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Murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope
The murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope: two New Zealanders, 21 and 17, who vanished from the Marlborough Sounds on 1 January 1998; Scott Watson was convicted in 1999, with appeals over hair and identification evidence continuing to 2026.
Murders of Bernice and Ben Novack Jr.
The murders of Bernice and Ben Novack Jr. were 2009 murder-for-hire killings by Narcy Novack and Cristobal Veliz, who hired hit men to kill the Fontainebleau hotel heir and his 86-year-old mother for a $10 million estate.
Murders of Bobby Whitt and Myoung Hwa Cho
Murders of Bobby Whitt and Myoung Hwa Cho, also the Boy Under the Billboard case: 1998 North Carolina and South Carolina killings solved after 20 years via genetic genealogy; father John Russell Whitt confessed and pleaded guilty in 2020.
Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner
The June 21, 1964 Klan murders of civil rights volunteers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner near Philadelphia, Mississippi, also called the Mississippi Burning or Freedom Summer murders; eight federal convictions in 1967, Killen's 2005 manslaughter conviction.
Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
2007 Knoxville, Tennessee double murder: Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, were carjacked, raped, and killed at 2316 Chipman Street; five convictions including Lemaricus Davidson's death sentence, retrials after the judge's drug arrest, and a hate-crime controversy.
Murders of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield
Murders of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield: February 2, 2013 shootings of the American Sniper author and his friend by Marine veteran Eddie Ray Routh at a Texas range; 2015 capital murder conviction, life without parole, 2017 appeal affirmed.
Murders of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan
The murders of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan, known as the Au Pair Affair, were 2023 killings in Fairfax County, Virginia, plotted by Christine's husband and the family's au pair.
Murders of Greg and Kimberly Malnory
The murders of Greg and Kimberly Malnory: 1997 Charlotte County, Florida killings of a married couple, ages 25 and 26, by coworker James Dennis Ford at a sod farm; their toddler survived, and Ford was executed in 2025.
Murders of Harold and Joey Pugh
Murders of Harold and Joey Pugh: July 20, 1997 shooting deaths of a father and his 11-year-old son on Cane Creek, Colbert County, Alabama, during a bank-robbery plot by Mark Moore, Michael Craig Maxwell, Thomas Dale Ferguson, Donald Risley, and Keno Graham; two death sentences, one by judicial override.
Murders of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett
1999 unsolved-then-solved double murder of Dothan, Alabama teens J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett, found shot in a car trunk in Ozark; Coley McCraney was convicted in 2023 via genetic genealogy.
Murders of John and Lois McCullough
Murders of John and Lois McCullough: June 2019 killings at Great Baddow, Essex, by their daughter Virginia McCullough, who hid the bodies for four years and was jailed for life with a 36-year minimum term in 2024.
Murders of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce Pearce
The 2008 murders of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson, 20, and daughter Khandalyce Pearce, 2, by Daniel James Holdom; bodies found in Belanglo Forest and a Wynarka suitcase, identified in 2015, life sentences in 2018.
Murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon
Murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon: 1975 abduction and killing of sisters aged 10 and 12 from Wheaton Plaza, Maryland; Lloyd Lee Welch Jr. pleaded guilty in 2017, 48-year sentence, bodies never found.
Murders of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman
1999 Oklahoma cold case: teenagers Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman vanished from Welch after Danny and Kathy Freeman were shot and their home burned; Ronnie Busick pleaded guilty in 2020, was released in 2023, and the girls' remains remain unfound.
Murders of Louisa Vesterager Jespersen and Maren Ueland
December 2018 ISIS-inspired murders of Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and Norwegian Maren Ueland, 28, near Imlil on Mount Toubkal, Morocco; three killers sentenced to death in 2019.
Murders of Molly LaRue and Geoff Hood
The 1990 murders of thru-hikers Molly LaRue and Geoff Hood at the Thelma Marks Shelter on Cove Mountain, Pennsylvania, on the Appalachian Trail; Paul David Crews was convicted in 1991.
Murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone
Murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone: two Greater Manchester Police constables, aged 23 and 32, killed on 18 September 2012 by Dale Cregan in a gun and grenade ambush in Hattersley, Tameside, lured by a hoax 999 burglary call; Cregan received a whole life sentence in 2013.
Murders of Sefter Taş and Fethi Şahin
The murders of Sefter Taş and Fethi Şahin were the killings of two Turkish soldiers by the Islamic State, shown burned alive in a video released in December 2016.
Murders of Susan and Kimberly Pittman
Murders of Susan Pittman, 41, and her 13-year-old daughter Kimberly Pittman in Savannah, Georgia, on April 11, 2002, by Darryl Scott Stinski and Dorian Frank O'Kelley, both sentenced to death.
Murders of Tylee Ryan and J. J. Vallow
Murders of Tylee Ryan, 16, and JJ Vallow, 7, Idaho children missing since September 2019, found buried June 2020 on Chad Daybell's property; Lori Vallow Daybell got life, Daybell the death sentence.
Murders of Wanda and Sheila Romines
1986 stabbing murders of Wanda Lou Romines, 51, and daughter Sheila, 15, in Union County, Tennessee, by Stephen Michael West and Ronald Martin; West executed 2019, Martin serving life.
Murders of William Redmond and Helen Phelps
1980 New Year's Eve murder-for-hire killings of William "Pat" Redmond and Helen Phelps in Phoenix; perpetrators Murray Hooper, William Bracy, Edward McCall, allegedly hired by Robert Cruz; Hooper executed 2022.
Murderville
Murderville is a 2022 Netflix improvisational crime comedy starring Will Arnett as Detective Terry Seattle, adapted from BBC3's Murder in Successville; celebrity guests improvise each case without a script and alone name the killer.
Murdeshwar (ಮುರುಡೇಶ್ವರ)
Murdeshwar (ಮುರುಡೇಶ್ವರ), also spelled Murudeshwara, is a temple town on the Arabian Sea coast of Uttara Kannada, Karnataka, India, known for its temple and 123-foot Shiva statue.
Murdoch family
Murdoch family: Australian-American media dynasty of Keith, Elisabeth, and Rupert Murdoch controlling News Corp and Fox. Lachlan Murdoch won the 2023-2025 family trust succession battle in September 2025.
Murdoch Mysteries
Murdoch Mysteries, also known as The Artful Detective, is a Canadian period detective drama set in Toronto beginning in 1895, adapted from Maureen Jennings's novels and premiering in 2008.
Muredach P. Reilly
Muredach P. Reilly is an Irish-trained cardiologist and physician-scientist at Columbia University, recruited from Penn in 2016, known for identifying the ADAMTS7 gene locus for coronary atherosclerosis.
Mureka
Mureka, first released as SkyMusic, is a family of text-to-song generative AI models developed by the Chinese technology company Kunlun Tech and launched in 2024.
Murepavadin
Murepavadin (POL7080), a Polyphor cyclic peptide antibiotic and first OMPTA, targets LptD to block LPS transport in Pseudomonas aeruginosa; IV phase 3 development ended in 2019 over kidney injury, inhaled development continues.
Murero Formation
Murero Formation, Middle Cambrian unit in the Iberian Chains, Zaragoza, NE Spain; classic Lagerstätte reported by de Verneuil in 1862, 14 trilobite biozones, Burgess Shale-type soft-bodied preservation, Spain's first Bien de Interés Cultural paleontological site (1997).