Rena Hodges, 35, was found shot to death in her Houston condo. Relatives discovered her body when she didn't pick up her child from the babysitter. Police are searching for her common-law husband, Jerald Watt, who has vanished.
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Rena Hodges, 35, was found shot to death in her Houston condo. Relatives discovered her body when she didn't pick up her child from the babysitter. Police are searching for her common-law husband, Jerald Watt, who has vanished.
Jokisha Brown, Taylor Hayden and Bridget Shiel were all gunned down in Atlanta in 2016. There are no suspects, police said in a shocking release of unsolved murder cases this week.
Tenisha Mallet, 21, was shot in the neck and died at the scene Saturday, February 11, 2017 outside a residence in Chicago's Austin neighborhood on the West Side.
Forty-year-old Celestina Holley was found stabbed to death in a Memphis, Tennessee alley on Saturday, February 11, 2017. Police have no suspects.
Jenea Patterson, 18, died Wednesday, January 25, 2017 after an apparent drug overdose. The Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania teen was known to run away from home, even as far as New York.
Keosha Tinch, 16, was killed when a man opened fire on an SUV in Atlanta on Feb. 2, 2017. Police said the suspect, Dwight Lewis, is armed and dangerous.
Baltimore police searched for two days before they found 20-year-old Tonja Chadwick's body Thursday, February 2, 2017 in a Baltimore park. Her boyfriend is a "person of interest."
Sadeya Hall, 16, was shot to death on Feb. 1, 2017 after a gunman shot into a house in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Kadejah Jackson, 21, was shot five times in the street in front of her house on Jan. 27, 2017 in suburban Chicago. Her boyfriend and his other girlfriend have been charged in the slaying.
Sanitation workers found the torso of 32-year-old Leondra Foster in trash bins in New York and New Jersey on Jan. 17, 2017. Her head and feet were found in the icebox of her sex offender boyfriend, police said.
Nakia Venant, 14, broadcast her suicide on Facebook Live from her Miami Gardens foster home on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017.
Police say 26-year-old Takeisha Hughes-Coats of Washington, D.C., was found dead on Jan. 15, 2016 outside some condos in Maryland. Police still have no suspect in the slaying.
Alexandrea Thompson, 9, was shot dead in a home invasion in her family's Mount Auburn, Ohio home on Wednesday, January 17, 2017. Police have no suspects.
Simone Veal, 31, was shot to death January 20, 2017 during a domestic dispute in Marrero, Louisiana.
Toni Stevenson, 15, was shot to death Tuesday, January 17, 2017 in front of her St. Louis home after she came from a high school basketball game. Police have no suspects.
Damonea Hull, 21, was found shot to death outside a North Las Vegas apartment complex on Friday, January 13, 2017. Police have no suspects. Hull leaves behind a young son.
Desiree Robinson, 16, was beaten, strangled and had her throat slashed on Dec. 31, 2016 after meeting an ex-convict on Backpage.com. Her body was found in a Markham, Illinois garage.
July Johnson, 34, was gunned down outside her boyfriend's home in Warren, Michigan on Friday, January 13, 2017. Police have no suspects.
Sylvia Brice, 52, died from several stab wounds after being attacked by her ex-boyfriend in her Chicago home on December 31, 2016. Suspect Douglas Askew was jailed for 40 years in a similar crime in 1990.
The body of Misha Moore, 26, was found near a stairwell at Underground Atlanta on January 9, 2017. Police said that she had been shot twice, had bruises on her body and may have been stabbed. She recently moved from New York, cops said.