One file for each year of the 2020s: the most documented and most cited case on record for that year.
Credit: Family photograph released by the FBI, via WikipediaEditorial useSourceCatalina Foothills, Tucson, Arizona
Nancy Guthrie, an 84-year-old Tucson, Arizona resident and mother of journalist Savannah Guthrie, disappeared from her home on February 1, 2026, in what investigators have described as an abduction; she remains missing and no one has been charged.
Credit: LBJ Library film screening photograph, via Wikimedia CommonsEditorial useSourceBrentwood, Los Angeles, California
Filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife, producer Michele Singer Reiner, were found fatally stabbed at their Los Angeles home on December 14, 2025; their son was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and has pleaded not guilty.
Credit: PraiawartCC BY 4.0SourceMilwaukee, Wisconsin
Sade Robinson, a 19-year-old Milwaukee college student, was reported missing on April 2, 2024, and her dismembered remains were recovered from multiple locations over the following weeks. Maxwell Anderson was convicted of her murder on June 6, 2025, and sentenced to life in prison.
Credit: Becker1999CC BY 2.0SourceMemphis, Tennessee
Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, died three days after being beaten by Memphis police officers during and after a traffic stop on January 7, 2023, an event that prompted criminal charges, protests, and a federal civil rights case.
Credit: Family/Instagram photograph, widely distributed in press coverageEditorial useSourceMoscow, Idaho
Four University of Idaho students—Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle—were fatally stabbed inside an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, in the early morning hours of November 13, 2022. Bryan Kohberger, a criminology PhD student at nearby Washington State University, was arrested that December and pleaded guilty in 2025, receiving four consecutive life sentences.
Credit: Instagram/@gabspetito, widely distributed in press coverageEditorial useSourceBridger–Teton National Forest, Wyoming
Gabby Petito, a 22-year-old travel vlogger, was killed by strangulation and blunt-force trauma in August 2021 while on a cross-country van trip with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. Laundrie returned to Florida alone, was named a person of interest, and later died by suicide, leaving a note admitting he had killed her.
Credit: Orange County Sheriff's OfficePublic domainSourceWinter Park, Florida, United States
Jorge Torres Jr. died of suffocation in Winter Park, Florida in February 2020 after his girlfriend, Sarah Boone, zipped him into a suitcase; she was convicted of second-degree murder in October 2024 and sentenced to life in prison.
