List of unsolved murders (2000–present)

This list of unsolved murders includes notable cases where victims have been murdered in unknown circumstances.

2000s Pavle Bulatović (51), socialist Yugoslav politician and former Minister of Defence, was shot to death at a restaurant in Belgrade on 7 February 2000. His assailant was never apprehended, but the murder is suspected to have been carried out by Montenegrin nationalists. Casey McCann (56–57) was an anti-cult activist who was murdered in São Paulo, Brazil, in his apartment on 26 February 2000,"Personal Column: Deaths", The Times (London), 16 March 2000. by unknown people. The 2000 Uganda cult massacres refers to 778 people who were found dead on 17 March 2000 in Uganda. Although they were originally thought to have died in a mass suicide, it was later changed to mass murder since the victims are known to have been strangled and stabbed.New Vision, "Kanungu Dead Poisoned", Matthias Mugisha, 16 July 2000. Whoever was behind the killings is unknown. Nikole Bakoles (19) went missing in March 2000, and her remains were found 7 months later. She is believed to have been murdered. William Pokhlyobkin (76) was a foremost expert on the history of Russian cuisine and the author of numerous culinary books. Pokhlyobkin was found murdered in his apartment in Podolsk some time between 27 and 31 March 2000. His body was discovered by the chief editor of the Polyfakt publishing house, who was worried about the delay of the book Cuisine of the Century and had come from Moscow to Podolsk to see Pokhlyobkin. Radio Haiti-Inter journalist Jean Dominique (69) and Jean-Claude Louissaint, another station employee, were fatally shot outside the station as Dominique arrived at the station's offices in Port-au-Prince on the morning of 3 April 2000. Political pressure and threats, possibly from those whose corruption Dominique reported on, have allegedly hindered the investigation. At least two suspects in the murders later died in suspicious circumstances; three others were indicted but escaped from prison before trial. Žika Petrović (60–61), a Serbian business executive and CEO of Jat Airways, was shot to death by two masked men in front of his parents' home in Belgrade on 25 April 2000. His killers have never been apprehended.Ubijen direktor JAT Žika Petrović;Blic, 26 April 2000 André Desjardins (69) was a Canadian union official noted for his involvement with organized crime. Desjardins served as the president of the Conseil des métiers de la construction and vice president of the Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (Quebec Federation of Labour, FTQ) union between 1970 and 1974, becoming known as Le roi de la construction ("the king of construction"). During this time, Desjardins was involved in the scandal that led to the Cliche commission of 1974–75 headed by Judge Robert Cliche to examine corruption in Quebec construction unions. Afterward, Desjardins was one of the leading loan sharks in Montreal until his murder by unknown persons on 27 April 2000.Auger, Michel The Biker who Shot Me: Recollections of a Crime Reporter, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2002 p. 47. Mark Moran (35), of Australia's Moran crime family, was shot and killed outside his Aberfeldie home on the evening of 15 June 2000. Molly Bish (16), American teenage girl who disappeared from Warren, Massachusetts on 27 June 2000 and was found dead on 9 June 2003. Her murder remains unsolved. Kirsty Jones (23), a British national who was on holiday in Thailand, was found raped and strangled in her hotel room in Chiang Mai on 10 August 2000. Her killer was never identified, and the statute of limitations on the case ran out in 2020. A 17 August 2000 bombing at the Centrs shopping mall in Riga, the capital of Latvia, killed one person. A suspect arrested and tried for planting one of the bombs was acquitted a year later by the country's Supreme Court. No one else has ever been identified. On 24 September, 2000, 20-year-old Tina Jørgensen (NO) vanished from Stavanger, Norway. Her body was found over a month later during an unrelated search. She had been beaten to death. Loyalist paramilitarant Jackie Coulter (46) was shot and killed on 21 August 2000, along with Bobby Mahood,"Two killed in 'loyalist feud' shooting" BBC News 21 August 2000. Retrieved 19 October 2012 a former member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, while sitting in a parked car along Crumlin Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland. While the Progressive Unionist Party later admitted that the UVF, its military wing, had carried out the killings in reprisal for an attack on it by members of Coulter's rival Ulster Defence Association, no suspects have ever been named. It is believed the real target may have been Mahood's brother, Jackie, who the killers may have mistaken him for. Coulter and Bobby Mahood were reportedly trying to broker an end to Loyalist feud that claimed both their lives. The Persian Princess, or Persian Mummy, is a mummy of an alleged Persian princess who surfaced in Pakistani Baluchistan in October 2000. After considerable attention and further investigation, the mummy proved to be an archaeological forgery and possibly a murder victim. Her identity remains unknown. Bubby Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito, were two people in the Philippines who were found murdered two days after being kidnapped in November 2000.(Inquirer), (GMA Network) The people behind their killings remain unknown. Haris Brkić (26) was a Yugoslav basketball player who played for Partizan. He was shot on 15 December 2000, by an unknown assailant while unlocking his car at the parking lot in front of Pionir Hall in Belgrade. Brkić died three days later. It is still not known who had killed him. Mikio Miyazawa, his wife Yasuko, and their children Niina and Rei were murdered in their Setagaya, Tokyo home on 31 December 2000. Police were able to find a considerable amount of forensic evidence, including undigested food in excrement, that could help identify a suspect, but no arrests were ever made. The case led to the abolition of Japan's statute of limitations for murder in 2010. Gaffar Okkan (49), a Turkish police chief, was assassinated on 24 January 2001 in an ambush in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey. Jill-Lyn Euto (18), a student, was found stabbed to death in her sixth-floor apartment at 600 James St, Syracuse, New York, on 28 January 2001. No arrests have been made. Miodrag Stojanović (50), a Montenegrin Serb kickboxer and MMA fighter, with ties to organized crime, was shot and killed by an assassin at his home in Belgrade, Serbia on 18 February 2001. To this day, his killer has not been apprehended. Bonny Lee Bakley (44) was the second wife of actor Robert Blake. Bakley was fatally shot while sitting in Blake's parked car outside a Los Angeles area restaurant in May 2001. In 2002, Robert Blake was charged with Bakley's murder, solicitation of murder, conspiracy, and special circumstance of lying in wait. In March 2005, a jury found Blake not guilty of the crimes. Seven months later, Blake was found liable in a wrongful death lawsuit brought against him by Bakley's children. Officially, Bakley's murder remains unsolved. On 1 May 2001, Chandra Levy (24), a college student who had just ended an internship with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, disappeared after leaving her Washington, DC apartment building. Her remains were found on 22 May 2002 in Washington's Rock Creek Park.Reader's Digest; April 2020 issue; pages 60–61 A suspect was tried and convicted but the charges were dropped after the verdict was overturned on appeal. Peggy Knobloch (9), a girl from Lichtenberg, Bavaria, Germany, was kidnapped and murdered on 7 May 2001. Her body was found 15 years later in a forest near Wurzbach. In 2020, investigators shelved the investigation of her murder without solving it. Koby Mandell and Yosef Ishran (age 13 and 14 respectively), were two Jewish teenagers murdered on the outskirts of the Israeli settlement of Tekoa in the West Bank. The teenagers' bodies were discovered in a cave the following morning. Both had been bound, stabbed and bludgeoned to death with rocks. The identity of the perpetrators has never been determined, though Israel and a number of sources believe unidentified Palestinian terrorists were responsible. Abraham Grünbaum (71), a Polish-Israeli orthodox rabbi who led a yeshiva in Bnei Brak, was murdered while on his way to a prayer session in Zürich, Switzerland. While connections were suggested to a right-wing terrorist group, nobody has been arrested in his murder. Milan Pantić (46), a journalist for the Serbian newspaper Večernje Novosti, was shot to death in front of his apartment in Jagodina, Serbia on 11 June 2001. It's suspected that his killing was related to his work, as he had previously been threatened over the phone. The body of a 15-to-16-year-old girl, nicknamed the Girl from the Main, was found floating along the Main in Nied, Germany on 31 July 2001. She had apparently suffered serious physical abuse prior to her murder, probably over the years. The decedent is thought to originate from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area, but lived in Frankfurt am Main. In May 2026, she was identified as 16-year-old Diana S. of Offenbach. Her father was arrested on suspicion of murder. Antônio da Costa Santos (46) was a Brazilian politician and architect who on 10 September 2001 after leaving a shopping mall in São Paulo on his drive back home was shot dead during the night. Whoever shot him is unknown. Henryk Siwiak (46), a Polish immigrant to New York City, was shot and killed on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street known for its heavy drug activity, on the night of 11 September 2001. He is officially the only homicide victim in the city on that day, since the victims of the September 11 attacks are not included in crime statistics. The diversion of police resources in the aftermath of the attacks constrained the investigation. No suspects have ever been identified. Thomas C. Wales (49) was an American federal prosecutor and gun control advocate. On 11 October 2001, he was killed by a bullet fired through the window of his basement home-office in Seattle, Washington. No suspects have been charged, and the investigation continues.Federal Prosecutor and Advocate of Gun Control Is Shot to Death October 2001 Digna Ochoa (37) was a human rights lawyer in Mexico. She was born in Misantla, in the state of Veracruz; she was killed on 19 October 2001 in Mexico City. Her body was found in the law office where she worked. A note was found by her body, warning the members of the human rights law center where she had recently worked that the same thing could happen to them. Jimmy Millen (27), a doorman heavily involved in the criminal underworld, was shot outside his home in Hastings by two men on a motorcycle on 24 October 2001. No suspects have been identified, although the murder may have been related to Millen's involvement in the murder of Jason Martin-Smith two months earlier. Five people died as a result of the U.S. 2001 anthrax attacks in autumn of that year. However, no one has ever been arrested in the case. Biowarfare researcher Bruce Edwards Ivins (62) killed himself in 2008 just before he was supposedly to be charged. He was the FBI's prime suspect. Others, including some of the targets of the attacks, have disputed that conclusion, or believed he may not have been acting alone. Kent Heitholt (48), sports editor of Missouri's Columbia Daily Tribune, was found beaten and strangled in his car at the newspaper's parking lot early on 1 November 2001. Ryan W. Ferguson was convicted of the murder in 2005, despite strongly protesting his innocence; eight years later, he was released, after the two key witnesses against him said they had been pressured to lie on the stand. No other suspects have been named in the case.