82case filesUpdated Sep 29, 2026
Casepin holds 82 case files in Florida. By legal status, 15 marked unsolved, 4 marked cold, 5 marked ongoing and 58 marked solved.
Vortex Spring, near Ponce de Leon, Florida · 2010
Ben McDaniel, a 30-year-old diver from Memphis, Tennessee, vanished after entering a cave system at Vortex Spring in the Florida Panhandle on August 18, 2010, and has never been found, despite extensive searches and a Florida death certificate issued in 2013.
Image recordEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenLakewood Ranch, Florida, United States · 2016
Ashley Benefield, a former ballerina, shot and killed her estranged husband Douglas Benefield at her mother's home in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, in September 2020; she was convicted of manslaughter with a firearm in 2024 after claiming self-defense.
Image recordEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenTallahassee area / Lake Seminole, Florida–Georgia border · 2000
Jerry Michael "Mike" Williams, 31, vanished during a duck-hunting trip on Lake Seminole on December 16, 2000, and was long presumed drowned and consumed by alligators. His remains were found near Tallahassee in October 2017 and ruled a homicide. His wife, Denise Williams, and her longtime friend and later second husband, Brian Winchester, were ultimately tied to the killing; Winchester testified he shot Williams at Denise's direction, and Denise was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder.
Credit: NTSBPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenBank of America Tower, downtown Tampa, Florida · 2002
On January 5, 2002, 15-year-old Charles J. Bishop stole a Cessna 172 during a flight lesson in Tarpon Springs, Florida, and flew it into the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, killing himself. A suicide note cited Osama bin Laden, but officials found no evidence of any terrorist connection and treated the crash as an apparent suicide.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenGate Petroleum gas station, corner of Southside Boulevard and Baymeadows Road, Jacksonville, Florida · 2012
On November 23, 2012, 17-year-old Jordan Davis was fatally shot at a Jacksonville, Florida gas station by Michael Dunn following an argument over loud music. Dunn was convicted of attempted murder in a first trial and, in a 2014 retrial, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole plus 105 years.
Credit: Orange County Sheriff's OfficePublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenWinter Park, Florida, United States · 2020
Jorge Torres Jr. died of suffocation in Winter Park, Florida in February 2020 after his girlfriend, Sarah Boone, zipped him into a suitcase; she was convicted of second-degree murder in October 2024 and sentenced to life in prison.
Image recordEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenCitrus grove near Mims, Brevard County, Florida · 1989
Charles "Chip" Flynn, 22, was fatally shot in a Brevard County, Florida citrus grove in April 1989. Crosley Alexander Green was convicted of the killing based largely on the testimony of Flynn's ex-girlfriend Kim Hallock, but decades of appeals cited withheld evidence and inconsistencies, leading to his conviction being vacated in 2018 before being reinstated in 2022.
Credit: HistoryMiami (via CBS News)Editorial useSourceSOLVEDListenFort Lauderdale, Florida · 2009
Bernice Novack and her son, Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., were killed three months apart in 2009 — Bernice in her Fort Lauderdale, Florida, home and Ben in a Rye Brook, New York hotel suite. Ben's estranged wife, Narcy Novack, was convicted in 2012 of orchestrating both killings and was sentenced to life in prison without parole; her brother and three other men were also convicted or pleaded guilty for their roles.
Credit: Florida Department of CorrectionsPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenPinellas Park, Florida · 2001
Sandra "Sandee" Rozzo, a Pinellas Park, Florida bartender, was shot to death in her garage on July 5, 2003. Her former partner and coworker Tracey Humphrey and his wife Ashley Humphrey, married just one day before the killing, were both convicted in connection with her murder.
SOLVEDListenRIVA Motorsports, Deerfield Beach, Florida · 2018
Rapper Jahseh Onfroy, known as XXXTentacion, was robbed and fatally shot in his car outside a Deerfield Beach motorcycle shop on June 18, 2018. Michael Boatwright, Trayvon Newsome, and Dedrick Williams were convicted in March 2023 of premeditated murder and armed robbery and sentenced to life without parole; a fourth participant, Robert Allen, pleaded guilty to lesser charges and testified for the prosecution.
The files run from 1914 to 2025. The 2010s hold the most, with 29 files. The oldest is Newberry Six lynchings, from 1916.
They are spread across 58 cities and towns; the most are in Orlando (7), Tampa (5) and Tallahassee (4). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (69), kidnapping and abduction cases (15) and domestic violence cases (13).
46 files of the 82 have coverage attached: 122 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 19 creators. The most covered is Black Swan manslaughter case, with 6 items to watch or hear. Dr. Todd Grande, Kendall Rae and Annie Elise 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.
JENNIFER JOYCE KESSE - ORLANDO, FLORIDA — Credit: FBIPublic domainSource
CMA Memorial (1 of 1) — Credit: Bstodd00CC BY-SA 3.0Source
Michael Lee King — Credit: Florida Department of CorrectionsPublic domainSource
Adam Walsh — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Henry Artur Tenon — Credit: Florida Department of CorrectionsPublic domainSource
John Couey — Credit: Citrus County Sheriff's DepartmentPublic domainSource
Vortex Spring — Credit: Paul Clark. Edited slightly by Daniel Case prior to uploadCC BY 2.0SourceDouglas Benefield, the victimEditorial useSource
Lorincz door 3 — Credit: Marion County Sheriff's OfficePublic domainSource
Jerry Michael WilliamsEditorial useSourceBernice Novack with Ben Novack Sr. — Credit: HistoryMiami (via CBS News)Editorial useSource
Jordan Russell Davis — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Mugshot of James Young Havens III — Credit: Marion County Sheriff's OfficePublic domainSource
San Francisco vigil for Orlando - 5 — Credit: Pax Ahimsa GethenCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Boone suitcase 1 — Credit: Orange County Sheriff's OfficePublic domainSource
Ashley Christine Humphrey — Credit: Florida Department of CorrectionsPublic domainSource
Marchers at Justice for Markeis (5) — Credit: BizarreLoveTriangleCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Levy County Florida Courthouse — Credit: W.H. Whitehead per imagePublic domainSource
Initial Moments In Deadly Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting — Credit: CCTV at Fort Lauderdale Airport, FloridaPublic domainSource
A DC-3 útvonala — Credit: Koba-chan; cropped, marked and wording by Laszlovszky András at Hungarian WikipediaPublic domainSource
File:Amy Billig Daytona Beach Morning Herald Coconut Grove 1974. 13 March 1974.jpg — Credit: Family portrait commissioned by Nathaniel and Susan Billig, circa 1974.Public domainSource82. By status: 15 unsolved, 4 cold, 5 ongoing and 58 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Newberry Six lynchings, from 1916. Open the file
Black Swan manslaughter case, with 6 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Dr. Todd Grande (10 cases), Kendall Rae (9 cases) and Annie Elise (9 cases), among 19 creators in all.
Orlando (7), Tampa (5) and Tallahassee (4).
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.
