Clutter family home, Holcomb, Kansas · 1959
In November 1959, four members of the Clutter family were murdered in their rural home near Holcomb, Kansas, in a robbery that yielded almost no money. Two ex-convicts were convicted and executed for the crime, later chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
UNSOLVEDListenLa Cygne, Kansas · 2020
Alonzo Brooks, 23, disappeared after a party in La Cygne, Kansas, on April 3, 2004, and his body was found in a nearby creek a month later. A 2020 exhumation and autopsy determined his death was a homicide, but no one has been charged.
COLDListenPrairie Village, Kansas · 2019
Angela Green vanished from Prairie Village, Kansas, in June 2019, and police and the FBI continue to seek information about what happened to her.
Credit: George-tiller.jpg : Nonameplayer derivative work: Wildhartlivie ( talk )Public domainSourceSOLVEDListenReformation Lutheran Church, Wichita, Kansas · 2009
George Tiller, a Wichita, Kansas physician known for performing late-term abortions, was shot and killed at point-blank range during a church service on May 31, 2009. Scott Roeder, an anti-abortion extremist, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2010.
SOLVEDListenNear Pottawatomie Creek, Franklin County, Kansas Territory · 1856
On the night of May 24–25, 1856, John Brown and a band of abolitionist settlers abducted and killed five pro-slavery settlers near Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas Territory, becoming one of the most notorious episodes of the "Bleeding Kansas" conflict.
SOLVEDListenTopeka, Kansas · 2002
Mike Sisco, 47, and his fiancée Karen Harkness, 53, were shot dead in Harkness's west Topeka, Kansas, home in July 2002; Sisco's ex-wife Dana Chandler was convicted of their murders in 2012, won a new trial in 2018, faced a hung jury in 2022 and was convicted again in March 2025.
The files run from 1856 to 2020. The 2000s hold the most, with 2 files. The oldest is Pottawatomie massacre, from 1856.
They are spread across 9 cities and towns; the most are in Wichita (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (8), kidnapping and abduction cases (3) and robbery and burglary cases (2).
4 files of the 10 have coverage attached: 10 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 6 creators. Bailey Sarian, Crime Weekly and CasePin 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.
Dennis Rader, convicted of the BTK murders — 1966 U.S. Air Force portrait — Credit: United States Air ForcePublic domainSource
File:George Tiller cropped.jpg — Credit: George-tiller.jpg : Nonameplayer derivative work: Wildhartlivie ( talk )Public domainSource
Clutter home Holcomb, KS March 2009 — Credit: Spacini (talk)CC BY 3.0Source
Lawrence massacre ruins — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Cheyenne-prisoners-Kansas — Credit: Leonard & Martin (Life time: unknown)Public domainSource
10. By status: 1 unsolved, 1 cold and 8 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Pottawatomie massacre, from 1856. Open the file
Murder of the Clutter Family, with 1 video, podcast or documentary linked from its file. Open the file
Bailey Sarian (1 case), Crime Weekly (1 case) and CasePin (1 case), among 6 creators in all.
Wichita (2).
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.
