Cold Cases in Arizona
ColdCaseIndex documents 13 cases in Arizona, dated 1960 to 2025. 6 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Sharon Lee Gallegos (1960) and the most recent is Emily Pike (2025).
- Unsolved 6 (46%)
- Partly resolved 2 (15%)
- Charges or trial pending 2 (15%)
- Solved or convicted 2 (15%)
- Closed without conviction 1 (8%)
Homicide clearance in Arizona, 1965 to 2024
A homicide is "cleared" when police make an arrest or close it by exceptional means, so an uncleared case is not always an unsolved one. Source: Murder Accountability Project analysis of FBI Uniform Crime Report data, as published by Project: Cold Case. These are statewide totals and are separate from the ColdCaseIndex entries listed below.
By type
All Arizona cases
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mikelle Biggs
Eleven-year-old Mikelle Biggs disappeared on January 2, 1999, while riding a bicycle near her home in Mesa, Arizona, as she waited for an ice cream truck.
Vicki Lynne Hoskinson
Eight-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson vanished on September 17, 1984 while riding her bicycle to mail a birthday card near her Tucson home. Her remains were found in the desert northwest of the city on April 12, 1985.
Carolyn Celeste Eaton ("Valentine Sally")
A teenage girl's body was found beside Interstate 40 near Williams, Arizona, on Valentine's Day 1982, and she was known for nearly 40 years as "Valentine Sally." In February 2021 genetic genealogy identified her as 17-year-old…
Bob Crane
Actor Bob Crane, 49, star of Hogan's Heroes, was found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment on June 29, 1978. His friend John Carpenter was charged in 1992 and acquitted by a jury in 1994; he died in 1998.
Charles Morgan
Escrow company president Charles Morgan was found shot dead in the desert near Tucson wearing a bulletproof vest and with a map to a motel. He had reported being stalked and had painted his car to avoid detection.
Sharon Lee Gallegos
The remains of a young girl were found near Congress, Arizona in 1960. Known as 'Little Miss Nobody' for over 60 years, she was identified in 2022 as Sharon Lee Gallegos, a child who had been abducted from New Mexico.