Credit: RaptacCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenBardstown, Kentucky · 2015
Crystal Rogers, a 35-year-old Bardstown, Kentucky, mother of five, disappeared in July 2015 and has never been found; in 2025, her former boyfriend, Brooks Houck, was found guilty of her murder, and two other men were convicted of related conspiracy and evidence-tampering charges.
Credit: Family photo via Find A Grave; reproduced by The CinemaholicEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenPikeville, Kentucky, United States · 1989
Susan Smith, a young FBI informant from Kentucky, was strangled in June 1989 by her handler and lover, FBI agent Mark Putnam, who later became the first FBI agent convicted of homicide.
SOLVEDListenHighland Heights, Kentucky · 2012
Ryan Poston, a Kentucky attorney, was shot six times and killed by his on-again, off-again girlfriend Shayna Hubers in his Highland Heights condominium in 2012. Hubers was convicted of murder in 2015, but the verdict was overturned on appeal after a juror's concealed felony conviction was discovered. She was convicted again in 2018 and sentenced to life imprisonment with parole eligibility after 20 years.
SOLVEDListenFrankfort, Kentucky · 1825
Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp was fatally stabbed at his Frankfort home in November 1825 by Jereboam O. Beauchamp, who said he acted to avenge the honor of his wife, Anna Cooke, whom Sharp allegedly had made pregnant years earlier and abandoned. Beauchamp was convicted and hanged; Anna was acquitted of complicity but died from a self-inflicted stab wound hours before his execution.
SOLVEDListenHeath High School, West Paducah, Kentucky · 1997
On December 1, 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal opened fire on a student prayer group at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, killing three students and wounding six others before surrendering to the school principal.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenOld National Bank, Preston Pointe building, East Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky · 2023
On April 10, 2023, a former employee opened fire at an Old National Bank branch in Louisville, Kentucky, killing five people and wounding eight others, including two police officers, before being fatally shot by responding officers.
SOLVEDListennear Manchester, Clay County, Kentucky · 2005
Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman was found dead in September 2009, tied to a tree with the word "fed" written on his chest, in circumstances initially suspected to be homicide; after a months-long investigation, Kentucky State Police concluded he staged his own death to appear as a homicide so his son could collect life insurance.
SOLVEDListenIntersection of Floyd's Fork and Long Run Creek, eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky · 1781
On 13 September 1781, a group of settlers fleeing Painted Stone Station toward Linn's Station was ambushed by an Indian war party allied with Loyalist forces near Floyd's Fork and Long Run Creek in what is now Jefferson County, Kentucky, killing about 15 settlers.
UNSOLVEDListenVisalia, Kentucky, United States · 1980
Randy Sellers, 17, vanished in Visalia, Kentucky on August 16, 1980, shortly after two police officers who had taken him into custody for intoxication dropped him off near his home. He was never seen again, and his whereabouts remain unknown despite decades of investigation.
SOLVEDListenLouisville School, Louisville, Kentucky · 1853
In 1853 Louisville, Kentucky, 15-year-old student William Ward's older brother Matthews Ward shot schoolteacher William Butler after a dispute over classroom discipline; Butler died the next day and Matthews Ward was acquitted at trial in 1854.
The files run from 1781 to 2024. The 2010s hold the most, with 4 files. The oldest is Long Run massacre, from 1781.
They are spread across 15 cities and towns; the most are in Louisville (5). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (13), mass shooting cases (4) and school shooting cases (4).
7 files of the 19 have coverage attached: 18 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 7 creators. The most covered is Disappearance of Crystal Rogers, with 8 items to watch or hear. Kendall Rae, Annie Elise 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.
CrystalRogersBluegrassParkway — Credit: RaptacCC BY-SA 4.0Source
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Susan Smith — Credit: Family photo via Find A Grave; reproduced by The CinemaholicEditorial useSource
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Louisville Shooting Extended — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
19. By status: 3 unsolved, 1 cold, 2 ongoing and 13 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Long Run massacre, from 1781. Open the file
Disappearance of Crystal Rogers, with 8 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Kendall Rae (2 cases), Annie Elise (2 cases) and That Chapter (2 cases), among 7 creators in all.
Louisville (5).
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.
