Houston's Unsolved Homicides (H.U.H) is a nonprofit founded in 2018 to support families affected by unsolved murders, transforming personal grief into community advocacy and outreach.

HOUSTON - On Saturday afternoon at Tom Bass Regional Park, families gathered for a potluck picnic-kids running between tables, adults trading stories, and portraits of lost loved ones watching from banners nearby. The event was one more reminder of what Houston's Unsolved Homicides (H.U.H) has become: a place where people living with the same kind of unanswered pain can find each other, and where a private tragedy is turned outward into public purpose.

Founded in 2018, the Houston-based nonprofit began with John Marsden's search for justice after the death of his son, Fabian O'Neal Smith, who was killed on Dec. 29, 2017, and whose case, the founder says, remains unsolved. What started as one family's effort to keep a name from fading has evolved into an organization that blends advocacy, community outreach and simple, consistent presence for people who feel left behind by the passage of time.



Built in the space between loss and closure

For newsrooms, a violent death often arrives first as a breaking-news alert: a few confirmed details, a neighborhood, a time stamp, a name we work quickly to get right. But time moves differently for families. Long after the live shots and follow-ups end, the same questions remain-along with birthdays, empty seats at holidays, and a new normal built around absence.

KPRC 2 has reported on homicides across the Houston area for years, and many of the cases we write about do go unsolved. Houston's Unsolved Homicides exists in that space after the headline-insisting these victims are not just case numbers or story links, but people still loved and still missed.

Marsden describes the group as a conduit: when information surfaces in a homicide case, he said H.U.H can pass it to law enforcement  to try to help clean up the crime in the streets.

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