9case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 9 case files in Seattle. By legal status, 9 marked solved.
Credit: Tobias SalingerEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenSeattle, Washington · 2016
Ingrid Lyne, a nurse from Renton, Washington, was killed and dismembered in April 2016 by John Charlton, a man she had been dating for about a month after meeting him online; he later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to prison.
Credit: Etsy KetsyCC BY-SA 2.0SourceSOLVEDListenLake Washington Boulevard East, Seattle, Washington · 1994
Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead on April 8, 1994, at his Seattle home from a shotgun wound; police and the coroner ruled the death a suicide, though the ruling has been disputed by some family, friends, and independent investigators.
Credit: LukobeCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenUniversity District and First Hill, Seattle, Washington · 2012
On May 30, 2012, Ian Lee Stawicki, identified as the perpetrator, killed four people at Café Racer in Seattle's University District, then fatally shot another woman during a carjacking on First Hill before dying by suicide in West Seattle later that day.
SOLVEDListenJewish Federation of Greater Seattle building, 2031 Third Avenue, Belltown · 2006
On July 28, 2006, Naveed Afzal Haq shot six women at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building, killing fundraising director Pamela Waechter and wounding five others, before surrendering to police.
SOLVEDListenPioneer Square, Seattle, Washington · 2001
Kris Kime, a 20-year-old college student, was beaten to death after being knocked to the ground while trying to help a woman being attacked during the 2001 Seattle Mardi Gras Riots in Pioneer Square. His attacker was convicted of second-degree murder, which was later overturned on appeal, then pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in a 2006 retrial.
SOLVEDListen29th Avenue South and East Yesler Way, Central District, Seattle, Washington, United States · 2009
Seattle Police Officer Timothy Brenton was fatally shot on October 31, 2009, while sitting in a parked patrol car in the Central District of Seattle; his trainee partner was injured. Christopher Monfort was later convicted of the murder, attempted murder, and arson.
The files run from 1974 to 2016. The 2000s hold the most, with 4 files. The oldest is Death of Kurt Cobain, from 1994.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (7), robbery and burglary cases (3) and mass shooting cases (2).
3 files of the 9 have coverage attached: 3 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 3 creators. Coffeehouse Crime, 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. 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.
Ingrid Lyne — Credit: Tobias SalingerEditorial useSource
KurtCobainHouse — Credit: Etsy KetsyCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Café Racer, Seattle — Credit: LukobeCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Bundy & Hagmaier — Credit: United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. An uncropped…Public domainSource9. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Death of Kurt Cobain, from 1994. Open the file
Murder of Ingrid Lyne, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
Coffeehouse Crime (1 case), Dr. Todd Grande (1 case) and Bailey Sarian (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.
