Unsolved cases
Homicides and other crimes with no one held responsible. Some are a century old. Some are from this year.
Gulf Killer
The Gulf Killer is the nickname given to a possible serial killer who was active in the Pasco County and the wider Tampa Bay area of Florida, United States. A group of unsolved murders of fourteen women and two men were committed between 1971 and 1978. While the victims were grouped together differently at various points, nine were attributed, dubiously, to a single killer.
1973 · FloridaUnsolvedGold Sock Killer
The Gold Sock Killer is the moniker of an unidentified American serial killer who murdered a woman and two teenage girls in Broward County, Florida, between July and August 1973. His nickname came from how he strangled his victims to death with socks; however, a gold-colored sock was only used in two instances.
1964 · FloridaUnsolvedMiami Strangler
The Miami Strangler is the name attributed to an unidentified serial killer who murdered at least nine women in Miami, Florida, between 1964 and 1970. Despite the nickname, not all victims were strangled, and some died from bludgeoning and smothering. Although no victim was directly sexually assaulted, the murders appear sexually motivated given how the victims were posed.
1981 · FloridaUnsolvedMurders of Dean and Tina Clouse
Harold Dean Clouse Jr. and Tina Linn Clouse, were a pair of long-unidentified murder victims found outside of Houston, Texas in January, 1981. After moving in the summer of 1980 with their infant daughter, Holly Marie, from Volusia County, Florida to Lewisville, Texas, the Clouses stopped contacting their families in October 1980.
1971 · FloridaUnsolved
Murder of Maureen Rowan
Maureen Lu Rowan (née Minor; March 21, 1949 – c. January 20, 1971) was a formerly unidentified murdered young woman found on February 19, 1971, in Lake Panasoffkee, Florida, United States. Before identification, she was known as Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee or Little Miss Panasoffkee.
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.
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.
1988 · FloridaUnsolvedMurder of Pamela Walton
Pamela Leigh Walton (died c. July–September 1988) was a transgender woman believed to have been murdered in Clermont, Florida, in 1988. Her remains remained unidentified for nearly 37 years until March 2025.
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…