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Murder 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.
Year unknownUnsolvedChris Trickle
Chris Trickle (May 30, 1972 – March 25, 1998) was an American stock car racing driver. A competitor in the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour, he was murdered in a drive-by shooting that remains unsolved.
1926 · CaliforniaMissing
Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
On May 18, 1926, American Christian evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach, California, after going for a swim. She reappeared in Mexico five weeks later, stating she had escaped from kidnappers there. Allegations arose that the kidnapping story was a hoax carried out to conceal a tryst with a lover, leading to court inquiries.
1979 · NevadaUnsolvedMurder of Gwenn Story
Gwenn Marie Story (February 23, 1960 – August 14, 1979) was a 19-year-old American woman who was murdered in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 14, 1979. Her body remained unidentified for 44 years before being identified via DNA analysis and genetic genealogy in December 2023. Prior to her identification, Story was nicknamed "Sahara Sue" and "Jane Las Vegas Doe" because her body was found near the Sahara Hotel in Las…
1995 · North CarolinaUnsolvedKilling of Randi Boothe-Wilson
Randi Stacey Boothe-Wilson (known primarily by her middle name) was a formerly unidentified American woman discovered dead in Jacksonville, Onslow County, North Carolina on December 6, 1995. Boothe-Wilson served as a member of the United States Marine Corps from the early 1980s to her discharge in August 1994. She had married a fellow Marine, but they were divorced in 1994.
2015 · MississippiOverturnedWillie Jerome Manning
Willie Jerome "Fly" Manning (born June 12, 1968) is on death row at Mississippi State Penitentiary, USA, with two death sentences for a conviction of double murder (Steckler-Miller murders). He was previously also convicted and sentenced to death for an unrelated double murder (Jimmerson-Jordan murders), but the State Supreme Court overturned this verdict and ordered a new trial. The charges against him for the…
1982 · New JerseyUnsolvedMurder of Dawn Olanick
Dawn Rita Olanick (August 5, 1964 – c. July 1982), previously known as Princess Doe, was an unidentified American teenage decedent from Bohemia, New York, who was found murdered in Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blairstown Township, New Jersey on July 15, 1982. Her face had been bludgeoned beyond recognition.
1977 · LouisianaOverturnedVincent Simmons
Vincent Alfred Simmons (born February 17, 1952) is an American man who was wrongly imprisoned at Angola State Prison in Louisiana, where he was sentenced to 100 years in July 1977 after being convicted of the "attempted aggravated rapes" of 14-year-old twin sisters Karen and Sharon Sanders of Marksville. Simmons has maintained his innocence throughout. By 1999 Simmons had filed numerous habeas corpus writs, but had…
1932OverturnedMajczek and Marcinkiewicz
Joseph Majczek and Theodore Marcinkiewicz were two Polish-American men arrested and convicted of the murder of 57-year-old Chicago police officer William D. Lundy on December 9, 1932. Initially, officials held 10 youths in custody on suspicion of killing the officer. Some 11½ years later in 1944, following the intervention of Chicago Times reporters John McPhaul and James McGuire, both men were exonerated of the…
1979 · TexasOverturnedAnthony Massingill
Anthony Massingill is an American who was convicted in a Dallas, Texas court of a 1979 rape and robbery for which recent DNA test results support his claim of innocence. He was jointly convicted in the case along with Cornelius Dupree who was on January 4, 2011, fully exonerated of the charges. Massingill is being represented by the Texas Wesleyan Innocence Project and is likely to be cleared at a later hearing.
1959 · FloridaUnsolvedWalker family murders
On December 19, 1959, Christine and Cliff Walker and their two children were murdered at their home in Osprey, Florida. The case is unsolved.
Year unknown · West VirginiaOverturnedGlen Woodall
Glen Dale Woodall was a victim of a miscarriage of justice in West Virginia. He was an itinerant gravedigger and handyman, who was sent to prison for a crime that DNA evidence has subsequently cleared him of. Samples of his blood were sent to the state crime lab and were matched to two sexual assaults at the Huntington Mall by state crime lab serology expert Fred Zain.
1978 · New JerseyMissingClinton Avenue Five
The Clinton Avenue Five are five young men who disappeared on August 20, 1978, in Newark, New Jersey. The name is derived from the street where they were last seen. The case eventually went cold.
1985 · HawaiiUnsolvedHonolulu Strangler
The Honolulu Strangler, also known as The Honolulu Rapist, is the nickname given to an unidentified serial killer who is believed to have killed five women in Hawaii from 1985 and 1986. He is the second known serial killer active in the state (after Eugene Barrett).
1981 · District of ColumbiaUnsolved
Raymond Nels Nelson
Raymond Nels Nelson (September 2, 1921 – June 1, 1981) was bureau chief of The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin and later a member of the staff of Senator Claiborne Pell. He was found murdered in his Washington, D.C. apartment on June 1, 1981. The murder is still unsolved.
Year unknownUnsolvedTom Sullivan
Thomas Sullivan, also known as "Tommy", and "Irish Tommy" (July 9, 1919 – December 22, 1957, in South Boston) was an American professional light heavyweight boxer whose murder remains unsolved.
1983OverturnedWillie Earl Green
Willie Earl Green was sent to prison in 1983 for the murder of a woman in a South Los Angeles crack house, but after a change in testimony, authorities released him from prison in March 2008. The incriminating witness, Willie Finley, had placed Green at the scene and helped police identify him as the murderer. Mr.
Year unknownOverturnedArthur Paul Carmona
Arthur Paul Carmona (February 5, 1982 – February 17, 2008) served more than two years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of two armed robberies on the basis of eyewitness testimony. His case took on prominence in the ongoing debate in the legal community over the reliability of eyewitness identification. After his release, he had become an activist for the wrongfully accused.
2006 · ConnecticutOverturnedJames Calvin Tillman
James Calvin Tillman (born 1961) is a man who was wrongfully convicted of rape, and served 18.5 years in prison before being exonerated by DNA testing on July 11, 2006. Tillman, of East Hartford Connecticut, was convicted of kidnapping in the first degree, sexual assault in the first degree, robbery and assault in the third degree in 1989, and freed in 2007.
1971 · GeorgiaOverturnedMarietta Seven
The Marietta Seven were defendants on a murder charge who were subsequently exonerated, having been convicted of the murder of Warren and Rosina Matthews in May 1971 in Marietta, Georgia.
1902 · CaliforniaMissing
Yda Hillis Addis
Yda Hillis Addis (born 1857, disappeared 1902 in California, U.S.) was the first American writer to translate ancient Mexican oral stories and histories into English, some of which she submitted to San Francisco-based newspaper The Argonaut. The most widely popular of her more than 100 stories are Roman's Romance and Roger's Luck.
1884 · TexasUnsolved
Servant Girl Annihilator
The Servant Girl Annihilator, also known as the Midnight Assassin, was an unidentified American serial killer who preyed upon the city of Austin, Texas, in 1884 and 1885. The moniker "Servant Girl Annihilator" originated with the writer O. Henry. The series of eight axe murders were referred to by contemporary sources as the Servant Girl Murders.
1985 · HawaiiMissingDisappearance of Diane Suzuki
Diane Suzuki was a nineteen-year-old dancer and student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa who disappeared on July 6, 1985, and has since been the focus of one of the most notorious modern criminal investigations in the history of the state of Hawaii. The Diane Suzuki investigation was the first instance in which the Honolulu Police Department used luminol and other technological advances in forensic science.
1918 · LouisianaUnsolved
Axeman of New Orleans
The Axeman of New Orleans was an unidentified American serial killer who was active in and around New Orleans, Louisiana between May 1918 and October 1919. Press reports during the height of public panic over the killings mentioned similar crimes as early as 1911, but recent researchers have called these reports into question. The attacker was never identified, and the murders remain unsolved.