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Kevin Weeks
Kevin Weeks, born in 1956, is an American former organized crime figure who served as chief enforcer and right-hand man to James "Whitey" Bulger of Boston's Winter Hill Gang.
Khun Sa (张奇夫)
Khun Sa, born Chang Chi-fu (Zhang Qifu), was a Burmese warlord and drug trafficker known as the "Opium King," who surrendered in 1996 and died in 2007.
Kickback (bribery)
Kickback (bribery): a portion of contract or referral proceeds returned to the person who steered the transaction. Also called commercial bribery or fee splitting; defined under 41 U.S.C. § 8701, the healthcare Anti-Kickback Statute, and RESPA, often as a percentage of contract value in corrupt procurement.
Kid Cann
Kid Cann, born Isadore Blumenfeld (1900-1981), was a Romanian-born Minneapolis organized crime boss who ruled the city's Prohibition liquor syndicate, was linked to murders and jury tampering, was mostly acquitted, and served prison time in the 1960s.
Kidflix
Kidflix (KidFlix), darknet child sexual abuse material streaming platform created in 2021, 1.8 million users 2022–2025, ~91,000 videos; shut down 11 March 2025 in Europol's Operation Stream: 1,393 suspects identified, 79 arrested, 39 children protected.
Kidnapping
Kidnapping: the unlawful taking, carrying away, or confinement of a person by force, threats, or fraud, without consent. Distinct from false imprisonment and abduction; felony with penalties up to life in the US, England, and Canada.
Kidnapping in the United States
Kidnapping in the United States is a state and federal crime; the federal Lindbergh Law, 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (1932), covers interstate, protected-person, and federal-officer kidnappings, with up to life or death penalties.
Kidnapping of Anabel Segura
Kidnapping of Anabel Segura (secuestro de Anabel Segura): 1993 abduction for ransom of a 22-year-old student in La Moraleja, Madrid, by Emilio Muñoz and Cándido Ortiz; she was murdered within hours, but the kidnappers faked her survival for 900 days, Spain's longest kidnapping.
Kidnapping of Carlina White
1987 Harlem Hospital infant kidnapping: 19-day-old Carlina White, taken by Ann Pettway posing as a nurse, raised as Nejdra Nance in Connecticut, self-solved via NCMEC in 2011; Pettway got 12 years.
Kidnapping of Colleen Stan
Kidnapping of Colleen Stan, the "girl in the box" case: 1977 Red Bluff, California abduction by Cameron and Janice Hooker, seven-year captivity, 1985 trial, 104-year sentence, and parole developments.
Kidnapping of Evyatar David (אביתר דוד)
Evyatar David (אביתר דוד), Israeli from Kfar Saba kidnapped at the Nova festival October 7, 2023; held 738 days in Gaza tunnels, shown emaciated in Hamas's August 2025 videos, released October 13, 2025 among the last 20 living hostages.
Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken
Kidnapping of Freddy Heineken: 1983 abduction of the Heineken brewer and driver Ab Doderer in Amsterdam by Cor van Hout, Willem Holleeder, and three others; 35 million guilder ransom, 21-day captivity, police rescue.
Kidnapping of Hannah Anderson
The 2013 kidnapping of Hannah Anderson, 16, by family friend James Lee DiMaggio, who killed her mother Christina and brother Ethan in Boulevard, California, and took her to Idaho's Frank Church wilderness, where an FBI team rescued her August 10 and killed DiMaggio.
Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard
Jaycee Dugard kidnapping: the 1991 abduction of an 11-year-old from South Lake Tahoe by Phillip and Nancy Garrido, her 18-year captivity in a hidden Antioch backyard compound, the 2009 discovery, parole failures, and legal aftermath.
Kidnapping of Jayme Closs
The kidnapping of Jayme Closs, also called the disappearance of Jayme Closs, was the 2018 abduction of a 13-year-old girl from Barron, Wisconsin, minutes after her parents were shot dead.
Kidnapping of Luis Albino
Luis Armando Albino, also spelled Luis Albino, was a six-year-old Puerto Rico-born boy abducted from a West Oakland park in 1951, by a woman who promised him candy; found alive on the East Coast in 2024 via his niece's DNA search.
Kidnapping of Michelle Marie Newton
The kidnapping of Michelle Marie Newton was a 1983 parental abduction in which her mother took her from Louisville, Kentucky, and raised her under a false identity.
Kidnapping of Shannon Matthews
Shannon Matthews case: staged 2008 kidnapping of a nine-year-old in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, planned by her mother Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan to claim a £50,000 reward; eight-year sentences.
Kidwelly sex cult
Kidwelly sex cult: occult-inspired group led by Colin Batley on Clos yr Onnen, Kidwelly, Wales. Convicted 2011 of 35 offences including 11 rapes; indeterminate sentence, minimum 11 years; Parole Board open-prison recommendation in 2025.
Killamarsh murders
Killamarsh murders: Damien Bendall's 2021 claw-hammer killings of pregnant Terri Harris, John Paul Bennett, Lacey Bennett, and Connie Gent in Killamarsh, Derbyshire, and the whole-life sentence and probation failings that followed.
Killers of the Flower Moon (book)
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI is David Grann's 2017 Doubleday nonfiction book on the 1920s Osage Reign of Terror murders for oil headrights, the early FBI investigation under Tom White, and Grann's finding that the conspiracy was far wider than the FBI exposed.
Killing of Akua Denteh
Akua Denteh (Mariama Akua Denteh), 90-year-old Ghanaian woman lynched 23 July 2020 in Kafaba, Savannah Region, after a witchcraft accusation; her filmed killing led to two 12-year manslaughter sentences and campaigns for an anti-witchcraft-accusation law still unpassed.
Killing of Amber Czech
Killing of Amber Czech: the November 11, 2025 sledgehammer murder of 20-year-old welder Amber Mary Czech by coworker David Bruce Delong at Advanced Process Technologies in Cokato, Minnesota; Delong confessed, was indicted for first-degree murder, then found incompetent to stand trial.
Killing of Anna Kepner
Killing of Anna Kepner: 18-year-old Titusville, Florida cheerleader found dead under a bed on the Carnival Horizon, Nov 2025; death ruled mechanical asphyxia homicide; stepbrother Timothy Hudson, 16, federally indicted as adult for murder and aggravated sexual abuse.
Killing of Awdah Hathaleen
Killing of Awdah Hathaleen: Palestinian activist and English teacher, 31, shot dead 28 July 2025 in Umm al-Khair, West Bank, by sanctioned settler Yinon Levi; he filmed his own shooting; Levi indicted for reckless manslaughter in August 2026.
Killing of Breonna Taylor
Killing of Breonna Taylor: the March 13, 2020 fatal shooting of a 26-year-old Louisville EMT by LMPD officers serving a narcotics warrant; led to Breonna's Law, a $12 million settlement, federal civil rights charges, and one conviction.
Killing of Brian Thompson
Killing of Brian Thompson: UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, was shot dead by Luigi Mangione outside the New York Hilton Midtown on December 4, 2024. Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in August 2026, and still faces state murder charges.
Killing of Carolina Flores Gómez
Carolina Flores Gómez, Mexican ex-beauty queen (Miss Teen Universe Baja California 2017), killed 15 April 2026 in Polanco, Mexico City, allegedly by her mother-in-law Erika María Herrera Coriand, detained in Venezuela; extradition pending.
Killing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez
The killing of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, a 14-year-old from Lake Elsinore, California, whose dismembered remains were found September 8, 2025, in the Tesla of singer D4vd (David Anthony Burke), who faces first-degree murder, sexual abuse, and mutilation charges and was ordered to stand trial in July 2026.
Killing of Chandra Levy
The killing of Chandra Levy was the unsolved 2001 death of a 24-year-old federal intern in Washington, D.C.; Ingmar Guandique's 2010 murder conviction was vacated and charges dismissed in 2016.