Cold Cases of the 2010s

154 documented cases in which the crime or disappearance took place between 2010 and 2019. 49 are recorded as unsolved.

Status of the 154 cases
  • Unsolved 49 (32%)
  • Partly resolved 6 (4%)
  • Charges or trial pending 6 (4%)
  • Solved or convicted 82 (53%)
  • Closed without conviction 11 (7%)
Cases by year, 2010s
051015202010: 14 cases20102011: 16 cases20112012: 18 cases20122013: 17 cases20132014: 18 cases20142015: 15 cases20152016: 12 cases20162017: 8 cases20172018: 19 cases1920182019: 17 cases2019

By type

All 154 cases

Conviction 2019

Aniah Blanchard

Nineteen-year-old Aniah Blanchard, stepdaughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris, disappeared from Auburn, Alabama, in October 2019. Her remains were found a month later in Macon County.

Alabama Homicide Age 19
Conviction 2019

Bianca Devins

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Devins of Utica, New York, was killed on July 14, 2019 by Brandon Clark, 21, who had driven her home from a concert in New York City.

New York Homicide Age 17
Solved 2019

Dayton Shooting

Nine people were killed and 17 wounded by gunfire when Connor Betts, 24, opened fire in Dayton's Oregon District at about 1:05 a.m. on August 4, 2019.

Ohio Mass Shooting
Unsolved 2019

Dulce Maria Alavez

Five-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez disappeared from a playground at Bridgeton City Park while her mother sat in a nearby car. A witness reported seeing a man lead the child away.

New Jersey Missing Person Age 5
Unsolved 2019

Elizabeth Barraza

Elizabeth Barraza, 29, was shot in the driveway of her Tomball-area home at about 6:52 a.m. on January 25, 2019, while setting up for a garage sale; she died the next day.

Texas Homicide Age 29
Conviction 2019

Evelyn Boswell

Fifteen-month-old Evelyn Mae Boswell of Sullivan County, Tennessee, was reported missing on February 18, 2020, about two months after she was last seen.

Tennessee Homicide Age 1
Pending Trial 2019

Harmony Montgomery

Five-year-old Harmony Montgomery is believed to have died in Manchester, New Hampshire, in December 2019 but was not reported missing until late 2021; her remains have not been found.

New Hampshire Homicide Age 5
Conviction 2019

Jennifer Dulos

Jennifer Dulos, 50, disappeared from New Canaan, Connecticut, on May 24, 2019, amid a contentious divorce. Her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, was charged with her murder but died by suicide in January 2020 before trial and was…

Connecticut Missing Person Age 50
Solved 2019

Maleah Davis

Four-year-old Maleah Davis was reported missing in Houston in May 2019 by her mother's ex-fiance Derion Vence, who claimed she was abducted during a carjacking.

Texas Homicide Age 4
No Conviction 2019

Mallory Beach

Mallory Beach, 19, died when a boat carrying six young people struck a bridge at Archers Creek near Beaufort, South Carolina, early on February 24, 2019. Her body was found on March 3.

South Carolina Homicide Age 19
Solved 2019

Nikki Kuhnhausen

Seventeen-year-old transgender girl Nikki Kuhnhausen was killed in June 2019 by David Bogdanov after he learned she was transgender. Her remains were found on Larch Mountain in Clark County six months later.

Washington Homicide Age 17
Conviction 2019

Nipsey Hussle

Grammy-nominated rapper and community activist Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed outside his Marathon Clothing store in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Eric Holder Jr. was convicted of first-degree murder in 2022.

California Homicide Age 33
Solved 2019

RJR Maintenance Murders

Four people were murdered at RJR Maintenance in Mandan, North Dakota. Chiropractor Chad Isaak, a tenant of the property management company, was convicted after his car was caught on surveillance.

North Dakota Homicide
Conviction 2019

Savannah Spurlock

Savannah Spurlock, a Madison County, Kentucky, mother of four, disappeared after leaving a Lexington bar with three men on the night of January 4, 2019.

Kentucky Homicide Age 22
Unsolved 2019

Serenity June Dennard

Nine-year-old Serenity Dennard ran away from the Black Hills Children's Home near Rockerville, South Dakota, on the frigid morning of February 3, 2019, and was last seen walking north on Rockerville Road without a coat.

South Dakota Missing Person Age 9
Conviction 2019

Tammy Daybell

Tammy Daybell died at her home in Salem, Idaho on October 19, 2019. A coroner ruled the death natural without an autopsy, but her body was exhumed that December and an autopsy found she died of asphyxiation.

Idaho Homicide Age 49
Conviction 2019

Tylee Ryan & Joshua 'JJ' Vallow

Sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan and seven-year-old JJ Vallow disappeared in September 2019 and were found buried on the Idaho property of their mother's new husband, Chad Daybell, in June 2020.

Idaho Multiple Homicide
Solved 2018

Adea Shabani

Acting student Adea Shabani, 25, was last seen leaving her Hollywood apartment on February 23, 2018. Her remains were recovered a month later from a shallow grave in the Spenceville Wildlife Area in Nevada County, California…

California Homicide Age 25
Conviction 2018

Botham Jean

Botham Jean, 26, was shot in his own Dallas apartment on September 6, 2018, by off-duty Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, who said she entered his apartment by mistake.

Texas Homicide Age 26
Conviction 2018

Daniel Brophy

Chef Daniel Brophy was murdered at the Oregon Culinary Institute. His wife Nancy, a romance novelist who wrote an essay called 'How to Murder Your Husband,' was convicted of his murder.

Oregon Homicide Age 63
Solved 2018

Gloria Satterfield

Murdaugh family housekeeper Gloria Satterfield died after a fall at the Murdaugh home. Alex Murdaugh collected $4.3 million in insurance but stole the money from her sons.

South Carolina Suspicious Death Age 57
Conviction 2018

Grace Millane

British backpacker Grace Millane was strangled in a central Auckland hotel apartment on the night of December 1-2, 2018, the eve of her 22nd birthday, after a date with a man she met on Tinder.

New Zealand Homicide Age 21
Solved 2018

Hart Family

Six adopted children aged 12 to 19 died on March 26, 2018, when Jennifer Hart drove the family's SUV off a cliff on Highway 1 near Westport, California, with her wife Sarah also inside.

California Homicide
Conviction 2018

Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by a team of Saudi agents. Eight people were convicted in a closed Saudi trial. A declassified 2021 U.S.

Turkey Homicide Age 59
Conviction 2018

Jayme Closs

Thirteen-year-old Jayme Closs was kidnapped after her parents were murdered in Barron, Wisconsin. She escaped 88 days later. Jake Patterson was sentenced to life in prison.

Wisconsin Abduction Age 13
Unsolved 2018

Jermain Charlo

Jermain Charlo, a 23-year-old mother of two and enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, was last seen around midnight on June 15-16, 2018, on surveillance video in an alley behind the Badlander bar in…

Montana Missing Person Age 23
Unsolved 2018

Karlie Gusé

Sixteen-year-old Karlie Lain Gusé disappeared from her family's home in Chalfant, Mono County, California, early on October 13, 2018, after a night of paranoia that followed smoking marijuana at a party.

California Missing Person Age 16
Conviction 2018

Kelsey Berreth

Pilot and flight instructor Kelsey Berreth was murdered on Thanksgiving Day by her fiancé Patrick Frazee in Woodland Park, Colorado. He burned her body. Frazee was sentenced to life.

Colorado Homicide Age 29
Unsolved 2018

Kierra Coles

Kierra Coles, a 26-year-old U.S. Postal Service mail carrier who was about three months pregnant, vanished from Chicago's South Side in October 2018.

Illinois Missing Person Age 26
Conviction 2018

Mollie Tibbetts

University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, 20, disappeared while out for an evening run in Brooklyn, Iowa, on July 18, 2018. Her body was found in a Poweshiek County cornfield on August 21, 2018.

Iowa Homicide Age 20
Conviction 2018

Parkland Shooting Victims

Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He was sentenced to life without parole.

Florida Mass Shooting
Wanted 2018

Sergei & Yulia Skripal Poisoning

Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, and both survived; Dawn Sturgess died in July 2018 after handling the discarded agent.

United Kingdom Homicide
Conviction 2018

Shanann Watts & Family

Shanann Watts, 34, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and her daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, were murdered by her husband Chris Watts in Frederick, Colorado, on August 13, 2018.

Colorado Multiple Homicide
Unsolved 2018

Tamla Horsford

Tamla Horsford, a Black mother of five, was found dead at a sleepover party at a white friend's home in Cumming, Georgia. Her death was ruled accidental but her family disputes this.

Georgia Suspicious Death Age 40
Conviction 2018

Whitey Bulger (death)

Notorious Boston mob boss and longtime FBI informant Whitey Bulger, 89, was beaten to death hours after arriving at USP Hazelton in West Virginia on October 30, 2018.

West Virginia Homicide Age 89
Conviction 2018

XXXTentacion

Rapper XXXTentacion (Jahseh Onfroy), 20, was shot and killed during a robbery outside RIVA Motorsports in Deerfield Beach, Florida, on June 18, 2018.

Florida Homicide Age 20
Conviction 2017

Abigail Williams & Liberty German

Thirteen-year-old Abigail Williams and fourteen-year-old Liberty German were murdered while hiking the Monon High Bridge Trail in Delphi, Indiana, on February 13, 2017. Liberty recorded audio and video of a suspect on her phone.

Indiana Multiple Homicide
Solved 2017

Alex Batty (found)

Alex Batty of Oldham, England, was 11 when he failed to return from a holiday in Spain with his mother and grandfather in October 2017.

France Abduction Age 11
Unsolved 2017

Ashley Loring HeavyRunner

Ashley Loring HeavyRunner, a 20-year-old Blackfeet Community College student, vanished from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Browning, Montana, in June 2017.

Montana Missing Person Age 20
Conviction 2017

Maëlys de Araujo

Eight-year-old Maëlys de Araujo disappeared from a wedding party in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, in the French Alps, in the early hours of August 27, 2017.

France Homicide Age 8
Unsolved 2017

Otto Warmbier

American student Otto Warmbier was detained in North Korea for 17 months and returned to the U.S. in a vegetative state. He died days later. North Korea claimed he contracted botulism.

Ohio Suspicious Death Age 22
Conviction 2017

Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind

Twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind was eight months pregnant when she was killed in Fargo, North Dakota, in August 2017; her baby was cut from her womb and survived.

North Dakota Homicide Age 22
Solved 2017

Sherin Mathews

Three-year-old adopted Indian girl Sherin Mathews was reported missing in Richardson, Texas. Her adoptive father Wesley Mathews later admitted to killing her. He was sentenced to life.

Texas Homicide Age 3
Conviction 2017

Yingying Zhang

Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old visiting scholar from China at the University of Illinois, was abducted from a bus stop in Urbana on June 9, 2017, and killed.

Illinois Homicide Age 26
Solved 2016

Corrie McKeague

RAF gunner Corrie McKeague, 23, vanished after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on September 24, 2016. CCTV showed him entering an area containing commercial waste bins, and a months-long landfill search found no remains.

United Kingdom Missing Person Age 23
Conviction 2016

Emma Walker

Sixteen-year-old Emma Walker was fatally shot in her bed at her family's Knoxville, Tennessee, home on November 21, 2016, by shots fired through her bedroom wall from outside.

Tennessee Homicide Age 16
Unsolved 2016

Flora Fire Victims

Four sisters aged 5 to 11 - Keyana Davis, Keyara Phillips, Kerriele McDonald and Kionnie Welch - died in a house fire in Flora, Indiana, on November 21, 2016. Indiana State Police say the fire was intentionally set.

Indiana Arson
Conviction 2016

Ingrid Lyne

Forty-year-old nurse Ingrid Lyne was killed in her Renton, Washington, home on April 8, 2016, after a date. Her dismembered remains were found in recycling bins in Seattle.

Washington Homicide Age 40
Conviction 2016

Joel & Lisa Guy Sr.

Joel Guy Sr., 61, and Lisa Guy, 55, were stabbed to death and dismembered at their home in west Knox County, Tennessee, over Thanksgiving weekend 2016.

Tennessee Homicide
Partially Solved 2016

Keeshae Jacobs

Keeshae Jacobs, 21, vanished after being dropped off at a Church Hill home in Richmond in September 2016. In 2024 police confirmed she was dead, and a jailed murderer admitted disposing of her body, though no one has been…

Virginia Homicide Age 21
No Conviction 2016

Philando Castile

Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. His girlfriend broadcast the aftermath live on Facebook. Officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted of manslaughter in 2017.

Minnesota Homicide Age 32
Conviction 2016

Sarah Stern

Sarah Stern, 19, was strangled at her Neptune City, New Jersey, home on December 2, 2016, during a robbery, and her body was thrown from the Route 35 bridge; it has never been recovered.

New Jersey Homicide Age 19
Conviction 2016

Sierah Joughin

Twenty-year-old Sierah Joughin was abducted while bicycling in rural Ohio. James Worley, a convicted kidnapper, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death.

Ohio Homicide Age 20
Solved 2016

Stephen Port Victims

Serial killer Stephen Port drugged and raped young men using GHB, killing four in Barking, East London. Police initially failed to link the deaths despite bodies being found in similar locations.

United Kingdom Serial Killer Victims
Unsolved 2016

Terri 'Missy' Bevers

Fitness instructor Missy Bevers was found dead in a church where she was preparing for an early morning boot camp class. Surveillance footage showed a suspect in SWAT-style tactical gear walking through the church before the…

Texas Homicide Age 45
Conviction 2016

Tyler & Charlee Worley

Brandi Worley stabbed her two children, Tyler (7) and Charlee (3), to death in their Darlington, Indiana, home on November 17, 2016, a day after her husband filed for divorce, and then stabbed herself.

Indiana Multiple Homicide
Unsolved 2015

Casey White (murder conviction)

Connie Ridgeway, 59, was found stabbed to death in her Lauderdale County, Alabama apartment in October 2015. Inmate Casey White confessed in 2020 and was charged with capital murder, but he later recanted and pleaded not guilty…

Alabama Homicide Age 59
Conviction 2015

Crystal Rogers

Crystal Rogers, a 35-year-old mother of five, vanished from Bardstown, Kentucky, in July 2015; her abandoned car was found days later with a flat tire.

Kentucky Homicide Age 35
Unsolved 2015

DeOrr Kunz Jr.

Two-year-old DeOrr Jay Kunz Jr. vanished on July 10, 2015, from Timber Creek Campground in remote Lemhi County, Idaho, about ten miles from Leadore, while camping with his parents, great-grandfather, and a family friend.

Idaho Missing Person Age 2
Conviction 2015

Dee Dee Blanchard

Dee Dee Blanchard was murdered by her daughter Gypsy Rose's boyfriend after years of medical child abuse (Munchausen syndrome by proxy). Gypsy had been forced to feign illness and disability her entire life.

Missouri Homicide Age 48
Unsolved 2015

Ebby Jane Steppach

Ebby Steppach, 18, vanished in Little Rock, Arkansas, in late October 2015, days after telling her stepfather she had been gang-raped at a party and wanted to report it to police.

Arkansas Homicide Age 18
No Conviction 2015

Freddie Gray

Freddie Gray died of spinal cord injuries sustained while in Baltimore police custody. Six officers were charged but all were acquitted or had charges dropped. His death sparked the 2015 Baltimore uprising.

Maryland Suspicious Death Age 25
Unsolved 2015

Henry McCabe

Henry McCabe, a 32-year-old Minnesota state auditor, disappeared after a night out over Labor Day weekend in 2015, following disturbing phone calls in which relatives heard him screaming in distress.

Minnesota Homicide Age 32
Unsolved 2015

Katelin Akens

Katelin Akens, 19, vanished on December 5, 2015, after being dropped at her former stepfather's home in Partlow, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, for a ride toward a flight to Arizona.

Virginia Missing Person Age 19
Unsolved 2015

Lauren Agee

Lauren Agee, 21, was found dead below a cliff at Center Hill Lake near Smithville, Tennessee, in July 2015. Officials ruled the death accidental, but her family disputes that finding and believes foul play was involved.

Tennessee Homicide Age 21
Unsolved 2015

Macin Smith

Seventeen-year-old Macin Smith left his family's home in St. George, Utah, on the morning of September 1, 2015, and did not arrive at Desert Hills High School.

Utah Missing Person Age 17
Ruled Suicide 2015

Sandra Bland

Sandra Bland, 28, was found dead in her Waller County, Texas, jail cell on July 13, 2015, three days after her arrest during a traffic stop. Her death was ruled a suicide by hanging, a finding her family has disputed.

Texas Suspicious Death Age 28
Unsolved 2015

Stephen Smith

Nineteen-year-old Stephen Smith was found dead on a rural Hampton County road in July 2015. His death was initially treated as a hit-and-run, though no vehicle debris was found.

South Carolina Homicide Age 19
Conviction 2015

Teresa Sievers

Dr. Teresa Sievers, 46, was beaten to death with hammers in her Bonita Springs, Florida home on June 28, 2015. Her husband, Mark Sievers, was convicted of first-degree murder in December 2019 and sentenced to death.

Florida Homicide Age 46
Ruled Suicide 2015

Tiffany Valiante

Tiffany Valiante, an 18-year-old athlete from Mays Landing, New Jersey, was struck and killed by a New Jersey Transit train in Galloway Township in July 2015 after walking away from her home.

New Jersey Homicide Age 18
Conviction 2015

Walter Scott

Walter Scott, 50, was shot in the back and killed while running from North Charleston police officer Michael Slager after a traffic stop on April 4, 2015.

South Carolina Homicide Age 50
Conviction 2014

Daniel Holtzclaw Victims

Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was convicted on December 10, 2015, of 18 of 36 counts, including four of first-degree rape, for sexually assaulting eight Black women while on patrol.

Oklahoma Sexual Violence
No Conviction 2014

Eric Garner

Eric Garner died after being placed in a chokehold by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo during an arrest in Staten Island. His final words 'I can't breathe' became a rallying cry. A Staten Island grand jury declined to indict Pantaleo.

New York Homicide Age 43
Conviction 2014

Hannah Graham

University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, 18, disappeared from downtown Charlottesville early on September 13, 2014; her remains were found five weeks later in Albemarle County. Jesse Matthew Jr.

Virginia Homicide Age 18
Conviction 2014

Jennifer Laude

Transgender Filipina Jennifer Laude was murdered by U.S. Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton in a motel in Olongapo. The case strained U.S.-Philippine relations and sparked debate about the Visiting Forces Agreement.

Philippines Homicide Age 26
Unsolved 2014

Jessica Chambers

Nineteen-year-old Jessica Chambers was found burning on a road in Courtland, Mississippi, her body set on fire while she was still alive. She was able to say a partial name to a first responder but died shortly after.

Mississippi Homicide Age 19
Unsolved 2014

Kenny Veach

Kenny Veach, a 47-year-old experienced hiker and YouTuber, vanished in November 2014 while searching the Nevada desert for a mysterious 'M cave' he claimed to have found near Nellis Air Force Base.

Nevada Missing Person Age 47
Conviction 2014

Laquan McDonald

Seventeen-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke on October 20, 2014. Dashboard camera footage was withheld for 13 months until a court ordered its release.

Illinois Homicide Age 17
Unsolved 2014

Lars Mittank

Lars Mittank, a 28-year-old from Itzehoe, Germany, disappeared on July 8, 2014 after abruptly leaving a doctor's office at Varna Airport in Bulgaria and running from the terminal, leaving his luggage, passport and phone behind.

Bulgaria Missing Person Age 28
Conviction 2014

Liam Fee

Two-year-old Liam Fee died at his home near Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland, on March 22, 2014, from heart injuries caused by blunt force trauma.

United Kingdom Homicide Age 2
Unsolved 2014

Lisanne Froon & Kris Kremers

Two Dutch tourists disappeared while hiking near Boquete, Panama. Their backpack was found weeks later with phones, camera, and disturbing nighttime photos. Skeletal remains were found months later.

Panama Missing Person
No Conviction 2014

Michael Brown

Eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014. A St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict Wilson. The U.S.

Missouri Homicide Age 18
Unsolved 2014

Myra Lewis

Two-year-old Myra Rena Lewis vanished from the front yard of her rural home near Camden, Mississippi, on March 1, 2014. Despite an Amber Alert, an FBI investigation and a $20,000 reward, she has never been found.

Mississippi Missing Person Age 2
Unsolved 2014

Relisha Rudd

Eight-year-old Relisha Rudd, who lived with her family at a Washington, D.C. homeless shelter, disappeared in early 2014 after being taken by a shelter janitor, Kahlil Tatum.

District of Columbia Missing Person Age 8
Unsolved 2014

Rico Harris

Rico Harris, a 37-year-old former Harlem Globetrotter driving from Los Angeles to Seattle to start a new life, vanished in October 2014.

California Missing Person Age 37
Pending Trial 2014

Sarah and Jacob Hoggle

Two-year-old Sarah and three-year-old Jacob Hoggle were last seen with their mother, Catherine Hoggle, in Montgomery County, Maryland, in September 2014 and have never been found.

Maryland Missing Person
Conviction 2014

Saronno Hospital Patient Deaths (Leonardo Cazzaniga case)

Leonardo Cazzaniga, a former deputy head of the emergency department at Saronno Hospital in Lombardy, Italy, was convicted of killing patients with overdoses of morphine, anaesthetics and sedatives.

Italy Serial Killer Victims
No Conviction 2014

Tamir Rice

Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann within two seconds of arriving at a park where Tamir was playing with a toy gun. A grand jury declined to indict the officers.

Ohio Homicide Age 12
Unsolved 2014

William Tyrrell

Three-year-old William Tyrrell disappeared from his foster grandmother's home on Benaroon Drive in Kendall, New South Wales, on the morning of September 12, 2014, while wearing a Spider-Man suit.

Australia Missing Person Age 3
Conviction 2013

Abigail Hernandez

Fourteen-year-old Abby Hernandez disappeared while walking home from school in Conway, New Hampshire. She reappeared nearly nine months later, having been held captive by Nathaniel Kibby. Kibby was sentenced to 45 years in prison.

New Hampshire Missing Person Age 14
Conviction 2013

Alexis Murphy

Seventeen-year-old Alexis Murphy disappeared on August 3, 2013, after stopping at a gas station in Lovingston, Nelson County, Virginia.

Virginia Homicide Age 17
Conviction 2013

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.

Massachusetts Homicide Age 24
Unsolved 2013

Avonte Oquendo

Fourteen-year-old Avonte Oquendo, a nonverbal autistic student, walked out of his Long Island City, Queens, school on October 4, 2013. His remains were found along the East River in January 2014.

New York Suspicious Death Age 14
Identified 2013

Brandon Lawson

Brandon Lawson, 26, vanished in the early hours of August 9, 2013, after running out of gas on U.S. Highway 277 a few miles south of Bronte, Texas, north of San Angelo, and placing a frantic, confused 911 call.

Texas Missing Person Age 26
Unsolved 2013

Bryce Laspisa

Bryce Laspisa, a 19-year-old college student, disappeared on August 30, 2013, near Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County, California, after a series of unusual stops and phone calls while driving toward his parents' home.

California Missing Person Age 19
Unsolved 2013

Elisa Lam

Canadian tourist Elisa Lam was found dead in a rooftop water tank at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. Eerie elevator surveillance footage showed her behaving oddly before her disappearance.

California Suspicious Death Age 21
Conviction 2013

Hanna Harris

Hanna Harris, a 21-year-old Northern Cheyenne tribal member, disappeared on July 4, 2013, in Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. Her body was found four days later near the rodeo grounds.

Montana Homicide Age 21
Partially Solved 2013

Heather Elvis

Heather Elvis, 20, disappeared in Horry County, South Carolina, on December 18, 2013; her car was found at Peachtree Landing. Tammy Moorer (October 2018) and Sidney Moorer (September 2019) were each convicted of kidnapping and…

South Carolina Missing Person Age 20
Conviction 2013

Joanna Dennehy Victims

Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, John Chapman, 56, and Kevin Lee, 48, were stabbed to death in Peterborough, England, in March 2013 and their bodies left in ditches.

United Kingdom Serial Killer Victims
Conviction 2013

Kelsie Schelling

Kelsie Schelling, a 21-year-old woman who was eight weeks pregnant, vanished in 2013 after driving from Denver to Pueblo, Colorado, to meet her boyfriend, Donthe Lucas.

Colorado Homicide Age 21
Unsolved 2013

Kendrick Johnson

Kendrick Johnson, a 17-year-old student, was found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat in the gymnasium at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia, in January 2013.

Georgia Homicide Age 17
No Conviction 2013

Natalia Grace Barnett

Michael and Kristine Barnett were charged in 2019 with neglecting their adopted daughter Natalia Grace, a Ukrainian-born girl with a rare form of dwarfism, after allegedly leaving her alone in a Lafayette, Indiana, apartment in…

Indiana Child Abuse Age 9
Unsolved 2013

Officer Jason Ellis

Bardstown police officer Jason Ellis, 33, was ambushed and killed with a 12-gauge shotgun in the early morning of May 25, 2013, after stopping to clear tree branches that investigators believe were deliberately placed on the…

Kentucky Homicide Age 33
Unsolved 2013

Rachel Lucille Cyriacks

Rachel Cyriacks, a 30-year-old mother of three from Woonsocket, South Dakota, vanished on November 13, 2013, after driving to Huron to pick up her estranged husband, Brad Cyriacks, who was being released from jail.

South Dakota Missing Person Age 30
Solved 2013

Reeva Steenkamp

Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door on Valentine's Day. He claimed he thought she was an intruder. He was convicted of murder.

South Africa Homicide Age 29
Unsolved 2013

Tiffany Michelle Whitton

Tiffany Whitton, a 26-year-old mother, was last seen on security video running barefoot out of a Walmart in Marietta, Georgia, in the early hours of September 13, 2013, after a suspected shoplifting incident.

Georgia Missing Person Age 26
Pending Trial 2012

Amore Wiggins ("Opelika Jane Doe")

The skeletal remains of a young girl found in a trailer park in Opelika, Alabama, on January 28, 2012, went unidentified for nearly 11 years as "Opelika Jane Doe" or "Baby Jane Doe." In January 2023 she was identified through…

Alabama Homicide Age 5
Conviction 2012

April Jones

Mark Bridger was convicted on 30 May 2013 of abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones, who was taken from the Bryn-y-Gog estate in Machynlleth, Wales, on 1 October 2012. He received a whole-life order at Mold Crown Court.

United Kingdom Homicide Age 5
Conviction 2012

Brittany Killgore

Twenty-two-year-old Marine wife Brittany Killgore disappeared from Fallbrook, California, on April 13, 2012, after being picked up by an acquaintance, Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Ray Perez.

California Homicide Age 22
Unsolved 2012

Brittney Wood

Nineteen-year-old Brittney Wood vanished while on her way to meet her uncle in Mobile, Alabama. The investigation uncovered a massive family sexual abuse ring. Brittney has never been found.

Alabama Missing Person Age 19
Conviction 2012

Cari Farver

Cari Farver, a 37-year-old programmer, disappeared from the Omaha area in November 2012. Her body was never found, but Shanna 'Liz' Golyar was convicted in 2017 after impersonating Farver online for years in an elaborate…

Nebraska Homicide Age 37
Conviction 2012

Daniel Pelka

Daniel Pelka, 4, died of a head injury on March 3, 2012, in Coventry, England, after months of starvation and beatings. His mother, Magdalena Luczak, and her partner, Mariusz Krezolek, were convicted of murder at Birmingham…

United Kingdom Homicide Age 4
Conviction 2012

Dylan Redwine

Thirteen-year-old Dylan Redwine disappeared during a court-ordered visit with his father Mark in Bayfield, Colorado. Mark Redwine was convicted of his murder in 2021.

Colorado Homicide Age 13
Unsolved 2012

Emma Fillipoff

Emma Fillipoff, 26, was last seen on the evening of November 28, 2012, barefoot outside the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia.

Canada Missing Person Age 26
Pending Trial 2012

Faith Hedgepeth

UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth, 19, was found beaten to death in her off-campus apartment on September 7, 2012. Crime-scene DNA went unmatched for nine years, and a note written on a fast-food bag was found near her body.

North Carolina Homicide Age 19
Partially Solved 2012

Israel Keyes Victims

Israel Keyes confessed to killing Samantha Koenig, 18, abducted in Anchorage on February 1, 2012, and Bill and Lorraine Currier, who vanished from Essex, Vermont, in June 2011.

Alaska Serial Killer Victims
Conviction 2012

Jessica Ridgeway

Ten-year-old Jessica Ridgeway was abducted while walking to school in Westminster, Colorado, on October 5, 2012. Her dismembered remains were found days later in Arvada.

Colorado Homicide Age 10
Conviction 2012

Jill Meagher

Jill Meagher, a 29-year-old Irish-born ABC Radio Melbourne employee, was raped and murdered while walking home along Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne, in the early hours of September 22, 2012.

Australia Homicide Age 29
Conviction 2012

Jordan Davis

Seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was shot at a Jacksonville gas station by Michael Dunn following an argument over loud music. Dunn fired into the vehicle claiming self-defense.

Florida Homicide Age 17
Conviction 2012

Jun Lin

Luka Magnotta murdered Chinese international student Jun Lin in Montreal, dismembered him, and mailed body parts to political offices. He fled internationally before being caught in Berlin.

Canada Homicide Age 33
Unsolved 2012

Kortne Stouffer

Kortne Ciera Stouffer, a 21-year-old woman, vanished from her Palmyra, Pennsylvania apartment in the early hours of July 29, 2012, hours after police responded to disturbances there.

Pennsylvania Missing Person Age 21
Unsolved 2012

Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins

Cousins Lyric Cook-Morrissey, 10, and Elizabeth Collins, 8, disappeared during a bike ride near Meyers Lake in Evansdale, Iowa, in July 2012.

Iowa Multiple Homicide
Conviction 2012

Melissa Jenkins

Melissa Jenkins, a 33-year-old St. Johnsbury Academy teacher, disappeared on March 25, 2012, after being lured out by a call about a broken-down vehicle; her SUV was found idling with her young son unharmed inside.

Vermont Homicide Age 33
Solved 2012

Sandy Hook Victims

Twenty first-grade students and six educators were shot dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012.

Connecticut Mass Shooting
Conviction 2011

Aliayah Paige Lunsford

Aliayah Paige Lunsford, a 3-year-old girl, was reported missing on September 24, 2011, from her home in Weston, West Virginia. Her mother, Lena Lunsford, was convicted of murdering the child in 2018, but Aliayah's body has never…

West Virginia Missing Person Age 3
Conviction 2011

Erica Parsons

Erica Parsons, 13, of Rowan County, North Carolina, died in December 2011 but was not reported missing until July 30, 2013. Her remains were found near Pageland, South Carolina, in September 2016.

North Carolina Homicide Age 13
Unsolved 2011

Garrett Phillips

Twelve-year-old Garrett Phillips was found strangled in his apartment in Potsdam, New York, on October 24, 2011. His mother's ex-boyfriend, Oral 'Nick' Hillary, was indicted twice (the first indictment was dismissed) and tried…

New York Homicide Age 12
Conviction 2011

Holly Bobo

Twenty-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo was abducted from her home in Darden, Tennessee, on April 13, 2011. Her remains were found in September 2014, about three and a half years later.

Tennessee Homicide Age 20
No Conviction 2011

Karen Swift

Karen Swift, a 44-year-old Dyersburg, Tennessee mother of four, vanished after a Halloween party in late October 2011 and was found beaten to death six weeks later.

Tennessee Homicide Age 44
Conviction 2011

Katelyn Markham

Katelyn Markham, 21, disappeared from her home in Fairfield, Ohio, in August 2011; her skeletal remains were found in April 2013 in Cedar Grove, Indiana, and her death was ruled a homicide.

Ohio Homicide Age 21
Conviction 2011

Lauren Giddings

Lauren Giddings, a 27-year-old Mercer University law graduate, was strangled and dismembered in her Macon, Georgia, apartment in June 2011.

Georgia Homicide Age 27
Unsolved 2011

Lauren Spierer

Twenty-year-old Indiana University student Lauren Spierer disappeared in Bloomington, Indiana after a night out. She was captured on surveillance video in the early morning hours.

Indiana Missing Person Age 20
Conviction 2011

Leiby Kletzky

Eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky was on his first walk home alone in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn when he got lost. He asked Levi Aron for directions; Aron abducted and killed him.

New York Homicide Age 8
Unsolved 2011

Lisa Irwin

Ten-month-old Lisa Irwin disappeared from her crib in Kansas City, Missouri. Her parents reported her missing in the early morning hours.

Missouri Missing Person Age 0
Conviction 2011

Nique Leili

Dominique "Nique" Leili, 44, was last seen at her home near Lawrenceville, Georgia, in the early hours of July 9, 2011. Volunteer searchers found her body hidden under vegetation at the entrance to her neighborhood on July 16.

Georgia Homicide Age 44
Unsolved 2011

Phoenix Coldon

Phoenix Coldon, a 23-year-old college student, was last seen on December 18, 2011, driving away from her family's home in Spanish Lake, Missouri. Her black 1998 Chevrolet Blazer was found abandoned in East St.

Missouri Missing Person Age 23
Ruled Suicide 2011

Rebecca Zahau

Rebecca Zahau, 32, was found dead at the Spreckels Mansion in Coronado, California, on July 13, 2011, bound and hanging from a balcony.

California Suspicious Death Age 32
Unsolved 2011

Sky Elijah Metalwala

Two-year-old Sky Metalwala was reported missing in Bellevue, Washington, in November 2011 after his mother said she left him in a car that ran out of gas.

Washington Missing Person Age 2
Unsolved 2011

Timmothy Pitzen

Six-year-old Timmothy Pitzen vanished after his mother pulled him out of school in Aurora, Illinois, and took him on a multi-day trip before dying by suicide.

Illinois Missing Person Age 6
Solved 2011

Tyler Hadley Victims

Seventeen-year-old Tyler Hadley bludgeoned his parents to death with a hammer, hid their bodies in a bedroom, and then hosted a house party. He was sentenced to life.

Florida Homicide
Unsolved 2010

Ben McDaniel

Ben McDaniel, 30, of Tennessee was last seen on the evening of August 18, 2010, descending toward the underwater cave at Vortex Spring near Ponce de Leon, Florida. He was not certified for cave diving.

Florida Missing Person Age 30
Conviction 2010

Chelsea King

Seventeen-year-old Chelsea King of Poway, California, vanished on February 25, 2010, while running at Rancho Bernardo Community Park near Lake Hodges in San Diego. Her body was found five days later.

California Homicide Age 17
Unsolved 2010

Deysi Garcia

Deysi Garcia, a 28-year-old Honduran immigrant, vanished from San Francisco's Mission District. She was last seen leaving her workplace. Despite community efforts, she has never been found.

California Missing Person Age 28
Conviction 2010

Gary and Linda Haas

Gary and Linda Haas, both 61, of Tecumseh, Oklahoma, were carjacked at an Interstate 40 rest area in Quay County, New Mexico, on August 2, 2010, and shot dead in their travel trailer, which was then burned.

New Mexico Multiple Homicide
Conviction 2010

Jennifer Pan

Bich Ha Pan was shot dead and her husband Hann Pan badly wounded in a staged home invasion at their Markham, Ontario home on November 8, 2010.

Canada Homicide Age 24
Unsolved 2010

Kyron Horman

Seven-year-old Kyron Horman vanished from Skyline Elementary School after attending a science fair. His stepmother, Terri Horman, was the last known person to see him.

Oregon Missing Person Age 7
Identified 2010

Lori Erica Ruff

A Texas woman known as Lori Erica Ruff died by suicide on Christmas Eve, leaving behind evidence she had been living under a stolen identity for decades.

Texas Suspicious Death Age 42
Partially Solved 2010

Paige Valisa Johnson

Paige Johnson, a 17-year-old mother, disappeared from Covington, Kentucky, on September 23, 2010, after last being seen with acquaintance Jacob Bumpass.

Kentucky Homicide Age 17
Conviction 2010

Russell Williams Victims

Col. Russell Williams, commander of Canadian Forces Base Trenton, pleaded guilty in October 2010 to the first-degree murders of Cpl.

Canada Serial Killer Victims
Unsolved 2010

Samantha Ann Clarke

Samantha Ann Clarke, 19, vanished shortly after midnight on September 13, 2010, after leaving her home in Orange, Virginia, telling her younger brother she would be back in the morning.

Virginia Missing Person Age 19
Unsolved 2010

Shannan Gilbert

Shannan Gilbert disappeared at Oak Beach, Long Island on May 1, 2010; the search for her led to the discovery of the Gilgo Beach victims. Her remains were found in December 2011 and her cause of death is officially undetermined.

New York Suspicious Death Age 24
Pending Trial 2010

Skelton Brothers

Brothers Andrew (9), Alexander (7) and Tanner (5) Skelton disappeared while staying with their father in Morenci, Michigan over Thanksgiving 2010 and have never been found.

Michigan Missing Person
Conviction 2010

Tina Smith

Tina Smith, 41, was found dead in her Roanoke County, Virginia home on December 6, 2010, and her 12-year-old daughter was missing.

Virginia Homicide Age 41
Conviction 2010

Yeardley Love

University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love was beaten to death in her Charlottesville apartment by her ex-boyfriend and fellow lacrosse player George Huguely V.

Virginia Homicide Age 22

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