Editing Cold case (section)

=== 2000s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! scope="col" | Victim(s)
! scope="col" | Convicted
! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" | Crime date
! scope="col" | Conviction date
! scope="col" | Description
|-
| Princess Berthomieux, Valerie McCorvey, Janecia Peters
| Lonnie David Franklin, Jr.
| [[Inglewood, California|Inglewood]] and Los Angeles, California, US
| March 19, 2002 – January 1, 2007
| August 10, 2016
| <small>Victims of Franklin's second spree, who was nicknamed "The Grim Sleeper" for the long period of inactivity between them. See above.</small>
|-
| Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus
| [[Ariel Castro]]
| [[Cleveland, Ohio]], US
| August 23, 2002 – April 2, 2004
| August 1, 2013
| <small>Three young women abducted in successive years from the same street and held in captivity for ten years until Berry (who also had a daughter with her captor) escaped.</small>
|-
| [[Shawn Hornbeck]]
| [[Michael J. Devlin]]
| [[Richwoods, Missouri]], US
| October 6, 2002
| October 6 – December 21, 2007
| <small>An 11-year-old boy who disappeared while cycling to a friend's house. After four years with no leads, Hornbeck was found alive in Devlin's home, when police came to investigate the disappearance of another 13-year-old boy, [[Ben Ownby]], who was also found alive there.</small>
|-
| Scott Ponder, Brian Lucas, Chris Sherbert, Beverly Guy
| [[Todd Kohlhepp]]
| [[Chesnee, South Carolina]], US
| November 6, 2003
| May 26, 2017
| <small>The owner and employees of a motorcycle shop, all shot for no apparent reason. Kohlhepp confessed to the murders after he was arrested for an unrelated double kidnapping and murder in 2016.</small>
|-
| [[Murder of Daniel Morcombe|Daniel Morcombe]]
| [[Brett Peter Cowan]]
| [[Sunshine Coast, Queensland]], Australia
| December 7, 2003
| March 13, 2014
| <small>A 13-year-old boy abducted from a bus stop after the bus failed to stop and let him in. The case was revived in 2011 after police placed a clay model of a suspicious man seen in the same road at the time Morcombe disappeared and called possible witnesses to come forward; this resulted in both Cowan and his white [[Mitsubishi Pajero]] being placed in the scene of the crime. Morcombe's remains were found in the [[Glass House Mountains]] a week after Cowan's arrest.</small>
|-
| [[Deaths of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce Pearce|Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce Pearce]]
| Daniel James Holdom
| [[Alice Springs]], [[Northern Territory, Australia]]
| November 8, 2008
| November 30, 2018
| <small>A mother and daughter who disappeared together. Their remains were found years later and hundreds of miles apart in [[Belanglo State Forest]], [[New South Wales]], and [[Wynarka, South Australia]], and not as related to one another until their DNA was matched in 2015. Their family reported them missing in 2009, but subsequently withdrew the notice when Holdom's new romantic partner impersonated Pearce-Stevenson and used her phone and [[Facebook]] to make it look like they were still alive.</small>
|-
| [[Morgan Harrington]]
| Jesse LeRoy Matthew, Jr.
| [[Charlottesville, Virginia]], US
| October 17, 2009
| 2016
| <small>A 20-year-old college student who disappeared while attending a [[Metallica]] concert and was found murdered three months later. [[Forensic evidence]] identified the culprit as the same perpetrator of the [[murder of Hannah Graham]] in 2014, who was in turn identified as Matthew due to him being recorded by [[CCTV]] with Graham before her murder. Matthew pleaded guilty to both murders and all other related charges in 2016.</small>
|}