Cold Cases in Alabama
ColdCaseIndex documents 9 cold cases in Alabama, spanning 1944–2007. 5 of these cases remain fully unsolved. Each case page includes documented details, status, and information on how to submit a tip.
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Natasha Stallings
Twenty-eight-year-old Natasha Stallings was found murdered in Montgomery, Alabama in October 2007. Despite investigation, the case went cold. It remains in Montgomery County cold case files.
Natalee Holloway
Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a graduation trip to Aruba. She was last seen leaving a bar with Joran van der Sloot, who was investigated repeatedly but not charged in her disappearance. In 2023,
Victoria Anne Banks
Twenty-two-year-old Victoria Anne Banks was found murdered in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in August 2005. Despite investigation, the case went cold. It remains in Tuscaloosa County cold case files.
Cynthia Campbell
Twenty-three-year-old Cynthia Campbell disappeared from Birmingham, Alabama in September 1999. She had last been seen leaving work. Despite investigation, her fate remains unknown and no arrests have been made.
Frank Hilley
Frank Hilley died in Anniston, Alabama in 1975 of what was initially diagnosed as infectious hepatitis. After his body was exhumed, his death was attributed to arsenic poisoning, and his wife Audrey Marie Hilley was conv
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Jimmie Lee Jackson was a Black civil rights marcher shot by Alabama State Trooper James Bonard Fowler during a night march in Marion. His death inspired the Selma-to-Montgomery marches and the Voting Rights Act. Fowler w
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing Victims
A KKK bomb killed four young Black girls — Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair — at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Robert Chambliss was convicted in 1977.
Daniel Barter
Four-year-old Daniel Barter disappeared from his family home near Perdido Bay, Alabama on June 18, 1959. Despite searches, he was never found. The FBI listed his case as one needing fresh leads. After more than 60 years,
Recy Taylor
Recy Taylor, a young Black woman, was gang-raped by six white men while walking home from church in Abbeville, Alabama. Two grand juries refused to indict the perpetrators. Rosa Parks investigated the case for the NAACP.