Editing Cold case (section)

=== 1980s ===
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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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| [[Roger Wheeler (businessman)|Roger Wheeler]]
| [[Johnny Martorano]], [[Steve Flemmi]]
| [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]], US
| May 27, 1981
| 2001
| <small>The owner of World [[Jai Alai]], murdered in his car by members of the [[Winter Hill Gang]] after he discovered that they were stealing funds from his corporation. [[Whitey Bulger]] (a fugitive since 1999) and [[H. Paul Rico]], who died before trial, were also indicted.</small>
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| Green River Killer victims
| [[Gary Ridgway]]
| Near Seattle and [[Tacoma, Washington]], US
| July 8, 1982 – March 5, 1990
| December 18, 2003
| <small>48 prostitutes and runaways raped and strangled after being picked up along Pacific Highway South. Ridgway was identified in 2001 after a DNA test was made on samples collected from him already in 1987. Ridgway also killed a 49th woman in 1998, 38-year-old Patricia Yellowrobe.</small>
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| [[Kalinka Bamberski case|Kalinka Bamberski]]
| Dieter Krombach
| [[Lindau]], [[Bavaria]], Germany
| July 9, 1982
| October 22, 2011
| <small>A French 14-year-old girl who died in the home of her German doctor stepfather (Krombach) after being injected with a [[cobalt]]-[[iron]] solution. Because German authorities declined to prosecute Krombach in spite of his testimony being inconsistent about the purpose of the injection and with the autopsy report, Bamberski's biological father, André, lobbied for Krombach to be prosecuted in France. Krombach was tried ''[[trial in absentia|in absentia]]'' in 1995 and found guilty, but the verdict was annulled by the [[European Court of Human Rights]] in 2001. In 2009, Bamberski had Krombach abducted from his home and delivered to a French police station in [[Alsace]], where he was arrested. Krombach was tried again and sentenced to 15 years in prison, while Bamberski received a one-year suspended sentence for his abduction in 2014. Since 1997, several German women have come forward claiming that Krombach drugged and raped them as teenagers.</small>
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| rowspan="2"|[[Dos Erres massacre]]
| Manuel Pop, Reyes Collin Gualip, Daniel Martínez Hernández, Carlos Carías
| rowspan="2"|[[La Libertad, El Petén]], Guatemala
| rowspan="2"|December 6, 1982
| August 2, 2011
| rowspan="2"|<small>Over 200 unarmed [[Maya people]] murdered in a [[punitive expedition]] of the [[Guatemalan Army]] [[Kaibiles]] during the presidency of [[Efraín Ríos Montt]], mostly by bludgeoning. Each convict was sentenced to [[List of longest prison sentences|6,060 years in prison]] for the crimes.</small>
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| Pedro Pimentel Ríos
| March 12, 2012
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| [[Jeanine Nicarico murder case|Jeanine Nicarico]]
| [[Brian Dugan]]
| [[Naperville, Illinois]], US
| February 23, 1983
| November 11, 2009
| <small>A ten-year-old girl kidnapped from her home by a burglar and subsequently raped and murdered. Two men, Alejandro Hernandez and [[Rolando Cruz case|Rolando Cruz]], were convicted in several trials before they were respectively acquitted in 1995, and [[pardon]]ed by the [[Governor of Illinois|Governor]] in 2002. Dugan, who pleaded guilty to the crime in 2009, had already confessed to it in 1985.</small>
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| Elaine Graham
| Edmond Jay Marr
| [[Los Angeles]], California, US
| March 1983
| 2005
| <small>A 29-year-old nurse and student at [[California State University, Northridge|California State University]] at [[Northridge, Los Angeles|Northridge]] who was abducted and murdered. Marr became a suspect when he was seen in the immediate area of her disappearance and at a sister's home only a few blocks from where the victim's car was found. Her skeletal remains were found by hikers in a wooded area halfway between where she was last seen alive and where the car was found, some six months later. A knife found in the suspect's possession when he was arrested for armed robbery a month later, was later proven to be the murder weapon when DNA evidence matched blood found in the knife's crevices.<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-apr-05-me-cold5-story.html Man Is Sentenced in 1983 Slaying]</ref></small>
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| [[Murder of Mark Tildesley|Mark Tildesley]]
| Leslie Bailey
| [[Wokingham]], [[England]], UK
| June 1, 1984
| December 9, 1992
| <small>A seven-year-old boy who disappeared while visiting a funfair in [[Berkshire|Wokingham, Berkshire, England]] on the evening of 1 June 1984. He was lured away from the fair and his bicycle was found chained to railings nearby.<ref name=BBC570385>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/570385.stm|title=Cooke: The predatory paedophile|work=[[BBC News]]|date=17 December 1999|access-date=22 April 2015}}</ref> In 1990 it emerged that Mark had been [[Child abduction|abducted]], drugged, [[torture]]d, [[rape]]d and [[murder]]ed by a [[London]]-based [[Pedophilia|paedophile]] [[gang]] on the night he disappeared. His body has never been found.<ref name=BBC570385/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/paedophile-gets-life-for-killing-boy-7-at-orgy-homosexual-ring-abducted-children-and-drugged-them-for-group-sex-1559081.html|title=Paedophile gets life for killing boy, 7, at orgy: Homosexual ring abducted children and drugged them for group sex |work=[[The Independent]]|date=23 October 1992|access-date=30 January 2013}}</ref></small>
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| Paula Godfrey
| [[John Edward Robinson]]
| [[Overland Park, Kansas]], US
| September 1, 1984
| October 2003
| <small>A 19-year-old woman vanished after she was hired by Robinson, a [[con man]] and [[serial killer]], to work as a sales representative for his shell company. Her body was never found.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://charleyproject.org/case/paula-g-godfrey |website=The Charley Project|title = Paula G. Godfrey|first=Meaghan Elizabeth|last=Good |date = 25 February 2014}}</ref></small>
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| Elisabeth Fritzl
| [[Josef Fritzl]]
| [[Amstetten, Austria]]
| August 29, 1984
| March 14, 2009
| <small>An 18-year-old girl imprisoned in an underground cell and raped by her father for 24 years, resulting in the birth of seven children. The truth was discovered when one of their daughters was admitted to a hospital with life-threatening [[kidney failure]].</small>
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| [[Murder of Angela Samota|Angela Samota]]
| Donald Andrew Bess Jr.
| [[Dallas, Texas]], US
| 12 October 1984
| June 2010
| <small>A [[Southern Methodist University|SMU]] student raped and killed in her apartment. Bess was identified in 2008 by a DNA match while he was serving life imprisonment for another offense. He was tried, convicted, and given the death penalty. He died in prison in October 2022.</small>
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| [[Murder of Kylie Maybury|Kylie Maybury]]
| Gregory Keith Davies
| [[Melbourne, Victoria, Australia]]
| November 6, 1984
| May 29, 2017
| <small>A six-year-old girl kidnapped, drugged, raped and murdered after leaving a convenience store on [[Melbourne Cup Day]]. Davies became a suspect only in 2014, when [[Victoria Police]] made a public call for help.</small>
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| Tiffany Stasi
| [[John Edward Robinson]]
| Overland Park, Kansas, US
| January 9, 1985
| October 2002
| <small>The four-month-old daughter of a 19-year-old single mother who Robinson met at a battered women's shelter. Robinson promised her a job, home and daycare for the baby in [[Chicago]], and days later gave the baby to his own brother, who had been unable to conceive, under the claim that the mother had committed suicide. Stasi's identity was confirmed by DNA in 2000. Robinson was also convicted for the murder of the mother (whose body was never found), but the conviction was overturned on technicalities in November 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/stasi_lisa.html|title=The Charley Project: Lisa Stasi|first=Meaghan Elizabeth|last=Good|website=www.charleyproject.org|access-date=2017-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180106055402/http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/stasi_lisa.html|archive-date=2018-01-06|url-status=dead}}</ref></small>
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| Jonathan Sohus
| [[Christian Gerhartsreiter]]
| [[San Marino, California]], US
| February 1985
| August 15, 2013
| <small>The neighbor of Gerhartsreiter, a con man. After Sohus and his wife Linda disappeared, Gerhartsreiter told other people that they had moved to Europe, and was later pulled over by police while driving Sohus's car under an alias. In 1994, the dismembered skeleton of a man was disinterred in the Sohus home, but he could not be identified until 2010 because Sohus was adopted and his DNA could not be compared to his known relatives.</small>
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| Marine Hedge
| Dennis Rader
| [[Park City, Kansas|Park City]], Kansas, US
| April 27, 1985
| August 18, 2005
| See above.
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| Gail Katz-Bierenbaum
| [[Robert Bierenbaum]]
| New York City, New York, US
| July 7, 1985
| October 2000
| <small>A licensed pilot's wife who disappeared. Her husband was convicted of murder after it was learned that he took an unexplained two-hour-flight over the Atlantic Ocean the day she went missing.</small>
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| Debra Jackson, Henrietta Wright, Barbara Ware, Bernita Sparks, Mary Lowe, Lachrica Jefferson, Monique Alexander, Margette Washington
| [[Lonnie David Franklin, Jr.]]
| [[Los Angeles, California]], US
| August 10, 1985 – c. September 11, 1988
| August 10, 2016
| <small>Eight African-American women raped (and in the first seven cases, murdered) by a serial killer who went dormant for two decades after the last victim survived. Law enforcement was led to Franklin after the killer's DNA was partially matched to his son, who was incarcerated on an unrelated weapons charge, in 2010. A full match was subsequently extracted from a piece of pizza partially eaten by Franklin.</small>
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| Hugh Scrutton
| [[Ted Kaczynski]]
| [[Sacramento, California]], US
| December 11, 1985
| January 22, 1998
| <small>A computer store owner killed by a bomb planted in his parking lot by a [[neo-luddite]] terrorist.</small>
|-
| Edit Fintor, Ilona Sőrés; Andrea, Dániel, Zoltán and Tünde Pándy
| Ágnes and [[András Pándy]]
| [[Brussels]], Belgium
| 1986–1990
| March 6, 2002
| <small>The successive wives and stepchildren of András Pándy, who told people that they had left for other countries and forged evidence to make it look like they were still alive. After their arrest during an unrelated investigation in 1997, Ágnes, the eldest stepdaughter, confessed that she had helped Pándy in the murders and disposing of the bodies.</small>
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| [[Murder of Sherri Rasmussen|Sherri Rasmussen]]
| Stephanie Lazarus
| [[Van Nuys, California]], US
| February 24, 1986
| March 2012
| <small>A 29-year-old woman killed during a home invasion. The case was classified as a robbery gone wrong until 2009, when DNA from a bite mark on Rasmussen's body was identified as female and detectives reviewing the case determined that the robbery had been staged. The DNA was positively matched to Lazarus, who had had an affair with Rasmussen's husband shortly before she was killed.</small>
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| Michelle Dorr
| [[Hadden Clark]]
| [[Silver Spring, Maryland]], US
| May 24, 1986
| 1999
| <small>A six-year-old girl who disappeared from her father's backyard while he was taking a nap. The father confessed to the murder in a psychotic episode, but was later exonerated. Clark offered to disclose the body's location as part of a plea deal; though the deal was not made, he still showed police where to find Dorr's body after his conviction.<ref>Dowling, Paul, and Vince Sherry, prods. "Dressed to Kill." ''[[Forensic Files]].'' Dir. Vince Ellis and Michael Jordan. TruTV. 29 March 2003. Television.</ref></small>
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| Samantha Knight
| [[Michael Guider]]
| [[Bondi, New South Wales]], Australia
| August 19, 1986
| August 28, 2002
| <small>A nine-year-old girl abducted from her home. Guider, a self-educated expert on [[Australian Aborigines|Aboriginal]] sites of the [[Sydney, Australia|Sydney]] area, aroused the suspicions of journalists working with him when he made several bizarre statements about Knight. Eventually, Guider confessed to have drugged and molested several girls in [[New South Wales]] through the 1980s, with Knight dying from an accidental overdose. Guider also led police to the place he buried Knight; no body was found, likely because the area was altered later for development, but [[cadaver dog]]s reacted positively to the site.</small>
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| Vicki Wegerle
| Dennis Rader
| Wichita, Kansas, US
| September 16, 1986
| August 18, 2005
| <small>See above.</small>
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| rowspan="2"|[[Lita McClinton]]
| Phillip Anthony Harwood
| rowspan="2"|[[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], US
| rowspan="2"|January 16, 1987
| 1997
| rowspan="2"|<small>A 35-year-old woman killed by a [[hitman]] (Harwood) on behalf of her ex-husband (Sullivan), who was in [[Florida]] at the time of the murder. Sullivan fled to [[Thailand]] after Harwood was arrested in 1997, but was [[extradition|extradited]] to the US in 2004.</small>
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| James Sullivan
| March 2006
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| Catherine Clampitt
| John Edward Robinson
| Overland Park, Kansas, US
| June 15, 1987
| October 2003
| <small>A 27-year-old woman from Texas who disappeared after being hired by Robinson. Her body was never found.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/clampitt_catherine.html|title=The Charley Project: Catherine F. Clampitt|first=Meaghan Elizabeth|last=Good|website=www.charleyproject.org|access-date=2017-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820083620/http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/clampitt_catherine.html|archive-date=2017-08-20|url-status=dead}}</ref></small>
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| [[Kidnapping of Carlina White|Carlina White]]
| Annugetta "Ann" Pettway
| New York City, New York, US
| August 5, 1987
| July 30, 2012
| <small>A 19-day-old infant kidnapped from [[Harlem Hospital Center]] by a woman posing as a nurse, who then raised her as her own daughter. White (raised as Nejdra "Netty" Nance) solved her own kidnapping when she was 23 years old, after checking missing children websites and contacting her birth family.</small>
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| Isabelle Laville, Farida Hellegouarch, Fabienne Leroy, Jeanne-Marie Desramault, Elisabeth Brichet, Natacha Danais
| [[Michel Fourniret]]
| Northern France and Belgium
| December 11, 1987 – November 1990
| May 28, 2008
| <small>Victims of Fourniret's first serial raping and killing spree. After going dormant in 1990, Fourniret resumed his crimes in Belgium in 2000, and killed two more teenage girls before being apprehended in 2003.</small>
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| [[Signal Mountain murders|Richard Mason, Kenneth Griffith, Earl Smock]]
| Frank Casteel
| [[Chattanooga]], [[Tennessee]], US
| 1988
| 2003
| <small>Three men shot for [[trespassing]] in private farmland while going for a swim. The conviction rested on the three men being registered in a logbook of trespassers kept by Casteel and given to police by his mistress.</small>
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| [[Lil' Miss murder|Lisa Marie Kimmel]]
| Dale Wayne Eaton
| [[Casper, Wyoming]], US
| April 2, 1988
| March 20, 2004
| <small>An 18-year-old woman who was raped and murdered during a road trip from [[Billings, Montana]] to [[Cody, Wyoming]]. In 2002, male DNA found in Kimmel's body was matched to Eaton, who was serving a sentence for a 1997 kidnapping in [[Colorado]]. Kimmel's car was also found buried in Eaton's property.</small>
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| Betty Jane May
| [[Daryl Mack]]
| [[Reno, Nevada]], US
| October 28, 1988
| May 15, 2002
| <small>A 55-year-old woman who was raped and strangled to death in her basement room. In 2002, DNA evidence linked Mack to the murder. Mack was already serving a life sentence for a 1994 murder. He was sentenced to death for May's murder in 2002 and executed in 2006 after waiving his appeals.</small>
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| [[Pan Am Flight 103]]
| [[Abdelbaset al-Megrahi]]
| [[Lockerbie]], [[Scotland]], UK
| December 21, 1988
| January 31, 2001
| <small>A [[transatlantic flight]] covering the route between [[Frankfurt]] and [[Detroit]] that was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers, 16 crew and 11 people on the ground. Two employees at [[Libyan Arab Airlines]] were tried in a special court set in [[Camp Zeist]], [[Netherlands]], with al-Megrahi being found guilty and sentenced to life in prison and the other, [[Lamin Khalifah Fhimah]], being acquitted. al-Megrahi was released on health concerns in 2009 and died of [[cancer]] in Libya in 2012.</small>
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| Cheryl Anne Commesso
| [[Franklin Delano Floyd]]
| [[Pinellas County, Florida]], US
| 1989
| c. 2001
| <small>An 18-year-old [[exotic dancer]] who disappeared after having an argument with Floyd, the husband of a coworker, Sharon Marshall. Commesso's remains were found in 1995 and identified in 1996. Around the same time, pictures depicting Commesso bound and beaten were found in a truck stolen by Floyd in [[Oklahoma]] and abandoned in [[Texas]]. Floyd was initially deemed unfit to stand trial on the grounds of mental health, which he denied and fought vigorously. He was subsequently tried and sentenced to death.</small>
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| Katharine and Robert Baskin
| [[Marvin L. Maple]]
| [[Murfreesboro, Tennessee]], US
| March 10, 1989
| c. 2009
| <small>Two eight and seven-year-old siblings kidnapped by their grandparents and taken to [[San Jose, California]], where they lived under aliases until they were identified in 2009. Maple's wife faced no charges because she had already died in 2007, but he was extradited to Tennessee and sentenced to four years probation. The grandchildren refused to reunite with their parents.</small>
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| Renee Baker
| [[Scott Erskine]]
| [[Palm Beach, Florida]], US
| June 23, 1989
| August 2004
| <small>A 26-year-old woman who was raped, had her neck snapped, and was left to drown with the tide. Erskine, already on [[death row]] for [[Murder of Charlie Keever and Jonathan Sellers|two other murders]], pleaded guilty after a DNA match was made in 2003.</small>
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| [[Jacob Wetterling]]
| Danny Heinrich
| [[Saint Joseph, Minnesota]], US
| October 22, 1989
| September 1, 2016
| <small>An 11-year-old boy who was abducted while he biked home with his younger brother and a friend. Heinrich, who had been a person of interest in the case for a long time, confessed to having raped and murdered Wetterling only after he was arrested for possession of [[child pornography]] decades later. Heinrich also led police to Wetterling's remains as part of a [[plea deal]].</small>
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| [[Sakamoto family murder|Tsutsumi, Satoko and Tatsuhiko Sakamoto]]
| [[Shoko Asahara]], Kazuaki Okazaki, Tomomasa Nakagawa, Satoro Hashimoto
| [[Yokohama]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa]], Japan
| November 4, 1989
| July 25, 2000
| <small>Sakamoto was a 33-year-old lawyer working on a [[class action lawsuit]] against [[Aum Shinrikyo]] cult, his 29-year-old wife and 14-month-old son – all were murdered in their home by members of the cult. Their bodies were buried in metal drums in different rural areas of [[Niigata Prefecture|Niigata]], [[Toyama Prefecture|Toyama]] and [[Nagano Prefecture|Nagano]], where they remained unnoticed until members of the cult confessed and led police to the sites in the aftermath of the 1995 [[Tokyo subway sarin gas attack]]. The cult's leader, Asahara, was also convicted as the instigator of the murders, while a fourth material participant, [[Hideo Murai]], was murdered before the trial.</small>
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