Credit: United States Geological SurveyPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenFedEx Ground facility, Indianapolis, Indiana · 2021
On April 15, 2021, a gunman opened fire at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis, killing eight employees and wounding four others before killing himself. It remains the deadliest mass shooting in Indiana's history.
Credit: David ShankCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenDowntown Indianapolis, Indiana (near Illinois and Washington Streets) · 1845
John Tucker, a free Black farmer, husband, and father, was beaten to death by three white men in front of a crowd in downtown Indianapolis on July 4, 1845. Two of the men were tried for his death; one was convicted of manslaughter and the other acquitted.
COLDListenRiverside Park, Indianapolis, Indiana · 1920
George Tompkins, a young Black man who had migrated to Indianapolis from Kentucky, was found hanged and bound to a tree in Riverside Park in March 1922. Though initial police and press accounts described the death as a lynching, a deputy coroner ruled it a suicide, and no further investigation followed. In 2022, Marion County's coroner's office amended his death certificate to reflect homicide.
SOLVEDListenFieldfare Way, Richmond Hill subdivision, Indianapolis, Indiana · 2012
A deliberately caused natural gas explosion at a house in the Richmond Hill subdivision of Indianapolis on November 10, 2012, killed next-door neighbors John "Dion" and Jennifer Longworth; five people were convicted over the insurance-fraud plot, two of them of murder.
The files run from 1845 to 2024. The 2020s hold the most, with 2 files. The oldest is Lynching of John Tucker, from 1845.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (7), arson cases (2) and mass shooting cases (1).
2 files of the 7 have coverage attached: 3 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 3 creators. The Casual Criminalist, Bella Fiori and Annie Elise have covered the most of them.
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Sylvia Likens Stokes High School portrait — Credit: Stokes school faculty members (c. 1962).Public domainSource
Indianapolis International Airport (USGS) — Credit: United States Geological SurveyPublic domainSource
File:Tucker memorial indy.jpg — Credit: David ShankCC BY-SA 4.0Source
7. By status: 1 cold, 1 ongoing and 5 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Lynching of John Tucker, from 1845. Open the file
The Casual Criminalist (1 case), Bella Fiori (1 case) and Annie Elise (1 case).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Sep 29, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
