Charges dropped

Cases where prosecutors dropped the whole case, or a court dismissed it.

• Disappearance of Suzanne Morphew — Charges dismissed 2022; re-indicted 2025

  Dismissed → re-indicted · 2022–25

  Disappearance of Suzanne Morphew

  Colorado, United States · 2020

  Also in: Disappearances later ruled homicide

  Re-indicted — awaiting trial

• Murder of Audrey Hoellein — Prosecution dismissed, 30 Nov 2022

  Charges dismissed · 2022

  Murder of Audrey Hoellein

  Vancouver, Washington, United States · 1994

  Also in: Arrests many years later

  Charges dismissed 2022

• Murder of Hae Min Lee — Charges dropped Oct 2022; later undone when the conviction was reinstated 2023

  Charges dropped · 2022

  Murder of Hae Min Lee

  Baltimore, Maryland, United States · 1999

  Also in: Hung juries and retrials · Convictions reconsidered

  Dropped 2022 — reinstated 2023

• Murder of Martha Moxley — Prosecution declined to retry, 2020

  Charges dropped · 2020

  Murder of Martha Moxley

  Belle Haven, Greenwich, Connecticut, United States · 1975

  Also in: Arrests many years later · Convictions reconsidered

  No prosecution since 2020