A new cold case unit at the New Castle County Police Department began reexamining the case in , but there are no new developments. More than 50 years later, police still don't know who did it. The murders have been the subject of a documentary called " Muriel Court" and various podcasts. Not long after, Flora heard shots from a neighboring apartment complex and called to see if Vanessa was OK.
She didn't pick up the phone. Two friends of Vanessa's who were renting the apartment where she was killed said they were victims of an armed robbery, and tied up and locked in the bathroom during the attack. Her family maintains a Facebook group to solicit tips from the public, and the cold case was featured on Dateline NBC.
An arrest was made in April, but more people were likely involved. Shuler said following the arrest, according to People magazine. Lisa Au was 19 years old and working as a hairdresser in On January 21, she left her boyfriend's sister's house after having dinner. Hours later, her car was found parked along the highway in Kailua , and her decomposing body was found 10 days later. Witnesses say they saw a car flashing blue lights behind hers in what may have been someone impersonating a police officer, prompting the Honolulu Police Department to ban supplemental blue lights.
In an area on the border between Idaho and Washington known as the Lewiston-Clarkson metropolitan area, a series of murders and disappearances between and remain unsolved. Steven Pearsall and Christina White remain missing. Jaclyn Dowaliby was taken from her bedroom as she slept in when someone broke through the Midlothian, Illinois, home's basement window , ABC7 reports.
Her body was found a week later in Blue Island with a rope from the family's garage tied around her neck. Her parents were brought to trial, but they were acquitted due to insufficient evidence. Three men were found dead inside North LaSalle Street on December 1, , and the killer remains unknown. Steven Fisher, 20, and his girlfriend Melisa Gregory, 17 , were bludgeoned to death on a ranch northwest of Newton, Iowa, in More than 30 years later, Fisher's estranged wife was charged with first-degree murder.
She was found not guilty in The case was featured on " Cold Justice. Four days after Kelly Lynn Albright disappeared from her family's home, she was found dead in a field. She had been sexually assaulted and stabbed 18 times. A family friend named Glenn Davis was a suspect in the murder, but the evidence against him was circumstantial.
After being convicted of aggravated indecent liberties with a child in an unrelated case in , he died in prison before authorities could question him again about Albright. The case inspired a mystery novel called " Facing September " by Sara Jenlink.
On October 27, , year-old Betty Gail Brown was found in her car in front of Transylvania College's Old Morrison building, strangled to death with her own bra. A man confessed to the crime in , saying he had been drunk, but the jury didn't buy it and the trial ended in a hung jury. According to the Lexington Herald Leader, her mysterious killer became " a mythological figure in Lexington, a kind of all-purpose boogeyman.
Eight women from the Jefferson Davis Parish in Louisiana were found dead in swamps and canals between and around Jennings, Louisiana. Deputies reportedly lost evidence during the investigation, and a detective bought a truck from an acquaintance of one of the victims and was seen in it the day she disappeared.
These circumstances and the overall lack of progress in cracking the case led some to suspect that the police were involved in the deaths or in covering them up , the New York Times reports. A five-part Showtime documentary "Murder in the Bayou" profiled the cases and featured footage of one of the victims, Necole Jean Guillory, telling investigators about rampant misconduct and trafficking inside the jail.
Maine's oldest unsolved murder case is that of year-old Mary Catherine Olenchuk. Witnesses say that they saw her standing next to a maroon car driven by a man in his 30s on August 9, She was found dead on August 22 in a barn in Kennebunk with a rope around her neck.
Carolyn Wasilewski, 14, was the oldest of seven children. Her bloodied remains were discovered in a Baltimore rail yard in , with the name "Paul" written on her thigh in lipstick , according to the Baltimore Sun.
The case also inspired the movie "Cry-Baby" starring Johnny Depp. Lizzie Borden allegedly took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks, when she saw what she had done she allegedly gave her father That might not be how the original rhyme goes, but it is more accurate since Lizzie was acquitted of her parents' murder in Police could find no evidence of who committed the crime, but arrested their daughter Lizzy and charged her with murder.
Because the evidence against her was purely circumstantial, she was acquitted after the jury deliberated for less than an hour. But the townsfolk of Fall River never stopped believing that she was guilty and ostracized her for the rest of her life. The Lizzie Borden House where her parents were found murdered is now a popular tourist attraction and was featured on an episode of "Supernatural. Also known as " The Babysitter Killer " whose identity is still unknown, the killer is believed to have abducted, in some cases sexually assaulted, and killed four children between and The killer would then clean the kids' clothes and arrange their bodies in a sort of display on the streets of Metro Detroit for investigators to find.
The unsolved case is the subject of the book "The Kill Jar" by J. Reuben Appelman and the Hulu docuseries " Children of the Snow.
Mary Schlais was found dead in Spring Brook Township in , stabbed 15 times. A witness saw a man in a compact car throw her body in a ditch along the side of the road and helped police draw up a sketch. Police suspect that her death may have been the work of Randall Woodfield, a former Green Bay Packer who became known as the "I-5 Killer. Flynt Lee disappeared in Simpson County in August His body was found floating in the Strong River, and his truck was found riddled with bullet holes, set on fire, and pushed down a ravine.
Investigators believe he was killed and then thrown off a bridge based on a trail of blood. Three people were arrested , but insufficient evidence led to their release. The Simpson County Sheriff's Department considers it a cold case. On February 28, , a female body with the head missing was found in an abandoned building in St. Police originally thought it was the body of a sex worker, but soon discovered that the victim was much younger than they expected — between 8 and 11 years old.
At the time, it was the only decapitation in the US that involved a person that young , according to the FBI. The victim and the killer still remain unidentified. On December 7, , barber Nels Anderson and his wife, Annie, were bludgeoned to death with an ax they kept in their shop for chopping wood, leaving behind four children. There were no signs of a struggle, and the couple still had money in their pockets. Their murder remains unsolved.
Chadron State math professor Steven Haataja was found tied to a tree and burned in Haataja had attempted suicide before , leading some to believe that he took his own life. There was also no evidence of anyone else at the crime scene. Dawes County Attorney Vance Haug said his death is an " unresolved death case. A book and a documentary , both called "Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere" explore the case. Rapper Tupac Shakur was killed on September 7, , at 25 years old.
He was shot while stopped at a red light in Las Vegas. Gang rivalries were suspected as a motive, but his death has spawned a host of conspiracy theories , including some that believe he's still alive. Between and , the Connecticut River Killer is said to have fatally stabbed seven women in New Hampshire.
His eighth victim survived. In , Jane Boroski, who was seven months pregnant, was approached in a convenience store parking lot by a man who proceeded to stab her 27 times.
She managed to drive to a friend's house, and both she and her baby survived the attack. After that, the killings stopped. Boroski provided the police with a description and partial license plate of the man, but he was never identified.
They had all been strangled or asphyxiated, and were positioned face-down, barefoot, with their heads facing east. The crime scene was never found.
When a woman walking her dog found a human bone in , she had no idea she had come across one of the biggest crime scenes in US history. She had found a acre patch of desert in Albuquerque's Southwest Mesa that contained the remains of 11 women. The 11 women buried there had all had connections to drugs and prostitution, and it took police a year to identify all of the remains.
They came up with a small pool of suspects, but no one was ever charged. Abe Lebewohl was known as the mayor of Second Ave, feeding homeless people and high society members alike at his restaurant.
The gun was recovered in Central Park three days later, and police released a sketch of the suspect, but the case is still unsolved more than 20 years later. Evelyn Williams, 72, an active member of the community in the small town of Pinehurst, North Carolina. When she was found with her throat slashed in a utility room outside her garage in , the killer left no clues and detectives were baffled.
The News and Observer calls it Moore County's "coldest case. Police believe to know the name of the serial killer who buried six bodies in a crawlspace underneath a house in Niagara, North Dakota — Eugene Butler , who was committed to an insane asylum in But after years, the identities of the victims remain unknown. The bodies had only been found after Butler's death.
Inforum calls it " one of the state's biggest murder mysteries. From to , the "Cleveland Torso Murderer" beheaded and frequently dismembered their victims — seven men and five women in total. Some of the victims couldn't even be identified due to their incomplete remains. The murders have been the subject of public fascination as well as both nonfiction and fiction books. When corpses of young women began turning up in creeks and streambeds in the Lawton area, police knew they had a serial killer on their hands.
The women had all been involved with sex work, and cocaine residue was found in each of their systems, suggesting that the killer targeted women from the underground drug trade along Cache Road in Lawton. They woke up to a truck driving over their tent. The Chicago teens, 15 and 13 years old, never made it home.
On January 13, , Amber Hagerman , 9, was snatched off her bicycle in a grocery store parking lot in Arlington, Texas. Police had only an eyewitness account of a blue pickup truck driving away from the scene. No one has ever been caught for the abduction and murder of Amber.
It was this case that launched the Amber Alert system which is now a North American-wide coordinated system that warns the public when a child goes missing. Reportedly she was approached by a man who asked her to search for his lost dog. In , six adults and one child died in Chicago after taking Tylenol laced with potassium cyanide. Police were baffled as the pills came from different factories and were purchased in different drug stores in the city.
Hours later their parents reported them missing, sparking one of the largest police investigations in the history of Australia. The year-old actress and her husband, Robert Wagner, were on their yacht anchored off Catalina Island when Wood reportedly drowned.
The actress, who was afraid of dark water, was found floating face-down about a mile away from the yacht. Her death, and the mystery surrounding it, sent shockwaves through Hollywood.
The chain of events that led to her death that night remains unsolved. Her parents, having left for dinner, returned at 10 p. There has been much speculation and millions of dollars poured into the search for Madeleine. Cooper has never been found despite the FBI looking at over 1, suspects.
Between and , 12 victims, only two of whom were identified, were found dumped in a creek bed in an area of Cleveland, Ohio known as Kingsbury Run. The bodies were often headless and limbless. All three of their cars were parked outside and their purses and keys were still inside the home. With a lack of evidence, no verifiable sign of foul play and no suspects, the Springfield Three's case has gone cold.
Although her cabin had been ransacked, no belongings had been stolen. Many people think Fossey was killed by the gorilla poachers she fought against, while others believe local gold smugglers were responsible. Either way, her murder remains unsolved, but she is remembered for the major impact of her work on the recovery of the mountain gorilla population.
An ensuing man hunt, which included a mystery letter possibly sent by the killer, turned up nothing. Despite public speculation and rumours, the murderer was never caught. RNC threatens to bar candidates from presidential debates. Ad Microsoft. Full screen. Microsoft and partners may be compensated if you purchase something through recommended links in this article. Crime spree terrorizes East London One of the most notorious unsolved crime sprees in history goes to Jack the Ripper.
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