If you’re interested in true crime, you’ve more than likely heard of the popular long-running series ‘Unsolved Mysteries (2020), which covers different types of cold cases and other types of unexplained mysteries and phenomena. In addition to the popular series, if you’re a consumer of true crime podcasts, YouTube videos, or documentaries. Often, content in these forms cover well-known unsolved cold cases, solved murders cases, recent unsolved murders, mysterious solved murders, mysterious solved missing persons cases, and even some of the oldest unsolved murders.
If you are a consumer of true crime content, you may or may not realize exactly how many unsolved murders in the US. Currently, there are more than 200,000 cold case murders, not including the over 20,000 missing persons and cases which may be considered suspicious deaths, in the United States alone. For more shocking cold case statistics, head over to Uncovered to learn more and visit the fully-visualized case files for over 100 cold cases.
Chilling Missing Person Cases
In the United States, over 600,000 people go missing, and an additional 4,400 unidentified bodies are recovered every single year, according to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). Most of these individuals are found quickly, yet tens of thousands of those missing people remain unsolved for longer than a year. On Uncovered‘s cold case website, we’ve put together detailed visualizations for more than 50 missing persons cases, including chilling missing person cases, vanished strange cases of unsolved disappearances, or haunting missing person cases. Examples of missing persons cases which you can look into on Uncovered’s website include the 2000 disappearance of Asha Degree, the 2011 disappearance of Lauren Spierer, the 2004 disappearance of Maura Murray, the 2013 disappearance ofBryce Laspisa, and the 1988 disappearance of Myron Timell Traylor.
In addition to the countless missing people, there are also more than 200,000 unsolved murders in the United States as well, including recent unsolved murders 2020, famous unsolved child murders, and D.C. homicide victims 2020. Some examples of the various cold case homicides we have published on our website include the following: the 2017 double-murder of Abigail “Abby” Williamsand Liberty “Libby” German, the 2016 murder of Terri “Missy” Bevers, the 1998 abduction and murder of Brittany Locklear, the 1960 murder of Nancy Eagleson, and the 1997 murder of Georgia Lee Moses, among many others. In addition to unsolved murders and missing people, another category of cold case we include on our website are suspicious deaths, including the 2009 suspicious death of Mitrice Richardson, the 1981 death of Kurt Sova, the 2015 death of Joseph Smedley, the 2018 suspicious death of Tamla Horsford, the 2017 death of Olivia Lone Bear, and the 2004 death of Alonzo Brooks.
Recent Unsolved Murders 2019
Although the current amount of cold case homicides in the US may seem overwhelming, with continuous advancements in DNA technology as well as changes in law enforcement and forensic protocols, cold cases are continuing to be solved. The cases included on Uncovered’s cold case website include unsolved murders and missing persons as well as suspicious deaths, most of which are at least three years old, in order to avoid affecting law enforcement’s investigations into these cold cases. Uncovered’s mission is to build a comprehensive platform to combine data, analytics, and the wisdom of the community in order to help solve cold cases of missing and murdered people.
We aim to visualize cold cases that are at least three years old, as to avoid negatively effecting law enforcement’s investigation, although we do make occasional acceptions for cases where law enforcement acknowledges that a specific case is cold and asks the community for help. A couple of examples of recent unsolved murders in 2019 you can find on our website include the murder of Kaysera Stops Pretty Places, the murder of Elizabeth Barraza, and the murder of Najah Ferrell, in addition to the disappearance of Chance Englebert, and the disappearance of Aubrey Dameron, all of which occurred in 2019.
As for a few examples of the several unsolved mysteries that have finally been solved, recently solved cases in 2020, and recently solved cold cases in 2021 include the 1985 murder of Savannah Hoskins, the 1995 murder of Christopher Dailey, the 1992 murder of James Essel, and the 1981 murder of Mary London, in addition to a recent arrest in the 2012 murder of Faith Hedgepeth. Although we may hope that every missing person will be found alive and well, that’s unfortunately not always the case. A few well-known missing persons cases found alive include the 2018 abduction of Jayme Closs, the 2002 abduction of Elizabeth Smart, and the 2002 abduction of Michelle Knight, 2003 abduction of Amanda Berry, and 2004 abduction of Gina DeJesus, also known as the Cleveland Abductions.
