Connecticut

Martha Moxley, a 15-year-old American high school student, was murdered in her hometown of Greenwich, Connecticut on October 30, 1975. She was found dead in her family's backyard, beaten with a golf club. The case remained unsolved for 27 years until Michael Skakel was convicted of the murder in 2002.

On October 30, 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned to death in her family's backyard in Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years later, her neighbor Michael Skakel—a Kennedy cousin—was convicted of the crime. But the conviction didn't hold.

On October 31, 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley was found bludgeoned to death in her family's backyard in Greenwich, Connecticut. The murder weapon—a Toney Penna golf club—belonged to her neighbors, the prominent Skakel family, setting off a case that would span decades and implicate a Kennedy nephew.

Michael Skakel, a Kennedy cousin, has broken his silence on the 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Connecticut—a case that remained unsolved for five decades. Skakel, who was convicted and later exonerated, is now sharing his account in an NBC News podcast.

A nurse at Yale University's fertility clinic systematically stole fentanyl—a powerful opioid painkiller—and replaced it with saline solution, forcing an unknown number of women to endure painful egg retrieval procedures without anesthesia. The case, uncovered in 2020, raises urgent questions about institutional oversight in reproductive medicine and healthcare worker substance abuse.

In November 1985, a boy kicking over a barrel in Bear Brook State Park, New Hampshire, uncovered the remains of two victims—beginning one of America's most haunting unsolved cases. Thirty-two years later, genetic genealogy identified the killer: Terry Peder Rasmussen, a man who had evaded justice under at least five aliases.

On March 18, 1990, two men posing as Boston police officers walked into one of America's most prestigious museums and walked out with 13 masterpieces worth over $500 million. Three decades later, the perpetrators remain at large and not a single painting has been recovered.

On March 3, 2010, Barbara Hamburg was murdered in Madison, Connecticut, leaving her family devastated and the case unsolved. A decade later, her son Madison Hamburg directed a four-part HBO documentary examining the crime, his family's secrets, and a legal battle to access police files that could crack the case.