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Murder of Audreanna Zimmerman
Murder of Audreanna Zimmerman, a 2010 Escambia County, Florida killing by Tina Brown, Britnee Miller, and Heather Lee; Brown sentenced to death, appeals pending.
Murder of Audrii Cunningham
Murder of Audrii Cunningham: February 2024 killing of an 11-year-old Livingston, Texas girl found dead in the Trinity River; Don Steven McDougal pleaded guilty to capital murder in 2025 and received life without parole, prompting Texas's Audrii's Law.
Murder of Aundria Bowman
Murder of Aundria Bowman: 14-year-old Michigan girl who vanished March 11, 1989, misclassified as a runaway; her adoptive father Dennis Bowman confessed in 2020 after a DNA-linked 1980 Norfolk murder arrest, and was sentenced to 35 to 50 years in 2022.
Murder of Aurman Singh
Murder of Aurman Singh, 23, a DPD delivery driver from Smethwick killed by a masked gang in Shrewsbury on 21 August 2023; planned ambush using his leaked delivery route, seven men imprisoned for 178 years total.
Murder of Austin Metcalf
Murder of Austin Metcalf: fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old Frisco, Texas track athlete on April 2, 2025, by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, convicted June 2026, sentenced to 35 years, appeal pending.
Murder of Banaz Mahmod
Murder of Banaz Mahmod: 2006 London 'honour' killing of a 20-year-old British Iraqi Kurdish woman who had repeatedly sought police protection; her father, uncle, and three other men received life sentences, and the IPCC found police failures.
Murder of Barbara Kendhammer
Murder of Barbara Kendhammer: 2016 Wisconsin death in La Crosse County. Husband Todd Kendhammer claimed a pipe fell off a truck through the windshield; convicted of first-degree intentional homicide in December 2017, serving life with parole eligibility March 9, 2048.
Murder of Becky Watts
Murder of Becky Watts: 16-year-old Bristol teenager killed 19 February 2015 in St George by stepbrother Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare in a botched kidnap; her dismembered remains were found 3 March in a Barton Court shed, and both were convicted at Bristol Crown Court in November 2015.
Murder of Bernadette Walker
Murder of Bernadette Walker: 2020 killing of a 17-year-old Peterborough photography student by her stepfather Scott Walker, who was convicted in 2021 in a no-body murder case; her body was never found.
Murder of Bethany Decker
Murder of Bethany Decker: 2011 killing of pregnant George Mason University student Bethany Anne Decker of Ashburn, Virginia; boyfriend Ronald Roldan pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, sentenced to 12.5 years; her body was never found.
Murder of Bianca Devins
Murder of Bianca Devins: 17-year-old Utica, New York Instagram user killed by Brandon Clark on July 14, 2019, who posted photos of her body that spread virally across Discord, Instagram and other platforms; he pleaded guilty and received 25 years to life.
Murder of Blaze Bernstein
Murder of Blaze Bernstein: 2018 hate-crime killing of gay Jewish UPenn student Blaze Bernstein by former classmate Samuel Woodward, an Atomwaffen Division member, convicted July 2024 and sentenced to life without parole.
Murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett
The murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett was the December 2004 killing of a pregnant dog breeder in Skidmore, Missouri, by Lisa Montgomery, who cut the fetus from her womb.
Murder of Bobby Kent
The 1993 murder of Bobby Kent, a 20-year-old from Hollywood, Florida, killed by seven acquaintances including Marty Puccio at a Broward County rock pit; basis for Jim Schutze's book and Larry Clark's 2001 film Bully.
Murder of Botham Jean
Murder of Botham Jean: 2018 fatal shooting of Botham Shem Jean, 26, St. Lucian accountant, by off-duty Dallas officer Amber Guyger, who mistook his apartment for hers; murder conviction, 10-year sentence, $98.65M civil verdict, parole 2026.
Murder of Breck Bednar
Murder of Breck Bednar: 14-year-old Surrey boy killed 17 February 2014 by Lewis Daynes, who groomed him via an online gaming forum; case exposed Surrey Police's failure to act on his mother's warning.
Murder of Brenda Page
Murder of Brenda Page: 1978 killing of Aberdeen geneticist Dr Brenda Page, 32, in her Allan Street flat; ex-husband Christopher Harrisson convicted in 2023 after a 2015 DNA-led cold case review.
Murder of Brett Bowyer
Murder of Brett Bowyer: February 17, 2002 killing of 12-year-old William Brett Bowyer in Phenix City, Alabama, also known as the Butch Bowyer buried-alive case; Michael Carruth and Jimmy Lee Brooks Jr., posing as narcotics officers, killed the boy and were sentenced to death.
Murder of Bridget Townsend
Murder of Bridget Townsend: January 14, 2001 kidnapping, rape, and murder of an 18-year-old Texas woman by Ramiro Gonzales in Medina County; he confessed in 2002, was convicted of capital murder in 2006, and was executed June 26, 2024.
Murder of Brooke Wilberger
Murder of Brooke Wilberger: 2004 abduction and killing of a 19-year-old BYU student in Corvallis, Oregon; Joel Patrick Courtney pleaded guilty to aggravated murder in 2009, receiving life without parole in exchange for revealing her remains in the Oregon Coast Range.
Murder of Cara Knott
Murder of Cara Knott: 1986 killing of 20-year-old SDSU student Cara Evelyn Knott by on-duty California Highway Patrol officer Craig Alan Peyer at the Mercy Road off-ramp, Interstate 15, San Diego; two trials, 25-years-to-life sentence, parole denied through 2012.
Murder of Carl Graham Jr.
Murder of Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham Jr., ambushed outside his Van Buren, Missouri home on March 20, 2005 by Lance Shockley, a hit-and-run suspect he was investigating; Shockley was convicted in 2009 and executed in 2025.
Murder of Carmen Gayheart
Murder of Carmen Gayheart: 1994 kidnapping, rape, and killing of a 23-year-old nursing student in Lake City, Florida, by prison escapees Anthony Wainwright and Richard Hamilton; Wainwright was executed in 2025, Hamilton died on death row in 2023.
Murder of Carol Jenkins
The murder of Carol Jenkins, also known as Carol Marie Davis Jenkins, was the 1968 stabbing of a 21-year-old Black encyclopedia saleswoman in Martinsville, Indiana, unsolved for decades.
Murder of Caroline Glachan
Murder of Caroline Glachan: 1996 killing of a 14-year-old in Bonhill, Scotland, found in the River Leven; unsolved for 27 years until Robert O'Brien, Andrew Kelly, and Donna Brand were convicted at Glasgow in December 2023.
Murder of Casey Williamson
Murder of Casey Williamson: July 26, 2002 killing of six-year-old Cassandra Williamson in Valley Park, Missouri, by Johnny Allen Johnson; his 2005 death sentence and 2023 execution.
Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart
Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart: 2006 stabbing death of a 16-year-old Pocatello, Idaho student by classmates Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik, the 'Scream Killers', who videotaped their plan; both received life without parole.
Murder of Catherine Cesnik
Murder of Catherine Cesnik: unsolved 1969 killing of Sister Cathy Cesnik, 26, a nun teaching at Archbishop Keough High School, Baltimore; linked to abuse allegations against Father Joseph Maskell and the Netflix series The Keepers.
Murder of Charles Perez
Murder of Charles Perez: 2002 Phoenix homicide in which Leroy Dean McGill set Perez and Nova Banta on fire with gasoline; Perez died, McGill was sentenced to death in 2004 and executed May 20, 2026.
Murder of Chere Jo Horton
Murder of Chere Jo Horton: the 1954 rape-murder of a 3-year-old near Lackland AFB, Texas, for which airman Jimmy N. Shaver was twice sentenced to death; later tied to MKUltra mind-control claims.