About Alabama Unsolved

Alabama Unsolved is a public-interest research project. It exists to preserve accurate information about unresolved Alabama cases, to organize scattered public records into clear case files, and to bring renewed attention to cases that may benefit from it.

It is not a true-crime entertainment site. There is no ranking of cases by how disturbing they are, no speculation presented as insight, and no narrative built around a theory. The structured case record is the product; the article is a readable presentation of it.

What this project is not

This is not a law-enforcement agency, and nothing here should replace contacting one. We do not investigate private individuals, we do not publish rumors, and we do not describe anyone as a suspect or person of interest unless law enforcement or a court record has done so officially.

How a case gets published

A case begins as a candidate identified from official sources. Its sources are verified individually, and each material claim is recorded with the document it came from. Only then is the structured file assembled — people, locations, events, evidence, agencies — and only after that is an article written from approved claims.

Before publication, a case must clear a configurable set of checks: the unresolved status reasonably verified, the investigating agency identified, a minimum number of reliable sources met, conflicts disclosed rather than smoothed over, sensitive information reviewed, and a specific review of risk to any living person named.

On the use of AI

Automated workflows assist with locating public records, comparing sources, structuring case data, and drafting. They are tools, not authors of record. No automated process publishes accusatory material, contacts anyone connected to a case, or resolves a conflict between sources on its own. Human review is required before publication, and every automated action is retained in an audit trail.

Coverage is incomplete, and says so

Alabama has 67 counties. Research coverage is uneven across them, and every county page states its current status plainly. The absence of a case from this archive means only that it has not been documented here yet.