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Malcolm Webster (murderer)
Malcolm Webster (born 1959), English former nurse, convicted 2011 in Scotland of murdering first wife Claire Morris in a staged 1994 Aberdeenshire car crash and of attempting to murder second wife Felicity Drumm in New Zealand in 1999 for insurance money; life sentence, 30-year minimum.
Manacled Mormon case
The Manacled Mormon case, or Mormon sex-in-chains case: Joyce McKinney's 1977 alleged kidnap and rape of LDS missionary Kirk Anderson in a Devon cottage; no trial, bail jumped, later the subject of the documentary Tabloid.
Manslaughter
Manslaughter: unlawful homicide without the culpability for murder, split into voluntary (heat of passion) and involuntary (negligence, unlawful dangerous acts) forms in US, English, Canadian and Australian law.
Manu Sharma
Manu Sharma (Siddharth Vashisht), son of Haryana Congress leader Venod Sharma, convicted of murdering model Jessica Lall in Delhi in 1999; acquitted in 2006, convicted by the Delhi High Court, upheld by the Supreme Court in 2010, released in 2020.
Mary Winkler
Mary Carol Winkler, Tennessee woman who killed her minister husband Matthew Winkler in Selmer on March 22, 2006; convicted of voluntary manslaughter in April 2007 on an abuse defense, serving about two months.
Marybeth Tinning
Marybeth Tinning (born 1942), American murderer from Schenectady, New York; convicted 1987 of second-degree murder for smothering her 4-month-old daughter Tami Lynne; nine children died 1972-1985, one conviction, paroled 2018.
Matricide
Matricide is the killing of one's mother, a rare crime (under 2% of known-relationship U.S. homicides), usually by adult sons, often linked to psychosis; also a central theme in Greek tragedy and psychoanalytic theory.
McStay family murders
McStay family murders: Joseph, Summer, Gianni, and Joseph Jr. McStay, missing from Fallbrook, California, since February 4, 2010; remains found in Mojave Desert shallow graves in 2013; business partner Chase Merritt convicted 2019, sentenced to death.
Melanie McGuire
Melanie McGuire, the "suitcase killer," is a former New Jersey fertility clinic nurse convicted in 2007 of murdering, dismembering, and dumping her husband Bill McGuire in Chesapeake Bay suitcases in 2004; she is serving a life sentence and maintains innocence.
Miami cannibal attack
The Miami cannibal attack (Miami Zombie, Causeway Cannibal) was Rudy Eugene's 2012 face-biting assault on Ronald Poppo on the MacArthur Causeway; toxicology found no bath salts, only marijuana.
Michael J. Devlin
Michael J. Devlin is the Kirkwood, Missouri, pizzeria manager who kidnapped Ben Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck, pleaded guilty in 2007 to 71 counts, and received 70 life terms.
Michelle Knotek
Michelle "Shelly" Knotek, Raymond, Washington woman who pleaded guilty via Alford plea in 2004 to second-degree murder and manslaughter in the abuse deaths of Kathy Loreno and Ron Woodworth; her husband David killed Shane Watson; sentenced to 266 months.
Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of a person with malice aforethought, a category of homicide distinct from manslaughter. Covers common law definitions, degrees of murder, and global intentional homicide statistics.
Murder of Abby Choi (蔡天凤)
Murder of Abby Choi (蔡天鳳), Hong Kong model and influencer killed February 2023; dismembered remains found in Tai Po; ex-husband Alex Kwong, father-in-law Kwong Kau and brother-in-law charged; trial began 2026.
Murder of Adrianna Hutto
Murder of Adrianna Hutto: 2007 drowning of 7-year-old Adrianna Elaine Hutto in Esto, Florida; mother Amanda Lewis convicted of first-degree murder in 2008 on her 6-year-old son AJ's testimony and disputed bruising evidence, sentenced to life without parole.
Murder of Alesha MacPhail
Murder of Alesha MacPhail: killing of a six-year-old girl abducted from her bed on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, on 2 July 2018 by 16-year-old Aaron Campbell, convicted after a nine-day Glasgow trial and sentenced to a 27-year minimum life term, reduced to 24 years on appeal.
Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
Murder of Amy Mihaljevic: unsolved 1989 kidnapping of a 10-year-old from Bay Village, Ohio, lured by a phone call about a gift for her mother; body found February 8, 1990 in Ashland County; Bay Village police and FBI investigation remains open.
Murder of Anita Cobby
Murder of Anita Cobby (Anita Lorraine Cobby, nee Lynch): 1986 abduction, rape, and murder of a 26-year-old Sydney nurse by John Travers, Michael Murdoch, and three Murphy brothers near Blacktown Station; all five received "never to be released" life sentences that shaped NSW sentencing law.
Murder of Anni Dewani
Murder of Anni Dewani: Swedish-born bride, 28, shot in a staged Cape Town carjacking, 13 November 2010. Husband Shrien Dewani was accused of hiring the killers, extradited after a mental-health fight, and acquitted in December 2014.
Murder of Annie Le
The Murder of Annie Le was the 2009 killing of a Yale pharmacology doctoral student by animal research technician Raymond Clark III in New Haven, Connecticut.
Murder of April Jones
Murder of April Jones: 2012 abduction and killing of a five-year-old girl in Machynlleth, Wales; Mark Bridger was convicted in May 2013 and given a whole life order; her remains were never found.
Murder of April Tinsley
Murder of April Tinsley: 1988 abduction, rape, and killing of an 8-year-old Fort Wayne, Indiana girl; killer John D. Miller taunted police with notes, was identified in 2018 by genetic genealogy, and sentenced to 80 years.
Murder of Arlis Perry
Murder of Arlis Perry: 19-year-old newlywed killed in Stanford Memorial Church, October 12, 1974; unsolved 44 years until DNA matched security guard Stephen Blake Crawford, who shot himself in 2018 as deputies closed in.
Murder of Asunta Basterra
Murder of Asunta Basterra (Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto), a 12-year-old Chinese-born girl found dead in Teo, A Coruña, Spain, in 2013; adoptive parents Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra were convicted in 2015 and sentenced to 18 years each.
Murder of Banaz Mahmod
Murder of Banaz Mahmod: 2006 London 'honour' killing of a 20-year-old British Iraqi Kurdish woman who had repeatedly sought police protection; her father, uncle, and three other men received life sentences, and the IPCC found police failures.
Murder of Becky Watts
Murder of Becky Watts: 16-year-old Bristol teenager killed 19 February 2015 in St George by stepbrother Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare in a botched kidnap; her dismembered remains were found 3 March in a Barton Court shed, and both were convicted at Bristol Crown Court in November 2015.
Murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett
The murder of Bobbie Jo Stinnett was the December 2004 killing of a pregnant dog breeder in Skidmore, Missouri, by Lisa Montgomery, who cut the fetus from her womb.
Murder of Bobby Kent
The 1993 murder of Bobby Kent, a 20-year-old from Hollywood, Florida, killed by seven acquaintances including Marty Puccio at a Broward County rock pit; basis for Jim Schutze's book and Larry Clark's 2001 film Bully.
Murder of Botham Jean
Murder of Botham Jean: 2018 fatal shooting of Botham Shem Jean, 26, St. Lucian accountant, by off-duty Dallas officer Amber Guyger, who mistook his apartment for hers; murder conviction, 10-year sentence, $98.65M civil verdict, parole 2026.
Murder of Breck Bednar
Murder of Breck Bednar: 14-year-old Surrey boy killed 17 February 2014 by Lewis Daynes, who groomed him via an online gaming forum; case exposed Surrey Police's failure to act on his mother's warning.