280case filesUpdated Sep 29, 2026
Casepin holds 280 case files in the UK. By legal status, 62 marked unsolved, 8 marked cold, 1 marked ongoing, 205 marked solved and 4 marked overturned.
Credit: Family handout via Suffolk NewsEditorial useSourceCOLDListenBury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England · 2016
Royal Air Force gunner Corrie McKeague disappeared after a night out in Bury St Edmunds in September 2016, and a 2022 inquest concluded he died after climbing into a waste bin that was tipped into a bin lorry, though his remains were never found.
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.
SOLVEDListenEliza Lane, Butsfield, County Durham, England · 1991
Planning officer Harry Collinson was shot dead on camera by landowner Albert Dryden during a property dispute in County Durham in 1991; Dryden was convicted of murder in 1992 and died in 2018 after compassionate release.
Credit: JThomasCC BY-SA 2.0SourceSOLVEDListenSt Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, England · 2023
Nicola Bulley, 45, disappeared on 27 January 2023 while walking her dog beside the River Wyre in St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire; her body was found in the river on 19 February 2023, and an inquest concluded in June 2023 that she died of accidental drowning.
Credit: Gerald EnglandCC BY-SA 2.0SourceSOLVEDListenHyde, Greater Manchester, England · 1970s
Harold Shipman, a GP in Hyde, Greater Manchester, was convicted in January 2000 of murdering 15 patients, including former mayoress Kathleen Grundy, using lethal doses of diamorphine. A subsequent public inquiry concluded he had killed at least 218 patients over roughly 27 years, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in modern history.
Credit: The copyright is believed to belong to the person who took the photographEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenGreat Baddow, Essex, England · 2019
Retired couple John and Lois McCullough were murdered by their youngest daughter Virginia McCullough at their Essex home in June 2019, after which she concealed their bodies and lived in the house for four years before being arrested in September 2023.
Credit: Kerrang! / The Sophie Lancaster FoundationEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenStubbylee Park, Bacup, Lancashire, England · 2000s
Sophie Lancaster, 20, was beaten into a coma alongside her boyfriend Robert Maltby by a group of teenagers in Stubbylee Park, Bacup, on 11 August 2007, reportedly because the couple were dressed as goths. She died of her injuries thirteen days later; two of the attackers were convicted of her murder.
Credit: D4444n at en.wikipediaCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenGrand Hotel, Brighton, England · 1984
On 12 October 1984 the IRA detonated a long-delay bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton in an attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet during the Conservative Party Conference. Five people were killed and more than thirty injured; Thatcher was uninjured. IRA member Patrick Magee was convicted in 1986 and sentenced to eight concurrent life terms.
The files run from 1574 to 2024. The 2000s hold the most, with 56 files. The oldest is Appin Murder, from 1752.
They are spread across 4 states and regions; the most are in England (130), Scotland (16) and Northern Ireland (15). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (242), disappearance cases (25) and kidnapping and abduction cases (23).
111 files of the 280 have coverage attached: 151 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 23 creators. The most covered is Death of Corrie McKeague, with 5 items to watch or hear. Eleanor Neale, Emma Kenny and That Chapter 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.
280. By status: 62 unsolved, 8 cold, 1 ongoing, 205 solved and 4 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Appin Murder, from 1752. Open the file
Death of Corrie McKeague, with 5 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Eleanor Neale (22 cases), Emma Kenny (16 cases) and That Chapter (12 cases), among 23 creators in all.
England (130), Scotland (16) and Northern Ireland (15).
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.
