Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenStar City, West Virginia (disappearance site); body found in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania · 2012
Sixteen-year-old Skylar Neese disappeared from her Star City, West Virginia home in July 2012 and was found murdered months later. Two of her high school best friends, Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy, pleaded guilty to killing her in a premeditated stabbing attack.
Shanksville, Somerset County, Pennsylvania · 2001
On September 11, 2001, four hijackers affiliated with al-Qaeda took control of United Airlines Flight 93 en route from Newark to San Francisco, intending to crash it into a federal government building in Washington, D.C. After learning by phone of the day's other attacks, passengers and crew fought back, and the aircraft crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, killing all 44 people aboard.
Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation synagogue, Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · 2018
On October 27, 2018, a gunman killed eleven worshippers and wounded six others, including four police officers, during Shabbat morning services at the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Robert Bowers was convicted on all 63 federal counts in 2023 and sentenced to death.
Credit: 麩CC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenErie, Pennsylvania · 2003
Pizza delivery driver Brian Wells died in Erie, Pennsylvania, on August 28, 2003, when a bomb locked around his neck detonated shortly after he robbed a bank under an elaborate scheme; two co-conspirators were later convicted in the case, which became known as the collar bomb or pizza bomber case.
SOLVEDListenWeis Markets, Eaton Township, Pennsylvania · 2017
On June 8, 2017, 24-year-old Weis Markets employee Randy Stair shot and killed three co-workers at the supermarket in Eaton Township, Pennsylvania, before fatally shooting himself, after a lengthy period of documented online planning.
COLDListenAliquippa, Pennsylvania, United States · 2018
Rachael DelTondo was shot outside her home in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, on May 13, 2018; no one has been arrested, and the district attorney said in May 2026 that the available evidence was insufficient to charge anyone.
Credit: Ibn JuferiCC BY 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenWyncote, Pennsylvania, United States · 1986
Islamic scholar Isma'il al-Faruqi and his wife Lois Lamya al-Faruqi were stabbed to death in their Wyncote, Pennsylvania home on May 27, 1986; their pregnant daughter survived the attack. Joseph Louis Young was convicted in 1987 of two counts of first-degree murder and other charges, and sentenced to death; he died in prison in 1996 before execution.
SOLVEDListenBristol Township, Pennsylvania · 1987
Anthony Milano, a 26-year-old gay commercial artist, was beaten and fatally attacked by Richard Laird and Frank Chester in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, on December 15, 1987, after the men targeted him because he was gay. Both were convicted and sentenced to death in 1988, reportedly the first death sentences imposed in the U.S. for an anti-gay hate crime; Chester was later resentenced to life without parole, while Laird remains on death row.
SOLVEDListenKingsessing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · 2023
A spree shooting in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia on July 2–3, 2023 left five people dead and four injured before police apprehended the suspected shooter.
SOLVEDListenRobinson Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania · 1999
In May 1999, two Franciscan University students, Aaron Land and Brian Muha, were kidnapped from their Steubenville, Ohio apartment, driven to Washington County, Pennsylvania, and shot to death. Nathan Herring and Terrell Yarbrough were convicted in Ohio, but their murder convictions were overturned in 2004 on jurisdictional grounds; Yarbrough was later retried and Herring pleaded guilty in Pennsylvania, and both received life sentences.
The files run from 1764 to 2024. The 2010s hold the most, with 9 files. The oldest is Sugarloaf massacre, from 1780.
They are spread across 27 cities and towns; the most are in Philadelphia (5). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (24), kidnapping and abduction cases (7) and mass shooting cases (7).
13 files of the 31 have coverage attached: 20 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 12 creators. The most covered is Murder of Skylar Neese, with 7 items to watch or hear. Kendall Rae, Danelle Hallan and Dateline NBC 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.
Skylar Neese — Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSource
United93CrashSite May06 — Credit: JoeyBLS at English WikipediaCC BY 2.5Source
Boy in the Box grave memorial Ivy Hill — Credit: TheXuittsCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Officials observe damage of MOVE bombing on 6200 block at Osage Avenue — Credit: Sam KushnerPublic domainSource
Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha synagogue facade — Credit: daveynin from United StatesCC BY 2.0Source
Map of Erie Pizza Bomber Case — Credit: 麩CC BY-SA 4.0Source
File:Charley Ross.jpg — Credit: Unknown author Unknown authorPublic domainSource
File:Faruqi-grave-tombstone.png — Credit: Ibn JuferiCC BY 4.0Source
File:Babes in the Wood Memorial (PA Route 233).JPG — Credit: ConcordCC BY-SA 4.0Source
File:Enoch Brown mem FrankCo PA.JPG — Credit: SmallbonesCC0Source
File:Death certificate of Zachariah Walker, Pennsylvania 1911.jpg — Credit: Chester County PA RecorderPublic domainSource
31. By status: 4 unsolved, 1 cold, 2 ongoing and 24 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Sugarloaf massacre, from 1780. Open the file
Murder of Skylar Neese, with 7 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Kendall Rae (3 cases), Danelle Hallan (2 cases) and Dateline NBC (2 cases), among 12 creators in all.
Philadelphia (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.
