Cold Cases in Maryland
ColdCaseIndex documents 9 cases in Maryland, dated 1969 to 2023. 4 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Catherine Cesnik (1969) and the most recent is Rachel Morin (2023).
- Unsolved 4 (44%)
- Charges or trial pending 2 (22%)
- Solved or convicted 2 (22%)
- Closed without conviction 1 (11%)
Homicide clearance in Maryland, 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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Rachel Morin
Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five, was raped and murdered on the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air, Maryland, on August 5, 2023; her body was found the next day.
Freddie Gray
Freddie Gray died of spinal cord injuries sustained while in Baltimore police custody. Six officers were charged but all were acquitted or had charges dropped. His death sparked the 2015 Baltimore uprising.
Sarah and Jacob Hoggle
Sarah Hoggle, 3, and her brother Jacob, 2, of Clarksburg, Maryland, were last seen with their mother, Catherine Hoggle, in September 2014 and have never been found.
Rey Rivera
Rey Rivera, a 32-year-old writer and videographer, vanished from his Baltimore home in May 2006 after a phone call and was found dead a week later beneath a hole in the roof of the historic Belvedere Hotel.
Hae Min Lee
High school student Hae Min Lee was strangled and her body found in Leakin Park, Baltimore, in 1999. Her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was convicted of first-degree murder in 2000, and his case became the subject of the podcast Serial.
Sebastian Russo
Dr. Sebastian Russo, 56, a Baltimore family physician known for charging patients $5 or less, was shot dead in his Harford Road office on the evening of February 27, 1981.
Bradford Bishop Family
Annette Bishop, 37, her mother-in-law Lobelia, 68, and sons William, 14, Brenton, 10, and Geoffrey, 5, were beaten to death at their Bethesda home on March 1, 1976.
Margaret Fetterolf (Woodlawn Jane Doe)
On September 12, 1976, the body of a teenage girl who had been beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled was found near Lorraine Park Cemetery in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland.
Catherine Cesnik
Sister Catherine Cesnik, a 26-year-old Baltimore nun and teacher, vanished in November 1969 and was found bludgeoned to death months later.