Cold Cases in Connecticut
ColdCaseIndex documents 18 cold cases in Connecticut, spanning 1973–2024. 9 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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Michelle Troconis
Michelle Troconis was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder in the killing of Jennifer Dulos. She helped her boyfriend Fotis Dulos dispose of evidence after he killed his wife.
Sandy Hook Defamation Cases
Alex Jones was found liable for defaming Sandy Hook families by calling the massacre a hoax. Combined judgments exceeded $1.4 billion. The cases established precedent for conspiracy theory accountability.
Sandy Hook Defamation Judgment
Alex Jones was ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages to Sandy Hook families for spreading conspiracy theories that the 2012 school shooting was a hoax.
Lauren Smith-Fields
Twenty-three-year-old Lauren Smith-Fields was found dead after a Bumble date in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her family alleges police mishandled the investigation due to racial bias.
Fotis Dulos (death)
Fotis Dulos, charged with the murder of his wife Jennifer, attempted suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in his garage while awaiting trial. He died two days later without ever standing trial.
Jennifer Dulos
Jennifer Dulos disappeared from her New Canaan, Connecticut home. Her estranged husband Fotis Dulos and his girlfriend Michelle Troconis were arrested. Fotis Dulos died by suicide in 2020 before trial. Troconis was convi
Jennifer Farber Dulos
Jennifer Farber Dulos, a mother of five, vanished on May 24, 2019, after dropping her children at school in New Canaan, Connecticut. Investigators concluded she was attacked in her garage and killed by her estranged husb
Sandy Hook Victims
Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children and 6 staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut before killing himself. It remains one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
Juanita Williams
Juanita Williams was found strangled in Hartford, Connecticut. Despite investigation by Hartford Police, no arrests were made and the case went cold. Her family has continued to seek answers.
Bianca Lebron
Ten-year-old Bianca Lebron was last seen getting into a van outside her Bridgeport, Connecticut school. A classmate witnessed the abduction. Despite an extensive investigation, Bianca was never found.
Suzanne Jovin
Suzanne Jovin, a 21-year-old Yale University senior, was stabbed to death in a New Haven neighborhood in December 1998. Her thesis adviser was wrongly cast as a suspect and later cleared; the killing remains unsolved.
New Britain Jane Doe
On October 11, 1991, a survey crew found the badly decomposed body of a woman in garbage bags near railroad tracks off Myrtle Street in New Britain, Connecticut, across from the former Fafnir Bearing plant. She had been
Helle Crafts
Helle Crafts, a 39-year-old Pan Am flight attendant, was murdered by her husband Richard Crafts at their Newtown, Connecticut home in November 1986. He froze, dismembered, and fed her body through a rented woodchipper, a
Mary Badaracco
Mary Badaracco, a 38-year-old woman planning to divorce her husband, vanished from her Sherman, Connecticut home in August 1984. Her car sat outside with a smashed windshield and her wedding ring was left on the kitchen
Martha Moxley
Fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1975. Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was convicted in 2002, but his conviction was vacated in 2018 and prosecutors declined
Patricia 'Trisha' Meleady Newsom (East Haven Jane Doe)
On August 16, 1975, a truck driver found the body of a young woman — bound, gagged, and wrapped in a tarp — in a drainage ditch behind the Bradlees department store on Frontage Road in East Haven, Connecticut. She had di
Barbara Gibbons
Barbara Gibbons was found murdered in her Canaan, Connecticut home. Her eighteen-year-old son Peter Reilly was initially convicted based on a coerced confession but later exonerated. The actual killer has never been iden
Penney Serra
Concetta 'Penney' Serra, a 21-year-old dental assistant, was stabbed to death in a New Haven, Connecticut parking garage in 1973. The case went cold for decades until a fingerprint and DNA led to the 2002 murder convicti