Cold Cases in Idaho
ColdCaseIndex documents 8 cases in Idaho, dated 1993 to 2022. 2 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Stephanie Crane (1993) and the most recent is Idaho Student Murders (2022).
- Unsolved 2 (25%)
- Charges or trial pending 1 (12%)
- Solved or convicted 5 (62%)
Homicide clearance in Idaho, 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.
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Idaho Student Murders
Four University of Idaho students — Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves — were stabbed to death in their off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho.
Michael Joseph Vaughan
Michael Joseph 'Monkey' Vaughan, age 5, disappeared from near his home in Fruitland, Idaho, on the evening of July 27, 2021, and despite years of extensive searches his body has never been found.
Tammy Daybell
Tammy Daybell died at her home in Salem, Idaho on October 19, 2019. A coroner ruled the death natural without an autopsy, but her body was exhumed that December and an autopsy found she died of asphyxiation.
Tylee Ryan & Joshua 'JJ' Vallow
Sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan and seven-year-old JJ Vallow disappeared in September 2019 and were found buried on the Idaho property of their mother's new husband, Chad Daybell, in June 2020.
DeOrr Kunz Jr.
Two-year-old DeOrr Jay Kunz Jr. vanished on July 10, 2015, from Timber Creek Campground in remote Lemhi County, Idaho, about ten miles from Leadore, while camping with his parents, great-grandfather, and a family friend.
Cassie Jo Stoddart
Cassie Jo Stoddart, 16, was stabbed to death on September 22, 2006, while house-sitting for relatives near Pocatello, Idaho. Classmates Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik, both 16, were convicted of first-degree murder in separate…
Angie Dodge
Angie Dodge, 18, was raped and killed in her Idaho Falls apartment on June 13, 1996. Christopher Tapp was convicted in 1998 on the basis of a confession he later said was coerced; he served about 20 years and was exonerated in…
Stephanie Crane
Stephanie Lyn Crane, 9, vanished on October 11, 1993, after leaving a bowling alley in the small town of Challis, Idaho. Despite a massive search and decades of investigation involving the FBI, her disappearance remains unsolved…