Wyoming

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In 2022, 202 violent crime incidents per 100,000 residents were reported to police in Wyoming. This is nearly the same as the violent crime rate in 2012.

The crime rate in Wyoming in 2022 was 47 percent lower than the United States average.

In 2022, 52 percent of violent crimes reported to police in Wyoming were not solved. This is 12 percentage points higher than the unsolved rate in 2012.

  • Capital:  Cheyenne
  • Population:  579,315
  • Area:  97,093 sq mi
  • Violent Crime Rank:  46th
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Featured Wyoming Missing Cases

Rupert Brown

Missing: Dec 31, 2020
Rupert Leo Brown, a 42-year-old Native American man, was last seen on December 31, 2020, in the Beav ...Read More

Deborah Meyer

Missing: Aug 04, 1974
Deborah Rae Meyer, a 15-year-old girl from Red Lodge, Montana, disappeared on August 4, 1974, while ...Read More

David Crouch

Missing: Sep 07, 1997
David Milton Crouch, aged 27, was last seen on August 31, 1997, while on a hiking trip in the Bridge ...Read More

Lynn Bush

Missing: Dec 08, 1990
Lynn Bush, a 26-year-old woman from Casper, Wyoming, was last seen on December 8, 1990, when she rep ...Read More

Jose Pereda Alarcon

Missing: Sep 05, 2018
Jose DeJesus Pereda-Alarcon, 69 years old at the time, was last seen on September 5, 2018, in Rivert ...Read More

Virginia Uden

Missing: Sep 12, 1980
Virginia Uden, 32 years old at the time of her disappearance, was last seen on September 12, 1980, i ...Read More

Silas Ojeda

Missing: Oct 23, 2016
Silas Anthony Ojeda, a 13-month-old boy from Cheyenne, Wyoming, was last seen around October 22, 201 ...Read More

Rudolph Fantin

Missing: Aug 11, 1991
Rudolph David Fantin, a 38-year-old man, was last seen on August 11, 1991, near Flaming Gorge Reserv ...Read More

Paul Pedry

Missing: Jul 07, 2020
Paul Daniel Pedry, a 43-year-old man from Casper, Wyoming, was last seen on July 7, 2020, near his r ...Read More

David Lovely

Missing: Aug 05, 1985
David Vernon Lovely, 19 years old at the time, disappeared on August 5, 1985, while traveling cross- ...Read More
Featured Wyoming Murder Cases

Shawny Smith

Murdered: Feb 08, 2003
Shawny Smith, a 32-year-old mother of two living in Cheyenne, was beaten and raped. In February 200 ...Read More

Camilo Moreno

Murdered: Feb 01, 2000
Camilo Moreno was reported missing on November 27, 1999 from Westminster, CO. Shortly after he vanis ...Read More

Shawny Smith

Murdered: Feb 08, 2003
20 years after the body of a 32-year-old Cheyenne woman was found in Colorado, officials with the Wy ...Read More