Cold Cases in Nevada
ColdCaseIndex documents 8 cases in Nevada, dated 1963 to 2014. 4 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Frank Sinatra Jr. Kidnapping (1963) and the most recent is Kenny Veach (2014).
- Unsolved 4 (50%)
- Partly resolved 1 (12%)
- Solved or convicted 3 (38%)
Homicide clearance in Nevada, 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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Kenny Veach
Kenny Veach, a 47-year-old experienced hiker and YouTuber, vanished in November 2014 while searching the Nevada desert for a mysterious 'M cave' he claimed to have found near Nellis Air Force Base.
Steven Koecher
Steven Thell Koecher, a 30-year-old resident of St. George, Utah, was last seen at midday on December 13, 2009, when home security cameras recorded him parking his Chevrolet Cavalier in a cul-de-sac in the Anthem community of…
Jessie Foster
Jessica "Jessie" Foster, a 21-year-old Canadian woman from Kamloops, British Columbia, was last heard from by telephone at her North Las Vegas residence on March 28, 2006.
Duran Bailey
Duran Bailey, a homeless man, was found beaten, stabbed and mutilated beside a Las Vegas bank building on July 8, 2001. Kirstin Blaise Lobato, then 18, was convicted twice, but a judge vacated her convictions and all charges…
Tupac Shakur
Rapper Tupac Shakur, 25, was shot in a drive-by attack near the Las Vegas Strip on September 7, 1996, and died six days later. No one was charged for 27 years.
Mary Edith Silvani (Sheep's Flat Jane Doe)
On July 17, 1982, hikers found the body of an unidentified woman in the Sheep's Flat area off the Mount Rose Highway above Incline Village, Nevada; she had been sexually assaulted and shot in the back of the head.
Tammy Terrell
The body of a teenage girl found in the desert in Henderson, Nevada, on October 5, 1980, was identified in 2021 as Tammy Terrell, 17, of Roswell, New Mexico.
Frank Sinatra Jr. Kidnapping
Singer Frank Sinatra Jr., 19, was abducted at gunpoint from Harrah's Club Lodge at Lake Tahoe on December 8, 1963. His father paid a $240,000 ransom and he was freed unharmed in Los Angeles on December 11.