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Felix Moncla
First Lieutenant Felix Eugene Moncla Jr. (October 21, 1926 – presumed dead November 23, 1953) was a United States Air Force (USAF) pilot who disappeared while performing an air defense intercept over Lake Superior in 1953. His disappearance is sometimes known as the Kinross Incident, after Kinross Air Force Base, where Moncla was on temporary assignment at the time he vanished.
1945MissingFlora Wovschin
Flora Don Wovschin (born 20 February 1923, disappeared 20 September 1945) was a suspected Soviet spy who later renounced her American citizenship. She is believed to have traveled to the Soviet Union in the late 1940s, but her fate and whereabouts are uncertain.
1905 · MontanaUnsolved
Frank Little
Franklin Henry Little (1877 or 1878 – August 1, 1917), commonly known as Frank Little, was an American labor leader who was murdered in Butte, Montana. No one was apprehended or prosecuted for Little's murder. He joined the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905, organizing miners, lumberjacks, and oil field workers.
1872Missing
Mary Celeste
Mary Celeste (, often erroneously referred to as Marie Celeste) was a Canadian-built, American-registered, merchant brigantine that was discovered adrift and deserted in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores on December 4, 1872. The Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia found the Mary Celeste in a dishevelled but seaworthy condition under partial sail and with the lifeboat missing. The last entry in the log was dated 10 days…
Year unknown · MichiganOverturnedKen Wyniemko
Ken Wyniemko is one of two former prisoners in Michigan released on DNA evidence with help from the Innocence Project. Wyniemko was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual misconduct on circumstantial evidence and the testimony of a prisoner informant, Glen McCormick, who now admits he lied in order to avoid life in prison. DNA testing was not regularly performed at the time, but even the primitive blood tests of…
1986 · GeorgiaOverturnedDouglas Echols
Douglas Echols was convicted in a 1986 rape case. In 2002, his charges were finally cleared through DNA testing after he served over five years in prison. In 2005, a resolution was introduced in the Georgia Assembly by Representatives Tom Bordeaux and Chuck Sims requesting $1.6 million as compensation for his incarceration; however, the resolution was not approved.
1995 · ArkansasMissingDisappearance of Morgan Nick
Morgan Chauntel Nick (born September 12, 1988; disappeared June 9, 1995) is an American girl who disappeared in Alma, Arkansas, at age six. She attended a Little League Baseball game at the Wofford baseball field with her family, and was last seen by eyewitnesses tapping sand from her shoes in the parking lot, after being allowed by her mother, Colleen, to briefly catch fireflies with other children. She is believed…
1936 · New YorkMissingDisappearance of Katherine E. Hull
Katherine E. Hull (c. 1914 – disappeared April 2, 1936) was a 22-year-old American woman from Syracuse, New York, who disappeared in 1936 while visiting her grandmother in Lebanon Springs, New York, a hamlet within the town of New Lebanon. Hull set out for a walk and did not return. Human remains found in December 1943, a few miles from where Hull had last been seen, were tentatively identified as hers.
2026 · Dallas, TexasMissingEmilie Kanda
Emilie Kanda, 19 at the time, was last known to be in Dallas, Texas on May 22, 2026. NamUs case MP160434.
2026 · Birmingham field officeUnsolvedGadsden Islamic Center Arson
Unknown Suspect(s) Gadsden, Alabama November 11, 2026
2008 · MinnesotaMissing
Disappearance of Brandon Swanson
Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson (born January 30, 1989) of Marshall, Minnesota, United States, drove his car into a ditch on his way home from celebrating the end of the spring semester with fellow students from Minnesota West Community and Technical College's Canby campus. Uninjured, he got out and called his parents on his cellphone. Unsure of his exact location, he told them he believed he…
1999 · Tacoma, WashingtonUnidentifiedUnidentified man, Tacoma, Washington (1999)
An unidentified man was found in Tacoma, Washington on August 22, 1999. No name has been established. NamUs case UP16178.
1968 · CaliforniaUnsolved
Zodiac Killer
The Zodiac Killer (also known by the pseudonym The Zodiac) is an unidentified serial killer who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area between December 1968 and October 1969. The Zodiac attacked three couples and a cab driver in Benicia, Vallejo, unincorporated Napa County, and the city of San Francisco. Two of the Zodiac's seven victims survived.
2014 · CaliforniaMissingRico Harris
Rico Omarr Harris (born May 19, 1977 – disappeared October 10, 2014) is an American former professional basketball player. A high school standout in his native Southern California, he later led Los Angeles City College (LACC) to its first state junior college title in 1997. After his college career, he played for some International Basketball League teams, and later with the Harlem Globetrotters.
2009Unsolved
Lavelle Felton
Lavelle R Felton (October 5, 1979 – August 13, 2009) was an American professional basketball player. In 2009, he was killed in an unsolved shooting.
1961 · WashingtonMissingDisappearance of Ann Marie Burr
Ann Marie Burr was an eight‑year‑old American missing person who disappeared in 1961 from her family's home in the North End neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington, United States. She was last seen on August 31, 1961, and was likely kidnapped. The case prompted an intensive search and drew national attention, but no trace of Burr has ever been found.
1989 · New JerseyUnsolved
Murder of Cissy Stuart
On April 2, 1989, 74-year-old American newspaper owner Emily "Cissy" Stuart was stabbed to death in her home in the borough of Princeton, New Jersey. Her fully clothed body was discovered two days later in her locked basement with no signs of a struggle, and nothing was missing from the house. The Mercer County medical examiner found five stab wounds on her back.
2022 · OklahomaMissing2022 Okmulgee murders
On the evening of October 9, 2022, four men were reported missing for several days after being last seen riding their bicycles in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States. All were found fatally shot, dismembered in half, and being thrown to the Deep Fork River. The four victims were identified as Mark Chastain, age 32; Billy Chastain, age 30; Mike Sparks, age 32; and Alex Stevens, age 29.
2025 · WashingtonMissingDecker children murders
On May 30, 2025, sisters Paityn, Evelyn and Olivia Decker (ages 9, 8, and 5 respectively) were reported missing in Wenatchee, Washington, United States, after their father did not return them on time from a custody visit. Three days later, their bodies were discovered in Chelan County, near the unoccupied and abandoned truck he lived in. The father, 32-year-old Travis Caleb Decker of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, who lived…
1952 · ConnecticutMissing
Disappearance of Connie Smith
Constance Christine "Connie" Smith (born July 11, 1942 – disappeared July 16, 1952) was a 10-year-old American girl who disappeared after she ran away from a YMCA-operated summer camp in Lakeville, Connecticut, on July 16, 1952, and was last seen hitchhiking. Her disappearance remains unsolved.
2016 · NevadaUnsolvedKillings of Sydney Land and Nehemiah Kauffman
On October 26, 2016, Sydney Land and her boyfriend Nehemiah Kauffman were shot and killed in her apartment in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their bodies were found the next day. Initially, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (also known as Metro) announced that they had no motive and no suspects in the case.
1964 · New JerseyMissingPaul Fronczak triple disappearance
On April 27, 1964, a one-day old infant, Paul Joseph Fronczak, was kidnapped from Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. A woman dressed as a nurse had entered the hospital room of Dora Fronczak and told her the doctor needed to examine the baby; Dora handed the baby to the unknown woman, who left the hospital with the baby and never returned. Two years later, the FBI told the baby's parents that they believed…
2023 · AlabamaUnsolvedMurder of Amore Wiggins
Amore Joveah Wiggins, formerly known as Opelika Jane Doe, (born January 1, 2006 – c. 2011) was a formerly unidentified murder victim whose skeletal remains were found in a trailer park in Opelika, Alabama. Her identity was not known until nearly 11 years later, in January 2023. Wiggins's father, Lamar Vickerstaff, was subsequently charged with felony murder and failure to report a missing child, while her…
1986 · New YorkUnsolved
Murder of Chaim Weiss
The murder of Chaim Weiss, a 16-year-old student at the Torah High School yeshiva in Long Beach, New York, took place on November 1, 1986. Weiss was bludgeoned to death while sleeping in his dormitory room, with no motive or evidence being found except that his body and the crime scene were possibly tampered with. Weiss' murder remains unsolved, though investigators believe the murderer was likely a student or…