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Mule (smuggling)
A mule, commonly called a drug mule, is a person paid, coerced, or deceived into carrying drugs across an international border, often by swallowing sealed packets, typically cocaine or heroin.
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.
Murder of Brooke Wilberger
Murder of Brooke Wilberger: 2004 abduction and killing of a 19-year-old BYU student in Corvallis, Oregon; Joel Patrick Courtney pleaded guilty to aggravated murder in 2009, receiving life without parole in exchange for revealing her remains in the Oregon Coast Range.
Murder of Cara Knott
Murder of Cara Knott: 1986 killing of 20-year-old SDSU student Cara Evelyn Knott by on-duty California Highway Patrol officer Craig Alan Peyer at the Mercy Road off-ramp, Interstate 15, San Diego; two trials, 25-years-to-life sentence, parole denied through 2012.
Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart
Murder of Cassie Jo Stoddart: 2006 stabbing death of a 16-year-old Pocatello, Idaho student by classmates Brian Draper and Torey Adamcik, the 'Scream Killers', who videotaped their plan; both received life without parole.
Murder of Cherish Perrywinkle
Murder of Cherish Perrywinkle: 2013 kidnapping, rape, and killing of an 8-year-old Jacksonville girl by sex offender Donald James Smith, who lured her from a Walmart; he was sentenced to death in 2018 and remains on death row pending appeals.
Murder of Daniel Morcombe
Murder of Daniel Morcombe: 13-year-old Sunshine Coast schoolboy abducted 7 December 2003 at Woombye, killed by Brett Peter Cowan near Beerwah; convicted 2014 after a Mr Big sting; legacy includes the Daniel Morcombe Foundation and Queensland's Daniel's Law.
Murder of Danielle Jones
Murder of Danielle Jones: 15-year-old Essex schoolgirl Danielle Jones disappeared 18 June 2001 in East Tilbury; her uncle Stuart Campbell was convicted of her abduction and murder in 2002 without her body ever being found.
Murder of Danielle van Dam
Murder of Danielle van Dam: 2002 San Diego case in which 7-year-old Danielle van Dam was abducted and killed; neighbor David Westerfield was convicted on blood, fingerprint, and dog-hair evidence and sentenced to death.
Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard
Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard: the June 2015 stabbing of Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard, 48, in Springfield, Missouri, by Nicholas Godejohn at the direction of her abused daughter Gypsy Rose Blanchard; a Munchausen syndrome by proxy case. Gypsy Rose received 10 years, Godejohn life without parole.
Murder of Dru Sjodin
Murder of Dru Sjodin: 2003 abduction and killing of a 22-year-old University of North Dakota student by Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., a released Level 3 sex offender; led to Dru's Law, the NSOPW registry, and a federal death sentence later reduced to life.
Murder of Elizabeth Olten
Murder of Elizabeth Olten: the October 21, 2009 killing of 9-year-old Elizabeth Kay Olten in St. Martins, Missouri, by 15-year-old neighbor Alyssa Bustamante, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action and received life plus 30 years.
Murder of Ella Bennett
Murder of Ella Bennett: the February 2007 killing of 4-year-old Ella Bennett in Abilene, Texas by her 13-year-old brother Paris Bennett, who stabbed her 17 times to punish their mother; also called the Paris Bennett case.