Cold Cases in Michigan
ColdCaseIndex documents 10 cold cases in Michigan, spanning 1974–2024. 6 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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Ruby Garcia
Twenty-five-year-old Ruby Garcia was shot and killed on a highway in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Brandon Ortiz-Vite, her ex-boyfriend and an undocumented immigrant, was convicted of murder.
Skelton Brothers
Three brothers—Andrew (9), Alexander (7), and Tanner (5) Skelton—disappeared from their father's home in Morenci, Michigan over Thanksgiving. Their father attempted suicide and later claimed he gave the boys to a group t
Tamara Greene
Tamara Greene, known as 'Strawberry,' was an exotic dancer found shot to death in her car in Detroit. Theories linked her death to a party she allegedly attended at the Manoogian Mansion involving Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Paige Renkoski
Twenty-one-year-old Paige Renkoski disappeared while driving near Okemos, Michigan. Her car was found running with her purse inside. A witness reported seeing her talking to a man in another car. Despite investigation, s
Aundria Bowman
Aundria Bowman, 14, disappeared in 1989 from her adoptive family's home near Hamilton, Michigan, after alleging her adoptive father molested her, and was long treated as a runaway. In 2020, Dennis Bowman, jailed for an u
Deanie Peters
Deanie Peters, 14, disappeared from a wrestling meet at Forest Hills Central Middle School near Grand Rapids, Michigan in February 1981 after telling her mother she was going to the restroom. She has never been found and
Janet Chandler
Janet Chandler, a 22-year-old Hope College student working a motel night shift, was abducted, gang-raped, and strangled in Holland, Michigan, in 1979. The case went cold for nearly three decades until a college documenta
Oakland County Child Killer Victims
A serial killer known as the 'Babysitter' abducted and murdered four children in Oakland County, Michigan. The victims ranged in age from 10 to 12 years old. The killer washed and redressed victims before leaving them in
Jimmy Hoffa
Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa was last seen in a restaurant parking lot in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. He was believed to have been murdered by organized crime figures. Multiple sites were searched over the ye
Coral Eugene Watts Victims
Coral Eugene Watts confessed to 13 murders in Michigan and Texas. He was convicted of burglary with intent to murder in Texas in 1982 and given a 60-year sentence. When he was nearly released in 2004, prosecutors charged