Unsolved cases
Homicides and other crimes with no one held responsible. Some are a century old. Some are from this year.
Gary Driscoll
John Gary Driscoll (April 18, 1946 – June 8, 1987) was an American R&B-style rock drummer who performed in a number of successful bands from the 1960s until his unsolved murder.
1974 · CaliforniaUnsolvedMurder of Betty Van Patter
Betty Louise Van Patter (née Floyd; October 12, 1929 – c. December 13, 1974) was a bookkeeper for the Black Panther Party, although she herself was white. Van Patter was murdered, a crime which remains unsolved.
Year unknown · OhioUnsolved
Cleveland Torso Murderer
The Cleveland Torso Murderer, also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, was an unidentified serial killer who operated in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, during the 1930s. The killings were characterized by the dismemberment of thirteen known victims and the disposal of their remains in the impoverished neighborhood of Kingsbury Run. Most victims came from an area east of Kingsbury Run called "The Roaring…
1885 · CaliforniaUnsolved
Jane Stanford
Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford (August 25, 1828 – February 28, 1905) was an American philanthropist and co-founder in 1885 of Stanford University (opened 1891) with her husband Leland Stanford, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford Jr., who died of typhoid fever in 1884 at age 15. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford funded and operated the university almost single-handedly until her unsolved…
1993 · La Jara, ColoradoUnsolvedKilling of Lela Buhr
On Wednesday, April 7, 1993, Lela Buhr was found deceased in her home located at 19098 CR 16.2, La Jara, in Conejos County, Colorado. It is believed Ms. Buhr may have interrupted a home invasion rob
1994 · MassachusettsUnsolvedDavid Cox
David Vernon Cox (November 27, 1966; died 1994) was a U.S. Marine who was found killed in Medfield, Massachusetts. Aaron Sorkin's 1989 play A Few Good Men and its 1992 film adaptation were based partly on events that Cox was a part of while he was in the Marines.
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.
1966 · New JerseyUnsolved
Murder of Wendy Wolin
The murder of Wendy Wolin is an unsolved child murder which occurred in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the afternoon of March 8, 1966, in which a seven-year-old girl was stabbed to death with a hunting knife by a lone, middle-aged male while walking along a street less than 1,000 feet from her home. Initially, Wolin believed she had been punched by her murderer, although she soon lapsed into a state of shock from the…
1925 · WisconsinUnsolvedArthur "Buddy" Schumacher
Arthur Louis "Buddy" Schumacher (September 2, 1916 – July 1925) was an 8-year-old from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, who was murdered in 1925. His body was discovered on September 12, 1925. Two suspects were interviewed in connection with the case, but it remains unsolved.
1969 · MarylandUnsolvedMurder of Joyce Malecki
The murder of Joyce Malecki is an unsolved case which occurred in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 11, 1969 in which a 20-year-old office clerk was abducted and murdered before her body was discarded within the Little Patuxent River on the perimeter of Fort Meade. Her body was discovered two days later. An autopsy revealed she had been sexually assaulted, bludgeoned, stabbed in the throat, then strangled to death.
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.
1974 · CaliforniaUnsolved
Murder of Arlis Perry
Arlis Kay Perry (née Dykema; February 22, 1955 – October 12, 1974) was a 19-year-old American newlywed who was murdered inside Stanford Memorial Church, within the grounds of Stanford University in California, on October 12, 1974. The murder went unsolved for more than forty years before police named Stephen Blake Crawford as the perpetrator following DNA profiling in 2018. Crawford, a security guard at Stanford who…
1972 · New JerseyUnsolved
Murder of Dolores Della Penna
The murder of Dolores Della Penna is an unsolved murder case dating from July 1972 in which a 17-year-old high school graduate was abducted, tortured, murdered and dismembered by an unknown number of individuals in Kensington, Philadelphia. Her dismembered torso, arms and legs were later discovered in New Jersey, although her head has never been found. Although the motive for Della Penna's abduction and murder…
1988 · MassachusettsUnsolved
Murder of Melissa Ann Tremblay
The murder of Melissa Ann Tremblay is an unsolved child murder which occurred in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on the afternoon of September 11, 1988, in which an eleven-year-old girl from Salem, New Hampshire, was beaten, then murdered by three stab wounds to her torso before her body was intentionally left upon a section of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Her partially severed body was discovered beneath a freight train…
2016 · TexasUnsolvedKilling of Missy Bevers
On April 18, 2016, the body of Terri Leann "Missy" Bevers (née Strickland) was found at Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas. Bevers' murder garnered media attention after Midlothian police released surveillance footage from inside the church, which shows an unknown person dressed in armor and a SWAT uniform walking around the church's hallways while occasionally breaking glass and opening doors. The case…
1978 · CaliforniaUnsolvedMurders of Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble
The murders of Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble are the unsolved abduction and murder of two teenage girls—aged 15 and 14 respectively— who disappeared after leaving their homes in Forestville, California, to visit a shopping mall in Santa Rosa on December 16, 1978; their remains were discovered in July 1979 approximately 80 mi (130 km) north of Forestville, concealed within duct-taped garbage bags and buried…
1996 · ColoradoUnsolvedKilling of JonBenét Ramsey
Late on the night of December 25 or during the early morning hours of December 26, 1996, six‑year‑old JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was murdered in her family's home at 755 15th Street in Boulder, Colorado. She was reported missing early on December 26, and her body was found about seven hours later in the basement of the house. Her skull had an 8.5 inch fracture on the right side of her head, and a garrote was tied…
2005 · LouisianaUnsolvedJeff Davis 8
The Jeff Davis 8, sometimes called the Jennings 8 or Jennings 8 girls, refers to a series of unsolved murders in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana. Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were found in swamps and canals surrounding Jennings, Louisiana. Most of the bodies were found in a state of decomposition, making the cause of death difficult to determine.
2018 · District of ColumbiaUnsolved2018 Wayne Place murder case
In April 2018, an abandoned address at Southeast Wayne Place in Washington, D.C. was found to contain the remains of three missing women, Jewel Marquita King, Verdell Jefferson, and Dorothy Jean Butts, who all disappeared in 2006. The case remains unsolved.
1977 · CaliforniaUnsolvedMurder of Melinda Beardsley
Emigrant Gap Jane Doe was a formerly unidentified murder victim whose body was found on December 17, 1977, near the intersection of I-80 and Highway 20 in Emigrant Gap, California. Despite extensive investigation by the Placer County sheriff's office, no identification of this decedent was made at the time. NamUs and The Doe Network announced that the woman had been identified in 2026.
1984 · NevadaUnsolvedNevada City Jane Doe
Nevada City Jane Doe is an unidentified murder victim whose body was found on July 8, 1984. Her body was found off an embankment on Independence Trail in Nevada City, California.
1994 · UtahUnsolvedDeath of James Conklin
James Howard Conklin (b. 1950 - last seen May, 1988) was an American man whose body was found in 1994 in rural southern Utah. His body remained unidentified for thirty years until the Othram genetics lab identified the subject, whose last known whereabouts were in Arizona in 1988.
1879 · MichiganUnsolved
Morris murders
The Morris Murders refer to the unsolved 1879 killings of Charles Henry Morris (born May 9, 1847) and Esther Jones Morris (born September 22, 1850) in Decatur, Michigan.
1940 · WashingtonUnsolvedMurder of Laura Law
Lea Laura Luoma Law (January 20, 1914 – January 5, 1940), a Finnish immigrant to the US, was the wife of militant labor leader Richard Law. She was mysteriously murdered on January 5, 1940. The case is still unsolved.