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.

9 Documented Cases
5 Still Unsolved
1944–2007 Year Range
4 Case Types

By Type

4 Homicides 3 Missing Persons 1 Historic Injustice 1 Multiple Homicide

By Status

5 Unsolved 3 Conviction 1 No Conviction

All Alabama Cases

Unsolved 2007

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.

Montgomery Homicide Age 28
Unsolved 2005

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,

Aruba Missing Person Age 18
Unsolved 2005

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.

Tuscaloosa Homicide Age 22
Unsolved 1999

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.

Birmingham Missing Person Age 23
Conviction 1975

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

Anniston Homicide Age 45
Conviction 1965

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

Marion Homicide Age 26
Conviction 1963

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.

Birmingham Multiple Homicide
Unsolved 1959

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,

Perdido Bay Missing Person Age 4
No Conviction 1944

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.

Abbeville Historic Injustice Age 24