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Murder of Roger Honeycutt
The murder of Roger Honeycutt was the 1977 killing of a 25-year-old Army soldier and part-time taxi driver by two fellow soldiers near Fort Stewart, Georgia.
Murder of Ronald Johnson
Murder of Ronald Johnson: Correctional Officer Ronald "R.J." Johnson, killed April 12, 2011 at South Dakota State Penitentiary by two maximum-security inmates during a planned escape attempt; distinct from the 2014 Chicago police shooting of Ronald Johnson III.
Murder of Rowan Ford
Murder of Rowan Ford: 2007 abduction, rape, and killing of a 9-year-old girl in Stella, Missouri. Christopher Collings was convicted and executed in 2024; stepfather David Spears pleaded guilty to lesser charges and was released in 2015.
Murder of Ruth Marie Terry
Murder of Ruth Marie Terry, the "Lady of the Dunes": Tennessee woman, 37, killed in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1974, identified by FBI genealogy in 2022; husband Guy Muldavin named killer in 2023.
Murder of Ryan Poston
Murder of Ryan Poston: October 12, 2012 shooting of Cincinnati-area attorney Ryan Carter Poston, 29, in Highland Heights, Kentucky by girlfriend Shayna Hubers, who claimed self-defense; convicted 2015 and 2018, serving life.
Murder of Sade Robinson
Murder of Sade Robinson: 19-year-old Milwaukee student killed April 1, 2024 after a first date with Maxwell Anderson, who dismembered her; convicted June 2025, sentenced to life without parole.
Murder of Samantha Josephson
Murder of Samantha Josephson: 2019 killing of a 21-year-old University of South Carolina senior, also called the fake Uber case, who entered Nathaniel Rowland's Chevrolet Impala mistaking it for her ride; led to Sami's Law.
Murder of Samantha Runnion
Murder of Samantha Runnion: July 15, 2002 kidnapping, sexual assault, and killing of a 5-year-old Stanton, California girl by Alejandro Avila, whose 2005 death sentence was upheld in 2014 and whose crime spurred California's AMBER Alert expansion.
Murder of Sana Yousaf
Murder of Sana Yousaf: 17-year-old Pakistani TikTok influencer shot dead in her Islamabad home on June 2, 2025; Umar Hayat arrested within 20 hours, confessed, retracted, and was sentenced to death on May 19, 2026.
Murder of Sandra Cantu
Murder of Sandra Cantu: 2009 killing of an 8-year-old Tracy, California girl, also called the suitcase murder; Melissa Huckaby, a Sunday school teacher, pleaded guilty and received life without parole.
Murder of Sarah Everard
Murder of Sarah Everard: the 3 March 2021 abduction, rape and killing of a 33-year-old London woman by off-duty Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens, who used his warrant card; whole-life sentence, Angiolini Inquiry, Clapham Common vigil controversy.
Murder of Sarah Payne
Murder of Sarah Payne: eight-year-old killed by Roy Whiting in West Sussex, July 2000; conviction December 2001; her parents' News of the World campaign produced Sarah's Law, the child sex offender disclosure scheme rolled out in 2011.
Murder of Sarah Scazzi
Murder of Sarah Scazzi (delitto di Avetrana): 2010 killing of a 15-year-old in Avetrana, Italy; cousin Sabrina Misseri and aunt Cosima Serrano got life sentences, uncle Michele Misseri 8 years for corpse concealment.
Murder of Scott Amedure
Scott Amedure, a 32-year-old resident of Orion, Michigan, was shot to death on March 9, 1995, by Jonathan Schmitz after a taping of The Jenny Jones Show.
Murder of Seath Jackson
Murder of Seath Jackson, also called the Summerfield case: 15-year-old Florida teen lured by ex-girlfriend Amber Wright and killed by Michael Bargo and four others on April 17, 2011; five first-degree murder convictions, Bargo on death row.
Murder of Selena
Murder of Selena: Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, 23, shot in the back with a .38-caliber revolver on March 31, 1995, by Yolanda Saldívar, her fan club president, at a Corpus Christi Days Inn; Saldívar convicted of first-degree murder in Houston in 1995, denied parole in 2025.
Murder of Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa
Murder of Shaariibuugiin Altantuyaa (Altantuya Shaariibuu), Mongolian translator killed in Selangor, Malaysia, October 2006; UTK policemen Azilah Hadri and Sirul Azhar Umar convicted, Abdul Razak Baginda acquitted; civil damages cut to RM1.4 million in 2026.
Murder of Shad Thyrion
Murder of Shad Thyrion: February 2022 killing of a 24-year-old Green Bay man by Taylor Schabusiness, who strangled, decapitated, and dismembered him; she received life without parole in 2023.
Murder of Shafilea Ahmed
Murder of Shafilea Ahmed: 2003 killing of a 17-year-old British-Pakistani girl by her parents Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed in Warrington after she resisted a forced marriage; convicted 2012, 25-year minimum terms.
Murder of Shanda Sharer
Murder of Shanda Sharer: January 11, 1992 killing of a 12-year-old New Albany, Indiana girl by four teenage girls led by Melinda Loveless, motivated by jealousy; 60-year sentences, releases 2000–2019.
Murder of Shaniya Davis
Murder of Shaniya Davis: 2009 abduction and killing of a 5-year-old Fayetteville, North Carolina girl; Mario McNeill received a death sentence, upheld on appeal; mother Antoinette Davis faced trafficking charges.
Murder of Sharilyn Ritchie
Murder of Sharilyn Ritchie: the August 16, 1983 kidnapping, robbery, and shooting of a 34-year-old Florida teacher by Robert Dewey Glock and Carl Puiatti; both sentenced to death in 1984; Glock executed 2001, Puiatti remains on death row.
Murder of Shawn Seesahai
The murder of Shawn Seesahai was the killing of a 19-year-old man from Anguilla by two 12-year-old boys with a machete in Wolverhampton, England, in November 2023.
Murder of Sherri Jarvis
Sherri Ann Jarvis, a 14-year-old runaway from Stillwater, Minnesota, was raped and strangled near Huntsville, Texas, in 1980; unidentified as the Walker County Jane Doe until DNA testing named her in 2021. Killer unknown.
Murder of Sherri Rasmussen
Murder of Sherri Rasmussen: 1986 Van Nuys killing of a 29-year-old nurse, cold-cased as a burglary until bite-mark DNA identified LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus, convicted in 2012 and sentenced to 27 years to life.
Murder of Sian O'Callaghan
Murder of Sian O'Callaghan: 2011 Swindon killing by taxi driver Christopher Halliwell, also murderer of Becky Godden; hillside confession, PACE ruling, 25-year tariff, whole-life order, IOPC findings.
Murder of Sierah Joughin
Murder of Sierah Joughin: 2016 abduction and killing of a 20-year-old Ohio student, also called the Sierah Joughin case. James Worley was sentenced to death and the case inspired Ohio's Sierah's Law violent offender registry.
Murder of Skylar Neese
Murder of Skylar Neese: 2012 killing of 16-year-old Skylar Annette Neese of Star City, West Virginia, by best friends Shelia Eddy and Rachel Shoaf, who lured her to Pennsylvania and stabbed her; led to Skylar's Law.
Murder of Sonya Massey
Murder of Sonya Massey: the July 6, 2024 fatal shooting of 36-year-old Sonya Massey, who had called 911 about a prowler, by Sangamon County deputy Sean Grayson; his 2025 second-degree murder conviction, 20-year sentence, the Sonya Massey Act, DOJ agreement, and Massey Commission reforms.
Murder of Staci Jazvac
Murder of Staci Jazvac: 1986 killing of an 11-year-old Lauderdale Lakes, Florida girl, also known as the Staci Lynn Jazvac case; Michael T. Rivera was convicted and sentenced to death, and postconviction DNA hair testing was held non-exculpatory.