Credit: Photographer unknown (studio portrait, c. 1880s-1892); scan contributed to Find a Grave…Public domainSourceUNSOLVEDListen92 Second Street, Fall River, Massachusetts (the Borden house) · 1892
Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet at their Fall River, Massachusetts home on August 4, 1892. Andrew's daughter Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted in 1893; the case remains officially unsolved.
Credit: NY Daily News, Photo copyright 2013 Lloyd family via the Boston BanditsEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenIndustrial park, John Dietsch Boulevard, North Attleborough, Massachusetts · 2013
Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player, was shot and killed in an industrial area of North Attleborough, Massachusetts, on June 17, 2013. Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez was convicted of his murder in 2015; two other men were convicted as accessories after the fact.
SOLVEDListen34 Fairview Road, Canton, Massachusetts · 2022
Boston police officer John O'Keefe was found unconscious and dying on a lawn in Canton, Massachusetts, in January 2022; his girlfriend Karen Read was charged with killing him with her car but was acquitted of all major charges after two trials, amid allegations of a flawed investigation.
SOLVEDListenCohasset, Massachusetts, United States · 2023
Ana Walshe, a Serbian-American real estate executive, was reported missing from her home in Cohasset, Massachusetts, on January 4, 2023. Her husband, Brian Walshe, was convicted of her first-degree murder on December 15, 2025, after previously pleading guilty to misleading the police investigation and improperly disposing of her body.
SOLVEDListenFairhaven, Massachusetts · 2012
Conrad Roy III, 18, died by suicide in his truck in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, in July 2014. His girlfriend, Michelle Carter, then 17, was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging him via text and, on a final phone call, telling him to get back into his carbon-monoxide-filling truck.
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (Murder of George E. Bailey); studio portrait c.1885Public domainSourceSOLVEDListenBreakheart Hill Farm, Saugus, Massachusetts · 1900
George E. Bailey was shot and dismembered at Breakheart Hill Farm in Saugus, Massachusetts, in October 1900. His employee, John C. Best, was convicted of the murder and executed in 1902.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenBraintree, Massachusetts, United States · 1927
Italian immigrant anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in 1921 of murdering a guard and a paymaster during a 1920 Massachusetts payroll robbery; despite worldwide protest over alleged bias and disputed evidence, both were executed in 1927, and in 1977 the state proclaimed their trial unfair.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenHarvard Medical College, North Grove Street, Boston, Massachusetts · 1849
Boston physician George Parkman vanished on November 23, 1849, after visiting Harvard Medical College; his dismembered, partly burned remains were found in the laboratory of lecturer John White Webster, who was convicted of murder and hanged in 1850.
SOLVEDListenKing Street (now State Street), Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay · 1770
On March 5, 1770, British soldiers guarding the Boston Custom House fired into a crowd of colonists on King Street, killing three instantly and fatally wounding two others, in a confrontation that inflamed tensions leading to the American Revolution.
UNSOLVEDListenWorcester, Massachusetts · 1934
Etta Riel, a 20-year-old Massachusetts college student and new mother, vanished from Worcester, Massachusetts, on November 22, 1934, the day of a scheduled paternity court hearing against a man she had named as her child's father. Her disappearance remains unsolved.
The files run from 1638 to 2023. The 2010s hold the most, with 7 files. The oldest is Murder of Penowanyanquis, from 1638.
They are spread across 20 cities and towns; the most are in Boston (4), Canton (2) and Cambridge (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (23), robbery and burglary cases (8) and kidnapping and abduction cases (2).
10 files of the 25 have coverage attached: 16 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 10 creators. The most covered is Killing of Andrew and Abby Borden, with 2 items to watch or hear. Dr. Todd Grande, Dateline NBC 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.
Sandra Birchmore — Credit: Courtesy of the Birchmore family / Justice for Sandra BirchmoreEditorial useSourceAndrew Jackson Borden — Credit: Photographer unknown (studio portrait, c. 1880s-1892); scan contributed to Find a Grave…Public domainSource
Odin lloyd — Credit: NY Daily News, Photo copyright 2013 Lloyd family via the Boston BanditsEditorial useSource
George Edward Bailey — Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (Murder of George E. Bailey); studio portrait c.1885Public domainSource
Jane Britton — Credit: Full version of image is credited to Lincoln Studio, Malden, MA, USAPublic domainSource
Mario Buda — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
File:Melissa Ann Tremblay Lawrence Eagle-Tribune.jpg — Credit: Professional portrait commissioned by Janet Tremblay.Public domainSource
HarvardMedical old — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Deanna Cremin Square — Credit: GRubanCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:AlexandraZappSmile.jpg — Credit: AllyfoundationPublic domainSource
File:Lisa Berlanga Trubnikova.png — Credit: U.S. Coast GuardPublic domainSource
25. By status: 5 unsolved, 2 ongoing and 18 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Murder of Penowanyanquis, from 1638. Open the file
Killing of Andrew and Abby Borden, with 2 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Dr. Todd Grande (3 cases), Dateline NBC (1 case) and Stephanie Harlowe (1 case), among 10 creators in all.
Boston (4), Canton (2) and Cambridge (2).
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.
