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Murder of Leann Whitlock
Murder of Leann Whitlock: 1990 kidnapping and killing of 19-year-old JMU sophomore Leann Marion Whitlock in Harrisonburg, Virginia, by Tommy David Strickler (executed 1999) and Ronald Lee Henderson (life sentences).
Murder of Lee Rigby
Murder of Lee Rigby: killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale in Woolwich, London, 22 May 2013; first fatal jihadist attack in Britain since 7/7; convictions December 2013, ISC inquiry 2014.
Murder of Lee Standifer
Murder of Lee Standifer: 1981 killing of a 23-year-old intellectually disabled Knoxville woman by David Earl Miller, her date, who beat and stabbed her; convicted 1982, executed by electric chair December 6, 2018 after 36 years on Tennessee death row.
Murder of Leesa Gray
Murder of Leesa Gray: 2000 kidnapping, rape, and killing of 16-year-old waitress Leesa Marie Gray in Itawamba County, Mississippi, by Marine recruiter Thomas Edwin Loden Jr., who pleaded guilty and was executed in 2022.
Murder of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz
Murder of Lesandro "Junior" Guzman-Feliz, the Justice for Junior case: a 15-year-old Bronx teen was dragged from a bodega and killed by Trinitarios gang members in a mistaken-identity attack on June 20, 2018; 13 defendants were convicted or pleaded guilty, with sentences from 12 years to life without parole.
Murder of Leslie Mahaffy
Murder of Leslie Mahaffy: 1991 kidnapping, rape, and killing of a 14-year-old Burlington, Ontario girl by Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka; body dismembered, encased in cement, dumped in Lake Gibson; led to Bernardo's first-degree murder conviction and Homolka's controversial 12-year manslaughter plea deal.
Murder of Leslie Preer
Murder of Leslie Preer: 2001 killing of a 49-year-old woman in Chevy Chase, Maryland, unsolved for 23 years until genetic genealogy linked DNA to Eugene Gligor, her daughter's ex-boyfriend, who pleaded guilty in 2025 and received 22 years.
Murder of Lil JoJo
Murder of Lil JoJo: killing of Joseph Coleman, 18, Chicago drill rapper shot in a drive-by in Englewood on September 4, 2012, after a social-media feud with Chief Keef; also called the Lil JoJo shooting.
Murder of Linda Reaves
Murder of Linda Reaves: January 24, 1985 Oklahoma City killing of 35-year-old schoolteacher Linda Reaves by Bigler Stouffer, who also shot Douglas Ivens; Stouffer was executed December 9, 2021.
Murder of Lindsay Buziak
Unsolved 2008 killing of Lindsay Buziak, a 24-year-old Saanich, British Columbia realtor stabbed at 1702 DeSousa Place during a staged showing by an unidentified couple; police call it a targeted, planned murder.
Murder of Lindsay Hawker
Murder of Lindsay Hawker: 22-year-old British teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker, killed by Tatsuya Ichihashi (市橋達也) in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan, March 2007; body in sand-filled bathtub; fugitive caught 2009; life sentence 2011.
Murder of Lizbeth Medina
Murder of Lizbeth Medina, 16-year-old Edna High School cheerleader found stabbed in her Edna, Texas bathtub on December 5, 2023; Rafael Govea Romero pleaded guilty in 2025 and received two life sentences plus 20 years.
Murder of Lonetta White
Murder of Lonetta White: 73-year-old Lexington, Kentucky woman bludgeoned to death March 15, 1998 during a robbery by Virginia Caudill and Johnathon Goforth, who blamed each other; both sentenced to death in 2000; Goforth died in 2025.
Murder of Lori Hacking
Murder of Lori Hacking: Salt Lake City woman, 27 and pregnant, killed July 19, 2004 by husband Mark Hacking after she exposed his false medical school claims; remains found in a landfill; he pleaded guilty and got six years to life.
Murder of Lori Smith
Murder of Lori Smith refers to two homicides of women named Lori Ann Smith: an unsolved 1992 killing in St. Louis, Missouri, and a 1976 killing in Smyrna, Georgia.
Murder of Louis Davidson
Murder of Louis Davidson: 1994 murder-for-hire killing of St. Petersburg pediatrician Dr. Louis A. Davidson, arranged by estranged wife Denise Davidson and Leo Cisneros; hitmen Robert Gordon and Meryl McDonald got death sentences.
Murder of Louisa Dunne
Murder of Louisa Dunne: 1967 rape and strangulation of a 75-year-old widow in Easton, Bristol, unsolved for 58 years until DNA from her skirt identified Ryland Headley, 92, convicted in 2025.
Murder of Lynsey Quy
Murder of Lynsey Quy: 21-year-old Southport woman strangled by husband Mitchell Quy in December 1998, dismembered with brother Elliot, remains found at Southport Pleasureland in 2000; life sentence, minimum 17 years, parole repeatedly denied.
Murder of Mackenzie Cowell
The murder of Mackenzie Cowell was the 2010 killing of a 17-year-old Wenatchee, Washington, beauty school student whose classmate Christopher Scott Wilson pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Murder of Mackenzie Lueck
Murder of Mackenzie Lueck: 2019 killing of a 23-year-old University of Utah student by Ayoola Ajayi, whom she met on Seeking Arrangement at Hatch Park; he pleaded guilty in 2020 and received life without parole.
Murder of Madeline Soto
Murder of Madeline Soto: 13-year-old Orlando student, also called Maddie Soto, killed February 2024; Stephan Sterns pleaded no contest and received 21 concurrent life sentences on July 21, 2025.
Murder of Mandy Lemaire
Murder of Mandy Lemaire: 1991 killing of an 11-year-old girl in Tazlina, Alaska, also called the Charles Smithart case; Smithart's 114-year sentence was overturned in 1999 and charges dismissed after his 2000 death.
Murder of Mandy Stavik
Murder of Mandy Stavik: 1989 rape-murder of an 18-year-old in Acme, Washington, unsolved for 28 years until a coworker retrieved Timothy Bass's discarded Coke can; DNA matched at 1 in 11 quadrillion, leading to his 2017 arrest and 2019 conviction.
Murder of Marcia King
Marcia L. King (born Sossoman, 1959), the "Buckskin Girl," was a 21-year-old Arkansas woman found strangled near Troy, Ohio in April 1981; identified in 2018 via DNA Doe Project genetic genealogy; murder unsolved.
Murder of Marcos Matsunaga
Murder of Marcos Matsunaga: 2012 killing of the Yoki food company executive by his wife Elize Matsunaga in São Paulo; she dismembered the body, confessed, was convicted of qualified homicide in 2016, and was paroled in 2022.
Murder of Marinus Schöberl
Murder of Marinus Schöberl (Mordfall Marinus Schöberl): killing of a 16-year-old by three far-right youths in Potzlow, Brandenburg, July 2002; body hidden in a slurry pit; trial at Neuruppin.
Murder of Marion Parker
The murder of Marion Parker was the December 1927 abduction and killing of a twelve-year-old Los Angeles schoolgirl by William Edward Hickman, a vengeful former employee of her banker father.
Murder of Mark Kilroy
The murder of Mark Kilroy was the 1989 ritual killing of a 21-year-old University of Texas student by a drug-smuggling cult led by Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo in Matamoros, Mexico.
Murder of Martha Moxley
Murder of Martha Moxley: unsolved 1975 bludgeoning of a 15-year-old in Greenwich, Connecticut, with a Skakel-family golf club; Michael Skakel convicted in 2002, conviction vacated, charges dropped in 2020.
Murder of Maryann Measles
Murder of Maryann Measles: October 1997 kidnapping, rape, and drowning of a 13-year-old in New Milford, Connecticut, by eight acquaintances; unsolved until 2002 arrests, six pleas, and the 2006 Foster trial.