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U.S. cases, plus the Bernardo–Homolka case in Canada.
1992
Unresolved disappearanceSherrill Levitt, her daughter Suzie Streeter, and Suzie’s friend Stacy McCall vanished from a Springfield, Missouri, home in 1992 after graduation celebrations. Their cars and personal belongings were left behind. With no clear explanation for all three women’s disappearance, the case became one of the region’s most closely followed mysteries.
1991
Anita Hill testified that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her when she worked for him. Thomas denied her allegations and was confirmed. The nationally televised hearings brought workplace sexual harassment and the treatment of people reporting it into sustained public debate.
1991–2009
Jaycee Dugard was abducted at age eleven on her way to school in California in 1991. Phillip and Nancy Garrido held her captive for eighteen years, during which she gave birth to two daughters. Her discovery in 2009 exposed both the long confinement and missed opportunities to uncover it.
1991
Jayne Miller discovered that her husband, David, had another wife. She confronted his deception and was fatally shot in Florida in 1991. The investigation exposed his double life, including claims about secret government work. The case turned a seemingly successful marriage into a story of bigamy, fabricated identities, and murder.
1991
Sixteen-year-old Laurie Show was attacked and killed in her Pennsylvania home in 1991. Investigators uncovered hostility and harassment connected to a teenage relationship. Lisa Michelle Lambert and Tabitha Buck were convicted of murder. The case later generated extensive litigation over the evidence and the conduct of the investigation.
1991
Nancy Dillard Lyon died from arsenic poisoning in Dallas in January 1991. The investigation examined her marriage and the origin of the poison. Her husband Richard was convicted, and the case inspired both a nonfiction book and a television drama.
1991
Dentist Norman Larzelere was shot at his practice in March 1991. Investigators examined an insurance motive and allegations of a family plot; Virginia was convicted, while her son was acquitted in a separate trial.
1991
Wanda Holloway tried to arrange the killing of the mother of a girl competing with her daughter for a cheerleading position. She believed the death would keep the rival out of competition. The man she approached contacted authorities, and recordings exposed the 1991 Texas plot before anyone was killed.
1990
Betty Jones and Kathryn Crigler were attacked at a Mississippi home on Labor Day in 1990. The investigation continued for decades, with renewed attention from podcast reporting and advances in DNA analysis.
1990–2000
Brooke Ellison was paralyzed after being struck by a car in 1990 at age eleven. With her mother Jean’s support, she continued her education and graduated from Harvard in 2000. Their jointly written memoir describes daily life, family care and access to education; Christopher Reeve later directed its television adaptation.
1990
Jerry Sternadel became gravely ill and died in 1990. An autopsy found arsenic, leading investigators to examine his financial and personal relationships and the actions of bookkeeper Debra Baker.
1990s
Veterans Affairs nurse Kristen Gilbert caused medical emergencies by injecting patients with epinephrine at a Massachusetts hospital. Coworkers noticed a troubling pattern around her shifts. She was convicted in 2001 of four murders and other offenses arising from the attacks.
1990s–2009
Liz Murray experienced homelessness as a teenager in New York, returned to school and completed high school in two years. A scholarship helped her attend Harvard, where she graduated in 2009. Her memoir Breaking Night and the earlier television film recount her childhood, family relationships and pursuit of education.
1990s
Teacher Mary Kay Letourneau sexually abused her student Vili Fualaau when he was a child. Her 1997 conviction and violation of a no-contact order drew extensive coverage. Later accounts examine the abuse, the children they had, and their eventual adult marriage without erasing his age when it began.
1990
Gregg Smart was shot dead in his New Hampshire home in 1990 in what initially appeared to be a burglary. The investigation uncovered his wife Pamela’s sexual relationship with teenage student Billy Flynn and a plan involving Flynn and other teenagers. Pamela Smart was convicted for her role in arranging her husband’s murder.
1990–1995
Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka abducted, sexually assaulted, and killed teenagers Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French in Ontario. Homolka also helped drug her younger sister Tammy, who died after being assaulted. Bernardo was convicted of murder; Homolka received a twelve-year manslaughter sentence under a plea agreement that became controversial when videotapes revealed her involvement.
1989–1990
Aileen Wuornos shot and killed seven men in Florida in 1989 and 1990. She gave differing accounts of the encounters, including claims of self-defense. Convicted of six murders, she became the subject of documentaries, biographies, and the dramatized film Monster.
1989
Unsolved homicideTen-year-old Amy Mihaljevic was persuaded by a caller to meet him at an Ohio shopping center in 1989, supposedly to help buy a gift for her mother. She disappeared, and her body was found months later. The deceptive phone call became a central clue in the investigation into her abduction and murder.
1989
Betty Broderick entered the home of her former husband, Dan Broderick, and shot him and his new wife, Linda, as they lay in bed in 1989. The killings followed a bitter divorce and years of conflict. Her televised court proceedings divided public opinion; a jury convicted her of two counts of second-degree murder.
1989
Charles Stuart shot his pregnant wife, Carol, in Boston in 1989 and blamed a Black carjacker. Carol died, and their prematurely delivered baby also died. The false account triggered an aggressive police search in Black neighborhoods. Charles’s brother later exposed the plot, and Charles died by suicide as suspicion turned toward him.
1989
Betty Jean Solomon was shot in her home in January 1989. Investigators examined her husband's relationship with Carolyn Warmus and traced evidence involving a firearm and ammunition.
1989
Dana Beatty survived an assault by a masked attacker in her Cincinnati home. Decades later, her daughter Andra helped renew efforts to identify the assailant and obtain justice.
1989
Eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was abducted while returning from a store with his brother and a friend in 1989. In 2016, Danny Heinrich admitted abducting and killing him and led investigators to his remains. The admission came through a federal plea agreement, rather than a murder conviction.
1989
Lyle and Erik Menendez were convicted of killing their parents, José and Kitty, in Beverly Hills in 1989. Their sentences were reduced to 50 years to life in May 2025, but both were denied parole that August. September 18, 2026 reporting gives tentative new hearing dates of February 23 and 24, 2027; parole has not been granted.
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