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Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh
Suzy Lamplugh, 25-year-old London estate agent, vanished 28 July 1986 after leaving to meet a client known as "Mr Kipper" in Fulham. Declared dead presumed murdered; prime suspect John Cannan died in prison in 2024; case remains unsolved.
Disappearance of Tabitha Tuders
Tabitha Danielle Tuders, born 1990, vanished April 29, 2003, walking to her school bus stop in East Nashville, Tennessee; a red car sighting, unconfirmed Indiana tips, and a 2020 Hickman County search remain unresolved.
Disappearance of Tara Calico
Tara Leigh Calico was a 19-year-old college student who vanished during a bicycle ride near Belen, New Mexico, in 1988; a Polaroid found in Florida fueled decades of speculation.
Disappearance of the Beaumont children
The Beaumont children, Jane, Arnna, and Grant, vanished from Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, on Australia Day 1966. Australia's longest-running missing children cold case remains unsolved; no trace has been found.
Disappearance of the Skelton brothers
The disappearance of the Skelton brothers concerns three boys, aged 9, 7, and 5, who vanished from Morenci, Michigan, over Thanksgiving 2010 and have never been found.
Disappearance of Toni Sharpless
Toni Lee Sharpless, Pennsylvania nurse missing since August 23, 2009, after leaving a party at 76ers player Willie Green's home; her Pontiac Grand Prix and plate DND-7772 were never found despite a Camden plate hit.
Disappearance of William Tyrrell
Unsolved 2014 disappearance of three-year-old William Tyrrell from his foster grandmother's yard in Kendall, NSW, while wearing a Spider-Man suit; Strike Force Rosann, a $1 million reward, a long-running coronial inquest, and an unproven police accidental-death theory involving the foster mother.
Emma Elizabeth Smith
Emma Elizabeth Smith (c. 1843–1888), first victim in the Whitechapel Murders file: a 45-year-old widow fatally assaulted by a gang near Whitechapel Church on 3 April 1888; died of peritonitis; not a canonical Jack the Ripper victim.
Emmett Till
Emmett Till (1941–1955), a Chicago teenager lynched near Money, Mississippi, in August 1955 after an encounter with Carolyn Bryant; his killers' acquittal and Look magazine confession galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.
Fred the Head
Fred the Head is an unidentified white male murder victim found bound and buried kneeling in a shallow grave on a River Trent island at Burton upon Trent in March 1971, wearing pink socks and a gold wedding band; DNA suggests Hungarian or Danish descent, and he remains unidentified.
Frog Boys (개구리소년)
Frog Boys (개구리소년): five Daegu elementary school boys, ages 9 to 13, who vanished on Mount Waryong on March 26, 1991 while hunting salamander eggs; about 320,000 personnel searched, remains were found in 2002 showing signs of murder, and the case remains unsolved.
Gale Benson
Gale Ann Benson (née Plugge, 1944-1972), British model and daughter of MP Leonard Plugge, murdered at Michael X's Trinidad commune; Stanley Abbott and Edward Chadee were convicted of her killing.
George Floyd
George Floyd (1973–2020), Houston-raised Black American killed by Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin on 25 May 2020; death ruled a homicide; his killing sparked the largest US protest wave and George Floyd Square.
Guardia Urbana crime
Guardia Urbana crime (el crimen de la Guardia Urbana): 2017 murder of Barcelona municipal officer Pedro Rodríguez by fellow officers Rosa María Peral and Albert López, his partner and her ex-lover; body burned in a car near the Foix reservoir; 25- and 20-year sentences confirmed in 2021; basis of Netflix's El cuerpo en llamas.
Ida Straus
Rosalie Ida Straus (née Blun, 1849–1912), wife of Macy's co-owner Isidor Straus, died on the Titanic after refusing Lifeboat 8 to stay with her husband; her body was never recovered.
Isdal Woman
Isdal Woman (Isdalskvinnen), unidentified burned body found in Isdalen near Bergen, Norway, November 1970; used fake hotel aliases, closed as suicide, still unsolved; isotope analysis points to the German-French border region.
Jennifer Fairgate case
Jennifer Fairgate case: unsolved 1995 death of an unidentified woman, also recorded as Jennifer Fergate, found shot in room 2805 of Oslo Plaza Hotel with a Browning 9 mm pistol; ruled suicide, identity still unknown.
John Bennett Ramsey
John Bennett Ramsey, American computer executive and father of JonBenét Ramsey, found her body in their Boulder home in 1996, was a main investigation target, then exonerated by DNA in 2008.
Juanita Broaddrick
Juanita Broaddrick, Arkansas nursing home administrator and Jane Doe No. 5 in the Paula Jones suit, alleges Bill Clinton raped her in 1978; no charges resulted, Starr called her account inconclusive.
Karen Sparks Epley
Karen Sparks Epley, also known under the pseudonym Joni Lenz, is the American survivor of Ted Bundy's first known attack, on January 4, 1974, in Seattle; she suffered permanent brain damage and first told her story in the 2020 docuseries Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer.
Kerri Rawson
Kerri Rawson (born 1978), daughter of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, learned of his 2005 arrest at her door, wrote the 2019 memoir A Serial Killer's Daughter, and advocates for offenders' families.
Kidnapping of Anabel Segura
Kidnapping of Anabel Segura (secuestro de Anabel Segura): 1993 abduction for ransom of a 22-year-old student in La Moraleja, Madrid, by Emilio Muñoz and Cándido Ortiz; she was murdered within hours, but the kidnappers faked her survival for 900 days, Spain's longest kidnapping.
Kidnapping of Carlina White
1987 Harlem Hospital infant kidnapping: 19-day-old Carlina White, taken by Ann Pettway posing as a nurse, raised as Nejdra Nance in Connecticut, self-solved via NCMEC in 2011; Pettway got 12 years.
Kidnapping of Evyatar David (אביתר דוד)
Evyatar David (אביתר דוד), Israeli from Kfar Saba kidnapped at the Nova festival October 7, 2023; held 738 days in Gaza tunnels, shown emaciated in Hamas's August 2025 videos, released October 13, 2025 among the last 20 living hostages.
Kidnapping of Luis Albino
Luis Armando Albino, also spelled Luis Albino, was a six-year-old Puerto Rico-born boy abducted from a West Oakland park in 1951, by a woman who promised him candy; found alive on the East Coast in 2024 via his niece's DNA search.
Kidnapping of Michelle Marie Newton
The kidnapping of Michelle Marie Newton was a 1983 parental abduction in which her mother took her from Louisville, Kentucky, and raised her under a false identity.
Killing of Akua Denteh
Akua Denteh (Mariama Akua Denteh), 90-year-old Ghanaian woman lynched 23 July 2020 in Kafaba, Savannah Region, after a witchcraft accusation; her filmed killing led to two 12-year manslaughter sentences and campaigns for an anti-witchcraft-accusation law still unpassed.
Killing of Amber Czech
Killing of Amber Czech: the November 11, 2025 sledgehammer murder of 20-year-old welder Amber Mary Czech by coworker David Bruce Delong at Advanced Process Technologies in Cokato, Minnesota; Delong confessed, was indicted for first-degree murder, then found incompetent to stand trial.
Killing of Anna Kepner
Killing of Anna Kepner: 18-year-old Titusville, Florida cheerleader found dead under a bed on the Carnival Horizon, Nov 2025; death ruled mechanical asphyxia homicide; stepbrother Timothy Hudson, 16, federally indicted as adult for murder and aggravated sexual abuse.
Killing of Awdah Hathaleen
Killing of Awdah Hathaleen: Palestinian activist and English teacher, 31, shot dead 28 July 2025 in Umm al-Khair, West Bank, by sanctioned settler Yinon Levi; he filmed his own shooting; Levi indicted for reckless manslaughter in August 2026.