Name: Missouri Missing Persons and Unsolved Homicide Statistics
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Cases by type

Missing Persons 804 701 still missing

Deaths by Force 6,506 6,279 unsolved

Unidentified Remains 133 111 unidentified

Unclaimed Persons 45 45 unclaimed

Serial Killer Profiles 26

Mass Murders 2

By state & province

Cases per state and per 100,000 residents, a shaded state-by-state list, top cities, and Indigenous missing and murdered (MMIP) by state.

Cases by state and province

Click a state or province to see its statistics. All case types.

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State / province	Missing	Missing per 100k	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force per 100k	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified per 100k	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed per 100k	Unclaimed claimed %	Serial killer profiles	Mass murders	All cases	All per 100k
Missouri MO	804	13.06	12.8%	6,506	105.70	3.4%	133	2.16	16.5%	45	0.73	0%	26	2	7,516	122.11

Per 100,000 residents: 2020 U.S. Census / 2021 Canadian Census populations. "%" columns are the share of that type's cases marked located / solved / identified / claimed.

Top cities by open cases

Missing, deaths by force, unidentified and unclaimed cases, by the city recorded on the case.

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City	State	Cases	Open	Solved / resolved	Solved / resolved %
Saint-louis	MO	1,895	1,865	28	1.5%
Kansas-city	MO	1,194	1,155	39	3.3%
St. Louis	MO	1,072	980	92	8.6%
Kansas City	MO	771	740	31	4%
Saint Louis	MO	216	214	2	0.9%
Springfield	MO	195	181	14	7.2%
Columbia	MO	140	136	4	2.9%
Independence	MO	124	116	8	6.5%
Florissant	MO	85	80	5	5.9%
Joplin	MO	81	79	2	2.5%
Cape-girardeau	MO	45	45	0	0%
Saint-joseph	MO	37	36	1	2.7%
Jefferson-city	MO	29	29	0	0%
Hazelwood	MO	24	22	2	8.3%
Grandview	MO	23	22	1	4.3%
Sikeston	MO	21	19	2	9.5%
Saint-charles	MO	20	19	1	5%
Berkeley	MO	21	18	3	14.3%
Fenton	MO	19	18	1	5.3%
Blue-springs	MO	18	18	0	0%
Moberly	MO	17	16	1	5.9%
Lees-summit	MO	17	16	1	5.9%
Raytown	MO	17	15	2	11.8%
Lebanon	MO	17	15	2	11.8%
Charleston	MO	15	15	0	0%
University City	MO	15	15	0	0%
Poplar-bluff	MO	16	14	2	12.5%
Ferguson	MO	16	14	2	12.5%
Clinton	MO	14	14	0	0%
Neosho	MO	13	13	0	0%
Bridgeton	MO	13	12	1	7.7%
Carthage	MO	12	12	0	0%
Sullivan	MO	11	11	0	0%
Belton	MO	11	11	0	0%
Sedalia	MO	11	11	0	0%
St Louis	MO	11	10	1	9.1%
Warrensburg	MO	10	10	0	0%
Branson	MO	13	9	4	30.8%
Rolla	MO	11	9	2	18.2%
Aurora	MO	10	9	1	10%

Indigenous missing and murdered (MMIP), by state / province

Cases where the person is recorded as American Indian, Alaska Native, Indigenous or First Nations. 6 missing persons were reported missing from tribal land (4 still missing).

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State / province	Missing	Still missing	Deaths by force	Unsolved	Unidentified / unclaimed	Total
Missouri	2	2	2	2	1	5

By decade & year

Cases by decade and year, the solved share by decade (the “cold case curve”), and seasonality by month and day of the week.

Cases by decade

Stacked by case type.

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Decade	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Serial Killers	Mass Murders	Missing located %	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed claimed %
Before 1900	0	7	0	0	3	0	–	0%	–	–
1900s	0	43	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1910s	0	4	0	0	2	0	–	0%	–	–
1920s	0	3	0	0	2	0	–	0%	–	–
1930s	0	14	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1940s	0	0	1	0	0	0	–	–	0%	–
1950s	0	10	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1960s	7	4	2	0	2	0	0%	0%	0%	–
1970s	27	30	5	0	2	0	3.7%	0%	20%	–
1980s	44	70	15	0	10	0	2.3%	0%	6.7%	–
1990s	66	53	28	0	2	0	0%	0%	10.7%	–
2000s	110	360	14	7	2	1	8.2%	0.6%	7.1%	0%
2010s	174	3,133	31	10	0	0	12.6%	1.9%	9.7%	0%
2020s	376	2,775	37	28	1	1	18.6%	5.8%	35.1%	0%

Decade of the date last seen (missing), date of death (deaths by force), date found (unidentified / unclaimed), first year active (serial killers) or date of the attack (mass murders).

Solved / resolved share by decade

The “cold case curve”: the share of each decade’s cases now marked solved, located, identified or claimed (decades with fewer than 10 cases are left out).

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Decade	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Serial Killers	Mass Murders	Missing located %	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed claimed %
Before 1900	0	7	0	0	3	0	–	0%	–	–
1900s	0	43	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1910s	0	4	0	0	2	0	–	0%	–	–
1920s	0	3	0	0	2	0	–	0%	–	–
1930s	0	14	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1940s	0	0	1	0	0	0	–	–	0%	–
1950s	0	10	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1960s	7	4	2	0	2	0	0%	0%	0%	–
1970s	27	30	5	0	2	0	3.7%	0%	20%	–
1980s	44	70	15	0	10	0	2.3%	0%	6.7%	–
1990s	66	53	28	0	2	0	0%	0%	10.7%	–
2000s	110	360	14	7	2	1	8.2%	0.6%	7.1%	0%
2010s	174	3,133	31	10	0	0	12.6%	1.9%	9.7%	0%
2020s	376	2,775	37	28	1	1	18.6%	5.8%	35.1%	0%

Decade of the date last seen (missing), date of death (deaths by force), date found (unidentified / unclaimed), first year active (serial killers) or date of the attack (mass murders).

Cases by year (last 50 years)

Recent years include many newly added cases; older years are more likely to be resolved and removed from public databases.

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Cases by month

Seasonality: month of the case date (only cases with a full date).

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Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Jan	56	531	9	6	0
Feb	51	415	7	4	1
Mar	64	497	9	4	1
Apr	80	508	24	2	0
May	81	577	15	2	0
Jun	75	602	8	2	0
Jul	81	640	12	1	0
Aug	65	614	6	5	0
Sep	63	549	9	4	0
Oct	64	515	17	5	0
Nov	68	506	9	5	0
Dec	56	548	8	5	0

Cases by day of the week

Day of the week of the case date (only cases with a full date).

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By age

Age groups for each case type, solved share by age, average ages and an age / sex pyramid.

Cases by age group

Average age: 36.3 missing · 32.4 deaths by force · 39.3 unidentified.

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Age	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %
0-12	24	8.3%	135	3.8%	4	0%	0	–
13-17	97	13.4%	382	3.9%	5	20%	0	–
18-24	119	10.9%	1,631	3.4%	5	60%	0	–
25-34	156	14.7%	1,951	3.2%	18	5.6%	0	–
35-49	219	12.8%	1,548	3.7%	28	14.3%	0	–
50-64	148	15.5%	639	3.1%	24	12.5%	0	–
65+	41	2.4%	181	3.3%	2	0%	0	–
Unknown	0	–	39	5.1%	47	21.3%	45	0%

Age when last seen (missing), age at death (deaths by force), middle of the estimated age range (unidentified), possible age (unclaimed).

Solved / resolved share by age group

Share of each age group’s cases marked solved, located, identified or claimed.

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Age	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %
0-12	24	8.3%	135	3.8%	4	0%	0	–
13-17	97	13.4%	382	3.9%	5	20%	0	–
18-24	119	10.9%	1,631	3.4%	5	60%	0	–
25-34	156	14.7%	1,951	3.2%	18	5.6%	0	–
35-49	219	12.8%	1,548	3.7%	28	14.3%	0	–
50-64	148	15.5%	639	3.1%	24	12.5%	0	–
65+	41	2.4%	181	3.3%	2	0%	0	–
Unknown	0	–	39	5.1%	47	21.3%	45	0%

Age when last seen (missing), age at death (deaths by force), middle of the estimated age range (unidentified), possible age (unclaimed).

Age and sex

Male (left) and female (right) by age group – missing, deaths by force, unidentified and unclaimed together.

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By sex

Male / female split for each case type and solved share by sex.

Cases by sex

Share of each case type that is male, female or not recorded.

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Sex	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %
Male	492	12.4%	5,236	3.3%	80	18.8%	37	0%
Female	311	13.5%	1,213	4%	29	13.8%	8	0%
Unknown	1	0%	57	0%	24	12.5%	0	–

Solved / resolved share by sex

Share of male and female cases marked solved, located, identified or claimed.

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Sex	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %
Male	492	12.4%	5,236	3.3%	80	18.8%	37	0%
Female	311	13.5%	1,213	4%	29	13.8%	8	0%
Unknown	1	0%	57	0%	24	12.5%	0	–

By race & ethnicity

Race and ethnicity compared with the U.S. population, and the solved share for each group.

Cases by race / ethnicity

Share of each case type, compared with the U.S. population in the table.

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Race / ethnicity	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %	Share of these cases	Share of U.S. population (2020)
White	524	13%	1,491	3.5%	60	26.7%	29	0%	28.1%	57.8%
Black	232	13.4%	3,928	3.6%	17	5.9%	12	0%	55.9%	12.1%
Hispanic / Latino	24	0%	160	5.6%	6	0%	2	0%	2.6%	18.7%
Asian	11	27.3%	19	0%	0	–	1	0%	0.4%	5.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native / First Nations	2	0%	2	0%	0	–	1	0%	0.1%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–	0%	0.2%
Middle Eastern	0	–	4	25%	0	–	0	–	0.1%	–
Multiracial	0	–	3	33.3%	0	–	0	–	0%	4.1%
Other	3	0%	4	0%	1	0%	0	–	0.1%	–
Unknown / not recorded	8	12.5%	895	2.1%	49	10.2%	0	–	12.7%	–

Race and ethnicity as recorded by the source (NamUs, police and news reports). U.S. population shares are from the 2020 Census (Hispanic of any race; the other groups are non-Hispanic, one race). Unidentified remains are often recorded as “uncertain”.

Solved / resolved share by race / ethnicity

Share of each group’s cases marked solved, located, identified or claimed (groups with fewer than 10 cases are left out).

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Race / ethnicity	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %	Share of these cases	Share of U.S. population (2020)
White	524	13%	1,491	3.5%	60	26.7%	29	0%	28.1%	57.8%
Black	232	13.4%	3,928	3.6%	17	5.9%	12	0%	55.9%	12.1%
Hispanic / Latino	24	0%	160	5.6%	6	0%	2	0%	2.6%	18.7%
Asian	11	27.3%	19	0%	0	–	1	0%	0.4%	5.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native / First Nations	2	0%	2	0%	0	–	1	0%	0.1%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–	0%	0.2%
Middle Eastern	0	–	4	25%	0	–	0	–	0.1%	–
Multiracial	0	–	3	33.3%	0	–	0	–	0%	4.1%
Other	3	0%	4	0%	1	0%	0	–	0.1%	–
Unknown / not recorded	8	12.5%	895	2.1%	49	10.2%	0	–	12.7%	–

Race and ethnicity as recorded by the source (NamUs, police and news reports). U.S. population shares are from the 2020 Census (Hispanic of any race; the other groups are non-Hispanic, one race). Unidentified remains are often recorded as “uncertain”.

Solve rates & how long cases stay open

Case status for deaths by force, how many years open cases have been open, and a state-by-decade solved-share heatmap.

Deaths by force: case status

How each case is recorded. “Charged / in court” counts as solved in the solved share; accidental and self-inflicted deaths are left out of it.

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How long open cases have been open

Years since the case date, for cases still unsolved, missing, unidentified or unclaimed.

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Solved / resolved share by state and decade

Percent of missing, deaths by force, unidentified and unclaimed cases now solved, located, identified or claimed. Hover a cell for the count.

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State	1950s	1960s	1970s	1980s	1990s	2000s	2010s	2020s
MO	0	0	3	2	2	2	3	8

<2%2–55–1010–2020–3535–5050%+fewer than 10 cases

Rewards offered 29 deaths by force cases list a reward, and 28 of them are still unsolved.

Possible matches

Possible missing person / unidentified remains matches by score.

Possible missing person / unidentified matches

102,241 possible matches scoring 75% or higher, involving 13,698 missing persons and 7,876 unidentified remains. Browse the matches.

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Serial killers & mass murders

Serial killers by victims and decade; mass murders by year, place, firearms, attacker and victims.

Serial killers by number of victims

Confirmed victims listed on each profile (26 profiles).

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Serial killers by decade they started

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Serial killers by sex and race

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Group	Profiles	Share
Sex: Female	6	23.1%
Sex: Male	19	73.1%
Sex: Unknown	1	3.8%
Race: Unknown / not recorded	3	11.5%
Race: White	15	57.7%
Race: Black	8	30.8%

Mass murders by year

2 incidents. Killed per year is in the table and the next chart.

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People killed in mass murders, by year

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Mass murders by type of place

All incidents in the database (not affected by the filters).

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Place	Incidents	Killed
Not recorded	64	308
Retail / grocery / mall	38	255
Restaurant / bar / nightclub	28	221
Office / workplace	28	162
Factory / warehouse / plant	25	146
Outdoors / street / park	19	156
K-12 school	16	153
Home / residence	16	89
Government / military	12	90
House of worship	11	87
College / university	9	91
Other	3	18

Firearms used in mass shootings, by type

Firearms recorded in the Violence Project data for incidents up to its last update (90 with 1 firearms, 52 with 2 firearms, 28 with 3 firearms, 31 with 4 or more firearms). All incidents (not affected by the filters).

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Mass murderers: age, sex and race

The attacker in each incident, where recorded.

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Group	Incidents	Share
Sex: Male	2	100%
Race: Black	1	50%
Race: White	1	50%
Age: 25-34	1	50%
Age: 50-64	1	50%
Setting: Urban	105	–
Setting: Rural	48	–
Setting: Suburban	48	–
Setting: Not recorded	68	–

Mass murder victims: relationship to the killer

1,728 victims listed; 33.4% female. All incidents (not affected by the filters).

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Longest-open cases

The oldest unsolved, missing, unidentified and unclaimed cases, linked to each case file.

Longest-open missing persons

The 25 oldest still missing cases in Missouri.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Lyrian Wyvonne Barry-stallings	St. Louis, MO	Jun 1960	66	23	Female
Phyllis Corbin	St. Louis, MO	Nov 1963	63	16	Female
Elizabeth Gill	Cape Girardeau, MO	Jun 1965	61	2	Female
Edwin Craig Dowell	Hannibal, MO	May 1967	59	14	Male
Joel Hoag	Hannibal, MO	May 1967	59	13	Male
William Hoag	Hannibal, MO	May 1967	59	11	Male
John Wagner	Monroe City, MO	Feb 1968	58	16	Male
James Stanford	Overland, MO	May 1971	55	16	Male
Dixie Forrester	Springfield, MO	Jun 1971	55	31	Female
Marie Mueller	Frontenac, MO	Mar 1972	54	43	Female
Christene Seal	Mount Vernon, MO	Jun 1972	54	22	Female
Earl Joggerst	Arnold, MO	Aug 1972	54	15	Male
Freda Denman	Independence, MO	Nov 1974	52	27	Female
Sheri Johnson	Independence, MO	Nov 1974	52	4	Female
Michael Johnson	Independence, MO	Nov 1974	52	0	Male
Beverly Ann Wilson	Tuscumbia, MO	Mar 1975	51	42	Female
Jack Girou	St. louis county, MO	Jun 1975	51	49	Male
Patricia Girou	St. Louis County, MO	Jun 1975	51	45	Female
Kathy Pendelton	St. Louis, MO	May 1976	50	22	Female
Geneva Adams	Festus, MO	Jul 1976	50	53	Female
Lowen Dean Thomas	Marshall, MO	Jul 1976	50	37	Male
Rebecca Doisy	Columbia, MO	Aug 1976	50	23	Female
Teresa Joanna Gossage	Fort Leonard Wood, MO	Oct 1976	50	17	Female
Alfred Elmer Hoffman Marshal	Fort Leonard Wood, MO	Oct 1976	50	17	Male
Loy Evitts	Kansas City, MO	Feb 1977	49	29	Female

Longest-open deaths by force

The 25 oldest unsolved cases in Missouri.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Davis Tutt	Springfield, MO	Jul 1865	161	28	Male
John Soper	Kearney, MO	Jan 1880	146	–	Male
Jesse Woodson James	Saint-joseph, MO	Apr 1882	144	34	Male
Delora Meeks	Linn, MO	May 1894	132	30	Male
Gus Meeks	Linn, MO	May 1894	132	33	Male
Hattie Meeks	Linn, MO	May 1894	132	4	Female
Allen Britt	Saint-louis, MO	Oct 1899	127	17	Male
Lowell Pew	Louisiana, MO	Feb 1900	126	25	Male
William Hennecke	Boonville, MO	Mar 1900	126	45	Male
Dennis Crane	Saint-louis, MO	Jun 1900	126	28	Male
Richard Jarrett	South-west-city, MO	Jul 1900	126	40	Male
John Henry Dillingham	Platte-city, MO	Aug 1900	126	46	Male
Salathiel Coffee Sail	Marshall, MO	Sep 1900	126	63	Male
Raphael Girard	Hannibal, MO	Oct 1900	126	29	Male
Night Watchman Reuben	Pierce-city, MO	Nov 1900	126	58	Male
Philip Kennedy	Kansas-city, MO	Jan 1901	125	30	Male
Joseph Zannelli	Kansas-city, MO	Apr 1901	125	32	Male
Bert Brannon	Joplin, MO	Apr 1901	125	27	Male
James Sweeney	Joplin, MO	Apr 1901	125	27	Male
Richard Delaney	Saint-louis, MO	Jun 1901	125	29	Male
Eddie Middleton	New-franklin, MO	Dec 1901	125	31	Male
Frank Mcnamara	Kansas-city, MO	May 1902	124	42	Male
Leonard Rich	Webb-city, MO	Aug 1902	124	42	Male
Michael Reedy	Saint-louis, MO	Oct 1902	124	33	Male
Alexander Mckinney	Kansas-city, MO	Jan 1903	123	–	Male

Longest-open unidentified remains

The 25 oldest unidentified cases in Missouri.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Unidentified Male	Springfield, MO	Mar 1943	83	30	Male
Unidentified Female	West Alton, MO	Feb 1968	58	3	Female
Unidentified Female	St Louis, MO	May 1968	58	35	Female
Unidentified Female	Illmo, MO	Mar 1974	52	–	Female
Unidentified Male	Kansas City, MO	Apr 1976	50	–	Male
Unidentified Male	Columbia, MO	Aug 1976	50	29	Male
Unidentified Male	City of St. Louis, MO	Sep 1978	48	40	Male
Unidentified Male	St. Louis, MO	Jan 1981	45	21	Male
Unidentified Female	Kansas City, MO	May 1981	45	42	Female
Unidentified Female	St. Louis City, MO	Feb 1983	43	10	Female
Unidentified Male	Kansas City, MO	Dec 1983	43	53	Male
Unidentified Person	Springfield, MO	Apr 1984	42	–	Unknown
Unidentified Male	City of St. Louis, MO	May 1986	40	33	Male
Unidentified Male	MO	Mar 1987	39	31	Male
Unidentified Male	St. Louis City, MO	Apr 1987	39	33	Male
Unidentified Male	Warrenton, MO	May 1987	39	40	Male
Unidentified Female	St. Louis, MO	May 1988	38	30	Female
Unidentified Female	Columbia, MO	Jan 1989	37	–	Female
Unidentified Male	St. Louis, MO	Apr 1989	37	30	Male
Unidentified Male	St. Louis, MO	Jul 1989	37	58	Male
Unidentified Male	Kansas City, MO	Jul 1989	37	39	Male
Unidentified Male	Pacific, MO	Apr 1991	35	–	Male
Unidentified Male	Charleston, MO	May 1991	35	29	Male
Unidentified Female	City of St. Louis, MO	Dec 1991	35	50	Female
Unidentified Male	Independence, MO	Mar 1992	34	65	Male

Longest-open unclaimed persons

The 25 oldest unclaimed cases in Missouri.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Glen Nezik	St. Louis, MO	Nov 2007	19	–	Male
Randy Pullen	St. Louis, MO	Jan 2008	18	–	Male
Barry Clark	St. Louis, MO	Aug 2008	18	–	Male
William Michaely, Jr.	St. Louis, MO	Sep 2008	18	–	Male
Harrison Thomas	St. Louis, MO	Feb 2009	17	–	Male
James Jr. Moore	St. Louis, MO	Mar 2009	17	–	Male
Felipe Ramirez	Bourbon, MO	Jun 2009	17	–	Male
Phoebe Kingsland-Wall	St Louis, MO	Mar 2010	16	–	Female
John Wilson	Cherryville, MO	Jan 2014	12	–	Male
Kenneth Mueller	Sullivan, MO	Feb 2015	11	–	Male
Michael Guy	Jefferson City, MO	Aug 2016	10	–	Male
Robert Rambo	Leasburg, MO	Feb 2017	9	–	Male
Mary Hart	Bourbon, MO	Oct 2017	9	–	Female
Charles Jaggers	Columbia, MO	Oct 2019	7	–	Male
Vincent Scott	St. Louis, MO	Oct 2019	7	–	Male
Arnold Gray	St. Louis, MO	Nov 2019	7	–	Male
Paul Isermann	St. Louis, MO	Dec 2019	7	–	Male
Lovell Jackmond	St. Louis, MO	Jan 2020	6	–	Male
Maryanne Henderson	St. Louis, MO	Apr 2020	6	–	Female
Steven Jones	St. Louis, MO	Nov 2020	6	–	Male
Oleg Shegeda	St. Louis, MO	Nov 2020	6	–	Male
Dennis Moore	St. Louis, MO	Jan 2021	5	–	Male
Andre Ariosa	St. Louis, MO	Mar 2021	5	–	Male
Marilyn Hammond	St. Louis, MO	May 2021	5	–	Female
James Nguyen	St. Louis, MO	Jun 2021	5	–	Male

Community activity

Forum discussion, memorials, evidence boards and the most viewed cases.

Community activity

Real member activity on case pages (all cases, not affected by the filters).

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Measure	Count
Cases with member forum discussion: Mass murders	19
Cases with member forum discussion: Missing persons	379
Cases with member forum discussion: Deaths by force	717
Cases with member forum discussion: Serial killers	59
Cases with member forum discussion: Unclaimed	3
Cases with member forum discussion: Unidentified	4
Cases with a MyMemorium memorial	5,007
Evidence boards created by members	256

Most viewed deaths by force cases

All-time page views.

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Case	Place	Views
Joachim Summerford	Aberdeen, NC	12,682
Zion Terry	Richmond, VA	11,602
Travis A. Hobbs	New-orleans, LA	6,120
Shannon Watkins	Jonesboro, GA	5,496
Jameal Gaudet	Harvey, LA	4,977
Melanie Lynn Berry	Wichita-falls, TX	4,891
Kiarra Jazzmyn George	Sacramento, CA	4,732
Romeca Meeks	Chicago, IL	4,147
Shuaib Naz “Shuaiby” Aslam	Stockton, CA	3,767
Javon M. Bailey	Louisville, KY	3,737
Felicito Canales	Baton-rouge, LA	3,591
Shawn Hudson	Throckmorton County, TX	3,563
Eric Tyrone Smith, Sr.	Jackson, MS	3,334
Benjamin Joseph Deen	Hattiesburg, MS	3,296
David Washington	Pensacola, FL	3,279

Methodology & how to cite

These statistics count the cases in the Crime Solvers Central database as of October 29, 2026. They are rebuilt every night.

What is counted

Missing persons – NamUs, NCMEC and Canadian police cases. “Located” means the case is marked resolved (found alive or deceased). Age is the age when last seen.
Deaths by force – homicides and other violent deaths from police, news, court and public records. “Solved” includes cases marked solved, charged / in court, primary suspect deceased or substantiated. Deaths ruled accidental or self-inflicted are counted but left out of solved shares.
Unidentified remains and unclaimed persons – NamUs cases. Unidentified ages use the middle of the medical examiner’s estimated range.
Serial killer profiles are placed in the state where they killed and the first year they were active; victims are the confirmed victims listed on the profile. Mass murders are incidents, dated by the attack; attacker and firearm details come from The Violence Project coding where available.
Race and ethnicity are as recorded by the source and grouped into broad categories; “Multiracial” is used when more than one is listed.
Per-100,000 rates use 2020 U.S. Census and 2021 Canadian Census populations.

Limits

This is not a complete count of all crime. Our homicide records lean heavily toward unsolved cases, so the solved share is much lower than official police clearance rates and should not be reported as one.
Coverage differs by state and by year: some cities and states have been imported in full, others only partly, and recent years include many newly added cases.
Cases without a date, age, state or race are left out of that breakdown only (they still count in the totals).

How to cite

Crime Solvers Central. “Missouri Missing Persons & Unsolved Case Statistics.” Data as of October 29, 2026. https://crimesolverscentral.com/statistics/missouri

You’re welcome to link to this page or to any state’s page (for example /statistics/texas). Each chart’s Cite button copies a citation that links straight to that chart.

Age	Male	Female	Female %
0-12	83	76	47.8%
13-17	366	109	22.9%
18-24	1,407	331	19%
25-34	1,700	411	19.5%
35-49	1,423	356	20%
50-64	627	177	22%
65+	153	70	31.4%

Match score	Possible matches
90% and higher	13
85–89%	1,595
80–84%	26,628
75–79%	74,005

Victims	Profiles
3 or fewer	10
4-5	8
6-9	5
10-19	2
20+	1

Type	Firearms
Handgun	248
Assault weapon	103
Shotgun	49
Rifle	49
Not recorded	7

Relationship	Victims
No known relationship	793
Not recorded	330
Coworker / work-related	269
Other acquaintance	143
Classmate / school-related	136
Romantic partner / ex	29
Family member	28

Year	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Serial Killers	Mass Murders
1977	2	9	0	0	2	0
1978	4	6	1	0	0	0
1979	4	3	1	0	0	0
1980	3	9	0	0	2	0
1981	2	6	2	0	0	0
1982	3	5	0	0	1	0
1983	2	4	3	0	0	0
1984	8	3	1	0	1	0
1985	7	8	0	0	1	0
1986	7	6	1	0	2	0
1987	7	15	3	0	2	0
1988	2	5	1	0	0	0
1989	3	9	4	0	1	0
1990	0	10	0	0	1	0
1991	9	5	3	0	0	0
1992	9	6	9	0	0	0
1993	6	6	5	0	0	0
1994	6	8	3	0	0	0
1995	4	1	3	0	0	0
1996	9	5	2	0	0	0
1997	4	2	2	0	0	0
1998	5	6	1	0	1	0
1999	14	4	0	0	0	0
2000	14	8	2	0	1	0
2001	12	5	0	0	1	0
2002	12	4	1	0	0	0
2003	6	1	2	0	0	0
2004	7	11	1	0	0	0
2005	8	9	1	0	0	0
2006	11	3	2	0	0	0
2007	17	105	2	1	0	0
2008	12	121	2	3	0	1
2009	11	93	1	3	0	0
2010	12	113	2	1	0	0
2011	14	75	5	0	0	0
2012	7	103	2	0	0	0
2013	9	102	5	0	0	0
2014	11	325	3	1	0	0
2015	10	446	5	1	0	0
2016	21	481	1	1	0	0
2017	24	557	4	2	0	0
2018	28	475	0	0	0	0
2019	38	456	4	4	0	0
2020	40	563	2	4	0	1
2021	58	471	6	7	1	0
2022	66	481	9	10	0	0
2023	84	393	8	5	0	0
2024	71	347	3	0	0	0
2025	28	320	2	0	0	0
2026	29	200	7	2	0	0

Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Jan	56	531	9	6	0
Feb	51	415	7	4	1
Mar	64	497	9	4	1
Apr	80	508	24	2	0
May	81	577	15	2	0
Jun	75	602	8	2	0
Jul	81	640	12	1	0
Aug	65	614	6	5	0
Sep	63	549	9	4	0
Oct	64	515	17	5	0
Nov	68	506	9	5	0
Dec	56	548	8	5	0

Day	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Mon	115	961	15	9	0
Tue	118	828	20	6	0
Wed	112	838	24	6	0
Thu	131	858	18	6	1
Fri	137	797	17	10	0
Sat	86	1,087	16	2	0
Sun	105	1,131	23	6	1

Status	Cases	Share
Unsolved	6,279	96.5%
Solved	99	1.5%
Charged / in court	117	1.8%
Primary suspect deceased	6	0.1%
Substantiated	1	0%
Ruled accidental	2	0%
Ruled self-inflicted	2	0%

Open for	Still missing	Unsolved	Unidentified	Unclaimed
Under 1 year	24	190	5	2
1-4 years	201	1,409	13	15
5-9 years	157	2,467	13	17
10-19 years	112	1,934	25	11
20-29 years	88	53	11	0
30-49 years	95	129	38	0
50+ years	24	97	6	0

Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Jan	56	531	9	6	0
Feb	51	415	7	4	1
Mar	64	497	9	4	1
Apr	80	508	24	2	0
May	81	577	15	2	0
Jun	75	602	8	2	0
Jul	81	640	12	1	0
Aug	65	614	6	5	0
Sep	63	549	9	4	0
Oct	64	515	17	5	0
Nov	68	506	9	5	0
Dec	56	548	8	5	0

Missouri missing persons & unsolved case statistics

Cases by type

By state & province

By decade & year

By age

By sex

By race & ethnicity

Solve rates & how long cases stay open

Possible matches

Serial killers & mass murders

Longest-open cases

Community activity

Methodology & how to cite

What is counted

Limits

How to cite

Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Jan	56	531	9	6	0
Feb	51	415	7	4	1
Mar	64	497	9	4	1
Apr	80	508	24	2	0
May	81	577	15	2	0
Jun	75	602	8	2	0
Jul	81	640	12	1	0
Aug	65	614	6	5	0
Sep	63	549	9	4	0
Oct	64	515	17	5	0
Nov	68	506	9	5	0
Dec	56	548	8	5	0