Unsolved cases
Homicides and other crimes with no one held responsible. Some are a century old. Some are from this year.
Murder of Terry Bowers Jr.
Terrence J. Bowers Jr. (Nov 23, 1958 – April 26, 1970) was an American child who was murdered on the grounds of St. Basil The Great Roman Catholic Church in Kimberton, Chester County, PA while camping with his Boy Scout Troop in 1970.
1976 · PennsylvaniaUnsolvedMurder of Evelyn Colon
Evelyn Colon (previously known as Beth Doe; (1961-04-17)April 17, 1961 – December 1976) was a formerly unidentified American teenager from New Jersey who was found murdered and dismembered in three suitcases along with her unborn daughter on December 20, 1976, in White Haven, Pennsylvania. The brutality of the crime, the fact that she was pregnant when she was killed and the length of time that she remained…
1954 · PennsylvaniaUnsolvedMurder of Carolyn Wasilewski
Carolyn Loretta Wasilewski (June 12, 1940 – November 8, 1954) was the 14-year-old victim of an unsolved murder that made national headlines during an intensive search for suspects near her home in Baltimore, Maryland. Her remains were discovered in a rail yard by an engineer on a Pennsy express train bound to Baltimore from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on the morning of November 9, 1954.
1969 · PennsylvaniaUnsolved
Murder of Betsy Aardsma
The murder of Betsy Aardsma is an American murder case dating from November 1969, in which a 22-year-old graduate student was murdered by a single stab wound inside the Pattee Library at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in University Park, Pennsylvania. Though Aardsma's murder remains officially unsolved, local investigative journalists and two independent authors have published testimony and reports…
1985 · PennsylvaniaUnsolvedFrankford Slasher
The Frankford Slasher is the name given by the media to a possible serial killer who operated in and around the neighborhood of Frankford in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1985 to 1990. Leonard Christopher was convicted in the murder of one of the nine supposedly linked victims, but the others remain unsolved. All of the victims were sexually assaulted and stabbed to death.