The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office continued to investigate the shooting deaths of two Phoenix area teenagers found dead near a campsite northeast of the Valley.

The two were shot and killed by an unknown assailant on May 26, their bodies found by deputies the next day, according to the families of the two victims.

Until investigators could identify a lead in the rapidly growing cold case, the two untimely deaths became part of Arizona’s list of unsolved murder cases involving campers just beyond the Phoenix metro area.

Here’s what we know about two past murder cases involving teenage victims — one in 1973, another in 2003 — and now, a third in 2025.

Pandora Kjorsrud shot and killed while camping in late May

Pandora Kjolsrud, 18, and Evan Clark, 17, were found with gunshot wounds

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