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Killing of Chandra Nagamallaiah
Killing of Chandra Nagamallaiah (Chandra Mouli Nagamallaiah), 50-year-old Indian-born Dallas motel manager beheaded 2025 at the Downtown Suites motel by coworker Yordanis Cobos-Martinez, 37, a Cuban national charged with capital murder.
Killing of Damilola Taylor
Killing of Damilola Taylor: fatal 27 November 2000 stabbing of a 10-year-old Nigerian schoolboy with a broken bottle in Peckham, south London; Danny and Ricky Preddie convicted of manslaughter in 2006 after three trials.
Killing of Gabby Petito
Killing of Gabby Petito: 2021 murder of a 22-year-old Long Island travel vlogger by fiancé Brian Laundrie during a van trip; body found at Spread Creek, Wyoming; case fueled debate on missing-white-woman media coverage.
Killing of JonBenét Ramsey
Unsolved December 26, 1996 homicide of six-year-old beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey, found strangled in her Boulder, Colorado home basement after a $118,000 ransom note; grand jury, 2008 DNA exoneration, and open BPD investigation.
Killing of Jordan Neely
Killing of Jordan Neely: the May 1, 2023 F-train chokehold death of the 30-year-old homeless Michael Jackson impersonator by Marine veteran Daniel Penny, ruled homicide by the medical examiner, ending in Penny's December 2024 acquittal.
Killing of Latasha Harlins
Killing of Latasha Harlins: 1991 fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Black girl by Korean American shopkeeper Soon Ja Du at Empire Liquor Market, South Los Angeles; Du's probation-only manslaughter sentence fueled the 1992 LA riots.
Killing of Rachel Nickell
Killing of Rachel Nickell: 1992 Wimbledon Common murder; Colin Stagg wrongly prosecuted after honey trap; Robert Napper convicted 2008 via DNA; IPCC errors, £706,000 compensation, Broadmoor detention.
Killing of Tim McLean
Killing of Tim McLean: 2008 Greyhound bus beheading near Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, by Vince Li (Will Baker), found not criminally responsible, discharged absolutely in 2017.
Killing of Trayvon Martin
Killing of Trayvon Martin: February 26, 2012 shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida's Retreat at Twin Lakes; led to a second-degree murder trial, 2013 acquittal, DOJ review, and Black Lives Matter.
Kisangani massacres
The Kisangani massacres were the May 2002 mass killings of civilians, soldiers, and police in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, by RCD-Goma forces after a mutiny.
Kneecapping
Kneecapping: extrajudicial punishment by shooting a victim in the leg, originating in Northern Irish paramilitary punishment attacks (2,303 shootings 1973-2000) and later documented in Bangladesh and Gaza.
Lake Bodom murders
Lake Bodom murders (Bodominjärven surmat): unsolved June 1960 killing of three teenage campers in Espoo, Finland; survivor Nils Gustafsson was charged in 2004 and acquitted in 2005.
Leopold and Loeb
Leopold and Loeb: Nathan Leopold, Jr. and Richard Loeb, wealthy University of Chicago students who kidnapped and murdered Bobby Franks in 1924 as a 'perfect crime,' spared the death penalty by Clarence Darrow.
Lester Street Massacre
The Lester Street Massacre, also called the Lester Street murders, was the March 2, 2008 killing of six people, including two children, at 722 Lester Street, Memphis, by Jessie Dotson, who received six death sentences.
Lindbergh kidnapping
The Lindbergh kidnapping: the March 1, 1932 abduction and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in Hopewell, New Jersey; Bruno Richard Hauptmann's 1935 trial, 1936 execution, the Lindbergh Law, and lasting guilt controversy.
List of kidnappings
The list of kidnappings, also covering famous abductions, catalogs notable cases from modern history, including Charles Lindbergh Jr., Patty Hearst, Aldo Moro, Jaycee Dugard, and Elizabeth Smart.
List of kidnappings before 1900
Kidnappings before 1900: ransom captivity in medieval Europe, raptus abductions of women, kidnapping of free Black Americans 1780-1865, and the 1874 Charley Ross case, the first known US kidnapping for ransom.
List of long-term false imprisonment cases
Long-term false imprisonment cases: Dugard (18 years, Antioch), Fritzl (24 years, Amstetten), Cleveland kidnappings (~10 years), Colleen Stan (7 years), Terry Anderson (2,454 days), with legal distinction from kidnapping.
List of mass shootings in the United States (2010–2019)
Mass shootings in the United States, 2010–2019, also called the decade's gun massacres: no official definition exists, so counts range from about 5 to hundreds yearly; average 51 deaths per year; deadliest was Las Vegas 2017.
List of mass shootings in the United States in 2025
Mass shootings in the United States in 2025: FBI designated 34 active shooter incidents; AP/USA Today/Northeastern counted 17 mass killings (81+ deaths, lowest since 2006); EveryShot logged 485 mass shooting incidents with 493 deaths.
List of school attacks in Turkey
List of school attacks in Turkey: chronological record of armed attacks at Turkish K-12 schools, universities and school buses, 1978–2026, including the April 2026 Siverek and Kahramanmaraş shootings (16 wounded, 10 dead).
List of types of killing
The list of types of killing sets out the legal categories of homicide, from murder and its degrees through manslaughter and felony murder to justifiable homicide, where no crime occurred.
List of unsolved murders (1900–1979)
List of unsolved murders (1900–1979): twentieth-century homicide cases never solved, from the 1907 Camden Town Murder to 1970s cold cases, with scale figures and how DNA, forensic genealogy, and fingerprint databases later resolved some of them.
List of unsolved murders (2000–present)
List of unsolved murders (2000–present): homicides since 2000 without an identified offender. Covers US clearance rates (54–64%), the 250,000-case backlog, cold-case definitions, notable cases like the Grim Sleeper, and DNA and genetic genealogy methods.
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Andrew Borden, Fall River woman tried and acquitted (June 20, 1893) for the August 4, 1892 hatchet murders of father Andrew and stepmother Abby; case unsolved, no one else charged; famous for the '40 whacks' rhyme.
Loaded sock
Loaded sock: an improvised weapon made by filling and knotting a sock with rocks, batteries, a padlock, or similar dense objects; treated in law as a dangerous weapon based on use. Distinct from the police less-lethal sock round and from socks used to conceal guns.
Lululemon murder
The Lululemon murder: Brittany Norwood killed co-worker Jayna Murray (331 injuries) at a Bethesda, Maryland Lululemon store on March 11, 2011, staged a fake masked robbery, and received life without parole.
Lynching of Jesse Washington
The lynching of Jesse Washington, known as the Waco Horror, was the 1916 mob torture and burning of a seventeen-year-old Black farmhand in Waco, Texas.
Lynching of Michael Donald
Lynching of Michael Donald: 1981 Ku Klux Klan killing of 19-year-old Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama, recorded as the last documented US lynching; his mother's civil suit bankrupted the United Klans of America.
Lynda Lyon Block
Lynda Lyon Block (1948–2002), also known as Lynda Lyon, was an American anti-government activist executed in Alabama's electric chair on May 10, 2002 for the 1993 murder of Opelika police sergeant Roger Lamar Motley, the first woman executed in Alabama since 1957.