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Murder of Paige Birgfeld
Murder of Paige Birgfeld: 2007 killing of a Grand Junction, Colorado mother of three who secretly ran the Models Inc. escort service; Lester Ralph Jones, a client, was convicted in 2016 and sentenced to life without parole.
Murder of Peggy Johnson
Peggy Lynn Johnson, a 23-year-old also known as Racine County Jane Doe, was found murdered in a Wisconsin cornfield in 1999; identified by familial DNA in 2019, her caretaker Linda Sue LaRoche was convicted in 2022.
Murder of Pop Smoke
The murder of Pop Smoke was the fatal shooting of Bashar Barakah Jackson, the rapper Pop Smoke, 20, during a home-invasion robbery in Los Angeles's Hollywood Hills in February 2020.
Murder of Prue Bird
Murder of Prue Bird: 13-year-old Prudence Ann Bird, abducted from her Glenroy, Melbourne home on 2 February 1992; body never found. Bega schoolgirl killer Leslie Camilleri pleaded guilty and received 28 years in 2013.
Murder of Rachelle Tolleson
Murder of Rachelle Tolleson: 2004 kidnapping, rape, and killing of 20-year-old Rachelle O'Neil Tolleson in Farmersville, Texas, by Moises Sandoval Mendoza, executed April 23, 2025.
Murder of Raja Raghuvanshi
Murder of Raja Raghuvanshi, the Meghalaya honeymoon murder case: Indore businessman killed May 23, 2025 at Sohra; wife Sonam Raghuvanshi, lover Raj Kushwaha, and three others charged; Supreme Court set aside her bail in July 2026.
Murder of Raymond Fife
Murder of Raymond Fife: 1985 rape, torture, and killing of a 12-year-old in Warren, Ohio. Timothy Combs got life and died in prison in 2018; Danny Lee Hill was sentenced to death, with decades of appeals over bite-mark evidence and intellectual disability.
Murder of Rebecca Kunash
Murder of Rebecca Kunash: 1979 abduction, rape, and drowning of a six-year-old Merritt Island, Florida girl by Marine private Bryan Frederick Jennings, tried three times and executed in 2025.
Murder of Reena Virk
Murder of Reena Virk: 1997 killing of a 14-year-old in Saanich, British Columbia, beaten by a teen group and drowned by Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski; three Ellard trials, 2009 Supreme Court conviction, 2024 Hulu series.
Murder of Richard Everitt
Murder of Richard Everitt: 15-year-old white schoolboy stabbed once in the back on 13 August 1994 in Somers Town, north London, by a Bangladeshi gang avenging a jewellery mugging; Badrul Miah got life in 1995, the knife-wielder was never identified.
Murder of Robert Brooks
The murder of Robert Brooks was the December 2024 killing of a 43-year-old incarcerated man beaten to death by New York corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility.
Murder of Robin Samsoe
Murder of Robin Samsoe: 1979 kidnapping and killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl by Rodney James Alcala, convicted and sentenced to death three times across 1980, 1986, and 2010 trials.
Murder of Ronald Johnson
Murder of Ronald Johnson: Correctional Officer Ronald "R.J." Johnson, killed April 12, 2011 at South Dakota State Penitentiary by two maximum-security inmates during a planned escape attempt; distinct from the 2014 Chicago police shooting of Ronald Johnson III.
Murder of Rowan Ford
Murder of Rowan Ford: 2007 abduction, rape, and killing of a 9-year-old girl in Stella, Missouri. Christopher Collings was convicted and executed in 2024; stepfather David Spears pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was released in 2015.
Murder of Ruth Marie Terry
Murder of Ruth Marie Terry, the "Lady of the Dunes": Tennessee woman, 37, killed in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1974, identified by FBI genealogy in 2022; husband Guy Muldavin named killer in 2023.
Murder of Samantha Josephson
Murder of Samantha Josephson: 2019 killing of a 21-year-old University of South Carolina senior, also called the fake Uber case, who entered Nathaniel Rowland's Chevrolet Impala mistaking it for her ride; led to Sami's Law.
Murder of Sana Yousaf
Murder of Sana Yousaf: 17-year-old Pakistani TikTok influencer shot dead in her Islamabad home on June 2, 2025; Umar Hayat arrested within 20 hours, confessed, retracted, and was sentenced to death on May 19, 2026.
Murder of Sarah Payne
Murder of Sarah Payne: eight-year-old killed by Roy Whiting in West Sussex, July 2000; conviction December 2001; her parents' News of the World campaign produced Sarah's Law, the child sex offender disclosure scheme rolled out in 2011.
Murder of Sarah Scazzi
Murder of Sarah Scazzi (delitto di Avetrana): 2010 killing of a 15-year-old in Avetrana, Italy; cousin Sabrina Misseri and aunt Cosima Serrano got life sentences, uncle Michele Misseri 8 years for corpse concealment.
Murder of Scott Amedure
Scott Amedure, a 32-year-old resident of Orion, Michigan, was shot to death on March 9, 1995, by Jonathan Schmitz after a taping of The Jenny Jones Show.
Murder of Seath Jackson
Murder of Seath Jackson, also called the Summerfield case: 15-year-old Florida teen lured by ex-girlfriend Amber Wright and killed by Michael Bargo and four others on April 17, 2011; five first-degree murder convictions, Bargo on death row.
Murder of Shaniya Davis
Murder of Shaniya Davis: 2009 abduction and killing of a 5-year-old Fayetteville, North Carolina girl; Mario McNeill received a death sentence, upheld on appeal; mother Antoinette Davis faced trafficking charges.
Murder of Sharilyn Ritchie
Murder of Sharilyn Ritchie: the August 16, 1983 kidnapping, robbery, and shooting of a 34-year-old Florida teacher by Robert Dewey Glock and Carl Puiatti; both sentenced to death in 1984; Glock executed 2001, Puiatti remains on death row.
Murder of Shawn Seesahai
The murder of Shawn Seesahai was the killing of a 19-year-old man from Anguilla by two 12-year-old boys with a machete in Wolverhampton, England, in November 2023.
Murder of Sherri Jarvis
Sherri Ann Jarvis, a 14-year-old runaway from Stillwater, Minnesota, was raped and strangled near Huntsville, Texas, in 1980; unidentified as the Walker County Jane Doe until DNA testing named her in 2021. Killer unknown.
Murder of Sonya Massey
Murder of Sonya Massey: the July 6, 2024 fatal shooting of 36-year-old Sonya Massey, who had called 911 about a prowler, by Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson; his 2025 second-degree murder conviction, 20-year sentence, the Sonya Massey Act, DOJ agreement, and Massey Commission reforms.
Murder of Staci Jazvac
Murder of Staci Jazvac: 1986 killing of an 11-year-old Lauderdale Lakes, Florida girl, also known as the Staci Lynn Jazvac case; Michael T. Rivera was convicted and sentenced to death, and postconviction DNA hair testing was held non-exculpatory.
Murder of Stacy Errickson
The murder of Stacy Errickson was the 1994 abduction and killing of Stacy Rae Errickson, a 22-year-old nurse technician in Jacksonville, Arkansas, by Marcel Wayne Williams.
Murder of Stacy Payne
Murder of Stacy Payne: 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne of Dale, Indiana, by Roy Lee Ward, who posed as looking for a lost dog; Ward was executed in Indiana on October 10, 2025.
Murder of Stephanie Scott
Murder of Stephanie Scott: 2015 rape and murder of 26-year-old Leeton High School teacher Stephanie Clare Scott in NSW, Australia, by school cleaner Vincent Stanford days before her wedding; he received life imprisonment with no non-parole period.