Credit: Wikimedia Commons, photo by Glenn Francis (PacificProDigital.com)Editorial useSourceSOLVEDListenHollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California · 2014
Amie Harwick, a Los Angeles marriage and family therapist and author, was strangled and thrown from her third-floor Hollywood Hills balcony on February 15, 2020, by an ex-boyfriend who had a history of stalking her. He was convicted of first-degree murder in 2023 and sentenced to life without parole.
Credit: SsmartinoCC BY-SA 4.0SourceUNSOLVEDListen657 Boulevard, Westfield, New Jersey · 2010s
Starting in June 2014, an unidentified stalker calling themselves "The Watcher" sent a family multiple harassing letters about their newly purchased home in Westfield, New Jersey, referencing their children and claiming a generational connection to the house. The sender has never been identified and no charges have ever been filed.
Credit: HistoryMiami (via CBS News)Editorial useSourceSOLVEDListenFort Lauderdale, Florida · 2009
Bernice Novack and her son, Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., were killed three months apart in 2009 — Bernice in her Fort Lauderdale, Florida, home and Ben in a Rye Brook, New York hotel suite. Ben's estranged wife, Narcy Novack, was convicted in 2012 of orchestrating both killings and was sentenced to life in prison without parole; her brother and three other men were also convicted or pleaded guilty for their roles.
Credit: UnknownEditorial useSourceSOLVEDListenOkegawa Station, Okegawa, Saitama Prefecture, Japan · 1999
Shiori Ino, a 21-year-old university student, was fatally stabbed in Okegawa, Saitama, Japan, on 26 October 1999 in a contract killing arranged by her abusive former boyfriend, after police repeatedly declined to act on her stalking reports.
SOLVEDListenPortslade, East Sussex, England · 2016
Shana Grice, 19, was murdered in 2016 by former friend Michael Lane, who had stalked her for months; Sussex Police faced widespread criticism for failing to act on her repeated complaints before her death.
UNSOLVEDListenRichmond, British Columbia, Canada · 1986
Canadian nurse Cindy James disappeared from Richmond, British Columbia, on May 25, 1989, after nearly seven years of reporting stalking, harassment, and violent attacks by an unknown assailant. She was found dead two weeks later, hogtied with a nylon stocking around her neck, having died of a massive drug overdose. A 1990 coroner's inquest could not determine whether her death was suicide, homicide, or accidental, ruling it an "unknown event."
SOLVEDListenBroomfield, Colorado · 2023
A Colorado mother of three was fatally attacked in her garage in December 2023 by her husband, who had spent weeks posing online as her ex-boyfriend in a stalking campaign before killing her.
SOLVEDListenDuckmanton, Derbyshire, England · 2021
Gracie Spinks was a swimming instructor and lifeguard from Old Whittington who, at the time of her death, was working as a warehouse operative.
The files run from 1974 to 2024. The 2010s hold the most, with 4 files. The oldest is Death of Cindy James, from 1986.
They are spread across 4 countries; the most are in United States (9) and United Kingdom (3). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (10), domestic violence cases (5) and murder-for-hire and conspiracy cases (3).
11 files of the 14 have coverage attached: 20 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 11 creators. The most covered is Murder of Amie Harwick, with 8 items to watch or hear. Kendall Rae, Emma Kenny and 48 Hours 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. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Amie Harwick — Credit: Wikimedia Commons, photo by Glenn Francis (PacificProDigital.com)Editorial useSourceBernice Novack with Ben Novack Sr. — Credit: HistoryMiami (via CBS News)Editorial useSource
657 Boulevard — Credit: SsmartinoCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Suzy Lamplugh — Credit: Via WikipediaEditorial useSource
Shiori Ino — Credit: UnknownEditorial useSource
File:Amy Billig Daytona Beach Morning Herald Coconut Grove 1974. 13 March 1974.jpg — Credit: Family portrait commissioned by Nathaniel and Susan Billig, circa 1974.Public domainSource
File:SheilaBellush.jpg — Credit: Originally uploaded by McGeddon (Transferred by ipatrol )Public domainSource
14. By status: 3 unsolved, 1 cold, 1 ongoing and 9 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Death of Cindy James, from 1986. Open the file
Murder of Amie Harwick, with 8 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Kendall Rae (3 cases), Emma Kenny (2 cases) and 48 Hours (2 cases), among 11 creators in all.
United States (9) and United Kingdom (3).
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.
