28case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 28 solved cases in Illinois. 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: Presumably Sonya MasseyEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenWoodside Township, near Springfield, Illinois · 2024
On July 6, 2024, Sangamon County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Grayson fatally shot Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old unarmed Black woman, inside her Woodside Township, Illinois home after she called 911 about a possible prowler. Grayson was convicted of second-degree murder in October 2025 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Highland Park, Illinois, United States · 2022
On July 4, 2022, a gunman opened fire from a rooftop on an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, killing seven people and wounding 48 others; Robert Eugene Crimo III was later charged, pleaded guilty in 2025, and was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences plus 2,400 years.
Credit: Self-portrait, as published in press coverageEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenFox Lake, Illinois · 2015
In September 2015, Fox Lake, Illinois police lieutenant Joe Gliniewicz was found dead in a marsh in what was initially believed to be a murder by three unknown assailants, triggering a massive manhunt. After a two-month investigation, officials concluded he had staged his death to look like a homicide but had in fact died by suicide after fearing exposure of years of embezzlement and other criminal conduct.
Former site of Brown's Chicken & Pasta, 168 West Northwest Highway, Palatine, Illinois · 1993
On January 8, 1993, seven people were shot and killed at a Brown's Chicken & Pasta restaurant in Palatine, Illinois. The case went unsolved for over nine years until DNA evidence and a witness account led to the arrests of Juan Luna and James Degorski, both later convicted of all seven murders and sentenced to life in prison.
Image recordEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenChicago, Illinois, United States · 2022
Sania Khan, a Pakistani American photographer who had documented her divorce on TikTok, was shot and killed by her estranged husband Raheel Ahmad, identified by police as the gunman, in her Chicago apartment on July 18, 2022; Ahmad then shot himself and died of his injuries.
SOLVEDListenCrowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare hotel, Rosemont, Illinois · 2017
Kenneka Jenkins, 19, was found dead inside a latched hotel freezer at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare in Rosemont, Illinois, in September 2017 after attending a party there. Her death was ruled accidental, but her family's lawsuit against the hotel was settled in 2023.
SOLVEDListenBolingbrook, Illinois · 2012
Former Bolingbrook, Illinois police sergeant Drew Peterson was convicted in 2012 of murdering his third wife, Kathleen Savio, whose 2004 death had initially been ruled an accidental drowning. His fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, disappeared in 2007 and has never been found; her disappearance prompted the reopening of the Savio investigation.
SOLVEDListenSpringfield, Illinois · 1995
Donnah Winger was killed with a hammer in her Springfield, Illinois home in August 1995, alongside shuttle driver Roger Harrington, whom her husband Mark Winger shot and claimed had murdered her. Years later, investigators concluded Mark Winger had staged the scene, and he was convicted in 2002 of both murders.
Credit: Cafebaro at English WikipediaPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenCole Hall, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois · 2008
On February 14, 2008, a former NIU graduate student opened fire in a lecture hall at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, killing five students and injuring 17 others before killing himself.
SOLVEDListenNear 41st Street and Kildare Avenue, Chicago, Illinois · 2014
On October 20, 2014, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times as McDonald walked away from him. A dash-cam video of the shooting was withheld from the public for more than a year before a court ordered its release in November 2015, the same day Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder. In 2018 he was convicted of second-degree murder and aggravated battery.
The files run from 1822 to 2024. The 2010s hold the most, with 8 files. The oldest is Assassination of Carter Harrison III, from 1893.
They are spread across 16 cities and towns; the most are in Chicago (11) and Springfield (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (21), police shooting cases (5) and kidnapping and abduction cases (5).
12 files of the 28 have coverage attached: 18 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 8 creators. The most covered is Murder of Sonya Massey, with 2 items to watch or hear. That Chapter, Annie Elise and Dr. Todd Grande 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.
Sonya Massey — Credit: Presumably Sonya MasseyEditorial useSource
Highland Park Shooting (52476898247) — Credit: Stephen Hogan from Chicago, United StatesCC BY 2.0Source
Yingying Zhang FBI poster — Credit: FBIPublic domainSource
Lt. Charles Joseph "Joe" Gliniewicz — Credit: Self-portrait, as published in press coverageEditorial useSource
AKNIUMemorial — Credit: Cafebaro at English WikipediaPublic domainSource
John and Sina CrenshawPublic domainSource
Justice For Adam Toledo sign at George Floyd Square in Minneapolis, Minnesota — Credit: Lorie ShaullCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Bundesarchiv Bild 102-00652, Richard Loeb und Nathan Leopold — Credit: Unknown authorCC BY-SA 3.0 DESource
Chase Bank branch in Palatine, IL — Credit: MysterymanblueCC0Source
Riley Fox — Credit: Federal Bureau of InvestigationsPublic domainSource
Al Fayoumi memorial — Credit: N328KFCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Rekia Boyd, the victimEditorial useSource
Julian King, 7, one of the three victims (Amber Alert photo)Editorial useSourceSania Khan, the victimEditorial useSource
Six memorial crosses for the Martinez family outside their Gage Park homeEditorial useSource
Law enforcement at the Henry Pratt Company shooting scene, Aurora IL, Feb 15 2019Editorial useSource
Derrion Albert, the 16-year-old victimEditorial useSource
Robert Jerome Piest (1963-1978) as a high school freshman — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceThese 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.
28. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Assassination of Carter Harrison III, from 1893. Open the file
Murder of Sonya Massey, with 2 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
That Chapter (4 cases), Annie Elise (3 cases) and Dr. Todd Grande (3 cases), among 8 creators in all.
Chicago (11) and Springfield (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.
