Homicides
Killings of a single victim, from unsolved murders to cases that ended in a conviction decades later. ColdCaseIndex documents 352 cases of this type, of which 99 are recorded as unsolved.
- Unsolved 99 (28%)
- Partly resolved 9 (3%)
- Charges or trial pending 11 (3%)
- Solved or convicted 205 (58%)
- Closed without conviction 28 (8%)
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All 352 cases
Emily Pike
Emily Pike, a 14-year-old member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, disappeared from a Mesa, Arizona group home on January 27, 2025.
Anthony "Big Jook" Mims
Anthony "Big Jook" Mims, a 47-year-old music executive and the older brother of Memphis rapper Yo Gotti, was fatally shot on January 13, 2024, outside Perignon's Restaurant and Event Center on Winchester Road in Memphis, where…
Audrii Cunningham
Eleven-year-old Audrii Cunningham of Livingston, Texas, disappeared on February 15, 2024, after failing to board her school bus. Her body was recovered from the Trinity River five days later.
Damon Eugene Bluthenthal
Damon Eugene Bluthenthal, a 50-year-old San Pedro man, was reported missing on Christmas Eve 2024 and found dead five days later in a parking lot on South Acacia Avenue in Compton, near the Metro A Line's Artesia station.
Laken Riley
Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student, was killed on February 22, 2024 while running on a trail on the University of Georgia campus in Athens.
Madeline Soto
Thirteen-year-old Madeline Soto was killed in Kissimmee, Florida, in February 2024 by her mother's boyfriend, Stephan Sterns, who had sexually abused her for years.
Ruby Garcia
Ruby Garcia, 25, was shot and left beside southbound US-131 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on March 22, 2024. Her boyfriend, Brandon Ortiz-Vite, pleaded guilty in September 2024 to second-degree murder and other charges.
Ana Walshe
Ana Walshe, 39, was last seen at her Cohasset, Massachusetts home in the early hours of January 1, 2023; her body has never been found.
Baby Victoria (daughter of Constance Marten & Mark Gordon)
Newborn Victoria died in early 2023 while her parents, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, were living in a tent on the South Downs to avoid social services.
Brianna Ghey
Sixteen-year-old transgender girl Brianna Ghey was murdered in a park in Warrington by two 15-year-olds. The killers had planned the attack for weeks. Both received life sentences.
Doerman Children
Brothers Clayton, 7, Hunter, 4, and Chase Doerman, 3, were shot dead at their home in Monroe Township, Clermont County, Ohio, on June 15, 2023.
Jordan Neely
Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man experiencing a mental health crisis on a New York City subway train, died after being placed in a chokehold by fellow passenger Daniel Penny on May 1, 2023.
Madeline Kingsbury
Madeline Kingsbury, 26, disappeared on March 31, 2023, after dropping her two children at daycare in Winona, Minnesota. Her remains were found on June 7, 2023, near Mabel in Fillmore County.
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.
Tyre Nichols
Tyre Nichols, 29, died on January 10, 2023, three days after being beaten by Memphis police officers following a traffic stop. Former officers Desmond Mills Jr. and Emmitt Martin III pleaded guilty to federal and state charges.
Eliza Fletcher
Teacher and heiress Eliza Fletcher was abducted while jogging near the University of Memphis and murdered. Cleotha Abston, who had a prior kidnapping conviction, was sentenced to life.
Eric Richins
Eric Richins, 39, died of a fentanyl overdose at his home in Kamas, Utah on March 4, 2022. His wife Kouri Richins, who later published a children's book about grief, was convicted of aggravated murder in March 2026 and sentenced…
John O'Keefe (Karen Read)
Boston police officer John O'Keefe, 46, was found dead in the snow outside a home in Canton, Massachusetts, on January 29, 2022.
Lacey Fletcher
Lacey Fletcher, 36, was found dead on January 3, 2022 on a couch in her parents' home in Slaughter, Louisiana, after years of severe neglect.
Natalie McNally
Natalie McNally, 32, who was 15 weeks pregnant, was stabbed to death in her home in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, on December 18, 2022.
Orsolya Gaal
Orsolya Gaal, 51, was stabbed more than 50 times in her Forest Hills, Queens home on April 16, 2022, and her body was left in a hockey duffel bag near Forest Park.
Shanquella Robinson
Twenty-five-year-old Shanquella Robinson died on a group trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Video showed her being beaten by a friend. Her death was ruled homicide but no extradition has occurred.
Elijah Lewis
Five-year-old Elijah Lewis of Merrimack, New Hampshire, was reported missing on October 14, 2021, and his remains were found nine days later in woods in Abington, Massachusetts.
Gabrielle Petito
Gabrielle 'Gabby' Petito, 22, was found dead in Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, on September 19, 2021, after vanishing on a van trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. The coroner ruled her death a homicide by strangulation.
Halyna Hutchins (Rust trial)
Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, was fatally shot on the set of the film Rust near Santa Fe on October 21, 2021, when a revolver held by actor Alec Baldwin fired a live round.
Jelani Day
Jelani Day, a 25-year-old Illinois State University graduate student, was last seen in Bloomington on August 24, 2021. His car was found abandoned near Peru, Illinois, and his body was recovered from the Illinois River days…
Maggie & Paul Murdaugh
Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and her son Paul, 22, were shot dead at the family's hunting estate in Islandton, South Carolina, on June 7, 2021.
Miya Marcano
Nineteen-year-old college student Miya Marcano disappeared on September 24, 2021, from the Arden Villas apartment complex in Orlando, Florida, where she lived and worked.
Patrick Warren Sr.
Patrick Warren Sr., 52, was shot and killed by Killeen, Texas police officer Reynaldo Contreras on January 10, 2021, after his family called for help during a mental health crisis.
Sarah Everard
Sarah Everard, 33, was kidnapped, raped and murdered by serving Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens while walking home in south London on March 3, 2021.
Young Dolph
Memphis rapper Young Dolph (Adolph Thornton Jr.), 36, was shot dead outside Makeda's Homemade Butter Cookies in Memphis on November 17, 2021.
Ahmaud Arbery
Ahmaud Arbery was chased and shot dead while jogging in Brunswick, Georgia by three white men. The case sparked national outrage over racial violence. All three were convicted of murder.
Breonna Taylor
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency room technician, was shot and killed by Louisville police executing a search warrant at her apartment on March 13, 2020; no drugs were found, and her boyfriend fired one shot believing…
Gannon Stauch
Gannon Stauch, 11, was reported missing from his home near Colorado Springs on January 27, 2020; his remains were found in Florida that March.
George Floyd
George Floyd died on May 25, 2020, after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes during an arrest.
Jorge Torres Jr.
Jorge Torres Jr. was found dead inside a suitcase in Winter Park, Florida. His girlfriend Sarah Boone claimed he died during a hide-and-seek game. She filmed him begging to be let out.
King Von
Chicago rapper King Von (Dayvon Bennett), 26, was fatally shot outside the Monaco Hookah Lounge in Atlanta on November 6, 2020, when an argument between two groups turned into a gunfight.
Pop Smoke
Rapper Pop Smoke (Bashar Barakah Jackson), 20, was shot dead during a home-invasion robbery at a rented house in the Hollywood Hills on February 19, 2020.
Suzanne Morphew
Suzanne Morphew, 49, disappeared on Mother's Day, May 10, 2020, in Chaffee County, Colorado. Her husband, Barry Morphew, was charged with her murder in 2021, but the case was dismissed without prejudice in April 2022 after the…
Vanessa Guillen
Army specialist Vanessa Guillen was bludgeoned to death by fellow soldier Aaron Robinson at Fort Hood. The case exposed systemic failures in military sexual harassment reporting.
Aniah Blanchard
Nineteen-year-old Aniah Blanchard, stepdaughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris, disappeared from Auburn, Alabama, in October 2019. Her remains were found a month later in Macon County.
Bianca Devins
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Devins of Utica, New York, was killed on July 14, 2019 by Brandon Clark, 21, who had driven her home from a concert in New York City.
Elizabeth Barraza
Elizabeth Barraza, 29, was shot in the driveway of her Tomball-area home at about 6:52 a.m. on January 25, 2019, while setting up for a garage sale; she died the next day.
Evelyn Boswell
Fifteen-month-old Evelyn Mae Boswell of Sullivan County, Tennessee, was reported missing on February 18, 2020, about two months after she was last seen.
Harmony Montgomery
Five-year-old Harmony Montgomery is believed to have died in Manchester, New Hampshire, in December 2019 but was not reported missing until late 2021; her remains have not been found.
Maleah Davis
Four-year-old Maleah Davis was reported missing in Houston in May 2019 by her mother's ex-fiance Derion Vence, who claimed she was abducted during a carjacking.
Mallory Beach
Mallory Beach, 19, died when a boat carrying six young people struck a bridge at Archers Creek near Beaufort, South Carolina, early on February 24, 2019. Her body was found on March 3.
Nikki Kuhnhausen
Seventeen-year-old transgender girl Nikki Kuhnhausen was killed in June 2019 by David Bogdanov after he learned she was transgender. Her remains were found on Larch Mountain in Clark County six months later.
Nipsey Hussle
Grammy-nominated rapper and community activist Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed outside his Marathon Clothing store in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Eric Holder Jr. was convicted of first-degree murder in 2022.
RJR Maintenance Murders
Four people were murdered at RJR Maintenance in Mandan, North Dakota. Chiropractor Chad Isaak, a tenant of the property management company, was convicted after his car was caught on surveillance.
Savannah Spurlock
Savannah Spurlock, a Madison County, Kentucky, mother of four, disappeared after leaving a Lexington bar with three men on the night of January 4, 2019.
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.
Adea Shabani
Acting student Adea Shabani, 25, was last seen leaving her Hollywood apartment on February 23, 2018. Her remains were recovered a month later from a shallow grave in the Spenceville Wildlife Area in Nevada County, California…
Botham Jean
Botham Jean, 26, was shot in his own Dallas apartment on September 6, 2018, by off-duty Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, who said she entered his apartment by mistake.
Daniel Brophy
Chef Daniel Brophy was murdered at the Oregon Culinary Institute. His wife Nancy, a romance novelist who wrote an essay called 'How to Murder Your Husband,' was convicted of his murder.
Grace Millane
British backpacker Grace Millane was strangled in a central Auckland hotel apartment on the night of December 1-2, 2018, the eve of her 22nd birthday, after a date with a man she met on Tinder.
Hart Family
Six adopted children aged 12 to 19 died on March 26, 2018, when Jennifer Hart drove the family's SUV off a cliff on Highway 1 near Westport, California, with her wife Sarah also inside.
Jamal Khashoggi
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed and dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by a team of Saudi agents. Eight people were convicted in a closed Saudi trial. A declassified 2021 U.S.
Kelsey Berreth
Pilot and flight instructor Kelsey Berreth was murdered on Thanksgiving Day by her fiancé Patrick Frazee in Woodland Park, Colorado. He burned her body. Frazee was sentenced to life.
Mollie Tibbetts
University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, 20, disappeared while out for an evening run in Brooklyn, Iowa, on July 18, 2018. Her body was found in a Poweshiek County cornfield on August 21, 2018.
Sergei & Yulia Skripal Poisoning
Former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, England, and both survived; Dawn Sturgess died in July 2018 after handling the discarded agent.
Whitey Bulger (death)
Notorious Boston mob boss and longtime FBI informant Whitey Bulger, 89, was beaten to death hours after arriving at USP Hazelton in West Virginia on October 30, 2018.
XXXTentacion
Rapper XXXTentacion (Jahseh Onfroy), 20, was shot and killed during a robbery outside RIVA Motorsports in Deerfield Beach, Florida, on June 18, 2018.
Maëlys de Araujo
Eight-year-old Maëlys de Araujo disappeared from a wedding party in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, in the French Alps, in the early hours of August 27, 2017.
Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind
Twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind was eight months pregnant when she was killed in Fargo, North Dakota, in August 2017; her baby was cut from her womb and survived.
Sherin Mathews
Three-year-old adopted Indian girl Sherin Mathews was reported missing in Richardson, Texas. Her adoptive father Wesley Mathews later admitted to killing her. He was sentenced to life.
Yingying Zhang
Yingying Zhang, a 26-year-old visiting scholar from China at the University of Illinois, was abducted from a bus stop in Urbana on June 9, 2017, and killed.
Emma Walker
Sixteen-year-old Emma Walker was fatally shot in her bed at her family's Knoxville, Tennessee, home on November 21, 2016, by shots fired through her bedroom wall from outside.
Ingrid Lyne
Forty-year-old nurse Ingrid Lyne was killed in her Renton, Washington, home on April 8, 2016, after a date. Her dismembered remains were found in recycling bins in Seattle.
Joel & Lisa Guy Sr.
Joel Guy Sr., 61, and Lisa Guy, 55, were stabbed to death and dismembered at their home in west Knox County, Tennessee, over Thanksgiving weekend 2016.
Keeshae Jacobs
Keeshae Jacobs, 21, vanished after being dropped off at a Church Hill home in Richmond in September 2016. In 2024 police confirmed she was dead, and a jailed murderer admitted disposing of her body, though no one has been…
Philando Castile
Philando Castile was shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. His girlfriend broadcast the aftermath live on Facebook. Officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted of manslaughter in 2017.
Sarah Stern
Sarah Stern, 19, was strangled at her Neptune City, New Jersey, home on December 2, 2016, during a robbery, and her body was thrown from the Route 35 bridge; it has never been recovered.
Sierah Joughin
Twenty-year-old Sierah Joughin was abducted while bicycling in rural Ohio. James Worley, a convicted kidnapper, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death.
Terri 'Missy' Bevers
Fitness instructor Missy Bevers was found dead in a church where she was preparing for an early morning boot camp class. Surveillance footage showed a suspect in SWAT-style tactical gear walking through the church before the…
Casey White (murder conviction)
Connie Ridgeway, 59, was found stabbed to death in her Lauderdale County, Alabama apartment in October 2015. Inmate Casey White confessed in 2020 and was charged with capital murder, but he later recanted and pleaded not guilty…
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.
Dee Dee Blanchard
Dee Dee Blanchard was murdered by her daughter Gypsy Rose's boyfriend after years of medical child abuse (Munchausen syndrome by proxy). Gypsy had been forced to feign illness and disability her entire life.
Ebby Jane Steppach
Ebby Steppach, 18, vanished in Little Rock, Arkansas, in late October 2015, days after telling her stepfather she had been gang-raped at a party and wanted to report it to police.
Henry McCabe
Henry McCabe, a 32-year-old Minnesota state auditor, disappeared after a night out over Labor Day weekend in 2015, following disturbing phone calls in which relatives heard him screaming in distress.
Lauren Agee
Lauren Agee, 21, was found dead below a cliff at Center Hill Lake near Smithville, Tennessee, in July 2015. Officials ruled the death accidental, but her family disputes that finding and believes foul play was involved.
Stephen Smith
Nineteen-year-old Stephen Smith was found dead on a rural Hampton County road in July 2015. His death was initially treated as a hit-and-run, though no vehicle debris was found.
Teresa Sievers
Dr. Teresa Sievers, 46, was beaten to death with hammers in her Bonita Springs, Florida home on June 28, 2015. Her husband, Mark Sievers, was convicted of first-degree murder in December 2019 and sentenced to death.
Tiffany Valiante
Tiffany Valiante, an 18-year-old athlete from Mays Landing, New Jersey, was struck and killed by a New Jersey Transit train in Galloway Township in July 2015 after walking away from her home.
Walter Scott
Walter Scott, 50, was shot in the back and killed while running from North Charleston police officer Michael Slager after a traffic stop on April 4, 2015.
Eric Garner
Eric Garner died after being placed in a chokehold by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo during an arrest in Staten Island. His final words 'I can't breathe' became a rallying cry. A Staten Island grand jury declined to indict Pantaleo.
Hannah Graham
University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, 18, disappeared from downtown Charlottesville early on September 13, 2014; her remains were found five weeks later in Albemarle County. Jesse Matthew Jr.
Jennifer Laude
Transgender Filipina Jennifer Laude was murdered by U.S. Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton in a motel in Olongapo. The case strained U.S.-Philippine relations and sparked debate about the Visiting Forces Agreement.
Jessica Chambers
Nineteen-year-old Jessica Chambers was found burning on a road in Courtland, Mississippi, her body set on fire while she was still alive. She was able to say a partial name to a first responder but died shortly after.
Laquan McDonald
Seventeen-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke on October 20, 2014. Dashboard camera footage was withheld for 13 months until a court ordered its release.
Liam Fee
Two-year-old Liam Fee died at his home near Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland, on March 22, 2014, from heart injuries caused by blunt force trauma.
Michael Brown
Eighteen-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, 2014. A St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict Wilson. The U.S.
Tamir Rice
Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann within two seconds of arriving at a park where Tamir was playing with a toy gun. A grand jury declined to indict the officers.
Alexis Murphy
Seventeen-year-old Alexis Murphy disappeared on August 3, 2013, after stopping at a gas station in Lovingston, Nelson County, Virginia.
Amy Lord
Twenty-four-year-old Amy Lord was kidnapped from her South Boston apartment, forced to withdraw money from ATMs, then murdered. Edwin Alemany was convicted and sentenced to life.
Hanna Harris
Hanna Harris, a 21-year-old Northern Cheyenne tribal member, disappeared on July 4, 2013, in Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana. Her body was found four days later near the rodeo grounds.
Kelsie Schelling
Kelsie Schelling, a 21-year-old woman who was eight weeks pregnant, vanished in 2013 after driving from Denver to Pueblo, Colorado, to meet her boyfriend, Donthe Lucas.
Kendrick Johnson
Kendrick Johnson, a 17-year-old student, was found dead inside a rolled-up gym mat in the gymnasium at Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia, in January 2013.
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 the…
Reeva Steenkamp
Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through a locked bathroom door on Valentine's Day. He claimed he thought she was an intruder. He was convicted of murder.
Amore Wiggins ("Opelika Jane Doe")
The skeletal remains of a young girl found in a trailer park in Opelika, Alabama, on January 28, 2012, went unidentified for nearly 11 years as "Opelika Jane Doe" or "Baby Jane Doe." In January 2023 she was identified through…
April Jones
Mark Bridger was convicted on 30 May 2013 of abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones, who was taken from the Bryn-y-Gog estate in Machynlleth, Wales, on 1 October 2012. He received a whole-life order at Mold Crown Court.
Brittany Killgore
Twenty-two-year-old Marine wife Brittany Killgore disappeared from Fallbrook, California, on April 13, 2012, after being picked up by an acquaintance, Marine Staff Sgt. Louis Ray Perez.
Cari Farver
Cari Farver, a 37-year-old programmer, disappeared from the Omaha area in November 2012. Her body was never found, but Shanna 'Liz' Golyar was convicted in 2017 after impersonating Farver online for years in an elaborate…
Daniel Pelka
Daniel Pelka, 4, died of a head injury on March 3, 2012, in Coventry, England, after months of starvation and beatings. His mother, Magdalena Luczak, and her partner, Mariusz Krezolek, were convicted of murder at Birmingham…
Dylan Redwine
Thirteen-year-old Dylan Redwine disappeared during a court-ordered visit with his father Mark in Bayfield, Colorado. Mark Redwine was convicted of his murder in 2021.
Faith Hedgepeth
UNC-Chapel Hill student Faith Hedgepeth, 19, was found beaten to death in her off-campus apartment on September 7, 2012. Crime-scene DNA went unmatched for nine years, and a note written on a fast-food bag was found near her body.
Jessica Ridgeway
Ten-year-old Jessica Ridgeway was abducted while walking to school in Westminster, Colorado, on October 5, 2012. Her dismembered remains were found days later in Arvada.
Jill Meagher
Jill Meagher, a 29-year-old Irish-born ABC Radio Melbourne employee, was raped and murdered while walking home along Sydney Road in Brunswick, Melbourne, in the early hours of September 22, 2012.
Jordan Davis
Seventeen-year-old Jordan Davis was shot at a Jacksonville gas station by Michael Dunn following an argument over loud music. Dunn fired into the vehicle claiming self-defense.
Jun Lin
Luka Magnotta murdered Chinese international student Jun Lin in Montreal, dismembered him, and mailed body parts to political offices. He fled internationally before being caught in Berlin.
Melissa Jenkins
Melissa Jenkins, a 33-year-old St. Johnsbury Academy teacher, disappeared on March 25, 2012, after being lured out by a call about a broken-down vehicle; her SUV was found idling with her young son unharmed inside.
Erica Parsons
Erica Parsons, 13, of Rowan County, North Carolina, died in December 2011 but was not reported missing until July 30, 2013. Her remains were found near Pageland, South Carolina, in September 2016.
Garrett Phillips
Twelve-year-old Garrett Phillips was found strangled in his apartment in Potsdam, New York, on October 24, 2011. His mother's ex-boyfriend, Oral 'Nick' Hillary, was indicted twice (the first indictment was dismissed) and tried…
Holly Bobo
Twenty-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo was abducted from her home in Darden, Tennessee, on April 13, 2011. Her remains were found in September 2014, about three and a half years later.
Karen Swift
Karen Swift, a 44-year-old Dyersburg, Tennessee mother of four, vanished after a Halloween party in late October 2011 and was found beaten to death six weeks later.
Katelyn Markham
Katelyn Markham, 21, disappeared from her home in Fairfield, Ohio, in August 2011; her skeletal remains were found in April 2013 in Cedar Grove, Indiana, and her death was ruled a homicide.
Lauren Giddings
Lauren Giddings, a 27-year-old Mercer University law graduate, was strangled and dismembered in her Macon, Georgia, apartment in June 2011.
Leiby Kletzky
Eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky was on his first walk home alone in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn when he got lost. He asked Levi Aron for directions; Aron abducted and killed him.
Nique Leili
Dominique "Nique" Leili, 44, was last seen at her home near Lawrenceville, Georgia, in the early hours of July 9, 2011. Volunteer searchers found her body hidden under vegetation at the entrance to her neighborhood on July 16.
Tyler Hadley Victims
Seventeen-year-old Tyler Hadley bludgeoned his parents to death with a hammer, hid their bodies in a bedroom, and then hosted a house party. He was sentenced to life.
Chelsea King
Seventeen-year-old Chelsea King of Poway, California, vanished on February 25, 2010, while running at Rancho Bernardo Community Park near Lake Hodges in San Diego. Her body was found five days later.
Jennifer Pan
Bich Ha Pan was shot dead and her husband Hann Pan badly wounded in a staged home invasion at their Markham, Ontario home on November 8, 2010.
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.
Tina Smith
Tina Smith, 41, was found dead in her Roanoke County, Virginia home on December 6, 2010, and her 12-year-old daughter was missing.
Yeardley Love
University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love was beaten to death in her Charlottesville apartment by her ex-boyfriend and fellow lacrosse player George Huguely V.
Amber Dubois
Fourteen-year-old Amber Dubois disappeared while walking to Escondido High School in February 2009. Registered sex offender John Gardner abducted and killed her; her remains were found in March 2010.
Brittanee Drexel
Seventeen-year-old Brittanee Drexel disappeared from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina during spring break in 2009. In 2022, Raymond Moody pleaded guilty to her kidnapping, rape, and murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
Lindsey Baum
Lindsey Baum, 10, vanished while walking home from a friend's house in McCleary, Washington, in June 2009. Her remains were found by hunters in remote eastern Washington in 2017 and identified in 2018, turning the case into a…
Mitrice Richardson
Mitrice Richardson, a 24-year-old woman, vanished in September 2009 after being released in the middle of the night from a Los Angeles County sheriff's station in Malibu with no phone, money, or transportation.
Morgan Harrington
Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington, 20, disappeared on October 17, 2009, after leaving a Metallica concert at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville. Her remains were found on an Albemarle County farm in January 2010.
Oscar Grant
Oscar Grant was shot by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle on the Fruitvale station platform in Oakland on January 1, 2009, and died hours later. Mehserle testified he mistook his gun for his Taser.
Sandra Cantu
Eight-year-old Sandra Cantu disappeared from the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park in Tracy, California, on March 27, 2009. Her body was found ten days later in a suitcase in an irrigation pond.
Shele Covlin
Shele Danishefsky Covlin, a 47-year-old Wall Street money manager, was found dead in the bathtub of her Upper West Side apartment on New Year's Eve 2009.
Amina and Sarah Said
Sisters Amina Said, 18, and Sarah Said, 17, were found shot to death in a taxi outside a hotel in Irving, Texas, on January 1, 2008.
Caylee Anthony
Two-year-old Caylee Anthony disappeared in June 2008. Her mother Casey Anthony waited 31 days before reporting her missing. Caylee's skeletal remains were found near the family home in December 2008.
Denise Amber Lee
Twenty-one-year-old Denise Amber Lee was abducted by Michael King from her North Port, Florida home on January 17, 2008, and murdered.
Jessie Davis
Jessie Davis, 26 and nearly nine months pregnant, was killed at her home in Lake Township, Stark County, Ohio, on June 14, 2007. Her body was found nine days later in a Summit County park.
Kara Kopetsky
Kara Kopetsky, 17, disappeared after leaving Belton High School in Missouri on May 4, 2007. Her remains were found in woods in Cass County in April 2017, beside those of Jessica Runions, and were identified that August.
Meredith Kercher
British exchange student Meredith Kercher, 21, was killed in her bedroom in Perugia, Italy, on November 1, 2007. Rudy Guede was convicted of murder and sexual assault in 2008 and released in 2021 after serving 13 years of a…
Alexander Litvinenko
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium-210 in London. A British inquiry concluded Russian President Putin probably approved the operation. Two suspects were identified.
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…
Nina Reiser
Nina Reiser, 31, disappeared on September 3, 2006, after dropping her two children at her estranged husband's home in Oakland, California.
Rachel & Lillian Entwistle
Rachel Entwistle, 27, and her nine-month-old daughter Lillian Rose were shot dead in their rented home in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, on January 20, 2006; police found them two days later.
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.
Robert Wone
Attorney Robert Wone, 32, was found stabbed to death on August 2, 2006 in the guest room of a friend's townhouse on Swann Street in Washington, D.C. No one has been charged with his murder.
Jessica Lunsford
Nine-year-old Jessica Lunsford was abducted from her Homosassa home and murdered by registered sex offender John Couey. Her remains were found in a bag buried near Couey's trailer. She had been buried alive.
Tara Grinstead
Tara Grinstead, a 30-year-old high school history teacher and former beauty queen, vanished from her home in Ocilla, Georgia, in October 2005.
Teresa Halbach
Freelance photographer Teresa Halbach disappeared after photographing a vehicle at the Avery Salvage Yard. Her remains were found on the property. Steven Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey were both convicted of murder.
Alonzo Brooks
Alonzo Brooks, a 23-year-old man, disappeared after a party at a rural farmhouse near La Cygne, Kansas, in April 2004; his body was found weeks later in a nearby creek.
Bobbie Jo Stinnett
Bobbie Jo Stinnett, a 23-year-old woman eight months pregnant, was strangled in Skidmore, Missouri in December 2004 and her unborn baby cut from her womb. Lisa Montgomery was convicted and executed in 2021; the baby survived.
Brittany Phillips
Brittany Phillips, an 18-year-old who had recently returned home to Tulsa, Oklahoma, was raped and strangled in her apartment in September 2004.
Carlie Brucia
Eleven-year-old Carlie Brucia was abducted from a car wash in Sarasota on Super Bowl Sunday while walking home. Surveillance footage of her abduction was broadcast nationally. Joseph P.
Leigh Matthews
Leigh Matthews, a 21-year-old student, was kidnapped from the Bond University campus parking lot in Johannesburg on July 9, 2004.
Lori Hacking
Lori Hacking, 27, was shot at her Salt Lake City apartment on July 19, 2004 by her husband, Mark Hacking, who reported her missing the same morning. He had invented a college degree and a medical school place.
Oakey 'Al' Kite
Aurora, Colorado engineer Oakey Kite was tortured and murdered in his home by someone posing as a prospective tenant. DNA from the scene has never been matched. The killer used a fake identity and may be a serial offender.
Patrice Endres
Patrice Endres, a 38-year-old salon owner, vanished from her Cumming, Georgia, business within a roughly 13-minute window in 2004.
Peter & Joan Porco
Chris Porco attacked his parents with an axe while they slept in Delmar, New York. His father died; his mother survived but lost an eye. Joan initially identified Chris by nodding, then denied it.
Robert Keith Palomares
Armored car guard Robert Keith Palomares, 24, was shot and killed during a robbery outside a movie theater in Phoenix on November 29, 2004.
Sarah Fox
Sarah Fox, a 21-year-old drama student at the Juilliard School, disappeared on May 19, 2004, after leaving her Inwood apartment in upper Manhattan to go jogging.
Dru Sjodin
University of North Dakota student Dru Sjodin was abducted from a mall parking lot in Grand Forks by registered sex offender Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. Her body was found near Crookston, Minnesota, in April 2004.
Jason Johnson (Camoflauge)
Rapper Jason Akeil Johnson, 21, who performed as Camoflauge, was shot on May 19, 2003, outside the Pure Pain Records studio on West 37th Street in Savannah, Georgia, while walking with his toddler son, who was not hurt.
Tamara Greene
Tamara Greene, 27, a mother of three who danced under the name "Strawberry," was shot in her car in a drive-by shooting at Roselawn Street and West Outer Drive in Detroit on April 30, 2003.
Daniel Pearl
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan, on January 23, 2002, and murdered. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was convicted and sentenced to death in Pakistan in 2002, but the Sindh High Court…
Danielle van Dam
Seven-year-old Danielle van Dam was abducted from her Sabre Springs home on the night of February 1-2, 2002, and murdered by neighbor David Westerfield.
Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman
Ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were murdered by school caretaker Ian Huntley in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002.
Jam Master Jay
Jason Mizell, known as Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC, was shot in the head at his recording studio in Queens on October 30, 2002. Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr.
Jennifer Servo
Television reporter Jennifer Servo, 22, was found dead in her Abilene, Texas, apartment on September 18, 2002, two days after she was killed.
John Gilbride
John Gilbride, 34, a US Airways baggage supervisor, was shot in his car outside his apartment complex in Maple Shade, New Jersey, and found at 12:08 a.m. on September 27, 2002.
Laci Peterson
Laci Peterson was eight months pregnant when she disappeared on Christmas Eve 2002. Her husband Scott Peterson reported her missing and became the prime suspect.
Samantha Runnion
Five-year-old Samantha Runnion was abducted from outside her Orange County apartment complex and murdered. Her mother Erin Runnion became a prominent child safety advocate, founding the Joyful Child Foundation.
Sara Ann Lewis Trusty
Sara Trusty, 23, was last seen riding her bicycle near Algoa Baptist Church in Algoa, Galveston County, Texas, on July 12, 2002. About two weeks later, fishermen found her body on the Texas City Dike.
Ashley Ellerin
Michael Gargiulo was convicted in August 2019 of murdering Ashley Ellerin, a 22-year-old fashion design student who was stabbed 47 times in her Hollywood home on February 21, 2001.
Bonny Lee Bakley
Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, was shot on May 4, 2001, while sitting in a parked car near Vitello's restaurant in Studio City, Los Angeles.
Chandra Levy
Federal intern Chandra Levy disappeared from Washington, D.C., in 2001. Her remains were found in Rock Creek Park a year later. Her disappearance drew enormous attention due to her relationship with congressman Gary Condit, who…
Dena Dean
Fifteen-year-old Dena Dean was found stabbed to death in a park in Tamworth, England on her way to school. Despite extensive investigation, her killer has never been identified.
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…
Henryk Siwiak
Henryk Siwiak, a 46-year-old Polish immigrant, was shot at about 11:40 p.m. on September 11, 2001, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, after getting lost on the way to a new job.
Jill-Lyn Euto
Jill-Lyn Euto, 18, was stabbed to death in her sixth-floor apartment at 600 James Street in Syracuse, New York, on Super Bowl Sunday, January 28, 2001. Her mother found her the next day.
Kent Heitholt
Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt, 48, was beaten and strangled in the newspaper's parking lot shortly after 2 a.m. on November 1, 2001.
Peter Falconio
British backpacker Peter Falconio, 28, was shot on the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek in Australia's Northern Territory on July 14, 2001; his girlfriend Joanne Lees escaped.
Tara Louise Baker
Tara Louise Baker, a 23-year-old University of Georgia law student, was killed in her Athens apartment in 2001, the crime concealed by an intentionally set fire.
Thomas C. Wales
Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas C. Wales, 49, was shot through a basement window of his Seattle home on the night of October 11, 2001, as he worked at his computer; he died the next day.
Yates Children
Five children of the Yates family, aged six months to seven years, were drowned by their mother, Andrea Yates, at their home in the Clear Lake area of Houston on June 20, 2001.
Joe Andriano
Joe Andriano, who was terminally ill with cancer, was killed in his Phoenix apartment on October 8, 2000. He had been struck at least 23 times on the head and stabbed in the neck, and sodium azide was found in his blood.
Mary Lou Morris
Mary Lou Henderson Morris, 48, was found dead in her burned car near her Baytown, Texas, home on October 12, 2000. Days later, an unrelated Houston-area woman, Mary McGinnis Morris, 39, was found shot in her car.
Molly Bish
Molly Bish, 16, vanished on June 27, 2000, minutes after her mother dropped her off for her lifeguard shift at Comins Pond in Warren, Massachusetts. Her belongings were left at her post.
Valerie Mack
Valerie Mack, 24, was last seen in 2000; partial remains were found that year in Manorville, Long Island, and more along Ocean Parkway in 2011. She was identified in May 2020.
Zebb Wayne Quinn
Zebb Wayne Quinn, an 18-year-old Walmart employee, disappeared in Asheville, North Carolina, on January 2, 2000, after leaving work with a coworker to look at a car.
Girly Chew Hossencofft
Girly Chew Hossencofft disappeared from Albuquerque in 1999 during a divorce from her husband Diazien, who claimed to be a government scientist with alien DNA.
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.
Jessica Dishon
Jessica Dishon, 17, vanished from her family's driveway in Bullitt County, Kentucky, on the morning of September 10, 1999, and was found beaten and strangled 17 days later.
Jill Dando
BBC presenter Jill Dando, 37, was shot once in the head outside her home in Fulham, London, on April 26, 1999. Barry George was convicted of her murder in 2001, but the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction in 2007 and a jury…
Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman
Best friends Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman, both 16, disappeared from the Freeman family home near Welch, Oklahoma, on the night Ashley's parents were shot dead and the house was set on fire.
James Byrd Jr.
James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old Black man, was chained by the ankles to a pickup truck and dragged about three miles to his death near Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998.
Maddie Clifton
Eight-year-old Maddie Clifton disappeared in Jacksonville, Florida, on November 3, 1998. A week later her body was found hidden in the waterbed frame of her 14-year-old neighbor, Joshua Phillips, by his mother.
Suzanne Jovin
Suzanne Jovin, a 21-year-old Yale University senior, was stabbed to death in a New Haven neighborhood in December 1998. Her thesis adviser was wrongly cast as a suspect and later cleared; the killing remains unsolved.
Tristan Brübach
Thirteen-year-old Tristan Brübach was brutally murdered in an underground pedestrian passage in Frankfurt, Germany. The case remains one of Germany's most notorious unsolved child murders.
Ennis Cosby
Ennis Cosby, 27, the son of entertainer Bill Cosby, was shot dead on January 16, 1997, while changing a flat tire beside Interstate 405 in Los Angeles.
Gianni Versace
Fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot on the steps of his Miami Beach mansion by spree killer Andrew Cunanan. Cunanan had already killed four others across the country before targeting Versace.
Judy Smith
Judy Smith, a 50-year-old nurse from Newton, Massachusetts, vanished from a Philadelphia hotel in April 1997. Five months later her stabbed remains were found more than 600 miles away in the North Carolina mountains, and how she…
Levi Frady
Levi Frady, an 11-year-old boy, disappeared while riding his bike home in Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1997 and was found shot to death the next day in Dawson Forest.
Michelle Moore-Bosko
Michelle Moore-Bosko, 18, was raped and killed in her Norfolk, Virginia, apartment in July 1997. Omar Ballard, the only person whose DNA matched the scene, pleaded guilty in 2000.
Peter Boy Kema
Peter Kema Jr., known as Peter Boy, was 6 when he was last seen alive on Hawaii Island in mid-1997; his parents did not report him missing until months later.
Richard Glossip (case)
Motel owner Barry Van Treese was beaten to death at the Best Budget Inn in Oklahoma City in January 1997 by Justin Sneed, who testified that Richard Glossip put him up to it. Glossip was twice convicted and sentenced to death.
Tanya Jackson ("Peaches")
A dismembered torso found at Hempstead Lake State Park in Lakeview, New York on June 28, 1997 was identified in April 2025 as Army veteran Tanya Jackson, 26, long known as "Peaches." Andrew Dykes, the father of her daughter…
The Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace)
Rapper Christopher Wallace, known as The Notorious B.I.G., was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles shortly after leaving a Vibe magazine after-party at the Petersen Automotive Museum, held the night after the Soul Train…
Amber Hagerman
Nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted while riding her bicycle in the parking lot of an abandoned grocery store in Arlington, Texas. A witness saw a man pull her into a black pickup truck.
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…
Anne Marie Fahey
Delaware Governor's scheduling secretary Anne Marie Fahey was murdered by her lover Thomas Capano, a prominent attorney. He disposed of her body at sea. Capano was sentenced to death.
Blair Adams
Canadian construction worker Blair Adams was found murdered in a Knoxville, Tennessee parking lot after a bizarre cross-country flight from his home in Surrey, British Columbia.
Damon and Devon Routier
Brothers Devon Routier, 6, and Damon Routier, 5, were fatally stabbed in their home in Rowlett, Texas, on June 6, 1996. Their mother, Darlie Routier, who said an intruder attacked them, was convicted of capital murder in Damon's…
JonBenét Ramsey
Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her family's Boulder home on December 26, 1996, hours after her mother reported finding a ransom note demanding $118,000.
Karina Holmer
Karina Holmer was a 20-year-old Swedish au pair whose dismembered body was found in a Boston dumpster in June 1996, roughly a day after she was last seen leaving a nightclub. The grisly killing has never been solved.
Kristin Smart
Cal Poly freshman Kristin Smart disappeared after a party near campus. Fellow student Paul Flores was the last person seen with her.
Tupac Shakur
Rapper Tupac Shakur was shot multiple times in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996, after attending a boxing match, and died six days later at University Medical Center.
Deanna Cremin
Seventeen-year-old Deanna Cremin was found strangled behind a senior housing complex on Jaques Street in Somerville, Massachusetts, on the morning of March 30, 1995, a short distance from her home.
Donnah Winger
Mark Winger murdered his wife Donnah and a shuttle driver he lured to their home, staging it to look like a break-in. He was a hero until a friend went to police years later.
Dr. John Bayard Britton
Dr. John Britton, 69, and his volunteer escort James Barrett, 74, were shot dead outside the Ladies Center clinic in Pensacola, Florida, on July 29, 1994; Barrett's wife June was wounded.
Jenny Lin
Fourteen-year-old Jenny Lin was stabbed to death in her family's home in Castro Valley, California, on May 27, 1994; her father found her in a bathroom when he returned from work.
Lamar Johnson (Exoneration)
Markus Boyd was shot dead by two masked men on his St. Louis porch on October 30, 1994. Lamar Johnson was convicted in 1995 and served about 28 years before Judge David Mason vacated the conviction on February 14, 2023, finding…
Megan Kanka
Seven-year-old Megan Kanka was sexually assaulted and murdered on July 29, 1994, by Jesse Timmendequas, a neighbor in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, who had two prior convictions for sex offenses against children.
Melissa Witt
Nineteen-year-old Melissa Witt was abducted from the parking lot of the Bowling World bowling alley in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on December 1, 1994.
Michael & Alex Smith
Michael Smith, 3, and his brother Alex, 14 months, drowned on October 25, 1994 when their mother, Susan Smith, let her car roll into John D. Long Lake near Union, South Carolina, with the boys strapped inside.
Angie Housman
Nine-year-old Angie Housman was abducted after leaving her school bus in St. Ann, Missouri, on November 18, 1993. A hunter found her body nine days later in the Busch Wildlife Area in St. Charles County.
Holly Piirainen
Ten-year-old Holly Piirainen disappeared on August 5, 1993, after leaving her grandparents' home in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to see a neighbor's puppies. Hunters found her remains in Brimfield on October 23, 1993.
Mia Zapata
Mia Zapata, the 27-year-old lead singer of Seattle punk band The Gits, was raped and strangled in 1993 in a killing that shook the city's music scene.
Polly Klaas
Twelve-year-old Polly Klaas was kidnapped at knifepoint from a slumber party at her Petaluma home and murdered. Richard Allen Davis was convicted and sentenced to death.
Sara Anne Wood
Twelve-year-old Sara Anne Wood was abducted while riding her bicycle home from church in Herkimer County, New York, in August 1993. Serial killer Lewis Lent Jr.
Sophie Sergie
Sophie Sergie, 20, of Pitkas Point, Alaska, was found sexually assaulted, stabbed and shot in a dormitory bathroom at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on April 26, 1993.
Susan Lund ("Ina Jane Doe")
In 1993, the severed head of a woman was found in a state park near Ina, Illinois, and she remained unidentified for nearly 30 years as "Ina Jane Doe." In 2022 forensic genetic genealogy identified her as Susan Lund, a mother of…
Jeremy Guillory
Six-year-old Jeremy Guillory was strangled on February 7, 1992, in a house near Iowa, Louisiana, where Ricky Langley rented a room.
Lisa Ziegert
Lisa Ziegert, 24, who worked at a middle school, was abducted from her evening job at a card shop in Agawam, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1992, and found dead four days later.
Tammy Zywicki
College student Tammy Zywicki was last seen with her disabled car on Interstate 80 in LaSalle County, Illinois. Her body was found nine days later in Missouri.
Dana Ireland
Dana Ireland, 23, was abducted, raped and fatally beaten on the Big Island of Hawaii on Christmas Eve 1991. Three men were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated; in 2024 DNA identified a new suspect who died before arrest.
Denise Huber
Denise Huber, 23, disappeared from a Southern California freeway in June 1991 after her car got a flat tire. Her frozen body was found in 1994 in a truck at John Famalaro's Arizona home; he was convicted of murder in 1997 and…
Latasha Harlins
Latasha Harlins, 15, was shot in the back of the head by store owner Soon Ja Du at Empire Liquor Market in South Los Angeles on March 16, 1991, after a dispute over a bottle of orange juice.
Sarah Yarborough
Sarah Yarborough, 16, was sexually assaulted and strangled at Federal Way High School near Seattle in 1991. The case went cold for nearly three decades until forensic genetic genealogy identified Patrick Nicholas, who was…
Timothy Wiltsey
Five-year-old Timothy Wiltsey vanished from a carnival in Sayreville, New Jersey, in May 1991, and his skeletal remains were found nearly a year later.
Pamela Smart (case)
Gregg Smart, 24, was shot dead in his Derry, New Hampshire condominium on May 1, 1990 by teenagers recruited by his wife Pamela's student lover, Billy Flynn.
Susan Negersmith
Susan Negersmith, a 20-year-old from Carmel, New York, was found dead in Wildwood, New Jersey, over Memorial Day weekend 1990. Her death was first ruled accidental and later reclassified as a homicide.
Suzanne Sevakis
Suzanne Sevakis, 20, died in April 1990 five days after an apparent hit-and-run in Oklahoma City, where she was known as Tonya Hughes.
Amy Mihaljevic
Ten-year-old Amy Mihaljevic was lured from a Bay Village, Ohio, shopping center on October 27, 1989, and abducted; her body was found in a rural field months later. The killer has never been identified.
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.
Carol Stuart
Carol Stuart, 30 and pregnant, was shot in a car in Boston's Mission Hill on October 23, 1989 and died the next morning; her son, delivered by caesarean, lived 17 days. Her husband Charles blamed a Black gunman.
Jacob Wetterling
Eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted at gunpoint near his home in St. Joseph, Minnesota, on October 22, 1989. His disappearance led to the 1994 Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender…
Junko Furuta
Junko Furuta, a 17-year-old high school student from Misato, Saitama, was abducted on November 25, 1988, and held for about 40 days in a house in Adachi, Tokyo, where she died on January 4, 1989.
Lisa Bianco
Lisa Bianco was beaten to death outside her Mishawaka, Indiana, home on March 4, 1989, by her former husband, Alan Matheney, who was on an eight-hour prison furlough. She had not been notified of his release.
Mark Kilroy
University of Texas student Mark Kilroy was kidnapped during spring break in Matamoros, Mexico and ritually murdered by a drug-trafficking cult. His remains were found at a ranch with other victims.
April Tinsley
April Tinsley, an 8-year-old girl, was abducted, raped, and murdered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1988, in a case made more chilling by taunting notes the killer left for years.
Scott Johnson
American mathematician Scott Johnson was found dead at the base of cliffs in Manly, Sydney. Initially ruled a suicide, his death was reclassified as a gay hate crime. Scott White pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2023.
Barbara Blatnik
Barbara Blatnik, 17, of Garfield Heights, Ohio, was found strangled beside O'Neil Road in Cuyahoga Falls on December 20, 1987. In May 2020, after DNA and genetic genealogy work funded by the Porchlight Project, police arrested…
Daniel Morgan
Private investigator Daniel Morgan, 37, was killed with an axe in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, south London, on March 10, 1987.
Lisa Steinberg
Six-year-old Lisa Steinberg was fatally beaten on November 1, 1987, in the Greenwich Village apartment of Joel Steinberg, a lawyer who had raised her without ever legally adopting her.
Lita McClinton Sullivan
Lita McClinton Sullivan, an Atlanta socialite, was shot dead at her Buckhead townhouse in January 1987 by a hit man disguised as a flower delivery man, on the day of a divorce hearing.
Peggy Hettrick
Peggy Hettrick, 37, was found stabbed and mutilated in a field in Fort Collins, Colorado, on February 11, 1987. Tim Masters, 15 at the time, was convicted in 1999, but the conviction was vacated in January 2008 after DNA testing…
Cara Knott
Cara Knott, a 20-year-old San Diego State University student, was strangled and thrown into a ravine in December 1986 after being pulled over on an isolated Interstate 15 offramp.
Debra Jan Baker
Debra Jan Baker was found stabbed to death in her Cheyenne, Wyoming apartment. Her six-month-old daughter was found unharmed in a crib nearby. Despite DNA evidence from the scene, her killer has never been identified.
Diane Elsroth
Diane Elsroth died after taking a cyanide-laced Tylenol capsule in Yonkers, New York—a copycat of the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders.
Helle Crafts
Helle Crafts, a 39-year-old Pan Am flight attendant, was murdered by her husband Richard Crafts at their Newtown, Connecticut home in November 1986.
Jennifer Levin
Jennifer Levin, 18, was found strangled in Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art on August 26, 1986, hours after leaving an Upper East Side bar with Robert Chambers.
Michella Welch
Michella Welch, a 12-year-old girl, was abducted, sexually assaulted, and killed after disappearing from a park in Tacoma, Washington, in 1986.
Olof Palme
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot dead on February 28, 1986 while walking home from a cinema in Stockholm without bodyguards. Christer Pettersson was convicted in 1989 but acquitted on appeal the same year.
Sherri Rasmussen
Hospital nursing supervisor Sherri Rasmussen was beaten and shot in her home. The case went cold for 23 years until DNA from a bite wound matched LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus, who had been Sherri's husband's ex-girlfriend.
Jacqueline Martarella
Jacqueline "Jackie" Martarella, 19, disappeared on March 26, 1985, while walking from a friend's home in Oceanside, New York, to her job at a Burger King.
Shari Smith
Seventeen-year-old Shari Faye Smith was abducted at gunpoint from the end of her family's driveway in Lexington County, South Carolina, on May 31, 1985, and her body was found days later in Saluda County.
Angela Samota
Angela Samota, a 20-year-old Southern Methodist University student, was raped and stabbed to death in her Dallas home in the early hours of October 13, 1984.
Darlene Hulse
Darlene Hulse, 28, was attacked by a stranger who came to the door of her rural home near Argos, Indiana, on the morning of August 17, 1984, while her three young daughters were inside.
Jonelle Matthews
Jonelle Matthews, a 12-year-old girl, vanished from her Greeley, Colorado home in December 1984 after a Christmas choir concert.
Vicki Lynne Hoskinson
Eight-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson vanished on September 17, 1984 while riding her bicycle to mail a birthday card near her Tucson home. Her remains were found in the desert northwest of the city on April 12, 1985.
Wendy Jerome
Fourteen-year-old Wendy Jerome was raped and murdered on Thanksgiving night, November 22, 1984, after leaving her Rochester, New York home to deliver a birthday card to a friend; her body was found in an alcove at School No.
Diane Downs Children
Seven-year-old Cheryl Downs was shot dead and her siblings Christie, 8, and Danny, 3, were badly wounded on a rural road near Springfield, Oregon, on May 19, 1983.
Jeanine Nicarico
Jeanine Nicarico, 10, was abducted from her Naperville, Illinois home and murdered in February 1983. Two men were wrongly convicted and sent to death row before being exonerated; serial killer Brian Dugan pleaded guilty in 2009.
Kellie Poppleton
Kellie Jean Poppleton, a 14-year-old Fremont student, was found dead beside Kilkare Road in Sunol, California on December 2, 1983. She had been beaten and strangled.
Linda Lee Mack
Linda Lee Mack, a 35-year-old hospital nurse, was killed on the night of October 12, 1982, after leaving work and driving home along State Highway 34 south of Elk City in Beckham County, Oklahoma.
Lisa Au
Lisa Au, a 19-year-old Kailua hairdresser, disappeared on Oahu in January 1982; her abandoned car was found the next day and her body ten days later in a ravine off Tantalus Drive.
Lynette Dawson
Lynette Dawson vanished from her Sydney home. Her husband Chris Dawson, a former rugby league player and teacher, was convicted of her murder in 2022 after the podcast 'The Teacher's Pet' revived interest.
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.
Adam Walsh
Six-year-old Adam Walsh was abducted from a Sears store in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 1981. His severed head was found two weeks later.
Joan Webster
Joan Webster, a 25-year-old Harvard graduate student, vanished from the taxi line at Boston's Logan Airport in November 1981. Her skeletal remains were found in Hamilton, Massachusetts in 1990, and although a convicted killer…
Ken McElroy
Kenneth Rex McElroy, the notorious 'town bully' of Skidmore, Missouri, was shot dead in his pickup truck on the main street in front of dozens of witnesses in July 1981.
Natalie Wood
Actress Natalie Wood drowned off Santa Catalina Island, California, in 1981; the case was reopened decades later and her cause of death amended to include undetermined factors, but it remains unresolved.
Philip Testa
Philip "Chicken Man" Testa, 56, reputed head of the Philadelphia crime family, was fatally injured on March 15, 1981 when a nail-packed bomb exploded on the porch of his South Philadelphia home.
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.
Betty Gore
Betty Gore, 30, was killed with an axe at her home in Wylie, Texas, on June 13, 1980, sustaining 41 blows. Her friend Candy Montgomery was charged with murder and testified that she acted in self-defense after Gore confronted her.
Dorothy Jane Scott
Dorothy Jane Scott, 32, vanished from the parking lot of UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange County, California, on the night of May 28, 1980, after months of anonymous calls from a man who alternately professed love and…
Herman Tarnower
Dr. Herman Tarnower, 69, author of the Scarsdale Diet, was shot dead at his home in Purchase, New York, on March 10, 1980, by his longtime companion Jean Harris.
Suzanne Bombardier
Suzanne Bombardier, 14, was abducted in June 1980 while babysitting at her sister's home in Antioch, California; a fisherman found her body in the San Joaquin River days later. She had been raped and stabbed.
Etan Patz
Six-year-old Etan Patz was one of the first missing children to appear on a milk carton when he disappeared walking to school in SoHo. The case transformed child safety in America.
Holly Branagan
Seventeen-year-old Moira "Holly" Branagan was stabbed to death in the kitchen of her family's home on Pine Top Trail in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on March 28, 1979.
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.
Michelle Martinko
Eighteen-year-old Michelle Martinko was stabbed to death in her family's car in a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, shopping mall parking lot in December 1979.
Robin Samsoe
Twelve-year-old Robin Samsoe was abducted while riding her bicycle to dance class in Huntington Beach. Her case led to the identification and conviction of serial killer Rodney Alcala, known as 'The Dating Game Killer,' who is…
Susan Reinert
Teacher Susan Reinert of Ardmore was last seen on June 22, 1979; her body was found three days later in the trunk of her car at a hotel near Harrisburg. Her children, Karen, 11, and Michael, 10, were never found.
Bob Crane
Actor Bob Crane, 49, star of Hogan's Heroes, was found bludgeoned to death in his Scottsdale, Arizona, apartment on June 29, 1978. His friend John Carpenter was charged in 1992 and acquitted by a jury in 1994; he died in 1998.
Georgi Markov
Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov was assassinated on Waterloo Bridge in London when a ricin-filled pellet was injected into his leg using a modified umbrella.
Karla Brown
Karla Brown, 22, was found dead in the basement of the Wood River, Illinois, house she had moved into the day before, on June 21, 1978.
Kimberly Leach
Twelve-year-old Kimberly Leach was abducted from Lake City Junior High School in Florida on February 9, 1978. Her remains were found in April 1978 in a shed near Suwannee River State Park.
Bonnie Garland
Bonnie Garland, a 20-year-old Yale student, was fatally beaten with a hammer as she slept in her parents' Scarsdale, New York, home on July 7, 1977.
Holly Maddux
Helen "Holly" Maddux, 30, was last seen in Philadelphia on September 9, 1977; her body was found in March 1979 in a trunk in the apartment of her former partner, Ira Einhorn.
Thera Wilson
Thera Wilson, 26, was found stabbed to death on January 14, 1977, in the garage of the then-Statler Hilton Hotel at 10 Ford Street in Hartford, Connecticut. Hartford police followed numerous leads that year without result.
Lisa Christine Staes
On January 24, 1976, a fisherman found the nude, frozen body of a young woman under the Mirror Lake Road bridge near Lake Delton in Sauk County, Wisconsin.
Anna Mae Aquash
Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a 30-year-old Mi'kmaq activist in the American Indian Movement, was shot in mid-December 1975; her body was found near Wanblee on the Pine Ridge Reservation on February 24, 1976.
Frank Hilley
Frank Hilley died on May 25, 1975, in a death first attributed to infectious hepatitis. After his daughter Carol was found to have been poisoned with arsenic in 1979, his body was exhumed and arsenic was detected.
Martha Moxley
Fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1975. Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel was convicted in 2002, but his conviction was vacated in 2018 and prosecutors declined to…
Myrna Opsahl
Myrna Opsahl, 42, was fatally shot on April 21, 1975, while depositing church collection money during a Symbionese Liberation Army robbery of the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, California.
Arlis Perry
Arlis Perry, 19, was found murdered inside Stanford Memorial Church on October 13, 1974. In 2018 the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office said DNA from her clothing matched Stephen Blake Crawford, the former campus security guard…
Beverly Lynn Smith
Twenty-two-year-old Beverly Lynn Smith was shot in the back of the head in the kitchen of her home in Raglan, north of Oshawa, Ontario, on December 9, 1974, while her infant daughter was in the next room.
Carla Walker
Carla Walker, 17, was abducted at gunpoint from a Fort Worth bowling-alley parking lot in February 1974 and found murdered three days later.
Sandra Rivett
Sandra Rivett, 29, nanny to the children of Lord and Lady Lucan, was killed in the basement of the family home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street, London, on November 7, 1974.
Barbara Gibbons
Barbara Gibbons, 51, was killed in her home in the Falls Village section of Canaan, Connecticut, on September 28, 1973. Her son Peter Reilly, 18, was convicted of manslaughter in 1974 on the basis of a confession he recanted.
Penney Serra
Concetta 'Penney' Serra, a 21-year-old dental assistant, was stabbed to death in a New Haven, Connecticut parking garage in 1973.
Terri Lynn Hollis
Eleven-year-old Terri Lynn Hollis disappeared while riding her bicycle in Torrance, California on Thanksgiving Day 1972 and was found dead the next day in Ventura County. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.
Cornelia Crilley
Cornelia Crilley, a 23-year-old TWA flight attendant, was found strangled in her apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side in June 1971.
Deborah Waring
Twenty-year-old Deborah Waring was found murdered in Goddard Memorial State Park in Warwick, Rhode Island. Her case is one of Rhode Island's oldest unsolved homicides.
Betsy Aardsma
Graduate student Betsy Aardsma was stabbed to death in the stacks of Penn State's Pattee Library on the day after Thanksgiving 1969. Despite a massive investigation, her killer was never identified.
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.
Jane Britton
Jane Britton, 23, a Harvard graduate student in anthropology, was sexually assaulted and beaten to death in her Cambridge apartment on January 7, 1969.
Paul Stine
Cab driver and graduate student Paul Lee Stine, 29, was shot in the head by a passenger at Washington and Cherry streets in San Francisco's Presidio Heights on October 11, 1969.
Reet Jurvetson
Reet Jurvetson, a 19-year-old from Montreal, was found stabbed to death off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles in November 1969 and remained unidentified as 'Jane Doe 59' for 46 years.
Jane Durrua
Jane Durrua, 13, of Keansburg, New Jersey, disappeared on November 4, 1968, and was found dead in a field in Middletown the next morning.
Robert F. Kennedy Assassination
Senator Robert F. Kennedy, 42, was shot in the kitchen pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, after winning the California Democratic primary; he died on June 6.
Wharlest Jackson
Wharlest Jackson, treasurer of the Natchez NAACP and a 12-year employee of the Armstrong Rubber and Tire Company, was killed on February 27, 1967, when a bomb planted under his pickup truck exploded as he drove home from work.
Cheri Jo Bates
Cheri Jo Bates, 18, a Riverside City College freshman, was stabbed to death near the campus library on the night of October 30, 1966; her body was found the next morning.
Valerie Percy
Valerie Percy, 21, daughter of U.S. Senate candidate Charles Percy, was beaten and stabbed in her bedroom at the family's lakefront home in Kenilworth, Illinois, early on September 18, 1966.
Alice Crimmins
Eddie Crimmins Jr., 5, and his sister Alice Marie "Missy" Crimmins, 4, were reported missing from their Queens apartment on July 14, 1965, and were found dead five days apart.
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Jimmie Lee Jackson, 26, a church deacon and voting rights activist, was shot by Alabama state trooper James Bonard Fowler in Marion on February 18, 1965, and died eight days later.
Mary Ellen Deener
Mary Ellen Deener, 14, was murdered in Mansfield, Ohio, on November 14, 1965, while walking to a laundromat. Lester Eubanks was convicted in May 1966 and sentenced to death, later commuted to life.
Frank Morris
Frank Morris, a Black shoe-shop owner in Ferriday, Louisiana, was fatally burned in the early hours of December 10, 1964, when two white men set fire to his store and, according to FBI records, one of them blocked his escape…
Kitty Genovese
Kitty Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her apartment in Kew Gardens, Queens, early on March 13, 1964. Winston Moseley confessed, was convicted of murder that June and died in prison in 2016.
Mary Pinchot Meyer
Mary Pinchot Meyer, a Washington socialite and former mistress of President John F. Kennedy, was shot to death while walking along the C&O Canal towpath in Georgetown. Raymond Crump Jr.
John F. Kennedy Assassination
President John F. Kennedy, 46, was shot dead in his motorcade in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged but was killed by Jack Ruby two days later and never tried.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers, 37, the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi, was shot in the back outside his Jackson home shortly after midnight on June 12, 1963, and died within the hour.
James Kinne
James Kinne, a 25-year-old electronics engineer, was fatally shot in the back of the head at his Independence, Missouri home on March 19, 1960; his death was initially ruled accidental after his wife Sharon said their toddler…
George Reeves
George Reeves, the actor who played Superman on television, died of a gunshot wound to the head at his Benedict Canyon home in Los Angeles on June 16, 1959, at age 45.
Joseph Augustus Zarelli
A young boy's battered, naked body was found in a cardboard box in Fox Chase, Philadelphia. Known for decades as 'America's Unknown Child,' he was finally identified in 2022 as Joseph Augustus Zarelli through DNA genealogy.
Barbara & Patricia Grimes
Sisters Barbara, 15, and Patricia Grimes, 12, vanished on December 28, 1956, after going to see an Elvis Presley film at Chicago's Brighton Theater.
Emmett Till
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and brutally murdered near Money, Mississippi, on August 28, 1955, after allegedly whistling at a white woman. Roy Bryant and J.W.
Marilyn Sheppard
Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio home. Her husband, Dr. Sam Sheppard, was convicted of murder in 1954 but his conviction was overturned. Retried in 1966, he was acquitted.
Bobby Greenlease
Six-year-old Bobby Greenlease was taken from his Kansas City school on September 28, 1953, by Bonnie Heady and killed the same day by Carl Austin Hall. His family paid a $600,000 ransom before his body was found.
Janett Christman
Thirteen-year-old Janett Christman was sexually assaulted and strangled on the night of March 18, 1950, while babysitting at a home in Columbia, Missouri.
Elizabeth Short (The Black Dahlia)
The mutilated body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was found in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. Her body had been severed at the waist, drained of blood, and posed.
Suzanne Degnan
Six-year-old Suzanne Degnan was abducted from her bedroom in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood on January 7, 1946, and killed. William Heirens, 17, pleaded guilty in September 1946 to her murder and two others and received three…
Charles Lindbergh Jr.
The infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family estate in Hopewell, New Jersey. A ransom was paid but the baby's body was found two months later.
Bobby Franks
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks was abducted and killed in Chicago on May 21, 1924, by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy students.
William Desmond Taylor
Film director William Desmond Taylor, 49, was shot in the back at his bungalow in the Alvarado Court Apartments in Los Angeles on the evening of February 1, 1922; his body was found the next morning.
Virginia Christian Case
Ida Belote, 51, was killed in her Hampton, Virginia, home on March 18, 1912. Her 16-year-old laundress, Virginia Christian, was convicted of first-degree murder by an all-white, all-male jury in April 1912 and was electrocuted…
Elsie Paroubek
Elsie Paroubek, a Chicago girl of four or five, disappeared on April 8, 1911, while walking to her aunt's house. A month later her body was recovered from the drainage canal near Lockport, about 35 miles away.
Hazel Drew
Hazel Drew, a 20-year-old domestic servant from Troy, New York, was found dead in Teal's Pond near Sand Lake in July 1908 with her skull crushed by a blunt weapon.
Stanford White
Architect Stanford White, 52, was shot dead on June 25, 1906, at the rooftop theater of Madison Square Garden by Harry K. Thaw, husband of Evelyn Nesbit.
Nell Cropsey
Nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey vanished from her family home in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Her body was found in the Pasquotank River 37 days later. Her beau Jim Wilcox was convicted but later pardoned.
Carrie Brown
Carrie Brown, known on the Bowery as "Old Shakespeare," was found strangled and mutilated in Room 31 of the East River Hotel in Manhattan on April 24, 1891.