[ { "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, "entities": [ "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, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.7, "status": 0.5, "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, "jurisdiction": 3, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.9, "status": 0, "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, "motive": 7, "jurisdiction": 2, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.8, "status": 0, "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, "jurisdiction": 8, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.85, "status": 0.5, "entities": [ "adelaide", "beach", "coded_communication", "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, "case_type": "family", "evidence": 4, "motive": 2, "jurisdiction": 3, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.65, "status": 0, "entities": [ "ambiguous_entry", "domestic_space", "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", "evidence": 4, "motive": 1, "jurisdiction": 2, "body": 1, "genetic": 1, "severity": 0.8, "status": 0, "entities": [ "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, "jurisdiction": 6, "body": 0, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.85, "status": 0, "entities": [ "boeing_727", "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, "motive": 8, "jurisdiction": 5, "body": 0, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.85, "status": 0, "entities": [ "detroit", "disappearance", "low_forensic_contact", "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, "motive": 2, "jurisdiction": 7, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.95, "status": 0, "entities": [ "bay_area", "behavioral_signature", "biological_evidence", "california", "cipher", "coded_communication", "cryptograms", "geographic_linkage", "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, "case_type": "assassination", "evidence": 6, "motive": 5, "jurisdiction": 4, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 1.0, "status": 0.5, "entities": [ "contested_narrative", "dallas", "dealey_plaza", "declassified_records", "era_forensic_limits", "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, "case_type": "assassination", "evidence": 7, "motive": 5, "jurisdiction": 3, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.9, "status": 0.5, "entities": [ "acoustic_evidence", "ambassador_hotel", "contested_narrative", "era_forensic_limits", "hypnosis_claim", "jurisdictional_complexity", "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, "case_type": "assassination", "evidence": 6, "motive": 6, "jurisdiction": 4, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 1.0, "status": 0.5, "entities": [ "civil_rights", "contested_narrative", "era_forensic_limits", "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, "motive": 1, "jurisdiction": 5, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.85, "status": 0, "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, "motive": 3, "jurisdiction": 6, "body": 1, "genetic": 1, "severity": 0.9, "status": 1, "entities": [ "behavioral_signature", "biological_evidence", "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, "motive": 2, "jurisdiction": 4, "body": 1, "genetic": 1, "severity": 0.8, "status": 0, "entities": [ "abducted_children", "behavioral_signature", "biological_evidence", "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, "motive": 3, "jurisdiction": 3, "body": 1, "genetic": 1, "severity": 0.7, "status": 0, "entities": [ "ambiguous_entry", "domestic_space", "evidence_contamination", "family_suspicion", "genetic_genealogy", "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, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.9, "status": 0.5, "entities": [ "contested_narrative", "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, "motive": 6, "jurisdiction": 4, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.9, "status": 0, "entities": [ "bloods_crips", "contested_narrative", "drive_by", "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, "motive": 3, "jurisdiction": 3, "body": 1, "genetic": 1, "severity": 0.95, "status": 0, "entities": [ "1600_persons_of_interest", "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, "motive": 3, "jurisdiction": 2, "body": 0.5, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.7, "status": 0, "entities": [ "abduction_theory", "ambiguous_entry", "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, "motive": 2, "jurisdiction": 4, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.85, "status": 0.5, "entities": [ "avalanche_theory", "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, "case_type": "aviation", "evidence": 3, "motive": 1, "jurisdiction": 10, "body": 0.5, "genetic": 0, "severity": 1.0, "status": 0, "entities": [ "aviation", "boeing_777", "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, "genetic": 1, "severity": 0.95, "status": 0, "entities": [ "christian_brueckner", "disappearance", "genetic_genealogy", "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, "jurisdiction": 6, "body": 1, "genetic": 1, "severity": 0.85, "status": 0.5, "entities": [ "behavioral_signature", "biological_evidence", "craigslist", "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", "evidence": 8, "motive": 4, "jurisdiction": 2, "body": 1, "genetic": 1, "severity": 0.85, "status": 1, "entities": [ "abby_williams", "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", "evidence": 6, "motive": 2, "jurisdiction": 2, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.75, "status": 0, "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, "case_type": "mass crime", "evidence": 8, "motive": 1, "jurisdiction": 3, "body": 1, "genetic": 0, "severity": 1.0, "status": 0.5, "entities": [ "60_dead", "867_wounded", "deadliest_mass_shooting", "mandalay_bay", "no_manifesto", "no_motive", "route_91" ], "description": "Paddock fired 1,000+ rounds into a country music festival \u2014 60 dead, 867 wounded; no motive ever established; why he did it remains unanswered." }, { "case_id": "brian_shaffer_2006", "name": "Brian Shaffer Disappearance", "year": 2006, "lat": 39.9834, "lon": -82.9837, "case_type": "disappearance", "evidence": 4, "motive": 1, "jurisdiction": 2, "body": 0, "genetic": 0, "severity": 0.65, "status": 0, "entities": [ "columbus", "disappearance", "low_forensic_contact", "never_left", "no_financial_activity", "no_phone_pings", "public_modeling", "route_ambiguity", "security_cameras", "sensor_gap", "ugly_tuna_saloona" ], "description": "Ohio State medical student entered a bar and was never captured leaving on any camera; no financial activity, no phone pings, no body." } ]