Credit: Argonne National Laboratory / Wikimedia Commons, c.1922–23Public domainSourceSOLVEDListenOrange, New Jersey · 1917
Beginning in 1917, factory workers who came to be known as the Radium Girls were poisoned after being instructed to shape radium-paint brushes with their lips; the resulting illnesses, deaths, and lawsuits against the United States Radium Corporation and the Radium Dial Company reshaped U.S. occupational health and labor law.
Credit: SsmartinoCC BY-SA 4.0SourceUNSOLVEDListen657 Boulevard, Westfield, New Jersey · 2010s
Starting in June 2014, an unidentified stalker calling themselves "The Watcher" sent a family multiple harassing letters about their newly purchased home in Westfield, New Jersey, referencing their children and claiming a generational connection to the house. The sender has never been identified and no charges have ever been filed.
Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (Hall–Mills murder case), c.1920Public domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenFranklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey · 1920s
Episcopal priest Edward Wheeler Hall and choir member Eleanor Mills, with whom he was having an affair, were found shot to death in a New Jersey field in September 1922. Hall's wife and her two brothers were tried in 1926 and acquitted; the case remains legally unsolved.
Riverdell Hospital, Oradell, Bergen County, New Jersey · 1965
A series of suspicious deaths by curare poisoning at a Bergen County, New Jersey hospital in 1966 led, after a mid-1970s newspaper investigation, to the indictment of surgeon Mario Enrique Jascalevich in 1976. He was acquitted at trial in 1978, and the deaths remain officially unsolved.
Broad and Market Streets, Newark, New Jersey · 2003
Sakia Gunn, a 15-year-old African American lesbian, was fatally stabbed in Newark, New Jersey, on May 11, 2003, after she and her friends rejected men's advances and identified themselves as lesbians. Richard McCullough pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter, aggravated assault, and bias intimidation, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Credit: DjflemCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenJC Kosher Supermarket, Greenville, Jersey City, New Jersey · 2019
On December 10, 2019, two assailants fatally shot a Jersey City police detective at a cemetery, then drove to the JC Kosher Supermarket and killed three people inside before dying in a shootout with police. Authorities described the attack as a hate crime and act of domestic terrorism motivated by antisemitism and anti-police sentiment.
The files run from 1639 to 2019. The 2010s hold the most, with 4 files. The oldest is Radium Girls, from 1917.
They are spread across 13 cities and towns; the most are in Jersey City (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (7), kidnapping and abduction cases (4) and fraud and extortion cases (2).
7 files of the 14 have coverage attached: 12 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 8 creators. The most covered is Radium Girls, with 3 items to watch or hear. Morbid, Georgia Marie and Bailey Sarian 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.
Radium dial painters (incl. Grace Fryer, Katherine Schaub, Quinta McDonald, Albina Larice, Edna Hussman) — Credit: Argonne National Laboratory / Wikimedia Commons, c.1922–23Public domainSource
Charles Lindbergh testifying — Credit: World Telegram staff photographerPublic domainSource
657 Boulevard — Credit: SsmartinoCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, Edward Wheeler Hall — Credit: Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons (Hall–Mills murder case), c.1920Public domainSource
Megan Kanka, the 7-year-old victim (Megan's Law)Editorial useSource
Newport, Jersey City waterfront, skyline — Credit: Andrew GordonPublic domainSource
George Washington Bridge NYC full span from Hudson — Credit: Jim Harper (Pixel23 at English Wikipedia)CC BY-SA 2.5Source
MARGARET ELLEN FOX — Credit: FBIPublic domainSource
JCKosherMrkt.MLKDr.Greenville.JC — Credit: DjflemCC BY-SA 4.0Source
File:Dulce-maria-alavez.pdf — Credit: Federal Bureau of InvestigationPublic domainSource
Joan D'Alessandro, the 7-year-old victim (school portrait)Editorial useSource14. By status: 5 unsolved, 1 cold and 8 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Radium Girls, from 1917. Open the file
Radium Girls, with 3 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Morbid (3 cases), Georgia Marie (2 cases) and Bailey Sarian (1 case), among 8 creators in all.
Jersey City (2).
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.
