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Watts family murders
Watts family murders: 2018 Frederick, Colorado killings by Chris Watts of pregnant wife Shanann and daughters Bella and Celeste; guilty pleas, life without parole, Netflix's American Murder.
Westroads Mall shooting
Westroads Mall shooting: December 5, 2007 mass shooting at the Von Maur store in Omaha, Nebraska; 19-year-old Robert Hawkins killed eight, wounded five with a stolen AK-47, then died by suicide.
Wichita Massacre
Wichita Massacre (Carr brothers case), December 2000 crime spree in Wichita, Kansas, in which Reginald and Jonathan Carr robbed, raped, and executed five people on a soccer field, killing four; death sentences upheld after Kansas v. Carr (2016).
Wonderland murders
The Wonderland murders were the unsolved 1981 bludgeoning deaths of four people in a Laurel Canyon house in Los Angeles, tied to the Wonderland Gang drug dealers.
World's End Murders
World's End Murders: 1977 killings of Helen Scott and Christine Eadie, 17, after leaving the World's End pub, Edinburgh. Killer Angus Sinclair convicted at 2014 retrial under the Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2011 after a 2007 acquittal, jailed 37 years.
Yaser Abdel Said
Yaser Abdel Said (ياسر عبد السيد), Egyptian-born American taxi driver convicted of capital murder for the 2008 shooting deaths of his daughters Amina and Sarah in Irving, Texas; FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive #504, captured 2020, sentenced to life without parole.
Yolanda Saldívar
Yolanda Saldívar (born 1960, San Antonio) is the former nurse, Selena fan club president, and boutique manager who murdered the Tejano singer on March 31, 1995; convicted of first-degree murder in Houston in 1995, serving life in Gatesville, Texas, parole denied March 2025, next review 2030.