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Credit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2681931/Anni-killer-set-freed-months-live.htmlEditorial useSourceSOLVEDCape Town, South Africa2010
Swedish newlywed Anni Dewani was shot dead during a taxi hijacking on her honeymoon near Cape Town in 2010; three men were convicted of the crime and her husband was acquitted and exonerated.
This week in history. Rings are decades, colour is legal status, and today sits at the top.
The latest status changes, new details and corrections logged on living case files, newest first.
Documentaries, videos, podcasts and reporting most recently attached to a case, credited to their makers.
Case files that most recently cleared review. Each one is sourced, cited and labelled from its own record.
SOLVEDListenFinch Crescent, Linslade, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England · 1981
Carol Morgan, 36, was killed in the storeroom of the corner shop she ran with her husband in Linslade, Bedfordshire, on 13 August 1981; after a cold-case review, her husband Allen Morgan was convicted in 2024 of conspiring to murder her, while the person who carried out the attack has never been identified.
SOLVEDListenVila Leopoldina, West Zone, São Paulo, Brazil · 2012
Marcos Kitano Matsunaga, 41, chief executive of the Brazilian food company Yoki, was shot dead by his wife, Elize Matsunaga, in their São Paulo apartment on 19 May 2012; a jury convicted her of qualified homicide in December 2016.
SOLVEDListenTopeka, Kansas · 2002
Mike Sisco, 47, and his fiancée Karen Harkness, 53, were shot dead in Harkness's west Topeka, Kansas, home in July 2002; Sisco's ex-wife Dana Chandler was convicted of their murders in 2012, won a new trial in 2018, faced a hung jury in 2022 and was convicted again in March 2025.
UNSOLVEDListenFanad Drive, Creggan, Derry, Northern Ireland · 2019
Journalist Lyra McKee, 29, was fatally shot on 18 April 2019 while observing rioting in the Creggan area of Derry, Northern Ireland; the New IRA admitted responsibility, three men were acquitted of her murder in July 2026, and no one has been charged with firing the shot.
Credit: Dateline NBC 'The Widower' via OxygenEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenLas Vegas area, Clark County, Nevada · 2008
Sharon Causse Randolph and Michael Miller were shot dead at the Randolph home in the Las Vegas area on May 8, 2008; her husband, Thomas Randolph, was convicted of both murders and of conspiracy to commit murder, and the Nevada Supreme Court upheld the conviction in 2026.
SOLVEDListenFieldfare Way, Richmond Hill subdivision, Indianapolis, Indiana · 2012
A deliberately caused natural gas explosion at a house in the Richmond Hill subdivision of Indianapolis on November 10, 2012, killed next-door neighbors John "Dion" and Jennifer Longworth; five people were convicted over the insurance-fraud plot, two of them of murder.
SOLVEDListenHôtel de Pourtalès, 7 rue Tronchet, 8th arrondissement, Paris · 2016
In the early hours of 3 October 2016, armed men posing as police tied up Kim Kardashian in her Paris residence at the Hôtel de Pourtalès and stole jewellery worth about €9 million; in May 2025 a Paris court convicted eight defendants, four of them of the armed robbery and confinement, and acquitted two.
SOLVEDListenThe Magdala, South Hill Park, Hampstead, London · 1955
Racing driver David Blakely was shot dead outside the Magdala pub in Hampstead, London, on 10 April 1955; his partner Ruth Ellis was convicted of murder and hanged, the last woman executed in the United Kingdom, and in July 2026 she was granted a posthumous conditional pardon replacing the death sentence with life imprisonment.
Every published file by its legal status, from the database field.
