146case filesUpdated Sep 29, 2026
Casepin holds 146 case files in California. By legal status, 27 marked unsolved, 2 marked cold, 6 marked ongoing, 108 marked solved and 3 marked overturned.
Credit: Mona EshaikerCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenHolmby Hills, Los Angeles, California · 2009
Singer Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, in Los Angeles from acute propofol intoxication administered by his personal physician, Conrad Murray. The Los Angeles County coroner ruled the death a homicide, and Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in November 2011.
Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenModesto, California · 2002
Laci Peterson, 27 and eight months pregnant, disappeared from her Modesto, California home on December 24, 2002; her body and that of her unborn son Conner were found in San Francisco Bay in April 2003, and her husband Scott Peterson was convicted in 2004 of murdering both.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons, photo by Glenn Francis (PacificProDigital.com)Editorial useSourceSOLVEDListenHollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California · 2014
Amie Harwick, a Los Angeles marriage and family therapist and author, was strangled and thrown from her third-floor Hollywood Hills balcony on February 15, 2020, by an ex-boyfriend who had a history of stalking her. He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2023 and sentenced to life without parole.
Credit: Los Angeles Police DepartmentPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenLeimert Park, Los Angeles, California, USA · 1940s
Elizabeth Short, known posthumously as the Black Dahlia, was found murdered in Los Angeles in January 1947 in a case that remains unsolved.
SOLVEDListenRedding, California · 2016
Sherri Papini fabricated a three-week disappearance from Redding, California, in November 2016, and in 2022 pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and false-statement charges for staging the hoax.
Credit: Stine family scrapbook, via zodiackiller.comEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenSan Francisco Bay Area, California (multiple crime scenes including Benicia, Vallejo, Napa County, and San Francisco) · 1960s
An unidentified serial killer known as "Zodiac" killed at least five people and wounded two others in Northern California between December 1968 and October 1969, taunting police and press with letters and ciphers. The case remains unsolved despite thousands of proposed suspects and decades of investigation.
Credit: Via WikipediaEditorial useSourceCOLDListenRiverside City College, Riverside, California · 1966
Cheri Jo Bates, an 18-year-old Riverside City College student, was stabbed and slashed to death on campus grounds on October 30, 1966, after her car was deliberately disabled. The case remains officially unsolved, though it has drawn attention due to a contested theory linking it to the later Zodiac Killer murders.
Image recordEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenDavis, California, United States · 2013
In April 2013, Claudia Maupin, 76, and Oliver "Chip" Northup, 87, were stabbed and mutilated in their Davis, California home by 15-year-old Daniel William Marsh, who confessed after bragging to friends. Marsh was convicted as an adult of first-degree murder in 2014 and sentenced to 52 years to life; subsequent juvenile-justice law changes led to years of appeals over whether his case should be transferred to juvenile court.
Image recordEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenCastaic Lake, Los Angeles County, California · 2013
Bryce David Laspisa, a 19-year-old Sierra College student, disappeared after his SUV was found overturned near Castaic Lake, California, in the early hours of August 30, 2013. Despite an extensive multi-day search, no trace of him was found, and his case remains unsolved.
Image recordEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenVan Nuys, Los Angeles, California · 1986
Sherri Rasmussen was beaten and shot to death in her Van Nuys condominium in February 1986; the case went cold for more than two decades before Los Angeles police officer Stephanie Lazarus, her husband's former girlfriend, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2012.
The files run from 1856 to 2025. The 2010s hold the most, with 36 files. The oldest is Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871, from 1871.
They are spread across 83 cities and towns; the most are in Los Angeles (27), San Francisco (13) and Oakland (6). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (119), mass shooting cases (26) and kidnapping and abduction cases (24).
62 files of the 146 have coverage attached: 212 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 25 creators. The most covered is Death of Michael Jackson, with 27 items to watch or hear. Dr. Todd Grande, Kendall Rae 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.
Grand Avenue, Downtown Escondido. Photo taken by David McGovern — location anchor for the casePublic domainSource_by_Sentinel-2,_2019-03-30.jpg)
Date: 2019-03-30 Sensor: MSI on Sentinel-2B Resolution: 10m RGB Composites: True color, Band 4-3-2 — location anchor for the caseCC BY-SA 3.0 IGOSource
A suicide-prevention sign and crisis phone on the Golden Gate Bridge, San FranciscoCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Memorial flowers outside the Borderline Bar & Grill, Thousand Oaks, CACC BY-SA 4.0Source
CCTV of Aminadab Gaxiola González — Credit: No authorPublic domainSource
w:National Register of Historic Places listings in Santa Clara County, California Ramona Street Architectural District, Hamilton Buildings (aka Medico-Dental Building), 261 Hamilton St., Palo Alto, CA — location anchor for the caseCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Stephanie Kuhen, the 3-year-old victimEditorial useSource
101 California Street office tower, San Francisco — the shooting siteCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Taken from atop Mt. Lee showing the back of the Hollywood Sign. From left to right, the view includes the Griffith Observatory, downtown Los Angeles, Hollywoodland subdivision (near/below), the sprawl of Los Angeles, Lake Hollywood. Taken on January 6, 2019. — location anchor for the caseCC BY-SA 4.0Source
City College of San Francisco, Ocean Avenue campus — in the Ingleside neighborhood where the Lei family (five victims) was killed at 16 Howth StreetCC BY-SA 2.0Source
David Westerfield CDCR — Credit: San Quentin State Prison, California Department of Corrections and RehabilitationPublic domainSource
Aerial view of the traffic stop at 74th Ave & MacArthur, Oakland, CA where the shootings beganEditorial useSource
Brian Egg — the victimEditorial useSource
Odd Fellows Building, a historic downtown landmark in Red Bluff, California — the town where Colleen Stan was held captive 1977-1984CC BY-SA 4.0Source
Lake Merritt viewed from downtown Oakland on a sunny afternoon. The shadows of downtown high-rise buildings cast over lower buildings just to the west of the lake. At the southern tip of the Lake is the Alameda County Superior Court Building. — location anchor for the caseCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Hepner Hall, San Diego State University — Credit: Lo2013CC BY-SA 3.0Source
Santa Monica College campus — where John Zawahri's rampage endedCC BY-SA 3.0Source146. By status: 27 unsolved, 2 cold, 6 ongoing, 108 solved and 3 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871, from 1871. Open the file
Death of Michael Jackson, with 27 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Dr. Todd Grande (17 cases), Kendall Rae (15 cases) and That Chapter (13 cases), among 25 creators in all.
Los Angeles (27), San Francisco (13) and Oakland (6).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Sep 29, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
