14case filesUpdated Jul 14, 2026
Casepin holds 14 case files in Arkansas. By legal status, 7 marked unsolved, 1 marked cold, 5 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
COLDListenAlexander, Arkansas, United States · 1987
Two Arkansas teenagers, Don Henry, 16, and Kevin Ives, 17, were found dead on railroad tracks in Alexander, Arkansas, on August 23, 1987, after being struck by a freight train. Initially ruled an accident, a grand jury later declared the deaths "probable homicides," and the case remains unsolved amid allegations of witness deaths and official misconduct.
SOLVEDListenElaine and Hoop Spur, Phillips County, Arkansas · 1919
Over three days in late September and early October 1919, white mobs aided by federal troops killed as many as several hundred Black residents of rural Phillips County, Arkansas, after Black sharecroppers organized to demand fair payment for their cotton crops. Five white men also died. In the aftermath, 122 Black men were indicted and twelve were sentenced to death; their convictions were eventually overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Moore v. Dempsey (1923).
Credit: File:1903 Poor's Missouri Pacific Railway.jpgPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenGuernsey, Hempstead County, Arkansas · 1922
John West, a 50-year-old African-American man, was forced off a train and lynched by a group of white men near Guernsey, Hempstead County, Arkansas, on July 28, 1922, following a workplace dispute with a white co-worker.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenTown square, Magnolia, Columbia County, Arkansas · 1919
Jordan Jameson, an African-American man, was seized by a white mob and burned alive in the town square of Magnolia, Arkansas, on November 11, 1919, days after a sheriff was shot during an altercation at Jameson's house.
UNSOLVEDListenMalvern, Hot Spring County, Arkansas · 1917
John Henry Harrison, a 38-year-old Black laborer, was taken from a train and shot at least seventeen times by a masked mob in Malvern, Arkansas, on February 2, 1922, after his arrest on accusations of harassing white women.
UNSOLVEDListenPine Bluff, Arkansas · 1994
Cleashindra "Clea" Hall, an 18-year-old honors student in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, vanished on May 9, 1994, after finishing an after-school job, two weeks before her high school graduation; her disappearance remains unsolved.
UNSOLVEDListenCrittenden County, Arkansas, United States · 1954
Isadore Banks, a wealthy African-American landowner and World War I veteran, disappeared in Crittenden County, Arkansas, on June 4, 1954, and was found dead four days later, tied to a tree, burned, and mutilated. No one was ever charged, and the case remains unsolved.
SOLVEDListenUniversity of Arkansas, Kimpel Hall, Fayetteville, Arkansas · 2000
On August 28, 2000, graduate student James Easton Kelly fatally shot his former faculty advisor, Prof. John R. Locke, in his office at the University of Arkansas before killing himself.
The files run from 1917 to 2020. The 1910s hold the most, with 3 files. The oldest is Lynching of John Harrison, from 1917.
They are spread across 14 cities and towns, no more than one file in any of them. By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (10), kidnapping and abduction cases (2) and school shooting cases (2).
4 files of the 14 have coverage attached: 25 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 8 creators. Kendall Rae, Crime Weekly and Stephanie Harlowe 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.
West Memphis 3 victims memorial West Memphis AR 2014-03-23 005 — Credit: Thomas R Machnitzki (thomasmachnitzki.com)CC BY 3.0Source
Ebby Steppach — Credit: State of ArkansasEditorial useSource
Location of the Lynching of John West 1922 — Credit: File:1903 Poor's Missouri Pacific Railway.jpgPublic domainSource
Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Magnolia, Columbia County, Arkansas. LOC sanborn00294 002-1 — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Former Scott County Courthouse, Waldron, Arkansas — Credit: BrandonrushCC0Source
14. By status: 7 unsolved, 1 cold, 5 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Lynching of John Harrison, from 1917. Open the file
Killing of Don Henry and Kevin Ives, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
Kendall Rae (2 cases), Crime Weekly (1 case) and Stephanie Harlowe (1 case), among 8 creators in all.
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
