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[
{
"case_id": "lizzie_borden_1892",
"name": "Lizzie Borden & the Fall River Murders",
"year": 1892,
"lat": 41.7015,
"lon": -71.1553,
"case_type": "family",
"evidence": 4,
"motive": 5,
"jurisdiction": 1,
"body": 1,
"genetic": 0,
"severity": 0.85,
"status": 0,
"entities": [
"acquittal",
"ambiguous_entry",
"axe",
"domestic_space",
"evidence_contamination",
"fall_river",
"family_suspicion",
"parlor_murder"
],
"description": "Andrew and Abby Borden hacked to death with an axe; daughter Lizzie tried and acquitted; no other suspect charged."
},
{
"case_id": "axeman_1918",
"name": "Axeman of New Orleans",
"year": 1918,
"lat": 29.9511,
"lon": -90.0715,
"case_type": "serial",
"evidence": 3,
"motive": 1,
"jurisdiction": 3,
"body": 1,
"genetic": 0,
"severity": 0.7,
"status": 0,
"entities": [
"axe",
"behavioral_signature",
"biological_evidence",
"coded_communication",
"door_panels",
"geographic_linkage",
"italian_grocers",
"jazz_letter",
"mythogenesis",
"new_orleans",
"public_taunting",
"serial_killer",
"unknown_identity",
"weak_body_link"
],
"description": "Serial killer murdered at least 8, mostly Italian grocers, using an axe left at the scene; taunted the city with a jazz letter; identity never confirmed."
},
{
"case_id": "hinterkaifeck_1922",
"name": "Hinterkaifeck Murders",
"year": 1922,
"lat": 48.5318,
"lon": 11.2608,
"case_type": "family",
"evidence": 4,
"motive": 3,
"jurisdiction": 2,
"body": 1,
"genetic": 0,
"severity": 0.75,
"status": 0,
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"ambiguous_entry",
"bavaria",
"domestic_space",
"evidence_contamination",
"family_suspicion",
"isolated_farm",
"killer_lived_in_house",
"pickaxe",
"snow_footprints"
],
"description": "Entire Gruber family plus maid bludgeoned with a pickaxe; killer lived in the house for days afterward; no charges ever filed."
},
{
"case_id": "virginia_christian_1912",
"name": "Virginia Christian Case",
"year": 1912,
"lat": 37.4316,
"lon": -78.6569,
"case_type": "unknown",
"evidence": 3,
"motive": 5,
"jurisdiction": 2,
"body": 1,
"genetic": 0,
"severity": 0.6,
"status": 0,
"entities": [
"electric_chair",
"juvenile_justice",
"miscarriage_of_justice",
"racial_injustice",
"virginia"
],
"description": "17-year-old executed for killing her employer; perpetrator never definitively identified; widely viewed as a miscarriage of justice."
},
{
"case_id": "stanford_white_1906",
"name": "Murder of Stanford White",
"year": 1906,
"lat": 40.7421,
"lon": -73.9894,
"case_type": "assassination",
"evidence": 6,
"motive": 8,
"jurisdiction": 1,
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"severity": 0.7,
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"entities": [
"contested_narrative",
"crime_of_passion",
"era_forensic_limits",
"evelyn_nesbit",
"gilded_age",
"harry_thaw",
"jurisdictional_complexity",
"madison_square_garden",
"political",
"public_witnesses",
"trial_of_the_century"
],
"description": "Architect shot dead on the rooftop of Madison Square Garden before hundreds of witnesses by Harry K. Thaw; NGRI verdict; deeper conspiracies remain debated."
},
{
"case_id": "black_dahlia_1947",
"name": "Black Dahlia \u2014 Elizabeth Short",
"year": 1947,
"lat": 34.0522,
"lon": -118.2437,
"case_type": "murder",
"evidence": 4,
"motive": 2,
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"entities": [
"1940s",
"glasgow_smile",
"homicide",
"lapd",
"los_angeles",
"mutilation",
"severed_in_half",
"unsolved",
"young_woman"
],
"description": "22-year-old aspiring actress found mutilated, cut cleanly in half, posed in a vacant lot; hundreds confessed; no killer ever identified."
},
{
"case_id": "bugsy_siegel_1947",
"name": "Bugsy Siegel Assassination",
"year": 1947,
"lat": 34.0736,
"lon": -118.4004,
"case_type": "assassination",
"evidence": 5,
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"entities": [
"beverly_hills",
"contested_narrative",
"era_forensic_limits",
"flamingo",
"jurisdictional_complexity",
"las_vegas",
"m1_carbine",
"mafia",
"organized_crime",
"political",
"public_witnesses"
],
"description": "Mobster who built the Flamingo shot through a window; hit widely believed ordered by the Mafia; no one ever charged."
},
{
"case_id": "somerton_man_1948",
"name": "The Somerton Man / Tam\u00e1m Shud",
"year": 1948,
"lat": -34.9285,
"lon": 138.6007,
"case_type": "unknown",
"evidence": 5,
"motive": 1,
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"entities": [
"adelaide",
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"identity_unknown",
"mythogenesis",
"public_taunting",
"rare_book",
"tamam_shud",
"unbreakable_cipher",
"unknown_identity",
"weak_body_link"
],
"description": "Unidentified man found dead on Somerton Beach; a torn scrap from a rare book read 'Tam\u00e1m Shud'; identity and cause of death unknown; 2022 DNA tentatively linked him to a family."
},
{
"case_id": "carteron_family_1946",
"name": "Carteron Family Murders",
"year": 1946,
"lat": 46.6034,
"lon": 1.8883,
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"evidence": 4,
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"evidence_contamination",
"family_suspicion",
"france",
"isolated_home",
"no_robbery_motive",
"resistance",
"sten_submachine_gun"
],
"description": "Four family members gunned down with a Sten submachine gun; no robbery motive; no suspects named."
},
{
"case_id": "boy_in_the_box_1957",
"name": "The Boy in the Box \u2014 America's Unknown Child",
"year": 1957,
"lat": 39.9526,
"lon": -75.1652,
"case_type": "child",
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"cardboard_box",
"facial_reconstruction",
"genetic_genealogy",
"phenotyping",
"philadelphia",
"sealed_identification",
"touch_dna",
"unidentified_child"
],
"description": "Body of a 4\u20136-year-old boy found battered in a cardboard box; 2023 tentative ID via genetic genealogy, details sealed."
},
{
"case_id": "db_cooper_1971",
"name": "D.B. Cooper Skyjacking",
"year": 1971,
"lat": 45.5152,
"lon": -122.6784,
"case_type": "disappearance",
"evidence": 4,
"motive": 2,
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"entities": [
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"cascade_mountains",
"coded_communication",
"disappearance",
"hijacking",
"identity_unknown",
"low_forensic_contact",
"mythogenesis",
"pacific_northwest",
"parachute",
"public_modeling",
"public_taunting",
"ransom",
"route_ambiguity",
"sensor_gap",
"unknown_identity",
"weak_body_link"
],
"description": "Man called 'Dan Cooper' skyjacked a 727, parachuted into a storm over the Cascades with $200,000; only $5,880 of the ransom ever recovered; identity unknown."
},
{
"case_id": "jimmy_hoffa_1975",
"name": "Jimmy Hoffa Disappearance",
"year": 1975,
"lat": 42.3314,
"lon": -83.0458,
"case_type": "disappearance",
"evidence": 3,
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"detroit",
"disappearance",
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"machus_red_fox",
"mafia",
"no_body",
"public_modeling",
"route_ambiguity",
"sensor_gap",
"teamsters",
"union"
],
"description": "Teamsters president vanished from a restaurant parking lot where he went to meet two Mafia figures; body never found."
},
{
"case_id": "zodiac_1968",
"name": "The Zodiac Killer",
"year": 1968,
"lat": 37.7749,
"lon": -122.4194,
"case_type": "serial",
"evidence": 6,
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"letters",
"mythogenesis",
"public_taunting",
"serial_killer",
"taunting",
"unknown_identity",
"unsolved",
"weak_body_link"
],
"description": "Self-named serial killer murdered at least 5 (claimed 37); sent taunting letters and 4 cryptograms; three ciphers remain unbroken; identity never confirmed."
},
{
"case_id": "jfk_1963",
"name": "Assassination of John F. Kennedy",
"year": 1963,
"lat": 32.7767,
"lon": -96.797,
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"evidence": 6,
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"dealey_plaza",
"declassified_records",
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"jack_ruby",
"jurisdictional_complexity",
"oswald",
"political",
"public_witnesses",
"second_gunman",
"warren_commission"
],
"description": "Warren Commission concluded Oswald acted alone; HSCA found 'high probability of a second gunman'; no second shooter ever identified."
},
{
"case_id": "rfk_1968",
"name": "Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy",
"year": 1968,
"lat": 34.0522,
"lon": -118.2437,
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"political",
"public_witnesses",
"second_gunman",
"sirhan"
],
"description": "Sirhan Sirhan convicted, but forensic/acoustic evidence fueled second-gunman claims; Sirhan maintains he was manchurian-candidated."
},
{
"case_id": "mlk_1968",
"name": "Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.",
"year": 1968,
"lat": 35.1495,
"lon": -90.049,
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"evidence": 6,
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"government_conspiracy",
"james_earl_ray",
"jurisdictional_complexity",
"lorraine_motel",
"memphis",
"political",
"public_witnesses"
],
"description": "James Earl Ray pleaded guilty then recanted; a 1999 civil jury found a government-led conspiracy; no broader charges."
},
{
"case_id": "tylenol_1982",
"name": "Chicago Tylenol Murders",
"year": 1982,
"lat": 41.8781,
"lon": -87.6298,
"case_type": "poisoning",
"evidence": 5,
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"entities": [
"chicago",
"cyanide",
"no_suspect",
"product_tampering",
"random_victims",
"tamper_proof_packaging"
],
"description": "Seven died after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules re-shelved in stores; random victims; no suspect ever charged."
},
{
"case_id": "golden_state_killer_1974",
"name": "The Golden State Killer / EAR-ONS",
"year": 1974,
"lat": 38.5816,
"lon": -121.4944,
"case_type": "serial",
"evidence": 10,
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"cold_case_dna",
"ear_ons",
"former_cop",
"gedmatch",
"genetic_genealogy",
"geographic_linkage",
"joseph_deangelo",
"phenotyping",
"sacramento",
"serial_killer",
"touch_dna"
],
"description": "50+ sexual assaults and 13 murders across California; SOLVED in 2018 via genetic genealogy \u2014 Joseph James DeAngelo, a former cop, pleaded guilty."
},
{
"case_id": "oakland_county_1976",
"name": "Oakland County Child Killer",
"year": 1976,
"lat": 42.6833,
"lon": -83.3667,
"case_type": "child",
"evidence": 5,
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"dna_exclusions",
"genetic_genealogy",
"geographic_linkage",
"held_alive",
"michigan",
"phenotyping",
"public_dumping",
"serial_killer",
"touch_dna"
],
"description": "Four children abducted and murdered over 13 months; killer held victims alive for days; main suspect died; no one definitively identified."
},
{
"case_id": "keddie_cabin_1981",
"name": "Keddie Cabin Murders",
"year": 1981,
"lat": 40.0127,
"lon": -120.9306,
"case_type": "family",
"evidence": 5,
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"new_dna_evidence",
"phenotyping",
"sierra_nevada",
"skull_recovered",
"staged_scene",
"tina_sharp",
"touch_dna"
],
"description": "Three Sharp family members and a friend bludgeoned and stabbed; crime scene bizarrely staged; new DNA developed in the 2020s, no charges filed."
},
{
"case_id": "tupac_1996",
"name": "Tupac Shakur Murder",
"year": 1996,
"lat": 36.1699,
"lon": -115.1398,
"case_type": "assassination",
"evidence": 5,
"motive": 6,
"jurisdiction": 4,
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"death_row_records",
"drive_by",
"east_coast_west_coast",
"era_forensic_limits",
"jurisdictional_complexity",
"keffe_d",
"las_vegas",
"political",
"public_witnesses",
"rap_war"
],
"description": "Shot in a Las Vegas drive-by after a Mike Tyson fight; 2023: Duane 'Keffe D' Davis arrested and charged; trial ongoing."
},
{
"case_id": "biggie_1997",
"name": "The Notorious B.I.G. Murder",
"year": 1997,
"lat": 34.0522,
"lon": -118.2437,
"case_type": "assassination",
"evidence": 4,
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"era_forensic_limits",
"jurisdictional_complexity",
"lapd_connections",
"los_angeles",
"political",
"public_witnesses",
"rap_war"
],
"description": "Shot in Los Angeles six months after Tupac in a similar drive-by; no one ever charged."
},
{
"case_id": "jonbenet_1996",
"name": "JonBen\u00e9t Ramsey",
"year": 1996,
"lat": 40.015,
"lon": -105.2705,
"case_type": "child",
"evidence": 5,
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"body": 1,
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"status": 0,
"entities": [
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"basement",
"boulder",
"evidence_contamination",
"genetic_genealogy",
"phenotyping",
"ransom_note",
"touch_dna"
],
"description": "6-year-old beauty queen found strangled and beaten in her basement; ransom note for exactly $118,000; family cleared via touch-DNA in 2008, since re-challenged; no one charged."
},
{
"case_id": "sodder_children_1945",
"name": "Sodder Children Disappearance",
"year": 1945,
"lat": 38.0526,
"lon": -81.1037,
"case_type": "family",
"evidence": 3,
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"body": 0.5,
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"domestic_space",
"evidence_contamination",
"family_suspicion",
"house_fire",
"human_vertebra",
"no_bones_in_ashes",
"west_virginia"
],
"description": "Five Sodder children vanished the night their house burned; no bones in the ashes; father found a vertebra that matched none of the children; never solved."
},
{
"case_id": "dyatlov_pass_1959",
"name": "Dyatlov Pass Incident",
"year": 1959,
"lat": 61.7556,
"lon": 59.449,
"case_type": "unknown",
"evidence": 6,
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"jurisdiction": 4,
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"entities": [
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"compelling_natural_force",
"hypothermia",
"internal_trauma",
"kholat_syakhl",
"radioactive_clothing",
"tent_cut_open"
],
"description": "Nine hikers died on Dead Mountain; tent cut from inside, fled barefoot into -30C snow; 2021 Russian reinvestigation concluded avalanche, still contested."
},
{
"case_id": "mh370_2014",
"name": "Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370",
"year": 2014,
"lat": 2.7456,
"lon": 101.7099,
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"evidence": 3,
"motive": 1,
"jurisdiction": 10,
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"debris",
"disappearance",
"flaperon",
"indian_ocean",
"international",
"low_forensic_contact",
"missing_aircraft",
"public_modeling",
"radar",
"route_ambiguity",
"sensor_gap"
],
"description": "Boeing 777 with 239 people vanished; military radar showed a sharp westward turn then south into the Indian Ocean; only scattered debris ever found."
},
{
"case_id": "madeleine_mccann_2007",
"name": "Madeleine McCann Disappearance",
"year": 2007,
"lat": 37.0875,
"lon": -8.7313,
"case_type": "child",
"evidence": 4,
"motive": 2,
"jurisdiction": 9,
"body": 0,
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"severity": 0.95,
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"entities": [
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"disappearance",
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"global_coverage",
"low_forensic_contact",
"missing_child",
"phenotyping",
"portugal",
"praia_da_luz",
"prime_suspect",
"public_modeling",
"route_ambiguity",
"sensor_gap",
"touch_dna"
],
"description": "3-year-old vanished from a holiday apartment; 2020: German police named Christian Br\u00fcckner as prime suspect \u2014 never charged; Madeleine never found."
},
{
"case_id": "gilgo_beach_2010",
"name": "Long Island Serial Killer / Gilgo Beach",
"year": 2010,
"lat": 40.6477,
"lon": -73.1447,
"case_type": "serial",
"evidence": 6,
"motive": 2,
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"genetic_genealogy",
"geographic_linkage",
"gilgo_four",
"long_island",
"ocean_parkway",
"phenotyping",
"rex_heuermann",
"serial_killer",
"sex_workers",
"touch_dna"
],
"description": "Bodies of 10\u201316 people dumped along Ocean Parkway; SOLVED IN PART 2023 \u2014 Rex Heuermann charged with 4 murders; investigation continues."
},
{
"case_id": "delphi_2017",
"name": "Delphi Murders",
"year": 2017,
"lat": 40.5875,
"lon": -86.675,
"case_type": "child",
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"cellphone_footage",
"down_the_hill",
"genetic_genealogy",
"indiana",
"libby_german",
"monon_high_bridge",
"phenotyping",
"richard_allen",
"touch_dna"
],
"description": "Teenagers Libby German & Abby Williams murdered while hiking; Libby filmed the suspect; 2024: Richard Allen pleaded guilty to two counts of murder."
},
{
"case_id": "missy_bevers_2016",
"name": "Missy Bevers Murder",
"year": 2016,
"lat": 32.4824,
"lon": -96.9945,
"case_type": "murder",
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"entities": [
"150k_reward",
"church",
"gait_analysis",
"no_arrest",
"surveillance_video",
"tactical_gear",
"texas"
],
"description": "Fitness instructor found beaten to death inside a church; surveillance shows a suspect in tactical gear; gait heavily analyzed, never matched; no arrests."
},
{
"case_id": "las_vegas_2017",
"name": "Las Vegas Shooting (Stephen Paddock)",
"year": 2017,
"lat": 36.1147,
"lon": -115.1728,
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"mandalay_bay",
"no_manifesto",
"no_motive",
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],
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"description": "Ohio State medical student entered a bar and was never captured leaving on any camera; no financial activity, no phone pings, no body."
}
]