Monitored, No Confirmed Date
These are being followed, but no court has published a date. Some have no court proceeding at all, and we say so rather than implying one exists.
Australia · No date set
Death of Chad Steven Bishop
Brisbane Magistrates Court, Queensland
Next court date ABC News reports a next court date of September 7. Neither the court nor Queensland Police has published that date, so we are not listing it as a sitting.
Matter: Two accused each charged with one count of murder and one count of interfering with a corpse
Charged, no plea entered. The remains are believed to be Bishop’s but have not been formally identified, and an autopsy is still to be conducted.
Remains were found in a shallow grave beneath a cubby house on Old Trafford Road, Bethania. Queensland Police name no victim and say only that detectives allegedly located human remains. The Queensland Police release identifies the accused as a 52-year-old Bethania man and a 45-year-old Windaroo woman; ABC News names them as Courtenay Williams, 52, and Carlie Rochelle Mordue, 45. Both appeared on August 18, 2026 and the matters were adjourned. Court documents allege that on or about March 2, 2022 the pair improperly interfered with a dead human body. Bishop was reported missing from Beenleigh in March 2022.
Subject to change · Source: Queensland Police Service media release, August 18, 2026 (police release) · Also: ABC News, August 18, 2026 · Verified August 19, 2026
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Canada · No date set
Kelly Jordan Road remains, Montague Township
No court proceeding. Investigation or search only.
Next court date No court date has been published for any of the four accused.
Matter: Three sets of human remains recovered from one property; four people charged in one of the three deaths
Charges have been laid in the death of Robbie Thomson only. No charges have been laid in the deaths of Robert Lambert or Lawrence Bertrim.
The property is a 16-hectare parcel on Kelly Jordan Road in Montague Township, Lanark County, Ontario, northeast of Smiths Falls. This is a Canadian matter and does not belong on a US calendar. Robbie Thomson, 34, missing since October 2023, was found October 30, 2025. Robert Lambert, 75, who bought the property in 2004 and was reported missing November 30, 2018, was found July 20, 2026. Lawrence Bertrim of Smiths Falls, 42 when he vanished on September 30, 2022, was found August 6, 2026 with cause of death undetermined. Charged in Thomson’s death: Christopher Fenton, 48, Erin Mackie, 40, and Joshua Belfiori, 34, with first-degree murder, and Mark Fenton, 42, with accessory after the fact, charged April 2026. The Ontario Provincial Police Criminal Investigation Branch is directing the investigation with Smiths Falls Police Service, the Office of the Chief Coroner and the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service.
Subject to change · Source: CTV News Ottawa (named outlet) · Also: CBC News · Verified August 19, 2026
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Thailand · No date set
Death of Orawan Wongsricha
Supreme Court of Thailand (Dika), on appeal from Court of Appeal Region 4
Next court date No Supreme Court hearing or judgment-reading date has been published. The most recent confirmed activity is August 2025, and we found no 2026 development in Thai or English reporting.
Matter: Final-stage Supreme Court appeal by the convicted man against a 26-year sentence
Convicted and not final. Chaiphol Wipha remains in custody after the Supreme Court refused temporary release pending his appeal.
Orawan Wongsricha, 3, known as Nong Chompoo, disappeared from Kok Kork village in Dong Luang district, Mukdahan in May 2020 and was found dead days later on Phu Lek Fai mountain. In December 2023 the Mukdahan Provincial Court convicted Chaiphol Wipha of recklessness causing death and child abduction and sentenced him to 20 years; his wife Somporn Lappho was acquitted. On August 13, 2025 the Court of Appeal Region 4 upgraded the convictions to premeditated murder, child abduction, child abandonment causing death and interfering with a corpse, and raised the sentence to 26 years, upholding Somporn’s acquittal for reasonable doubt. The court cited the severity of the offence, the length of the term, social impact and flight risk in denying bail.
Subject to change · Source: Bangkok Post, August 14, 2025 (named outlet) · Also: Thai PBS summary of the appeal judgment · Verified August 19, 2026
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Australia · No date set
Search for Lily Hooper
No court proceeding. Investigation or search only.
Next court date Not applicable. There is no legal proceeding.
Matter: Active missing-person search. No criminal investigation and no court proceeding
Missing person. No arrest, no charge, no named suspect, and nothing in any source treating the disappearance as suspicious.
Hooper, 18, has not been seen since setting out on a solo hike in Nattai National Park, New South Wales on August 12, 2026. Her vehicle was found at the walking-track trailhead. By August 19 close to 100 Australian Defence Force personnel from the 5th Brigade at Holsworthy had joined roughly 200 police, rescue and VRA Rescue NSW searchers working with trail bikes, horses, dogs and helicopters. Police say there is no trace of Hooper or her belongings, and investigators have examined her phone data. We list this only so readers know it is being followed and that no legal matter exists; it is a search, not a case.
Subject to change · Source: ABC News, August 19, 2026 (named outlet) · Also: Guardian Australia, August 18, 2026 · Verified August 19, 2026
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Concluded
Listed because renewed attention, usually a documentary, can make a finished matter look active.
Mexico · Concluded
Eleonor Alejandra Marín Mendoza
Mexico City criminal court; the presiding judge is reported as Taissia Cruz Parcero
Next court date Not applicable. The sentence has been served in full.
Matter: Kidnapping conviction over the 2009 taking of a newborn from a Mexico City hospital
Concluded. Convicted of kidnapping, sentenced to 13 years, and released in 2023 after serving more than 13 years. No appeal, retrial, or civil claim is reported.
Marín Mendoza faked a full-term pregnancy after miscarriages and took a newborn on June 17, 2009 from the hospital where she worked in administration. She was arrested at a nearby hotel hours later and the baby was returned to her mother, Mayra Navarro. The judge rejected her claim that the birth mother had consented, noting Navarro’s prenatal care was at a different clinic. Her husband Arturo spent roughly two years in custody and was acquitted. We list this because the Netflix documentary A Child of My Own, released August 13, 2026, has driven renewed interest, and readers should know there is no live proceeding.
Source: BBC Culture, August 11, 2026 (named outlet) · Also: TIME, August 13, 2026 · Verified August 19, 2026
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FAQ
When is the next hearing in the Erin Patterson appeal?
August 20, 2026, 10:15 a.m. AEST. Convicted and serving life with a 33-year non-parole period. She is appealing the convictions only, not the sentence, and must first be granted leave to appeal.
Have the Bethania remains been identified as Chad Steven Bishop?
Charged, no plea entered. The remains are believed to be Bishop’s but have not been formally identified, and an autopsy is still to be conducted.
Has anyone been charged over the Kelly Jordan Road remains?
Charges have been laid in the death of Robbie Thomson only. No charges have been laid in the deaths of Robert Lambert or Lawrence Bertrim.
Is the Nong Chompoo case finished?
Convicted and not final. Chaiphol Wipha remains in custody after the Supreme Court refused temporary release pending his appeal.
Is Lily Hooper’s disappearance a criminal case?
Missing person. No arrest, no charge, no named suspect, and nothing in any source treating the disappearance as suspicious.
Is there an active case against Eleonor Marín Mendoza?
Concluded. Convicted of kidnapping, sentenced to 13 years, and released in 2023 after serving more than 13 years. No appeal, retrial, or civil claim is reported.
Why are these cases not on the main court calendar?
The court calendar covers United States proceedings. These matters run under other countries’ legal systems, where the court structures, terminology and publication practices differ. Keeping them separate stops a foreign appeal from being read as a US hearing.
Can these dates change?
Yes. Courts in every country continue and relist matters with little notice. Treat every date here as the best current information, not a promise.