Cold Cases in Kentucky
ColdCaseIndex documents 10 cold cases in Kentucky, spanning 1968–2020. 5 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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Breonna Taylor
EMT Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police executing a no-knock warrant at her Louisville apartment. No drugs were found. Her boyfriend fired at officers believing it was a break-in. Only one officer was indicted —
Savannah Spurlock
Twenty-two-year-old Savannah Spurlock was last seen leaving a Lexington bar with three men. Her remains were found months later at the property of David Sparks, who pleaded guilty to murder.
Crystal Rogers
Crystal Rogers, a 35-year-old mother of five, vanished from Bardstown, Kentucky, in July 2015; her abandoned car was found days later with a flat tire. After a decade-long investigation, her boyfriend Brooks Houck was co
Jason Ellis
Bardstown, Kentucky police officer Jason Ellis was ambushed and killed on a highway exit ramp while driving home from his shift. The calculated, execution-style killing has never been solved and is part of a series of vi
Officer Jason Ellis
Bardstown police officer Jason Ellis, 33, was ambushed and killed with a 12-gauge shotgun in the early morning of May 25, 2013, after stopping to clear tree branches that investigators believe were deliberately placed on
Paige Valisa Johnson
Paige Johnson, a 17-year-old mother, disappeared from Covington, Kentucky, on September 23, 2010, after last being seen with acquaintance Jacob Bumpass. Her burned remains were found in the woods of Clermont County, Ohio
Jessica Dishon
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Dishon was abducted from her family's driveway in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. After years of wrongly targeting her uncle, DNA led to neighbor Stanley Dishon.
Heather Danyelle Teague
Heather Danyelle Teague, 23, was abducted at gunpoint from Newburgh Beach on the Ohio River in Henderson County, Kentucky, on August 26, 1995, an act witnessed through a telescope from across the river. Despite a prime s
Ann Gotlib
Ann Gotlib, a 12-year-old Soviet Jewish immigrant, disappeared on June 1, 1983, after riding her bicycle to the Bashford Manor Mall in Louisville, Kentucky. Her bicycle was found abandoned at the mall, but she was never
Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor ("Tent Girl")
On May 17, 1968, a well digger found the decomposing body of a young woman wrapped in a green canvas tarp along U.S. Route 25 near Georgetown, Kentucky. Known for three decades only as "Tent Girl," she was identified in