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Disappearance of Amy Billig
Amy Billig (January 9, 1957 – disappeared March 5, 1974) was an American high school student who disappeared while hitchhiking to her father's art studio in Coconut Grove, Florida, on March 5, 1974, at the age of 17. Investigators believe Amy's disappearance was involuntary and although no definitive leads as to the exact circumstances surrounding her disappearance have ever materialized, unconfirmed leads indicate…
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.
2009MissingDisappearance of Marsha Brantley
Marsha Ellen Brantley (née Rader; born February 28, 1959) was an American woman who disappeared around May to June 2009. She is believed by local law enforcement to have been murdered by her then-husband Donnie Brantley, but no direct evidence has ever been found to prove this. Multiple investigations have failed to determine a cause of disappearance.
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.
1951 · OhioMissing
Disappearance of Beverly Potts
Beverly Rose Potts (April 15, 1941 – disappeared August 24, 1951) was a ten-year-old American girl who disappeared while walking home from a neighborhood festival event held in a park less than a quarter of a mile from her home in Cleveland, Ohio. Despite intense publicity and exhaustive efforts to locate the girl, both at the time of her disappearance and in more recent decades, no trace of Potts or definitive…
1996 · New JerseyMissingDisappearance of Susan Walsh
Susan Walsh (née Merchant; born February 18, 1960) is an American writer and freelance journalist who disappeared outside her home in Nutley, New Jersey on July 16, 1996. Her disappearance was widely publicized into the late 1990s, especially after several newspapers and media outlets published articles suggesting possible links to the Russian mafia or New York City's underground vampire community, both subjects she…
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.
2012Missing
Guma Aguiar
Guma Leandro Aguiar (May 31, 1977 – disappeared June 19, 2012; declared legally dead January 29, 2015) was a Brazilian-born American energy industrialist and millionaire businessman who split his time between the United States and Israel. Aguiar was recognized as a philanthropist who supported a variety of Jewish causes including Nefesh B'Nefesh and the March of the Living. In July 2009, Aguiar invested over $4…
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…
1977MissingHelen Brach
Helen Marie Brach (née Voorhees; born November 10, 1911 – disappeared February 17, 1977) was an American multimillionaire widow whose wealth had come from marrying into the E. J. Brach & Sons Candy Company fortune; she endowed the Helen V. Brach Foundation to promote animal welfare in 1974. Brach disappeared on February 17, 1977, and in May 1984 she was declared legally dead, as of the date of her disappearance. An…
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…
1985 · Green Bay (Ashwaubenon), WisconsinMissingJanet Robinson
Janet Robinson, 40 at the time, was last known to be in Green Bay (Ashwaubenon), Wisconsin on April 1, 1985. NamUs case MP12731.
1995 · North CarolinaOverturnedDontae Sharpe
Dontae Sharpe (born 1975) is an African American from North Carolina who was wrongly convicted of murdering a white man and spent 26 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was exonerated and released from prison in 2019, and given a full pardon in 2021. Sharpe was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 1995 for the murder of George Radcliffe.
2025 · Universal City, TexasMissingArissa Arrambide
Arissa Arrambide, 17 at the time, was last known to be in Universal City, Texas on July 23, 2025. NamUs case MP148271.
2021 · Dawsonville, GeorgiaUnidentifiedUnidentified person, Dawsonville, Georgia (2021)
An unidentified person was found in Dawsonville, Georgia on January 10, 2021. No name has been established. NamUs case UP79924.
2000 · Englewood, New JerseyMissingEdelmirio Becerra
Edelmirio Becerra, 55 at the time, was last known to be in Englewood, New Jersey on March 12, 2000. NamUs case MP17909.
2019 · Chicago, IllinoisUnidentifiedUnidentified man, Chicago, Illinois (2019)
An unidentified man was found in Chicago, Illinois on August 15, 2019. No name has been established. NamUs case UP60200.
2025 · St. Louis, MissouriMissingHolly Dover
Holly Dover, 44 at the time, was last known to be in St. Louis, Missouri on February 7, 2025. NamUs case MP152061.
2016 · Mayflower, ArkansasMissingMatthew Manson
Matthew Manson, 33 at the time, was last known to be in Mayflower, Arkansas on July 4, 2016. NamUs case MP52664.
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…
1965Overturned
Muhammad Abdul Aziz
Muhammad Abdul Aziz (Arabic: محمد عبد العزيز; formerly known as Norman 3X Butler; born 1938) is an American man who was convicted, and later exonerated, for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X — a conviction that was overturned in November 2021, decades after he was paroled in 1985. Aziz maintained his innocence; and Mujahid Abdul Halim, who confessed to the murder, insisted that Aziz and Khalil Islam, another man…
2013 · GeorgiaMissingDisappearance of Tiffany Whitton
Early on the morning of September 13, 2013, Tiffany Whitton (born January 30, 1987) of Powder Springs, Georgia, United States, was observed apparently shoplifting by loss prevention officers at a Walmart in nearby Marietta. They gathered to confront her at the store's exit, but after a brief struggle, she broke free and fled. She has not been seen since.