14case filesUpdated Jul 14, 2026
Casepin holds 14 solved cases in Arizona. A solved case is one the record closes with a conviction or an equivalent legal finding; each file names who was convicted only where a court did.
Credit: CBS News / Travis Alexander (personal photo)Editorial useSourceSOLVEDListenMesa, Arizona, United States · 2000s
Travis Alexander, 30, was stabbed, slashed, and shot to death in his Mesa, Arizona home on June 4, 2008. His ex-girlfriend, Jodi Arias, was convicted of first-degree murder in 2013 and sentenced to life without parole in 2015 after two juries deadlocked on the death penalty.
SOLVEDListenLa Paloma Country Club, Catalina Foothills, Arizona · 1996
Tucson real estate developer Gary Triano was killed by a pipe bomb placed in his car in 1996. Nearly 18 years later, his ex-wife Pamela Phillips and hit man Ronald Young were convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy in connection with his death.
SOLVEDListenLa Quinta Inn & Suites, Mesa, Arizona · 2016
On January 18, 2016, Mesa, Arizona police officer Philip Brailsford fatally shot unarmed Daniel Shaver in a hotel hallway; a jury acquitted Brailsford of murder and manslaughter in 2017, and the city later settled civil suits with Shaver's family for millions of dollars.
Credit: Family of Balbir Singh SodhiEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenChevron gas station, Mesa, Arizona · 2001
Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh-American gas station owner in Mesa, Arizona, was fatally shot on September 15, 2001, by Frank Silva Roque, who mistook him for an Arab Muslim in a retaliatory hate crime following the September 11 attacks. Roque was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment.
SOLVEDListenDays Inn motel, Phoenix, Arizona · 2022
On August 28, 2022, Isaiah Steven Williams opened fire outside a Days Inn motel in Phoenix, Arizona, killing Karla Garzona and Misael Arévalo and wounding five others, including two police officers, before killing himself as officers confronted him.
Ruby, Arizona · 1920
Between 1920 and 1922, six people were killed in a series of robberies and manhunts centered on the Ruby Mercantile store near the border town of Ruby, Arizona, including two store owners, the wife of a second store owner, and two lawmen killed during a prisoner escape.
SOLVEDListenCatalina Foothills, Arizona · 2001
Pediatric ophthalmologist Brian Stidham was fatally stabbed in a Tucson, Arizona medical office parking lot in October 2004. Investigators determined the killing was a murder-for-hire plot arranged by a professional rival, fellow ophthalmologist Bradley Schwartz, who paid Ronald Bruce Bigger to carry out the attack. Both men were tried separately and convicted.
SOLVEDListenMesa, Arizona (body found near Usury Pass Road, Apache Junction area) · 2001
Cynthia Garcia, a 44-year-old Mesa woman, was beaten, stabbed, and killed by members of the Hells Angels Mesa chapter in October 2001 after an altercation at their clubhouse. The case was solved years later through an ATF informant and undercover operation, leading to the convictions of all three men involved.
SOLVEDListenWat Promkunaram, Waddell, Arizona · 1991
Nine people were shot to death at the Wat Promkunaram Buddhist temple in Waddell, Arizona, on August 10, 1991. Four wrongly arrested men were exonerated after false confessions were exposed; Johnathan Doody and Allesandro Garcia were later convicted of the murders.
The files run from 1871 to 2022. The 2000s hold the most, with 5 files. The oldest is Ruby Murders, from 1920.
They are spread across 8 cities and towns; the most are in Mesa (5) and Tucson (3). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (12), mass shooting cases (4) and murder-for-hire and conspiracy cases (2).
4 files of the 14 have coverage attached: 12 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 8 creators. The most covered is Murder of Travis Alexander, with 9 items to watch or hear. That Chapter, Dr. Todd Grande and Emma Kenny 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. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
CBS News gallery 'Slain boyfriend of Jodi Arias' — personal photos of Travis Alexander (from his MySpace). — Credit: CBS News / Travis Alexander (personal photo)Editorial useSource
File:Balbir Singh Sodhi.jpeg — Credit: Family of Balbir Singh SodhiEditorial useSource
These files are published and cited but are kept out of search listings for now, either because they fall outside Casepin’s true-crime scope or because they are still being deepened.
14. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Ruby Murders, from 1920. Open the file
Murder of Travis Alexander, with 9 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
That Chapter (2 cases), Dr. Todd Grande (2 cases) and Emma Kenny (1 case), among 8 creators in all.
Mesa (5) and Tucson (3).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
