South Dakota

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In 2022, 377 violent crime incidents per 100,000 residents were reported to police in South Dakota. This is 16 percent higher than the violent crime rate in 2012.

The crime rate in South Dakota in 2022 was 1 percent lower than the United States average.

In 2022, 45 percent of violent crimes reported to police in South Dakota were not solved. This is 16 percentage points lower than the unsolved rate in 2012.

  • Capital:  Pierre
  • Population:  878,698
  • Area:  77,116 sq mi
  • Violent Crime Rank:  22nd
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Featured South Dakota Missing Cases

Beverly Ozuna-Ulrich

Missing: Oct 17, 2003
Beverly Ann Ozuna-Ulrich has been missing since October 17, 2003. She was last seen at her home in B ...Read More

Sharon Baldeagle

Missing: Sep 18, 1984
Sharon ran away from her hometown of Eagle Butte, South Dakota on September 18, 1984, along with a f ...Read More

Serenity Dennard

Missing: Feb 03, 2019
Serenity was last seen February 3, 2019 leaving the Black Hills Children's Home at 24100 S. Roc ...Read More

Susan Fast Eagle

Missing: May 03, 2021
Fast Eagle was last seen in the Memorial Park area of Rapid City, South Dakota on May 3, 2021. She w ...Read More

Catherine Tornquist

Missing: Oct 04, 2011
Catherine was last seen in Hot Springs, South Dakota between 6:00 and 7:00 a.m. on October 5, 2011. ...Read More

Franklin Little Bear

Missing: Aug 01, 1980
Little Bear boarded a bus with a female companion in Mobridge, South Dakota on August 1, 1980. The b ...Read More

Linda Law

Missing: Aug 16, 2002
Law was last seen in Pierre, South Dakota on August 16, 2002. She became upset at work and left. She ...Read More

Lloyd Bald Eagle

Missing: Nov 01, 2022
Lloyd is from Eagle Butte, SD but is believed to have recently been staying in the Rapid City, SD ar ...Read More

Perry Robinson Jr.

Missing: Apr 01, 1973
A civil Rights Activist, MP travelled to South Dakota from Alabama, to participate in the American I ...Read More

Terry Good Voice Elk

Missing: Nov 14, 1991
Terry was last seen on 11/14/1991 in Rapid City, SD. ...Read More
Featured South Dakota Death by Force Cases

Monica Bercier-Wickre

Death: Apr 07, 1993
Monica Bercier-Wickre, a 42-year-old Indigenous woman from Aberdeen, South Dakota, was last seen on ...Read More

Joseph Bedell Stuntz

Death: Jun 26, 1975
On June 26, 1975, a confrontation occurred on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, res ...Read More

Samuel Louis Crockett

Death: Jan 05, 2018
On January 5, 2018, 28-year-old Samuel Louis Crockett was fatally shot in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ...Read More

Cassandra “Cassy” Clark

Death: Dec 04, 2021
On December 4, 2021, Cassandra "Cassy" Clark, a 36-year-old resident of Kadoka, South Dakota, was tr ...Read More

Tanisha AdaLynn Bruguier

Death: Sep 04, 2024
On the night of September 4, 2024, Sioux Falls police responded to reports of gunshots at a mobile h ...Read More

Ashley Nagy

Death: Aug 24, 2020
On August 24, 2020, 29-year-old Ashley Syrena Nagy was found shot to death alongside 26-year-old Cha ...Read More

Kade Zee Potter

Death: Nov 29, 2024
On November 29, 2024, 16-year-old Kade Zee Potter of Box Elder, South Dakota, was fatally shot in a ...Read More

Brian Gerard Garrett

Death: Feb 10, 2018
On February 10, 2018, in Kyle, South Dakota, 52-year-old Brian Gerard Garrett, a police officer with ...Read More

Kailey Westerhuis

Death: Sep 17, 2015
On September 17, 2015, in Platte, South Dakota, nine-year-old Kailey Grace Westerhuis was tragically ...Read More

Lakendrick Thornton

Death: Sep 19, 2018
On September 18, 2018, 40-year-old LaKendrick J. Thornton of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was fatally ...Read More

Tawny Rockwood

Death: Feb 09, 2018
On February 9, 2018, 25-year-old Tawny LaRae Rockwood was found deceased in her Andover, South Dakot ...Read More