Credit: Wfsa 12 NewsEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenAuburn, Alabama · 2019
Aniah Blanchard, a 19-year-old Alabama college student, disappeared from Auburn in October 2019 and was later found dead of a gunshot wound; the man convicted of her murder was sentenced to life in prison in 2026.
Credit: Works Progress Administration posterPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenMacon County, Alabama · 1932
Between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service studied untreated syphilis in nearly 400 Black men in Macon County, Alabama, without informing them of their diagnosis or providing treatment, and more than 100 died as a result.
Credit: formulanone from Huntsville, United StatesCC BY-SA 2.0SourceSOLVEDListenHoover, Alabama, United States · 2023
Nursing student Carlee Russell vanished for 49 hours in Hoover, Alabama in July 2023 after reporting seeing a child alone on a highway, then falsely claimed she had been kidnapped; she later admitted the entire account was fabricated and was convicted of filing false police reports.
SOLVEDListenEvansville, Indiana (capture site); escape originated in Florence, Alabama · 2023
In April 2022, Lauderdale County, Alabama corrections officer Vicky White helped inmate Casey White escape from jail; an 11-day nationwide manhunt ended in Evansville, Indiana, when a police chase ended in a crash and Vicky White died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
SOLVEDListenCullman, Alabama · 2017
Tiffiney Crawford was shot to death in Cullman, Alabama, in 2017, and her husband was convicted of murder five years later.
SOLVEDListenAuburn, Lee County, Alabama · 2006
Lori Ann Slesinski disappeared from Auburn in 2006, and Derrill Richard Ennis was convicted of her murder despite her body never being found.
Credit: AlabamaUSACC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenUniversity of Alabama in Huntsville, Shelby Center for Science and Technology · 2010
On February 12, 2010, biology professor Amy Bishop shot six colleagues at a University of Alabama in Huntsville faculty meeting, killing three, after being denied tenure; she pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life without parole.
Credit: Mark HiltonCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenMobile, Alabama · 1981
On March 21, 1981, 19-year-old Michael Donald, an African-American man, was abducted, beaten, strangled, and killed by two Ku Klux Klan members in Mobile, Alabama, and his body was hung from a tree. His mother's subsequent civil suit bankrupted the United Klans of America.
SOLVEDListenColbert County, Alabama, United States · 2024
Kenneth Eugene Smith, convicted in the 1988 contract killing of Elizabeth Sennett in Colbert County, Alabama, was executed by the state on January 25, 2024, becoming the first person in the world put to death by nitrogen hypoxia.
Credit: April HoldridgeCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenFormer Dadeville Bank / Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio, 220 N. Broadnax St, Dadeville, Alabama · 2023
A mass shooting at a 16th birthday party in a converted Dadeville, Alabama, bank building killed four people and injured 32 others on April 15, 2023; six people were later charged, and in 2026 five pleaded guilty to reckless murder and assault charges.
The files run from 1813 to 2024. The 2010s hold the most, with 7 files. The oldest is Lynching of Willie Temple, from 1919.
They are spread across 15 cities and towns; the most are in Birmingham (4), Mobile (3) and Auburn (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (19), kidnapping and abduction cases (5) and mass shooting cases (3).
7 files of the 23 have coverage attached: 15 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 7 creators. The most covered is Murder of Aniah Blanchard, with 9 items to watch or hear. Kendall Rae, 48 Hours 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.
Aniah Blanchard Event Infobox — Credit: Wfsa 12 NewsEditorial useSource
Syphilis-poster-wpa-cure — Credit: Works Progress Administration posterPublic domainSource
16th Street Baptist Church bombing girls — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Shelby Center at University of Alabama Huntsville shortly after the shooting incident, February 12 2010 — Credit: AlabamaUSACC BY-SA 3.0Source
Lynching of Michael Donald — Credit: Mark HiltonCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Int459sRoad-Exit10-AL150 (34804698540) — Credit: formulanone from Huntsville, United StatesCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Ft. Mims West wall and gate — Credit: Dthem 2000 at English WikipediaPublic domainSource
Bank of Dadeville — Credit: April HoldridgeCC BY-SA 4.0Source
File:Willie temple marker.jpg — Credit: DrmiesCC BY-SA 4.0Source
White Hall historic building, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama LCCN2010637791 — Credit: Carol M. HighsmithPublic domainSource
23. By status: 2 unsolved, 1 ongoing and 20 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Lynching of Willie Temple, from 1919. Open the file
Murder of Aniah Blanchard, with 9 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Kendall Rae (2 cases), 48 Hours (2 cases) and Annie Elise (1 case), among 7 creators in all.
Birmingham (4), Mobile (3) and Auburn (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.
