21case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 21 solved cases in Virginia. 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: 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: 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.
Credit: Aaron F. StoneCC BY-SA 2.0SourceSOLVEDListenWalmart, Chesapeake, Virginia · 2022
On November 22, 2022, a Walmart night-shift supervisor in Chesapeake, Virginia shot and killed six co-workers and injured four others before killing himself, in an attack he attributed to perceived workplace harassment and personal grievances.
Monroe Park / Altria Theater, Richmond, Virginia · 2023
A shooting outside the Altria Theater in Richmond, Virginia, following a Huguenot High School graduation ceremony on June 6, 2023, killed two people and wounded seven others by gunfire, with additional people injured in the ensuing chaos.
SOLVEDListenHerndon, Fairfax County, Virginia · 2023
Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan were killed inside the Banfield home in Herndon, Virginia, on February 24, 2023, in an attack prosecutors said was staged to look like a home invasion. Christine's husband, Brendan Banfield, was convicted of both murders in 2026, and the family's au pair, Juliana Peres Magalhães, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Ryan's death and testified against him.
The files run from 1622 to 2023. The 2000s hold the most, with 6 files. The oldest is Assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell, from 1967.
They are spread across 16 cities and towns; the most are in Charlottesville (4), Arlington (2) and Chesapeake (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (14), mass shooting cases (6) and murder-for-hire and conspiracy cases (2).
6 files of the 21 have coverage attached: 8 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 6 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. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Yeardley Love — Credit: Bio at VirginiaSports.comEditorial useSource
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
Culbreth Garage, UVA — Credit: Packer1028CC0Source
Vincefosterportrait (color) — Credit: Sharon FarmerPublic domainSource
Chesapeake, Virginia Walmart Memorial — Credit: Aaron F. StoneCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Mel McGuire — Credit: External Links LibraryCC BY-SA 4.0Source
May 2016- Robert Hanssen (26865058241) — Credit: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)Public 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.
21. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell, from 1967. 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 6 creators in all.
Charlottesville (4), 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.
