67case filesUpdated Sep 29, 2026
Casepin holds 67 case files in London. By legal status, 19 marked unsolved, 2 marked cold, 45 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
Credit: UnknownEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenPimlico, London, England · 2010
Gareth Williams, a GCHQ mathematician on secondment to MI6, was found dead padlocked inside a bag in his London flat in August 2010; a coroner ruled the death unnatural and likely criminally mediated, but no one has been charged and a Metropolitan Police re-investigation later called it probably an accident.
Credit: Via WikipediaEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenFulham, London · 1990s
English television presenter Jill Dando was shot dead outside her London home in 1999, and the case remains unsolved.
Credit: alexander williamsCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenBraybrook Street, Shepherd's Bush, London · 1966
On 12 August 1966, three London police officers were shot dead in Braybrook Street, Shepherd's Bush, after stopping a car to question its occupants. Harry Roberts, John Duddy and John Witney were convicted of the murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Credit: David Wulff (David Wulff)CC BY-SA 2.0SourceSOLVEDListenLondon, England, United Kingdom · 2005
On 7 July 2005, four suicide bombers detonated homemade explosives on three London Underground trains and a double-decker bus during morning rush hour, killing 52 victims and injuring hundreds in the UK's deadliest terrorist attack since 1988.
Credit: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/02/72/d61ea26e749b5ec38f6104f035b5.jpg…CC BY 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenHammersmith, London · 1803
In 1804, London excise officer Francis Smith shot and killed bricklayer Thomas Millwood after mistaking him for a rumoured Hammersmith ghost, in a trial whose legal reasoning on mistaken belief was not resolved until a 1984 Court of Appeal decision.
Credit: http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00520/ben_280_520944a.jpgEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenJunction of North Road and York Way, Islington, London · 2008
Ben Kinsella, a 16-year-old student, was stabbed to death by three men in Islington, London, in the early hours of 29 June 2008 following an earlier altercation he was not involved in. The case drew major media attention and prompted changes to UK knife crime sentencing law.
Credit: GeorgemizenCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenThree Cooks Bakery, Burnt Ash Hill, Lee, London · 2008
Jimmy Mizen, a 16-year-old schoolboy, was killed in a bakery in Lee, south London, on 10 May 2008 when Jake Fahri threw a glass dish that severed his neck. Fahri was convicted of murder in March 2009 and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of fourteen years.
Credit: Unknown authorCC BY-SA 2.5SourceUNSOLVEDListenHarrods, Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge, London · 1983
A Provisional IRA car bomb exploded outside Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, London, on 17 December 1983, killing three police officers and three civilians and injuring 86 people after a warning call failed to result in evacuation.
Wellington Street, Woolwich, London · 2013
On 22 May 2013, off-duty British Army soldier Fusilier Lee Rigby was run down by a car and then stabbed and hacked to death by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London. Both men were convicted of murder in December 2013 and sentenced to life imprisonment in February 2014.
Credit: Published/released to media by family of Sabina NessaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenCator Park, Kidbrooke, Greenwich, London · 2021
Sabina Nessa, a 28-year-old primary school teacher, was beaten and strangled while walking through Cator Park in Kidbrooke, Greenwich, on 17 September 2021; Koci Selamaj pleaded guilty to her murder in February 2022 and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 36 years in April 2022.
The files run from 1803 to 2024. The 2000s hold the most, with 15 files. The oldest is Hammersmith Ghost murder case, from 1803.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (56), hate crime cases (7) and robbery and burglary cases (6).
25 files of the 67 have coverage attached: 41 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 14 creators. The most covered is Death of Gareth Williams, with 5 items to watch or hear. Eleanor Neale, That Chapter and Dr. Todd Grande 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.
Portrait of Gareth Williams — Credit: UnknownEditorial useSource
Jill Dando — Credit: Via WikipediaEditorial useSource
JacktheRipperWhitechapelcirca1890 — Credit: Unknown. Taken around 1890.Public domainSource
Exit from Kings' Cross - geograph.org.uk - 614553 — Credit: Derek HarperCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Sarah Everard — Credit: pixel8000Editorial useSource
Tia Sharp photo — Credit: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/missing-girl-tia-sharp-detectives-work-through-300…Editorial useSource
Suzy Lamplugh — Credit: Via WikipediaEditorial useSource
AvoidLondon77 — Credit: David Wulff (David Wulff)CC BY-SA 2.0Source
Benkinsella — Credit: http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00520/ben_280_520944a.jpgEditorial useSource
JimmySchoolPhoto — Credit: GeorgemizenCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Police In Scene After 1983 Harrods Bombing — Credit: Unknown authorCC BY-SA 2.5Source
Drummer Lee Rigby flowers at Woolwich on the 30 May 2013CC BY 2.0Source
Sabina Nessa — Credit: Published/released to media by family of Sabina NessaEditorial useSource
Stephen Lawrence — Credit: Via WikipediaEditorial useSource
PCDavidWombwellPlaque — Credit: alexander williamsCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Whitehall murder school illustration — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Candlelit vigil in Trafalgar Square March 23rd — Credit: JonathanGarcia456CC BY-SA 4.0Source
Docklands IRA vehicle bombing damage (DoS Publication 10321) — Credit: Dept. of StatePublic domainSource
File:Helen Barthelemy.png — Credit: Blackpool GazetteEditorial useSource
Lynne Weedon 1975 crime scene — Credit: BarehamOliverCC BY-SA 4.0Source
File:Victoria Climbié.jpg — Credit: unknownEditorial useSource67. By status: 19 unsolved, 2 cold, 45 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Hammersmith Ghost murder case, from 1803. Open the file
Death of Gareth Williams, with 5 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Eleanor Neale (8 cases), That Chapter (5 cases) and Dr. Todd Grande (3 cases), among 14 creators in all.
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.
