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Barbara Colby
Barbara Colby (July 2, 1939 – July 24, 1975) was an American actress. She appeared in episodes of numerous television series before a 1974 appearance on The Mary Tyler Moore Show led to a main cast role on the new series Phyllis; after filming three episodes, she and a colleague were murdered outside an acting class, in an unsolved shooting.
1944 · South CarolinaOverturned
George Stinney
George Junius Stinney Jr. (October 21, 1929 – June 16, 1944) was an African American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14 after being convicted, during an unfair trial, for the murders of two white girls – 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker (December 9, 1932 – March 22, 1944) and 8-year-old Mary Emma Thames (March 14, 1936 – March 22, 1944) – in his hometown of Alcolu, South Carolina. He was tried,…
1895Overturned
Maria Barbella
Maria Barbella (October 24, 1868 – March 24, 1950) was an Italian-born American woman. Erroneously known as Maria Barberi at the time, she was the second woman sentenced to die in the electric chair. She was convicted of killing Domenico Cataldo in 1895, but the ruling was overturned in 1896 and she was freed.
1964UnsolvedMary S. Sherman
Mary Stults Sherman (April 21, 1913 – July 21, 1964) was an American orthopedic surgeon and cancer researcher affiliated with the University of Chicago and the Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans. Her unsolved 1964 murder has been tied to conspiracy theories related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
2000 · IndianaOverturned
Wrongful conviction of David Camm
David Ray Camm (born March 23, 1964) is a former trooper of the Indiana State Police (ISP) who spent 13 years in prison after twice being wrongfully convicted of the murders of his wife, Kimberly, and his two young children at their home in Georgetown, Indiana, on September 28, 2000. He was released from custody in 2013 after his third trial resulted in an acquittal. Charles Boney is serving time for the murders of…
2020MissingBrad Booth
Brad Booth (born September 20, 1976) is a Canadian professional poker player, known for his appearances on the GSN series High Stakes Poker, where he bought in for a million dollars. Booth is also known for disappearing for about six weeks in 2020, later reporting he voluntarily dropped out of contact.
1988 · OklahomaOverturnedRon Williamson
Ronald Keith Williamson (February 3, 1953 – December 4, 2004) was an American former minor league baseball catcher and pitcher, who was one of two men wrongly convicted in 1988 in Oklahoma for the rape and murder of Debra Sue "Debbie" Carter. His former friend Dennis Fritz was sentenced to life imprisonment, while Williamson was sentenced to death. Both were released 11 years later when DNA evidence proved their…
1941 · HawaiiMissing
Thomas C. Latimore
Commander Thomas Calloway Latimore (28 June 1890 – July, 1941?) was an American naval officer who was captain of USS Dobbin, and the governor of American Samoa. His disappearance in Hawaii, just months before the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, remains an unsolved mystery.
1995 · IowaMissingJodi Huisentruit
Jodi Sue Huisentruit (; born June 5, 1968 – c. June 27, 1995) was an American television news anchor who worked for KIMT in Mason City, Iowa. In the early morning of June 27, 1995, a colleague called her at home when she failed to arrive for work. Huisentruit answered the call and said that she had overslept and was on her way.
1962 · New YorkMissingAnthony Strollo
Anthony C. Strollo (born Antonio Strollo, Italian: [anˈtɔːnjo ˈstrol.lo]; June 18, 1899 – disappeared April 8, 1962), also known as "Tony Bender", was a New York mobster who served as a high-ranking capo and underboss of the Genovese crime family for several decades.
Year unknownMissingEleanor Dare
Eleanor Dare (née White; c. 1568 – disappeared between 1587 and 1590) of Westminster, London, England, was a member of the English Roanoke Colony in North America and the daughter of John White, the colony's governor. While little is known about her life, more is known about her than most of the sixteen other women who left England in 1587 as part of the Roanoke expedition.
1990UnsolvedD. Scott Rogo
Douglas Scott Rogo (February 1, 1950 – August 18, 1990) was an American writer, journalist and researcher on subjects related to parapsychology. Rogo was murdered in 1990 at the age of 40. His case remains unsolved.
1975 · TexasOverturnedRobert Elmer Kleason
Robert Elmer Kleasen (September 20, 1934 – April 21, 2003) was an American who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1975 for the murder of two missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, near Austin, Texas. The murders have popularly, albeit inaccurately, been cited as an inspiration for the horror film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Kleasen's conviction was later overturned and Kleasen…
1895 · AlabamaMissing
Jeremiah Haralson
Jeremiah Haralson (April 1, 1846 – disappeared 25 March 1895) was a politician from Alabama who served as a state legislator and was among the first ten African-American United States congressmen. Born into slavery in Columbus, Georgia, Haralson became self-educated while enslaved in Selma, Alabama. He was a leader among freedmen after the American Civil War.
2005 · PennsylvaniaMissingRay Gricar
Ray Frank Gricar (; born October 9, 1945, missing since April 15, 2005) was an American lawyer who served as the district attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania, from 1985 until 2005. On April 15, 2005, Gricar went missing under mysterious circumstances and has not been heard from since. After he had been missing for years with no trace of his whereabouts, Centre County authorities declared Gricar legally dead on…
1872 · PennsylvaniaMissingJohn V. Creely
John Vauclain Creely (November 14, 1839 – disappeared August 1872, pronounced dead September 28, 1900) was an American attorney and politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A Republican, he was most notable for his service as a member of the Philadelphia Common Council from 1867 to 1870 and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1871 to 1873. Creely disappeared in late 1872; subsequent…
1934 · CaliforniaMissingEverett Ruess
Everett Ruess (March 28, 1914 – c. November 1934) was an American artist, poet, and writer. He carried out solo explorations of the High Sierra, the California coast, and the deserts of the American Southwest. In 1934, he disappeared while traveling through a remote area of Utah; his fate remains unknown.
1977 · ArkansasUnsolvedStar Stowe
Star Stowe (born Ellen Louise Price; March 19, 1956, Little Rock, Arkansas – March 16, 1997, Coral Springs, Florida) was an American model. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its February 1977 issue. Stowe was murdered by an unknown assailant.
1984MissingNaomi Uemura
Naomi Uemura (植村 直己, Uemura Naomi; February 12, 1941 – disappeared February 13, 1984) was a Japanese adventurer who was known particularly for his solo accomplishments. He was the first person to reach the North Pole solo, the first person to raft the Amazon River solo, and the first person to climb Denali solo. Before his 30th birthday, Uemura had solo-climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, Mont Blanc, and the…
1996 · CaliforniaUnsolved
Seagram
Seagram Miller (April 13, 1970 – July 31, 1996) was an American rapper from Oakland, California, United States. Seagram released two albums, The Dark Roads (1992) and Reality Check (1994). He was killed in a drive-by shooting on July 31, 1996, which remains unsolved.
1986 · PennsylvaniaOverturnedJay C. Smith
Jay C. Smith (June 5, 1928 – May 12, 2009) was an American high school principal in Pennsylvania who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1986 for the 1979 murder of one of his school's teachers, Susan Reinert, and her two children, Karen and Michael. His conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1992, based on findings of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct. Smith subsequently filed…
2000 · CaliforniaMissingScott Smith
Donald Scott Smith (born 13 February 1955 – disappeared 30 November 2000) was a Canadian musician and the bassist for Canadian rock band Loverboy, a band that sold millions of records and scored several hit songs in the 1980s before a break up and reunion in the 1990s. Smith disappeared after a large wave swept him off a pleasure boat near San Francisco, California. He was never seen again, and later presumed dead.
1977UnsolvedCharles Nicoletti
Charles Nicoletti (; December 3, 1916 – March 29, 1977), also known as "Chuckie the Typewriter", was an American mobster of the Chicago Outfit, who along with his partner Felix Alderisio served as the top hitman under boss Sam Giancana before and after Giancana's rise and fall. Nicoletti was shot in the back of the head three times as he sat in his car on March 29, 1977, his murder remains unsolved.
2010 · TexasOverturned
Tom DeLay campaign finance trial
Tom DeLay, a Republican U.S. Representative from Texas from 1979–83, and from 1985–2006 and the House Majority Leader from 2003–05, was convicted in 2010 of money laundering and conspiracy charges related to illegal campaign finance activities aimed at helping Republican candidates for Texas state office in the 2002 elections. In 2013, a Texas Court of Appeals panel acquitted DeLay when it overturned his conviction.…