Unsolved Murders
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Lajan Grimes Murder: Memphis Police Seek Tips in Unsolved Homicide
SOMEONE LEFT A 74-YEAR-OLD WOMAN’S BODY BEHIND AN ABANDONED HOME — SHE WASN’T IDENTIFIED FOR MONTHS THE MURDER OF LAJAN GRIMES Memphis, Tennessee | February 7, 2026 For months, a family waited without answers. Now, investigators are asking for the public’s help to solve the murder of 74-year-old Lajan Grimes. On February 7, 2026, at…
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Willie Mae McCloud Murder: Columbus Cold Case Remains Unsolved
Columbus, Ohio — May 23, 2005 Willie Mae McCloud was known for her kindness. She was 56 years old. Outgoing. Friendly. A familiar face on the east side of Columbus. Although she struggled with mental health challenges and addiction, those who knew Willie Mae remembered her as someone who always spoke to people, laughed with…
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Trellis Sykes Murder: Houston Teen’s 1994 Cold Case Remains Unsolved
Houston, Texas (Sunnyside) — May 13, 1994 Trellis Sykes was 16 years old—an honor roll student and a talented basketball player at Worthing High School. She lived with her grandmother, May Sykes, in Houston’s Sunnyside neighborhood, where friends and family remembered her as a joyful teenager with big dreams and a bright future. But on…
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Kirk Douglas Becker II Murder: Columbus Cold Case Remains Unsolved
Columbus, Ohio — March 13, 2010 It was an early March morning. The kind of morning when families wake up, start coffee, and get ready for work. The kind of morning that feels ordinary. But on March 13, 2010, that ordinary morning shattered. Around 8:30 a.m., the body of 24-year-old Kirk Douglas Becker II was…
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Marcus and Javon VanCleaf Murders: One Columbus Family Lost Three Loved Ones to Gun Violence
Columbus, Ohio — 2014–2020 Some families experience tragedy once. The VanCleaf family endured it three times. The family of Marcus and Javon VanCleaf, along with their nephew Erick Peeples, contacted The Vivid Faces of the Vanished because their story is not about a single act of violence. It is about years of grief, unanswered questions,…
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Bonnie Marrow Murder: Richmond Mother Killed After Visiting Son’s Grave
Richmond, Virginia — December 22, 2011 Just three days before Christmas, 56-year-old Bonnie Marrow made a visit no parent should ever have to make. She drove to Oakwood Cemetery off Nine Mile Road to spend time at the grave of her son, Robert Lee Cox Jr. Robert had been shot and killed in June 2010…
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Machelle Brinson Murder: Florida Mother Killed in Front of Daughter
Palmetto, Florida — November 19, 2007 People in Palmetto knew the road by her family’s name. The street was so closely connected to generations of the Brinson family that many simply referred to it as “Brinson Road.” That was how deeply Machelle Brinson was rooted in her community. She was 41 years old. A mother…
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David Brown Murder: Atlanta John Doe Identified After 28 Years
Atlanta, Georgia — April 24, 1996 In a vacant lot in southeast Atlanta, a man stumbled through flames screaming for help. His body was on fire. His skin had been burned so severely that witnesses could barely recognize he was human. Despite unimaginable pain, he managed to tell investigators what had happened. Someone had come…
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Jane, Isabella and Annabelle Kuria Murders: Georgia Family Slain in Unsolved Triple Homicide
Jane Kuria came to America believing she was giving her children something every parent hopes for. Safety. After the death of her husband, Jane left Kenya in 2001 and brought her children—Isabella, Annabelle, and Jeremy—to the United States. The family first settled in Boston before eventually making their home in Powder Springs, Georgia. She worked…
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Jokisha “Dynasty” Brown Murder: Atlanta Model Killed One Day Before Birthday
Atlanta, Georgia — July 1, 2016 Jokisha “Dynasty” Brown was preparing to celebrate another year of life. The next day would have been her 36th birthday. Instead, July 1, 2016, became the last day of her life. Dynasty was sitting inside her Mercedes SUV in the parking lot of a strip mall along Cheshire Bridge…