21case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 21 case files from the 1890s. By legal status, 8 marked unsolved, 1 marked cold, 11 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
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.
OVERTURNEDListenParis, France · 1894
Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French artillery officer, was wrongfully convicted of treason in December 1894 on forged and disputed evidence and exiled to Devil's Island; a cover-up by military leadership suppressed proof of his innocence for years until his 1899 pardon and 1906 exoneration.
UNSOLVEDListenPolná, Czech Republic · 1899
In 1899, 19-year-old seamstress Anežka Hrůzová was found dead in a forest near Polná, Bohemia; her death and a second killing were blamed on Leopold Hilsner in antisemitic "blood libel" trials that became known as the Hilsner affair, though the killings themselves were never conclusively solved.
COLDListenArdlamont estate, Argyll, Scotland · 1893
Cecil Hambrough died from a shotgun wound while on a hunting outing at the Ardlamont estate in Argyll, Scotland, in August 1893. His tutor, Alfred John Monson, was tried for murder but received Scotland's "not proven" verdict, a result that has left the case a lasting historical mystery.
SOLVEDListenThirteenth Ward polling booth, Troy, New York · 1894
Robert Ross, a young poll watcher, was fatally shot during an election riot in Troy, New York, on March 6, 1894; Bartholomew Shea was convicted of first-degree murder and executed in 1896, while John McGough was convicted of first-degree assault.
SOLVEDListenElizabethtown-Kitley, Ontario, Canada · 1892
On October 8, 1892, John Luckey, his wife Martha, and their daughter Mary Ann "Minnie" Luckey were killed and their farmhouse in Newbliss, Ontario (now part of Elizabethtown-Kitley Township) was set ablaze. John's son, Charles Sanford Luckey, was convicted of the triple murder and hanged in Brockville in 1893.
1898 is the year with the most files in the decade, 5 of them.
They are spread across 7 countries; the most are in United States (15). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (17), hate crime cases (4) and arson cases (4).
2 files of the 21 have coverage attached: 3 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 3 creators. The most covered is Killing of Andrew and Abby Borden, with 2 items to watch or hear. Kendall Rae, Dr. Todd Grande and Bailey Sarian have covered the most of them.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Andrew Jackson Borden — Credit: Photographer unknown (studio portrait, c. 1880s-1892); scan contributed to Find a Grave…Public domainSource
H. H. Holmes Castle — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceThese files are published and cited but are kept out of search listings for now, either because they fall outside Casepin’s true-crime scope or because they are still being deepened.
21. By status: 8 unsolved, 1 cold, 11 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Killing of Andrew and Abby Borden, with 2 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Kendall Rae (1 case), Dr. Todd Grande (1 case) and Bailey Sarian (1 case).
United States (15).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 18, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
