Unsolved cases
Homicides and other crimes with no one held responsible. Some are a century old. Some are from this year.
Chris Trickle
Chris Trickle (May 30, 1972 – March 25, 1998) was an American stock car racing driver. A competitor in the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour, he was murdered in a drive-by shooting that remains unsolved.
1979 · NevadaUnsolvedMurder of Gwenn Story
Gwenn Marie Story (February 23, 1960 – August 14, 1979) was a 19-year-old American woman who was murdered in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 14, 1979. Her body remained unidentified for 44 years before being identified via DNA analysis and genetic genealogy in December 2023. Prior to her identification, Story was nicknamed "Sahara Sue" and "Jane Las Vegas Doe" because her body was found near the Sahara Hotel in Las…
1995 · North CarolinaUnsolvedKilling of Randi Boothe-Wilson
Randi Stacey Boothe-Wilson (known primarily by her middle name) was a formerly unidentified American woman discovered dead in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina on December 6, 1995. Boothe-Wilson served as a member of the United States Marine Corps from the early 1980s to her discharge in August 1994. She had married a fellow Marine, but they were divorced in 1994.
1982 · New JerseyUnsolvedMurder of Dawn Olanick
Dawn Rita Olanick (August 5, 1964 – c. July 1982), previously known as Princess Doe, was an unidentified American teenage decedent from Bohemia, New York, who was found murdered in Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blairstown Township, New Jersey on July 15, 1982. Her face had been bludgeoned beyond recognition.
1959 · FloridaUnsolvedWalker family murders
On December 19, 1959, Christine and Cliff Walker and their two children were murdered at their home in Osprey, Florida. The case is unsolved.
1985 · HawaiiUnsolvedHonolulu Strangler
The Honolulu Strangler, also known as The Honolulu Rapist, is the nickname given to an unidentified serial killer who is believed to have killed five women in Hawaii from 1985 and 1986. He is the second known serial killer active in the state (after Eugene Barrett).
1981 · District of ColumbiaUnsolved
Raymond Nels Nelson
Raymond Nels Nelson (September 2, 1921 – June 1, 1981) was bureau chief of The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin and later a member of the staff of Senator Claiborne Pell. He was found murdered in his Washington, D.C. apartment on June 1, 1981. The murder is still unsolved.
Year unknownUnsolvedTom Sullivan
Thomas Sullivan, also known as "Tommy", and "Irish Tommy" (July 9, 1919 – December 22, 1957, in South Boston) was an American professional light heavyweight boxer whose murder remains unsolved.
1884 · TexasUnsolved
Servant Girl Annihilator
The Servant Girl Annihilator, also known as the Midnight Assassin, was an unidentified American serial killer who preyed upon the city of Austin, Texas, in 1884 and 1885. The moniker "Servant Girl Annihilator" originated with the writer O. Henry. The series of eight axe murders were referred to by contemporary sources as the Servant Girl Murders.
1918 · LouisianaUnsolved
Axeman of New Orleans
The Axeman of New Orleans was an unidentified American serial killer who was active in and around New Orleans, Louisiana between May 1918 and October 1919. Press reports during the height of public panic over the killings mentioned similar crimes as early as 1911, but recent researchers have called these reports into question. The attacker was never identified, and the murders remain unsolved.
1976 · MichiganUnsolved
Oakland County Child Killer
The Oakland County Child Killer (OCCK) is the name given to the perpetrator(s) responsible for the serial killings of at least four children in Oakland County, Michigan, between 1976 and 1977. The children who were murdered were last seen in the company of a young to middle-aged man with a defined face, sharp nose, and long black hair. The victims were held captive before being killed, and the four deaths triggered…
1970 · PennsylvaniaUnsolvedMurder of Terry Bowers Jr.
Terrence J. Bowers Jr. (Nov 23, 1958 – April 26, 1970) was an American child who was murdered on the grounds of St. Basil The Great Roman Catholic Church in Kimberton, Chester County, PA while camping with his Boy Scout Troop in 1970.
2000 · UtahUnsolvedMurder of Nikole Bakoles
Nikole Kistina "Niki" Bakoles (August 23, 1980 – c. 2000), also known during the period she remained unidentified as Saltair Sally, was an American woman whose remains were discovered near Salt Lake City, Utah, in October 2000. Although her identity was confirmed in 2012, her death remains an unsolved case.
1971 · North CarolinaUnsolvedMurders of Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane
On February 12, 1971, Patricia Ann Mann, age 20 and Jesse Allen McBane, age 18, were found brutally murdered in the woods of Orange County, North Carolina. The murders, known as "The Valentine's Day Murders", have to this day never been solved. Police have permanently reopened the investigation since 2011.
1940UnsolvedSacramento Mad Killer
Between 1940 and 1941, a series of unsolved murders occurred in the Sacramento metropolitan area, in which a minimum of five middle-aged men were killed. The "Mad Killer" responsible was never identified.
1997 · FloridaUnsolvedSouth Florida serial murders
Between February 1997 and August 2001, a series of mostly unsolved murders of disenfranchised women occurred in South Florida, one of whom was former Playboy model Star Stowe.
Year unknown · North CarolinaUnsolvedMurder of Suellen Evans
Suellen Evans (April 1, 1944 – June 30, 1965) was a college student taking summer courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) who was stabbed and slashed to death at the campus' Coker Arboretum when she fought off a rape attempt. The killer has never been identified, and investigations have gone cold over the years, the murder having a lasting impact on the community and local police force.…
1974 · OhioUnsolvedMurder of Linda Pagano
Linda Marie Pagano, formerly known as Strongsville Jane Doe, was an American murder victim from Akron, Ohio who was an unidentified decedent for 44 years. Following an argument with her stepfather on September 1, 1974, Pagano left her stepfather's apartment and was never seen again. On February 5, 1975, partial skeletal remains of a white female were found by three boys in a park in Strongsville, Ohio.
1984 · WashingtonUnsolvedMurder of Ruth Waymire
Ruth Belle Waymire (April 16, 1960 – c. June 1984), formerly known as Millie Doe, was a formerly unidentified female murder victim whose dismembered body was found in Spokane, Washington, in 1984. Her body was recovered from the Spokane River on June 20, 1984, and was missing the hands, feet, and head. Fourteen years later, in 1998, a skull was found elsewhere in Spokane that was later determined as belonging to…
1967 · ConnecticutUnsolvedBra murders
The Bra murders were a series of murders committed against four sex workers and one mother of four from 1967 to 1971 in Stamford, Connecticut. Most of the victims were African American or in active addiction, each had been strangled, sometimes with their own bras, from which the murders' moniker originated. Benjamin Franklin Miller, a self-styled preacher from Norwalk, was charged and later acquitted by reason of…
2002 · ColoradoUnsolvedDeath of Jaryd Atadero
Jaryd J. Atadero was a three-year-old American boy who went missing on October 2, 1999, while hiking with a Christian social group on Big South Trail, a part of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado. Two businessmen located items of clothing belonging to Atadero during a hiking trip on June 4, 2003; search and rescue personnel recovered his partial remains on June 14. Atadero's disappearance and…
2020 · ArkansasUnsolvedLittle Rock serial stabbings
The Little Rock serial stabbings refer to a series of seemingly random stabbings that occurred from August 2020 to April 2021 in Little Rock, Arkansas, during which a total of four people were stabbed, three of them fatally. The local police department later revealed that a single suspect, a possible serial killer, was linked to the incidents via CCTV footage, but has not been apprehended so far.
1986 · District of ColumbiaUnsolvedSuitland murders
The Suitland murders refers to a series of murders of young girls and women committed from October 1986 to January 1987 in the unincorporated area of Suitland, Maryland, considered a suburb of Washington, D.C. All victims were black, and each had been sexually assaulted and stabbed afterwards. During the investigation, police arrested a resident of D.C., Alton Alonso Best, for the murder of a girl that was never…
1975 · New YorkUnsolvedBag murders
The bag murders were a series of murders of six men from 1975 to 1977 in New York City. The nickname originated from the fact that each victim had been dismembered, his remains stuffed in a garbage bag and thrown into the Hudson River. The identities of the victims, as well as their killer, have never been established.