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Murder of Peter Falconio
Murder of Peter Falconio: 2001 killing of a British backpacker near Barrow Creek, NT, and escape of Joanne Lees; Bradley John Murdoch convicted 2005, appeals failed, died 2025; remains never found, $500,000 reward.
Murder of Peter Porco
Murder of Peter Porco: 2004 ax killing of an Albany law clerk in Delmar, New York, and attack on his wife Joan; their son Christopher Porco was convicted in 2006 on circumstantial evidence and is challenging the conviction.
Murder of Rhys Jones
Murder of Rhys Jones: 2007 fatal shooting of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool, by Croxteth Crew member Sean Mercer; eight-month Merseyside Police investigation, 2008 murder conviction, and related gang sentences.
Murder of Robert Eric Wone
Murder of Robert Eric Wone: unsolved 2006 stabbing of the Radio Free Asia general counsel, 32, at Joseph Price's Swann Street NW, Washington, D.C. townhouse; housemates acquitted of obstruction, civil suit settled, payments disputed in 2026.
Murder of Ryan Poston
Murder of Ryan Poston: October 12, 2012 shooting of Cincinnati-area attorney Ryan Carter Poston, 29, in Highland Heights, Kentucky by girlfriend Shayna Hubers, who claimed self-defense; convicted 2015 and 2018, serving life.
Murder of Samantha Runnion
Murder of Samantha Runnion: July 15, 2002 kidnapping, sexual assault, and killing of a 5-year-old Stanton, California girl by Alejandro Avila, whose 2005 death sentence was upheld in 2014 and whose crime spurred California's AMBER Alert expansion.
Murder of Sandra Cantu
Murder of Sandra Cantu: 2009 killing of an 8-year-old Tracy, California girl, also called the suitcase murder; Melissa Huckaby, a Sunday school teacher, pleaded guilty and received life without parole.
Murder of Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa
Murder of Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa (Altantuya Shaariibuu), Mongolian translator killed in Selangor, Malaysia, October 2006; UTK policemen Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar Umar convicted, Abdul Razak Baginda acquitted; civil damages cut to RM1.4 million in 2026.
Murder of Shad Thyrion
Murder of Shad Thyrion: February 2022 killing of a 24-year-old Green Bay man by Taylor Schabusiness, who strangled, decapitated, and dismembered him; she received life without parole in 2023.
Murder of Shafilea Ahmed
Murder of Shafilea Ahmed: 2003 killing of a 17-year-old British-Pakistani girl by her parents Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed in Warrington after she resisted a forced marriage; convicted 2012, 25-year minimum terms.
Murder of Shanda Sharer
Murder of Shanda Sharer: January 11, 1992 killing of a 12-year-old New Albany, Indiana girl by four teenage girls led by Melinda Loveless, motivated by jealousy; 60-year sentences, releases 2000–2019.
Murder of Skylar Neese
Murder of Skylar Neese: 2012 killing of 16-year-old Skylar Annette Neese of Star City, West Virginia, by best friends Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf, who lured her to Pennsylvania and stabbed her; led to Skylar's Law.
Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Murder of Stephen Lawrence: racist killing of an 18-year-old in Eltham, London, on 22 April 1993; Macpherson report found the Met institutionally racist; Dobson and Norris convicted in 2012.
Murder of Susan Smith
The murder of Susan Daniels Smith was the 1989 strangling of an FBI informant by her handler and lover, agent Mark Putnam, whose guilty plea made him the first FBI agent charged with homicide.
Murder of Suzanne Adams
Murder of Suzanne Adams: Suzanne Eberson Adams, 83, Old Greenwich realtor killed August 5, 2025 by her son Stein-Erik Soelberg, who died by suicide; estate sued OpenAI and Microsoft alleging ChatGPT GPT-4o fueled his paranoid delusions.
Murder of Suzanne Capper
Murder of Suzanne Capper: 16-year-old Moston, Manchester girl kidnapped, tortured for about a week in December 1992, set on fire at Werneth Low, died 18 December 1992; four convicted of murder in 1993, all six defendants now released.
Murder of Sylvia Likens
Sylvia Likens (1949–1965), American teenager tortured to death in Indianapolis by caregiver Gertrude Baniszewski, her children, and neighbor youths; 1966 trial, 1970 reversal, 1971 reconviction, 1985 parole.
Murder of the Lawson family
Murder of the Lawson family: Christmas Day 1929 familicide on a tobacco farm in Stokes County, North Carolina, where Charlie Lawson killed his wife Fannie Manring and six of seven children, then himself; motive unknown; subject of the 1930 Carolina Buddies ballad.
Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.
Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.: unsolved March 9, 1997 drive-by shooting of rapper Christopher Wallace (Biggie Smalls) in Los Angeles after a Petersen Museum party; competing Mack–Muhammad and Wardell Fouse theories; no arrests ever made.
Murder of Tia Sharp
Murder of Tia Sharp: 12-year-old schoolgirl killed 2-3 August 2012 by Stuart Hazell, her grandmother's partner, at New Addington, London; body found in the loft 10 August; Hazell received a 38-year minimum life term.
Murder of Tori Stafford
Murder of Tori Stafford: 2009 abduction, rape, and killing of 8-year-old Victoria Stafford of Woodstock, Ontario, by Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty; McClintic pleaded guilty in 2010, Rafferty was convicted in 2012.
Murder of Tracie McBride
The murder of Tracie McBride was the 1995 kidnapping, rape, and killing of 19-year-old Army private Tracie Joy McBride near San Angelo, Texas, by Louis Jones Jr.
Murder of Travis Alexander
Murder of Travis Alexander: 30-year-old Mesa, Arizona salesman killed June 4, 2008, stabbed 27 times, throat cut, shot; ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias convicted of first-degree murder in 2013 and sentenced to natural life.
Murder of Vanessa Guillén
Murder of Vanessa Guillén, 2020 killing of a 20-year-old US Army specialist at Fort Hood, Texas (now Fort Cavazos). Spc. Aaron Robinson killed her 22 April 2020 and died by suicide; Cecily Aguilar got 30 years; case drove the I Am Vanessa Guillén Act.
Murder of Victoria Climbié
Victoria Climbié, an eight-year-old Ivorian girl sent to Britain in 1998, died in London in February 2000 after torture by her great-aunt Marie-Thérèse Kouao and Carl Manning. The Laming Inquiry's 108 recommendations drove Every Child Matters and the Children Act 2004.
Murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin
Murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin, the 2016 Indonesian cyanide coffee case: Salihin died after a Vietnamese iced coffee at Olivier Café, Jakarta; friend Jessica Kumala Wongso was convicted of premeditated murder, sentenced to 20 years, and paroled in 2024.
Murder of XXXTentacion
The murder of XXXTentacion, also known as Jahseh Onfroy, was the June 18, 2018 armed-robbery shooting of the 20-year-old rapper outside RIVA Motorsports in Deerfield Beach, Florida; three men received life sentences in 2023.
Murder of Yara Gambirasio
Murder of Yara Gambirasio: 2010 killing of a 13-year-old from Brembate di Sopra, Italy, solved in 2014 via the Ignoto 1 DNA profile and familial searching; Massimo Giuseppe Bossetti received a life sentence in 2016.
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 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.