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

Missing Persons 1,339 981 still missing

Deaths by Force 5,069 4,802 unsolved

Unidentified Remains 127 104 unidentified

Unclaimed Persons 823 797 unclaimed

Serial Killer Profiles 13

Mass Murders 4

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
Tennessee TN	1,339	19.38	26.7%	5,069	73.35	5.2%	127	1.84	18.1%	823	11.91	3.2%	13	4	7,375	106.72

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 %
Memphis	TN	2,291	2,122	169	7.4%
Nashville	TN	1,085	999	86	7.9%
Knoxville	TN	1,047	950	97	9.3%
Chattanooga	TN	318	288	30	9.4%
Clarksville	TN	157	140	17	10.8%
Jackson	TN	146	138	8	5.5%
Antioch	TN	106	99	6	5.7%
Murfreesboro	TN	133	88	45	33.8%
Kingsport	TN	55	48	7	12.7%
Madison	TN	47	44	3	6.4%
Cleveland	TN	44	44	0	0%
Columbia	TN	43	38	5	11.6%
Sevierville	TN	46	29	17	37%
Cookeville	TN	36	29	7	19.4%
Johnson-city	TN	30	28	2	6.7%
Cordova	TN	27	26	1	3.7%
Hermitage	TN	27	26	1	3.7%
Lebanon	TN	30	25	5	16.7%
Dyersburg	TN	30	25	5	16.7%
Springfield	TN	28	25	3	10.7%
Shelbyville	TN	33	24	9	27.3%
Crossville	TN	29	24	5	17.2%
Millington	TN	26	24	2	7.7%
Clinton	TN	24	24	0	0%
Maryville	TN	26	23	3	11.5%
Greeneville	TN	27	21	6	22.2%
Smyrna	TN	21	20	1	4.8%
Athens	TN	28	19	9	32.1%
La Vergne	TN	20	19	1	5%
Gallatin	TN	21	18	3	14.3%
Goodlettsville	TN	18	18	0	0%
Bristol	TN	19	17	2	10.5%
Brownsville	TN	19	16	3	15.8%
Ripley	TN	16	16	0	0%
Covington	TN	16	16	0	0%
Morristown	TN	19	14	5	26.3%
Franklin	TN	18	14	4	22.2%
Powell	TN	14	14	0	0%
Johnson City	TN	22	13	9	40.9%
Newport	TN	20	13	7	35%

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

Cases where the person is recorded as American Indian, Alaska Native, Indigenous or First Nations. 31 missing persons were reported missing from tribal land (20 still missing).

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State / province	Missing	Still missing	Deaths by force	Unsolved	Unidentified / unclaimed	Total
Tennessee	2	2	1	0	1	4

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 %
1900s	0	38	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1910s	0	11	0	0	1	0	–	0%	–	–
1920s	0	5	0	0	1	0	–	0%	–	–
1930s	0	1	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1940s	0	2	0	0	1	0	–	0%	–	–
1960s	6	8	0	0	0	0	0%	0%	–	–
1970s	7	27	9	0	1	0	0%	3.7%	11.1%	–
1980s	50	63	19	2	1	0	2%	3.2%	15.8%	0%
1990s	71	108	22	13	3	0	2.8%	1.9%	9.1%	0%
2000s	121	240	25	6	2	0	4.1%	5.4%	4%	0%
2010s	265	2,296	20	292	1	2	10.2%	2.5%	15%	1.7%
2020s	819	2,268	32	510	0	2	39.4%	8.3%	40.6%	4.1%

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 %
1900s	0	38	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1910s	0	11	0	0	1	0	–	0%	–	–
1920s	0	5	0	0	1	0	–	0%	–	–
1930s	0	1	0	0	0	0	–	0%	–	–
1940s	0	2	0	0	1	0	–	0%	–	–
1960s	6	8	0	0	0	0	0%	0%	–	–
1970s	7	27	9	0	1	0	0%	3.7%	11.1%	–
1980s	50	63	19	2	1	0	2%	3.2%	15.8%	0%
1990s	71	108	22	13	3	0	2.8%	1.9%	9.1%	0%
2000s	121	240	25	6	2	0	4.1%	5.4%	4%	0%
2010s	265	2,296	20	292	1	2	10.2%	2.5%	15%	1.7%
2020s	819	2,268	32	510	0	2	39.4%	8.3%	40.6%	4.1%

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	83	470	13	80	1
Feb	90	350	7	77	0
Mar	137	391	15	73	1
Apr	101	418	9	68	1
May	128	410	9	65	0
Jun	132	413	7	64	0
Jul	128	477	7	75	1
Aug	122	420	15	56	0
Sep	95	441	10	56	0
Oct	96	449	11	68	0
Nov	102	374	13	62	0
Dec	125	453	11	79	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: 29.9 missing · 32.4 deaths by force · 40.6 unidentified · 62.0 unclaimed.

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Age	Missing	Missing located %	Deaths by Force	Deaths by Force solved %	Unidentified	Unidentified identified %	Unclaimed	Unclaimed claimed %
0-12	37	27%	129	7%	0	–	0	–
13-17	543	35.4%	306	6.6%	3	0%	0	–
18-24	105	16.2%	1,354	5.5%	5	20%	0	–
25-34	189	20.6%	1,393	5.9%	28	17.9%	0	–
35-49	251	23.5%	1,115	4.3%	34	20.6%	0	–
50-64	164	18.9%	511	3.5%	24	20.8%	1	0%
65+	50	20%	172	5.2%	3	0%	0	–
Unknown	0	–	89	6.7%	30	16.7%	822	3.2%

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	37	27%	129	7%	0	–	0	–
13-17	543	35.4%	306	6.6%	3	0%	0	–
18-24	105	16.2%	1,354	5.5%	5	20%	0	–
25-34	189	20.6%	1,393	5.9%	28	17.9%	0	–
35-49	251	23.5%	1,115	4.3%	34	20.6%	0	–
50-64	164	18.9%	511	3.5%	24	20.8%	1	0%
65+	50	20%	172	5.2%	3	0%	0	–
Unknown	0	–	89	6.7%	30	16.7%	822	3.2%

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	784	26%	4,035	5.2%	92	14.1%	620	3.2%
Female	551	27.9%	1,033	5.6%	30	30%	203	3%
Unknown	4	0%	1	0%	5	20%	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	784	26%	4,035	5.2%	92	14.1%	620	3.2%
Female	551	27.9%	1,033	5.6%	30	30%	203	3%
Unknown	4	0%	1	0%	5	20%	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	665	28.4%	1,345	4.9%	65	21.5%	605	3.5%	36.4%	57.8%
Black	414	27.3%	3,013	5.8%	27	7.4%	189	2.1%	49.5%	12.1%
Hispanic / Latino	224	20.5%	231	5.6%	5	20%	16	6.3%	6.5%	18.7%
Asian	12	41.7%	29	6.9%	1	0%	8	0%	0.7%	5.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native / First Nations	2	0%	1	100%	0	–	1	0%	0.1%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–	0%	0.2%
Middle Eastern	0	–	13	0%	0	–	0	–	0.2%	–
Multiracial	0	–	2	0%	0	–	0	–	0%	4.1%
Other	8	25%	13	0%	1	0%	3	0%	0.3%	–
Unknown / not recorded	14	21.4%	422	2.1%	28	21.4%	1	0%	6.3%	–

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	665	28.4%	1,345	4.9%	65	21.5%	605	3.5%	36.4%	57.8%
Black	414	27.3%	3,013	5.8%	27	7.4%	189	2.1%	49.5%	12.1%
Hispanic / Latino	224	20.5%	231	5.6%	5	20%	16	6.3%	6.5%	18.7%
Asian	12	41.7%	29	6.9%	1	0%	8	0%	0.7%	5.9%
American Indian / Alaska Native / First Nations	2	0%	1	100%	0	–	1	0%	0.1%	0.7%
Native Hawaiian / Pacific Islander	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–	0%	0.2%
Middle Eastern	0	–	13	0%	0	–	0	–	0.2%	–
Multiracial	0	–	2	0%	0	–	0	–	0%	4.1%
Other	8	25%	13	0%	1	0%	3	0%	0.3%	–
Unknown / not recorded	14	21.4%	422	2.1%	28	21.4%	1	0%	6.3%	–

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	1960s	1970s	1980s	1990s	2000s	2010s	2020s
TN	0	5	4	3	5	3	15

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

Rewards offered 18 deaths by force cases list a reward, and 16 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 (13 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: Male	13	100%
Race: Black	6	46.2%
Race: White	6	46.2%
Race: Unknown / not recorded	1	7.7%

Mass murders by year

4 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	50%
Sex: Unknown	2	50%
Race: Middle Eastern	1	25%
Race: White	2	50%
Race: Unknown / not recorded	1	25%
Age: 18-24	1	25%
Age: 25-34	2	50%
Age: Unknown	1	25%
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 Tennessee.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Robert Sands	Friendship, TN	Aug 1960	66	34	Male
Linda Sanders	Kingsport, TN	May 1964	62	16	Female
Emmie Smith	Gilt Edge, TN	May 1965	61	68	Male
Charles Samples	Tiptonville, TN	May 1965	61	37	Male
Anna Leatherwood	Sevierville, TN	May 1966	60	45	Female
Dennis Martin	Spence Field, TN	Jun 1969	57	6	Male
Nancy Stewart	Clarksville, TN	Sep 1971	55	22	Female
William Bryant	Nashville, TN	Aug 1975	51	22	Male
William Bishop, Jr.	Elkmont, TN	Mar 1976	50	39	Male
Trenny Lynn Gibson	Great Smoky Mount…, TN	Oct 1976	50	16	Female
Hubert Larkins	Kingsport, TN	Dec 1977	49	46	Male
Gary Boutilier	Millington, TN	Jun 1978	48	19	Male
Lori Sibrel	Franklin, TN	Nov 1978	48	15	Female
Walker Bruce	Nashville, TN	Jan 1980	46	64	Male
Jennifer Wyant	Nashville, TN	Jun 1980	46	21	Female
Carson Casteel	Blountville, TN	Jul 1980	46	26	Male
Thelma Melton	Great Smoky Natio…, TN	Sep 1981	45	58	Female
Georgie Abney	Lebanon, TN	Dec 1981	45	50	Male
Charlie Hall	Nashville, TN	Dec 1981	45	15	Male
Charles Hall Iii	Nashville, TN	Dec 1981	45	15	Male
Veda Powers	Nashville, TN	May 1982	44	29	Female
Elizabeth Smith	Kingsport, TN	Jun 1982	44	39	Female
Joy Cannon	Chattanooga, TN	Jun 1982	44	26	Female
Diane Joy Cannon	Chattanooga, TN	Jun 1982	44	26	Female
Michael Petitt	Benton, TN	Jan 1983	43	24	Male

Longest-open deaths by force

The 25 oldest unsolved cases in Tennessee.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
W. D. Turner	Ripley, TN	Jan 1900	126	–	Male
Marvin Durham	Ripley, TN	Jan 1900	126	21	Male
Joseph Perkins	Memphis, TN	Jul 1900	126	78	Male
John Lamb	Sneedville, TN	Aug 1900	126	35	Male
Thomas Price	Monterey, TN	Jul 1901	125	42	Male
Marshall M. Bomar	Paris, TN	Sep 1901	125	28	Male
Marshal Taylor	South-fulton, TN	Apr 1902	124	24	Male
James Ellis	Carter, TN	Jun 1902	124	22	Male
Samuel Houston Childress	Bristol, TN	Aug 1903	123	33	Male
Edward N. Griffitts	Unitia, TN	Sep 1903	123	25	Female
Benjamin Dowell	Nashville, TN	Dec 1903	123	27	Male
Robert Harmon	Clinton, TN	Feb 1904	122	–	Male
George Trewhitt White	Bledsoe, TN	Mar 1904	122	40	Male
W. E. Alexander	White-pine, TN	May 1904	122	35	Male
Houston Mitchell	Memphis, TN	Jul 1904	122	46	Male
H. C. Cash	Oliver-springs, TN	Sep 1904	122	60	Male
Robert Jameson	Memphis, TN	Oct 1904	122	–	Male
William Robert Mckamey	Dossett, TN	Dec 1904	122	31	Male
Posseman John Carver	Cocke, TN	Jan 1905	121	25	Male
Alonzo Lon Rains	Chickamauga, TN	Dec 1905	121	–	Male
William Walker	Knoxville, TN	Jul 1906	120	38	Male
Thomas Obadiah Obe Musgrove	Chattanooga, TN	Oct 1906	120	42	Male
Hinton Sasely	Ripley, TN	Oct 1906	120	–	Male
Milton Harvey Galloway	Spring-city, TN	Nov 1906	120	40	Male
James Wright	Rogersville, TN	Feb 1907	119	–	Male

Longest-open unidentified remains

The 25 oldest unidentified cases in Tennessee.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Unidentified Male	TN	Jan 1972	54	53	Male
Unidentified Male	Chattanooga, TN	Aug 1972	54	–	Male
Unidentified Male	Memphis, TN	Apr 1975	51	–	Male
Unidentified Female	Nashville, TN	Mar 1976	50	16	Female
Unidentified Female	Collierville, TN	Jun 1977	49	26	Female
Unidentified Male	Mountain City, TN	Dec 1977	49	56	Male
Unidentified Male	TN	Oct 1978	48	56	Male
Unidentified Female	TN	Mar 1979	47	43	Female
Unidentified Male	Chattanooga, TN	Dec 1980	46	–	Male
Unidentified Male	Chattanooga, TN	Jun 1981	45	–	Male
Unidentified Male	Memphis, TN	Oct 1981	45	–	Male
Unidentified Male	Chattanooga, TN	Mar 1982	44	–	Male
Unidentified Female	Sweetwater, TN	Aug 1983	43	25	Female
Unidentified Male	TN	Nov 1984	42	30	Male
Unidentified Person	Cleveland, TN	Feb 1985	41	–	Unknown
Unidentified Person	Cleveland, TN	Feb 1985	41	–	Unknown
Unidentified Male	Knoxville, TN	Sep 1985	41	31	Male
Unidentified Male	TN	Jan 1986	40	30	Male
Unidentified Male	TN	Feb 1986	40	46	Male
Unidentified Male	TN	May 1987	39	48	Male
Unidentified Female	Nashville, TN	Nov 1987	39	30	Female
Unidentified Male	Nashville, TN	Jan 1988	38	23	Male
Unidentified Male	Bucksnort, TN	Apr 1988	38	35	Male
Unidentified Male	Nashville, TN	May 1988	38	29	Male
Unidentified Male	TN	Sep 1990	36	25	Male

Longest-open unclaimed persons

The 25 oldest unclaimed cases in Tennessee.

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Name	Place	Date	Years	Age	Sex
Thell Mitchell	Chattanooga, TN	May 1988	38	–	Male
Audrey Smith	Chattanooga, TN	Jul 1989	37	–	Female
Mary Smartt	Ooltewah, TN	Apr 1990	36	–	Female
Salvador Robles	TN	Oct 1991	35	–	Male
James Gails	Chattanooga, TN	Jan 1992	34	–	Male
Eddie Boswell, Jr.	Chattanooga, TN	Mar 1992	34	–	Male
William Abbott	Chattanooga, TN	Apr 1992	34	–	Male
Wallace Dick	Chattanooga, TN	Jun 1992	34	–	Male
Carolyn Knox	Chattanooga, TN	Feb 1993	33	–	Female
Leatrice Kilgore	Chattanooga, TN	Sep 1993	33	–	Female
Earl Payne	Chattanooga, TN	Apr 1994	32	–	Male
Clause Davis	Chattanooga, TN	Mar 1996	30	–	Male
Gregory West	Soddy Daisy, TN	Nov 1998	28	–	Male
James Pittman	Chattanooga, TN	Jan 1999	27	–	Male
Hershel Camp	Chattanooga, TN	Apr 1999	27	–	Male
Candance McDonald	Chattanooga, TN	Aug 2001	25	–	Female
Jessie Fuller	Chattanooga, TN	Nov 2001	25	–	Male
Marvin Shelton	Chattanooga, TN	Jan 2002	24	–	Male
Anna Schor	Chattanooga, TN	Nov 2002	24	–	Female
Charles Reed	Chattanooga, TN	Dec 2002	24	–	Male
Fredi Funez-Hernandez	Brentwood, TN	Aug 2006	20	–	Male
Jackie Scott	Knoxville, TN	Aug 2012	14	–	Male
Donald Rogers	Luttrell, TN	Jun 2013	13	–	Male
Timothy Smith	Sevierville, TN	Jul 2013	13	–	Male
Harry Kennedy	Knoxville, TN	Nov 2013	13	–	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. “Tennessee Missing Persons & Unsolved Case Statistics.” Data as of October 29, 2026. https://crimesolverscentral.com/statistics/tennessee

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	86	80	48.2%
13-17	520	329	38.8%
18-24	1,207	255	17.4%
25-34	1,271	339	21.1%
35-49	1,063	337	24.1%
50-64	515	185	26.4%
65+	155	70	31.1%

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	8
4-5	3
6-9	1
10-19	0
20+	1

Year	Incidents	Killed	Injured
2015	1	5	2
2016	0	0	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	1	4	4
2019	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0
2023	1	6	0
2024	0	0	0
2025	0	0	0
2026	1	4	0

Year	Incidents	Killed	Injured
2015	1	5	2
2016	0	0	0
2017	0	0	0
2018	1	4	4
2019	0	0	0
2020	0	0	0
2021	0	0	0
2022	0	0	0
2023	1	6	0
2024	0	0	0
2025	0	0	0
2026	1	4	0

Year	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Serial Killers	Mass Murders
1977	1	5	2	0	1	0
1978	2	9	2	0	0	0
1979	0	8	1	0	0	0
1980	3	5	1	0	0	0
1981	4	12	3	0	0	0
1982	4	7	1	0	0	0
1983	7	4	1	0	0	0
1984	2	3	1	0	0	0
1985	4	4	3	0	0	0
1986	7	1	2	0	0	0
1987	7	4	3	0	0	0
1988	2	11	4	1	1	0
1989	10	12	0	1	0	0
1990	4	9	1	1	0	0
1991	7	13	8	1	0	0
1992	6	2	2	4	1	0
1993	3	3	1	2	0	0
1994	6	11	1	1	0	0
1995	5	12	0	0	1	0
1996	9	9	1	1	0	0
1997	7	25	3	0	1	0
1998	9	14	0	1	0	0
1999	15	10	5	2	0	0
2000	9	12	3	0	0	0
2001	9	5	3	2	0	0
2002	12	4	4	3	0	0
2003	10	12	4	0	1	0
2004	17	13	2	0	0	0
2005	10	16	2	0	0	0
2006	17	9	1	1	0	0
2007	10	58	5	0	1	0
2008	11	60	0	0	0	0
2009	16	51	1	0	0	0
2010	13	39	2	1	0	0
2011	10	54	0	0	1	0
2012	15	66	3	1	0	0
2013	16	72	3	4	0	0
2014	12	277	1	14	0	0
2015	21	305	0	29	0	1
2016	23	405	1	35	0	0
2017	37	430	2	55	0	0
2018	59	329	5	74	0	1
2019	59	319	3	79	0	0
2020	50	389	4	73	0	0
2021	66	441	0	92	0	0
2022	110	355	7	97	0	0
2023	157	385	7	84	0	1
2024	207	319	4	60	0	0
2025	138	242	9	56	0	0
2026	91	137	1	48	0	1

Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Jan	83	470	13	80	1
Feb	90	350	7	77	0
Mar	137	391	15	73	1
Apr	101	418	9	68	1
May	128	410	9	65	0
Jun	132	413	7	64	0
Jul	128	477	7	75	1
Aug	122	420	15	56	0
Sep	95	441	10	56	0
Oct	96	449	11	68	0
Nov	102	374	13	62	0
Dec	125	453	11	79	0

Day	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Mon	197	723	23	115	1
Tue	167	654	20	125	0
Wed	185	629	22	122	0
Thu	195	587	14	132	1
Fri	244	683	19	128	1
Sat	176	805	18	110	0
Sun	175	983	11	91	1

Status	Cases	Share
Unsolved	4,802	94.7%
Solved	100	2%
Charged / in court	154	3%
Primary suspect deceased	10	0.2%
Substantiated	2	0%
Ruled accidental	1	0%

Open for	Still missing	Unsolved	Unidentified	Unclaimed
Under 1 year	58	128	1	47
1-4 years	350	1,143	15	281
5-9 years	220	1,858	11	365
10-19 years	141	1,344	15	83
20-29 years	111	119	26	9
30-49 years	91	139	32	12
50+ years	10	70	4	0

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

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

Month	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Jan	83	470	13	80	1
Feb	90	350	7	77	0
Mar	137	391	15	73	1
Apr	101	418	9	68	1
May	128	410	9	65	0
Jun	132	413	7	64	0
Jul	128	477	7	75	1
Aug	122	420	15	56	0
Sep	95	441	10	56	0
Oct	96	449	11	68	0
Nov	102	374	13	62	0
Dec	125	453	11	79	0

Day	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Mon	197	723	23	115	1
Tue	167	654	20	125	0
Wed	185	629	22	122	0
Thu	195	587	14	132	1
Fri	244	683	19	128	1
Sat	176	805	18	110	0
Sun	175	983	11	91	1

Tennessee 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	83	470	13	80	1
Feb	90	350	7	77	0
Mar	137	391	15	73	1
Apr	101	418	9	68	1
May	128	410	9	65	0
Jun	132	413	7	64	0
Jul	128	477	7	75	1
Aug	122	420	15	56	0
Sep	95	441	10	56	0
Oct	96	449	11	68	0
Nov	102	374	13	62	0
Dec	125	453	11	79	0

Day	Missing	Deaths by Force	Unidentified	Unclaimed	Mass Murders
Mon	197	723	23	115	1
Tue	167	654	20	125	0
Wed	185	629	22	122	0
Thu	195	587	14	132	1
Fri	244	683	19	128	1
Sat	176	805	18	110	0
Sun	175	983	11	91	1