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Murder of Shanda Sharer
Murder of Shanda Sharer: January 11, 1992 killing of a 12-year-old New Albany, Indiana girl by four teenage girls led by Melinda Loveless, motivated by jealousy; 60-year sentences, releases 2000–2019.
Murder of Skylar Neese
Murder of Skylar Neese: 2012 killing of 16-year-old Skylar Annette Neese of Star City, West Virginia, by best friends Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf, who lured her to Pennsylvania and stabbed her; led to Skylar's Law.
Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Murder of Stephen Lawrence: racist killing of an 18-year-old in Eltham, London, on 22 April 1993; Macpherson report found the Met institutionally racist; Dobson and Norris convicted in 2012.
Murder of Susan Smith
The murder of Susan Daniels Smith was the 1989 strangling of an FBI informant by her handler and lover, agent Mark Putnam, whose guilty plea made him the first FBI agent charged with homicide.
Murder of Suzanne Adams
Murder of Suzanne Adams: Suzanne Eberson Adams, 83, Old Greenwich realtor killed August 5, 2025 by her son Stein-Erik Soelberg, who died by suicide; estate sued OpenAI and Microsoft alleging ChatGPT GPT-4o fueled his paranoid delusions.
Murder of Suzanne Capper
Murder of Suzanne Capper: 16-year-old Moston, Manchester girl kidnapped, tortured for about a week in December 1992, set on fire at Werneth Low, died 18 December 1992; four convicted of murder in 1993, all six defendants now released.
Murder of Sylvia Likens
Sylvia Likens (1949–1965), American teenager tortured to death in Indianapolis by caregiver Gertrude Baniszewski, her children, and neighbor youths; 1966 trial, 1970 reversal, 1971 reconviction, 1985 parole.
Murder of the Lawson family
Murder of the Lawson family: Christmas Day 1929 familicide on a tobacco farm in Stokes County, North Carolina, where Charlie Lawson killed his wife Fannie Manring and six of seven children, then himself; motive unknown; subject of the 1930 Carolina Buddies ballad.
Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.
Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.: unsolved March 9, 1997 drive-by shooting of rapper Christopher Wallace (Biggie Smalls) in Los Angeles after a Petersen Museum party; competing Mack–Muhammad and Wardell Fouse theories; no arrests ever made.
Murder of Tia Sharp
Murder of Tia Sharp: 12-year-old schoolgirl killed 2-3 August 2012 by Stuart Hazell, her grandmother's partner, at New Addington, London; body found in the loft 10 August; Hazell received a 38-year minimum life term.
Murder of Tori Stafford
Murder of Tori Stafford: 2009 abduction, rape, and killing of 8-year-old Victoria Stafford of Woodstock, Ontario, by Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty; McClintic pleaded guilty in 2010, Rafferty was convicted in 2012.
Murder of Tracie McBride
The murder of Tracie McBride was the 1995 kidnapping, rape, and killing of 19-year-old Army private Tracie Joy McBride near San Angelo, Texas, by Louis Jones Jr.
Murder of Travis Alexander
Murder of Travis Alexander: 30-year-old Mesa, Arizona salesman killed June 4, 2008, stabbed 27 times, throat cut, shot; ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias convicted of first-degree murder in 2013 and sentenced to natural life.
Murder of Vanessa Guillén
Murder of Vanessa Guillén, 2020 killing of a 20-year-old US Army specialist at Fort Hood, Texas (now Fort Cavazos). Spc. Aaron Robinson killed her 22 April 2020 and died by suicide; Cecily Aguilar got 30 years; case drove the I Am Vanessa Guillén Act.
Murder of Victoria Climbié
Victoria Climbié, an eight-year-old Ivorian girl sent to Britain in 1998, died in London in February 2000 after torture by her great-aunt Marie-Thérèse Kouao and Carl Manning. The Laming Inquiry's 108 recommendations drove Every Child Matters and the Children Act 2004.
Murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin
Murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin, the 2016 Indonesian cyanide coffee case: Salihin died after a Vietnamese iced coffee at Olivier Café, Jakarta; friend Jessica Kumala Wongso was convicted of premeditated murder, sentenced to 20 years, and paroled in 2024.
Murder of XXXTentacion
The murder of XXXTentacion, also known as Jahseh Onfroy, was the June 18, 2018 armed-robbery shooting of the 20-year-old rapper outside RIVA Motorsports in Deerfield Beach, Florida; three men received life sentences in 2023.
Murder of Yara Gambirasio
Murder of Yara Gambirasio: 2010 killing of a 13-year-old from Brembate di Sopra, Italy, solved in 2014 via the Ignoto 1 DNA profile and familial searching; Massimo Giuseppe Bossetti received a life sentence in 2016.
Murder of Yetunde Price
Murder of Yetunde Price: Yetunde Hawanya Tara Price, eldest half sister of Venus and Serena Williams, was shot dead September 14, 2003, in Compton, California, age 31; Robert Maxfield received 15 years for voluntary manslaughter in 2006.
Murder of Yingying Zhang (章莹颖)
Murder of Yingying Zhang (章莹颖), June 9, 2017 killing of a 26-year-old visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois by Brendt Christensen, convicted 2019 and sentenced to life without parole; remains unrecovered.
Murder–suicide
Murder–suicide, also called homicide–suicide or dyadic death, is a homicide followed by the perpetrator's suicide, usually within 24 hours. US incidence about 0.45 per 100,000; mostly male perpetrators, intimate partner victims, firearms.
Murder, Inc.
Murder, Inc., also called the Brownsville killers' ring, was a Brooklyn-based contract-killing arm of the U.S. crime syndicate founded circa 1930, led by Albert Anastasia and Louis Lepke Buchalter, credited with 63 New York-area slayings from 1931 to 1940, and dismantled after Abe Reles turned informant in 1940.
Murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German
Delphi murders: killings of Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, near Monon High Bridge, Delphi, Indiana, February 13, 2017; Richard Allen convicted 2024, sentenced to 130 years, appeal pending.
Murders of Bernice and Ben Novack Jr.
The murders of Bernice and Ben Novack Jr. were 2009 murder-for-hire killings by Narcy Novack and Cristobal Veliz, who hired hit men to kill the Fontainebleau hotel heir and his 86-year-old mother for a $10 million estate.
Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
2007 Knoxville, Tennessee double murder: Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, were carjacked, raped, and killed at 2316 Chipman Street; five convictions including Lemaricus Davidson's death sentence, retrials after the judge's drug arrest, and a hate-crime controversy.
Murders of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield
Murders of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield: February 2, 2013 shootings of the American Sniper author and his friend by Marine veteran Eddie Ray Routh at a Texas range; 2015 capital murder conviction, life without parole, 2017 appeal affirmed.
Murders of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan
The murders of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan, known as the Au Pair Affair, were 2023 killings in Fairfax County, Virginia, plotted by Christine's husband and the family's au pair.
Murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon
Murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon: 1975 abduction and killing of sisters aged 10 and 12 from Wheaton Plaza, Maryland; Lloyd Lee Welch Jr. pleaded guilty in 2017, 48-year sentence, bodies never found.
Murders of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman
1999 Oklahoma cold case: teenagers Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman vanished from Welch after Danny and Kathy Freeman were shot and their home burned; Ronnie Busick pleaded guilty in 2020, was released in 2023, and the girls' remains remain unfound.
Murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone
Murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone: two Greater Manchester Police constables, aged 23 and 32, killed on 18 September 2012 by Dale Cregan in a gun and grenade ambush in Hattersley, Tameside, lured by a hoax 999 burglary call; Cregan received a whole life sentence in 2013.