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Murder of Yetunde Price
Murder of Yetunde Price: Yetunde Hawanya Tara Price, eldest half sister of Venus and Serena Williams, was shot dead September 14, 2003, in Compton, California, age 31; Robert Maxfield received 15 years for voluntary manslaughter in 2006.
Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin (Евгений Анатольевич Нужин)
Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin (Евгений Анатольевич Нужин): November 2022 sledgehammer execution of a Wagner-recruited Russian convict who surrendered to Ukraine, shown in a Grey Zone Telegram video; Prigozhin denied involvement.
Murder of Yingying Zhang (章莹颖)
Murder of Yingying Zhang (章莹颖), June 9, 2017 killing of a 26-year-old visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois by Brendt Christensen, convicted 2019 and sentenced to life without parole; remains unrecovered.
Murder of Yvonne Fletcher
Murder of Yvonne Fletcher: fatal shooting of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, 25, shot from Libya's London embassy (Libyan People's Bureau) on 17 April 1984 while policing an anti-Gaddafi protest; no prosecution due to diplomatic immunity; Libya admitted responsibility in 1999.
Murder of Yvonne Jonsson
Murder of Yvonne Jonsson, the Royal Park murder: 19-year-old Swedish-Sri Lankan student killed July 1, 2005 in Colombo; Jude Jayamaha convicted, sentenced to death, pardoned in 2019, pardon quashed in 2024.
Murder of Zebb Quinn
Zebb Wayne Quinn, 18, vanished in Asheville, North Carolina on January 2, 2000 after leaving Walmart with coworker Robert Jason Owens; his 2022 accessory plea legally established Quinn was murdered, but his body was never found.
Murder on the Dancefloor
Murder on the Dancefloor is a 2001 disco-pop single by Sophie Ellis-Bextor from Read My Lips, a UK No 2 hit written by Gregg Alexander, revived to its original peak and a first US Hot 100 entry via Saltburn and TikTok.
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express (US serial title Murder in the Calais Coach) is Agatha Christie's 1934 Hercule Poirot novel: a snowbound train, a tycoon stabbed twelve times, twelve passengers tied to the Armstrong case, inspired by the Lindbergh kidnapping.
Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) is Sidney Lumet's film of Agatha Christie's 1934 Poirot novel, starring Albert Finney, with Ingrid Bergman winning a Supporting Actress Oscar; six nominations, 11th highest-grossing film of 1974.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017 film)
Murder on the Orient Express is a 2017 mystery film directed by Kenneth Branagh, who stars as detective Hercule Poirot, adapted from Agatha Christie's 1934 novel.
Murder trial of O. J. Simpson
The 1995 Los Angeles criminal trial of O. J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman; acquitted October 3, 1995, later found liable in a 1997 civil trial.
Murder Was the Case
Murder Was the Case is a 1994 American short film directed by Dr. Dre and Fab Five Freddy, starring Snoop Dogg and Charlie Murphy, with a double-platinum soundtrack.
Murder–suicide
Murder–suicide, also called homicide–suicide or dyadic death, is a homicide followed by the perpetrator's suicide, usually within 24 hours. US incidence about 0.45 per 100,000; mostly male perpetrators, intimate partner victims, firearms.
Murder, Inc.
Murder, Inc., also called the Brownsville killers' ring, was a Brooklyn-based contract-killing arm of the U.S. crime syndicate founded circa 1930, led by Albert Anastasia and Louis Lepke Buchalter, credited with 63 New York-area slayings from 1931 to 1940, and dismantled after Abe Reles turned informant in 1940.
Murder, My Sweet
Murder, My Sweet, aka Farewell, My Lovely, is RKO's 1944 film noir directed by Edward Dmytryk, the first screen appearance of Philip Marlowe, with Dick Powell adapting Chandler's 1940 novel; retitled because Powell was known for musicals.
Murder, She Baked
Murder, She Baked is Hallmark Movies & Mysteries' five-film mystery series (2015–2017) starring Alison Sweeney as baker-sleuth Hannah Swensen, based on Joanne Fluke's novels and continued from 2021 as Hannah Swensen Mysteries.
Murder, She Wrote
Murder, She Wrote, CBS mystery series (1984–1996, 12 seasons) starring Angela Lansbury as novelist-sleuth Jessica Fletcher of Cabot Cove, Maine; created by Fischer, Levinson, and Link; highest-rated drama for nine seasons; Jamie Lee Curtis reboot in development.
Murder!
Murder! (1930), also known in its German version as Mary, is an Alfred Hitchcock mystery-thriller for British International Pictures, adapted from the novel Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, starring Herbert Marshall as a juror actor clearing a convicted actress, notable for early sound experiments.
Murderbaad
Murderbaad (मुरदेरबाद), a 2025 Hindi crime thriller directed, written, and produced by Arnab Chatterjee, starring Nakul Roshan Sahdev and Kanikka Kapur; released 18 July 2025, streaming on JioHotstar from 9 October 2025.
Murderball
Murderball (2005) is a documentary by Henry-Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro about quad rugby, following Mark Zupan's Team USA against Joe Soares's Team Canada to the 2004 Athens Paralympics; Sundance Audience Award winner, Oscar-nominated.
Murderbot (TV series)
Murderbot is an Apple TV+ sci-fi comedy-thriller (2025) adapted from Martha Wells' The Murderbot Diaries, created by Paul and Chris Weitz, starring Alexander Skarsgård as a free-willed SecUnit; renewed for a second season.
Murderdolls
Murderdolls were an American horror punk and glam metal band formed in 2002 as a side project of Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, with frontman Wednesday 13.
Murdered: Soul Suspect
Murdered: Soul Suspect is a 2014 action-adventure game by Airtight Games and Square Enix in which ghost detective Ronan O'Connor solves his own murder by the Bell Killer in Salem; Metacritic 59, Steam Very Positive.
Murderers' Row
Murderers' Row: nickname of the 1927 New York Yankees batting order (Combs, Koenig, Ruth, Gehrig, Meusel, Lazzeri), first applied to the club in 1918, from the Tombs prison term; the 110-44 team swept the 1927 World Series.
Murderers' Row (1966 film)
Murderers' Row is the second Matt Helm spy comedy (1966), starring Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, and Karl Malden, directed by Henry Levin, based on Donald Hamilton's novel; a $17 million-grossing Bond parody for Columbia.
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Murders in the Rue Morgue is a 1932 American pre-Code horror-mystery directed by Robert Florey, starring Bela Lugosi as a Paris doctor experimenting with ape blood, released by Universal Pictures.
Murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German
Delphi murders: killings of Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, near Monon High Bridge, Delphi, Indiana, February 13, 2017; Richard Allen convicted 2024, sentenced to 130 years, appeal pending.
Murders of Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth
Murders of Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth, the Suitcase Murders or Bodies on the Bridge: Colombian adult-film performer Yostin Andres Mosquera killed the civil partners in Shepherd's Bush, London, on 8 July 2024 and dumped remains near Clifton Suspension Bridge; convicted 2025, jailed life, minimum 40 years.
Murders of Alison Parker and Adam Ward
The 2015 on-air murders of WDBJ reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27, in Moneta, Virginia, by former colleague Vester Lee Flanagan II (Bryce Williams), who filmed and posted the attack before killing himself during a police chase.
Murders of Ayşenur Halil and İkbal Uzuner
Murders of Ayşenur Halil and İkbal Uzuner: two 19-year-old women killed in Istanbul on 4 October 2024 by Semih Çelik, who died by suicide; case closed without prosecution in January 2025.