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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…
2019MissingVallow-Daybell murders
The Vallow–Daybell murders were a series of killings – including child murder, filicide, and spousal murder – committed by American couple Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell. Chad and Lori led a small, apocalyptic religious group that was described in the media as a doomsday cult. Media coverage initially focused on the pair's religious beliefs, but investigations revealed that the murders also had a financial…
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…
1970 · MichiganMissingDisappearance of Edward and Stephania Andrews
Edward Pope Andrews (born 1908) and Stephania Rynak Andrews (born 1908) were a married couple who disappeared in 1970 after leaving a party in downtown Chicago. The couple and their vehicle were last seen in the vicinity of the Michigan Avenue Bridge near the Chicago Loop. The case was widely publicized by local newspapers and multiple theories have emerged as to the couple's fate.
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 · TexasMissing
Fort Worth missing trio
The Fort Worth missing trio refers to an unsolved missing persons case in which three girls – Mary Rachel Trlica, Lisa Renee Wilson, and Julie Ann Moseley – went missing while shopping at the Seminary South Shopping Center in Fort Worth, Texas, on December 23, 1974. The car the girls were driving was left behind in the parking lot at the mall; the girls have not been seen since. Thousands of leads have been…
1999 · ColoradoMissingDisappearances of Paul and Sarah Skiba and Lorenzo Chivers
Paul Carroll Skiba (born February 23, 1960), his daughter Sarah Arielle Skiba (born July 27, 1989), and Lorenzo DeShawn Chivers (born November 5, 1962), an employee of Skiba's moving business, disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Westminster, Colorado, United States, on February 7, 1999. On the day they went missing, Sarah accompanied her father Paul, who owned the Tuff Movers company in Westminster, on a…
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…
1938Missing
Disappearance of Alfred Beilhartz
Alfred Edwin Beilhartz was a young boy who vanished in 1938 at Rocky Mountain National Park.
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…
1958 · OregonMissingMartin family disappearance
The Martin family of Portland, Oregon, United States, disappeared on December 7, 1958, in the Columbia River Gorge during a day trip to gather greenery for Christmas decorations. The missing family consisted of Kenneth Martin (aged 54); his wife, Barbara (48); and the couple's three daughters, Barbara ("Barbie"), Virginia and Susan (aged 14, 13, and 11, respectively). The eldest child, Donald, was in the United…
1989 · MontanaMissingDisappearance of Patricia Meehan
Patricia Bernadette Meehan (; November 1, 1951 – disappeared April 20, 1989) is an American woman who disappeared following a car accident on Montana Highway 200 near Circle, Montana. Investigators initially suspected Meehan had fled the scene out of fear or was suffering from amnesia as a result of head trauma. Over 5,000 alleged sightings of Meehan were reported in the months and years after her disappearance,…
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.
1945 · West VirginiaMissingSodder children disappearance
Early Christmas morning, December 25, 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder residence in Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. At the time, it was occupied by George Sodder, his wife Jennie, and nine of their ten children. During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped.
Year unknownMissing
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense whose mission is to recover and identify unaccounted Department of Defense personnel listed as prisoners of war (POW) or missing in action (MIA) from designated past conflicts, from countries around the world.
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.
1968 · FloridaOverturned
James Joseph Richardson
James Joseph Richardson (December 26, 1935 – September 16, 2023) was an African-American man who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 1968 for the October 1967 mass murder of his seven children. They died after eating a poisoned breakfast containing the organic phosphate pesticide parathion. At the time of the murders, Richardson was a migrant farm worker in Arcadia, Florida living with his wife Annie…
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…