Editing Cold case (section)

=== 1970s ===
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! scope="col" | Victim(s)
! scope="col" | Convicted
! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" | Crime date
! scope="col" | Conviction date
! scope="col" | Description
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| [[Helen Betty Osborne]]
| Dwayne Archie Johnston
| [[The Pas]], [[Manitoba]], Canada
| November 13, 1971
| December 1987
| <small>A [[Cree people|Cree]] [[Aboriginal peoples of Canada|Aboriginal]] woman abducted while she was walking home at 2:30 pm and subsequently beaten, raped and stabbed over 50 times. Although four [[Caucasian race|Caucasian]] men were implicated in the murder, only Johnston was convicted for it after 16 years, and the case was officially closed on February 12, 1999. The government of Manitoba officially apologized for its poor handling of the case on July 14, 2000.</small>
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| Jackson and Daisy Schley
| Samuel Evans
| Seattle, Washington, US
| January 9, 1972
| 2011
| <small>A couple attacked during a home invasion. Jackson was murdered and Daisy was abducted and raped. Evans entered another Alford Plea for the murder after his DNA was matched to semen recovered from Daisy's clothing. Daisy died of unrelated causes in 2007, before Evans was identified.<ref name="auto"/></small>
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| [[Steven Stayner]]
| [[Kenneth Parnell]]
| [[Merced, California]], US
| December 4, 1972
| 1981
| <small>A seven-year-old boy kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years by Parnell, a [[pedophile]]. After Stayner hit puberty, Parnell lost interest in him and kidnapped five-year-old [[Timmy White]] from [[Ukiah, California]] as his replacement. However, Stayner and White escaped on March 1, 1980, while Parnell was at work, leading to his identification and arrest.</small>
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| Joseph, Julie, Joseph Jr. and Josephine Otero
| rowspan="2"|[[Dennis Rader]]
| rowspan="2"|[[Wichita, Kansas]], US
| January 15, 1974
| rowspan="2"|August 18, 2005
| rowspan="2"|<small>A family victim of "BTK", a [[serial killer]] who would invade homes and kill women after stalking them for long periods; other members became unintended victims when they returned home earlier than expected. BTK would later write taunting letters to the media and police about his crimes. Rader's arrest was made possible by [[metadata]] found in a [[floppy disk]] he sent to police and a partial DNA match to his daughter. Neither technology existed at the time he committed the murders.</small>
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| Kathryn Bright
| April 4, 1974
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| Lizbeth Wilson
| John Henry Horton
| [[Prairie Village]], [[Kansas]], US
| July 1974
| 2003
| <small>A 13-year-old girl last seen running across the field of Shawnee Mission East High School by her brother, who was racing ahead of her. Her remains were found in an empty field six months later. Horton became a suspect because he was the only adult working on the school grounds at the time, and the investigation revealed that he had taken a suspicious break and also tried previously to lure other girls into the school. A duffel bag and a bottle of [[chloroform]] was found in his car, which Horton claimed using to "get high", but this was deemed circumstantial. In 2002, investigators interviewed an overlooked 15-year-old girl at the time of the murder who had been given chloroform by Horton and was sexually molested while she was unconscious. However, the [[Kansas Supreme Court]] overturned Horton's conviction in 2005 on the basis that the "prior bad act" had not been placed on the public record and the testimony should not have been allowed. Leave to re-try and re-file the case was granted, and this time the same evidence and the testimony of two fellow inmates was enough to declare him guilty.<ref>{{cite web|author=kmbctv |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD8DOWiRH2o  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/GD8DOWiRH2o |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title=Horton Found Guilty a Second Time |publisher=Youtube.com |date=1974-07-07 |access-date=2012-02-12}}{{cbignore}}</ref></small>
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| [[Disappearance of Katherine and Sheila Lyon|Katherine and Sheila Lyon]]
| Lloyd Lee Welch
| [[Washington, D.C.]], US
| March 25, 1975
| September 12, 2017
| <small>Two sisters aged 10 and 12 who disappeared during a trip to a shopping mall. For decades, the police centered their efforts in locating a 50 to 60 years old man who was seen playing a tape recorder with children in different malls. However, in 2013 the attention shifted to Welch, by then a convicted and incarcerated child molester. Welch, who was 18 in 1975, strongly resembled another man seen stalking the girls by one of their friends, and it was found that in 1975 Welch himself went to the police, claiming that he had seen the older man abducting the girls. After a cousin of Welch confessed to helping him burning two suspicious [[duffel bag]]s in his property of [[Thaxton, Virginia]] in 1975, the police searched the place and found items that had belonged to the girls. While no trace of their bodies was found, Welch pleaded guilty to both counts of abduction and murder.</small>
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| rowspan="2"|Myrna Opsahl
| [[Emily Harris|Emily]] and William Harris, [[Kathleen Ann Soliah]], Michael Bortin
| rowspan="2"|[[Carmichael, California]], US
| rowspan="2"|April 21, 1975
| November 7, 2002
| <small>A 42-year-old customer killed during the robbery of the [[Crocker National Bank]] by the [[Symbionese Liberation Army]]. The case was revived only in 1999, after Soliah (indicted for the attempted bombing of two [[LAPD]] patrol cars in August 1975) was arrested in [[Minnesota]], thanks to a tip from a neighbor who had watched her case featured in ''[[America's Most Wanted]]''.</small>
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| [[James Kilgore]]
| 2003
| <small>Arrested on November 8, 2002, in South Africa, where he was living under an alias, and extradited to the United States. He was the last SLA member to be apprehended and convicted.</small>
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| [[Murder of Martha Moxley|Martha Moxley]]
| Michael Skakel
| [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], US
| October 30, 1975
| 2002
| <small>A 15-year-old girl last seen talking to Skakel's brother, Thomas, at a party, and who was bludgeoned and stabbed with a [[golf club]] that was traced back to the Skakel home. Over the years, suspicions switched from Thomas to Michael, who was an alcoholic and peeping tom at the time of the murder (when he was also 15) and who was said to have bragged about getting away with murder due to his family's connection to the [[Kennedy family|Kennedys]]. Skakel was convicted of the murder in 2002, and again on retrial, in 2016.</small>
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| Carol Hutto
| James B. Kuenn
| [[Largo, Florida]], US
| December 1976
| February 10, 2000
| <small>A 16-year-old girl whose body was found in a lake near an abandoned house. She was last seen alive the night before when she received a call. Suspicion fell on her 17-year-old half-brother Jerry Irwin, a known [[juvenile delinquency|juvenile delinquent]] who had stayed out all night and whose route home took him past the house and lake.<ref>[https://www.sptimes.com/News/50399/TampaBay/A_shroud_of_suspicion.shtml Tampa Bay: A Cloud of Suspicion Lifts] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051207160820/https://www.sptimes.com/News/50399/TampaBay/A_shroud_of_suspicion.shtml |date=December 7, 2005 }}</ref> However, the real murderer was Hutto's boyfriend, James B. Kuenn, who later joined the [[US Navy]] and served in a [[submarine]]. In 1998, Kuenn confessed to [[Naval Criminal Investigative Service|NCIS]] agents that he had killed Hutto and disposed of her body after she refused to have sex with him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/021000/TampaBay/After_24_years__he_s_.shtml|work=Tampa Bay|title=After 24 years, he's found guilty|publisher=www.sptimes.com|first=Eric|last=Stirgus|date=10 February 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040912050140/http://www.sptimes.com/News/021000/TampaBay/After_24_years__he_s_.shtml|archive-date=12 September 2004|access-date=21 November 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Kuenn's confession was confirmed by DNA.</small>
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| Shirley Vian
| rowspan="2"| Dennis Rader
| rowspan="2"| Wichita, Kansas, US
| March 17, 1977
| rowspan="2"| August 18, 2005
| rowspan="2"| <small>See above.</small>
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| Nancy Fox
| December 8, 1977
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| Deana Lynne Bowdoin
| [[Clarence Dixon|Clarence Wayne Dixon]]
| [[Tempe, Arizona]], US
| January 7, 1978
| January 24, 2008
| <small>A 21-year-old woman who was strangled and stabbed to death in her apartment. In 2001, DNA profiling linked Dixon to the crime, a former neighbor of Bowdoin's, who was serving a life sentence for a 1986 sexual-assault conviction. Dixon was formally sentenced to death for the murder in January 2008 and was executed in May 2022.<ref>{{cite news|last=Enea|first=Joe|date=February 18, 2017|title=Death Row Diaries: DNA solves student murder 23 years after woman's death|work=[[KNXV-TV]]|url=https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/death-row-diaries-dna-solves-student-murder-23-years-after-the-crime|access-date=April 21, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Davenport|first1=Paul|last2=Billeaud|first2=Jacques|date=May 11, 2022|title=Clarence Dixon dies in Arizona's 1st execution since 2014|work=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://apnews.com/article/arizona-united-states-executions-phoenix-state-university-978013320623b716eba4ab15ddbb7b2a|access-date=May 11, 2022}}</ref></small>
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| [[Clinton Avenue Five|Melvin "Ricky" Pittman, Ernest Taylor, Alvin Turner, Randy Johnson, Michael McDowell]]
| Philander Hampton
| [[Newark, New Jersey]], US
| August 20, 1978
| August 2011
| <small>Five African-American teenagers who disappeared at once from Newark's Clinton Avenue. In 2008, while being interrogated for an unrelated case, Hampton confessed to having helped his cousin, local contractor Lee Anthony Evans, in luring the victims to an empty house with the promise of work, then locking them in a room and setting the house ablaze. Hampton led investigators to the place of the fire but no human remains were found. In spite of this, Hampton pleaded guilty and was convicted of five counts of murder, while Evans, who claimed innocence, was acquitted.</small>
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| [[Disappearance of Etan Patz|Etan Patz]]
| Pedro Hernandez
| [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], US
| May 25, 1979
| April 18, 2017
| <small>A 6-year-old boy who disappeared on his way to a school stop; his disappearance helped launch the [[child abduction|missing child movement]] and he was the first child with a [[photo on a milk carton]]. For decades, suspicion was cast on a convicted child molester, Jose Antonio Ramos. However, Hernandez's brother-in-law identified him as the real perpetrator in 2012, claiming that he had confessed publicly at his church in the 1980s and that his guilt was an open secret in his family. Hernandez confessed again after his arrest, but doubts about his mental health delayed a guilty verdict until 2017.</small>
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| Floralba Sánchez
| [[Pedro López (serial killer)|Pedro López]]
| [[El Espinal, Tolima]], Colombia
| 1979
| 1995
| <small>The only identified victim of López, one of the [[List of serial killers by number of victims|most prolific serial killers of all time]], in his native Colombia. López was tried after he completed his controversial 16-year-long sentence in [[Ecuador]] and was deported to his home country.<ref>Cruz Niño, Esteban (2014) ''Los monstruos en Colombia sí existen.'' Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Colombia, 264 pages</ref></small>
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