A growing collection of unsolved homicides and unresolved disappearances in the United States. Each listing identifies its status source. A disappearance does not, by itself, establish that a crime occurred. These are dated reviews, not live police records.
Alonzo Brooks disappeared after a party near La Cygne in April 2004. His family found his body a month later. The FBI continues to seek information about the homicide.
Patrice Endres disappeared from her hair salon in April 2004. Her remains were identified after their discovery in Dawson County in 2005. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation lists her death as an unsolved homicide.
Sixteen-year-old Molly Bish disappeared from her Massachusetts lifeguard job in 2000. Her remains were discovered in 2003. The investigation has considered multiple leads, but the case remains unresolved; media discussion of suspects does not establish responsibility for her death.
Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in her family’s Boulder home in December 1996 after a ransom note was discovered. The investigation and public speculation placed her family under intense scrutiny. The killing remains unresolved; media allegations are not findings of guilt.
Nine-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, in January 1996 and was found murdered. Her case inspired a local broadcast-alert effort that grew into the AMBER Alert system for abducted children.
Ten-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.
Jennifer Kesse disappeared from Orlando in January 2006. Her car was found elsewhere, and surveillance captured a person whose face was obscured by a fence. Her family’s search and efforts to obtain investigative records have become central to coverage of the unresolved disappearance.
Maura Murray disappeared after a car crash in New Hampshire in February 2004, before police reached the scene. The uncertain timeline and absence of a confirmed explanation have generated extensive coverage. Podcast and book theories remain theories rather than a resolution of the case.
Brianna Maitland disappeared after leaving work in Vermont in March 2004. Her car was found backed into an abandoned building, but she was gone. Her family and investigators have continued seeking information, while documentaries and podcasts revisit the circumstances without an established solution.
Television news anchor Jodi Huisentruit disappeared outside her Mason City, Iowa, apartment in 1995 while preparing to leave for work. Personal items near her car suggested a struggle. Her unexplained disappearance generated decades of reporting and appeals for information, with no established account of who took her or what happened afterward.
Sherrill 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.