24case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 24 solved cases in Pennsylvania. 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: English WikipediaEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenStar City, West Virginia (disappearance site); body found in Wayne Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania · 2012
Sixteen-year-old Skylar Neese disappeared from her Star City, West Virginia home in July 2012 and was found murdered months later. Two of her high school best friends, Rachel Shoaf and Shelia Eddy, pleaded guilty to killing her in a premeditated stabbing attack.
Credit: 麩CC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenErie, Pennsylvania · 2003
Pizza delivery driver Brian Wells died in Erie, Pennsylvania, on August 28, 2003, when a bomb locked around his neck detonated shortly after he robbed a bank under an elaborate scheme; two co-conspirators were later convicted in the case, which became known as the collar bomb or pizza bomber case.
SOLVEDListenWeis Markets, Eaton Township, Pennsylvania · 2017
On June 8, 2017, 24-year-old Weis Markets employee Randy Stair shot and killed three co-workers at the supermarket in Eaton Township, Pennsylvania, before fatally shooting himself, after a lengthy period of documented online planning.
Credit: Ibn JuferiCC BY 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenWyncote, Pennsylvania, United States · 1986
Islamic scholar Isma'il al-Faruqi and his wife Lois Lamya al-Faruqi were stabbed to death in their Wyncote, Pennsylvania home on May 27, 1986; their pregnant daughter survived the attack. Joseph Louis Young was convicted in 1987 of two counts of first-degree murder and other charges, and sentenced to death; he died in prison in 1996 before execution.
SOLVEDListenBristol Township, Pennsylvania · 1987
Anthony Milano, a 26-year-old gay commercial artist, was beaten and fatally attacked by Richard Laird and Frank Chester in Bristol Township, Pennsylvania, on December 15, 1987, after the men targeted him because he was gay. Both were convicted and sentenced to death in 1988, reportedly the first death sentences imposed in the U.S. for an anti-gay hate crime; Chester was later resentenced to life without parole, while Laird remains on death row.
SOLVEDListenKingsessing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · 2023
A spree shooting in the Kingsessing neighborhood of Philadelphia on July 2–3, 2023 left five people dead and four injured before police apprehended the suspected shooter.
SOLVEDListenRobinson Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania · 1999
In May 1999, two Franciscan University students, Aaron Land and Brian Muha, were kidnapped from their Steubenville, Ohio apartment, driven to Washington County, Pennsylvania, and shot to death. Nathan Herring and Terrell Yarbrough were convicted in Ohio, but their murder convictions were overturned in 2004 on jurisdictional grounds; Yarbrough was later retried and Herring pleaded guilty in Pennsylvania, and both received life sentences.
SOLVEDListenLA Fitness, Great Southern Shopping Center, Collier Township, Pennsylvania · 2009
On August 4, 2009, a gunman opened fire during a women's aerobics class at an LA Fitness in Collier Township, Pennsylvania, killing three women and injuring nine others before killing himself.
SOLVEDListenMelcroft, Pennsylvania · 2018
On January 28, 2018, a man fatally shot four people and himself at a car wash in Melcroft, Pennsylvania, after arranging a fistfight that turned into a mass shooting; a fifth person survived with minor injuries.
The files run from 1764 to 2024. The 2010s hold the most, with 6 files. The oldest is Sugarloaf massacre, from 1780.
They are spread across 24 cities and towns, no more than one file in any of them. By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (19), kidnapping and abduction cases (6) and mass shooting cases (6).
8 files of the 24 have coverage attached: 14 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 9 creators. The most covered is Murder of Skylar Neese, with 7 items to watch or hear. Kendall Rae, Dateline NBC and Danelle Hallan 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.
Skylar Neese — Credit: English WikipediaEditorial useSource
Map of Erie Pizza Bomber Case — Credit: 麩CC BY-SA 4.0Source
File:Faruqi-grave-tombstone.png — Credit: Ibn JuferiCC BY 4.0Source
File:Babes in the Wood Memorial (PA Route 233).JPG — Credit: ConcordCC BY-SA 4.0Source
H. H. Holmes Castle — 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.
24. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Sugarloaf massacre, from 1780. Open the file
Murder of Skylar Neese, with 7 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Kendall Rae (2 cases), Dateline NBC (2 cases) and Danelle Hallan (1 case), among 9 creators in all.
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.
