Explore documented Mesa homicide cases by victim, year and approximate location. Use the Mesa homicide map and searchable case directory to find source-backed information about murders, unsolved homicides and cold cases across the city.
This Mesa directory brings together cold-case appeals, historical police releases and reported court outcomes. Records include downtown Mesa, the Main Street corridor, east Mesa and neighborhood parks. A Mesa mailing address, an arrest in another city or a victim’s residence does not by itself establish the location of a killing.
The collection contains 56 named victim records with displayed dates from 2001–2025. These are researched entries, not official annual homicide totals or a complete historical census. Separate victims in the same incident have separate entries. Discovery dates are identified where the killing date is not established.
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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Expanded October 31, 2026 with ten additional victim records. New entries include convictions, sentencing outcomes and a manslaughter plea; each record identifies its sources. The Adrian Diaz Prieto record is a Mesa-area address investigated by MCSO; its municipal boundary is not independently established.
Search all 56 records by victim, street, year or incident type. 20 records have rough area pins; the others remain searchable without a pin. Search filters the case list; the map shows all mapped records.
Silent Witness information request; disposition not independently checked
Jerry Dietch case source ↗January 2026: Tyler McGuire sentenced to natural life in prison.
Deazo Seghi — 2026 sentencing ↗ Seghi identification and shooting report ↗Arrest reported April 2023; second-degree murder charge
Arron Hendricks case source ↗Arrest reported April 7, 2023; first-degree murder warrant
Keith Emmons case source ↗Arrest reported February 2023; second-degree murder charge
Marquis Johnson case source ↗Arrest December 30, 2022; first-degree murder charge
Jose Olvera Ramirez case source ↗Arrest December 9, 2022; first-degree murder charge
Jesus Fabian De La Rosa case source ↗Unsolved in January 2023 police review; current status not checked
Maximillian Utley case source ↗Arrest November 7, 2022; second-degree murder charge
Deangelo Tye case source ↗Unsolved in January 2023 police review; current status not checked
Gabriel Hilsdorf case source ↗Arrest reported August 2022; first-degree murder charge
Christopher Heimer case source ↗Unsolved in January 2023 police review; current status not checked
Willie Love case source ↗Unsolved in January 2023 police review; current status not checked
Curtis West case source ↗Arrests May 27, 2022; first-degree murder charges
Chase Lemons case source ↗May 2024: Aaron Thomas received consecutive natural life sentences for the two murders.
Double-homicide conviction and sentencing ↗ Paschal and Charnoski — identities and location ↗May 2024: Aaron Thomas received consecutive natural life sentences for the two murders.
Double-homicide conviction and sentencing ↗ Paschal and Charnoski — identities and location ↗Arrest reported December 2021; first-degree murder charge
Adam Williams case source ↗Second-degree homicide charge reported July 28, 2021. Later court disposition not verified.
Porter Park murder suspect arrested ↗Unsolved as reported May 23, 2026; police requested information.
Kelly Roach murder remains unsolved five years later ↗Second-degree murder charge reported April 1, 2021. Later court disposition not verified.
Homicide suspect in custody ↗Second-degree murder warrant and arrest reported January 2021. Later court disposition not verified.
Mesa murder suspect arrested in Texas ↗Arrest September 30, 2020; first-degree murder charge
James Ackerman Jr. case source ↗Police reported a first-degree murder charge in December 2019. Later court disposition not verified.
December 2019 homicide arrest release ↗Second-degree murder and weapons charges reported September 30, 2019. Later court disposition not verified.
September 2019 homicide arrest release ↗Second-degree murder charge reported in July 2019. Later court disposition not verified.
July 2019 homicide arrest ↗First-degree murder and armed-robbery charges reported February 2019. Later court disposition not verified.
Reed Park homicide arrest ↗Second-degree murder charge reported June 2018. Later court disposition not verified.
Stabbing / homicide arrest ↗Second-degree murder charge reported March 2018. Later court disposition not verified.
March 4 homicide suspect arrested ↗Suspect identified in March 2018; died before prosecution. No conviction claimed.
February 2018 nail-salon information request ↗ Nail salon homicide suspect confirmed ↗Second-degree murder charge reported July 2017. Later court disposition not verified.
July 2017 fatal stabbing arrest ↗Christopher Wright pleaded guilty to two first-degree murders in February 2017; life sentence reported May 2017.
Christopher Wright pleads guilty to two murders ↗ Life sentence in Wright and Ornelas killings ↗ Police identify victims of double shooting ↗Christopher Wright pleaded guilty to two first-degree murders in February 2017; life sentence reported May 2017.
Christopher Wright pleads guilty to two murders ↗ Life sentence in Wright and Ornelas killings ↗ Police identify victims of double shooting ↗June 2016: Ryan Giroux sentenced to natural life for murder plus 81 years on additional counts after guilty pleas.
March 2015 spree — sentencing ↗ David James Williams identification ↗Altamirano sentenced to 38.5 years in 2022; death reported April 19, 2025.
Vigil marks anniversary of Grant Ronnebeck’s death ↗ Mesa QuikTrip homicide location and prosecution ↗ 2025 update on convicted killer’s death ↗Police reported murder-suicide in April 2014.
Weekend murder-suicide at Poston Junior High ↗First-degree murder charge reported February 2014. Later court disposition not verified.
DNA leads to homicide arrest ↗First-degree homicide charge reported December 30, 2013. Later court disposition not verified.
Suspect arrested in Park and Ride homicide ↗Convicted in October 2024; death sentence announced January 16, 2025. Subsequent appeal outcome not verified.
Claudia Lucero homicide arrest ↗ Claudia Lucero case: January 2025 sentencing ↗First-degree murder indictments and warrants reported December 2013. Later court disposition not verified.
Arrest warrants issued for three suspects ↗Police reported first-degree murder charges against two suspects in June 2013. Later court disposition not verified.
Weekend homicide leads to suspect in earlier homicide ↗First-degree murder conviction reported February 2016.
Jury convicts Keishaun Green in clerk’s murder ↗Father arrested on first-degree murder and child-abuse charges in August 2015. Later court disposition not verified.
Father arrested for 2013 death of infant ↗ Brock Wise preliminary fatality report ↗Silent Witness information request; later disposition not verified.
Philip Marquis and Leila Ziegler information request ↗Silent Witness information request; later disposition not verified.
Philip Marquis and Leila Ziegler information request ↗March 2013: Erik Grumpelt sentenced to 14 years following a manslaughter plea.
Melinda Raya — 2013 sentencing ↗MCSO investigation; Silent Witness information request; later disposition not verified.
Adrian Diaz Prieto case flyer ↗Arias received a natural-life sentence without parole in April 2015.
Travis Alexander case and penalty-phase proceedings ↗ Jodi Arias receives life without parole ↗Listed in Mesa police cold-case directory; no later disposition verified.
Mesa police cold-case directory ↗Listed in Mesa police cold-case directory; no later disposition verified.
Mesa police cold-case directory ↗2013: Arizona Supreme Court affirmed William Craig Miller’s five murder convictions and death sentences.
Lovell–Duffy family — 2011 convictions ↗ State v. Miller — 2013 opinion ↗ Lovell family names and ages ↗2013: Arizona Supreme Court affirmed William Craig Miller’s five murder convictions and death sentences.
Lovell–Duffy family — 2011 convictions ↗ State v. Miller — 2013 opinion ↗ Lovell family names and ages ↗2013: Arizona Supreme Court affirmed William Craig Miller’s five murder convictions and death sentences.
Lovell–Duffy family — 2011 convictions ↗ State v. Miller — 2013 opinion ↗ Lovell family names and ages ↗2013: Arizona Supreme Court affirmed William Craig Miller’s five murder convictions and death sentences.
Lovell–Duffy family — 2011 convictions ↗ State v. Miller — 2013 opinion ↗ Lovell family names and ages ↗2013: Arizona Supreme Court affirmed William Craig Miller’s five murder convictions and death sentences.
Lovell–Duffy family — 2011 convictions ↗ State v. Miller — 2013 opinion ↗ Lovell family names and ages ↗Listed in Mesa police cold-case directory; no later disposition verified.
Mesa police cold-case directory ↗Frank Roque convicted in 2003; Arizona Supreme Court reduced the death sentence to natural life without release in 2006.
State v. Roque (Arizona Supreme Court, 2006) ↗ Memorial remembers Balbir Singh Sodhi ↗Browse the years represented in the current directory. These are counts of records documented on this site, not official annual Mesa homicide totals.
Mesa police list Yvone E. Rettig, Rondell Echoles and Tyrone Phillips in their cold-case directory. Silent Witness appeals include Philip Marquis, Leila Ziegler and Adrian Diaz Prieto. Kelly Roach’s case was reported unsolved in May 2026. Older appeals do not alone establish that a case remains open today; review each linked source and its date.
Entries draw on Mesa police releases, the city’s cold-case directory, Silent Witness, prosecutors, court opinions and local reporting. The displayed date can be the assault, death or discovery date; each new entry identifies its date basis in the download. Arrests and charges are distinguished from convictions. Pins are rough area estimates, not verified crime-scene coordinates. Records without a checked map location remain searchable.
No. This is an expanding source-backed directory. Mesa is a large city with decades of homicide records, and historical cases can be difficult to identify online. The page does not claim that the current count equals the official number of Mesa homicides.
No. Pins are rough area estimates, not verified crime-scene coordinates. Records without a sufficiently checked location remain searchable without a map pin.
Homicide means one person caused another person’s death. Murder is a criminal legal classification. Case cards preserve distinctions such as homicide investigation, murder charge, conviction, unsolved case and murder-suicide rather than treating them as interchangeable.
Sources include Mesa Police, the City of Mesa, Silent Witness, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, Arizona child-safety reports, court opinions and local newsrooms. Each record links to its evidence. The date a source was reviewed is not the date of a new development in a case.