Unsolved cases
Homicides and other crimes with no one held responsible. Some are a century old. Some are from this year.
Connecticut River Valley Killer
The Connecticut River Valley Killer, also known as the Valley Killer, is the moniker for an unidentified American serial killer believed to be responsible for at least seven murders of women in the Connecticut River Valley region of New England between 1978 and 1988. In 1985 and 1986, the skeletal remains of two victims were recovered within one thousand feet (300 m) of each other in a wooded area in Kelleyville,…
1967 · ConnecticutUnsolvedBra murders
The Bra murders were a series of murders committed against four sex workers and one mother of four from 1967 to 1971 in Stamford, Connecticut. Most of the victims were African American or in active addiction, each had been strangled, sometimes with their own bras, from which the murders' moniker originated. Benjamin Franklin Miller, a self-styled preacher from Norwalk, was charged and later acquitted by reason of…
2014 · ConnecticutUnsolvedMurder of Michelle Garvey
Michelle Angela Garvey (June 3, 1967 – July 1, 1982) was an American teenage girl murdered in Texas within a month of running away from her home in Connecticut. Her body was quickly found but remained unidentified until a 2014 DNA test, after an amateur Internet researcher suggested a match between the Texas unidentified decedent and Connecticut missing-person data.