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Murder of J.W.W. Birch (1875)
The Murder of J.W.W. Birch (Pembunuhan J.W.W. Birch) was the 1875 killing of Perak's first British Resident by followers of the Malay chief Maharaja Lela at Pasir Salak.
Murder of Jacob Wetterling
The 1989 abduction, sexual assault, and murder of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling in St. Joseph, Minnesota, unsolved for 27 years until Danny Heinrich confessed in 2016; it inspired the 1994 federal sex offender registration law.
Murder of Jailyn Candelario
Murder of Jailyn Candelario: 2023 death of a 16-month-old Cleveland girl starved and dehydrated after her mother Kristel Candelario left her alone for ten days; life sentence without parole, appeal affirmed 2025.
Murder of Jalaluddin Khalji
The Murder of Jalaluddin Khalji (جلال الدین خلجی کا قتل) was the 1296 assassination of the Sultan of Delhi by his nephew Alauddin Khalji at Kara.
Murder of James Bulger
Murder of James Bulger: 1993 killing of a two-year-old abducted from Bootle's Strand shopping centre by ten-year-olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables; trial, tariff dispute, ECHR ruling, and UK youth justice impact.
Murder of James Byrd Jr.
Murder of James Byrd Jr., also called the Jasper dragging death: a 1998 racist hate crime in Jasper, Texas, in which three white supremacists dragged a 49-year-old Black man to death behind a pickup, leading to Texas and federal hate crime laws and two executions.
Murder of James J. Smith
Murder of James J. Smith: 1932 Detroit killing at 1429 DuBois Street, perpetrator named Robert Karriem or Robert Harris, tied to the Allah Temple of Islam; distinct from the 2006 Massachusetts James J. Smith murder case.
Murder of Janaya Thompson
Murder of Janaya Thompson: July 2014 abduction, rape, and killing of a five-year-old Gulfport, Mississippi girl; neighbor Alberto Julio Garcia pleaded guilty to capital murder in 2017 and remains on death row.
Murder of Janelle Patton
Murder of Janelle Patton, the 2002 killing on Norfolk Island of Australian hotel manager Janelle Patton; New Zealand chef Glenn McNeill was convicted in 2007 and released on parole in 2024.
Murder of Janet Acosta
Murder of Janet Acosta: 2000 carjacking-kidnapping and strangling of a 49-year-old Miami Herald production worker, also called the Janet Acosta case, by Michael Tanzi, who confessed, was sentenced to death in 2003, and was executed April 8, 2025.
Murder of Jasmine Fiore
Murder of Jasmine Fiore: 2009 killing of the 28-year-old American swimsuit model, allegedly by Canadian reality TV contestant Ryan Jenkins of Megan Wants a Millionaire, who killed himself in Canada before trial.
Murder of Jean McConville
Murder of Jean McConville: 1972 abduction, killing, and secret burial of a widowed Belfast mother of ten by the Provisional IRA, which alleged she was an informer; remains found 2003 at Shelling Hill, Co Louth.
Murder of Jeffrey Young
Murder of Jeffrey Young: 1987 fatal beating of a Dallas clothing executive, the crime for which Benjamine Spencer was wrongfully convicted and exonerated in 2021; the killing remains unsolved.
Murder of Jennifer Daugherty
Murder of Jennifer Daugherty: February 2010 torture-killing of a 30-year-old intellectually disabled woman in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, by six acquaintances, the "Greensburg Six," including Angela Marinucci, Melvin Knight, and Ricky Smyrnes.
Murder of Jennifer Odom
Murder of Jennifer Odom: 1993 Florida cold case in which 12-year-old Jennifer Renee Odom was abducted from a Pasco County school bus stop and killed; Jeffrey Norman Crum, Sr. was convicted in 2026 and recommended for the death penalty.
Murder of Jennifer Robinson
Murder of Jennifer Robinson: 1998 killing of 18-year-old Jennifer Robinson in Santa Rosa County, Florida, by Jeremiah Rodgers and Jonathan Lawrence; both sentenced to death in 2000, with later resentencing litigation.
Murder of Jessica Lal
Murder of Jessica Lal: 1999 killing of model Jessica Lall at Tamarind Court, Delhi, by Manu Sharma; acquittal in 2006, public outcry, 2006 High Court conviction, 2010 Supreme Court life sentence upheld, 2020 release.
Murder of Jessica Lunsford
Murder of Jessica Lunsford: 2005 abduction and killing of 9-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford of Homosassa, Florida, by registered sex offender John Evander Couey; led to Florida's Jessica Lunsford Act and Jessica's Laws elsewhere.
Murder of Jessie Blodgett
The murder of Jessie Blodgett was the July 2013 strangling of a 19-year-old Hartford, Wisconsin musician by her former boyfriend, Daniel Bartelt, who received a life sentence.
Murder of Jill Piper
The murder of Jill Piper was the August 1976 fatal shooting of 16-year-old Jill Piper in Bonita Springs, Florida, by her former boyfriend Harold Gene Lucas.
Murder of Jimmy Mizen
Murder of Jimmy Mizen: 16-year-old schoolboy killed 10 May 2008 at the Three Cooks Bakery in Lee, south-east London, by Jake Fahri, who threw a glass oven dish; led to the For Jimmy charity.
Murder of Jo Cox
Murder of Jo Cox: the 16 June 2016 killing of Labour MP for Batley and Spen Jo Cox in Birstall by neo-Nazi Thomas Mair, days before the Brexit referendum; he received a whole life sentence in November 2016.
Murder of Joanna Yeates
Murder of Joanna Yeates: 25-year-old Bristol landscape architect strangled 17 December 2010; neighbour Vincent Tabak convicted 2011; landlord Christopher Jefferies was wrongly arrested and vilified by tabloid press, prompting contempt fines and Leveson Inquiry testimony.
Murder of Joe Cole
Unsolved December 19, 1991 armed-robbery murder of Joe Cole (Joseph Dennis Cole), 30, Black Flag roadie and roommate of Henry Rollins, in Venice, Los Angeles; inspired Sonic Youth's 'JC' and '100%'.
Murder of John Edwards
The murder of John Timothy Edwards was the 1994 killing of an 18-year-old Florida State University student at a campsite in Ocala National Forest, Florida.
Murder of John Lennon
Murder of John Lennon: shooting of the former Beatle, 40, outside the Dakota, New York, on December 8, 1980 by Mark David Chapman, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 1981 and remains imprisoned, denied parole 14 times.
Murder of Jonathan Kushner
Murder of Jonathan Kushner: 1973 Tampa killing of 11-year-old Jonathan Mark Kushner, abducted while biking for candy; Johnny Paul Witt executed 1985, Gary Tillman life sentence; subject of David Kushner's Alligator Candy.
Murder of Jonelle Matthews
Murder of Jonelle Matthews: 12-year-old Greeley, Colorado girl (also a famous milk-carton missing child) vanished December 20, 1984; remains found 2019; Steven Pankey convicted of kidnap and murder in 2022.
Murder of Jordan Davis
Murder of Jordan Davis: the November 23, 2012 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis by Michael Dunn at a Jacksonville, Florida gas station after an argument over loud music, his stand-your-ground trials, and Lucy McBath's later congressional career.
Murder of Joseph Augustus Zarelli
Unsolved 1957 Philadelphia child homicide; victim long known as the Boy in the Box or America's Unknown Child, identified in December 2022 via genetic genealogy as four-year-old Joseph Augustus Zarelli; case remains open, no charges filed.