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Karen White case
The Karen White case: a 2018 English trial in which transgender prisoner Karen White (born Stephen Wood) received a life sentence for sexually assaulting women inmates at HMP New Hall and raping two women, prompting an MoJ apology and changes to transgender prison placement policy.
Karim Lala (عبدل کریم شیر خان)
Karim Lala (عبدل کریم شیر خان), born Abdul Karim Sher Khan (1911–2002) in Kunar, Afghanistan, was a Pashtun Mumbai underworld don who led the Pathan gang, formed a troika with Haji Mastan and Varadarajan Mudaliar, and mentored Dawood Ibrahim.
Karl Denke
Karl Denke, called the Cannibal of Ziębice, was a German serial killer believed to have killed 20 to 40 vagrants in Münsterberg, Silesia, before his suicide in 1924.
Karla Faye Tucker
Karla Faye Tucker (1959–1998), American executed by Texas on 3 February 1998 for the 1983 pickaxe murders of Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton; first Texas woman executed since the Civil War, converted to Christianity on death row.
Karla Homolka
Karla Homolka, Canadian offender in the Bernardo murders; with husband Paul Bernardo killed victims including her sister Tammy; received a controversial 12-year manslaughter plea bargain, secret 1993 trial, released July 2005.
Kath Pettingill
Kath Pettingill (Kathleen, 1935–2026), nicknamed Granny Evil, was the matriarch of Melbourne's notorious Pettingill crime family; her sons Dennis Allen and Victor Peirce were linked to the 1988 Walsh Street police killings, later inspiring the film Animal Kingdom.
Katherine Knight
Katherine Mary Knight, Australian abattoir worker who murdered partner John Price at Aberdeen NSW in February 2000, skinned and cooked his body; first Australian woman sentenced to life without parole.
Kathleen Folbigg
Kathleen Megan Folbigg, Australian woman convicted in 2003 of killing her four children (Caleb, Patrick, Sarah, Laura), pardoned June 2023 and acquitted December 2023 after CALM2 genetic evidence showed natural causes were possible.
Katiso Molefe
Katiso 'KT' Molefe, Johannesburg businessman and alleged 'Big Five' cartel leader named at the Madlanga Commission; murder accused in the Armand Swart and DJ Sumbody cases, on R400,000 bail, presumed innocent.
Keddie murders
The Keddie murders, also called the Cabin 28 murders, are an unsolved April 11–12, 1981 quadruple homicide at Keddie Resort, Plumas County, California, killing Sue Sharp, John Sharp, and Dana Wingate; Tina Sharp's remains were found in 1984. Smartt and Boubede were suspects; DNA matched a living suspect in 2018.
Keelhauling
Keelhauling (keel-hauling) was a naval punishment, originating in the 17th-century Dutch Navy, in which an offender was dragged by rope under a ship's keel, often fatally; it was never official in the Royal Navy and was abolished in 1853.
Keith Gibson (serial killer)
Keith Gibson (born 1982), Philadelphia serial killer and robber; six murders in Pennsylvania and Delaware, January–June 2021, while on probation for manslaughter; 7 life terms in Delaware (2024) and 4 consecutive life terms plus 76 years in Philadelphia (2026).
Keith Hunter Jesperson
Keith Hunter Jesperson, the "Happy Face Killer," is a Canadian-American long-haul trucker who murdered at least eight women, 1990-1995, signing anonymous letters with smiley faces; incarcerated in Oregon since 1995.
Keli Lane
Keli Lane, Australian former elite water polo player convicted in 2010 of murdering her two-day-old daughter Tegan (born 1996, body never found); sentenced to 18 years, appeals dismissed, denied parole under NSW no-body-no-parole laws.
Kelly Gissendaner
Kelly Renee Gissendaner, Georgia death row inmate convicted of orchestrating her husband Douglas's 1997 murder by Gregory Owen, executed by lethal injection September 30, 2015, first Georgia woman executed in 70 years; Owen received life.
Ken McElroy
Ken Rex McElroy (1934–1981), the "town bully" of Skidmore, Missouri, was indicted 21 times and convicted once before being shot dead in his truck before dozens of silent witnesses; no one was ever charged.
Kenichi Shinoda (篠田 健一)
Kenichi Shinoda (篠田 健一), alias Shinobu Tsukasa, born 1942, is the sixth kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate, leading it since 2005 after heading the Kodo-kai; he survived the 2015 split that formed a breakaway group.
Kenneth Bianchi
Kenneth Bianchi is an American serial killer who, with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr., committed the Hillside Strangler murders in Los Angeles in 1977 and 1978.
Kenneth Feinberg
Kenneth Feinberg, American attorney and mediator, Special Master of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund (2001-2004, over $7 billion distributed), later administrator of the BP oil spill, Virginia Tech, Boston Marathon, GM, and Boeing victim funds.
Kenneth Law
Kenneth Law, Mississauga, Ontario former chef and engineer, sold sodium nitrite online via sites like Imtime Cuisine; pleaded guilty May 29, 2026 to 14 counts of aiding suicide, murder charges withdrawn.
Kenneth McDuff
Kenneth Allen McDuff, the Broomstick Killer, was a Texas serial killer sentenced to death for a 1966 triple murder, commuted, paroled in 1989 amid prison overcrowding, murdered more women, and was executed in 1998.
Kenneth McGriff
Kenneth 'Supreme' McGriff, Queens drug kingpin and founder of the Supreme Team gang based at the Baisley Park Houses; convicted in 2007 of racketeering, two murder-for-hire killings, and narcotics trafficking, sentenced to life without parole.
Kenneth Noye
Kenneth Noye (born 1947), English criminal and gold fence in the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery; acquitted of killing DC John Fordham in 1985, jailed for handling the gold, and convicted in 2000 of murdering Stephen Cameron on the M25; released 2019.
Kenneth Parnell
Kenneth Eugene Parnell (1931-2008), American child molester and kidnapper who abducted Steven Stayner in Merced, California in 1972, held him seven years as "Dennis Parnell," kidnapped Timmy White in 1980, and died in prison after a three-strikes conviction.
Kermit Gosnell
Kermit Barron Gosnell was an American former abortion provider sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment for murdering three babies delivered alive at his West Philadelphia clinic.
Kern County child abuse cases
Kern County child abuse cases: 1980s Bakersfield child molestation "ring" prosecutions led by DA Ed Jagels, built on coercive child interviews; most convictions reversed, defendants exonerated, county later paid settlements.
Kerri Rawson
Kerri Rawson (born 1978), daughter of BTK serial killer Dennis Rader, learned of his 2005 arrest at her door, wrote the 2019 memoir A Serial Killer's Daughter, and advocates for offenders' families.
Kevin Cooper (prisoner)
Kevin Cooper is an American prisoner sentenced to death in 1985 for the murders of Douglas and Peggy Ryen, their daughter Jessica, and Christopher Hughes in San Bernardino County, California. He has.
Kevin Mitnick
Kevin Mitnick (1963–2023) was an American hacker and social engineer who became one of the FBI's most wanted computer criminals before a 1995 arrest in Raleigh.
Kevin Underwood
Kevin Ray Underwood (born 1979) was an Oklahoma man executed December 19, 2024 for the 2006 abduction, sexual assault, and murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin of Purcell in a cannibalistic fantasy; his death sentence was affirmed on direct appeal and in federal habeas.