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Death of John O'Keefe
Death of John O'Keefe: Boston police officer, 46, found dead in snow outside 34 Fairview Road, Canton, Massachusetts, January 29, 2022. Girlfriend Karen Read was charged with murder, tried twice, and acquitted in June 2025.
Death of Kenneka Jenkins
Death of Kenneka Jenkins: 2017 hypothermia death of a 19-year-old Chicago woman found in a walk-in freezer at the Crowne Plaza Chicago O'Hare, Rosemont, Illinois; ruled accidental with alcohol and topiramate as factors; $10 million 2023 settlement.
Death of Kuang Zhijun (匡志均)
Kuang Zhijun (匡志均), the Chongqing red-dress boy, was a 13-year-old found dead on 5 November 2009, bound and hung from a roof beam; police ruled accidental death, later findings sexual asphyxia.
Death of Kyle Plush
Death of Kyle Plush: Cincinnati 16-year-old who died April 10, 2018, trapped under his Honda Odyssey's folding seat despite two Siri-made 911 calls; led to $6 million settlement and court-supervised 911 reform.
Death of Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada
Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada, a 25-year-old No Frills Supermarket employee in Council Bluffs, Iowa, vanished November 28, 2009; his remains were found January 24, 2019 behind a cooler at the closed store, identified by parental DNA, death ruled accidental.
Death of Michael Jackson
Death of Michael Jackson: the singer died June 25, 2009 in Los Angeles from acute propofol intoxication ruled a homicide; his physician Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011.
Death of Molly Russell
Death of Molly Russell: 14-year-old from Harrow, London, died 21 November 2017; the 2022 inquest, the first UK inquest to blame social media content, found self-harm while suffering depression and negative effects of online content on Instagram and Pinterest.
Death of Nikki Whitehead
Death of Nikki Whitehead: Jarmecca "Nikki" Whitehead, 34, was found stabbed to death in her Conyers, Georgia bathtub on January 13, 2010. Her 16-year-old identical twin daughters Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead pleaded guilty in 2014 to voluntary manslaughter, each serving 30-year sentences; Tasmiyah was paroled in 2026.
Death of Noah Donohoe
Noah Donohoe was a 14-year-old Belfast schoolboy who disappeared on 21 June 2020 cycling to meet friends and was found dead six days later in a north Belfast storm drain; a 2026 inquest returned a narrative verdict of drowning.
Death of Nolan Wells
Death of Nolan Xavier Wells, 18-year-old Black Mississippi college football player missing after a July 4, 2026 boat trip to Horn Island; cause of death undetermined, grand jury returned no true bill, family seeks federal investigation.
Death of Pheobe Bishop
Death of Pheobe Bishop: 17-year-old from Gin Gin, Queensland, disappeared 15 May 2025 en route to Bundaberg Airport; remains found 6 June near Good Night Scrub National Park; housemates James Wood and Tanika Bromley charged with murder.
Death of Rebecca Zahau
Death of Rebecca Zahau: 2011 hanging death of Jonah Shacknai's girlfriend at Coronado's Spreckels Mansion, ruled suicide by San Diego County sheriff but found civilly liable against Adam Shacknai in 2018.
Death of Rey Rivera
Rey Rivera (born 1973), Baltimore writer and videographer, vanished 16 May 2006 after a phone call and was found dead under a hole in the Belvedere Hotel roof; police said suicide, the medical examiner ruled undetermined.
Death of Sandra Bland
Death of Sandra Bland: the July 13, 2015 death by hanging of Sandra Bland, 28, in Waller County Jail, Texas, three days after a traffic-stop arrest by trooper Brian Encinia; ruled suicide, it prompted the 2017 Sandra Bland Act on jail safety and mental health diversion.
Death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh (सोहराबुद्दीन अनवरहुसैन शेख)
Sohrabuddin Sheikh (सोहराबुद्दीन अनवरहुसैन शेख), a Gujarat gangster allegedly linked to LeT, was killed in a 2005 alleged fake encounter; wife Kausar Bi and associate Tulsiram Prajapati also died. All 22 accused, mostly police, were acquitted in 2018 and again upheld in 2026.
Death of Tamla Horsford
Death of Tamla Horsford, Cumming, Georgia, November 4, 2018: 40-year-old woman found dead after an overnight party; ruled an accidental deck fall by the sheriff's office and GBI, a ruling her family disputes.
Death of Tammy Homolka
Tammy Homolka was Karla Homolka's 15-year-old sister, killed December 23-24, 1990, after Bernardo and Homolka drugged and raped her; her death, ruled accidental, later drove Canada's controversial Homolka plea bargain.
Death of Thomas Kelly
Death of Thomas Kelly: 18-year-old killed by a single unprovoked punch by Kieran Loveridge in Kings Cross, Sydney, on 7 July 2012; his manslaughter case drove NSW's one-punch law.
Death of Tina Watson
Death of Tina Watson: 26-year-old American bride who drowned on 22 October 2003 diving the Yongala wreck off Townsville, Queensland, on her honeymoon with Gabe Watson, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Australia and was acquitted of capital murder in Alabama in 2012.
Death of Victoria Martens
Death of Victoria Martens, 10-year-old Albuquerque girl killed on her birthday, 2016; also known as the Victoria Martens case. False confession, dropped murder charges, unidentified fourth suspect, and convictions of Michelle Martens, Fabian Gonzales, and Jessica Kelley.
Death of Zac Brettler
Death of Zac Brettler: 19-year-old Londoner (Zac Ismailov persona) who fell from a Riverwalk balcony opposite MI6 in November 2019 after an evening with Sharma and Shamji; open 2022 inquest, no charges, subject of Keefe's London Falling.
Death of Zara Qairina Mahathir
Death of Zara Qairina Mahathir, also called the Zara Qairina case: the July 2025 death of a 13-year-old SMKA Tun Datu Mustapha student in Papar, Sabah, Malaysia, after a suspected third-floor hostel fall, followed by exhumation, autopsy, bullying charges against five teenagers, and a coroner's inquest.
Death Penalty for Terrorists Law (חוק עונש מוות למחבלים)
Israeli law of March 30, 2026 (חוק עונש מוות למחבלים) mandating death by hanging for West Bank residents convicted of terrorist murder, removing prior safeguards; passed 62-48, effective April 5, 2026.
Death row
Death row is the prison section holding people sentenced to death pending appeals or execution. About 25,508 people were under death sentence worldwide at end of 2025; housing varies from solitary confinement to shared units.
Death threat
A death threat is a message or deed expressing firm intent to kill or gravely injure someone, criminal when it meets standards of seriousness, credibility, and intent.
Deaths of the Neville-Lake children
Deaths of the Neville-Lake children: Daniel (9), Harrison (5), and Milly (2), killed with grandfather Gary Neville in Vaughan, Ontario, on September 27, 2015 by drunk driver Marco Muzzo, who received a 10-year sentence and full parole in 2021.
DeBlase children murders
The DeBlase children murders: Natalie, 4, and Chase DeBlase, 3, killed in Mobile, Alabama in 2010; father John Joseph DeBlase and Heather Leavell-Keaton were each convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death.
Debora Green
Debora Green (born Debora Jones, 1951) is an American former oncologist who pleaded no contest to the 1995 arson killing of her children Tim and Kelly in Prairie Village, Kansas, and to ricin-poisoning her husband Michael Farrar; serving a hard 40 sentence.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "D.C. Madam," ran the Pamela Martin & Associates escort service in Washington for 13 years, was convicted of racketeering and money laundering in 2008, and died by hanging two weeks later in a ruled suicide.
Debra Lafave
Debra Lafave is a former Florida middle school teacher who pleaded guilty in 2005 to lewd or lascivious battery on a student. The case sparked national debate over sentencing.