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Hi-Fi murders
Hi-Fi murders: April 22, 1974 torture-murders during a robbery at the Hi-Fi Shop, Ogden, Utah; airmen Dale Pierre Selby and William Andrews executed (1987, 1992) after Utah's longest death-row appeals; Keith Roberts convicted of robbery only.
Hinterkaifeck murders
Hinterkaifeck murders, six killings of the Gruber-Gabriel household and maid Maria Baumgartner on an Upper Bavarian farm on 31 March 1922; over 100 suspects investigated, never solved.
Homicide
Homicide is the killing of one person by another, whether criminal (murder, manslaughter, felony murder) or lawful (self-defense). Covers common law malice aforethought, murder degrees, the Model Penal Code, and 2025 US rates of about 4.1-4.3 per 100,000.
Honor killing
Honor killing: murder of a woman by family members for perceived sexual or behavioral transgressions. Also honour crimes, femicide. Up to 5,000 victims yearly per UNFPA; planned family-council killings under community pressure.
Hostage
Hostage: a person seized or detained and threatened to compel a third party to act. Also called hostage-taking; prohibited by the 1979 UN Hostages Convention and Geneva Convention IV; historically a diplomatic institution in Rome and medieval Europe; Iran held 52 Americans 444 days.
Indrani Mukerjea
Indrani Mukerjea, also known as Pori Bora, is a former Indian media executive accused of murdering her daughter Sheena Bora, arrested in 2015 and granted bail in 2022.
Infanticide
Infanticide is the killing of an infant, typically by a mother, also called neonaticide in the first day of life. A distinct offense under acts in about two dozen countries, notably England's 1922/1938 Infanticide Acts; the US has none.
Internet homicide
Internet homicide: killings in which the internet or social media plays a role, as an encyclopedia, platform, trigger, marketplace, or meeting place for perpetrators. Studies find such cases largely replicate existing homicide forms, not unique crime types.
Ira Einhorn
Ira Einhorn (1940-2020), the 'Unicorn Killer,' was a Philadelphia counterculture guru and Earth Day master of ceremonies convicted of murdering Holly Maddux, whose body was found in his trunk; a fugitive in France for 16 years, he was extradited in 2001 and sentenced to life in 2002.
Jacksonville Landing shooting
The Jacksonville Landing shooting: August 26, 2018 mass shooting at a Madden NFL 19 qualifier at the GLHF Game Bar, Jacksonville, Florida; David Katz killed Elijah Clayton and Taylor Robertson, wounded 11, then died by suicide.
Jeffrey R. MacDonald
Jeffrey R. MacDonald, former Army captain and Green Beret surgeon, convicted in 1979 of the 1970 Fort Bragg murders of his wife and two daughters; case spans decades of appeals, DNA disputes, Fatal Vision, and A Wilderness of Error.
Jeremy Bamber
Jeremy Bamber (born 1961) is serving a whole life sentence for the 1985 White House Farm murders in Essex; convicted in 1986 on silencer blood evidence and his ex-girlfriend's testimony, he maintains innocence and the CCRC continues reviewing his case.
John and Lorena Bobbitt
John and Lorena Bobbitt: married couple at the center of the 1993 Manassas, Virginia case in which Lorena severed John's penis; he was acquitted of marital sexual assault, she of malicious wounding by insanity.
John Battaglia
John David Battaglia (1955-2018), Dallas man executed by Texas on February 1, 2018 for the May 2001 shooting deaths of his daughters Mary Faith, 9, and Liberty, 6; case centered on competency-to-be-executed litigation.
John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan, Lucky Lucan), British aristocrat and gambler who vanished in 1974 after nanny Sandra Rivett's murder; named killer at the 1975 inquest, declared dead 1999, death certificate 2016, body never found.
John Cannan
John David Guise Cannan (1954–2024), British murderer and rapist jailed in 1989 for killing Shirley Banks; officially named by Scotland Yard in 2002 as the only prime suspect in the 1986 Suzy Lamplugh disappearance, never charged, died at HMP Full Sutton.
John List (murderer)
John Emil List was an American mass murderer who shot his wife, mother, and children in Westfield, New Jersey, in 2001. He evaded authorities for 18 years.
Josh Phillips (murderer)
Joshua Earl Patrick Phillips is an American who killed 8-year-old Maddie Clifton in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1998, at age 14, and was sentenced to life in prison.
Kaoru Kobayashi (小林薫) (murderer)
Kaoru Kobayashi (小林薫), 1968-2013, Japanese newspaper delivery worker who kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered 7-year-old Kaede Ariyama in Nara on 17 November 2004; death sentence 2006, executed 2013.
Katherine Knight
Katherine Mary Knight, Australian abattoir worker who murdered partner John Price at Aberdeen NSW in February 2000, skinned and cooked his body; first Australian woman sentenced to life without parole.
Keddie murders
The Keddie murders, also called the Cabin 28 murders, are an unsolved April 11–12, 1981 quadruple homicide at Keddie Resort, Plumas County, California, killing Sue Sharp, John Sharp, and Dana Wingate; Tina Sharp's remains were found in 1984. Smartt and Boubede were suspects; DNA matched a living suspect in 2018.
Keli Lane
Keli Lane, Australian former elite water polo player convicted in 2010 of murdering her two-day-old daughter Tegan (born 1996, body never found); sentenced to 18 years, appeals dismissed, denied parole under NSW no-body-no-parole laws.
Kidnapping
Kidnapping: the unlawful taking, carrying away, or confinement of a person by force, threats, or fraud, without consent. Distinct from false imprisonment and abduction; felony with penalties up to life in the US, England, and Canada.
Kidnapping in the United States
Kidnapping in the United States is a state and federal crime; the federal Lindbergh Law, 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (1932), covers interstate, protected-person, and federal-officer kidnappings, with up to life or death penalties.
Kidnapping of Colleen Stan
Kidnapping of Colleen Stan, the "girl in the box" case: 1977 Red Bluff, California abduction by Cameron and Janice Hooker, seven-year captivity, 1985 trial, 104-year sentence, and parole developments.
Kidnapping of Hannah Anderson
The 2013 kidnapping of Hannah Anderson, 16, by family friend James Lee DiMaggio, who killed her mother Christina and brother Ethan in Boulevard, California, and took her to Idaho's Frank Church wilderness, where an FBI team rescued her August 10 and killed DiMaggio.
Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard
Jaycee Dugard kidnapping: the 1991 abduction of an 11-year-old from South Lake Tahoe by Phillip and Nancy Garrido, her 18-year captivity in a hidden Antioch backyard compound, the 2009 discovery, parole failures, and legal aftermath.
Kidnapping of Jayme Closs
The kidnapping of Jayme Closs, also called the disappearance of Jayme Closs, was the 2018 abduction of a 13-year-old girl from Barron, Wisconsin, minutes after her parents were shot dead.
Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews
Shannon Matthews case: staged 2008 kidnapping of a nine-year-old in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, planned by her mother Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan to claim a £50,000 reward; eight-year sentences.
Killing of Breonna Taylor
Killing of Breonna Taylor: the March 13, 2020 fatal shooting of a 26-year-old Louisville EMT by LMPD officers serving a narcotics warrant; led to Breonna's Law, a $12 million settlement, federal civil rights charges, and one conviction.