List Of Unsolved Murders (1980–1999)

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

1980–1984

* Jeannie Mills (39) was a female early defector from the Peoples Temple along with her husband and teenage daughter, who were all murdered on 26 February 1980 in front of their Berkeley, California home. The murder is still unsolved.
* Philadelphia mob boss Angelo Bruno (69) was killed by a shotgun blast to the back of his head as he sat in his car in front of his South Philadelphia house on 21 March 1980. Antonio Caponigro, one of Bruno's underlings, is believed to have ordered the killing over a drug dispute; since the murder had not been sanctioned by the Commission, Caponigro himself was reputedly killed on its orders within a month. However, no suspects have ever been identified as having actually shot Bruno.
* Óscar Romero, the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, was killed by a shot to the heart on 24 March 1980, while celebrating Mass at a small chapel located in a hospital. It is believed but was never proven that the assassins were members of Salvadoran death squads. During the funeral a bomb exploded in Plaza Barrios fronting San Salvador Cathedral and shots were fired. Many people were killed during the subsequent mass panic.
* The naked and beaten body of Philadelphia mobster Antonio Caponigro (68), nicknamed "Tony Bananas", was found in the trunk of a car in the Bronx on 18 April 1980, along with that of his brother-in-law Alfred Salerno. He was believed to have ordered the killing of his own boss, Angelo Bruno, a month earlier over a drug dispute; since he had not gotten the approval of the Commission he was himself killed at their order. No suspects have ever been named.
* Dorothy Jane Scott (32) disappeared on 28 May 1980 in Anaheim, California after heading to pick up a colleague who had been discharged from the hospital following treatment for a spider bite. Her car was found burnt out in an alleyway from the hospital the following morning, and her decomposed remains were discovered in August 1984. Her murderer and cause of death remain unknown, but police believe an unidentified male who stalked Scott with harassing phone calls prior to her disappearance and subsequent murder is the likely suspect.
* War saxophonist Charles Miller (41), who co-wrote and sang their hit "Low Rider", was killed during a robbery in Los Angeles on 14 June 1980. No suspects have ever been identified.
* The explosion that killed all 81 on board Itavia Flight 870 near the Italian island of Ustica on 27 June 1980 has been variously attributed to a bomb or a missile strike. Whatever the cause, the investigations have been criticized as ineffective, and no culprits identified. There has also been a series of suspicious deaths, murders or suicides among people involved in or investigating the case, further raising suspicion of a conspiracy.
* Troy Leon Gregg (32), the first condemned individual whose death sentence was upheld by the United States Supreme Court after the ''Furman v. Georgia'' ruling invalidated all previously enacted death penalty laws in the United States, escaped from Georgia State Prison in Reidsville, Georgia along with three other death row inmates and convicted murderers on 29 July 1980. Gregg's body was found in the Catawba River later that night; he had died as a result of suffocation. One theory suggests that Gregg was killed in a biker bar in North Carolina after attempting to assault a waitress. Another theory suggests that Gregg was murdered after getting into an argument with one of his fellow escapees, Timothy McCorquodale, and James Cecil Horne, a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club. Horne was initially charged with Gregg's murder, with William Flamont being charged as an accessory to the crime. All charges against Horne and Flamont were later dropped due to lack of evidence.
* Tammy Terrell, a formerly unidentified seventeen-year-old, was discovered on 5 October 1980, in Henderson, Nevada. Authorities believe she may have been the victim of human trafficking.
* Giorgio Agatino Giamonna (25), and Antonio Galatola (15) were two young homosexual males discovered deceased in Giarre, Italy on 31 October 1980. Both had been shot in the head and were discovered holding hands. The perpetrator of the murders was never identified, but is believed to have been the 13-year-old nephew of one of the victims. The deaths of Giamonna and Galatola ultimately led to the widespread recognition of homophobia among the Italian public and the strengthening and recognition of Italian gay rights movements.
* Dean and Tina Clouse, whose decomposing remains were found outside of Houston in January 1981, but were not identified until 2021. Their infant daughter, Holly Marie, was not found with their bodies, and was later located alive in Oklahoma in 2022. It was discovered that Holly Marie had been abandoned at a church in Arizona by members of an unknown Jesus freak cult, who are now considered the main suspects in the murders of Dean and Tina.
* Another Philadelphia mobster believed to have been involved in the Angelo Bruno assassination, Frank Sindone (52), was found dead with three gunshot wounds in the back of his head in a South Philadelphia alley on 29 October 1980. His death is believed to have been ordered by the Commission as punishment for the unsanctioned killing of Bruno, but no suspects have ever been identified.

* Sherri Jarvis is a formerly unidentified 14-year-old girl whose body was found on 1 November 1980, in Huntsville, Texas, United States. A possible runaway matching her description was reported by a witness to have asked for directions to a prison unit, to which she never arrived. She was killed by strangulation and beating, also being sexually assaulted.
* Goh Beng Choo, an eight-year-old girl whose body was found in a village in Bukit Batok, Singapore on 19 November 1980. She had died of a ruptured liver resulting from blows to her abdomen, and had been sexually assaulted before her death.
* Carol Cole (17) was discovered stabbed to death in Bellevue, Louisiana in January 1981, after her 1980 disappearance. Her body was identified in February 2015. The man who found her, now in prison for killing his wife, is considered a person of interest.
* Sebastian Russo (56) was a primary care physician from Baltimore, Maryland. He was shot and killed in his office on the evening of 27 February 1981. The only clues indicated that a patient and possibly an accomplice targeted him for his supply of prescription drugs. No suspects have ever been identified.
* Philip Testa (56), known as "The Chicken Man", was killed when a nail bomb exploded under his porch as he stepped into his Philadelphia house on 15 March 1981, the second local mob boss to be assassinated within a year. At the time he and several associates were under federal indictment for their activities; Testa's killing sparked a four-year war for control that left 30 other mobsters dead. Two of Testa's underbosses have been described as responsible; however, no actual suspects have ever been named.
*The Shinjuku–Kabukicho Love Hotel murders are the murders of three young Japanese females that took place of three different occasions on 19 March 1981, on 25 April 1981, and on 14 June 1981, in Tokyo at nighttime at love hotels, The three murders are believed to have been committed by the same person who is believed to be a male, who has never been identified or captured.
* Thor Nis Christiansen (23) was a Danish-American serial killer from Solvang, California. He committed his first three murders in late 1976 and early 1977, killing young women of similar appearance from nearby Isla Vista. His crimes motivated large demonstrations opposed to violence against women, and in favor of better transportation for the young people residing in Isla Vista. On 30 March 1981, Christiansen died after being stabbed in the exercise yard at Folsom State Prison. His killer was not identified.
* The Keddie murders, in which four people were found dead in Keddie, California on 11 April (and possibly into 12 April) 1981.
* Brenda Gerow (21) was found murdered in early April 1981 in Tucson, Arizona. Her body remained unidentified until 2015 after a photograph of her was found in a convicted killer's possession and led police to believe she was the unidentified victim, based on a resemblance to a facial reconstruction. Gerow was subsequently identified to be the girl in the picture and later confirmed to be the victim through DNA tests. The man who possessed her photograph is considered a person of interest and her murder remains unsolved.
* Marcia King (21), who had been nicknamed "Buckskin Girl" prior to her identification in 2018, was found in Troy, Ohio on 23 April 1981. She had been beaten and strangled to death.
* Mostafa Chamran (48) was an Iranian physicist, politician, commander and guerrilla fighter who was killed on 21 June 1981 in Dehlavieh, during the Iran–Iraq War. The mystery behind his murder remains largely unsolved.
* Raymond Nels Nelson (79) was Administrative Assistant to Senator Claiborne Pell and former bureau chief of ''The Providence Journal'', Rhode Island. He was found bludgeoned to death with a typewriter in his Washington, D.C. apartment on 1 June 1981.
* Wonderland murders are four unsolved murders that occurred in Los Angeles on 1 July 1981. It is assumed that six people were targeted to be killed in the known drug house of the Wonderland Gang, five were present, and four of those five died from extensive blunt-force trauma injuries: Billy DeVerell, Ron Launius, Joy Miller and Barbara Richardson. Launius' wife, Susan Launius, survived the attack. The attack was allegedly masterminded by organized crime figure and nightclub owner Eddie Nash. He, his henchman Gregory DeWitt Diles, and porn star John Holmes were at various times arrested, tried, and acquitted for their involvement in the murders.
* Ken McElroy (47), long considered the "town bully" of Skidmore, Missouri, was shot dead while in the cab of his pickup truck on 10 July 1981. None of the 46 potential witnesses to the crime have ever come forward to identify a suspect.
* Vishal Mehrotra (8) was abducted from Putney, South London on 29 July 1981. Vishal's partial remains were discovered 25 February 1982, on an isolated farm in Sussex. His murder remains unsolved.
* The Setiabudi 13 case refers to an unidentified male who was murdered and mutilated discovered dead on the sidewalk of Jalan Jenderal Sudirman, Setiabudi, South Jakarta on 23 November 1981. The case has now gone cold and his killer is unknown.
* Zoya Fyodorova (73) was a Russian film star who had an affair with American Navy captain Jackson Tate in 1945 and bore a child, Victoria Fyodorova, in January 1946. Having rejected the advances of NKVD police head Lavrentiy Beria, the affair was exposed resulting, initially, in a death sentence later reprieved to work camp imprisonment in Siberia; she was released after eight years. She was murdered in her Moscow apartment on 11 December 1981. The murder remains unsolved.
* Dana Bradley (14) disappeared while hitchhiking in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on 14 December 1981. Her body was found four days later in a wooded area south of St. John's. An intense and highly publicized investigation followed, and in 1986 a man confessed to her murder, but later recanted. , the case remains open and unsolved.
* Jorge Sangumba (37–38) served as the Foreign Minister of UNITA during the Angolan War of Independence. It is believed that Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA, allegedly ordered Sangumba's assassination along with several other potential rivals for leadership of UNITA during the Angolan Civil War in 1982. The murder has been investigated, but nothing has been found out and remains unsolved.
* Marcel Francisci (62), a French member of the Union Corse criminal organization who created the French Connection drug pipeline, was shot fatally as he walked to his car from his Paris apartment on 16 January 1982. No suspects have ever been identified.
* Andrea Buchanan (26) was an American professional female tennis player who was shot and later died on 28 January 1982 in the Los Angeles fish market, where she worked. Her murder remains unsolved.
* Carolyn Eaton (17), formerly known as Valentine Sally, was an unidentified female discovered along I-40 in Arizona on 14 February 1982. She had likely been seen at a truck stop with an older male early in the morning on 4 February and had been murdered soon after. No suspects have ever been identified, but the case is treated as a homicide.
* The severed head and dismembered remains of Nava Elimelech (11) were found in plastic bags at the beaches in Herzliya and Tel Baruch, Israel on 20 March 1982. She had likely been murdered in her hometown of Bat Yam that same day; despite extensive searches and several arrests, the murderer remains unknown.
* Jim Bradley (29) was an American basketball player from East Chicago, Indiana who was shot dead on 20 February 1982 in Portland, Oregon. Whoever killed him is unknown, but it is known to be drug related.
* Seventeen Hindu monks and nuns were killed and subsequently burned by a mob in the Bijon Setu massacre, possibly over rumours of child-trafficking. No arrests were ever made.
* Rusty Day (36) was an American singer who was fatally shot at his home on 3 June 1982. His son, his dog, and Garth McRae were also fatally shot during the same attack. The murder officially remains unsolved, although the Seminole County Sheriff's Office believe the victims may have known the perpetrator, and that the killings may have been drug-related.
* Roberto Calvi (62), CEO of Banco Ambrosiano, was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London on 17 June 1982. Initially considered a suicide, authorities later changed their minds and investigated it as a homicide. An Italian court acquitted five defendants in 2009; charges against a sixth defendant were later dropped.
* Dawn Olanick (17), who was formerly known as "Princess Doe", was a teenage girl from West Babylon, New York who went missing on 24 June 1982 and was found dead on 15 July 1982 in Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blairstown, New Jersey after being murdered. Her murder remains unsolved.
* Thomas Oscar Freeman was murdered at the age of 35 sometime in July 1982 by an unidentified individual by multiple gunshots. His decomposing body was found in a shallow grave on 30 October 1982. In February 2022, it was revealed that Freeman himself had murdered 32-year-old Lee Rotatori on 25 June 1982, by stabbing her in the heart. Authorities believe the two murders are connected.
* The body of a strangled teenage girl, found on 1 July 1982 outside Baytown, Texas, remained unidentified for 32 years. In 2014, the corpse's DNA was matched to Michelle Garvey (15), a runaway from Connecticut. The investigation is ongoing.
* Rachael Runyan (3) was abducted from a park near her home in Sunset, Utah on 26 August 1982. Her body was found three weeks later in a creek approximately away. Her murder remains unsolved.
* The bodies of seven people were found on board the remains of the fishing vessel ''Investor'' after it burned off the coast of Craig, Alaska, on 7 September 1982; a coroner's jury found that an eighth known to have been on board died as well even though their remains were not found, and that the fire had been set. Two years later, police arrested a former crewman and charged him with murder and arson. After the first trial ended in a hung jury, he was acquitted in 1988. No other suspects have ever been named.
* Kristina Diane Nelson (21), and her stepsister, Jacqueline Ann "Brandy" Miller (18), were found dead in a rural area near Kendrick, Idaho. Nelson and Miller had vanished from Lewiston, Idaho on 12 September 1982. Stephen Pearsall (35), who knew the sisters and disappeared the same night, was never located and may also have been killed. Police link their deaths with a cluster of other disappearances and murders occurring in the Lewiston–Clarkston metropolitan area between 1979 and 1982.
* The body of Alisha Heinrich was discovered on 5 December 1982, in the Escatawpa River in Moss Point, Mississippi. The child would remain unidentified for nearly 38 years; she had disappeared alongside her mother, Gwendolyn Clemons, about eleven days before. Clemons' remains have never been recovered.
* The FBI continues to investigate the Chicago Tylenol murders, which took place in late 1982, but has not identified any suspects.
* On 20 January 1983, three days before he was to be sentenced for attempting to bribe a U.S. Senator, Allen Dorfman (60), an insurance agency owner, and close associate of Jimmy Hoffa believed to have ties to the Chicago Outfit, was shot to death in a Lincolnwood, Illinois, hotel parking lot. While it is believed he was killed by former associates to prevent him from offering information about them in exchange for a reduced sentence, no suspects have ever been named.
* Sheila Anderson (27) was run over and killed on the promenade at Gypsy Brae in Edinburgh on 7 February 1983. Anderson, a sex worker, was in the habit of standing in front of client's cars if they did not pay her to stop them from leaving, and it is suspected that her killer may have run her over after such a confrontation.
* St. Louis Jane Doe is the name given an unidentified girl who was found murdered in an abandoned house on 28 February 1983 in St. Louis, Missouri. She has also been nicknamed Hope and the Little Jane Doe. The victim was estimated to be between eight and eleven when she was murdered and is believed to have been killed by strangulation. She was raped and decapitated. The brutality of the crime has led to national attention.
* Peter Ivers, television host and musician, was found bludgeoned to death in his Los Angeles apartment on 3 March 1983. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) failed to properly secure the crime scene and the murder was never solved, although on the basis of new information found in the book ''In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of New Wave Theatre'' (2008) by Josh Frank and Charlie Buckholtz, the LAPD has reopened their investigation into Ivers' death.
* Brian Stack (47) was an Irish chief prison officer at Portlaoise Prison, who on 25 March 1983 was shot in the neck by unknown members of the Provisional IRA and died a year and six months later from pneumonia, after he was taken to the hospital. His murder remains unsolved.
* On 10 April 1983, Palestine Liberation Organization peace negotiator Issam Sartawi (48) was shot and killed in the lobby of a Portuguese hotel while attending that year's Socialist International conference. The Abu Nidal organization later claimed responsibility, but no arrests have ever been made.
* On 10 May 1983, Nancy Argentino (23), the girlfriend and mistress at the time of professional wrestler Jimmy Snuka, died from being attacked in the hotel room where they were staying. Thirty-two years later Snuka was indicted and arrested in September 2015 on third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges, in relation to Argentino's death. Snuka pleaded not guilty, but was ultimately found unfit to stand trial in June 2016 due to being diagnosed with dementia. As his health declined, the charges were dismissed on 3 January 2017, and he died twelve days later from stomach cancer.
* Prithipal Singh (51), an Indian man who played field hockey, was shot dead on 20 May 1983 at the Punjab Agricultural University located in Ludhiana, and it is disputed who the killers were.
* While Dursun Aksoy (39), an administrative attaché at the Turkish embassy in Brussels, Belgium, was starting his car on Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 14 July 1983, a man walked up to him and shot him twice in the head; he died almost instantly. Two militant Armenian groups claimed responsibility, but no one has ever been charged. The murder remains unsolved.
* George Murdoch (58), a taxi driver from Aberdeen, was strangled to death with cheese wire on 29 September 1983 by a passenger who then stole his wallet. The killer's DNA was recovered in 2023, but could not be matched to a suspect.
* Two German tourists, Andrea Scherpf (23) and Bernd Göricke (27), were shot to death in Chetwynd, British Columbia on 3 October 1983 by the unidentified driver of a car that had picked the two of them up. Two separate suspects were named, including one who stood trial for the crime three times, but both were cleared by DNA evidence.
* 25-year-old cocktail waitress Heide Marie Villarreal-Fye was last seen alive at a convenience store located off of West Main Street and Hobbs in League City, Texas on 10 October 1983. On 4 April 1984, Heidi's remains were discovered after a dog brought her skull to a nearby house in Calder Field on the 3000 block of Calder Road near League City. The medical examiner determined that Heidi had broken ribs and had been beaten with a club; she is believed to have died from blunt force trauma to the head.
* On 13 November 1983, Canadian mobster Paul Volpe (56) was murdered and found dead the next day in the trunk of his wife's BMW at Toronto Pearson International Airport; Pietro Scarcella is said to have been the last person to see Volpe alive before his unsolved murder. Johnny Papalia has also been linked with Volpe's death, but no charges were laid.Schneider, ''Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada'', pp. 537
* Ruth Waymire (24) was an American female murder victim who went missing on Spokane, Washington in 1984, and whose partial remains were found on 20 June 1984. Her skull was found in 1998 also in Spokane. Her killer is unknown.
* Karl Brugger (41) was a German foreign correspondent for the ARD network and author, best known for his book ''The Chronicle of Akakor'' about the alleged lost city of Akakor that was published in 1976. Brugger was shot down in Rio de Janeiro on 3 January 1984, after being shot several times while walking with his friend Ulrich Encke at Ipanema beach. Neither his killer, nor the motive for his killing is known.
* On the morning of 14 April 1984, the body of a male infant, its neck broken and repeatedly stabbed, was found on the beach at Cahersiveen in Ireland's County Kerry. Later named Baby John, the police investigation became known as the Kerry Babies case after it led to a young woman in nearby Abbeydorney who was mistakenly charged with the crime along with her family. While she had in fact hidden the corpse of a baby she gave birth to who died of undetermined causes shortly afterwards, she was found to have no connection to the Cahirseveen baby, whose identity and killer remains unknown.
* Gérard Lebovici (51), a French film producer, was found in his car on 7 March 1984, in a Paris parking garage. He had been shot several times two days earlier. No suspects have ever been identified.
* Hukum Singh (32), who was also known as "Tutu Bana", was found murdered on 17 April 1984 after being hacked to death by someone who had used Singh's own sword.
* Vernon County Jane Doe was an unidentified victim was found on 4 May 1984, near Westby, Wisconsin. Her hands were severed and never found.
* Catrine da Costa was a Swedish sex worker. Parts of her dismembered body were found just outside Stockholm, in Solna, during the summer of 1984. Her murder remains unsolved.
* Ong King Hock (26), a Singaporean lorry driver, was held hostage by an armed robber and gunman Khor Kok Soon, who forced Ong to help him escape after he engaged in a gunfight with police officers at Singapore's Shenton Way on 30 July 1984. Afterwards, Ong was found dead inside his abandoned lorry at Teo Hong Road, with a gaping bullet wound on the right side of his neck. Ong's death was ruled as murder in the coroner's verdict in 1998, with Khor, who escaped to Malaysia, being the prime suspect. Although Khor was arrested in 2003 and later sentenced to death for discharging his firearm under the Arms Offences Act, he was never brought to trial for Ong's murder, as the prosecution had withdrawn the preliminary murder charge against Khor before he was hanged.
* The strangled bodies of Margaret Tapp (35) and her daughter Seana (9) were found at their home in Melbourne's Ferntree Gully neighborhood on 7 August 1984; Seana had been sexually assaulted. Two suspects were cleared after their DNA did not match that left at the scene; the case was reopened in the 2010s.
* Lenny Breau (42) was a music teacher and guitarist. His body was found floating in the swimming pool at his Los Angeles apartment complex on 12 August 1984; the coroner's office found that he had been strangled. While his wife was suspected, she was never charged, and no one else has been.Forbes-Robert, Ron. (2006). "One Long Tune: the life and music of Lenny Breau". Denton, TX. University of North Texas Press. .
* Laura Lynn Miller (16) was last seen alive on 10 September 1984, using a payphone to call her boyfriend at the same convenience store in League City, Texas where 25-year-old Heide Marie Villarreal-Fye was last seen a year earlier. Miller's remains were found on 2 February 1986, 60 feet from where police discovered Villarreal-Fye's remains.
* After an anonymous caller to the house of Grégory Villemin (4), of Lépanges-sur-Vologne, France, told his family on 16 October 1984, he had taken the boy, who had been playing unsupervised in front of the house, a search found Grégory's body, bound and gagged, in the Vologne River away, where he had apparently been drowned (although the autopsy suggested the drowning had occurred in a different body of water). This began a case that has continued to receive extensive national media attention. An anonymous note suggesting the writer had killed the boy led to the arrest of Bernard Laroche, a Villemin cousin, who was now suspected of having written a long string of threatening anonymous letters to members of the family, socially and economically prominent in that area of the Vosges. Grégory's father, Jean-Marie, shot and killed Laroche several months later; he would serve several years in prison as a result. Handwriting experts then linked Grégory's mother to the notes; she was charged with the murders but, after seven years and two trials, acquitted. Efforts to recover DNA from the principal evidence in the early 21st century failed, but in 2017 three of Grégory's other relatives were charged, although police say they do not yet know who actually killed him.
* Günther Stoll, a German food-engineer, is suspected to have been murdered under strange circumstances on 26 October 1984, after leaving behind the cryptic message "YOGTZE".
* Leon Burns (42) was an American football running back who was shot dead in southeast Los Angeles, California on 22 December 1984 by persons unknown, and the murder remains unsolved.

1985–1989

* Nathan Blenner (20) was an American man who was kidnapped in 1985 in Queens, New York and later found dead after being shot in the head. Two teenagers were convicted of killing him, but they were later proven innocent and exonerated. The real killer is unknown.
* The bombing of a Madrid restaurant on 12 April 1985 killed 18, making it at the time the deadliest terrorist attack in Spain since the Spanish Civil War. Responsibility has been claimed by both domestic groups such as the ETA and radical Muslim groups, all of whom it is believed may have been wanting to target the restaurant since it was popular with U.S. Air Force personnel from a nearby base. The investigation is continuing.
* Winnifred Teo (18) was found dead on 22 May 1985 on the Old Holland Road in Singapore after being stabbed to death and may also have been raped, after failing to return home the night before after going jogging. The case has never been solved.
* In May 1985, two older women were murdered in New York City hotels just days and blocks apart, one with 'an axe-like weapon' and the other a 'blunt instrument'. On 25 May 1985, Janet C. Scott, 85, was found murdered in her room at the Bryant Hotel, a residential hotel. She suffered a few wounds to her head, believed to be caused by an axe, machete, or cleaver. The suspected motive was robbery. Five days later, 58-year-old Ruth Potdevin, of Ridgewood, New Jersey, was found murdered in her room at the Dorset Hotel located at 30 West 54th Street, near Fifth Avenue, just two blocks away from the Bryant. Ruth's husband found her body in the hotel room after she failed to return after going to the room to change clothes for a luncheon. Both women bore similar wounds on her skull and a similar ritualistic procedure was performed with a shorn piece of her hair and scalp. Credit cards had been taken from Ruth's wallet, and just one day following the murder, a man and woman were seen using one of the credit cards in a camera store in Times Square. There were suspect composites created of the individuals who used Ruth's credit cards, but they were likely not the murderers. Neither case was ever solved.
* Tony "Spaghetti" Eustace, Australian fugitive, was found murdered on 23 April 1985, after he had been shot six times. He was found dead by two schoolchildren who were returning home from sports training at about 7 pm. The murder remains unsolved.
* In June 1985, a bomb at Germany's Frankfurt Airport killed three, with several Islamic organizations taking credit; the Abu Nidal Organization is believed to have been the real perpetrator, but no arrests have ever been made.
* Haruo Ignacio Remeliik (52) was a politician from Palau. He served as the first President of Palau from 2 March 1981, until his assassination on 30 June 1985. In March 2000, former presidential candidate and convicted felon John O. Ngiraked claimed responsibility for the conspiracy to kill Remeliik, but has not yet been charged with his murder, so the case is officially unsolved.
* On 1 July, a bombing of several international airline offices in Madrid was followed by a submachine gun attack on another nearby airline office, killing one. Representatives of several Muslim groups claimed credit; it is today believed by some to have been perpetrated by the Abu Nidal Organization. No individual suspects have ever been identified.
* The Rev. Niall Molloy (52), a Catholic priest, was found beaten to death in the master bedroom of Kilcoursey House in Clara, County Offaly, Ireland on 8 July 1985. There were signs of a struggle and evidence that the body had been moved. Richard Flynn, the owner and a longtime friend of Molloy's, confessed the killing to the garda but, at trial, the judge granted the defense a directed verdict of not guilty after merely four hours, believing the medical evidence insufficient to support a manslaughter charge. A coroner's jury later found that Molloy died of head injuries, which led to calls to reopen the case. In subsequent years, it emerged that the investigation had been perfunctory, leaving much evidence unexamined and witness uninterviewed; a 2011 review of the surviving medical evidence found it highly likely that Molloy had survived his injuries for several hours, which raised the question of why emergency services were not called until after he was dead. In 2015 the Irish government declined to open a review, since many of the original witnesses had since died and it did not think any new information would be obtained; Molloy's relatives felt otherwise.
* Ellen Rae Simpson Beason (29), was last seen with friends on 29 July 1985 at the Texas Moon Club in League City, Texas, where she met local construction worker Clyde Hedrick. Later that evening she told her friends that she and Hedrick had made plans to go swimming. Beason's decomposed remains were discovered underneath a sofa in a wooded area beside Old Causeway Road in Galveston County, Texas. Though the medical examiner was initially unable to determine the cause of death, upon the exhumation of Beason's remains in 2012, it was ruled that she had suffered several severe skull fractures.
* The Mineral, Washington murders which the media has called "the Tube Sock Killings" is a series of unsolved murders that occurred in between 12 August 1985 to 12 December 1985 in the remote areas of Lewis and Pierce County, Washington, located close to the remote community of Mineral, Washington. It involves the murders of couple Steven Harkins (27) and Ruth Cooper (42), who had left their Tacoma, Washington home for a weekend camping trip at Tule Lake in Pierce County. And also couple Mike Riemer (36) and Diana Robertson (21), and their daughter, Crystal Louise Robertson (2), who had left their Tacoma home on 12 December 1985 to travel to Pierce County, as they sought to find a camp site near the Nisqually River. Everyone involved was found dead over periods of time as they were all murdered and the murder cases became publicized widely, and in 1989 were featured on the television series ''Unsolved Mysteries''. Whoever the killers were was never discovered, so the murders remain unsolved.
* Tscherim Soobzokov (61) was a Circassian man accused of collaborating with Nazi Germany during the invasion of the Soviet Union and serving as a ''Waffen-SS'' officer. Soobzokov denied these charges and sued CBS and ''The New York Times''. On 15 August 1985, a pipe bomb set outside his home in Paterson, New Jersey