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Netflix
The Widower: 'Til Death Do Us Part
Credit: Dateline NBC 'The Widower' via OxygenEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenLas Vegas area, Clark County, Nevada · 2008
Sharon Causse Randolph and Michael Miller were shot dead at the Randolph home in the Las Vegas area on May 8, 2008; her husband, Thomas Randolph, was convicted of both murders and of conspiracy to commit murder, and the Nevada Supreme Court upheld the conviction in 2026.
Netflix
Unabomber
Credit: Murray family portrait, via Queen City News (WJZY) interview graphic, 2023Editorial useSourceSOLVEDListenSacramento, California — site of two of the three fatal bombings (1985 and 1995) · 1978
Between 1978 and 1995, sixteen mailed or hand-delivered bombs killed Hugh Scrutton, Thomas J. Mosser and Gilbert Brent Murray and injured 23 others; Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in 1998 and died in federal custody in 2023.
Pinellas County court
Guilty verdict
SOLVEDListenLargo, Florida — Blanchard Law office on South Belcher Road (city-level pin) · 2023
Largo, Florida, attorney Steven Cozzi, 41, disappeared from his law office on March 21, 2023, and his body has never been found; plastic surgeon Tomasz Kosowski was found guilty of first-degree murder on September 23, 2026.
Netflix
Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story
Credit: Photographer unknown (studio portrait, c. 1880s-1892); scan contributed to Find a Grave…Public domainSourceUNSOLVEDListen92 Second Street, Fall River, Massachusetts (the Borden house) · 1892
Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet at their Fall River, Massachusetts home on August 4, 1892. Andrew's daughter Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted in 1893; the case remains officially unsolved.
HBO
A Killer Story
SOLVEDListenTopeka, Kansas · 2002
Mike Sisco, 47, and his fiancée Karen Harkness, 53, were shot dead in Harkness's west Topeka, Kansas, home in July 2002; Sisco's ex-wife Dana Chandler was convicted of their murders in 2012, won a new trial in 2018, faced a hung jury in 2022 and was convicted again in March 2025.
Hulu
Welcome to the Family: The Murder of Dan Markel
Credit: Florida State University (institutional portrait), as published by Fox NewsEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenTallahassee, Florida · 2014
Florida State University law professor Dan Markel was shot and killed at his Tallahassee, Florida home in July 2014, in a murder-for-hire scheme investigators tied to a bitter child-custody dispute following his divorce. Five people, including his former mother-in-law and brother-in-law, were convicted between 2016 and 2025.
Las Vegas jury
Guilty verdict
Credit: AP Photo/Frank Wiese (15 Aug 1996), as distributed in a KATV / Sinclair news galleryEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenEast Flamingo Road and Koval Lane, Paradise, Nevada · 1996
Rapper Tupac Shakur, 25, was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in Paradise, Nevada, on September 7, 1996, and died six days later. The case went unsolved for decades until Duane "Keefe D" Davis was indicted and arrested in September 2023 and charged with first-degree murder. On August 31, 2026, a Las Vegas jury convicted Davis of murder with use of a deadly weapon; he is scheduled to be sentenced on October 13, 2026.
Channel 4
The Murder Detective
UNSOLVEDListenFanad Drive, Creggan, Derry, Northern Ireland · 2019
Journalist Lyra McKee, 29, was fatally shot on 18 April 2019 while observing rioting in the Creggan area of Derry, Northern Ireland; the New IRA admitted responsibility, three men were acquitted of her murder in July 2026, and no one has been charged with firing the shot.
Netflix
Conversations with a Killer: The Charles Manson Tapes
Credit: United Press International (UPI) press photo, 1968; via Wikimedia CommonsPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListen10050 Cielo Drive, Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles (the second site is 3301 Waverly Drive, Los Feliz) · 1969
On August 9–10, 1969, seven people, including actress Sharon Tate, who was eight and a half months pregnant, were killed in two attacks in Los Angeles by members of the Manson Family; five people were convicted.
Netflix
The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare
Credit: Family/Instagram photograph, widely distributed in press coverageEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenMoscow, Idaho · 2022
Four University of Idaho students—Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle—were fatally stabbed inside an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022. Bryan Kohberger, a criminology PhD student at nearby Washington State University, was arrested that December and pleaded guilty in 2025, receiving four consecutive life sentences.
Image recordEditorial useSourceSOLVEDTallahassee area / Lake Seminole, Florida–Georgia border · 2000
Jerry Michael "Mike" Williams, 31, vanished during a duck-hunting trip on Lake Seminole on December 16, 2000, and was long presumed drowned and consumed by alligators. His remains were found near Tallahassee in October 2017 and ruled a homicide. His wife, Denise Williams, and her longtime friend and later second husband, Brian Winchester, were ultimately tied to the killing; Winchester testified he shot Williams at Denise's direction, and Denise was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder.
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Credit: Instagram/@gabspetito, widely distributed in press coverageEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenBridger–Teton National Forest, Wyoming · 2021
Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old travel vlogger, was killed by strangulation and blunt-force trauma in August 2021 while on a cross-country van trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. Laundrie returned to Florida alone, was named a person of interest, and later died by suicide, leaving a note admitting he had killed her.
Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenModesto, California · 2002
Laci Peterson, 27 and eight months pregnant, disappeared from her Modesto, California home on December 24, 2002; her body and that of her unborn son Conner were found in San Francisco Bay in April 2003, and her husband Scott Peterson was convicted in 2004 of murdering both.
Image recordEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenNew Canaan, Connecticut, United States · 2019
Jennifer Dulos, a mother of five in New Canaan, Connecticut, disappeared on May 24, 2019, after being attacked at her home; her body has never been found, and she was declared legally dead in 2023. Her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, was charged with her murder but died by suicide in January 2020 before trial, while his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, was convicted in 2024 of related charges.
Credit: Family/Instagram photograph, widely distributed in press coverageEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenMoscow, Idaho · 2022
Four University of Idaho students—Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle—were fatally stabbed inside an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022. Bryan Kohberger, a criminology PhD student at nearby Washington State University, was arrested that December and pleaded guilty in 2025, receiving four consecutive life sentences.
Credit: Woodlawn High SchoolEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenLeakin Park, Baltimore, Maryland · 1999
Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old Baltimore County high school student, was strangled and found buried in Leakin Park in February 1999. Her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed was convicted of first-degree murder in 2000; the case gained international attention after the 2014 podcast Serial, and Syed's conviction underwent multiple vacaturs, appeals, and reinstatements through 2025.
COLDListenCumming, Georgia · 2018
Tamla Horsford, a 40-year-old mother of five, died from a fall at a home in Cumming, Georgia, during a gathering on November 3-4, 2018; two separate investigations ruled her death accidental, though her family has disputed that finding and pushed for further inquiry.
Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenDelta, Fulton County, Ohio · 2016
Sierah Joughin, a 20-year-old Ohio college student, was abducted while bicycling home in Fulton County on July 19, 2016, and found dead three days later. James Dean Worley, a neighbor with a 1990 abduction conviction who was not listed in any offender database, was convicted of her murder in 2018 and sentenced to death, prompting Ohio's Sierah's Law, which created a searchable violent-offender registry.
Credit: Wfsa 12 NewsEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenAuburn, Alabama · 2019
Aniah Blanchard, a 19-year-old Alabama college student, disappeared from Auburn in October 2019 and was later found dead of a gunshot wound; the man convicted of her murder was sentenced to life in prison in 2026.
Credit: CBS News / Travis Alexander (personal photo)Editorial useSourceSOLVEDListenMesa, Arizona, United States · 2000s
Travis Alexander, 30, was stabbed, slashed, and shot to death in his Mesa, Arizona home on June 4, 2008. His ex-girlfriend, Jodi Arias, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2013 and sentenced to life without parole in 2015 after two juries deadlocked on the death penalty.
Image recordEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenAustin, Texas · 2022
Moriah Wilson, a 25-year-old professional cyclist, was shot and killed at a friend's residence in Austin, Texas, on May 11, 2022, and Kaitlin Armstrong was later convicted and sentenced to 90 years in prison for the killing.
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