Cold Cases in Arkansas
ColdCaseIndex documents 6 cases in Arkansas, dated 1987 to 2015. 4 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Kevin Ives & Don Henry (Boys on the Tracks) (1987) and the most recent is Ebby Jane Steppach (2015).
- Unsolved 4 (67%)
- Partly resolved 2 (33%)
Homicide clearance in Arkansas, 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 Arkansas cases
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.
Morgan Nick
Six-year-old Morgan Nick was abducted on June 9, 1995, from the parking lot of a Little League baseball game in Alma, Arkansas, while catching fireflies with other children.
Melissa Witt
Nineteen-year-old Melissa Witt was abducted from the parking lot of the Bowling World bowling alley in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on December 1, 1994.
Steve Branch, Michael Moore & Christopher Byers
Three eight-year-old boys were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, in May 1993. Three teenagers — Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr.
Kelly (El Dorado Jane Doe)
A young woman known by several aliases was killed on July 10, 1991, in a room at the Whitehall Motel in El Dorado, Arkansas. Her ex-boyfriend, James McAlphin, was convicted in her death, but her real identity stayed unknown for…
Kevin Ives & Don Henry (Boys on the Tracks)
In the early morning of August 23, 1987, 17-year-old Kevin Ives and 16-year-old Don Henry were run over by a Union Pacific freight train near Alexander in Saline County, Arkansas, their bodies lying motionless and partly covered…