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Decades later, these chilling cases continue to haunt investigators... Join us as we break down the most disturbing unsolved crimes of the 1990s! From museum heists to child murders, these notorious cold cases left communities shattered and justice unserved. Which of these baffling mysteries keeps you up at night? Let us know in the comments below!
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00:00The Metropolitan Police says it now may be forced to close the case if there are no new leads.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're breaking down cold cases from 1990 to 1999 that will get under your skin.
00:14Out of respect for those involved, the entries to follow are unranked and listed in chronological order.
00:20Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey, did either of you have anything to do with the death of your daughter?
00:27At about 8.30 in the morning on February 10, 1990, Las Cruces police were dispatched to Las Cruces Bowl,
00:37where the four children and three adults were found shot execution style.
00:42Five ultimately died from their injuries, including the three children.
00:46Early on February 10, 1990, this New Mexico establishment should have been gearing up for the weekend.
00:52But instead, it became a stage for an unspeakably horrible scene.
00:55Two robbers burst in through an unlocked door at dawn, armed with a .22 caliber pistol.
01:01Seven people, ranging from the alley's cook to its manager, were ordered into an office, then shot point-blank.
01:07After emptying the safe and setting the office on fire, the gunman vanished.
01:11After 30 years of searching for answers, one man who lost three family members in the shooting says he's frustrated,
01:18but still has hope that they will find those responsible.
01:21In my heart, I'm hoping it will.
01:2630 years is a long time, man, and there's not very many cold cases that get solved after that.
01:31Decades later, investigators have yet to come up with suspects.
01:35The motive beyond robbery, identity of the killers, and why the fire was started remain desperate questions
01:41in a case that shook the community's sense of safety.
01:44And the case remains unsolved.
01:46Las Cruces, Dona Ana County Crime Stoppers continues to offer a cash reward of $25,000
01:52for information that helps solve this crime.
01:54Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist
01:56It's a crime scene purposely stuck in time.
01:59A famous art heist that remains intact due to the will and testament of its owner.
02:05We don't add to the museum, we don't sell anything, and we don't rearrange anything.
02:10It's how Isabella Stewart Gardner wanted it.
02:13In the dead of night on March 18th, two men dressed as police officers waltzed into Boston's
02:18Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
02:20They bound and blinded the guards, then rampaged through the halls for nearly an hour and a
02:25half, stealing thirteen priceless works of art.
02:28Among the hall, they mirrored the concert, Rembrandt's Lone Seascape, paintings and sketches
02:34by Degas and Manet, and other masterpieces.
02:37The restoration also includes the frames of any stolen art.
02:41This one held Rembrandt's The Storm on the Sea of Galilee.
02:44It was recently taken down for renovation.
02:46They moved with confidence through the dim halls, leaving empty frames hanging as ghostly
02:51placeholders.
02:53Over decades, hundreds of leads have drifted in and died.
02:57Some suggesting mafia involvement, others implicating local criminals.
03:01The artwork's value is estimated at hundreds of millions.
03:04Still, no arrests, no pieces recovered.
03:08The crime remains the art world's coldest unsolved case.
03:10Any time people consider how many visitors come to see the empty frames, that number would
03:16be dwarfed by the number of people who would come see a Vermeer or Rembrandt's only seascape.
03:21Anthony Amore is the museum's security director, tasked with finding the art, along with the
03:26FBI.
03:27With each anniversary, he feels closer to an answer, believing time will bring someone forward.
03:32Bowerville murders.
03:33I think racism played a part.
03:36People couldn't identify with it.
03:38The situation didn't relate to it.
03:40The marginalized group of people in a small community, indigenous people, and the greater
03:46community thought, well, it wouldn't happen to us.
03:49That's happened to them.
03:50And I don't think people could actually relate to it, as sad as that is.
03:53But I think that is a reflection of our attitudes.
03:56On the rural edge of Browerville, a small aboriginal community was shattered by the disappearance
04:02and deaths of three children.
04:04Teenagers Colleen Walker Craig and Clinton Speedy Durow, and toddler Evelyn Greena.
04:09Between September 1990 and February 1991, each vanished after parties along the same street.
04:16Two of the children's bodies were later found in Bushland, while Colleen's remains have never
04:21been recovered.
04:22On the night Clinton Speedy disappeared, he was seen with a man named Jay Hart.
04:27Two and a half weeks later, the teenager's body was found off a dirt track.
04:32Colleen Walker's clothes and Evelyn Greenup's remains were later found within a few kilometers
04:37of Clinton Speedy's body.
04:39Cause of death was almost identical to Clinton Speedy's cause of death.
04:45Despite suspicions centering on a single man, trails collapsed amid lost evidence, botched
04:50police work, and systemic racism.
04:53Families have fought for years to see justice, leading to reform in Australia's double jeopardy
04:58laws.
04:59Yet, for more than 30 years, the murders remain unsolved.
05:02A haunting emblem of injustice for indigenous Australians.
05:06How different would the situation have been if those children were white?
05:09Oh, completely different.
05:10Now, the families told me that when I first met them, and I didn't believe them.
05:15And now I know what they say is 100% true.
05:18The response would have been different, not just from the police, but the community.
05:22There would be anger, there would be outrage that three children in the community could
05:26be murdered.
05:27Jackie McAllister and Brian Major.
05:29This police videotape was shot in Ontario, Canada, 13 hours after a brutal double murder.
05:35The place?
05:36The Blind River Rest Stop, just 85 miles from the U.S.-Canadian border on Highway 17.
05:42Late night, June 28th, 1991, Gordon Gord McAllister, 62, and his wife Jackie, 59, pulled into a rest
05:51stop in Blind River, Ontario, planning nothing more than to get some rest inside their RV.
05:56Just before 1 a.m., a supposed police officer pounded on their window, insisting they move.
06:02When Jackie opened the door, the ordeal began.
06:05Robbery demands, threats, and gunfire.
06:07She and a bystander, Brian Major, were killed.
06:31Gord was left alive, but gravely wounded.
06:34The assailant had used both a .22 caliber rifle and a shotgun.
06:38The killer has never been identified, and no one has ever been charged.
06:42The case remains one of the most haunting double homicides in Canadian history, especially
06:46given its open-ended nature.
06:48I'll never forget his face.
06:52It wasn't a robbery gone bad.
06:54There was no resistance to this guy.
06:56He just simply was going to kill somebody for no reason.
07:05I thought he was going to come after me because I'm sure that he knows I'm the only one that
07:09can identify him.
07:10The I-70 killer.
07:11In the spring of 1992, a faceless predator haunted the quiet strip malls of America's heartland.
07:34The so-called I-70 killer left a trail of bodies in Indiana, Missouri, and Kansas, striking small
07:41specialty shops during slow afternoon hours.
07:44His victims were almost always petite young women working alone, executed with a single
07:50shot to the head from a .22 caliber pistol.
07:52Well, this particular person is mobile, is quite obvious, so that makes it very difficult
07:58to catch someone like that.
08:00But we do have the capability of comparing our notes with those of the investigators in
08:07other cities.
08:08A four-state alert is currently in place for the gunman, who authorities now believe may
08:12be a hitchhiker.
08:13Investigators believe he may have killed at least six people, possibly more.
08:17However, witnesses describe a wiry Caucasian man with reddish hair and cold eyes, who slipped
08:23back onto the interstate after each killing, vanishing into terrifying anonymity.
08:28Despite composite sketches, countless tips, and decades of police work, this bloodthirsty
08:33highway phantom has never been caught.
08:35The motivation for his crime would have been purely homicidal.
08:38On Tuesday, Rhodes will kick off her year of investigating the case by joining detectives from
08:43the other cities the killer struck.
08:44Her department is hosting a two-day conference so they can share information, just as they
08:49did years ago.
08:51Stephen Lawrence.
08:52It's a quarter of a century since his son was murdered because of the color of his skin.
08:57Going to the spot where the attack happened is so emotionally draining for Neville Lawrence.
09:03This is the only visit he will make to mark the anniversary.
09:06On an ordinary April night in 1993, Stephen Lawrence, a black teenager, stood at a bus stop with a
09:12friend in the district of Eltham.
09:14A gang of white assailants approached, hurling racial abuse before surrounding him.
09:19Stephen was stabbed in a brutal, unprovoked attack, and then he ran, bleeding, before collapsing
09:24and dying soon after.
09:26For decades, justice was elusive amid bungled police work, systemic bias, and legal loopholes.
09:31The original suspects strutted and grinned when they appeared at the public inquiry.
09:37It would be 18 years before two, David Norris and Gary Dobson, would be convicted.
09:42In 2012, two of the attackers were finally convicted, but the majority involved in the
09:47assault remain unaccountable.
09:49The scars of the case stretch far beyond southeast London.
09:52The law changed, the police were reformed, but the full truth has never been revealed.
09:57When these racist guys decided to kill my son, they didn't realize what they were doing.
10:04Instead of killing my son, they've destroyed their own lives, and they've made my son into
10:10a legend.
10:11Lindsay Reimer.
10:12While detectives say it's far too early to talk about the success of last night's operation,
10:17they are convinced just one piece of information could throw this investigation forward.
10:21If that piece of information is hidden in the bundles of statements taken last night,
10:26then the net could be closing in on Lindsay Reimer's killer.
10:29On a November evening in 1994, 13-year-old Lindsay Jo Reimer left home to buy cornflakes.
10:36She was last seen on CCTV at about 10.22pm, leaving a supermarket in Crown Street, Hebden Bridge.
10:43Her body was discovered months later in the Rochdale Canal, weighted down by a concrete boulder.
10:49Cause of death? Strangulation.
10:52Investigators believe the killer was someone local, likely known to Lindsay.
10:56I'm going to look at the extent of the inquiry from November 7, 1994, right up to today.
11:02The amount of people who have been spoken to, the amount of areas that have been visited,
11:05the searches that were done.
11:07My belief is that, yeah, quite possibly, we've spoken to or we're aware of Lindsay's killer.
11:12Despite over 5,000 interviews, hundreds of witness statements, and DNA profile obtained in 2016,
11:19no suspect has been charged.
11:21Relevant parties have repeatedly appealed for more information over the years, with little success.
11:27Somebody committed a massive crime that had an impact not just on us,
11:31but on the whole community of Hebden Bridge, and they've gone free.
11:35Amber Hagerman.
11:36Yeah, and Arlington PD investigators who were here 20 years ago say they remember this case.
11:42Like it was just yesterday, and they say they are not giving up.
11:47Members of the Amber Hagerman Task Force believe that someone out there knows something.
11:52Nine-year-old Hagerman was riding her bike near her grandparents' home in Arlington, Texas,
11:56on January 13, 1996, when she was abducted.
12:00Witnesses saw a man in a black pickup grab her.
12:03Her body was found four days later in a creek a few miles away.
12:07Despite thousands of tips, no suspect has ever been identified.
12:11We spoke with Amber's mother, Donna Williams, this time last year.
12:16I'm not going to give up Hope.
12:17We're going to catch him one day.
12:19No mom should have to go through what I went through, and I'm still going through.
12:22Her case inspired the creation of the eponymous Amber Alert System,
12:26now widely used across the U.S. and in other countries around the world.
12:30The police continue to treat it as an open case, releasing new information as it trickles in,
12:36but with no breakthrough yet.
12:37Our hope is that someone in the community saw something.
12:41Maybe they didn't come forward 25 years ago out of fear or not wanting to get involved.
12:47Whatever reason, we need folks to search their minds and bring forward anything
12:52that may be valued to our investigation.
12:56JonBenet Ramsey.
12:57If you could say something to JonBenet now.
13:07She knew she was loved.
13:08I told her every day I love her, and I still do with my kids when I talk to them.
13:12As a father, I'm just sorry I didn't protect her.
13:18The Colorado six-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family's home on December 26, 1996,
13:25about seven hours after being reported missing.
13:27The cause of death was asphyxia by strangulation associated with cranio-cerebral trauma.
13:33A bizarre handwritten ransom note demanding $118,000 was found, matching Jon Ramsey's bonus,
13:40but investigators found no forced entry.
13:43And as I came to the bottom of the stairs, there were three pages neatly laid across
13:48one of the runs of the stairway.
13:51I turned around to start to see what it was,
13:57and realized after I read the first couple of lines.
14:02It was a ransom note.
14:03Over the years, DNA from an unknown male was discovered on her clothing in 2008.
14:07The Ramseys were officially cleared of suspicion by a new district attorney after testing.
14:12Multiple theories persist.
14:14Family involvement versus intruder.
14:16No charges have been filed.
14:18It remains one of America's most famous unsolved mysteries.
14:21I'm appalled that anyone would think that Jon or I would be involved in such a hideous,
14:33heinous crime.
14:35But let me assure you that I did not kill JonBenet.
14:41I did not have anything to do with it.
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14:57Jill Dando, known and loved by millions, has been brutally murdered.
15:05The 37-year-old presenter died in hospital after being found shot through the head on
15:10her own doorstep.
15:13Tonight, in West London, a massive police hunt for the well-dressed man seen running away
15:17down the street in which she lived.
15:19Jill Wendy Dando was a popular BBC television presenter and host of Crime Watch.
15:24On the morning of April 26, 1999, she was shot once in the head on her doorstep in Fulham,
15:30London.
15:31The bullet was fired at point-blank range, apparently with a converted, blank-firing 9mm pistol pressed
15:37close to her head.
15:39Neighbours who found her dying on her doorstep had heard a scream and seen a well-dressed
15:43man hurrying away down the street.
15:45The shocking loss of one of Britain's best-known personalities drew many tributes, among them
15:51from the Queen and the Prime Minister.
15:53After a massive investigation, Barry George was convicted in 2001, but acquitted in 2008,
15:59when key forensic evidence was declared inadmissible.
16:02There is no consensus on motive.
16:04Possibilities include an obsessive stalker, professional hit, or foreign political retaliation.
16:10To this day, no one has been convicted again, and the case remains unsolved, though periodically
16:15reopened for review.
16:16If they were about to do something on Crime Watch, and this alleged individual decided
16:23they wanted to stop that, are you aware of whatever they were investigating was stopped
16:27because of her?
16:28No, because a lot of work was done around the types of stories that she'd covered on Crime
16:32Watch in the months and even the years prior to, and there wasn't anything that jumped out
16:37to say, actually, there's a link between that.
16:39Which cold case on our list freaked you out the most?
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