17case filesUpdated Jul 18, 2026
Casepin holds 17 unsolved cases in Texas. By legal status, 16 marked unsolved and 1 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.
Image recordEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenCreekside Church of Christ, Midlothian, Texas · 2016
Fitness instructor Terri "Missy" Bevers was fatally stabbed before dawn on April 18, 2016, inside a Midlothian, Texas, church where she taught bootcamp classes; surveillance video shows an unidentified person in tactical gear inside the building, and the case remains unsolved.
Image recordEditorial useSourceUNSOLVEDListenBronte, Texas, United States · 2013
Brandon Mason Lawson disappeared in the early hours of August 9, 2013, after running out of gas on U.S. Route 277 near Bronte, Texas, and making a series of confused, incoherent calls to family and 9-1-1; human remains found near his last known location in 2022 were confirmed via DNA testing in December 2024 to be his, though the cause of his death remains unknown.
UNSOLVEDListenTomball, Texas, USA · 2019
Elizabeth "Liz" Barraza was shot outside her Tomball, Texas home on the morning of January 25, 2019, while setting up a garage sale, and died the next day. The case remains unsolved as of the most recent reporting.
UNSOLVEDListenDenton, Texas · 1948
Virginia Carpenter, 21, vanished in Denton, Texas, on the night of June 1, 1948, shortly after a taxi dropped her at her college dormitory, where witnesses reported seeing her approach a convertible with two young men. She was never found, and the case remains unsolved.
Credit: Unknown author Unknown authorPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenJack Harris Vaudeville Saloon and Theater, San Antonio, Texas · 1884
On March 11, 1884, former lawmen Ben Thompson and King Fisher were shot dead in an ambush at the Jack Harris Vaudeville Saloon and Theater in San Antonio, Texas, an attack tied to lingering resentment over Thompson's 1882 killing of theater owner Jack Harris.
Image recordRights: see sourceSourceUNSOLVEDListenCarrollton, Texas · 1988
Two teenage friends from Carrollton, Texas vanished after a night out on March 19–20, 1988; their car was later found abandoned with their belongings inside, and neither has been found.
The files run from 1884 to 2019. The 1920s hold the most, with 5 files. The oldest is Killings of Ben Thompson and King Fisher at the Vaudeville Theater, from 1884.
They are spread across 16 cities and towns; the most are in Texarkana (2). By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (14), hate crime cases (4) and disappearance cases (3).
5 files of the 17 have coverage attached: 11 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 8 creators. The most covered is Killing of Missy Bevers, with 5 items to watch or hear. That Chapter, Dr. Todd Grande and Coffeehouse Crime 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.
Terri 'Missy' Bevers, the victimEditorial useSource
Branch Davidian Compound Near Waco — Credit: the Federal Bureau of InvestigationPublic domainSourceBrandon Lawson, the missing manEditorial useSource.jpg)
Sherri Ann Jarvis, the victim (long known as 'Walker County Jane Doe')Editorial useSource
Virgil Starks' Grave Marker — Credit: JeremeKCC BY-SA 3.0Source
File:Jack Harris Vaudeville Theatre.jpg — Credit: Unknown author Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Susan Renee Smalley, one of the two missing teens (c. 1988)Rights: see sourceSourceThese 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.
17. By status: 16 unsolved and 1 cold. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Killings of Ben Thompson and King Fisher at the Vaudeville Theater, from 1884. Open the file
Killing of Missy Bevers, with 5 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
That Chapter (2 cases), Dr. Todd Grande (1 case) and Coffeehouse Crime (1 case), among 8 creators in all.
Texarkana (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.
