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Kevin G. Ritz
Kevin G. Ritz is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the Sixth Circuit since 2024, previously the United States attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
Kevin M. Moore
Kevin M. Moore, born Kevin Michael Moore in 1951, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida since 1992.
Kevin McNulty (judge)
Kevin McNulty (born 1954) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the District of New Jersey, nominated by President Barack Obama in 2011.
Kevin Mitnick
Kevin Mitnick (1963–2023) was an American hacker and social engineer who became one of the FBI's most wanted computer criminals before a 1995 arrest in Raleigh.
Kevin Reddington
Kevin J. Reddington (born 1951) is a Brockton, Massachusetts criminal defense attorney, Suffolk Law 1975, Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, known for Mo Vaughn, Catherine Greig, Jasiel Correia, and the Lindsay Clancy mistrial.
Kevin Underwood
Kevin Ray Underwood (born 1979) was an Oklahoma man executed December 19, 2024 for the 2006 abduction, sexual assault, and murder of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin of Purcell in a cannibalistic fantasy; his death sentence was affirmed on direct appeal and in federal habeas.
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.
Khieu Samphan
Khieu Samphan (ខៀវ សំផន), born 1931, head of state of Democratic Kampuchea 1976–1979 and last surviving Khmer Rouge leader judged, convicted at Cambodia's ECCC of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes; life sentence affirmed in 2022.
Khmer Rouge Tribunal
The Khmer Rouge Tribunal, formally the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), was a hybrid Cambodian-UN court that tried senior Khmer Rouge leaders, convicting Duch, Nuon Chea, and Khieu Samphan for 1975–1979 crimes.
Khul'
Khul' (خلع, khula) is an Islamic divorce in which a wife separates from her husband by paying compensation, based on Quran 2:229 and the case of Thabit ibn Qays's wife; schools differ on classification and consent.
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.
Kids for cash scandal
Kids for cash scandal: Luzerne County, Pennsylvania judicial corruption (2003–2008), in which judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan took $2.8 million in kickbacks for sending thousands of juveniles to for-profit detention centers; convictions vacated, judges imprisoned.
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.