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Disappearance of Michaela Garecht
On November 19, 1988, nine-year-old Michaela Joy Garecht (born January 24, 1979) was abducted in broad daylight at the corner of Mission Boulevard and Lafayette Avenue in Hayward, California, United States. Sketches of Garecht's abductor were distributed along with missing person flyers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area within 24 hours of her disappearance, but search efforts proved fruitless. Her case was…
1856 · PennsylvaniaMissing
Lost Children of the Alleghenies
The Lost Children of the Alleghenies were two missing brothers from the Appalachia region of the United States. George and Joseph Cox, then aged seven and five respectively, disappeared from their Spruce Hollow home near Lovely and Pavia, Pennsylvania, on April 24, 1856. Their dead bodies were found several days later in the surrounding woods and were buried in the Mount Union cemetery near their home in Pavia.
1966 · CaliforniaUnsolvedMurder of Cheri Jo Bates
The murder of Cheri Jo Bates occurred in Riverside, California, on October 30, 1966. Bates, an 18-year-old college freshman, was stabbed and slashed to death on the grounds of Riverside City College. Police determined the assailant had disabled the ignition wiring and distributor of Bates's Volkswagen Beetle as a method to lure her from her car as she studied in the college library.
Year unknownOverturnedWrongful conviction of Steve Titus
The wrongful conviction of Steve Titus was a miscarriage of justice in which Steve Gary Titus (1949–1985), an American businessman, was convicted wrongly of rape. Titus was dismissed from his job after the conviction and, though the charges were soon dismissed, he became long term unemployed. The crime was later determined to have been committed by serial rapist Edward Lee King.
1974 · CaliforniaUnsolved
Doodler
The Doodler is an unidentified serial killer believed responsible for between 6 and 16 murders and three assaults of men in San Francisco, California, United States, between January 1974 and September 1975. The nickname was given due to the perpetrator's habit of sketching his victims prior to stabbing them to death. The perpetrator met his victims at gay nightclubs, bars and restaurants.
1971 · District of ColumbiaUnsolved
Freeway Phantom
The Freeway Phantom is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who murdered six girls and a woman in Washington, D.C., between April 1971 and September 1972.
2009 · South CarolinaMissing
Mark Sanford extramarital affair
The Mark Sanford extramarital affair was a political sex scandal in the United States. From June 18 until June 24, 2009, Republican South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford's whereabouts were unknown and the media covered what was described as his disappearance. Subsequently, Sanford reappeared and admitted that he had been in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a woman with whom he was having an extramarital affair.
Year unknown · CaliforniaMissing
Charles Clifford Ogle
Charles Clifford Ogle (January 21, 1923 – c. August 12, 1964?) was a businessman and developer in San Francisco and Oakland, California, at the time of his disappearance.
2002 · MontanaUnsolvedKilling of Jennifer Servo
On September 16, 2002, American TV journalist Jennifer Lynn Servo (born Jennifer Lynn Olson on September 23, 1979) was murdered in Abilene, Texas by an unknown perpetrator. No arrests have been made in the case, which is still being investigated as of 2020. Servo grew up in Montana, where she worked for KPAX-TV and KECI-TV in the early 2000s.
1983 · IllinoisOverturnedRolando Cruz case
Rolando Cruz (born 1963) is an American man known for having been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death, along with co-defendant Alejandro Hernandez, for the 1983 kidnapping, rape, and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico in DuPage County, Illinois. Cruz and Hernandez both became suspects after making detailed reports to the police, which they later claimed to be false, about the murder. Their first trial…
2006 · District of ColumbiaUnsolvedMurder of Robert Eric Wone
Robert Eric Wone (June 1, 1974 – August 3, 2006) was an American lawyer who was murdered in the Washington, D.C. home of a college friend, Joseph Price, in August 2006. Wone was living in suburban Oakton, Virginia, but had been working as general counsel at Radio Free Asia in downtown Washington. He had stayed the night at the home of friends located about one mile from his office.
Year unknownOverturnedDeWayne McKinney
DeWayne McKinney (c. 1966 – October 7, 2008) was an ATM entrepreneur and wrongfully convicted and imprisoned American man.
1965 · MassachusettsMissingDisappearance of Andy Puglisi
The disappearance of Angelo "Andy" Puglisi (born September 2, 1965) is an unsolved case of a 10-year-old American boy who went missing on August 22, 1976, from the Higgins Memorial pool across the street from his apartment in the Stadium Housing Projects, Lawrence, Massachusetts.
1983 · KentuckyMissingDisappearance of Ann Gotlib
Ann Gotlib (born May 5, 1971 – disappeared June 1, 1983) was a Soviet Jewish immigrant to the United States who disappeared at the age of 12 from the premises of a Louisville, Kentucky mall. The case to find her abductor was covered heavily by the Louisville news media and stretched for the next twenty-five years until a person of interest was eventually identified.
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…
Year unknownOverturnedLevon Jones
Levon "Bo" Jones (born September 10, 1958) is an American former death row inmate.
1952 · OklahomaUnsolvedJack Burris
Jack Burris (May 27, 1917 – June 1952) served as County attorney of Mayes County, Oklahoma from 1947 until his murder in June 1952. He was the subject of one of the most famous unsolved murders in Oklahoma history. His assassination and the investigation by Sheriff Slim Weaver and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has been the basis for several books and screenplays for over 50 years.
1987 · ColoradoUnsolvedMurder of Peggy Hettrick
The Peggy Hettrick murder case concerns the unsolved 1987 death of Peggy Hettrick in Fort Collins, Colorado. Timothy Lee "Tim" Masters enlisted in the United States Navy following a high school career plagued by police accusation of murder when he was a sophomore at Fort Collins High School. After eight years in the Navy, he was honorably discharged.
1970Missing
Disappearance of Robin Graham
Robin Ann Graham (June 22, 1952 – disappeared November 15, 1970) is an American student and missing person. She was last seen on a Los Angeles freeway in the early hours of November 15, 1970 after her car had broken down. She has not been heard from since, nor are there any clues as to her whereabouts or subsequent fate.
1981OverturnedCharles Chatman
Charles Chatman (born 1961) served 27 years in prison due to a wrongful conviction. He had been convicted in 1981 at the age of 20 of aggravated rape and sentenced to life in prison. He was released on 3 January 2008.
2019 · New JerseyMissing
Disappearance of Dulce Maria Alavez
Dulce Maria Alavez (born April 25, 2014 – disappeared September 16, 2019) is an American girl who vanished near Bridgeton City Park in Bridgeton, New Jersey, and is believed to have been abducted. A reward has been offered for finding Alavez.
2007 · New YorkOverturnedLynn DeJac
Lynn DeJac Peters (November 20, 1963 – June 18, 2014) was an American woman from Buffalo, New York, who spent 13 years in prison for the murder of her daughter before her conviction was vacated in 2007, making her the first woman to be exonerated of murder on the basis of DNA evidence. She successfully sued the state of New York for wrongful conviction.
1979 · New YorkUnsolvedMurder of Tammy Alexander
Tammy Jo Alexander (November 2, 1963 – November 9, 1979) was an American teenage girl who was found murdered in the village of Caledonia, New York, on November 10, 1979. She had been fatally shot twice and left in a field just off U.S. Route 20 near the Genesee River after running away from her home in Brooksville, Florida, earlier that year. For more than three decades, she remained unidentified under the names…
1971 · New YorkUnsolvedAlphabet murders
The Alphabet murders (also known as the Double Initial murders) are an unsolved series of child murders which occurred between 1971 and 1973 in Rochester, New York. All three victims were girls aged ten or eleven whose surname began with the same letter as that of her first name. Each victim had been sexually assaulted and murdered by either manual or ligature strangulation before her body was discarded in or near a…