34case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 34 case files in Missouri. By legal status, 8 marked unsolved, 1 marked cold, 2 marked ongoing, 22 marked solved and 1 marked overturned.
Credit: FBIPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListen1717 East Delmar Street, Springfield, Missouri · 1992
Three women — Sherrill Levitt, her daughter Suzanne "Suzie" Streeter, and Streeter's friend Stacy McCall — vanished from Levitt's Springfield, Missouri home overnight on June 6-7, 1992, leaving behind cars, purses, and other belongings. None have ever been found and the case remains unsolved.
UNSOLVEDListenSpanish Lake, Missouri · 2011
Phoenix Coldon, 23, vanished on December 18, 2011 after driving away from her family's home in Spanish Lake, Missouri; her abandoned SUV was found hours later across the state line in East St. Louis, Illinois, with her belongings inside. She has never been located.
UNSOLVEDListenLongview Lake, Jackson County, Missouri · 2012
Bethany Deaton was found dead near Longview Lake in 2012; a murder charge was later dismissed and her manner of death remains undetermined.
SOLVEDListenNew Florence, Missouri · 2017
Ben Renick was killed at his Missouri reptile-breeding facility on June 8, 2017; Lynlee Renick and Michael Humphrey were convicted in separate proceedings.
Credit: Me5000 (talk)Public domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenColumbia Daily Tribune parking lot, Columbia, Missouri · 2001
Kent Heitholt, a Columbia Daily Tribune sports editor, was beaten and strangled in his newspaper's parking lot in 2001. Two years later, Ryan Ferguson and Charles Erickson were charged based largely on Erickson's uncertain memories and a janitor's testimony; both later recanted, and Ferguson's conviction was vacated in 2013 after courts found prosecutors withheld evidence. The case remains unsolved.
SOLVEDListenIndependence, Missouri, USA (case origin); killing of Francisco Paredes Ordoñez occurred in Mexico City, Mexico · 1962
Sharon Kinne was convicted in Mexico in 1965 for killing Francisco Paredes Ordoñez and was long suspected in two 1960 Missouri deaths — her husband James Kinne and Patricia Jones — of which she was acquitted (Jones) and convicted then retried without final resolution (James Kinne) before fleeing to Mexico. She escaped a Mexican prison in 1969 and lived undetected in Canada under an alias until her 2022 death, confirmed by fingerprint match in 2025.
Credit: Bob McCarty Writes Photos'CC BY-SA 2.0SourceSOLVEDListenKirkwood City Hall, Kirkwood, Missouri · 2008
On February 7, 2008, Charles Lee "Cookie" Thornton, identified by police as the gunman, shot and killed a police officer outside Kirkwood, Missouri's city hall, then entered a city council meeting and killed a second officer, the public works director, and two council members, and wounded the mayor and a reporter before being killed by police in a shootout.
Image recordPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenUnion Station, Kansas City, Missouri · 1933
On June 17, 1933, gunmen opened fire outside Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, killing federal prisoner Frank Nash and four law enforcement officers in an attempted rescue that went fatally wrong.
SOLVEDListenVan Buren, Missouri, United States · 2004
Missouri State Highway Patrol Sergeant Carl Dewayne Graham Jr. was shot and killed outside his home on March 20, 2005, days after investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash. Lance Collin Shockley, the prime suspect in that crash, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2009 and sentenced to death; he was executed on October 14, 2025.
SOLVEDListenUniversity City, Missouri · 1998
Felicia Gayle, a former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter, was stabbed to death during a burglary at her University City, Missouri home in August 1998. Marcellus Williams was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder; despite later DNA evidence and objections from Gayle's family, he was executed in September 2024 after accepting an Alford plea that was blocked by the Missouri Supreme Court.
The files run from 1861 to 2021. The 2000s hold the most, with 10 files. The oldest is Lynching of Jay Lynch, from 1919.
They are spread across 26 cities and towns; the most are in Kansas City (5), Springfield (3) and Columbia (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (22), kidnapping and abduction cases (6) and mass shooting cases (5).
13 files of the 34 have coverage attached: 31 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 12 creators. The most covered is Springfield Three, with 6 items to watch or hear. Kendall Rae, Bailey Sarian 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.
Dee Dee Blanchard — Credit: Found at Imgur; this has been widely circulatedEditorial useSourceTHE SPRINGFIELD THREE - SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI — Credit: FBIPublic domainSource
LisaRIrwin — Credit: Deborah Bradley, and selfPublic domainSource
Stinnett-memorial — Credit: Americasroof at English WikipediaPublic domainSource
St-louis-arsenal — Credit: Americasroof at en.wikipediaCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Firefighters Remember Kirkwood Shootings — Credit: Bob McCarty Writes Photos'CC BY-SA 2.0Source
Kansas City Union Station MassacrePublic domainSource
File:Cleo Wright in 1940.jpg — Credit: Missouri Department of CorrectionsCC0Source
Continental Airlines Flight 11 memorial Unionville, Missouri — Credit: 09erCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:Lynching of Jay Lynch for the killing of Sheriff Harlow and Walter Harlow 1919.jpg — Credit: James MountPublic domainSource
34. By status: 8 unsolved, 1 cold, 2 ongoing, 22 solved and 1 overturned. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Lynching of Jay Lynch, from 1919. Open the file
Springfield Three, with 6 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Kendall Rae (4 cases), Bailey Sarian (3 cases) and That Chapter (2 cases), among 12 creators in all.
Kansas City (5), Springfield (3) and Columbia (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.
