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Unsolved Crimes in American History

An Online Exhibit from History 471G1 Spring 2025

  • Exhibits
    • The Axeman of New Orleans: A City Under Siege
    • Chandra Levy: The Murder that took over Cable TV
    • The Circleville Letter Writer and American Media’s Depiction of Rural Crime
    • Invisible Threats: The Chicago Tylenol Murders and the Rise of 1980s American Safety Culture
    • The Legal Complexity Between the U.S. Federal and Tribal Governments that Contribute to the High Rates of Unsolved Crime Among Native American Women
    • Lizzie Borden: Respectable Female Murderess
    • The Omega Man: A Product of the Time?
    • The San Francisco Riot of 1877
    • The Sodder Children Disappearance: A Question of Memory
    • The Unanswered Flames: Organized Crime’s Influence in the Sodder Children’s Case
    • The Zodiac Killer and the Collapse of 1960s Idealism

Unsolved Crimes in American History

An online exhibit created by the students of History 471G1: History of Crime and Punishment in the United States, Spring 2025, at the University of Mary Washington.

Warning: these exhibits may contain disturbing images, video, and text.

  • The Axeman of New Orleans: A City Under Siege, by Nikolai Kotkov
  • Chandra Levy: The Murder that took over Cable TV, by Payton Lauer
  • The Circleville Letter Writer and American Media’s Depiction of Rural Crime, by Grayson Donohoe
  • Invisible Threats: The Chicago Tylenol Murders And The Rise Of 1980s American Safety Culture, by Emma Findler
  • The Legal Complexity Between the U.S. Federal and Tribal Governments that Contribute to the High Rates of Unsolved Crime Among Native American Women, by Lesley Morales-Sanchez
  • Lizzie Borden: Respectable Female Murderess, by Ezra Carper
  • The Omega Man: A Product of the Time?, by Jack Zobrist
  • The San Francisco Riot of 1877, by Joshua A. Friedman
  • The Sodder Children Disappearance: A Question of Memory, by Ewan Highsmith
  • The Unanswered Flames: Organized Crime’s Influence in the Sodder Children’s Case, by Ashley Palin
  • The Zodiac Killer and the Collapse of 1960s Idealism, by Charlie Julian
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