A first-pass municipal homicide ledger for Cave Creek, focused on incidents that can be tied to the Town rather than the much larger 85331 mailing area. Two cases currently meet the core publication standard.
The core cases are separated from a boundary-review queue. A Cave Creek mailing address or a reference to Carefree Highway does not by itself establish that an incident occurred inside the town.
The current selection contains 2 victim records with displayed dates spanning 2008–2024. It is not a complete historical census. Each card preserves the victim’s name, reported location and supporting source so you can follow the underlying evidence.
Search by name, street or year below. A homicide finding, a murder charge and a conviction are different stages; consult the source and its date before describing a case as solved.
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These surfaced during research but are not being counted as municipal murders until location, legal classification, or both are sufficiently verified.
Scott Dozier was convicted of second-degree murder for killing Greene, but available reporting places the pair at a trailer off Carefree Highway rather than giving a municipal address. This stays out of the Cave Creek and Carefree core counts until the incident location is confirmed inside one town.
Research source ↗Some historical reporting described the shooting as occurring at a Cave Creek bar, but current Silent Witness material places the case at 1732 W. Bell Road in Phoenix. It is excluded from the Cave Creek municipal directory.
Research source ↗Reporting says the crime occurred near Carefree Highway and 7th Street, described as near Cave Creek, but this is not treated as a Town of Cave Creek case in the first-pass municipal ledger.
Research source ↗Cave Creek, Carefree, Phoenix, Scottsdale and unincorporated Maricopa County share postal labels and roads. The Town of Cave Creek itself warns that an 85331 mailing address does not prove a property is within Cave Creek town limits. This directory therefore prioritizes incident location over mailing city names, and keeps ambiguous records out of the core count.
No. This is a first-pass verified ledger, not a certified 30-year census. The count reflects only cases currently meeting the publication standard.
They stay in the research-review queue until an address, police record, court record or municipal map establishes the jurisdiction.