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Javed Iqbal (serial killer)
Javed Iqbal, Pakistani serial killer of the 1999 Lahore child murders, confessed by letter to abusing and killing 100 boys aged six to 16 and dissolving bodies in acid; sentenced to a mirror-form death in 2000, he died in prison in 2001; co-accused acquitted in 2007.
Jean de Breteuil
Jean de Breteuil (1949-1972), French count and drug dealer to rock stars; supplied Janis Joplin and, per Marianne Faithfull, Jim Morrison; died of heroin overdose in Tangier.
Jean Harris
Jean Struven Harris (1923-2012), Madeira School headmistress convicted of second-degree murder in the 1980 shooting of Scarsdale Diet doctor Herman Tarnower; 15-years-to-life sentence, 1992 clemency.
Jean-Claude Romand
Jean-Claude Romand, French impostor born 1954, posed as a WHO physician for 18 years, killed his wife, two children, and parents in January 1993, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996.
Jeff Davis 8
The Jeff Davis 8, or Jennings 8, are eight unsolved murders of women, ages 17 to 30, in Jennings, Louisiana, 2005 to 2009; all were sex workers, drug users, and police informants, with no convictions.
Jeff Fort
Jeff Fort, also known as Chief Malik, cofounded Chicago's Blackstone Rangers, later the Almighty Black P. Stone Nation, led the El Rukns, took Libyan money for planned terrorism, and is serving 168 years.
Jeffery Lee
Jeffery Lee, Alabama death row inmate convicted of the 1998 Jimmy's Pawn Shop murders in Orrville; judge overrode his jury's 7-5 life vote; executed by lethal injection September 17, 2026 after nitrogen hypoxia was enjoined.
Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer, Milwaukee serial killer who murdered and dismembered 17 men and boys 1978–1991, arrested July 22, 1991, sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms, killed in prison 1994.
Jeffrey Daugherty
Jeffrey Joseph Daugherty, born 1955, was an American criminal from Taylor, Michigan, executed in Florida in 1988 for the 1976 murder of hitchhiker Lavonne Sailer near Melbourne.
Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein, American financier, subject of the 2005 Palm Beach abuse investigation, the 2008 Florida plea under a federal non-prosecution agreement, the 2019 SDNY sex-trafficking indictment, and his 2019 jail death ruled suicide.
Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion
Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion, 358 El Brillo Way, was his Florida residence bought in 1990 for $2.5 million, the site of the 2005 abuse allegations, sold for $18.5 million in 2021 and demolished.
Jeffrey Hutchinson
Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson, Gulf War Army veteran with Gulf War Illness and delusional disorder, convicted in 2001 of the 1998 Crestview, Florida shotgun murders of Renee Flaherty and her three children, found competent, executed May 1, 2025.
Jeffrey R. MacDonald
Jeffrey R. MacDonald, former Army captain and Green Beret surgeon, convicted in 1979 of the 1970 Fort Bragg murders of his wife and two daughters; case spans decades of appeals, DNA disputes, Fatal Vision, and A Wilderness of Error.
Jennifer Fairgate case
Jennifer Fairgate case: unsolved 1995 death of an unidentified woman, also recorded as Jennifer Fergate, found shot in room 2805 of Oslo Plaza Hotel with a Browning 9 mm pistol; ruled suicide, identity still unknown.
Jens Söring
Jens Söring, German citizen born 1966, convicted 1990 of the 1985 Haysom murders in Bedford County, Virginia; subject of Soering v. United Kingdom; released to Germany in 2019.
Jeremy Bamber
Jeremy Bamber (born 1961) is serving a whole life sentence for the 1985 White House Farm murders in Essex; convicted in 1986 on silencer blood evidence and his ex-girlfriend's testimony, he maintains innocence and the CCRC continues reviewing his case.
Jeremy Hammond
Jeremy Hammond, also known as Anarchaos, is an American political activist and hacker from Chicago who hacked the intelligence firm Stratfor in 2011 and leaked its emails to WikiLeaks.
Jerry Brudos
Jerry Brudos (Jerome Henry Brudos, 1939-2006), the Lust Killer or Shoe Fetish Slayer, was an American serial killer who murdered four women in Oregon in 1968-1969, pleaded guilty to three, and died in prison as Oregon DOC's longest-serving inmate.
Jesse Anderson
Jesse Michael Anderson (1957-1994), Cedarburg, Wisconsin businessman who murdered his wife Barbara in Milwaukee on April 21, 1992, blamed two fictitious Black assailants, was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide, and died in prison on November 30, 1994, two days after Christopher Scarver attacked him and Jeffrey Dahmer at Columbia Correctional Institution.
Jesse E. James
Jesse E. James, also known as Jesse James Jr., was the only surviving son of outlaw Jesse Woodson James who was tried for train robbery and became an attorney.
Jesse James
Jesse Woodson James (1847–1882), Missouri outlaw and ex-Confederate guerrilla, led the James–Younger Gang's bank and train robberies until Robert Ford shot him in St. Joseph; his Robin Hood image is a debunked myth.
Jesse James Hollywood
Jesse James Hollywood, California marijuana dealer convicted of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the 2000 killing of teenager Nicholas Markowitz over a drug debt; captured in Brazil 2005, sentenced to life without parole; basis for the film Alpha Dog.
Jesse Lee Calhoun
Jesse Lee Calhoun is an Oregon man charged with the murder of six women in the Portland metropolitan area. He faces five counts of second-degree murder.
Jesse Pomeroy
Jesse Harding Pomeroy (1859-1932), the Boston Boy Fiend, tortured seven boys in 1871-72 and murdered Katie Curran and Horace Millen in 1874, becoming Massachusetts's youngest person sentenced to death, later commuted to life in solitary.
Jessica Johanna Oseguera González
Jessica Johanna Oseguera González, alias La Negra, daughter of CJNG leader El Mencho, is a dual U.S.-Mexican citizen sentenced in 2021 to 30 months for Kingpin Act violations involving six OFAC-sanctioned businesses.
Jessie Hoffman Jr.
Jessie Dean Hoffman Jr., Louisiana death row inmate executed March 18, 2025 by nitrogen hypoxia at Angola for the 1996 kidnapping, rape, and murder of Molly Elliott; first Louisiana execution in 15 years, second state to use nitrogen after Alabama.
Jewish-American organized crime
Jewish-American organized crime, often called the Kosher Nostra, was the participation of Jewish immigrants in US criminal enterprises, chiefly from the early 1900s through the mid-century.
Jhon Jairo Velásquez
Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez, alias "Popeye" or "JJ", Colombian hitman and chief of sicarios for Pablo Escobar in the Medellín Cartel; confessed 300 murders, convicted for Luis Carlos Galán's assassination, later a YouTuber, died 2020.
Jimmy Chérizier
Jimmy Chérizier, known as "Barbecue" and Babekyou, is a Haitian gang leader and former police officer who founded the G9 Family and Allies gang alliance in Port-au-Prince in 2020.
Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal
The Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal: posthumous revelations from the 2012 ITV Exposure documentary that BBC presenter Jimmy Savile was a prolific sexual abuser, triggering Operation Yewtree, the Pollard and Dame Janet Smith reports, and NHS investigations.