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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.
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 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 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 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 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 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.
Mutilation
Mutilation, or mayhem at common law, is the crime of violently and intentionally inflicting permanent disfigurement or loss of a limb, organ, or member; also an ICC war crime and a historical form of corporal punishment.
Natascha Kampusch
Natascha Kampusch, Austrian author abducted 2 March 1998 in Vienna by Wolfgang Přiklopil, held about eight years in a concealed room, escaped 23 August 2006; subject of memoir 3,096 Days and a 2012 parliamentary inquiry.
Nicole Brown Simpson
Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O.J. Simpson, married him in 1985, endured documented abuse including a 1989 battery conviction, divorced in 1992, and was murdered with Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994, leading to the televised 1995 trial.
Oba Chandler
Oba Chandler (1946-2011), American murderer executed in Florida in 2011 for the 1989 Tampa Bay killings of tourists Joan, Michelle, and Christe Rogers; identified via handwriting billboards, distinct from other Chandlers.
Oklahoma Girl Scout murders
The Oklahoma Girl Scout murders: the June 13, 1977 killings of three Girl Scouts (Lori Farmer, Michelle Guse, Doris Milner) at Camp Scott near Locust Grove; Gene Leroy Hart was tried and acquitted, and the case remains open.
Omaima Nelson
Omaima Aree Nelson (born 1968), Egyptian-born American convicted of the 1991 second-degree murder and dismemberment of her husband William Nelson in Costa Mesa, California; sentenced in 1993 and denied parole repeatedly since 2006.
Parker–Hulme murder case
The Parker–Hulme murder case: 1954 Christchurch matricide in which Pauline Parker, 16, and Juliet Hulme, 15, killed Honora Parker with a brick in a stocking; insanity plea rejected, five years' detention, later Anne Perry and Heavenly Creatures.
Parricide
Parricide is the killing of a parent by their child, also covering murder of close relatives. About 2-5 percent of homicides; sons kill fathers, daughters mothers; mental illness common; Roman poena cullei; Japan abolished its statute in 1995.
Patricide
Patricide is the killing of one's father, a form of parricide (also matricide). Rare, about 4-5% of homicides; offenders mostly adult sons, often with psychosis, personality disorder, or abuse histories.
Philip Markoff
Philip Markoff (1986-2010), called the Craigslist Killer, was a Boston University medical student charged with murdering Julissa Brisman and robbing women met via Craigslist in 2009; he died by suicide in 2010 before trial, and charges were dismissed.
Rachel Wade
Rachel Wade, Largo, Florida woman convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing 18-year-old Sarah Ludemann in Pinellas Park on April 15, 2009, after a feud over Joshua Camacho; sentenced to 27 years.
Rettendon murders
Rettendon murders (Essex Boys, Range Rover murders): Tucker, Tate and Rolfe shot dead in a Range Rover at Rettendon, Essex, 6 December 1995; Steele and Whomes convicted in 1998 on supergrass Nicholls's evidence, still disputed.
Richardson family murders
Richardson family murders: April 2006 killings of Marc, Debra, and Jacob Richardson in Medicine Hat, Alberta, by 12-year-old Jasmine Richardson and 23-year-old Jeremy Steinke; her sentence was capped at ten years under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Robert William Fisher
Robert William Fisher (born 1961) is an American FBI fugitive wanted for allegedly murdering his wife Mary and children Brittney and Bobby in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 10, 2001, then blowing up the house. Added to Ten Most Wanted in 2002 (#475), removed in 2021, never found.
Ronald Clark O'Bryan
Ronald Clark O'Bryan, known as the "Candy Man," was a Texas optician executed in 1984 for fatally poisoning his eight-year-old son with cyanide-laced Halloween candy in 1974.
Ronald Gene Simmons
Ronald Gene Simmons, also known as R. Gene Simmons, was an American retired Air Force master sergeant who killed 16 people, 14 of them family, near Dover and Russellville, Arkansas, December 22–28, 1987, the worst single-family mass murder in U.S. history; executed June 25, 1990.
Ruby McCollum
Ruby McCollum, also known as Ruby Jackson, was a wealthy Black Florida woman who shot white state senator-elect Dr. C. LeRoy Adams in Live Oak in 1952.
Russell family shooting
The Russell family shooting, also called the Russell family murders, was a familicide in which Russell killed family members, then shot himself in the left lung and survived.
Sef Gonzales
Sef Gonzales, Filipino Australian triple murderer, killed his parents Teddy and Mary and sister Clodine at North Ryde, Sydney on 10 July 2001, staging a fake hate crime, and received three concurrent life sentences in 2004; a sentence appeal was referred in 2025.
Setagaya family murder
Unsolved December 30–31, 2000 quadruple murder of the Miyazawa family in Kamisoshigaya, Setagaya, Tokyo; the killer left DNA, fingerprints, clothing and a broken sashimi knife, but no match; no statute of limitations since 2010.