SOLVEDListenOregon Culinary Institute, Portland, Oregon · 2018
Chef and culinary instructor Daniel Brophy was fatally shot at the Oregon Culinary Institute in June 2018; his wife, novelist Nancy Crampton-Brophy, was convicted of second-degree murder in 2022.
Pacific Northwest, United States (multiple related incidents across the U.S. and abroad) · 1970s
Following the unsolved November 1971 D. B. Cooper hijacking, more than a dozen copycat hijackers across the United States (and several abroad) attempted similar extortion-and-parachute schemes through 1972, prompting aviation security reforms including the "Cooper vane" and widespread metal detectors.
Credit: GsamieCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenSoutheast 31st Avenue, Portland, Oregon · 1988
Mulugeta Seraw, a 28-year-old Ethiopian student, was beaten to death with a baseball bat by three white supremacists in Portland, Oregon, on November 12–13, 1988. The killers were convicted, and a subsequent civil suit held White Aryan Resistance and its leaders liable for $12.5 million.
SOLVEDListenPortland, Maine, United States · 2005
Zoe Sarnacki, an 18-year-old Portland, Maine resident, was strangled and decapitated by her 29-year-old boyfriend Chad Gurney in May 2009; Gurney was convicted of murder and arson in 2011 after a judge rejected his insanity defense.
The files run from 1970 to 2018. The 2010s hold the most, with 3 files. The oldest is Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 hijacking, from the 1970s.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (4), kidnapping and abduction cases (2) and domestic violence cases (2).
2 files of the 6 have coverage attached: 4 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 3 creators. That Chapter, Crime Weekly and Kendall Rae 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.
Kyron Horman — Credit: Originally posted at Terri Horman's Facebook page, the picture has appeared on numerous…Editorial useSource
Northwest Orient Boeing 727 (N467US) — the aircraft hijacked in the D.B. Cooper case — Credit: Clint Groves (Clinton H. Groves collection), via Wikimedia CommonsGFDL 1.2Source
File:Mulugeta Seraw.jpg — Credit: GsamieCC BY-SA 4.0Source
6. By status: 1 unsolved, 1 cold and 4 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 hijacking, from the 1970s. Open the file
Murder of Daniel Brophy, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
That Chapter (2 cases), Crime Weekly (1 case) and Kendall Rae (1 case).
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.
