Unsolved cases
Homicides and other crimes with no one held responsible. Some are a century old. Some are from this year.
Murder of Alisha Heinrich
Alisha Ann Heinrich, previously known as "Baby Jane" and "Delta Dawn", was a formerly unidentified American child murder victim whose body was found in Moss Point, Mississippi, in December 1982. The child, aged approximately 18 months, was partially smothered before she was thrown alive from the eastbound Interstate 10 bridge into the Escatawpa River, where she ultimately drowned. Her body was recovered between 36…
2014 · ConnecticutUnsolvedMurder of Michelle Garvey
Michelle Angela Garvey (June 3, 1967 – July 1, 1982) was an American teenage girl murdered in Texas within a month of running away from her home in Connecticut. Her body was quickly found but remained unidentified until a 2014 DNA test, after an amateur Internet researcher suggested a match between the Texas unidentified decedent and Connecticut missing-person data.
1996 · VirginiaUnsolvedMissing persons cases along U.S. Route 29 in Virginia
Since 1996, there has been an unusually high number of cases involving young women disappearing along U.S. Route 29 (US 29) in Virginia, or an area known as the "Route 29 Corridor". Five young women disappeared in five years between 2009 and 2014, earning it a particularly notorious reputation. Of the nine murders/disappearances, only the cases of Morgan Dana Harrington (2009), Alexis Murphy (2013) and Hannah Graham…
1978 · CaliforniaUnsolvedKilling of Marilee Bruszer
Marilee Lee Bruszer, previously known as Juab County Jane Doe, was a formerly unidentified American murder victim who was found on September 3, 1978. Bruszer's body was not identified until August 2015, 37 years after her discovery, due in part to inaccurate estimates of her age and physical characteristics, and also due to the long distance between the site of her disappearance in California and the discovery of…
1980 · New MexicoUnsolved
Murder of Tammy Terrell
Tammy Corrine Terrell (July 4, 1963 – c. October 4, 1980) was an American murder victim from Roswell, New Mexico. Her body was discovered on October 5, 1980, in Henderson, Nevada, and remained unidentified until December 2021.
1995 · OhioUnsolvedMurder of Barbara Barnes
Barbara Ann Barnes was an American schoolgirl who was murdered in December 1995 at the age of 13. The case remains unsolved. Many have speculated that her uncle may have been responsible for her death, but others believe that the crime was committed by someone local to the area.
1980 · MinnesotaUnsolvedMurder of Sherri Jarvis
Sherri Ann Jarvis (March 9, 1966 – November 1, 1980) was an American murder victim from Forest Lake, Minnesota, whose body was discovered in Huntsville, Texas, on November 1, 1980. Her body was discovered within hours of her sexual assault and murder, and remained unidentified for 41 years before investigators announced her identification via forensic genealogy in November 2021. Despite initial efforts to discover…
1976 · PennsylvaniaUnsolvedMurder of Evelyn Colon
Evelyn Colon (previously known as Beth Doe; (1961-04-17)April 17, 1961 – December 1976) was a formerly unidentified American teenager from New Jersey who was found murdered and dismembered in three suitcases along with her unborn daughter on December 20, 1976, in White Haven, Pennsylvania. The brutality of the crime, the fact that she was pregnant when she was killed and the length of time that she remained…
2008 · WisconsinUnsolvedMurder of Amy Yeary
Amy Marie Yeary (December 9, 1989 – c. August 15 or 24, 2008) was an American teenager whose body was discovered on November 23, 2008, near Campbellsport, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Her body remained unidentified for 13 years before investigators announced her identification via forensic genealogy and dental records on November 23, 2021.
1981 · ArkansasUnsolvedMurder of Marcia King
Marcia Lenore Sossoman King ((1959-06-09)June 9, 1959 – (1981-04-22)April 22, 1981) was a 21-year-old Arkansas woman who was murdered in April 1981 and whose body was discovered in Troy, Ohio approximately 48 hours after her murder. Her body remained unidentified for almost 37 years before being identified via DNA analysis and genetic genealogy in April 2018. King was one of the first unidentified decedents to be…
1979UnsolvedMurder of Tammy Vincent
Tammy A. Vincent was a teenage runaway who was murdered in September, 1979. Her body was not identified until 2007, twenty-eight years after her death. It was previously believed she may have been a victim of the notorious Green River killings.
1975 · FloridaUnsolvedFlat-Tire murders
The Flat-Tire murders were a series of unsolved murders in Broward and Dade (now Miami-Dade) County, Florida, occurring between February 1975 and January 1976. The name originated from investigators' belief that offender deflated the tires of the victims' cars when committing two of the murders. The list of suspected victims ultimately included twelve girls and women whose bodies were discovered in or near South…
1977 · MissouriUnsolvedSouth County car bomber
The South County car bomber was a person (or persons) who terrorized south St. Louis County, Missouri, with a series of fatal car bombings in 1977.
1988 · IllinoisUnsolved
Murder of Jaclyn Dowaliby
The murder of Jaclyn Marie Dowaliby is an unsolved child murder which occurred in Midlothian, Illinois, on September 10, 1988, when a seven-year-old girl was abducted from her bedroom and murdered by an unknown individual or individuals. Her strangled body was discovered in a section of wasteland in Blue Island four days later. Dowaliby's mother and stepfather were tried for her murder in 1990; her mother was…
1998 · CaliforniaUnsolvedMurder of Jill Ann Weatherwax
Jill Ann Weatherwax (October 26, 1970 – March 24, 1998) was an American model and aspiring singer. A former "Miss Hollywood", Weatherwax was found stabbed on March 25, 1998, in Fresno, California. Her murder remains unsolved.
1954 · PennsylvaniaUnsolvedMurder of Carolyn Wasilewski
Carolyn Loretta Wasilewski (June 12, 1940 – November 8, 1954) was the 14-year-old victim of an unsolved murder that made national headlines during an intensive search for suspects near her home in Baltimore, Maryland. Her remains were discovered in a rail yard by an engineer on a Pennsy express train bound to Baltimore from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on the morning of November 9, 1954.
1999 · MissouriUnsolvedRicky McCormick's encrypted notes
The partially decomposed body of Ricky McCormick was discovered in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri, on June 30, 1999. Sheriffs found two garbled hand-written notes – apparently written in secret code – in the victim's pockets, and these were handed over to the FBI for further investigation.
1971 · Puerto RicoUnsolvedMurder of Jacinto Gutiérrez
Jacinto Gutiérrez born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, was a University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras campus Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadet who was murdered on 11 March 1971 at the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps building during a riot by groups opposing the program's presence on the campus. During the riots, two Puerto Rico Police officers, Riot Squad commander Juan Birino Mercado and Sergeant Miguel Rosario…
1966 · CaliforniaUnsolvedMurder of Cheri Jo Bates
The murder of Cheri Jo Bates occurred in Riverside, California, on October 30, 1966. Bates, an 18-year-old college freshman, was stabbed and slashed to death on the grounds of Riverside City College. Police determined the assailant had disabled the ignition wiring and distributor of Bates's Volkswagen Beetle as a method to lure her from her car as she studied in the college library.
1974 · CaliforniaUnsolved
Doodler
The Doodler is an unidentified serial killer believed responsible for between 6 and 16 murders and three assaults of men in San Francisco, California, United States, between January 1974 and September 1975. The nickname was given due to the perpetrator's habit of sketching his victims prior to stabbing them to death. The perpetrator met his victims at gay nightclubs, bars and restaurants.
1971 · District of ColumbiaUnsolved
Freeway Phantom
The Freeway Phantom is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who murdered six girls and a woman in Washington, D.C., between April 1971 and September 1972.
2002 · MontanaUnsolvedKilling of Jennifer Servo
On September 16, 2002, American TV journalist Jennifer Lynn Servo (born Jennifer Lynn Olson on September 23, 1979) was murdered in Abilene, Texas by an unknown perpetrator. No arrests have been made in the case, which is still being investigated as of 2020. Servo grew up in Montana, where she worked for KPAX-TV and KECI-TV in the early 2000s.
2006 · District of ColumbiaUnsolvedMurder of Robert Eric Wone
Robert Eric Wone (June 1, 1974 – August 3, 2006) was an American lawyer who was murdered in the Washington, D.C. home of a college friend, Joseph Price, in August 2006. Wone was living in suburban Oakton, Virginia, but had been working as general counsel at Radio Free Asia in downtown Washington. He had stayed the night at the home of friends located about one mile from his office.
1969 · PennsylvaniaUnsolved
Murder of Betsy Aardsma
The murder of Betsy Aardsma is an American murder case dating from November 1969, in which a 22-year-old graduate student was murdered by a single stab wound inside the Pattee Library at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in University Park, Pennsylvania. Though Aardsma's murder remains officially unsolved, local investigative journalists and two independent authors have published testimony and reports…