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Murder of Janet Acosta
Murder of Janet Acosta: 2000 carjacking-kidnapping and strangling of a 49-year-old Miami Herald production worker, also called the Janet Acosta case, by Michael Tanzi, who confessed, was sentenced to death in 2003, and was executed April 8, 2025.
Murder of Jasmine Fiore
Murder of Jasmine Fiore: 2009 killing of the 28-year-old American swimsuit model, allegedly by Canadian reality TV contestant Ryan Jenkins of Megan Wants a Millionaire, who killed himself in Canada before trial.
Murder of Jean McConville
Murder of Jean McConville: 1972 abduction, killing, and secret burial of a widowed Belfast mother of ten by the Provisional IRA, which alleged she was an informer; remains found 2003 at Shelling Hill, Co Louth.
Murder of Jeffrey Young
Murder of Jeffrey Young: 1987 fatal beating of a Dallas clothing executive, the crime for which Benjamine Spencer was wrongfully convicted and exonerated in 2021; the killing remains unsolved.
Murder of Jennifer Daugherty
Murder of Jennifer Daugherty: February 2010 torture-killing of a 30-year-old intellectually disabled woman in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, by six acquaintances, the "Greensburg Six," including Angela Marinucci, Melvin Knight, and Ricky Smyrnes.
Murder of Jennifer Odom
Murder of Jennifer Odom: 1993 Florida cold case in which 12-year-old Jennifer Renee Odom was abducted from a Pasco County school bus stop and killed; Jeffrey Norman Crum, Sr. was convicted in 2026 and recommended for the death penalty.
Murder of Jennifer Robinson
Murder of Jennifer Robinson: 1998 killing of 18-year-old Jennifer Robinson in Santa Rosa County, Florida, by Jeremiah Rodgers and Jonathan Lawrence; both sentenced to death in 2000, with later resentencing litigation.
Murder of Jessica Lal
Murder of Jessica Lal: 1999 killing of model Jessica Lall at Tamarind Court, Delhi, by Manu Sharma; acquittal in 2006, public outcry, 2006 High Court conviction, 2010 Supreme Court life sentence upheld, 2020 release.
Murder of Jessica Lunsford
Murder of Jessica Lunsford: 2005 abduction and killing of 9-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford of Homosassa, Florida, by registered sex offender John Evander Couey; led to Florida's Jessica Lunsford Act and Jessica's Laws elsewhere.
Murder of Jessie Blodgett
The murder of Jessie Blodgett was the July 2013 strangling of a 19-year-old Hartford, Wisconsin musician by her former boyfriend, Daniel Bartelt, who received a life sentence.
Murder of Jill Piper
The murder of Jill Piper was the August 1976 fatal shooting of 16-year-old Jill Piper in Bonita Springs, Florida, by her former boyfriend Harold Gene Lucas.
Murder of Jimmy Mizen
Murder of Jimmy Mizen: 16-year-old schoolboy killed 10 May 2008 at the Three Cooks Bakery in Lee, south-east London, by Jake Fahri, who threw a glass oven dish; led to the For Jimmy charity.
Murder of Jo Cox
Murder of Jo Cox: the 16 June 2016 killing of Labour MP for Batley and Spen Jo Cox in Birstall by neo-Nazi Thomas Mair, days before the Brexit referendum; he received a whole life sentence in November 2016.
Murder of Joanna Yeates
Murder of Joanna Yeates: 25-year-old Bristol landscape architect strangled 17 December 2010; neighbour Vincent Tabak convicted 2011; landlord Christopher Jefferies was wrongly arrested and vilified by tabloid press, prompting contempt fines and Leveson Inquiry testimony.
Murder of Joe Cole
Unsolved December 19, 1991 armed-robbery murder of Joe Cole (Joseph Dennis Cole), 30, Black Flag roadie and roommate of Henry Rollins, in Venice, Los Angeles; inspired Sonic Youth's 'JC' and '100%'.
Murder of John Edwards
The murder of John Timothy Edwards was the 1994 killing of an 18-year-old Florida State University student at a campsite in Ocala National Forest, Florida.
Murder of John Lennon
Murder of John Lennon: shooting of the former Beatle, 40, outside the Dakota, New York, on December 8, 1980 by Mark David Chapman, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 1981 and remains imprisoned, denied parole 14 times.
Murder of Jonathan Kushner
Murder of Jonathan Kushner: 1973 Tampa killing of 11-year-old Jonathan Mark Kushner, abducted while biking for candy; Johnny Paul Witt executed 1985, Gary Tillman life sentence; subject of David Kushner's Alligator Candy.
Murder of Jonelle Matthews
Murder of Jonelle Matthews: 12-year-old Greeley, Colorado girl (also a famous milk-carton missing child) vanished December 20, 1984; remains found 2019; Steven Pankey convicted of kidnap and murder in 2022.
Murder of Jordan Davis
Murder of Jordan Davis: the November 23, 2012 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Jordan Russell Davis by Michael Dunn at a Jacksonville, Florida gas station after an argument over loud music, his stand-your-ground trials, and Lucy McBath's later congressional career.
Murder of Joseph Augustus Zarelli
Unsolved 1957 Philadelphia child homicide; victim long known as the Boy in the Box or America's Unknown Child, identified in December 2022 via genetic genealogy as four-year-old Joseph Augustus Zarelli; case remains open, no charges filed.
Murder of Joshua Moyers
The murder of Joshua Moyers was the killing of Nassau County Deputy Sheriff Joshua Moyers, 29, shot during a Florida traffic stop in September 2021.
Murder of Juli Busken
Murder of Juli Busken: the 1996 abduction, rape, and killing of a 21-year-old University of Oklahoma ballet student in Norman, Oklahoma, unsolved until a 2004 CODIS DNA match to Anthony Castillo Sanchez, convicted 2006 and executed in 2023.
Murder of Julio Foolio
June 23, 2024 ambush killing of Jacksonville drill rapper Julio Foolio (Charles Jones II), 26, in Tampa, tied by prosecutors to the 6 Block versus ATK and 1200 gang feud; all five defendants, including Isaiah Chance, Sean Gathright, Rashad Murphy, Davion Murphy, and Alicia Andrews, were convicted by 2026.
Murder of Jun Lin (林俊)
Murder of Jun Lin (林俊), also known as the Lin Jun or Luka Magnotta case: the May 2012 killing and dismemberment of a 33-year-old Concordia University student in Montreal; Magnotta was convicted of first-degree murder in 2014.
Murder of Junko Furuta (古田順子)
Murder of Junko Furuta (古田順子), the 1988-89 concrete-encased high school girl murder case in Tokyo: a 17-year-old abducted, tortured 44 days, killed January 4, 1989; four juveniles received lenient sentences, later reoffending.
Murder of Kamarie Holland
Murder of Kamarie Holland: December 2021 kidnapping, rape, and killing of a 5-year-old Columbus, Georgia girl, body found in Phenix City, Alabama; Jeremy Tremaine Williams convicted, sentenced to death, executed August 13, 2026; mother Kristy Siple pleaded guilty to sex trafficking.
Murder of Kandee Martin
Murder of Kandee Martin, also cited as Kandee Louise Martin killing: 21-year-old South Carolina woman shot and burned in her car trunk in Dorchester County in 2001; Marion Bowman Jr. convicted 2002, executed 2025 while maintaining innocence.
Murder of Kate Bushell
Unsolved 1997 murder of 14-year-old Exeter schoolgirl Kate Bushell, killed walking a neighbour's dog in Exwick; Devon and Cornwall Police's Operation Deakin, costing over £1 million, has never identified her killer.
Murder of Kaylee Sawyer
Murder of Kaylee Sawyer: 23-year-old Central Oregon Community College student killed July 24, 2016 in Bend, Oregon by campus safety officer Edwin Lara, who fled to California, committed further crimes, and received two life sentences.