Victim(s) |
Convicted |
Location |
Disappeared |
Conviction date |
Description |
Russell Colvin |
Jesse and Stephen Boorn |
Manchester, Vermont |
Unknown |
c. 1819 |
Two brothers convicted of the murder of their brother-in-law. Prior to execution, the victim was found alive, although some speculate that it was someone impersonating Colvin.[22] |
Walter Nicoll |
William Brown, David Baker, George Mattews, William Webster |
Unknown |
July 14–15, 1843 |
Late 1843 |
The master of the ship Sarah Lavinia, murdered while at sea.[22] |
Harriet and Priscilla Ruloff |
Edward H. Rulloff |
Tioga County, New York |
June 24, 1845 |
Fall 1856 |
Mother and daughter, murdered by husband/father.[22] |
George Burr, Smith and Oliver Watts |
Elias Hicks |
New York, New York |
1850 |
Summer 1850 |
A man convicted of murdering crew members while fishing. He was convicted on evidence from the crime scene and was executed.[22] |
Sarah Lamb |
George Lamb |
St. Louis, Missouri |
December 1857 |
1858 |
The wife of the man convicted; she was drowned.[22] |
Peggy Hilton |
Robert Williams |
Rockingham, North Carolina |
December 1859 |
c. Summer 1860 |
A woman believed to have been murdered after human bone fragments were found on her murderer's property.[22] |
John Ruhland |
Jose and Pacheco Alviso |
Monterey County, California |
Unknown |
c. 1879 |
A pair of brothers who robbed a man of livestock and later burned his body.[22] |
George Watkins |
Andrew "Charles" Hudspeth |
Arkansas |
Unknown |
c. 1886 |
A man convicted for the murder of his mistress' husband, based on her testimony. He was hanged in 1892, but the victim was later reportedly found alive; this has been subjected to high levels of speculation.[22] |
Maurice Fitzgerald |
Thomas St. Clair, Herman Sparf, Hans Hansen |
Unknown |
January 1893 |
c. Spring 1893 |
A man murdered at sea.[22] |
Unnamed infant daughter |
John Campbell |
Hamilton County, Illinois |
Unknown |
1894 |
The illegitimate child of the man convicted. He was later released due to lack of evidence, as police relied only on claims made by the mother.[22] |
Louisa Luetgert |
Adolph Luetgert |
Chicago, Illinois |
May 1, 1897 |
c. January 1898 |
A man convicted at his second trial for the murder of his wife. Fragments of a female's bones were discovered in a sausage vat at his business, along with a wedding ring. The bones were believed to have been Louisa's.[23] |
Joshua Crowder, James Johnson |
Henry Leftridge |
Atoka County, Oklahoma |
c. 1900 |
Fall 1900 |
Two men murdered for monetary reasons while trapping.[22] |
Alma Nesbitt, unnamed mother in law |
Daniel Williams |
Portland, Oregon |
March 1900 |
c. 1904 |
A man who murdered his wife and her mother in 1900.[22] |
T.H. Brown |
Nettie Brown |
Oklahoma |
April 1909 |
1909 |
Brown was murdered by his wife after she had an affair with his son, who later testified against her.[22] |
Unnamed infant |
Mattie Kirby |
Adrian, Michigan |
Unknown |
1921 |
An infant granddaughter whose grandmother admitted to the killing. The conviction eventually was overturned, as it was based only on the confession.[22] |
George Schick |
Everett Clark |
San Diego, California |
Unknown |
c. 1924 |
The case was closed after the defendant confessed to a witness and was seen with stolen items of the victim.[22] |
Myrtle Watters |
George Watters |
Sacramento, California |
Unknown |
1927 |
A woman who was shot and dismembered by her husband. The conviction was aided by the testimony of her daughter, who witnessed the crime.[22] |
Melvin Horst |
Elias Arnold |
Orrville, Ohio |
December 27, 1928 |
January 1929 |
A four-year-old boy who was believed to have been murdered by his uncle, later acquitted due to complications of witnesses' accounts.[22] Another uncle, Charles Hannah, Sr., and neighbor Earl Conrad were accused in 1930 by Charles Hannah, Jr., who was one witness in the 1928 trial, as being the actual killers of the boy. The pair confessed after being coerced by police, and the case against them later halted.[24] |
Christopher Coffee |
Carson Lewis, Jerry Clark |
Mobile, Alabama |
Unknown |
Spring 1929 |
A man believed to have been murdered after hairs consistent with his were found on a bloody axe.[22] |
Unnamed infant |
Wilma Lettrich |
Tarentum, Pennsylvania |
November 8, 1941 |
c. 1942 |
The niece of the convicted murderer who was asphyxiated and burned after the murder.[22] |
Unnamed infant |
Iva Pate Warmke |
Utica, Kentucky |
July 18, 1943 |
c. Fall 1943 |
A woman was convicted of the forced drowning of her child by throwing him or her over the side of a vessel.[22] |
Lafeyette Miller |
Henry Gibson |
Lee County, Kentucky |
November 1, 1944 |
1945 |
The man convicted was later released due to complications with the jury. Remains were found, but never identified as the victim.[22] |
Thora Chamberlain |
Thomas McMonigle |
Campbell, California |
November 1945 |
c. 1946 |
Thora was a teenager believed to have been kidnapped and murdered by Thomas McMonigle, who was convicted of the crime.[22] |
Vedah Morrow |
Leon Morrow |
Arkansas |
June 1946 |
c. Fall 1946 |
A woman believed to have been murdered and burned at her husband's farm. Examination by the Smithsonian Institution proved charred bone fragments and teeth were from a human, yet they could not be identified as Vedah's.[22] |
Mary Cullen, Daniel Boyer |
Raymond Cullen |
Riverside County, California |
January 3, 1949 |
August 1950 |
The wife and father-in-law of the defendant, murdered in 1949.[22] |
Evelyn Scott (Mumper) |
Robert Leonard Ewing Scott |
Los Angeles, California |
May 16, 1955 |
1957 |
A woman who disappeared. Her husband was eventually convicted of her murder. The crime was believed to have been motivated by money. Scott's conviction was overturned in 1978, and he died nine years after his release from prison.[25] |
Marie Coleman |
Thomas Burns |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
January 10, 1959 |
April 1961 |
A woman murdered by her boyfriend.[22] |
Curtis and Marjorie Chillingworth |
Joseph Peel |
Palm Beach, Florida |
Unknown |
1960 |
A murder in which both the killer and victim (Curtis) were both judges.[22] |
Arthur Thompson |
Ervin King |
Lee County, Mississippi |
April 19, 1963 |
1964 |
[22] |
Celina Lung |
Joel Lung |
Everett, Washington |
October 24, 1964 |
c. Spring 1965 |
A man was convicted of his wife's murder, yet he maintained he accidentally killed her, and disposed of her body in a river.[22] |
Christine Scott |
Albert Scott |
Piru Creek, California |
March 13, 1965 |
January 1968 |
[22] |
Paul Taylor |
Dennis Bolinski |
Palm Springs, California |
August 20, 1965 |
c. 1966 |
[22] |
Warren Hudson |
Lawrence Fassler |
Riverside County, California |
October 13, 1968 |
February 1971 |
A man murdered in 1968. After the conviction, the remains were found in 1972, apparently having been thrown into a mine shaft and doused in sulphuric acid.[22] |
Anna Marie Vega |
Anita Vega |
Clinton County, Indiana |
1969 or 1970 |
July 1994 |
[22] |
Rosemary Calandriello |
Robert Zarinsky |
Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey |
August 25, 1969 |
1975 |
A teenage girl believed to have been abducted and murdered by a truck driver. Zarinksy, a suspected serial killer, denied knowing the victim until after his conviction, claiming her death was an accident. He died in 2008, never having disclosed the location of her body. It was the first-ever bodyless-murder conviction in New Jersey.[26][27] |
Donald Shea |
Charles Manson, Bruce Davis, Steve Grogan, Tex Watson |
Chatsworth, California |
August 26, 1969 |
1970 |
[22] |
Golda Millar |
Michael Pyle |
Kiowa County, Kansas |
April 5, 1971 |
1972 |
[22] |
Elizabeth Lande |
Robert Nauss |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
December 12, 1971 |
1977 |
A young woman killed by her boyfriend while her family was away on vacation. A companion of the victim's killer led police to a location in New Jersey where he claimed the body was buried, yet it was never found.[22][28][29] |
Mary Kitts |
Clarence Ray Allen, Eugene "Lee" Furrow[30] |
Fresno, California |
July 1974 |
November 1977 |
A teenager murdered in 1974. Her body was apparently weighed down and thrown into a river.[22] |
Hilda Brown |
Steve Heflin |
Columbia County, Oregon |
February 9, 1976 |
September 1976 |
[31] |
Everett Travis |
Kenneth Derring |
Arkansas |
June 1977 |
April 1980 |
[22] |
Stephanie Lyng |
Edward Lyng |
Palatine, Illinois |
October 25, 1977 |
March 1994[22] |
A woman killed by her estranged husband. His girlfriend testified that she had assisted him in disposing of the victim's vehicle and that he had told her details of disposing of it in Lake County and making the body unrecognizable.[32][33] |
Joseph "Joe" Scanlon |
Andrew Merola, Nicholas Pari |
Rhode Island |
April 3, 1978 |
July 1979 |
[22] |
Joyce Fisher |
Jerry Fisher |
Michigan |
April 15, 1978 |
May 1988 |
A woman thought to have been murdered by her husband. The conviction was eventually overturned due to lack of evidence.[22] |
Melvin "Ricky" Pittman, Ernest Taylor, Alvin Turner, Randy Johnson and Michael McDowell |
Philander Hampton |
Newark, New Jersey |
August 20, 1978 |
August 2011 |
Five teenagers who were presumably lured by at least one subject who was convicted. One suspect was eventually acquitted, and one other has died.[34] |
Robert Piest |
John Wayne Gacy |
Chicago, Illinois |
December 11, 1978 |
February 1979 |
The victim's body was later recovered in a nearby river. |
Diane Chorba |
Clarence Bean |
Luther, Michigan |
May 24, 1979 |
2001 |
A woman murdered by her married boyfriend. A testimony from Bean's wife indicated that he had dismembered the body with a chainsaw in the woods near his house.[22] |
Karen Reinert, Michael Reinert |
William Bradfield, Jay Charles Smith |
Ardmore, Pennsylvania |
June 22, 1979 |
1983 |
A brother and sister who are believed to have been murdered along with their mother, whose body was found. The crime is believed to have stemmed from monetary reasons and a relationship dispute.[22][36][37] Smith was acquitted in 1992 and died in 2009.[38] |
Adrianne Gilliam |
Gary Neal Johnson |
San Jose, California |
June 22, 1979 |
c. 1991 |
A young woman believed to have been murdered by her boyfriend.[39] |
Robert Rose |
Carl Campbell |
Laurel, Indiana |
July 1979 |
1984 |
[22] |
Micki West |
Marvin Irvin |
St. Joseph, Missouri |
September 11, 1979 |
c. 1991 |
A man confessed to killing the victim and burying her body in a field with two others. All bodies were found, except for West's.[40] |
Rolf Neslund |
Ruth Neslund |
Lopez Island, Washington |
1980 |
1985[41] |
A woman who shot her husband during a financial dispute, dismembered his body with her brother's help and then burned it, telling everyone he had gone back to his native Norway. Prosecutors made the murder case with blood-spatter evidence on the house and the gun, along with tissue that hadn't been burned. |
Tiffany Papesh |
Brandon Flagner |
Maple Heights, Ohio |
June 13, 1980 |
July 1985[22] |
A man confessed to the murder of the victim in 1983, as well as that of many other young girls. He was eventually convicted. Many believe the confession was false, and Flagner himself eventually recanted.[42] However, it is still presumed Papesh was murdered.[43] |
Virginia Uden, Richard Uden, Reagan Uden |
Gerald Uden |
Lander, Wyoming |
September 12, 1980 |
2014 |
A mother and her two children shot to death by her estranged husband in 1980. Gerald Uden and his current wife were both sentenced to life in separate cases: Gerald for the murder of his family, and Alice for that of a previous husband.[44] Gerald Uden stated he had placed his family members' remains in barrels in a mine shaft and later disposed of them in Fremont Lake.[45][46][47] |
Patsy "Pat" Gaisior |
Robert Ruff, Frank Johnson |
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
December 3, 1980[48] |
1984 |
A woman who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered. Her body was said by one of the killers to have been placed in the Potomac River.[49][50] |
Charlotte Grabbe |
Michael Grabbe |
Marshall, Illinois |
July 1981 |
June 1985, April 1988 |
The 1985 conviction was reversed in 1987; the subject was subsequently retried and convicted.[51] |
Michael Johnston |
Rudy Rebeterano |
Brigham City, Utah |
July 22, 1981 |
Unknown |
A man believed to have been killed in a fight and was likely killed, as a suspicious "bundle" was witnessed to have been carried by the perpetrator into a truck and transported to an unknown location. The victim's blood and personal items were subsequently found in the vehicle. The convict has since been released from prison.[52] |
Tracy Stewart |
Robert Beckett, Sr., Robert Beckett, Jr. |
Carson, California |
August 9, 1981 |
1989–1995 |
A young woman who disappeared after going on a date with Robert Beckett, Jr. and was raped by his father. Both men were convicted of her murder, the younger preparatory in 1989 and the latter in 1995.[53][54] |
Katherine[55] "Katie" Worsky |
Glenn Barker |
Charlottesville, Virginia |
July 12, 1982 |
January 1983 |
A girl believed to have been murdered by a man who was reportedly the last to see her alive. Worsky was diabetic and her insulin and syringes were found abandoned at her friend's house, where she was staying at the time she disappeared. The syringes also contained amounts of Worsky's blood. Her undergarments, with visible bloodstains, were found in the man's possession. He was convicted of her murder, served half of an eighteen-year sentence, and is currently under suspicion for a different murder.[22][56] |
Marcy Andrews |
Casey Nowicki |
Chicago, Illinois |
February 14, 1984 |
2005 |
A young woman believed to have been murdered after going to the perpetrator's home. The pair had gotten into a vehicle accident. Her killer declined to seek medical attention for the victim. She was allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted before she was killed.[22] He is believed to have contacted a friend to assist him with disposing the body.[57][58] |
Ward Olanna |
Reuben Rock |
Nome, Alaska |
August 18, 1984 |
1984 |
A man believed to have been stabbed to death after arguing with his killer.[59] |
Gail Katz-Bierenbaum |
Robert Bierenbaum |
Manhattan, New York |
July 7, 1985 |
October 2000 |
A man convicted of the murder of his wife, although her body was never found. It is believed to have been deposited in the ocean off of the coast of New Jersey, where he reportedly had flown a plane.[60] |
Carolann Payne |
Joel Abbott |
Oregon |
August 1985 |
March 1993 |
[22] |
Alexander "Salaam" Olive |
Ulysses Roberson |
South Lake Tahoe, California |
November 9, 1985 |
December 2009 |
A boy believed to have been beaten to death by his non-custodial father after he was abducted.[61][62] |
David Tyll and Brian Ognjan |
Raymond Duvall, Donald Duvall |
Mio, Michigan |
November 21, 1985 |
Fall 2003 |
One witness saw the brothers torture and kill the hunters from southern Michigan. It is also believed that they fed the remains to their pigs to get rid of the evidence. [63][64] |
Michelle Dorr |
Hadden Clark |
Silver Spring, Maryland |
c. May 24, 1986 |
c. 1999 [22] |
A man convicted of killing the victim over a decade after her disappearance. Her father had previously confessed to the murder in a psychotic episode, but was later exonerated. Clark had killed a woman in 1992, a conviction which later led to the solving of Dorr's murder. After Clark was convicted, he showed police where he had buried Dorr's body, which was then recovered from the scene.[65] |
Tracy Jo Shine |
Michael Durwood Neal |
Harris County, Texas |
April 8, 1987 |
January 2001 |
A young woman murdered by her boyfriend. Traces of Shine's DNA were recovered from a refrigerator owned by the man convicted of the crime, indicating that her body had been stored there.[66][67] |
Robert Mayse |
Hobart Adams, Lori Mayse, Estil Ward |
Alexander County, North Carolina |
November 1986 |
Spring of 1988 |
A nineteen-year-old man believed to have been murdered and had his remains used for a "Satanic ritual." The body is believed to have been placed into a dumpster and has never been found. Blood found in his mobile home, which had been burned, matched his blood type.[22][68] |
Helle Crafts |
Richard Crafts |
Newtown, Connecticut |
November 19, 1986 |
November 21, 1989 |
A Danish-American woman murdered by her husband, in a case popularly known as the "wood-chipper murder". It is believed Crafts had been beaten to death and was then dismembered, frozen and placed in a wood chipper aimed over a bridge. Fragments of a body were found, yet only a tooth with a filling as well as hair consistent with the victim's indicated the body was Crafts'. Despite this, the case is often referred to as a conviction without a body, as the remains could not be definitively proven to be that of Crafts. It was the first bodyless murder conviction in Connecticut history.[69][70] Initially, a trial in 1987 was mistrialed.[22] |
Edwin Smith |
Charles Schuhart, III |
Palm Bay, Florida |
May 13, 1988 |
May 2007 |
A man killed for monetary reasons after placing a newspaper advertisement requesting a roommate. The killer confessed to shooting the subject.[71] |
Lisa Tu |
Gregory Tu |
Potomac, Maryland |
July 14, 1988 |
November 21, 1989 |
A Chinese-American woman whose husband was convicted of her murder.[72] Tu was believed to have been murdered for monetary reasons as well as the fact that she was having an affair, as she was unhappy with her marriage. The conviction was eventually overturned.[73] |
Joaquin Esteves |
Orlando Cruz Vasquez |
San Jose, California |
December 13, 1988 |
December 1990 |
A man believed to have been abducted and killed. Vital belongings, including identification, were left in his home and office.[74][75] |
Shemaeah Gunnel |
Alvie Copeland Kiles |
Yuma, Arizona |
February 10, 1989 |
2000 |
A girl abducted after the murder of her mother in their apartment. Her sister's body was found in Mexico, but hers has yet to be located.[76][77] |
Juliana Schubert |
David Schubert |
Arlington, Washington |
June 1989 |
2002 |
A woman killed by the husband she was in the midst of divorcing. The conviction, after a first trial ended in a hung jury, was based on circumstantial evidence, such as death threats he had made and repeated dubious explanations for her absence.[41] |
Ruby Morris |
Gaylynn Earl Morris |
Phoenix, Arizona |
June 3, 1989 |
March 5, 1992 |
A man convicted of his wife's murder after she threatened to reveal his alleged affair to family. Gaylynn Morris, better known by his middle name, claimed his wife committed suicide; he feared he would be blamed for her death, so then placed her body in a boat in the ocean near San Diego, California, and set it ablaze.[78] The boat was seen and videotaped as it burned, yet it, along with Ruby's' body, was never recovered. Earl received a life sentence.[79][80] |
Joan Butler, Christine Rusch, Theresa Brown |
Richard Grissom |
Overland Park, Kansas |
June 19–25, 1989 |
November 4, 1990 |
Three women abducted and murdered by the perpetrator for monetary reasons. Their remains have yet to be found.[81] |
Alexandria "Alex" Suleski |
Roxanne Suleski, Robert Suleski |
Radcliff, Kentucky |
October 26, 1989 |
1994 |
An Asian-American five-year-old whose parents were convicted of her murder. The victim's father stated he had eventually "destroyed" Suleski's body after he buried it.[82][83] |
Jami Sherer (Hagel) |
Steven Sherer |
Redmond, Washington |
September 30, 1990 |
2000 |
A twenty-six-year-old woman who went missing in 1990. Her husband was eventually convicted of her murder.[84] |
Megan Pratt |
Jesse Schober |
Brooksville, Florida |
September 1991 |
2005 |
A toddler whose father was convicted of her murder. He attempted to lead authorities to her remains, but was unsuccessful. Pratt's mother was initially charged, but there was not significant evidence to convict her. She subsequently testified against her husband to get a shorter prison sentence.[85][86] |
Rachel Aquino Thomas |
Greg Thomas |
Jacksonville, Florida |
September 13, 1991 |
March 24, 1993 |
A woman believed to have been murdered by her ex-husband. A crime scene at her home showed signs that there had been an altercation; blood was also found.[87][88] |
Ruben Gallegos |
Jenaro Torres |
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
May 1, 1992 |
2007 |
A man believed to have been abducted and murdered for monetary reasons, as he had recently come upon thousands of dollars.[89][90] |
Katrina Montgomery |
Justin Merriman |
Los Angeles, California |
November 28, 1992 |
2001 |
A woman believed to have been raped and murdered by a serial killer who allegedly disposed of her body with two accomplices.[91][92] |
Theresa Eby |
Mark Eby |
Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington |
1993 |
1993 |
A woman killed by her husband, a sailor in the US Navy, who then supposedly packed her body in a suitcase and threw it off the Deception Pass Bridge. He confessed to naval investigators, but pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors had a woman of Eby's size put herself into a suitcase at trial to prove that it was possible to dispose her body in that way.[41] |
Edna Blodgett |
Jerry Smith |
Post, Texas |
June 2, 1993 |
December 1996[22] |
An elderly woman presumed to have been murdered for monetary reasons by her boyfriend, who claimed to have buried her body and then burned it.[93][94] |
Shannon Melendi |
Colvin "Butch" Hinton |
Atlanta, Georgia |
March 26, 1994 |
September 2005 |
A woman believed to have been abducted and murdered by a man with a "history of assaulting women."[95][96] Her killer had burned her body and later buried it on his property.[22] |
Eric Mitte, William Moore, Charles Winfield, Judson Fielding |
Willie Hankerson, Jr. |
Various |
May–December 1994 |
2002 |
A group of men murdered for unclear reasons. One suspect committed suicide before he could be tried.[48][97][98] |
Thomas Trotter |
Dennis Oates |
Oroville, California |
July 1995 |
Unknown |
A man believed to have been killed by his neighbor before he was scheduled to appear in court as a witness against his killer.[99] |
Yolanda Panek |
Abdur Rashid Al-Wadud |
Portland, Oregon |
July 1995 |
c. March 1996 |
A man convicted of his girlfriend's murder after blood was found in their hotel room.[22] |
Margie Shaw Boone, Hoyle Smith |
Donald Lewis Abercrombie |
Sanford, North Carolina |
November 3, 1995 |
c. February 1997[22] |
An elderly pair of friends murdered and presumably buried at a lake.[100][101] |
Caroline Killaby |
Dennis Smith |
Orchards, Washington |
November 11, 1995 |
May 1998[22] |
A woman believed to have been abducted and raped. Her killer was convicted and later committed suicide.[102][103] |
Robert Wykel |
Myron C. Wynn |
Burien, Washington |
February 21, 1996 |
April 2011 |
A man murdered and robbed by someone who had accompanied him to look at an old car he was considering purchasing. Wynn consistently changed his account of the time he spent with Wykel whenever he was confronted with new information; police later linked him to the crime through a distinctive diamond very similar to one from a ring Wykel wore and an incriminating remark he made to a friend that contradicted what he had earlier told police.[104] |
Doris Lentz |
Jay Lentz |
Arlington, Virginia |
April 23, 1996 |
June 2003, March 2006 |
A woman believed to have been kidnapped and murdered by her ex-husband. He had been convicted and acquitted of the murder, but was eventually tried again and sent back to prison.[105][106] |
April Pennington |
George Leniart |
Uncasville, Connecticut |
May 28, 1996 |
February 2010 |
A teenager believed to have been murdered by a man who had a record for sexually assaulting and causing injury to another teenage girl.[107][108][109] |
Anne Marie Fahey |
Thomas Capano |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
June 27, 1996 |
January 17, 1999 |
A woman murdered by her lover, the former attorney general of Delaware, after she was last seen dining with him outside their native state. It is believed that her body was dumped in the ocean near New Jersey.[110] Capano was having an affair with the victim prior to her murder.[22] |
Shaquita Bell |
Michael Dickerson |
Alexandria, Virginia |
June 27, 1996 |
1996 |
A woman whose boyfriend admitted to her murder and attempted to show police where he had placed the body after he shot her. The remains were never found.[48][111][112] |
Diana Goldston |
James Robert Griffin, unnamed accomplice |
Denton, Texas |
July 1, 1996 |
1996 |
A woman believed to have been shot to death after she was kidnapped.[113][114] |
Nancy Riggins |
Paul Riggins |
Elkridge, Maryland |
July 1, 1996 |
July 20, 2000 |
A woman murdered by her husband to avoid the cost of divorce.[115] He later directed police to the location of her body, which was found.[116] |
Janet Levine March |
Perry March, Arthur March |
Nashville, Tennessee |
August 15, 1996 |
August 16, 2006 |
A woman who disappeared after supposedly having an argument with her husband, who moved to Mexico with their children several years later. Perry was convicted after ten years due to inconsistencies in his story and incriminating statements made to fellow jail inmates. Arthur March, his father. confessed to placing Janet's body in a pile of cleared brush where it was burned.[117] |
Ashley Jones |
Joyce Lindsey |
Memphis, Tennessee |
September 16, 1996 |
1999 |
A girl believed to have been murdered by her mother after she was unable to care for the child. Strong evidence supports Joyce Lindsey's motive for the victim's death.[118] |
Ricci Ellsworth |
Michael Dale Rimmer |
Memphis, Tennessee |
February 8, 1997 |
November 9, 1998 |
A man convicted of the abduction and murder of a hotel clerk. He had previously been convicted of attacking and raping the victim eight years prior, as she was his former girlfriend. Ellsworth's blood was matched to that found in a car that the suspect had stolen, yet her remains were never located. Rimmer was convicted in 1998 and sentenced to death, but his conviction was overturned.[119][120] Ricci Ellsworth's husband and his girlfriend were murdered by his twenty-five-year-old nephew in 2010.[121] |
Alexia Reale |
Barbara Carrasco, Larry Carrasco |
Elk Grove, California |
June 1, 1997 |
2000 |
A child who was subjected to extreme abuse by her drug-addicted mother and step-father over a period of time. It is believed the victim was dismembered.[122][123] |
Pegye Bechler |
Eric Bechler |
Newport Beach, California |
July 7, 1997 |
c. 2001 |
A woman killed by her husband, who initially reported her disappearance as a result of a "boating accident."[124][125] It is presumed that Belcher was intentionally thrown from the boat her husband drove.[22] |
Irene Silverman |
Kenneth and Sante Kimes |
New York City |
June 1998 |
2000 |
A woman killed by a mother-son con artist team as part of an identity-theft scheme. At trial he testified to disposing of her body. |
Starlette "Star" Vinning |
George Jaime, Sr. |
Presque Isle, Maine |
October 1998 |
November 2013[22] |
A woman who failed to show up for her job in Maine in 1998. Vinning was not reported missing until 2006, as her family were unsure if she had simply left the area without informing anyone, until years had passed.[126] Her boyfriend was convicted of her murder, which is believed to have been performed by stabbing and beating. His ex-daughter-in-law had stated she overheard him speak of dismembering and burning the remains.[127] Jaime later confirmed that this was true and also claimed he had assistance from his son and his son's companion.[22] |
Dominick Pendino |
Gregory Chrysler, Larry Weygant |
Newburgh, New York |
March 3, 1999 |
2000 |
A man killed after he was falsely thought to have reported his killers for drug-related crimes. Prosecutors were able to get Orange County's first bodyless murder conviction with expert testimony that the large stain left by Pendino's blood in the back of a car came from a wound that could only have been lethal, as well as an informant who recalled how one of the two had forced him to clean up a bloody truck shortly thereafter.[128][129] |
Katie Poirier |
Donald Blom |
Moose Lake, Minnesota |
May 26, 1999 |
2000 |
A woman abducted from her job at a local convenience store. Bone chips and a tooth found in a fire pit on Blom's property were linked to her, although DNA could not be tested; surveillance video also suggested he was the abductor. It was the first bodyless murder conviction in Minnesota history.[130] |
Christina Richart |
Wanda Richart |
Ozark, Arkansas |
June 1, 1999 |
2010 |
A teenage girl believed to have been murdered by her aunt, who pleaded guilty at her 2010 trial.[131][132] |
Yolanda Baker |
Terrence Barnett |
Washington DC |
August 1, 1999 |
March 2010 |
A woman believed to have been murdered by her abusive long-term boyfriend.[48][133] |
Katelyn Rivera-Helton |
Robert Rivera |
Boothwyn, Pennsylvania |
August 10, 1999 |
2002 |
A girl whose father was convicted of murdering her. The girl's father had previously threatened to abduct her and bring her to his native home of Puerto Rico.[134][135] |
Lilia Anguiano |
Adolfo Romo Martinez |
Los Banos, California |
August 21, 1999 |
July 2000 |
A woman whose violent ex-boyfriend supposedly murdered her.[70][136] |
Girly Chew Hossencofft |
Diazien Hossencofft, Linda Henning |
Albuquerque, New Mexico |
September 9, 1999 |
2002 |
A Malaysian-American woman murdered by her husband and his mistress. Blood matched to the victim was in a large quantity which proved she could not have survived the attack.[137] |
Jack Irwin |
Marcia Johnson |
Upland, California |
September 13, 1999 |
November 2004 |
A man murdered after a presumed argument. The perpetrator, who had also removed money from the victim's bank account, admitted to dismembering the remains and depositing them in different locations in Mount Baldy, California.[138][139] |
Tawnya Parker |
Thomas Freeman |
Redondo Beach, California |
December 1, 1999 |
November 2003 |
A drug-addicted prostitute whose blood was matched to that discovered under a carpet in her boyfriend's home.[22] The pair had a reportedly unstable and potentially violent relationship.[140][141] |
Alecia Versluis |
Denise Demery, Jeffery Jones[142] |
Pomona, California |
May 7, 2000 |
2001 |
A girl whose mother and mother's boyfriend admitted to abusing to the point of death. The pair were eventually convicted.[143][144] |
Hartanto Santoso |
Kim Mason |
Seattle |
February 2001 |
June 2003 |
An Indonesian immigrant killed by a friend who claimed he had made unwanted sexual advances. The case relied on bloodstains found at the apartment and a former girlfriend's claim that he had confessed to her.[41] |
Mary Stephens |
Nic Aker, Rick Clappsy |
Bernalillo, New Mexico |
August 2001[145] |
c. April 12, 2002 |
A woman who was robbed and strangled by her ex-boyfriend and his accomplice. Her body was placed in a dumpster and was never recovered, despite the fact that officers spent a month searching in a local landfill.[22][145] |
Woodrow "Token" Allen |
Bruce Day |
Nokomis, Alabama |
December 13, 2001 |
2012 |
A man presumed to have been killed while walking through a wooded area to return to his residence.[146][147] |
Jan Scharf |
Glyn Scharf |
Cameron Park, California |
May 16, 2002 |
October 2004 |
A woman murdered by her husband, whom she had recently initiated divorce proceedings against, although they still lived in the same house. Jewelry belonging to her was later found buried in the front yard of the house of one of her husband's girlfriends, a house she had never been to.[148] Scharf later committed suicide in prison.[149] |
Logan Tucker |
Katherine Rutan |
Woodward, Oklahoma |
June 23, 2002 |
2007 |
A six-year-old boy who vanished in 2002. His mother was eventually convicted of his death.[150] |
Gailon Leak |
Reginald Murphy |
Red Spring, North Carolina |
September 14, 2002 |
2009 |
A man who was allegedly killed to prevent him from giving a testimony in court against the murderer's brothers.[151][152] |
Kynande Bennett |
Vartasha "Tasha" McCullough |
Whiteville, North Carolina |
September 29, 2002 |
2006 |
A child believed to have been killed by her mother. The victim's father was charged in the death of the child, but they were eventually dropped. Bennett's mother claimed she had no part in the murder and blamed her husband, whom she claimed was abusive. Blood evidence was positively matched to Kynande in their home, which had appeared to have been cleaned.[153][154] |
Sondra Barrington |
Thomas Crews, Jr. |
Arcadia, Florida |
October 10, 2002 |
c. September 2006[22] |
A woman believed to have been killed by her boyfriend, who had a history of alleged domestic violence.[155][156][157] It is possible that the victim's killer had placed her body in a pond in a nearby county, but it has never been recovered.[22] |
Tiana Martin |
Tamara Robinson |
Fresno, California |
September 9, 2006 |
2006 |
A girl who was subjected to extreme abuse by her aunt.[158][159] |
Marion "Penny" Fye |
Harold "Devine" Austin |
Washington DC |
November 30, 2003 |
June 2006 |
A woman believed to have been shot to death by her fiancee. Blood was found on the couple's mattress, which was eventually linked to Fye.[48][112][160][161] |
Thomas Hawks, Jackie Hawks |
Skylar Julius Deleon, Jennifer Henderson, John Kennedy, Alonso Machain |
Prescott, Arizona |
November 15, 2004 |
November 17, 2006 – May 1, 2009 |
A couple believed to have been murdered for monetary reasons. Their bodies are believed to have been thrown into the body of water on which their vessel was traveling.[22][162] |
Kyeimah Spann |
Samara Spann |
Seattle, Washington |
January 1, 2005 |
May 2007 |
A child whose mother committed the murder due to delusions. The body was allegedly altered to prevent identification and then disposed of off a bridge into the Elochoman River.[163][164] |
Christie Wilson |
Mario Garcia |
Auburn, California |
October 4, 2005 |
November 16, 2006[165] |
A woman abducted and murdered after a night of gambling. The man convicted of her murder maintains innocence, despite the fact that he was linked to the victim by DNA.[166][167] |
Hevin Jenkins |
Tonya Sloan |
Hurricane, West Virginia |
December 26, 2005 |
Unknown |
A toddler who was allegedly drowned by his father after frustrations that emerged while caring for the child.[168][169] |
Tyler Payne |
Reina Gonzales, Christopher Payne |
Tucson, Arizona |
March 2006 |
2008, 2009 |
A boy who was subjected to abuse and neglect alongside his sister, whose remains were found inside of a barrel in a storage facility. It is thought that this victim had also been inside the barrel, which had since been transported to a landfill. Payne was sentenced to death for the murders.[170] |
Kendrick Jackson |
Roderick Fountain |
Houston, Texas |
April 7, 2006 |
October 2011 |
A toddler beaten to death by his abusive father.[171][172] His father stated while in jail that the body had been thrown from an overpass.[22] |
Jessica O'Grady |
Christopher "Chris" Edwards |
Omaha, Nebraska |
May 10, 2006 |
March 2007[22] |
A young woman murdered by her boyfriend, who likely killed her due to a relationship dispute, as he had been told he had impregnated both O'Grady and another young woman. This was the first conviction of its kind in this state. Blood evidence proved that O'Grady could not have survived the injuries she sustained after Edwards stabbed her in his apartment.[173] |
Glenda Furch |
Rodney Owens |
Fort Worth, Texas |
October 3, 2007 |
October 8, 2008 |
A woman abducted after stopping at a gas station around midnight on the day she disappeared. DNA linked Rodney Owens to Furch's disappearance.[174][175][176] |
Nina Reiser |
Hans Reiser |
Oakland, California |
September 3, 2006 |
April 28, 2008 |
A computer programmer who murdered his wife in 2006.[177] He was given a reduced charge of second degree murder in exchange for disclosing the location of the victim's remains, which were recovered in 2008.[178] |
Jozzlynn Martinez |
Jeffery Malmberg |
Grand Rapids, Michigan |
February 22, 2010 |
2010 |
A toddler killed by her mother's boyfriend.[179][180] |
Latisha "Tish" Frazier |
Johnnie Sweet, Cinthya Proctor, Anneka Nelson, Laurence Hassan, Brian Gaither |
Washington DC |
August 2, 2010 |
April 2013 |
A young woman believed to have been beaten to death after being accused of stealing from a companion.[48][181][182] |
Lauryn Dickens |
Shakara Dickens |
Memphis, Tennessee |
September 7, 2010 |
June 2012 |
An infant whose mother was eventually convicted for smothering the subject. The body was placed inside a trash bin which was since emptied.[183][184] |
Jhessye Shockley |
Jerice Hunter |
Glendale, Arizona |
October 11, 2011 |
c. April 2015 |
A five-year-old girl whose mother was convicted of her murder. It is believed the victim's body was placed in a suitcase and disposed of in a garbage bin.[185] |
Bianca Jones |
D'Andre Lane |
Detroit, Michigan |
December 2, 2011 |
October 2012 |
A toddler believed to have been killed by her abusive father.[186][187] |