Credit: Bio at VirginiaSports.comEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenCharlottesville, Virginia, United States · 2007
Yeardley Love, a University of Virginia women's lacrosse player, was found unresponsive in her Charlottesville apartment on May 3, 2010. Fellow UVA lacrosse player George Wesley Huguely V was arrested and later convicted of second-degree murder, receiving a 23-year prison sentence.
SOLVEDListenLeesburg, Virginia · 1992
Robert Schwartz, a renowned biotechnology scientist, was stabbed to death at his Leesburg, Virginia home in December 2001 in a killing orchestrated by his daughter Clara Jane Schwartz and carried out by her friend Kyle Hulbert, with two others assisting. All four were convicted for their roles in the crime.
Credit: External Links LibraryCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenWoodbridge Township, New Jersey (murder); remains recovered from Chesapeake Bay, Virginia · 1999
Melanie McGuire, a New Jersey nurse, was convicted of murdering her husband William McGuire in April 2004, dismembering his body, and disposing of his remains in three suitcases recovered from Chesapeake Bay.
Credit: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)Public domainSourceSOLVEDListenFoxstone Park, Vienna, Virginia · 1979
FBI agent Robert Hanssen spied for Soviet and later Russian intelligence services intermittently from 1979 to 2001, selling thousands of classified documents and betraying U.S. intelligence assets before his 2001 arrest.
Credit: U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeant Louis Briscese, Forensic Photography, Office of the…Public domainSourceSOLVEDListenThe Pentagon, Arlington County, Virginia · 2001
On September 11, 2001, five al-Qaeda hijackers seized American Airlines Flight 77 and crashed it into the Pentagon, killing all 64 people aboard and 125 people in the building.
Credit: Dan Burros and John PatlerPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenSpeedy Laundromat, Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia · 1967
George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, was shot and killed outside a laundromat in Arlington, Virginia, on August 25, 1967. John Patler, an expelled party member, was convicted of first-degree murder in a case built on circumstantial evidence.
Credit: Anthony Crider; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC)CC BY 2.0SourceSOLVEDListenFourth Street Southeast, Charlottesville, Virginia · 2017
On August 12, 2017, James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 35 others. Fields was convicted of first-degree murder and other state charges and pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges, receiving multiple life sentences.
Credit: User:BCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenRiver Walk community, Chesapeake, Virginia · 2017
On January 26, 2017, 60-year-old Jiansheng Chen was fatally shot by a security guard while playing Pokémon Go in a parked minivan in Chesapeake, Virginia. The guard, Johnathan Cromwell, was convicted of second-degree murder in 2019 and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia · 2022
On November 13, 2022, a gunman opened fire on a chartered bus returning to the University of Virginia from a class trip, killing three UVA football players and wounding two other students; the shooter was arrested the next day and later pleaded guilty, receiving five life sentences.
Credit: Sharon FarmerPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenFort Marcy Park, George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia · 1993
Deputy White House counsel Vince Foster was found dead of a gunshot wound in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, on July 20, 1993. Five official investigations ruled his death a suicide, though conspiracy theories alleging homicide have persisted for decades.
The files run from 1622 to 2023. The 2000s hold the most, with 6 files. The oldest is Lynching of Arthur Jordan, from 1880.
They are spread across 20 cities and towns; the most are in Charlottesville (5), Arlington (2) and Chesapeake (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (20), mass shooting cases (6) and hate crime cases (3).
7 files of the 27 have coverage attached: 9 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 7 creators. The most covered is Murder of Yeardley Love, with 2 items to watch or hear. That Chapter, Dr. Todd Grande and JCS 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.
Yeardley Love — Credit: Bio at VirginiaSports.comEditorial useSource
Pentagon fire AFIP — Credit: U.S. Air Force Technical Sergeant Louis Briscese, Forensic Photography, Office of the…Public domainSource
John Patler in the Official Stormtrooper's Manual — Credit: Dan Burros and John PatlerPublic domainSource
VA Tech massacre aerial photo of referenced locations — Credit: D'Ranged 1Public domainSource
River Walk clubhouse in Chesapeake, VA — Credit: User:BCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Melissa Brannen — Credit: http://www.missingkids.com/poster/NCMC/732677Editorial useSource
Culbreth Garage, UVA — Credit: Packer1028CC0Source
Vincefosterportrait (color) — Credit: Sharon FarmerPublic domainSource
Chesapeake, Virginia Walmart Memorial — Credit: Aaron F. StoneCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Warrenton Old Jail 1 — Credit: StrawserCC BY-SA 3.0Source
27. By status: 6 unsolved and 21 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Lynching of Arthur Jordan, from 1880. Open the file
Murder of Yeardley Love, with 2 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
That Chapter (2 cases), Dr. Todd Grande (1 case) and JCS (1 case), among 7 creators in all.
Charlottesville (5), Arlington (2) and Chesapeake (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.
