Jr.
Danielle Imbo, 34, and Richard Petrone Jr., 35, a dating couple, vanished after leaving a bar on South Street in Philadelphia on the night of February 19, 2005. Neither they nor Petrone's pickup truck have ever been found.
Jeff Davis 8 Victims
Eight women and girls were found dead in and around Jefferson Davis Parish between 2005 and 2009. Many were involved in prostitution or drug use.
Jessica Lunsford
Nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford was abducted from her Homosassa home and murdered by registered sex offender John Couey. Her remains were found in a bag buried near Couey's trailer. She had been buried alive.
Natalee Holloway
Natalee Holloway, 18, of Alabama, disappeared in Aruba on May 30, 2005, after leaving a nightclub with Joran van der Sloot and two other men. Her remains have never been found. In October 2023 van der Sloot pleaded guilty in U.S.
Ray Gricar
Ray Gricar, the longtime district attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania, vanished on April 15, 2005, after telling his girlfriend he was taking a day trip.
Tara Grinstead
Tara Grinstead, a 30-year-old high school history teacher and former beauty queen, vanished from her home in Ocilla, Georgia, in October 2005.
Teresa Halbach
Freelance photographer Teresa Halbach disappeared after photographing a vehicle at the Avery Salvage Yard. Her remains were found on the property. Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were both convicted of murder.
Alonzo Brooks
Alonzo Brooks, a 23-year-old man, disappeared after a party at a rural farmhouse near La Cygne, Kansas, in April 2004; his body was found weeks later in a nearby creek.
Bobbie Jo Stinnett
Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a 23-year-old woman eight months pregnant, was strangled in Skidmore, Missouri in December 2004 and her unborn baby cut from her womb. Lisa Montgomery was convicted and executed in 2021; the baby survived.
Brianna Maitland
Seventeen-year-old Brianna Maitland disappeared after her shift at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, Vermont. Her car was found backed into an abandoned farmhouse.
Brittany Phillips
Brittany Phillips, an 18-year-old who had recently returned home to Tulsa, Oklahoma, was raped and strangled in her apartment in September 2004.
Carlie Brucia
Eleven-year-old Carlie Brucia was abducted from a car wash in Sarasota on Super Bowl Sunday while walking home. Surveillance footage of her abduction was broadcast nationally. Joseph P.
Leigh Matthews
Leigh Matthews, a 21-year-old student, was kidnapped from the Bond University campus parking lot in Johannesburg on July 9, 2004.
Lori Hacking
Lori Hacking, 27, was shot at her Salt Lake City apartment on July 19, 2004 by her husband, Mark Hacking, who reported her missing the same morning. He had invented a college degree and a medical school place.
Maura Murray
UMass Amherst student Maura Murray crashed her car on a remote road in New Hampshire and vanished before help arrived. A witness offered assistance but she declined.
Oakey 'Al' Kite
Aurora, Colorado engineer Oakey Kite was tortured and murdered in his home by someone posing as a prospective tenant. DNA from the scene has never been matched. The killer used a fake identity and may be a serial offender.
Patrice Endres
Patrice Endres, a 38-year-old salon owner, vanished from her Cumming, Georgia, business within a roughly 13-minute window in 2004.
Peter & Joan Porco
Chris Porco attacked his parents with an axe while they slept in Delmar, New York. His father died; his mother survived but lost an eye. Joan initially identified Chris by nodding, then denied it.
Robert Keith Palomares
Armored car guard Robert Keith Palomares, 24, was shot and killed during a robbery outside a movie theater in Phoenix on November 29, 2004.
Sarah Fox
Sarah Fox, a 21-year-old drama student at the Juilliard School, disappeared on May 19, 2004, after leaving her Inwood apartment in upper Manhattan to go jogging.
Blue Ridge Savings Bank Murders
Three people were shot dead during a robbery of the Blue Ridge Savings Bank in Greer, South Carolina, on May 16, 2003: teller Sylvia Holtzclaw and customers James "Eb" Barnes and his wife Margaret "Maggie" Barnes.
Cecilia Zhang
Nine-year-old Cecilia Zhang was kidnapped from her bedroom in Toronto. Her body was found five months later. Min Chen pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Daniel Morcombe
Thirteen-year-old Daniel Morcombe disappeared while waiting for a bus at Woombye on Queensland's Sunshine Coast on December 7, 2003.
Derrick Todd Lee Victims
Derrick Todd Lee was convicted in 2004 of murdering Geralyn DeSoto and Charlotte Murray Pace and was sentenced to death for the Pace killing.
Dru Sjodin
University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin was abducted from a mall parking lot in Grand Forks by registered sex offender Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. Her body was found near Crookston, Minnesota, in April 2004.
Jason Johnson (Camoflauge)
Rapper Jason Akeil Johnson, 21, who performed as Camoflauge, was shot on May 19, 2003, outside the Pure Pain Records studio on West 37th Street in Savannah, Georgia, while walking with his toddler son, who was not hurt.
LeeAnna Warner
Five-year-old LeeAnna Warner vanished on June 14, 2003, while walking home from a friend's house about a block away in Chisholm, Minnesota.
Sofia Lucerno Juarez
Four-year-old Sofia Juarez disappeared near her Kennewick, Washington, home the night before her fifth birthday in February 2003, prompting the state's first Amber Alert.
Tabitha Tuders
Tabitha Danielle Tuders, 13, vanished on the morning of April 29, 2003, while walking roughly one block from her East Nashville home to her school bus stop at 14th and Boscobel Streets.
Tamara Greene
Tamara Greene, 27, a mother of three who danced under the name "Strawberry," was shot in her car in a drive-by shooting at Roselawn Street and West Outer Drive in Detroit on April 30, 2003.
Terrance Williams & Felipe Santos
Felipe Santos, 23, and Terrance Williams, 27, vanished three months apart in North Naples, Florida, on October 14, 2003, and January 12, 2004.
Todd Kohlhepp Victims
Real estate agent Todd Kohlhepp was identified as a serial killer after a chained survivor was found on his rural South Carolina property in 2016.
Alexis Patterson
Seven-year-old Alexis Patterson vanished on the morning of May 3, 2002, after her stepfather walked her toward Hi-Mount Community School in Milwaukee, a short distance from her home. She never reached her classroom.
Ariel Castro Victims
Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus were individually abducted and held captive for about a decade in Ariel Castro's Cleveland home. Amanda Berry escaped in 2013 with her daughter born in captivity.
Brian Carrick
Brian Carrick, 17, vanished on December 20, 2002 after walking into Val's Foods, the Johnsburg, Illinois grocery store where he worked. His blood was found in and around a produce cooler, but his body has never been located.
Daniel Pearl
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan, on January 23, 2002, and murdered. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was convicted and sentenced to death in Pakistan in 2002, but the Sindh High Court…
Danielle van Dam
Seven-year-old Danielle van Dam was abducted from her Sabre Springs home on the night of February 1-2, 2002, and murdered by neighbor David Westerfield.
Elizabeth Smart
Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom by Brian David Mitchell and his wife. She was held captive for nine months, often in plain sight. She was rescued after being recognized in public.
Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman
Ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were murdered by school caretaker Ian Huntley in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002.
Jahi Marques Turner
Two-year-old Jahi Turner was reported missing from a San Diego park by his stepfather in April 2002 and was never found. The stepfather was charged with murder in 2016, but his 2018 trial ended in a mistrial and the charge was…
Jam Master Jay
Jason Mizell, known as Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC, was shot in the head at his recording studio in Queens on October 30, 2002. Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr.
Jennifer Servo
Television reporter Jennifer Servo, 22, was found dead in her Abilene, Texas, apartment on September 18, 2002, two days after she was killed.
John Gilbride
John Gilbride, 34, a US Airways baggage supervisor, was shot in his car outside his apartment complex in Maple Shade, New Jersey, and found at 12:08 a.m. on September 27, 2002.
Joshua Guimond
Joshua Guimond, a 20-year-old junior at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, left a late-night card game at the Metten Court dormitory around 11:45 p.m.
Laci Peterson
Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant when she disappeared on Christmas Eve 2002. Her husband Scott Peterson reported her missing and became the prime suspect.
Rachel Louise Cooke
Rachel Louise Cooke, 19, left her parents' home near Georgetown, Texas, for a run at about 9:30 a.m. on January 10, 2002, while on winter break from college in San Diego, and never returned.
Robert Pickton Victims
Robert Pickton, a pig farmer from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, was convicted in December 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women and sentenced to life in prison. Police began searching his farm on February 5, 2002.
Samantha Runnion
Five-year-old Samantha Runnion was abducted from outside her Orange County apartment complex and murdered. Her mother Erin Runnion became a prominent child safety advocate, founding the Joyful Child Foundation.
Sara Ann Lewis Trusty
Sara Trusty, 23, was last seen riding her bicycle near Algoa Baptist Church in Algoa, Galveston County, Texas, on July 12, 2002. About two weeks later, fishermen found her body on the Texas City Dike.
Shawn Hornbeck
Eleven-year-old Shawn Hornbeck was abducted on October 6, 2002, while riding his bike near Richwoods, Missouri, and was found alive on January 12, 2007, in the St. Louis-area apartment of Michael Devlin.
"Lyle Stevik" (John Doe)
A man who checked into a Grays Harbor County, Washington, motel under the alias "Lyle Stevik" was found hanged in his room in September 2001, and his identity eluded investigators for nearly 17 years.
Alissa Turney
Alissa Turney, 17, disappeared in Phoenix on May 17, 2001, the last day of her junior year at Paradise Valley High School, and has never been found. Her stepfather, Michael Turney, was charged with second-degree murder in 2020.
Ashley Ellerin
Michael Gargiulo was convicted in August 2019 of murdering Ashley Ellerin, a 22-year-old fashion design student who was stabbed 47 times in her Hollywood home on February 21, 2001.
Bianca Lebron
Ten-year-old Bianca Lebron was last seen on November 7, 2001, getting into a brown or tan van outside Elias Howe Elementary School in Bridgeport, Connecticut, after telling friends the driver was her uncle.
Bonny Lee Bakley
Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, was shot on May 4, 2001, while sitting in a parked car near Vitello's restaurant in Studio City, Los Angeles.
Branson Perry
Twenty-year-old Branson Perry vanished from Skidmore, Missouri—the same small town where Ken McElroy was murdered in 1981—after telling a friend he was going to put jumper cables away. He was never seen again.
Chandra Levy
Federal intern Chandra Levy disappeared from Washington, D.C., in 2001. Her remains were found in Rock Creek Park a year later. Her disappearance drew enormous attention due to her relationship with congressman Gary Condit, who…
Dena Dean
Fifteen-year-old Dena Dean was found stabbed to death in a park in Tamworth, England on her way to school. Despite extensive investigation, her killer has never been identified.
Duran Bailey
Duran Bailey, a homeless man, was found beaten, stabbed and mutilated beside a Las Vegas bank building on July 8, 2001. Kirstin Blaise Lobato, then 18, was convicted twice, but a judge vacated her convictions and all charges…
Henryk Siwiak
Henryk Siwiak, a 46-year-old Polish immigrant, was shot at about 11:40 p.m. on September 11, 2001, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, after getting lost on the way to a new job.
Hyun Jong "Cindy" Song
Hyun Jong "Cindy" Song, a 21-year-old Penn State student, vanished after being dropped off at her State College, Pennsylvania, apartment early on November 1, 2001, following a Halloween night out.
Jason Jolkowski
Jason Anthony Jolkowski, 19, vanished on the morning of June 13, 2001, while walking about eight blocks from his Omaha home toward Benson High School, where a coworker was to pick him up for a shift at a nearby restaurant.
Jill-Lyn Euto
Jill-Lyn Euto, 18, was stabbed to death in her sixth-floor apartment at 600 James Street in Syracuse, New York, on Super Bowl Sunday, January 28, 2001. Her mother found her the next day.
Kathleen Peterson
Kathleen Peterson, 48, was found dead at the foot of a staircase in her Durham, North Carolina, home on December 9, 2001. Her husband, novelist Michael Peterson, said she fell; he was convicted of first-degree murder in 2003…
Kent Heitholt
Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt, 48, was beaten and strangled in the newspaper's parking lot shortly after 2 a.m. on November 1, 2001.
Mary, Bobby & Brittney Fisher
Mary Fisher and her children Brittney and Bobby were found dead after their Scottsdale, Arizona home exploded on April 10, 2001.
Michele Harris
Michele Anne Harris, a 35-year-old mother of four from Spencer, New York, vanished in September 2001, leaving behind her abandoned minivan and traces of blood in her home.
Niqui McCown
Marilyn "Niqui" McCown, 28, disappeared on July 22, 2001 in Richmond, Indiana, after doing laundry and stopping at a convenience store, three weeks before her wedding.
Patricia Adkins
Patricia "Patti" Adkins, 29, has not been seen since she finished a late shift at the Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio, on June 29, 2001.
Peter Falconio
British backpacker Peter Falconio, 28, was shot on the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek in Australia's Northern Territory on July 14, 2001; his girlfriend Joanne Lees escaped.
Rilya Wilson
Rilya Wilson, a 4-year-old Miami foster child, disappeared while in the care of Geralyn Graham but was not reported missing by Florida's child-welfare system for roughly 15 months.
Sneha Anne Philip
Dr. Sneha Anne Philip, an internist, was last seen shopping at a store near the World Trade Center on September 10, 2001. She was never seen again. Whether she died in the 9/11 attacks or disappeared separately remains unknown.
Tara Louise Baker
Tara Louise Baker, a 23-year-old University of Georgia law student, was killed in her Athens apartment in 2001, the crime concealed by an intentionally set fire.
Thomas C. Wales
Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas C. Wales, 49, was shot through a basement window of his Seattle home on the night of October 11, 2001, as he worked at his computer; he died the next day.
Yates Children
Five children of the Yates family, aged six months to seven years, were drowned by their mother, Andrea Yates, at their home in the Clear Lake area of Houston on June 20, 2001.
Asha Degree
Nine-year-old Asha Degree left her family home in the early morning hours during a storm and was last seen walking along Highway 18. Her bookbag was found buried in a construction site 26 miles away over a year later.
Claudia Kirschhoch
Claudia Kirschhoch, a 29-year-old New York travel writer and editor with Frommer's Travel Guides, disappeared in Negril, Jamaica, in late May 2000 after a press trip to Cuba was cancelled.
Joe Andriano
Joe Andriano, who was terminally ill with cancer, was killed in his Phoenix apartment on October 8, 2000. He had been struck at least 23 times on the head and stabbed in the neck, and sodium azide was found in his blood.
Leah Roberts
Leah Toby Roberts, a 23-year-old from Durham, North Carolina, disappeared in March 2000 after driving across the country to Bellingham, Washington.
Mary Lou Morris
Mary Lou Henderson Morris, 48, was found dead in her burned car near her Baytown, Texas, home on October 12, 2000. Days later, an unrelated Houston-area woman, Mary McGinnis Morris, 39, was found shot in her car.
Molly Bish
Molly Bish, 16, vanished on June 27, 2000, minutes after her mother dropped her off for her lifeguard shift at Comins Pond in Warren, Massachusetts. Her belongings were left at her post.
Susan Berman, Kathleen Durst & Morris Black
Writer Susan Berman, 55, was found shot in her Los Angeles home on December 24, 2000. A jury convicted real estate heir Robert Durst of her murder in 2021, but the conviction was vacated after he died in January 2022 with an…
Valerie Mack
Valerie Mack, 24, was last seen in 2000; partial remains were found that year in Manorville, Long Island, and more along Ocean Parkway in 2011. She was identified in May 2020.
Zebb Wayne Quinn
Zebb Wayne Quinn, an 18-year-old Walmart employee, disappeared in Asheville, North Carolina, on January 2, 2000, after leaving work with a coworker to look at a car.