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Murder of Susana Morales
Murder of Susana Morales: 16-year-old Norcross, Georgia girl who vanished July 26, 2022; remains found in Dacula. Former Doraville officer Miles Bryant convicted 2024, sentenced to life without parole.
Murder of Tiahleigh Palmer
Murder of Tiahleigh Palmer (Tia), the 2015 killing of a 12-year-old Queensland foster child by foster father Rick Thorburn at Chambers Flat; body found in the Pimpama River; life sentence, 2021 inquest, child protection reforms.
Murder of Timothy McCoy
Timothy Jack McCoy, a teenager from Glenwood, Iowa, was John Wayne Gacy's first-known victim, killed after a 1972 Chicago Greyhound layover; identified in 1986 by dental records among nine unnamed victims.
Murder of Trisa Thornley
Murder of Trisa Gail Thornley: 1978 abduction and strangling of an 8-year-old Ocala, Florida schoolgirl by Aubrey Dennis Adams Jr., convicted 1978, executed 1989 after Dugger v. Adams.
Murder of Vickie Deblieux
Murder of Vickie Deblieux: February 1994 killing of a Louisiana-bound hitchhiker in Jefferson County, Alabama, by Kenneth Loggins and three other teenagers; her mutilated body was found on Bald Rock Mountain, and Loggins' death sentence was vacated under Roper v. Simmons.
Murder of Warren Barnes
Warren Barnes, 69, Grand Junction, Colorado's homeless 'reading man,' was murdered February 27, 2021 by 19-year-old Brian Cohee II, who decapitated him; convicted after an insanity plea, Cohee received life without parole in 2023.
Murder of Yap Shing Xuen
Murder of Yap Shing Xuen: 14 October 2025 stabbing death of a 16-year-old student at SMK Bandar Utama Damansara (4), Selangor, Malaysia, by a 14-year-old schoolmate; 2026 insanity acquittal, prosecution appeal, civil suit.
Murder of Yvonne Jonsson
Murder of Yvonne Jonsson, the Royal Park murder: 19-year-old Swedish-Sri Lankan student killed July 1, 2005 in Colombo; Jude Jayamaha convicted, sentenced to death, pardoned in 2019, pardon quashed in 2024.
Murder of Zebb Quinn
Zebb Wayne Quinn, 18, vanished in Asheville, North Carolina on January 2, 2000 after leaving Walmart with coworker Robert Jason Owens; his 2022 accessory plea legally established Quinn was murdered, but his body was never found.
Natasha Ryan
Natasha Ryan, the Australian 'girl in the cupboard': Rockhampton teenager who vanished in August 1998, was presumed murdered by Leonard Fraser, and was found alive in 2003 hiding at boyfriend Scott Black's home; she died in 2024.
Neuschwanstein murder
June 2023 killing of American tourist Eva Liu, 21, near Marienbrücke at Neuschwanstein Castle, Bavaria; Troy B. sentenced to life in Kempten in March 2024 for murder, rape with fatal consequences, and attempted murder.
Patty Hearst
Patty Hearst (Patricia Campbell Hearst, born 1954), American heiress kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974, convicted of bank robbery after the Hibernia Bank surveillance footage, sentenced to seven years, commuted by Carter, pardoned by Clinton in 2001.
Peter Bergmann case
Peter Bergmann case: unsolved 2009 Sligo, Ireland death of an unidentified man who used the false name Peter Bergmann, gave a fake Vienna address, discarded his belongings, and was found dead on Rosses Point beach; still unidentified.
Rape of Queena Vuong
Queena Vuong (Queena Phu), 18, was raped and beaten April 24, 2008 outside the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library, Valrico, Florida, by Kendrick Morris, 16, leaving her blind and paralyzed; Morris was resentenced to life in prison in 2017.
Rodney King
Rodney Glen King (1965–2012), Sacramento-born Altadena laborer, whose 1991 videotaped LAPD beating, Simi Valley acquittals, 1992 LA riots, federal civil rights convictions, and $3.8 million civil award reshaped US police accountability.
Sabine Dardenne
Sabine Dardenne (born 1983) is a Belgian survivor of the Dutroux case, kidnapped by Marc Dutroux on 28 May 1996 and held 80 days in a cellar in Marcinelle; she testified at his 2004 trial and wrote I Choose to Live.
Shooting of Daniel Shaver
The shooting of Daniel Shaver, also known as the killing of Daniel Shaver, was the 2016 fatal police shooting of an unarmed 26-year-old Texan by an officer in Mesa, Arizona.
Shooting of David Ortiz
Shooting of David Ortiz: June 9, 2019 attack at Dial Bar and Lounge, Santo Domingo, that wounded the retired Red Sox slugger and Jhoel López; officially a mistaken-identity hit, later linked by a private investigation to Cesar Peralta.
Shooting of Liz Barraza
Unsolved January 25, 2019 shooting of 29-year-old Liz Barraza, killed in her Tomball, Texas driveway while setting up a garage sale; investigated as a possible murder-for-hire with a black Nissan Frontier suspect vehicle and no arrests as of 2025–2026.
Shooting of Mima Alicia
Killing of Alicia "Mima Alicia" Lipata, 24-year-old Filipino pro-Marcos political vlogger, shot dead by motorcycle-riding gunmen in Caloocan on July 17, 2026; two suspects arrested July 23 in Pampanga, motive linked to an 8-million-peso debt.
Somerton Man
Somerton Man (Tamám Shud case): man found dead on Somerton Beach, Adelaide, 1 December 1948. Identified in 2022 by DNA as Carl "Charles" Webb; Australian authorities have not confirmed it, and cause of death remains undetermined.
Stabbing of George Harrison
The stabbing of George Harrison: on 30 December 1999 Michael Abram, a schizophrenic man from Liverpool, broke into Friar Park and stabbed the former Beatle, puncturing a lung; he was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 2000 and detained, then released in 2002.
Tara Grinstead murder case
Tara Grinstead murder case: 2005 disappearance of an Ocilla, Georgia teacher; Ryan Duke confessed then recanted, was convicted of concealing her death but acquitted of murder; Bo Dukes got 25 years; 2025 appeal voided remaining charges.
Teresita Basa
Teresita Basa (1929–1977), Filipino-American respiratory therapist murdered in Chicago; the "Voice from the Grave" case in which coworker Remy Chua's alleged possession named killer Allan Showery, leading to his 1979 guilty plea.
Twilight Zone accident
1982 helicopter crash during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie at Indian Dunes, California, killed Vic Morrow and child actors Myca Dinh Le and Renee Chen; John Landis's manslaughter trial ended in acquittal but reshaped set-safety rules.
Victoria Cilliers
Victoria Cilliers, British physiotherapist and skydiving instructor, survived her husband Emile Cilliers' 2015 sabotage of her main and reserve parachutes at Netheravon; he received a life sentence, minimum 18 years, in 2018.