Editing Cold case (section)

== Examples without conviction, but considered solved or likely solved ==
=== 1910s ===
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! scope="col" | Crime date
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! scope="col" | Description
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| [[Crime of Cuenca|José María Grimaldos López]]
| Himself
| [[Osa de la Vega]], [[New Castile (Spain)|New Castile]], Spain
| August 20, 1910
| July 10, 1926
| <small>A 28-year-old shepherd from nearby [[Tresjuncos]] who disappeared after an animal sale. Grimaldos's family accused two wardens from Osa who had bullied Grimaldos previously, and they confessed to the crime after being brutally [[torture]]d. In 1918, the accused were sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder, but they were paroled in 1925. The next year, Grimaldos was discovered to have been living in [[Mira, Spain|Mira]] for the past 16 years, when he surprisingly traveled to Tresjuncos to request his birth certificate. The previous conviction was overturned and the convicted compensated.</small>
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| [[Joseph Henry Loveless]]  AKA Walter Cairns
| Unknown. Likely a vigilante group.
| Buffalo Cave, [[Dubois, Idaho]], US
| May, 1916
| December 30, 2019
| <small>[[Joseph Henry Loveless]] was a 46-year-old habitual criminal living under the alias Walter Cairns. He disappeared after escaping from the county jail in 1916, where he had been charged with killing his wife with an axe. His dismembered remains, minus his head, were discovered buried in a shallow grave deep in an Idaho cave system in 1979 and 1991. He remained unidentified until the end of 2019. The identification, confirmed by the Clark County Sheriff's Office, was initially made by non-profit volunteer organization DNA Doe Project using [[DNA profiling|genetic fingerprinting]]. Clothes found with the remains matched the description of those Loveless was wearing when he made his escape.</small>
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=== 1960s ===
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! scope="col" | Suspect
! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" | Crime date
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! scope="col" | Description
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| [[Lucy Ann Johnson]]
| Herself
| [[Surrey, British Columbia]], Canada
| September 1961
| July 2013
| <small>Johnson was reported missing by her husband on May 14, 1965, years after she was seen by anyone else. For decades, she was listed as a missing person and her husband was investigated as a suspect even after he died in the 1990s. In 2013, Johnson was found alive in [[Whitehorse, Yukon]], where she had remarried and had other children. She claimed she abandoned her first family because her husband was physically abusive.</small>
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| Mary Sullivan
| [[Albert DeSalvo]]
| [[Boston, Massachusetts]], US
| January 4, 1964
| July 2013
| <small>Last victim attributed to the [[Boston Strangler]], who was raped and strangled with two scarves in her home. While DeSalvo confessed to being the Strangler, he was tried for several unrelated rapes only and was sentenced to life in prison, where he was murdered in 1973. Forty years later, his body was exhumed and his DNA matched to semen found at the crime scene. Doubts remain about DeSalvo's relation to the other Strangler murders.</small>
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| Diane McDermott
| John Sponza
| [[Waterbury, Connecticut]], US
| February 9, 1967
| 2012<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dylan-mcdermott-mother-murder-death-gangster-341494|title=Dylan McDermott's Mother Murdered in 1967 According to Police|date=June 25, 2012|website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>
| <small>A 21-year-old woman shot with the gun of her live-in boyfriend, Sponza, who had ties to [[organized crime]]. The death was ruled an accident resulting from McDermott picking up the gun while Sponza was cleaning it. However, the case was reinvestigated decades later at the request of McDermott's son, actor [[Dylan McDermott]], and ruled a homicide by Sponza. Sponza was himself murdered in 1972 and his murder remains unsolved.</small>
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| [[USS Cacapon (AO-52)#Vietnam War operations|Andrew Lee Muns]]
| Michael LeBrun
| [[Subic Bay]], Philippines
| 1968
| 1998
| <small>Ensign serving aboard the [[fleet oiler]] {{USS|Cacapon|AO-52|6}} during the [[Vietnam War]], who disappeared along with $8,600 from the ship's safe. Muns was officially listed as a thief and a [[deserter]] until the NCIS started an investigation at the request of Muns's family, 30 years later. LeBrun, who also worked at the reimbursing office at the time, confessed to being the real thief, to have murdered Muns when he confronted him over it, and to have disposed of the body in one of the ship's tankers. However, he recanted later and the confession was considered not admissible before the court. Nevertheless, Muns was officially cleared and given a burial with military honors at [[Arlington National Cemetery]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mhsclassof1961.50megs.com/contact.html|title=The Andrew Muns Story|website=www.mhsclassof1961.50megs.com}}</ref></small>
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| [[Murder of Reyna Marroquín|Reyna Angélica Marroquín]]
| Howard B. Elkins
| [[Jericho, New York]], US
| 1969
| 1999
| <small>A 28-year-old [[El Salvador|Salvadoran]] immigrant who was having an extra-marital affair with Elkins when she disappeared, and was [[unreported missing|never reported missing]]. In 1999, Marroquín's mummified body was found in a barrel at Elkins's previous home, which he had sold in 1972. She was pregnant at the time of her death, and a DNA test of the fetus identified Elkins as the father. Elkins committed suicide the day after he was interrogated by detectives about the murder.</small>
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=== 1970s ===
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! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" | Crime date
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! scope="col" | Description
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| [[Murder of Arlis Perry|Arlis Perry]]
| Stephen Blake Crawford
| [[Stanford, California]], US
| October 12, 1974
| June 28, 2018
| <small>A 19-year-old newlywed who was sodomized with a candlestick and murdered while praying at [[Stanford Memorial Church]] in [[Stanford University]]. Crawford, the security guard who found the body, was identified as the culprit after a DNA test was performed on [[semen]] found at the scene. The same evidence had earlier excluded Crawford after being tested with more primitive technology. Crawford shot himself when police arrived at his residence with a search warrant.</small>
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| Suzanne Marie Sevakis
|[[Franklin Delano Floyd]]
| [[North Carolina]], US
| 1975
| October 2014
| <small>A young girl kidnapped by Floyd, her stepfather, while her mother was serving a month sentence in prison. Floyd subsequently raised and married Sevakis under different aliases. Sevakis, then known as "Sharon Marshall", died in a suspicious hit and run in 1990 and her real identity remained a mystery until 2014. In 1995, several photographs depicting Sevakis being sexually abused were found in a truck stolen and abandoned shortly after by Floyd. She could be as young as four years old in some images.</small>
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| Claude and Beth Snelling, William McGowen
| rowspan="3"|[[Joseph James DeAngelo]]
| [[Visalia, California]], US
| September 11 – December 12, 1975
| rowspan="3"|April 25, 2018
| <small>Claude Snelling, a 45-year-old journalism professor, was fatally shot when he intervened in the attempted kidnapping of his 16-year-old daughter by the prolific, unidentified [[burglar]] known as the [[Visalia Ransacker]]; McGowen, a detective, was non-fatally shot by the Ransacker when he tried to arrest him. The Ransacker escaped and vanished afterward. In 2018, police announced that the Ransacker was also the unidentified serial killer known as the [[Original Night Stalker]], and that his real identity was DeAngelo, who was identified as the Stalker by a DNA match. DeAngelo was a police officer in nearby [[Exeter, California|Exeter]] during the Ransacker's spree. DeAngelo was charged with Snelling's murder because of undisclosed, non-genetic evidence.</small>
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| Brian and Katie Maggiore
| [[Rancho Cordova, California]], US
| February 2, 1978
| <small>A young couple chased and fatally shot while walking their dog at night. The murders were attributed to the unidentified East Area Rapist, who committed over 50 home invasions and rapes around the time in [[Northern California]], after pre-tied shoelaces with his signature diamond-type knot were found at the crime scene. The EAR was discovered to be the Original Night Stalker after DNA from both sprees was matched in 2001, and in turn, identified as DeAngelo through family DNA in 2018.</small>
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| Robert Offerman and Debra Manning
| [[Goleta, California]], US
| December 30, 1979
| <small>The two first victims of the Original Night Stalker in his [[Southern California]] spree. DeAngelo was charged with their murders.</small>
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| [[Bear Brook Murders|Allenstown Four]]
| [[Terry Peder Rasmussen|Terrence Peder Rasmussen]]
| [[Allenstown, New Hampshire]], US
| 1978–1984
| 2017
| <small>A woman and three young girls, all of them unidentified, whose bodies were found inside two steel barrels abandoned in [[Bear Brook State Park]]. The woman and two of the girls were maternally related, and the third girl, aged 4, was identified as Rasmussen's biological daughter in 2017. Rasmussen had worked for the owner of the property between 1977 and 1981, using the alias "Robert Evans". He died in prison in 2010, while serving a sentence for murdering his wife in 2002.<ref name="bostonglobe.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/05/13/finding-lisa-story-murders-mysteries-loss-and-incredibly-new-life/vCCxbYYUD63kjIoIMJQiWM/story.html|title=Finding Lisa: A story of murders, mysteries, loss, and, incredibly, new life |website=BostonGlobe.com}}</ref></small>
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=== 1980s ===
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| Charlene and Lyman Smith, Keith and Patrice Harrington, Manuela Witthun, Cheri Domingo and Gregory Sanchez, Janelle Cruz
| [[Joseph James DeAngelo]]
| [[Ventura, California|Ventura]], [[Dana Point, California|Dana Point]], [[Irvine, California|Irvine]], and Goleta, California, US
| March 13, 1980 – May 4, 1986
| April 24, 2018
| <small>Southern California couples and lone women targeted by the Original Night Stalker, whose M.O. included stalking his victims for a prolonged time, invading their homes, binding them, raping the women while the men watched, and then killing both by either shooting or bludgeoning. DeAngelo was identified by police after DNA from the crime scenes was uploaded to a fake profile in the open-source DNA database [[GEDmatch]], and found to have distant relatives among its users. DeAngelo was charged with all murders and is pending trial.</small>
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| [[Stabbing of Suzanne Bombardier|Suzanne Bombardier]]
| Mitchell Lynn Bacom
| [[Antioch, California]], US
| June 22, 1980
| December 11, 2017
| <small>A 14-year-old girl kidnapped, raped and stabbed to death. Her body was found floating in the [[San Joaquin River]]. DNA found in the body was matched to Bacom, a registered sex offender with three prison sentences served.</small>
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| Denise and Dawn Beaudin
| [[Terry Peder Rasmussen|Terrence Peder Rasmussen]]
| [[Manchester, New Hampshire]], US
| October 12, 1981
| July 2016
| <small>A woman, Denise, and her six-month-old daughter, Dawn, who disappeared with Rasmussen. The daughter was abandoned by Rasmussen in [[Scotts Valley, California]] in 1986, after raising her alone for some time, and also neglecting and molesting her. Dawn discovered her real identity through genealogy websites when she was 35. Denise Beaudin was excluded as the unidentified adult decedent at Allenstown and her whereabouts are unknown, but she is presumed murdered by Rasmussen.<ref name="bostonglobe.com"/></small>
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| [[Murder of Brenda Gerow|Brenda Gerow]]
| John "Jack" Kalhauser
| [[Tucson]], [[Arizona]], US
| c. April 6, 1981
| April 2015
| <small>A 20-year-old woman last seen alive when she left her family home in the company of Kalhauser, her boyfriend, in 1980. Her body was discovered in Arizona in 1981 and remained unidentified for 34 years, during which she was known as the "[[Pima County]] [[Jane Doe]]". In 1995, a photograph of Gerow while she was still alive surfaced in the possession of Kalhauser, who was pending trial for the murder of his wife, Diane Van Reeth. Police announced that they believed the photograph to be connected to the unidentified decedent in 2014 and confirmed this when they matched the body's DNA to Gerow's family.</small>
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| [[Murder of Adam Walsh|Adam Walsh]]
| [[Ottis Toole]]
| [[Hollywood, Florida]], US
| July 27, 1981
| December 16, 2008
| <small>A six-year-old boy abducted from a department store; only his head, severed post-mortem, was found two weeks later. Though Toole confessed to the murder already in 1983, the fact that he and his sometimes associate [[Henry Lee Lucas]] made false confessions to several other murders cast doubt on his testimony, and he eventually recanted. The prosecution was further complicated when police lost Toole's car and a machete before proper testing could be done. Nevertheless, the police and Walsh's family made a joint announcement in 2008 about their confidence in Toole's guilt based on circumstantial evidence. The investigation of Walsh's murder was then officially closed. Among the evidence was Toole's niece's claim that he had again confessed the murder and decapitation of Walsh while on his deathbed in 1996, seemingly unprompted.</small>
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| [[Murder of Tina Harmon|Tina Harmon]]
| [[Robert Anthony Buell]]
| [[Lodi, Ohio]], US
| October 29, 1981
| 2010
| <small>A 12-year-old girl who was abducted, raped and murdered. A man was convicted for her murder in 1982 but released after winning a retrial in 1983. In 2010, DNA found at the murder scene was matched to Buell, who had been executed in 2002 for the 1982 [[murder of Krista Harrison]]. Further matches were made between fibers found on Harmon and Harrison's bodies, and between dog hair found on Harmon and a dog buried in Buell's yard.</small>
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| Lisa Stasi
| John Edward Robinson
| Overland Park, Kansas, US
| January 9, 1985
| October 2002
| <small>The mother of Tiffany Stasi. See above.</small>
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| [[Wanda Jean Mays]]
| Herself
| [[Georgia Mountain]], Alabama, US
| May 12, 1986
| 2008
| <small>A 26-year-old woman, prone to [[panic attack]]s, who disappeared while sleeping in her aunt and uncle's country home. Her room's door was locked and her blood was found in a window, which had been broken from the inside; her gown, which was found discarded on a boat dock; and on a [[canoe]] found adrift on [[Guntersville Lake]]. Her bones were found at the bottom of a cliff by a [[ginseng]] hunter in 2003 and identified by the [[FBI]] five years later. Because of the lack of foul play evidence, the death was ruled accidental.</small>
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| Hashimoto <small>(first name unknown)</small>
| Miyoko Sumida
| [[Amagasaki]], [[Hyōgo Prefecture|Hyōgo]], Japan
| 1987
| November 2011
| <small>Believed to be the first victim of the [[Amagasaki Serial Murder Incident]] discovered in 2011. The victim, the mother of later victim Jiro Hashimoto, disappeared when she and Sumida were in their 30s. The case is not under investigation because the Japanese [[statute of limitation]]s had already run out when it was tied to Sumida.</small>
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| Sherry Perisho
| [[Charlie Brandt]]
| [[Big Pine Key]], Florida, US
| July 16, 1989
| May 6, 2006
| <small>A homeless woman whose body was found floating on a canal, after being nearly decapitated and having her heart extracted. The [[dinghy]] she lived in was found inland and with signs of having been used as a cutting board. Brandt, who committed suicide after murdering his wife and niece on September 13, 2004, was officially named as the perpetrator of Perisho's murder in 2006. He lived 1,000 feet from the murder scene, strongly resembled a [[composite sketch]] of a man seen fleeing the scene, was seen with bloody clothes in his home after the murder, and performed a nearly identical mutilation on his niece's body.</small>
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=== 1990s ===
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! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" | Crime date
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! scope="col" | Description
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| Beverly McGowan
| [[Elaine Parent]]
| Pompano Beach, Florida, US
| July 17, 1990
| April 2002
| <small>A 34-year-old bank clerk murdered by a [[con artist]] who pretended to answer an ad for a room to rob her and [[identity theft|steal her identity]]. Her body was found two days later in a canal, missing her head, hands and a tattoo on her stomach, but she could be identified from a smaller tattoo on her ankle. Years later, Police were able to determine Parent's identity and locate her in a [[Panama City, Florida]] apartment, but she shot herself before they could arrest her.</small>
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| [[Murder of Anjelica Castillo|Anjelica Castillo]]
| Conrado Juarez
| New York City, New York, US
| c. July 18, 1991
| 2013
| <small>A four-year-old daughter of Mexican [[illegal immigrant]]s who was [[unreported missing|not reported missing]] and remained unidentified for 22 years, during which she was nicknamed "Baby Doe." Her mother believed that she had been taken to [[Mexico]] by her father, but he actually left her in the care of adult cousins Balvina and Conrado Juarez in [[Astoria, Queens]]. After her identification in 2013, Conrado confessed to having raped, tortured and murdered the child, then disposed of the body with the help of Balvina, who died before the identification.</small>
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| Shawn Marie Neal
| [[Ronald Lee Moore]]
| [[North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina]], US
| June 2, 1996
| February 2020
| <small>A 23-year-old escort who was strangled to death and hanged in a condominium. DNA testing linked Moore to the crime, however, he had committed suicide in 2008. He had previously been linked to another unsolved murder.</small>
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| [[Death Valley Germans|Egbert Rimkus, Georg Weber, Cornelia and Max Meyer]]
| None
| [[Death Valley National Park]], California, US
| July 23, 1996
| November 12, 2009
| <small>Four German tourists who disappeared hiking in the area. A search at the time proved fruitless, but 13 years later, the remains of Egbert and Cornelia were found by hikers. Though no remains of Georg and Max were found, the four are presumed to have died of dehydration after getting lost in the desert.</small>
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| [[Murder of Eva Blanco|Eva Blanco]]
| Ahmed Chelh Gerj
| [[Algete]], [[Community of Madrid|Madrid]], Spain
| April 20, 1997
| October 1, 2015
| <small>A 16-year-old girl abducted on her way home after visiting a disco with friends, and subsequently raped and stabbed to death in a lover's lane, six kilometers away. For years, police centered their suspicions on Blanco's friends and relatives because she was assumed to have had consensual sex before she was murdered. However, a [[genealogical DNA test]] in 2013 revealed that the source of the semen was a man of [[North Africa]]n extraction, who was later identified as Chelh, a [[Morocco|Moroccan]] immigrant who had moved to [[France]] in 1999. Chelh was arrested and extradited in 2015, but he committed suicide while awaiting trial on January 29, 2016. The investigation was formally closed the following month.</small>
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| [[Natascha Kampusch]]
| Wolfgang Přiklopil
| [[Vienna]], Austria
| March 2, 1998
| August 23, 2006
| <small>A 10-year-old girl who was abducted on her way to school and held in captivity until she escaped, eight years later. Přiklopil jumped in front of a train when he learned of Kampusch's escape.</small>
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| Annelise Hyang Suk Lee
| [[Ronald Lee Moore]]
| [[Owings Mills, Maryland]], US
| December 10, 1999
| July 2014
| <small>A 27-year-old woman who was found dead in her apartment. Police later reexamined evidence from the case and Moore was identified as the killer, however, he had committed suicide in 2008. He was later linked to another unsolved murder.</small>
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| [[Murders of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman|Danny, Kathy and Ashley Freeman, Lauria Bible]]
| Ronnie Busick, Phil Welch, David Pennington
| [[Welch, Oklahoma]], US
| December 29–30, 1999
| April 26, 2018
| <small>Married couple Danny and Kathy were murdered in their home, later set on fire, while their teenage daughter (Ashley) and her friend (Lauria) disappeared. Lauria's car and keys were at the scene, evidence that she had been there before vanishing. Two decades later, it was announced that Busick and his friends Welch (d. 2007) and Pennington (d. 2015) had bragged repeatedly about murdering the Freemans over drug debts, then taken the girls to a trailer home, where they raped and murdered before disposing of the bodies in a mineshaft. Busick was charged with all four murders and is pending trial.</small>
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=== 2000s ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! scope="col" | Location
! scope="col" | Crime date
! scope="col" | Breakthrough date
! scope="col" | Description
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| [[Zebb Quinn]]
| Robert Jason Owens
| [[Asheville, North Carolina]], US
| January 2, 2000
| July 10, 2017
| <small>An 18-year-old [[Walmart]] employee who disappeared after his daily shift, when he went to buy a car with Owens, a coworker. Owens was one of two primary suspects until 2015 when he was arrested for the unrelated murder of [[Cristie Schoen Codd]] and her husband. In 2017 he was convicted of the Codds murders and indicted for Quinn's murder; the reasons for the latter are undisclosed.</small>
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| [[Chandra Levy]]
| Ingmar Guandique
| Washington, D.C., US
| May 1, 2001
| March 3, 2009
| <small>A [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] [[intern]] who disappeared and was found murdered in [[Rock Creek Park]] over a year later. Police and media centered their attention on [[US Congressman]] [[Gary Condit]], whom she had an extra-marital affair with, until eight years later when an investigation by ''[[The Washington Post]]'' led to Guandique, a Salvadoran illegal immigrant incarcerated for assaulting two other women in the same place around the time of Levy's murder. Guandique was convicted of the crime in 2011, but the conviction was overturned and a retrial was called in 2015 after it was determined that a witness at the first trial had committed [[perjury]]. On July 28, 2016, prosecutors announced that they would no longer seek charges against Guandique and instead worked to have him deported.</small>
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| Joseph Curseen, Thomas Morris Jr., Ottilie Lundgren, Robert Stevens, Katherine Nguyen (plus 17 others injured)
| [[Bruce Edwards Ivins]]
| [[Boca Raton, Florida]] and Washington, D.C., US (also injured in New York City)
| September 18 – October 9, 2001
| August 6, 2008
| <small>Random people mailed letters infected with [[anthrax]] in the aftermath of the [[September 11 terrorist attacks]]. Early investigations focused on [[biological weapons]] expert [[Steven Hatfill]] but shifted to Ivins after the viral strain was identified as coming from his lab. Ivins committed suicide on July 21, 2008, when the FBI was about to lay charges on him, and he was named the official perpetrator a week later. The investigation was formally closed on February 19, 2010.</small>
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| Takashi Tanimoto, Hisayoshi Sumida
| Miyoko Sumida and her family
| Hyōgo and [[Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa]], Japan
| 2003–2005
| November 2011
| <small>Victims in the Amagasaki Serial Murder Incident and relatives of Sumida, who may have killed them for [[insurance]]. Like in the other murders, Sumida admitted them after her arrest and produced a written chronicle of her crimes, then committed suicide while in police custody.</small>
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| [[Tara Grinstead]]
| Ryan Alexander Duke, Bo Dukes
| [[Ocilla, Georgia]], US
| October 23, 2005
| 2017
| <small>A high school history teacher who vanished from her home. Though no body was found, Duke and Dukes (no relation), two former students at the high school, were respectively charged with murder and concealment.</small>

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