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Murder of Abby Choi (蔡天凤)
Murder of Abby Choi (蔡天鳳), Hong Kong model and influencer killed February 2023; dismembered remains found in Tai Po; ex-husband Alex Kwong, father-in-law Kwong Kau and brother-in-law charged; trial began 2026.
Murder of Adam Walsh
Murder of Adam Walsh: 1981 abduction of 6-year-old Adam Walsh from a Hollywood, Florida Sears; head found in an Indian River County canal; case closed 2008 naming Ottis Toole, driving Missing Children's Act, NCMEC, Code Adam, and the 2006 Adam Walsh Act.
Murder of Adrianna Hutto
Murder of Adrianna Hutto: 2007 drowning of 7-year-old Adrianna Elaine Hutto in Esto, Florida; mother Amanda Lewis convicted of first-degree murder in 2008 on her 6-year-old son AJ's testimony and disputed bruising evidence, sentenced to life without parole.
Murder of Alesha MacPhail
Murder of Alesha MacPhail: killing of a six-year-old girl abducted from her bed on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, on 2 July 2018 by 16-year-old Aaron Campbell, convicted after a nine-day Glasgow trial and sentenced to a 27-year minimum life term, reduced to 24 years on appeal.
Murder of Alexia Daval
Murder of Alexia Daval: 2017 killing of a 29-year-old French bank adviser by her husband Jonathann Daval near Gray, Haute-Saône; he confessed in January 2018 and received 25 years in 2020.
Murder of Alijah Mullis
Murder of Alijah Mullis: 2008 killing of 3-month-old Alijah Mullis by his father Travis James Mullis near the Galveston, Texas seawall; convicted 2011, executed 2024.
Murder of Allison Baden-Clay
The murder of Allison Baden-Clay: killed by husband Gerard Baden-Clay in Brisbane on 19–20 April 2012, convicted 2014, briefly downgraded to manslaughter in 2015, reinstated by the High Court in 2016.
Murder of Alyssa Otremba
Murder of Alyssa Otremba: 2011 Las Vegas rape and stabbing of a 15-year-old Arbor View High freshman by Javier Righetti, who received a death sentence in 2017 and remains on Nevada death row.
Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
Murder of Amy Mihaljevic: unsolved 1989 kidnapping of a 10-year-old from Bay Village, Ohio, lured by a phone call about a gift for her mother; body found February 8, 1990 in Ashland County; Bay Village police and FBI investigation remains open.
Murder of Amy Yeary
Murder of Amy Yeary, also known as the Fond du Lac County Jane Doe case: unsolved presumed homicide of Amy Marie Yeary, an 18-year-old from Rockford, Illinois, found dead in a Wisconsin creek in 2008 and identified by genetic genealogy in 2021; no arrest made.
Murder of Ana Kriégel
Murder of Ana Kriégel: 14-year-old Russian-born Irish schoolgirl killed 2018 at Glenwood House, Lucan, by two 13-year-old boys (Boy A and Boy B), Ireland's youngest convicted murderers; sentenced 2019, appeals ongoing.
Murder of Andria Brewer
Murder of Andria Brewer: 12-year-old Andria Nichole Brewer (Andi), abducted, raped, and strangled by her uncle Karl Douglas Roberts near Mena, Arkansas, on May 15, 1999; Roberts was sentenced to death in 2000 and his waiver-of-appeals and competency litigation continues.
Murder of Ang May Hong
Murder of Ang May Hong: unsolved 1987 rape-murder of a nine-year-old girl in Jalan Ipoh, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Also known as the Ang May Hong case. Bite marks suggested eight attackers; three suspects were released and no one was ever charged.
Murder of Anita Cobby
Murder of Anita Cobby (Anita Lorraine Cobby, nee Lynch): 1986 abduction, rape, and murder of a 26-year-old Sydney nurse by John Travers, Michael Murdoch, and three Murphy brothers near Blacktown Station; all five received "never to be released" life sentences that shaped NSW sentencing law.
Murder of Anni Dewani
Murder of Anni Dewani: Swedish-born bride, 28, shot in a staged Cape Town carjacking, 13 November 2010. Husband Shrien Dewani was accused of hiring the killers, extradited after a mental-health fight, and acquitted in December 2014.
Murder of Annie Le
The Murder of Annie Le was the 2009 killing of a Yale pharmacology doctoral student by animal research technician Raymond Clark III in New Haven, Connecticut.
Murder of Anthony Walker
Murder of Anthony Walker: racist killing of 18-year-old Black British student Anthony Walker in Huyton, Liverpool, July 2005, by cousins Michael Barton and Paul Taylor; ice axe attack, life sentences, Anthony Walker Foundation.
Murder of April Jones
Murder of April Jones: 2012 abduction and killing of a five-year-old girl in Machynlleth, Wales; Mark Bridger was convicted in May 2013 and given a whole life order; her remains were never found.
Murder of April Tinsley
Murder of April Tinsley: 1988 abduction, rape, and killing of an 8-year-old Fort Wayne, Indiana girl; killer John D. Miller taunted police with notes, was identified in 2018 by genetic genealogy, and sentenced to 80 years.
Murder of Arlis Perry
Murder of Arlis Perry: 19-year-old newlywed killed in Stanford Memorial Church, October 12, 1974; unsolved 44 years until DNA matched security guard Stephen Blake Crawford, who shot himself in 2018 as deputies closed in.
Murder of Ashley Smylie
Murder of Ashley Smylie: the March 19, 2024 shooting of the 40-year-old Mississippi teacher by her 14-year-old daughter Carly Gregg in Brandon, who also shot stepfather Heath Smylie; convictions affirmed 2026.
Murder of Asunta Basterra
Murder of Asunta Basterra (Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto), a 12-year-old Chinese-born girl found dead in Teo, A Coruña, Spain, in 2013; adoptive parents Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra were convicted in 2015 and sentenced to 18 years each.
Murder of Athena Strand
Murder of Athena Strand: 2022 abduction and killing of a 7-year-old girl in Paradise, Texas, by FedEx contract driver Tanner Horner (Big Topspin), who strangled her after hitting her with his van; death sentence 2026.
Murder of Audreanna Zimmerman
Murder of Audreanna Zimmerman, a 2010 Escambia County, Florida killing by Tina Brown, Britnee Miller, and Heather Lee; Brown sentenced to death, appeals pending.
Murder of Audrii Cunningham
Murder of Audrii Cunningham: February 2024 killing of an 11-year-old Livingston, Texas girl found dead in the Trinity River; Don Steven McDougal pleaded guilty to capital murder in 2025 and received life without parole, prompting Texas's Audrii's Law.
Murder of Aundria Bowman
Murder of Aundria Bowman: 14-year-old Michigan girl who vanished March 11, 1989, misclassified as a runaway; her adoptive father Dennis Bowman confessed in 2020 after a DNA-linked 1980 Norfolk murder arrest, and was sentenced to 35 to 50 years in 2022.
Murder of Aurman Singh
Murder of Aurman Singh, 23, a DPD delivery driver from Smethwick killed by a masked gang in Shrewsbury on 21 August 2023; planned ambush using his leaked delivery route, seven men imprisoned for 178 years total.
Murder of Austin Metcalf
Murder of Austin Metcalf: fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old Frisco, Texas track athlete on April 2, 2025, by 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, convicted June 2026, sentenced to 35 years, appeal pending.
Murder of Banaz Mahmod
Murder of Banaz Mahmod: 2006 London 'honour' killing of a 20-year-old British Iraqi Kurdish woman who had repeatedly sought police protection; her father, uncle, and three other men received life sentences, and the IPCC found police failures.
Murder of Barbara Kendhammer
Murder of Barbara Kendhammer: 2016 Wisconsin death in La Crosse County. Husband Todd Kendhammer claimed a pipe fell off a truck through the windshield; convicted of first-degree intentional homicide in December 2017, serving life with parole eligibility March 9, 2048.