146case filesUpdated Sep 29, 2026
Casepin holds 146 case files in California. By legal status, 27 marked unsolved, 2 marked cold, 6 marked ongoing, 108 marked solved and 3 marked overturned.
Credit: Mona EshaikerCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenHolmby Hills, Los Angeles, California · 2009
Singer Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, in Los Angeles from acute propofol intoxication administered by his personal physician, Conrad Murray. The Los Angeles County coroner ruled the death a homicide, and Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in November 2011.
Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenModesto, California · 2002
Laci Peterson, 27 and eight months pregnant, disappeared from her Modesto, California home on December 24, 2002; her body and that of her unborn son Conner were found in San Francisco Bay in April 2003, and her husband Scott Peterson was convicted in 2004 of murdering both.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons, photo by Glenn Francis (PacificProDigital.com)Editorial useSourceSOLVEDListenHollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California · 2014
Amie Harwick, a Los Angeles marriage and family therapist and author, was strangled and thrown from her third-floor Hollywood Hills balcony on February 15, 2020, by an ex-boyfriend who had a history of stalking her. He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2023 and sentenced to life without parole.
Credit: Los Angeles Police DepartmentPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenLeimert Park, Los Angeles, California, USA · 1940s
Elizabeth Short, known posthumously as the Black Dahlia, was found murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947 in a case that remains unsolved.
SOLVEDListenRedding, California · 2016
Sherri Papini fabricated a three-week disappearance from Redding, California, in November 2016, and in 2022 pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and false-statement charges for staging the hoax.
Credit: Stine family scrapbook, via zodiackiller.comEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenSan Francisco Bay Area, California (multiple crime scenes including Benicia, Vallejo, Napa County, and San Francisco) · 1960s
An unidentified serial killer known as "Zodiac" killed at least five people and wounded two others in Northern California between December 1968 and October 1969, taunting police and press with letters and ciphers. The case remains unsolved despite thousands of proposed suspects and decades of investigation.
Credit: Via WikipediaEditorial useSourceCOLDListenRiverside City College, Riverside, California · 1966
Cheri Jo Bates, an 18-year-old Riverside City College student, was stabbed and slashed to death on campus grounds on October 30, 1966, after her car was deliberately disabled. The case remains officially unsolved, though it has drawn attention due to a contested theory linking it to the later Zodiac Killer murders.
Image recordEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenDavis, California, United States · 2013
In April 2013, Claudia Maupin, 76, and Oliver "Chip" Northup, 87, were stabbed and mutilated in their Davis, California home by 15-year-old Daniel William Marsh, who confessed after bragging to friends. Marsh was convicted as an adult of first-degree murder in 2014 and sentenced to 52 years to life; subsequent juvenile-justice law changes led to years of appeals over whether his case should be transferred to juvenile court.
Image recordEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenCastaic Lake, Los Angeles County, California · 2013
Bryce David Laspisa, a 19-year-old Sierra College student, disappeared after his SUV was found overturned near Castaic Lake, California, in the early hours of August 30, 2013. Despite an extensive multi-day search, no trace of him was found, and his case remains unsolved.
Image recordEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenVan Nuys, Los Angeles, California · 1986
Sherri Rasmussen was beaten and shot to death in her Van Nuys condominium in February 1986; the case went cold for more than two decades before Los Angeles police officer Stephanie Lazarus, her husband's former girlfriend, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2012.
The files run from 1856 to 2025. The 2010s hold the most, with 36 files. The oldest is Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871, from 1871.
They are spread across 83 cities and towns; the most are in Los Angeles (27), San Francisco (13) and Oakland (6). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (119), mass shooting cases (26) and kidnapping and abduction cases (24).
62 files of the 146 have coverage attached: 212 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 25 creators. The most covered is Death of Michael Jackson, with 27 items to watch or hear. Dr. Todd Grande, Kendall Rae 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.
Neverland-ranch-memorial — Credit: Mona EshaikerCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Joseph James DeAngelo — Credit: Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s OfficePublic domainSource
Celeste Rivas Hernandez — Credit: Family of Celeste Rivas HernandezEditorial useSource
Laci Peterson — Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSource
Kristin Smart, the victimEditorial useSource
Amie Harwick — Credit: Wikimedia Commons, photo by Glenn Francis (PacificProDigital.com)Editorial useSource
SF From Marin Highlands3 — Credit: en:User:Paul.hPublic domainSource
Elizabeth Short photo from police bulletin — Credit: Los Angeles Police DepartmentPublic domainSource
The McStay family (the four victims): Joseph McStay, wife Summer, and sons Gianni and Joseph Jr.Editorial useSource
Chowchilla kidnapping trailer — Credit: Rick Meyer, Los Angeles TimesCC BY 4.0SourceBryce Laspisa — the missing 19-year-oldEditorial useSourceSherri Rasmussen, the victimEditorial useSourcePaul Stine, late 1950s — Credit: Stine family scrapbook, via zodiackiller.comEditorial useSource
Keddie murders victims (Sharp family and Dana Wingate) — Credit: Via Wikipedia ; portraits published on Find a Grave and Plumas County news outletsEditorial useSource
Lana.Turner.house.2 — Credit: JGKleinPublic domainSource
Blaze Bernstein, the victim (University of Pennsylvania student), in 2018Editorial useSource
The front facade of the current Hayward California City Hall building — location anchor for the caseCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Sandra Cantu, the 8-year-old victimEditorial useSource
Jack Huett, Bill Sterling, Jack Madruga, Ted Weiher and Gary Mathias (AP Wirephoto, 1978) — Credit: AP Wirephoto (1978) via dyatlovpass.comEditorial useSource
Larry McNabney — Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSource
SWPC-RFK-C020-010 (HQ) — Credit: Sven WalnumCC0Source
Mendocino Crime Scene 2 — Credit: Mendocino County Police DepartmentPublic domainSource
'Murder Mack', rear view — Credit: State of California.Public domainSource146. By status: 27 unsolved, 2 cold, 6 ongoing, 108 solved and 3 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871, from 1871. Open the file
Death of Michael Jackson, with 27 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Dr. Todd Grande (17 cases), Kendall Rae (15 cases) and That Chapter (13 cases), among 25 creators in all.
Los Angeles (27), San Francisco (13) and Oakland (6).
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.
