Cold Cases of the 2020s
67 documented cases in which the crime or disappearance took place between 2020 and 2029. 18 are recorded as unsolved.
- Unsolved 18 (27%)
- Partly resolved 1 (1%)
- Charges or trial pending 6 (9%)
- Solved or convicted 36 (54%)
- Closed without conviction 6 (9%)
By type
All 67 cases
Chicago River North Mass Shooting Victims
On the night of July 2, 2025, occupants of a dark-colored vehicle opened fire on a crowd leaving an album release party outside Artis Restaurant and Lounge in Chicago's River North neighborhood, killing four people and wounding…
Emily Pike
Emily Pike, a 14-year-old member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, disappeared from a Mesa, Arizona group home on January 27, 2025.
Anthony "Big Jook" Mims
Anthony "Big Jook" Mims, a 47-year-old music executive and the older brother of Memphis rapper Yo Gotti, was fatally shot on January 13, 2024, outside Perignon's Restaurant and Event Center on Winchester Road in Memphis, where…
Audrii Cunningham
Eleven-year-old Audrii Cunningham of Livingston, Texas, disappeared on February 15, 2024, after failing to board her school bus. Her body was recovered from the Trinity River five days later.
Caleb Harris
Caleb Harris, a 21-year-old Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi student, vanished from his apartment complex on Ennis Joslin Road in the early morning hours of March 4, 2024, leaving behind his truck, wallet, and keys.
Damon Eugene Bluthenthal
Damon Eugene Bluthenthal, a 50-year-old San Pedro man, was reported missing on Christmas Eve 2024 and found dead five days later in a parking lot on South Acacia Avenue in Compton, near the Metro A Line's Artesia station.
Dau Mabil
Dau Mabil, a 33-year-old Sudanese refugee and one of the 'Lost Boys' resettled in Jackson, Mississippi, vanished during a midday walk near his Belhaven-area home on March 25, 2024.
Elijah Vue
Three-year-old Elijah Vue was reported missing from Two Rivers, Wisconsin, on February 20, 2024, and his remains were found in a wooded area on September 7, 2024.
Laken Riley
Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student, was killed on February 22, 2024 while running on a trail on the University of Georgia campus in Athens.
Madeline Soto
Thirteen-year-old Madeline Soto was killed in Kissimmee, Florida, in February 2024 by her mother's boyfriend, Stephan Sterns, who had sexually abused her for years.
Riley Strain
University of Missouri senior Riley Strain disappeared on Nashville's Broadway after being kicked out of a bar. His body was found in the Cumberland River two weeks later. His death was ruled accidental drowning.
Roy Allen Tsatoke
Roy Allen Tsatoke, a 26-year-old Kiowa man, was last seen on September 22, 2024, while house-sitting at a home on Hiller Road in McKinleyville, California.
Ruby Garcia
Ruby Garcia, 25, was shot and left beside southbound US-131 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on March 22, 2024. Her boyfriend, Brandon Ortiz-Vite, pleaded guilty in September 2024 to second-degree murder and other charges.
Sebastian Rogers
Sebastian Wayne Drake Rogers, a 15-year-old boy with autism, vanished overnight from his family's home on Stafford Court in Hendersonville, Tennessee, between the night of February 25 and the morning of February 26, 2024.
Taylor Casey
Taylor Casey, a 41-year-old yoga practitioner and youth advocate from Chicago, vanished on June 19, 2024, while attending a month-long yoga teacher certification program at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat on Paradise Island in…
Zelig Williams
Zelig Williams, a 28-year-old Broadway dancer who performed in Hamilton and MJ: The Musical, vanished on October 3, 2024, shortly after leaving his mother's home in Columbia, South Carolina.
Ana Walshe
Ana Walshe, 39, was last seen at her Cohasset, Massachusetts home in the early hours of January 1, 2023; her body has never been found.
Annecy Knife Attack
A man stabbed six people, including four toddlers, at a lakeside playground in Annecy, France, in June 2023. All survived. The suspect, Abdalmasih Hanoun, a Syrian refugee who had been living in Sweden, was charged with…
Baby Victoria (daughter of Constance Marten & Mark Gordon)
Newborn Victoria died in early 2023 while her parents, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, were living in a tent on the South Downs to avoid social services.
Brianna Ghey
Sixteen-year-old transgender girl Brianna Ghey was murdered in a park in Warrington by two 15-year-olds. The killers had planned the attack for weeks. Both received life sentences.
David Carrick Victims
Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick admitted 49 offences, including 24 counts of rape, against 12 women between 2003 and 2020.
Doerman Children
Brothers Clayton, 7, Hunter, 4, and Chase Doerman, 3, were shot dead at their home in Monroe Township, Clermont County, Ohio, on June 15, 2023.
Jordan Neely
Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man experiencing a mental health crisis on a New York City subway train, died after being placed in a chokehold by fellow passenger Daniel Penny on May 1, 2023.
Lucy Letby Victims
Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital. She received a whole-life order.
Madeline Kingsbury
Madeline Kingsbury, 26, disappeared on March 31, 2023, after dropping her two children at daycare in Winona, Minnesota. Her remains were found on June 7, 2023, near Mabel in Fillmore County.
Nicola Bulley
Nicola Bulley vanished while walking her dog by the River Wyre in Lancashire, England. Her body was found in the river three weeks later. The case drew massive attention and amateur sleuthing.
Rachel Morin
Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, was raped and murdered on the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air, Maryland, on August 5, 2023; her body was found the next day.
Ruby Franke Children
Parenting YouTuber Ruby Franke and her business partner, counselor Jodi Hildebrandt, each pleaded guilty in December 2023 to four counts of aggravated child abuse of two of Franke's children.
Tyre Nichols
Tyre Nichols, 29, died on January 10, 2023, three days after being beaten by Memphis police officers following a traffic stop. Former officers Desmond Mills Jr. and Emmitt Martin III pleaded guilty to federal and state charges.
Eliza Fletcher
Teacher and heiress Eliza Fletcher was abducted while jogging near the University of Memphis and murdered. Cleotha Abston, who had a prior kidnapping conviction, was sentenced to life.
Eric Richins
Eric Richins, 39, died of a fentanyl overdose at his home in Kamas, Utah on March 4, 2022. His wife Kouri Richins, who later published a children's book about grief, was convicted of aggravated murder in March 2026 and sentenced…
Idaho Student Murders
Four University of Idaho students — Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves — were stabbed to death in their off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho.
John O'Keefe (Karen Read)
Boston police officer John O'Keefe, 46, was found dead in the snow outside a home in Canton, Massachusetts, on January 29, 2022.
Lacey Fletcher
Lacey Fletcher, 36, was found dead on January 3, 2022 on a couch in her parents' home in Slaughter, Louisiana, after years of severe neglect.
Natalie McNally
Natalie McNally, 32, who was 15 weeks pregnant, was stabbed to death in her home in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, on December 18, 2022.
Orsolya Gaal
Orsolya Gaal, 51, was stabbed more than 50 times in her Forest Hills, Queens home on April 16, 2022, and her body was left in a hockey duffel bag near Forest Park.
R. Kelly (sentencing)
R&B singer R. Kelly was convicted in New York in September 2021 of racketeering and Mann Act sex trafficking offences and sentenced on June 29, 2022 to 30 years in prison.
Shanquella Robinson
Twenty-five-year-old Shanquella Robinson died on a group trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Video showed her being beaten by a friend. Her death was ruled homicide but no extradition has occurred.
Cleo Smith
Four-year-old Cleo Smith was taken from her family's tent at the Blowholes campsite north of Carnarvon, Western Australia, on October 16, 2021. Police found her alive 18 days later, on November 3, in a locked house in Carnarvon.
Daniel Robinson
Daniel Robinson, a 24-year-old geologist, vanished on June 23, 2021, after leaving a remote water-well job site near Buckeye, Arizona, in his Jeep.
Elijah Lewis
Five-year-old Elijah Lewis of Merrimack, New Hampshire, was reported missing on October 14, 2021, and his remains were found nine days later in woods in Abington, Massachusetts.
Gabrielle Petito
Gabrielle 'Gabby' Petito, 22, was found dead in Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, on September 19, 2021, after vanishing on a van trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. The coroner ruled her death a homicide by strangulation.
Halyna Hutchins (Rust trial)
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was fatally shot on the set of the film Rust near Santa Fe on October 21, 2021, when a revolver held by actor Alec Baldwin fired a live round.
Jelani Day
Jelani Day, a 25-year-old Illinois State University graduate student, was last seen in Bloomington on August 24, 2021. His car was found abandoned near Peru, Illinois, and his body was recovered from the Illinois River days…
Lauren Smith-Fields
Lauren Smith-Fields, 23, was found dead in her Bridgeport, Connecticut apartment on December 12, 2021 after a first date with a man she met on a dating app.
Lina Sardar Khil
Lina Sardar Khil, 3, disappeared on December 20, 2021, from the playground of the Villas Del Cabo apartment complex in San Antonio, Texas, where her family, who had come from Afghanistan, was living.
Maggie & Paul Murdaugh
Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and her son Paul, 22, were shot dead at the family's hunting estate in Islandton, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021.
Michael Joseph Vaughan
Michael Joseph 'Monkey' Vaughan, age 5, disappeared from near his home in Fruitland, Idaho, on the evening of July 27, 2021, and despite years of extensive searches his body has never been found.
Miya Marcano
Nineteen-year-old college student Miya Marcano disappeared on September 24, 2021, from the Arden Villas apartment complex in Orlando, Florida, where she lived and worked.
Patrick Warren Sr.
Patrick Warren Sr., 52, was shot and killed by Killeen, Texas police officer Reynaldo Contreras on January 10, 2021, after his family called for help during a mental health crisis.
Sarah Everard
Sarah Everard, 33, was kidnapped, raped and murdered by serving Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens while walking home in south London on March 3, 2021.
Summer Wells
Five-year-old Summer Wells was reported missing on June 15, 2021 from her family's home on Ben Hill Road in the Beech Creek community of Hawkins County, Tennessee. A statewide AMBER Alert issued the next day is still active.
Young Dolph
Memphis rapper Young Dolph (Adolph Thornton Jr.), 36, was shot dead outside Makeda's Homemade Butter Cookies in Memphis on November 17, 2021.
Ahmaud Arbery
Ahmaud Arbery was chased and shot dead while jogging in Brunswick, Georgia by three white men. The case sparked national outrage over racial violence. All three were convicted of murder.
Breonna Taylor
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, was shot and killed by Louisville police executing a search warrant at her apartment on March 13, 2020; no drugs were found, and her boyfriend fired one shot believing…
Cieha Taylor
Cieha Taylor, 28, was last seen about 4 p.m. on February 6, 2020 in Plant City, Florida, after dropping her boyfriend at a home on Cowart Road.
Florence Okpealuk
Florence Okpealuk, a 33-year-old Inupiaq mother originally from Wales, Alaska, was last seen on August 31, 2020, leaving a tent on West Beach about one to two miles outside Nome.
Gannon Stauch
Gannon Stauch, 11, was reported missing from his home near Colorado Springs on January 27, 2020; his remains were found in Florida that March.
George Floyd
George Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest.
Jaylen Fleer
San Diego County sheriff's deputy Jaylen Fleer, 27, was arrested in 2020 after Crime Stoppers tips about a man engaging in sex acts with a minor led investigators to him and to four underage victims.
Jorge Torres Jr.
Jorge Torres Jr. was found dead inside a suitcase in Winter Park, Florida. His girlfriend Sarah Boone claimed he died during a hide-and-seek game. She filmed him begging to be let out.
King Von
Chicago rapper King Von (Dayvon Bennett), 26, was fatally shot outside the Monaco Hookah Lounge in Atlanta on November 6, 2020, when an argument between two groups turned into a gunfight.
Peter Nygard Victims
Fashion mogul Peter Nygard was arrested for racketeering and sex trafficking charges involving dozens of women. He was convicted in Canadian courts of sexual assault.
Pop Smoke
Rapper Pop Smoke (Bashar Barakah Jackson), 20, was shot dead during a home-invasion robbery at a rented house in the Hollywood Hills on February 19, 2020.
Suzanne Morphew
Suzanne Morphew, 49, disappeared on Mother's Day, May 10, 2020, in Chaffee County, Colorado. Her husband, Barry Morphew, was charged with her murder in 2021, but the case was dismissed without prejudice in April 2022 after the…
Vanessa Guillen
Army specialist Vanessa Guillen was bludgeoned to death by fellow soldier Aaron Robinson at Fort Hood. The case exposed systemic failures in military sexual harassment reporting.
Yorkshire Ripper (death)
Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper who murdered 13 women in northern England, died of COVID-19 in prison in November 2020 after refusing treatment. He had served 39 years.