29case filesUpdated Jul 14, 2026
Casepin holds 29 unsolved cases in England. By legal status, 25 marked unsolved and 4 marked cold. On Casepin a case is unsolved when no one has been convicted for it; files the record marks as cold, where active investigation has stalled, are counted here too and carry their own Cold label.
Credit: Family handout via Suffolk NewsEditorial useSourceCOLDListenBury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England · 2016
Royal Air Force gunner Corrie McKeague disappeared after a night out in Bury St Edmunds in September 2016, and a 2022 inquest concluded he died after climbing into a waste bin that was tipped into a bin lorry, though his remains were never found.
Credit: UnknownEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenPimlico, London, England · 2010
Gareth Williams, a GCHQ mathematician on secondment to MI6, was found dead padlocked inside a bag in his London flat in August 2010; a coroner ruled the death unnatural and likely criminally mediated, but no one has been charged and a Metropolitan Police re-investigation later called it probably an accident.
Credit: unknownEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenHeworth, York, North Yorkshire, England · 2009
Claudia Lawrence, a 35-year-old chef at the University of York, disappeared after leaving work in Heworth, York, on 18 March 2009 and has never been found. North Yorkshire Police investigated her disappearance as a suspected murder for over a decade, arresting and releasing several people without charge, but no one has been convicted.
Credit: Ian CapperCC BY-SA 2.0SourceUNSOLVEDListenCowes, Isle of Wight, England · 1996
Damien Nettles, 16, vanished from Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the early hours of 2 November 1996 after a night out; despite multiple arrests over the years, no one has been charged and his whereabouts remain unknown.
COLDListenRailway underpass near Horbury Lagoon, Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England · 1965
Elsie Frost, a 14-year-old schoolgirl, was fatally stabbed in a railway underpass near Wakefield in 1965; despite a massive manhunt no one was ever convicted, and a 2019 inquest posthumously named Peter Pickering as her killer.
UNSOLVEDListenBox Hill, Surrey, England · 1995
Ruth Wilson, a 16-year-old sixth-form student from Betchworth, Surrey, disappeared on Box Hill on 27 November 1995 after being dropped off by taxi near the Hand in Hand pub. Farewell notes were later found near Betchworth Quarry, but no body was ever found and her fate remains unknown.
UNSOLVEDListenWest Ham, London, England · 1959
Mary Flanagan, a 16-year-old Tate & Lyle employee from West Ham, disappeared on 31 December 1959 after leaving her family home and being last seen near West Ham tube station. Her case remains unsolved and has been described as the Metropolitan Police's oldest open missing person case.
UNSOLVEDListenBempton Cliffs, East Riding of Yorkshire, England · 2010
Russell Bohling, an 18-year-old bricklaying student, vanished on 2 March 2010 after his car was found abandoned near Bempton Cliffs, East Yorkshire; the case remains unsolved with police suggesting suicide or accident, while his family maintains a third party was involved.
Credit: Kieran EvansCC BY-SA 2.0SourceUNSOLVEDListenDevon, England, United Kingdom · 1997
Kate Bushell was killed in 1997 and Lyn Bryant in 1998, both stabbed while walking dogs on isolated lanes in the West Country; investigators consider the cases likely linked, and both remain unsolved as of 2025.
Credit: David Buttery (Loganberry (Talk))Public domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenHagley Wood, near Wychbury Hill, Hagley, Worcestershire, England · 1943
In April 1943, four boys discovered the skeletal remains of an unidentified woman hidden inside a hollow wych elm tree in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire. Forensic examination indicated she had been dead since at least October 1941 and had suffocated, but she has never been identified and the case remains unsolved.
The files run from 1873 to 2018. The 1990s hold the most, with 9 files. The oldest is Battersea Mystery, from 1873.
They are spread across 22 cities and towns; the most are in London (7) and Birmingham (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (19), disappearance cases (11) and serial murder cases (2).
12 files of the 29 have coverage attached: 22 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 10 creators. The most covered is Death of Corrie McKeague, with 5 items to watch or hear. Bella Fiori, Danelle Hallan and That Chapter 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.
Corrie McKeague — Credit: Family handout via Suffolk NewsEditorial useSource
Portrait of Gareth Williams — Credit: UnknownEditorial useSource
JacktheRipperWhitechapelcirca1890 — Credit: Unknown. Taken around 1890.Public domainSource
Claudia Lawrence — Credit: unknownEditorial useSource
86 High Street - geograph.org.uk - 7458415 — Credit: Ian CapperCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Trades Club - Holme Street - geograph.org.uk - 482527 — Credit: Betty LongbottomCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Ruan Methodist Chapel - geograph.org.uk - 304120 — Credit: Kieran EvansCC BY-SA 2.0Source
Bella graffiti — Credit: David Buttery (Loganberry (Talk))Public domainSource
File:Helen Barthelemy.png — Credit: Blackpool GazetteEditorial useSource
Lynne Weedon 1975 crime scene — Credit: BarehamOliverCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Mini-roundabout at the junction of Teville and Clifton Roads - geograph.org.uk - 1713801 — Credit: Basher EyreCC BY-SA 2.0Source
File:Violette Kaye.jpg — Credit: Unknown author Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Ivy dene 2019 — Credit: NacentaeonsCC BY-SA 4.0SourceThese 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.
29. By status: 25 unsolved and 4 cold. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Battersea Mystery, from 1873. Open the file
Death of Corrie McKeague, with 5 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
Bella Fiori (3 cases), Danelle Hallan (3 cases) and That Chapter (3 cases), among 10 creators in all.
London (7) and Birmingham (2).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
