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National Registry of Exonerations
The National Registry of Exonerations is a project of the University of Michigan Law School, Michigan State University College of Law and the University of California Irvine Newkirk Center for Science and Society. The Registry was co-founded in 2012 with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law to provide detailed information about known exonerations in the United States since…
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…
2009 · UtahMissingDisappearance of Susan Powell
On December 6, 2009, Susan Marie Powell, a 28‑year‑old mother of two from West Valley City, Utah, disappeared from her home under suspicious circumstances. Her husband, Joshua Powell, was identified by police as a person of interest but was never charged. In February 2012, after a court awarded temporary custody of the couple's two sons to her parents, Joshua killed the children and himself in a deliberate house…
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.
1912 · North CarolinaMissing
Disappearance of Bobby Dunbar
Bobby Dunbar was an American boy whose disappearance at the age of four and apparent return were widely reported in newspapers across the United States in 1912 and 1913. After eight months of nationwide searching, investigators believed they had found the child in Mississippi, in the hands of William Cantwell Walters of Barnesville, North Carolina. Dunbar's parents claimed the boy as their missing son.
1946 · VermontMissing
Disappearance of Paula Jean Welden
Paula Jean Welden (born October 19, 1928—disappeared December 1, 1946) was an American college student who disappeared while walking on the Long Trail hiking route in Vermont. Local sheriffs were criticized for errors made in the investigation, which led to the creation of the Vermont State Police (VSP). Welden's fate remains unsolved and was one of several unexplained disappearances in the same area, dubbed the…
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.
Year unknownMissingOutpost for Hope
Outpost for Hope is a charity based in the United States which specializes in providing resources to families and law enforcement agencies who deal with endangered runaways such as foster children, homeless and transient persons, lost mentally ill persons, addicts and other high-risk missing persons who for various reasons cannot or have not been reported missing. The charity provides resources, such as guides and…
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…
2004 · MassachusettsMissingDisappearance of Maura Murray
On February 9, 2004, Maura Murray, a 21‑year‑old nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, disappeared after a single‑vehicle crash on Route 112 near Woodsville, a village in the town of Haverhill, New Hampshire, United States. Earlier that afternoon, she had emailed her professors and work supervisor to say she would be away for a week due to a death in the family, which her relatives later said…
1992 · MissouriMissingSpringfield Three
The Springfield Three refers to an unsolved missing persons case that began on June 7, 1992, when friends Suzanne Elizabeth "Suzie" Streeter and Stacy Kathleen McCall, and Streeter's mother, Sherrill Elizabeth Levitt, went missing from Levitt's home in Springfield, Missouri, United States. All of their personal belongings, including cars and purses, were left behind. There were no signs of a struggle except a broken…
1998 · VirginiaMissingInternational Centre for Missing & Exploited Children
The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, with a regional presence in the United Kingdom, Europe, Turkey, Africa, Canada, Latin America, Caribbean, Southeast Asia, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, is a private 501(c)(3) non-governmental, nonprofit global organization. It combats child sexual exploitation, child pornography, child trafficking and…
1946Unsolved
Texarkana Moonlight Murders
The Texarkana Moonlight Murders, a term coined by the contemporary press, was a series of four unsolved serial murders and related violent crimes committed in the Texarkana region of the United States in early 1946. They were attributed to an alleged unidentified perpetrator known as the Phantom of Texarkana, the Phantom Killer, or the Phantom Slayer. This hypothetical suspect is credited with attacking eight…
2000 · MassachusettsUnsolvedKilling of Molly Bish
The murder of Molly Anne Bish is an unsolved child murder that occurred in Warren, Massachusetts, after 16-year-old high-school student Molly Anne Bish disappeared while working as a lifeguard on June 27, 2000. Her disappearance led to the most extensive and expensive search for a missing person ever undertaken in the state of Massachusetts. In June 2003, Bish's remains were found in Hampden County, 5 mi (8 km) from…
1981UnsolvedWonderland murders
The Wonderland murders, also known as the Four on the Floor Murders or the Laurel Canyon Murders, are four unsolved murders that occurred in Los Angeles on July 1, 1981. It is assumed that five people were targeted to be killed in the known drug house of the Wonderland Gang, three of whom—Ron Launius, William "Billy" Deverell and Joy Miller—and the girlfriend of an accomplice, Barbara Richardson, died from extensive…
1975 · ArizonaMissing
Travis Walton incident
The Travis Walton incident was an alleged alien abduction of American forestry worker Travis Walton on November 5, 1975, in the Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests near Heber, Arizona. Walton reportedly had said that he was taken aboard a flying saucer. On November 5, 1975, a logging crew reported that one of their members, Travis Walton, was missing.
2019 · Newark, New JerseyUnidentifiedUnidentified person, Newark, New Jersey (2019)
An unidentified person was found in Newark, New Jersey on August 15, 2019. No name has been established. NamUs case UP156080.
2007 · WisconsinOverturnedSteven Avery
Steven Allan Avery (born July 9, 1962) is an American from Manitowoc County, Wisconsin who was convicted of murder in 2007. He had previously been wrongfully convicted in 1985 of sexual assault and attempted murder. After serving 18 years of a 32-year sentence (six of those years being concurrent with a kidnapping sentence), Avery was exonerated by DNA testing and released in 2003, only to be charged with murder in…
2026 · Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New YorkIn courtMatter of Gianna A.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York issued an opinion on November 13, 2026 that deals with an innocence claim. From the opinion: “…With respect to the alleged "new evidence" of actual innocence cited by respondent, that "evidence" existed…”
2026 · Supreme Court of FloridaIn courtThomas M. Overton v. State of Florida & Thomas M. Overton v. Secretary, Department of Corrections
Supreme Court of Florida issued an opinion on November 13, 2026 that deals with an innocence claim. From the opinion: “…is no such thing under Florida law as an “actual innocence” claim independent of newly discovered evidence…”
2026MissingMissing scientists conspiracy theory
In 2026, a conspiracy theory emerged alleging that the deaths or disappearances of several people, some described online as scientists tied to classified or sensitive research, were connected to secret knowledge about UFOs, advanced energy projects, materials science, or related subjects. Speculation started spreading through social media following the February 2026 disappearance of retired U.S. Air Force Major…
1984Overturned
Harlem Park Three
The Harlem Park Three were a trio of American students, Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart, and Ransom Watkins, who were falsely accused of murdering ninth grader DeWitt Duckett at Harlem Park Junior High School in the Harlem Park neighborhood of Baltimore in 1983 and sentenced to life in prison. They served 36 years in prison before being exonerated in 2019. After being exonerated, the trio sued the Baltimore Police…
1963 · New YorkOverturnedGeorge Whitmore Jr.
George Whitmore Jr. (May 26, 1944 – October 8, 2012) was an African American man who was charged but later cleared of the infamous Career Girls Murders that occurred in New York City in 1963. "The Supreme Court cited Mr.