Killers On Camera: 5 Murder Cases That Remain Unsolved Despite Video Evidence

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Surveillance footage has become a crucial element of modern criminal investigations, and cases often hinge on video evidence. But several high-profile murder cases remain unsolved despite investigators finding and publicly sharing video of a prime suspect.

Case in point: It seemed like a slam-dunk for investigators when they linked not only DNA of a Maryland woman’s alleged killer to a suspect in a Los Angeles home invasion — they also had doorbell video of the suspect leaving the crime scene.

Despite that video, alongside widely shared flyers about the crimes, six months have passed without a witness to identify the man suspected of killing Rachel Morin, a 37-year-old mother of five whose body was found on a hiking trail last summer.

Six months after Morin’s killing, authorities last week released additional sketches of the suspect, hoping it will finally lead to a break in the case. But as it stands, Morin’s killing joins a number of baffling murder cases that remain unsolved despite video evidence of a suspect near a crime scene — or even of the killing itself.

Missy Bevers

On April 18, 2016, Terri “Missy” Bevers, a 45-year-old married mother of three daughters, was killed inside the North Texas church where she was scheduled to lead a 5 a.m. fitness class. Surveillance footage captured her driving into the church parking lot at 4:16 and entering the Midlothian Creekside Church at 4:20 a.m., according to a police timeline . One of her bootcamp students found her body just before 5. The person