Random Most Famous Unsolved Murders In The US (21 items)

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  (#9) JonBenét Ramsey

  • Dec. at 6 (1990-1996)

  The six-year-old beauty queen’s unsolved murder was one of the most famous murder cases in the world. One night in December 1996, her parents reported her missing. Eight hours later, she was found dead in their basement. No one was ever charged with the murder, although her parents remain on the suspect list, decades later.
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  (#2) The Notorious B.I.G.

  • Dec. at 25 (1972-1997)

  Christopher George Latore Wallace was better known by his stage names, The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie or Biggie Smalls. He became a central figure in the East Coast hip hop scene during a time when the West Coast hip hop scene was dominant in the mainstream. This led to an ongoing feud between the two groups.

  He was killed in 1997 in a drive-by shooting in L.A. No one was ever named as a suspect in his death.
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  (#10) William Goebel

  • Dec. at 44 (1856-1900)

  Goebel was an American politician who was shot on January 30, 1900, by an unknown assailant in Frankfort, Kentucky. He died just one day before being sworn in as Governor of Kentucky. He remains the only state Governor in the United States to be assassinated while in office. He was sworn in just before dying.
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  (#15) The Grimes sisters

  Barbara and Patricia Grimes were teenage sisters in Chicago, Illinois, who disappeared in 1956 after leaving their house to go see a movie. When they went missing, a search and rescue team was sent out in search of them. Their bodies were found a year later, naked, and one of the sisters had been molested before her death. No one was ever declared a suspect.
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  (#12) Barbara Colby

  • Dec. at 36 (1939-1975)

  Television actress Barbara Colby was walking with a colleague to his car in 1975 when they suddenly got shot at. She died instantly from her wounds, but the man she was with was able to describe the shooting to the police before dying as well. He said the shooting occurred without reason, and that there were two gunmen whom he did not recognize. No attempt was made to rob Colby, and the motivation for the murders is still unknown.
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  (#11) Peter Ivers

  • Dec. at 37 (1946-1983)

  Musician and host of the New Wave Theater in Los Angeles, Ivers was killed in his bed in 1983, having been beaten to death. Upon his death, hundreds of friends had gone to Iver's apartment to mourn his death, and in doing so, they compromised much of the evidence. A number of theories abound about the cause for his murder.

  Some say he was killed as the result of a robbery, while others speculate that he was killed by a New Wave Theater patron. Unfortunately, none of these theories came to fruition, and the murder remains unsolved.

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