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Murder of Lonetta White
Murder of Lonetta White: 73-year-old Lexington, Kentucky woman bludgeoned to death March 15, 1998 during a robbery by Virginia Caudill and Johnathon Goforth, who blamed each other; both sentenced to death in 2000; Goforth died in 2025.
Murder of Lori Hacking
Murder of Lori Hacking: Salt Lake City woman, 27 and pregnant, killed July 19, 2004 by husband Mark Hacking after she exposed his false medical school claims; remains found in a landfill; he pleaded guilty and got six years to life.
Murder of Lori Smith
Murder of Lori Smith refers to two homicides of women named Lori Ann Smith: an unsolved 1992 killing in St. Louis, Missouri, and a 1976 killing in Smyrna, Georgia.
Murder of Louis Davidson
Murder of Louis Davidson: 1994 murder-for-hire killing of St. Petersburg pediatrician Dr. Louis A. Davidson, arranged by estranged wife Denise Davidson and Leo Cisneros; hitmen Robert Gordon and Meryl McDonald got death sentences.
Murder of Louisa Dunne
Murder of Louisa Dunne: 1967 rape and strangulation of a 75-year-old widow in Easton, Bristol, unsolved for 58 years until DNA from her skirt identified Ryland Headley, 92, convicted in 2025.
Murder of Lynsey Quy
Murder of Lynsey Quy: 21-year-old Southport woman strangled by husband Mitchell Quy in December 1998, dismembered with brother Elliot, remains found at Southport Pleasureland in 2000; life sentence, minimum 17 years, parole repeatedly denied.
Murder of Mackenzie Cowell
The murder of Mackenzie Cowell was the 2010 killing of a 17-year-old Wenatchee, Washington, beauty school student whose classmate Christopher Scott Wilson pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
Murder of Mackenzie Lueck
Murder of Mackenzie Lueck: 2019 killing of a 23-year-old University of Utah student by Ayoola Ajayi, whom she met on Seeking Arrangement at Hatch Park; he pleaded guilty in 2020 and received life without parole.
Murder of Madeline Soto
Murder of Madeline Soto: 13-year-old Orlando student, also called Maddie Soto, killed February 2024; Stephan Sterns pleaded no contest and received 21 concurrent life sentences on July 21, 2025.
Murder of Mandy Lemaire
Murder of Mandy Lemaire: 1991 killing of an 11-year-old girl in Tazlina, Alaska, also called the Charles Smithart case; Smithart's 114-year sentence was overturned in 1999 and charges dismissed after his 2000 death.
Murder of Mandy Stavik
Murder of Mandy Stavik: 1989 rape-murder of an 18-year-old in Acme, Washington, unsolved for 28 years until a coworker retrieved Timothy Bass's discarded Coke can; DNA matched at 1 in 11 quadrillion, leading to his 2017 arrest and 2019 conviction.
Murder of Marcia King
Marcia L. King (born Sossoman, 1959), the "Buckskin Girl," was a 21-year-old Arkansas woman found strangled near Troy, Ohio in April 1981; identified in 2018 via DNA Doe Project genetic genealogy; murder unsolved.
Murder of Marcos Matsunaga
Murder of Marcos Matsunaga: 2012 killing of the Yoki food company executive by his wife Elize Matsunaga in São Paulo; she dismembered the body, confessed, was convicted of qualified homicide in 2016, and was paroled in 2022.
Murder of Marinus Schöberl
Murder of Marinus Schöberl (Mordfall Marinus Schöberl): killing of a 16-year-old by three far-right youths in Potzlow, Brandenburg, July 2002; body hidden in a slurry pit; trial at Neuruppin.
Murder of Marion Parker
The murder of Marion Parker was the December 1927 abduction and killing of a twelve-year-old Los Angeles schoolgirl by William Edward Hickman, a vengeful former employee of her banker father.
Murder of Martha Moxley
Murder of Martha Moxley: unsolved 1975 bludgeoning of a 15-year-old in Greenwich, Connecticut, with a Skakel-family golf club; Michael Skakel convicted in 2002, conviction vacated, charges dropped in 2020.
Murder of Maryann Measles
Murder of Maryann Measles: October 1997 kidnapping, rape, and drowning of a 13-year-old in New Milford, Connecticut, by eight acquaintances; unsolved until 2002 arrests, six pleas, and the 2006 Foster trial.
Murder of Mattia Ahmet Minguzzi
Murder of Mattia Ahmet Minguzzi: 14-year-old Turkish-Italian boy stabbed at a Kadıkoy market in Istanbul on 24 January 2025, died 9 February 2025; two minors sentenced to 24 years, prompting the Minguzzi Law on juvenile penalties.
Murder of Maureen Rowan
Maureen "Cookie" Rowan (1949-1971), formerly "Little Miss Lake Panasoffkee", was a Tampa mother of two strangled with a man's belt and found under an I-75 overpass in Sumter County, Florida, in 1971; identified October 2025 by fingerprints, with her late estranged husband a person of interest.
Murder of Megan Kanka
Murder of Megan Kanka: July 29, 1994 rape-murder of a 7-year-old in Hamilton Township, New Jersey by twice-convicted neighbor Jesse Timmendequas, who lured her to see a puppy; it prompted Megan's Law sex offender notification statutes.
Murder of Meredith Kercher
Murder of Meredith Kercher: killing of a 21-year-old British student in Perugia on 1 November 2007; Rudy Guede convicted, while Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were convicted, acquitted, reconvicted, and exonerated in 2015.
Murder of Michele Avila
Murder of Michele "Missy" Avila: the 1985 drowning of a 17-year-old Arleta girl in Angeles National Forest by Karen Severson and Laura Doyle, convicted of second-degree murder in 1990; spawned Missy's Law.
Murder of Michele MacNeill
The murder of Michele MacNeill, born Michele Somers, was the 2007 killing of a Pleasant Grove, Utah mother of eight by her husband Martin MacNeill, convicted in 2013.
Murder of Mike Williams
Murder of Mike Williams: Jerry Michael Williams, 31, a Tallahassee appraiser who vanished duck hunting on Lake Seminole on December 16, 2000, presumed drowned; killed by best friend Brian Winchester in a plot with wife Denise Williams, convicted 2018, resentenced 2021 to 30 years.
Murder of Milly Dowler
Murder of Milly Dowler: 2002 abduction and killing of 13-year-old Amanda "Milly" Dowler in Walton-on-Thames by Levi Bellfield, convicted 2011; case also exposed News of the World phone hacking.
Murder of Mollie Tibbetts
Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, disappeared while running near Brooklyn, Iowa, in July 2018; Cristhian Bahena Rivera was convicted of her murder.
Murder of Morgan Dana Harrington
Murder of Morgan Dana Harrington: 2009 killing of a 20-year-old Virginia Tech student who vanished outside a Metallica concert in Charlottesville; remains found January 2010; Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. pleaded guilty in 2016, also murdering Hannah Graham.
Murder of Nancy Adleman
The Murder of Nancy Adleman: the July 29, 1997 abduction, rape, and strangulation of a 48-year-old Houston jogger; Arthur Lee Burton was convicted in 1998, resentenced in 2002, and executed August 7, 2024.
Murder of Nancy O'Farrell
Murder of Nancy A. O'Farrell, killed January 16-17, 1981 in Marion County, Florida; Ian Deco Lightbourne convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, with decades of appeals.
Murder of Nancy Pfister
Murder of Nancy Pfister: February 2014 bludgeoning death of a 57-year-old Aspen heiress; William 'Trey' Styler confessed and pleaded guilty to second-degree murder; charges against Nancy Styler and Kathy Carpenter were dropped.