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Murder of Stacy Errickson
The murder of Stacy Errickson was the 1994 abduction and killing of Stacy Rae Errickson, a 22-year-old nurse technician in Jacksonville, Arkansas, by Marcel Wayne Williams.
Murder of Stacy Payne
Murder of Stacy Payne: 2001 rape and murder of 15-year-old Stacy Payne of Dale, Indiana, by Roy Lee Ward, who posed as looking for a lost dog; Ward was executed in Indiana on October 10, 2025.
Murder of Stephanie Scott
Murder of Stephanie Scott: 2015 rape and murder of 26-year-old Leeton High School teacher Stephanie Clare Scott in NSW, Australia, by school cleaner Vincent Stanford days before her wedding; he received life imprisonment with no non-parole period.
Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Murder of Stephen Lawrence: racist killing of an 18-year-old in Eltham, London, on 22 April 1993; Macpherson report found the Met institutionally racist; Dobson and Norris convicted in 2012.
Murder of Susan Smith
The murder of Susan Daniels Smith was the 1989 strangling of an FBI informant by her handler and lover, agent Mark Putnam, whose guilty plea made him the first FBI agent charged with homicide.
Murder of Susana Morales
Murder of Susana Morales: 16-year-old Norcross, Georgia girl who vanished July 26, 2022; remains found in Dacula. Former Doraville officer Miles Bryant convicted 2024, sentenced to life without parole.
Murder of Suzanne Adams
Murder of Suzanne Adams: Suzanne Eberson Adams, 83, Old Greenwich realtor killed August 5, 2025 by her son Stein-Erik Soelberg, who died by suicide; estate sued OpenAI and Microsoft alleging ChatGPT GPT-4o fueled his paranoid delusions.
Murder of Suzanne Capper
Murder of Suzanne Capper: 16-year-old Moston, Manchester girl kidnapped, tortured for about a week in December 1992, set on fire at Werneth Low, died 18 December 1992; four convicted of murder in 1993, all six defendants now released.
Murder of Sylvia Likens
Sylvia Likens (1949–1965), American teenager tortured to death in Indianapolis by caregiver Gertrude Baniszewski, her children, and neighbor youths; 1966 trial, 1970 reversal, 1971 reconviction, 1985 parole.
Murder of Tammy Alexander
Murder of Tammy Jo Alexander, also called the Caledonia Jane Doe or Cali Doe case: unsolved 1979 shooting of a 16-year-old Florida runaway found in a Caledonia, New York cornfield, unidentified until DNA identification in 2015.
Murder of the Grimes sisters
Unsolved 1956 Chicago killing of sisters Barbara, 15, and Patricia, 12, Grimes, who vanished after seeing Love Me Tender at the Brighton Theater; found dead January 22, 1957 near German Church Road; Bedwell's recanted confession and the Melquist theory never produced charges.
Murder of the Lawson family
Murder of the Lawson family: Christmas Day 1929 familicide on a tobacco farm in Stokes County, North Carolina, where Charlie Lawson killed his wife Fannie Manring and six of seven children, then himself; motive unknown; subject of the 1930 Carolina Buddies ballad.
Murder of the Maguad siblings
Murder of the Maguad siblings: December 10, 2021 killing of Crizzlle Gwynn and Crizvlle Louis Maguad in M'lang, Cotabato by adopted daughter Janice Sebial Emuelin and Esmeraldo Cañedo Jr., both minors, later convicted.
Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.
Murder of the Notorious B.I.G.: unsolved March 9, 1997 drive-by shooting of rapper Christopher Wallace (Biggie Smalls) in Los Angeles after a Petersen Museum party; competing Mack–Muhammad and Wardell Fouse theories; no arrests ever made.
Murder of Tia Sharp
Murder of Tia Sharp: 12-year-old schoolgirl killed 2-3 August 2012 by Stuart Hazell, her grandmother's partner, at New Addington, London; body found in the loft 10 August; Hazell received a 38-year minimum life term.
Murder of Tiahleigh Palmer
Murder of Tiahleigh Palmer (Tia), the 2015 killing of a 12-year-old Queensland foster child by foster father Rick Thorburn at Chambers Flat; body found in the Pimpama River; life sentence, 2021 inquest, child protection reforms.
Murder of Tiara Pool
Murder of Tiara Pool: July 2010 killing of 21-year-old Navy wife Tiara Pool in Jacksonville, Florida, stabbed 89 times by David Kelsey Sparre, 19, whom she met via Craigslist; he was sentenced to death in 2012.
Murder of Timothy McCoy
Timothy Jack McCoy, a teenager from Glenwood, Iowa, was John Wayne Gacy's first-known victim, killed after a 1972 Chicago Greyhound layover; identified in 1986 by dental records among nine unnamed victims.
Murder of Tommaso Onofri
Murder of Tommaso Onofri, the March 2006 kidnapping and killing of a 17-month-old boy in Casalbaroncolo, Parma, by Mario Alessi and Salvatore Raimondi in a bungled ransom abduction; Alessi received life imprisonment.
Murder of Tori Stafford
Murder of Tori Stafford: 2009 abduction, rape, and killing of 8-year-old Victoria Stafford of Woodstock, Ontario, by Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty; McClintic pleaded guilty in 2010, Rafferty was convicted in 2012.
Murder of Tracie McBride
The murder of Tracie McBride was the 1995 kidnapping, rape, and killing of 19-year-old Army private Tracie Joy McBride near San Angelo, Texas, by Louis Jones Jr.
Murder of Travis Alexander
Murder of Travis Alexander: 30-year-old Mesa, Arizona salesman killed June 4, 2008, stabbed 27 times, throat cut, shot; ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias convicted of first-degree murder in 2013 and sentenced to natural life.
Murder of Trisa Thornley
Murder of Trisa Gail Thornley: 1978 abduction and strangling of an 8-year-old Ocala, Florida schoolgirl by Aubrey Dennis Adams Jr., convicted 1978, executed 1989 after Dugger v. Adams.
Murder of Tristyn Bailey
Murder of Tristyn Bailey: killing of 13-year-old cheerleader Tristyn Bailey, found dead May 9, 2021, in St. Johns County, Florida; classmate Aiden Fucci, 14, arrested, later pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
Murder of Tupac Shakur
Murder of Tupac Shakur: the rapper was shot in a Las Vegas drive-by on 7 September 1996 and died six days later; Duane 'Keffe D' Davis was convicted of first-degree murder in 2026 and sentenced to 40 years to life.
Murder of Vanessa Guillén
Murder of Vanessa Guillén, 2020 killing of a 20-year-old US Army specialist at Fort Hood, Texas (now Fort Cavazos). Spc. Aaron Robinson killed her 22 April 2020 and died by suicide; Cecily Aguilar got 30 years; case drove the I Am Vanessa Guillén Act.
Murder of Vickie Deblieux
Murder of Vickie Deblieux: February 1994 killing of a Louisiana-bound hitchhiker in Jefferson County, Alabama, by Kenneth Loggins and three other teenagers; her mutilated body was found on Bald Rock Mountain, and Loggins' death sentence was vacated under Roper v. Simmons.
Murder of Victoria Climbié
Victoria Climbié, an eight-year-old Ivorian girl sent to Britain in 1998, died in London in February 2000 after torture by her great-aunt Marie-Thérèse Kouao and Carl Manning. The Laming Inquiry's 108 recommendations drove Every Child Matters and the Children Act 2004.
Murder of Warren Barnes
Warren Barnes, 69, Grand Junction, Colorado's homeless 'reading man,' was murdered February 27, 2021 by 19-year-old Brian Cohee II, who decapitated him; convicted after an insanity plea, Cohee received life without parole in 2023.
Murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin
Murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin, the 2016 Indonesian cyanide coffee case: Salihin died after a Vietnamese iced coffee at Olivier Café, Jakarta; friend Jessica Kumala Wongso was convicted of premeditated murder, sentenced to 20 years, and paroled in 2024.