Unsolved cases
Homicides and other crimes with no one held responsible. Some are a century old. Some are from this year.
Lavelle Felton
Lavelle R Felton (October 5, 1979 – August 13, 2009) was an American professional basketball player. In 2009, he was killed in an unsolved shooting.
1989 · New JerseyUnsolved
Murder of Cissy Stuart
On April 2, 1989, 74-year-old American newspaper owner Emily "Cissy" Stuart was stabbed to death in her home in the borough of Princeton, New Jersey. Her fully clothed body was discovered two days later in her locked basement with no signs of a struggle, and nothing was missing from the house. The Mercer County medical examiner found five stab wounds on her back.
2016 · NevadaUnsolvedKillings of Sydney Land and Nehemiah Kauffman
On October 26, 2016, Sydney Land and her boyfriend Nehemiah Kauffman were shot and killed in her apartment in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their bodies were found the next day. Initially, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (also known as Metro) announced that they had no motive and no suspects in the case.
2023 · AlabamaUnsolvedMurder of Amore Wiggins
Amore Joveah Wiggins, formerly known as Opelika Jane Doe, (born January 1, 2006 – c. 2011) was a formerly unidentified murder victim whose skeletal remains were found in a trailer park in Opelika, Alabama. Her identity was not known until nearly 11 years later, in January 2023. Wiggins's father, Lamar Vickerstaff, was subsequently charged with felony murder and failure to report a missing child, while her…
1986 · New YorkUnsolved
Murder of Chaim Weiss
The murder of Chaim Weiss, a 16-year-old student at the Torah High School yeshiva in Long Beach, New York, took place on November 1, 1986. Weiss was bludgeoned to death while sleeping in his dormitory room, with no motive or evidence being found except that his body and the crime scene were possibly tampered with. Weiss' murder remains unsolved, though investigators believe the murderer was likely a student or…
Year unknown · North CarolinaUnsolved
Lynching of Red Roach
The lynching of Edward "Red" Roach was the extrajudicial killing of a 25-year-old Black man by a mob of White men in Roxboro, North Carolina, for allegedly assaulting the 13-year-old daughter of popular White tobacco farmer Edward Chambers. Later, Nello Teer, Roach's employer, wrote to The Herald-Sun in Durham decrying the lynching as a "ghastly mistake" because Roach was at work when the alleged attack on Chambers…
2005 · New JerseyUnsolvedKilling of Geetha Angara
On the afternoon of February 9, 2005, the body of 43-year-old Geetha Angara (born July 15, 1961) a chemist, was found in a water tank at the Passaic Valley Water Commission treatment facility in Totowa, New Jersey, United States, after the tanks had been drained. She had not been seen since the previous morning when she had gone to the water tanks to take samples; items she had been carrying when she was last seen…
1911 · OregonUnsolved
Ardenwald axe murders
The Ardenwald axe murders is an unsolved mass murder that occurred in the early morning of June 9, 1911, in Ardenwald, Oregon, United States, then a neighboring community of Portland. The victims were the Hill family: William Hill, his wife Ruth, and Ruth's two children from a previous marriage, Philip and Dorothy. All four victims had been bludgeoned to death with an axe.
1935 · MissouriUnsolved
Murder of Artemus Ogletree
On January 5, 1935, a man who had given his name as Roland T. Owen, later identified as Artemus Ogletree, died at a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, United States from beating and stabbing injuries. His death was preceded by a two-day stay in Room 1046 at the Hotel President in what is now the city's Power & Light District marked by communication with someone named "Don" and unusual behavior and incidents noted by…
2014 · New YorkUnsolvedChen family killings
In the early afternoon of October 8, 2014, a coworker of Jin Chen, 39, of Guilderland, New York, United States, found the bodies of Chen, his wife and their two children in their home. Police were called to the scene and determined that the family had been killed sometime in the hours before dawn that day by either a knife or a hammer. No suspects have been identified and as of July 2026, the investigation is…
1974 · OregonUnsolvedCowden family murders
Richard Cowden (born October 9, 1946), his wife Belinda June Cowden (born May 24, 1952), and their children, David James Phillips (born June 30, 1969) and Melissa Dawn Cowden (born March 19, 1974), disappeared from their campground in the Siskiyou Mountains near Copper, Oregon, United States, on September 1, 1974. Seven months later, in April 1975, their bodies were discovered approximately 7 miles (11 km) from…
1987 · IllinoisUnsolvedDardeen family homicides
The Dardeen family homicides were a series of murders that occurred on November 18, 1987, near Ina, Illinois, United States. The victims were members of the Dardeen family, including Ruby Elaine Dardeen, her young son, and her newborn daughter. Investigators determined that members of the family were victims of a targeted attack.
1997 · North CarolinaUnsolvedKilling of Judy Smith
On September 7, 1997, hunters in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest found human bones, clothing, and some other items scattered in the woods near a campground. The remains, most of which were around a shallow grave, were identified as belonging to a woman between the ages of 40 and 55 with a seriously arthritic knee. Due to holes and cuts on her bra, and similar cutting marks on the bones, investigators ruled…
1924 · OregonUnsolved
Lava Lake murders
The Lava Lake murders refers to a triple murder that occurred near Little Lava Lake in the Deschutes National Forest in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States, in January 1924. The victims were Edward Nickols (50), Roy Wilson (35), and Dewey Morris (25), all of whom were working as fur trappers in the Deschutes National Forest in the winter of 1923–1924. Their bodies were discovered in Little Lava Lake in April…
1980 · CaliforniaUnsolvedMurder of Dorothy Jane Scott
Dorothy Jane Scott (April 23, 1948 — May 28, 1980) was an American woman who disappeared on May 28, 1980, in Anaheim, California. After driving two co-workers to the hospital, Scott went to fetch her car to take them back to their workplace. However, as her car approached them, it sped away; neither could see who was driving as its headlights had blinded them.
2016 · District of ColumbiaUnsolvedMurder of Seth Rich
The murder of Seth Rich occurred on July 10, 2016, at 4:20 a.m. in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Rich died about an hour and a half after being shot twice in the back. The perpetrators were never apprehended; police suspected he had been the victim of an attempted robbery.
1978 · MissouriUnsolvedMurder of Jimmy Hendricks and Kim Mills
James Hendricks and Kimberlin Mills are American murder victims who were discovered on June 17, 1978. The pair were believed to have been seen together at a truck stop in Missouri, which is where the murders are presumed to have taken place. Hendricks was left at the crime scene, while Mills was found in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
2010 · Puerto RicoUnsolvedMurder of Lorenzo González Cacho
Lorenzo Ahmed González Cacho (November 29, 2001 – March 9, 2010) was an eight-year-old Puerto Rican boy who was murdered on March 9, 2010 in his home in Dorado, Puerto Rico. At the time of his death, his mother, Ana Cacho González, and two sisters were at the house. The case gained notoriety in the island for the discrepancies and irregularities surrounding the crime scene, the evidence and testimonies.
1972 · CaliforniaUnsolved
Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders
The Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders was a series of at least seven unsolved homicides and unsolved disappearances all involving young female hitchhikers occurring within Santa Rosa and throughout Sonoma County in the North Bay area of California beginning in 1972. All of the victims were found nude and with very little physical evidence and were dumped within rural areas near steep embankments or in creek beds near…
1979 · TexasUnsolvedMurder of Debra Jackson
Debra Louise Jackson (September 20, 1956 – October 30 or 31, 1979), informally known as "Orange Socks" when unidentified, was an American murder victim who went unidentified for nearly 40 years before being identified through a DNA match with her surviving sister in 2019. Her murder is believed to have taken place on October 30 or 31, 1979 in Georgetown, Texas. Her body was found naked except for the pair of orange…
1968 · MichiganUnsolvedRobison family murders
The Robison family murders (also known as the Good Hart murders) are an unsolved mass murder which occurred in the secluded resort area of Good Hart, Michigan, on June 25, 1968. The victims were a vacationing upper-middle-class family from Lathrup Village who were shot and killed inside their Lake Michigan holiday cottage, with two decedents also bludgeoned with a hammer prior to death. Their bodies remained…
1981 · CaliforniaUnsolvedKeddie murders
The Keddie murders are an unsolved quadruple homicide that occurred over the night of April 11–12, 1981, in Keddie, California, United States. The victims were Glenna Susan "Sue" Sharp (née Davis; born March 29, 1945), daughter Tina Louise Sharp (born July 22, 1968), son John Steven Sharp (born November 16, 1965) and John's friend Dana Hall Wingate (born February 8, 1964). The murders took place in house No.
2008 · IllinoisUnsolvedLane Bryant murders
The Lane Bryant murders was an incident of mass murder at a Lane Bryant clothing outlet in the Brookside Marketplace in Tinley Park, Illinois, United States, a suburb of Chicago, that occurred on February 2, 2008. The shooting resulted in five people killed and a sixth injured. Police said the attack appeared to have been a botched robbery attempt, though the motive of the shooting remains unknown for certain.
1976 · South CarolinaUnsolved
Murders of Pamela Buckley and James Freund
James Paul Freund (September 16, 1946 – August 9, 1976) and Pamela Mae Buckley (December 16, 1951 – August 9, 1976), commonly known as the Sumter County Does, Jock Doe and Jane Doe respectively, were two previously unidentified American murder victims found in Sumter County, South Carolina, on August 9, 1976. They had apparently traveled through various places in the United States before being murdered in South…