Her body was discovered about 1 p.m. April 19, 1990, north of 4220 N.E. Mustafa Zarif's murder was believed to have been the result of ill will related to heroin trafficking involving the 32-year-old Turkish Cypriot. Elizabeth Chau, a 19-year-old student from Vietnam, disappeared from, On the morning of 26 April 1999, Dando left the home of her fianc, Dr. Alan Farthing, and returned to her house in Gowan Avenue, Fulham, West London. When he went into the basement, he found his daughter: She had been strangled, beaten, and wrapped in a blanket. The story was widespread and strange enough that it attracted experts from all over the world, including Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack. Leads came and fizzled, and the case dragged on. And kids? In 2017, Diane's son called for the investigation into his mother's murder to be reopened, claiming he had new evidence. Surinder Gill, 33, was an insurance salesman who drove a distinctive modified dark red Mercedes with 16 GLL on its number plate. Both were treated for severe burns at, Seven-year-old McCafferty was sleeping in his aunt's house in Huddersfield when an individual (or individuals) poured. That, reports Channel News Asia, is when five boys went out to look for salamander eggs, and never came home. Joy Hewer, 52, was stabbed and sexually assaulted at her own home on 17 October 1995. On 20 October 1990, a newspaper boy found the body of 51-year-old financial adviser Judith Gold, also known as Judith Silver, yards from her own home after she left dressed for a business meeting. In 1993, a second person was tried for Royal's murder. At 2:30, At Yeomans Army Stores (where Egner was working) on Mansfield Road, the 62-year-old was hit over the head repeatedly with a bottle or hammer by someone who then took the till drawer (which contained about 250) away after wrapping it in green curtain. 1990, or the morning of April 15, 1990. Potter was a sex worker and her murder featured on. Kathleen Waugh was 41 years old when she went missing one night from Knowle House care home, in. The victim was 23 and died on 7 July 1994 after being shot in the chest twice whilst in the kitchen of the kebab shop he was employed by. 19-year-old mother of one Dawn Shields was last seen getting into a car in Broomhall. 43-year-old Denise Motley was battered to death with a parking post on Monday, 9 November on the stairs leading to the basement of the furniture store she ran with her husband. Business tycoon Richard Watson, 54, was shot dead by an unknown gunman as he arrived home on the evening of 10 December. A 47-year-old businesswoman stabbed to death in Carbery Avenue on Thursday, 25 March. Stephen Primrose, 35, lapsed into a coma and died about six months later after his head was hit multiple times with a heavy blunt object at his home on Chester Road. Neighbours had heard noises coming from his home the previous evening and a man had been seen acting suspiciously nearby. In early 2015, the patio area of the. Corcoran was released on appeal in 2003 after serving around three years. James King was a retired Denver police officer and had worked as a security guard at the bank before he was arrested for the killings and the theft. A man entered a betting shop in Toxteth's Granby Street and fatally shot 49-year-old Owen Graham there on the afternoon of 1 May 1996 a year to the day after David Ungi was shot dead in the same area of Liverpool. Arran Coghlan previously cleared of the murder of Chris Little was prosecuted but cleared after it emerged the prosecution had held undisclosed evidence concerning another possible suspect. Despite three individuals having been arrested in relation to the case, no one has been charged with the burglary or with the arson attack that killed her. McGowan found others that fit the same profile: 15-year-old Arlene Atkinson from Castlederg, for example. By the end of that year, three men had been arrested on suspicion of her murder, but none of them was charged with anything. Helen Kazai came to be treated as a suspected murder victim by police following her disappearance in mid-November. Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. The drug dealers were found guilty of murder but their convictions were overturned on appeal in 1999. A man was tried for her murder in 1999, but the case against him was dismissed. Twenty-year-old Janet Murgatroyd was a student at the University of Central Lancashire and worked part-time for Lancashire Police. as well as other partner offers and accept our, Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images, Ray Ng/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images, Visit Insider's homepage for more stories, became one of the richest people in the world, stabbed to death outside her Los Angeles home, John Hardy Roberts, in Daytona Beach in 1994, Selena Quintanilla was at the height of her career, Saldvar shooting Selena after they met at a hotel room, McVeigh rented a Ryder truck that had agricultural fertilizer, made a name for himself as an acclaimed rapper, Patsy Ramsey called the police saying her daughter, was already on the FBI's Most Wanted List, was famous for the eight seasons he spent as a cast member, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walked into Columbine, Notorious serial killers from every state, The most infamous crime committed in every state, An expert reveals the 12 key traits common in serial killers, and some of them might surprise you, There were also killings that gripped the nation, like the deaths of. In 2021, the Las Vegas Review-Journal marked the 25th anniversary of the murder of Tupac Shakur with a deep-dive into what was known about his last night. Not everyone's story had a happy ending: Let's talk about the biggest cases of the '90s that remain unsolved even decades later. A new appeal for information was made on. Downes had been a sex worker and was last seen alive in Wolverhampton's red-light district. A pathologist found she had ultimately died from a heroin overdose but had been punched and possibly kicked beforehand, and Humberside Police list the case as an unsolved murder. (It was not possible to retest the hairs to establish whether they were his or not as they were destroyed long before his retrial.). Authorities also recovered a duffel bag from inside the truck, but the trail quickly went cold. BY ERA: Up through 1899 | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000 - present | Missing Persons The cases below include unsolved Iowa homicides from 1980 - 1989, and are listed in chronological order. At first, security guard Richard Jewell, who found the backpack that held the bomb, was identified as a suspect. Her ex-husband, NFL star O.J. Scroll down for the full list of Kent's unsolved murders since 1986. Despite an exhaustive search, JonBent's body was found in the basement of the Ramsey home later that day. The 21-year-old's sister had, at the time of his death in 1987, been the partner of the man killed by Royal, and this was viewed as a motive. In early 2022, CBS News reported that one of the victims had been sexually assaulted, and the fire hadn't destroyed one single piece of DNA evidence. Since the parents gave inconsistent accounts of what happened that night, the public pointed fingers at them. Shakur died six days later of four gunshot wounds, and no one was ever arrested. Anthony Johnson (himself the victim of a gangland killing several months later) was suspected of being behind the double murder but not picked out at an identification parade. King was ultimately acquitted, and until the Denver Post reported on his death in 2013, he remained under constant surveillance by the FBI, and under just as constant suspicion. All victims have been submitted by law enforcement or the victims' families. In April 1990, a local man was charged with Royal's murder. 32-year-old Carol Clark was last seen in Montpelier, Karen McGregor, 29, was battered and strangled on 18 April 1993 and her body was found hidden in the car park of the, 52-year-old James Alfred Moody, known as Jimmy and himself suspected of murder, was shot dead with a revolver in a pub on the fringes of. 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Hairs she had in her hand when discovered dead in the kitchen not being tested as well as they could have been, together with a forensic expert's case notes being altered and his failure to treat two bloodspots on the murder weapon separately, meant that the conviction of a man found guilty of murdering her was later deemed unsafe. including the 1988 homicide of Snohomish County transient Hazel Gelnett and the 1990 murder of Tia Hicks . The murder followed that of her partner, Alan Leppard, in April of the same year, and his is also still unsolved. Known as "White Tony" to avoid confusion with a black associate whose first name was the same as his, he was shot dead on 22 February in the Penny Black pub's car park. 43-year-old Alan Leppard was shot in the chest on 1 April (Easter Monday) after answering a knock on the door. His common-law wife found him unconscious and seriously injured there in January 1996, and nearby was his unharmed baby son. Two Liverpool men aged 20 and 27 were charged over his murder days later, but. 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Breakdown of Homicide Clearance Rates. Police believed someone local was responsible because the body had been dumped in a secluded location which only local people were likely to know about. The 1990 murder of 19-year-old Deidra Dancy has often been thought to be linked to these other murders, but the MO of her killing was different. A tall and heavily built man shot the 44-year-old antique dealer outside his home with a .45 calibre automatic pistol on Sunday, 24 March before running away and leaving in a van that had been parked in nearby Oaktree Avenue. The results cleared up absolutely nothing, and the official results from the Washington Department of Health said that the blobs contained illness-causing bacteria (but, weirdly, none of the illnesses any of the victims suffered), along with white blood cells of human origin. The museum has never removed the empty frames where the 13 stolen pieces once hung, and they remain as a reminder of one of the decade's biggest mysteries. Widow Linda Chandler, 46, was stabbed on her doorstep on Fairbourne Avenue, Seven-year-old Emily Salvini was asleep in her home on Hemdean Road, Caversham, Reading, when petrol was poured through the letterbox and then lit early on Saturday 3 May. A 15-year-old boy was convicted of aiding and abetting the burglary (which he had already pleaded guilty to) but not of Kathleen's murder (which he had not been charged with), while a second youth was convicted of her murder but later had his conviction overturned. Four men charged over the murder of Carl Stapleton, a 17-year-old fatally attacked with a machete in, Someone strangled 32-year-old Glenda Potter and left her body near the United Reformed Church in Crow Lane, Rochester in May 1991. John Nolan was left on the drive of a school on Kensington Park Road after being kicked and stamped to death during the annual, 25-year-old Christopher McGrory was discovered strangled to death in his van at Dougalston Golf Course on 23 September. Bulic Forsythe, 42, was last seen by his colleagues at Lambeth Social Services on 24 February 1993. She was also working on an English album that she hoped would transform her into a crossover hit. The body of 19-year-old Amanda Duffy was found in bushes on wasteland near the car park on Miller Street during the evening of Saturday 30 May. She was never seen again. The 32-year-old former athletics champion was stabbed with a samurai sword in early February 1994. Five men were charged with and subsequently acquitted of violent disorder in relation to a fight in the building the day before Ferguson was found murdered there, and the fight was believed to be connected with his murder. Law enforcement believed from the beginning that multiple people were involved in the murders of 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 15-year-old Sarah Harbison, and 17-year-olds Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas. Doreen Morris, 64, lived alone with her two dogs in Mill Lane on the outskirts of Holyhead. Donna lived with cousins in, Janet Johnson was battered to death and her body was left next to a tramline in, Car dealer Robin Wood, 47, was shot dead by someone at his front door on Saturday 2 May 1998. [189] The reopened inquest found in 2023 that Morris was stabbed in the neck with a fork. Patricia Grainger, 25, a vulnerable woman with learning difficulties, was found murdered close to her home in Buchanan Road, Parson Cross, on 10 August 1997. The body of Elsie Freeman, 76, was discovered on her bed at her home address at Mill Road, Impington at about midday on Saturday 7 March by a member of the family. Three women each jailed for the arson attack or an offence related to it appealed against their convictions, resulting in two of them having theirs overturned and the other having her prison term for perverting the course of justice reduced. Recovered along with the rounds from the weapons used, the hope is that advances in DNA technology will allow law enforcement to finally get a match on the DNA, and bring the killers to justice. Another theory is that the intended target was the friend who was with Stanley in the takeaway that day. Gary Ray Bowles killed his first victim, John Hardy Roberts, in Daytona Beach in 1994. [33], On 21 January 2013, the 20th anniversary of the murder, police announced they were reviewing the case and hoped that advances in forensic analysis and DNA profiling would bring the killer to justice. . Patrick Spencer, 85, and his wife, Margaret, 77, both died after their home in Sandiford Terrace, Manston, was deliberately set alight on 21 July 1999. Nicola Payne, aged 18, went missing from the Henley Green area of. While they all would have seen the white Cadillac and the shooter, everyone has refused to talk. The shop owner was a retired actor and had appeared in the hospital soap opera, 23-year-old Andrew Smith was discovered stabbed to death beside the Forth and Clyde Canal at. The following year saw a massive trial broadcast across the nation. As the police arrived at the Los Angeles home, they heard a gunshot as Brynn killed herself. Loomis VP at the time, Mike Tawney, admitted: "Whoever did it, did an excellent job of planning.". 70-year-old Leslie Jackson, a horse dealer living in a sheltered bungalow in Sussex Drive, was beaten to death in his bathroom. Some unsolved murders in Sacramento, California, and unsolved murders in Sacramento County, California, include the 2012 murder of Jessica Funk Haslam, the 1979 murder of Kathy Harlan, the 1970 murder of Nancy Bennallack, the 1970 murder of Judith Hakari, the 2011 murder of Joga Kahlon, and the 2012 murder of Juan Rangel-Villanueva, among many . The 25-year-old school teacher had been beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted. Four people were arrested at the time but not charged. By clicking Sign up, you agree to receive marketing emails from Insider 29-year-old Michelle McKnight was discovered with two stab wounds on the drive of her home on 27 June 1993. One piece alone one of only about 34 surviving paintings by Johannes Vermeer was worth a whopping $250 million. External links The BBC News Magazine article "When the murder trail goes cold" lists statistics for unsolved murders in the United Kingdom as of May 2010 . Gentile had connections with the mob but always denied that he had anything to do with the theft. 36-year-old William Toye was fatally stabbed in prison while serving a sentence for killing a man to stop him from testifying against his brother. Smith was also questioned in the 1983 unsolved murder of a 14-year-old girl in Idaho. No cause of death was ever determined, but many are convinced the five boys were murdered. However, each trial collapsed due to a hung jury. On March 24, 1999, a Loomis truck left Sacramento loaded with cash. A man was charged, but the case against him was dropped. A man who had not known him was cleared of both offences. What are the most famous unsolved murders that have happened in the U.S.? And that's actually important, because when the truck arrived at the end of the two-hour trip and the rear doors were opened, that was when they realized someone had cut a hole in the top of the truck and managed to steal $2.3 million in $20s, $50s, and $100s. Early signs of Alzheimer's appeared not long after he buried his beloved bird, and in the years following his own death, his daughter tried to figure out what happened to Andy. A third man who was also charged but whom the Crown Prosecution Service offered no evidence against later died, and his mother said that he never recovered from the trauma of his arrest and charge. Christy Ann Mirack was found dead in her home in East Lampeter Township in Lancaster County on Dec. 21, 1992. The cause of death was asphyxia, and it is believed he died the day before police found his body. Deirdre Jacob, for example, vanished from just outside of her home, in the middle of the afternoon. There's one country that claims to have never had a serial killer prowling among them, but a series of unsolved murders in the early 1990s means that may or may not be the case. There have never been any arrests or trials, but they haven't been forgotten. 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