Credit: Jeremy KempPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenWorld Trade Center, South Tower · 2001
On September 11, 2001, five al-Qaeda hijackers seized United Airlines Flight 175, a Boeing 767 flying from Boston to Los Angeles, killed both pilots, and deliberately crashed the plane into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, killing all 65 people aboard and contributing to the deaths of more than 600 others in the tower.
SOLVEDListenUpper East Side, Manhattan, New York City · 2008
Kathryn Faughey, a 56-year-old New York City psychologist, was murdered with a meat cleaver in her Upper East Side office on February 12, 2008, by David Tarloff. After two mistrials, Tarloff was convicted of first-degree murder in 2014 and sentenced to life without parole.
SOLVEDListenManhattan, New York City · 2010
Rock music manager and real estate broker Linda Stein was found dead in her Manhattan apartment on October 30, 2007; a coroner ruled her death a homicide. Her former personal assistant, Natavia Lowery, was arrested days later and ultimately convicted of the killing.
Credit: EpicgeniusCC BY-SA 4.0SourceUNSOLVEDListenFraunces Tavern, 54 Pearl Street, New York, NY · 1975
A bomb exploded in the entrance vestibule of the Anglers' Club of New York, adjacent to Fraunces Tavern in Lower Manhattan, on January 24, 1975, killing four people and injuring more than 50 others. The FALN, a Puerto Rican paramilitary organization, claimed responsibility; no one has been prosecuted as of 2026.
Credit: MSolomonApplause @ Mapillary.comCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenMobil gas station, Coney Island Avenue, Midwood, Brooklyn, New York · 2023
O'Shae Sibley, a 28-year-old gay dancer and choreographer, was fatally stabbed outside a Brooklyn gas station on July 29, 2023, after he and friends were confronted for playing music and voguing. A 17-year-old, Dmitry Popov, was later charged with second-degree murder as a hate crime and, in 2026, was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime but acquitted of murder.
Credit: RhododendritesCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenMorningside Park, Morningside Heights, Manhattan, New York City · 2019
Tessa Majors, an 18-year-old Barnard College freshman, was fatally stabbed during a robbery near Morningside Park in Manhattan on December 11, 2019; three teenagers were later charged, with all three eventually pleading guilty.
Credit: Bain News Service, publisherPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListen1626 Lexington Avenue, New York City · 1914
On July 4, 1914, a bomb being assembled by anarchist and IWW-linked conspirators exploded prematurely in a Harlem apartment at 1626 Lexington Avenue, New York City, killing three plotters and an uninvolved tenant, and injuring about twenty others.
SOLVEDListen313 East 51st Street, Turtle Bay-Beekman Place, New York City · 1943
Patricia Lonergan, heiress to the Lion Brewery fortune, was beaten and strangled in her New York City apartment in October 1943. Her estranged husband, Royal Canadian Air Force pilot Wayne Lonergan, was arrested in Toronto, extradited, and convicted of second-degree murder in a highly publicized 1944 trial.
UNSOLVEDListenGreenwich Village / Hudson River, New York City · 1975
Between 1975 and 1977, dismembered remains of six men were found stuffed in garbage bags floating in the Hudson River near New York City. The victims' identities and the killer were never officially established, though a suspect implicated by a witness was never charged in these deaths.
SOLVEDListenSchoolyard near 78th Street and 37th Avenue, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York · 1990
Julio Rivera, a 29-year-old gay Puerto Rican bartender, was beaten and stabbed to death in a Jackson Heights, Queens schoolyard on July 2, 1990, in what the NYPD ultimately determined was an anti-gay hate crime. Three men were charged with murder and manslaughter; the killing galvanized Queens' LGBTQ community into sustained activism.
The files run from 1914 to 2023. The 2000s hold the most, with 4 files. The oldest is Lexington Avenue explosion, from 1914.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (15), kidnapping and abduction cases (4) and robbery and burglary cases (4).
6 files of the 18 have coverage attached: 10 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 7 creators. JustThoughtLounge, Bailey Sarian and Bella Fiori 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.
This page updates from the published files, so counts and statuses change the day a record does. Open any file for its timeline, its sources and the coverage worth your time, or play it as a narrated case file.
Kitty Genovese (1961) — Credit: Public domain (1961 New York booking photo) via Wikimedia CommonsPublic domainSource
Elisa Izquierdo, the 6-year-old victimEditorial useSource
Harlem Hospital 5BBT jeh — Credit: Jim.hendersonPublic domainSource
Boston Logan Gate C19 with Flag and Jet — Credit: Jeremy KempPublic domainSource
Fraunces Tavern Block May 2026 17 — Credit: EpicgeniusCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Mobil gas station 1935 Coney Island Ave — Credit: MSolomonApplause @ Mapillary.comCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Imette St. Guillen, the victimEditorial useSource
Tessa Majors memorial at Morningside Park (43535) — Credit: RhododendritesCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Jack the Ripper (NYC) letter — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
New York house wrecked by Caron bomb (LOC ggbain.16476) — Credit: Bain News Service, publisherPublic domainSource
18. By status: 3 unsolved and 15 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Lexington Avenue explosion, from 1914. Open the file
United Airlines Flight 175, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
JustThoughtLounge (2 cases), Bailey Sarian (1 case) and Bella Fiori (1 case), among 7 creators in all.
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.
