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Murder of Peter Falconio
Murder of Peter Falconio: 2001 killing of a British backpacker near Barrow Creek, NT, and escape of Joanne Lees; Bradley John Murdoch convicted 2005, appeals failed, died 2025; remains never found, $500,000 reward.
Murder of Peter Porco
Murder of Peter Porco: 2004 ax killing of an Albany law clerk in Delmar, New York, and attack on his wife Joan; their son Christopher Porco was convicted in 2006 on circumstantial evidence and is challenging the conviction.
Murder of Polly Klaas
Murder of Polly Klaas: the October 1, 1993 kidnapping and strangling of 12-year-old Polly Hannah Klaas of Petaluma, California, by parolee Richard Allen Davis; trial, death sentence, three-strikes law legacy, and 2024 resentencing denial.
Murder of Pop Smoke
The murder of Pop Smoke was the fatal shooting of Bashar Barakah Jackson, the rapper Pop Smoke, 20, during a home-invasion robbery in Los Angeles's Hollywood Hills in February 2020.
Murder of Preston Davey
Murder of Preston Davey: 13-month-old English baby killed 27 July 2023 in Blackpool by adoptive parent Jamie Varley, who received a whole life order in June 2026; partner John McGowan-Fazakerley got 25 years for allowing the death.
Murder of Prue Bird
Murder of Prue Bird: 13-year-old Prudence Ann Bird, abducted from her Glenroy, Melbourne home on 2 February 1992; body never found. Bega schoolgirl killer Leslie Camilleri pleaded guilty and received 28 years in 2013.
Murder of Rachelle Tolleson
Murder of Rachelle Tolleson: 2004 kidnapping, rape, and killing of 20-year-old Rachelle O'Neil Tolleson in Farmersville, Texas, by Moises Sandoval Mendoza, executed April 23, 2025.
Murder of Raja Raghuvanshi
Murder of Raja Raghuvanshi, the Meghalaya honeymoon murder case: Indore businessman killed May 23, 2025 at Sohra; wife Sonam Raghuvanshi, lover Raj Kushwaha, and three others charged; Supreme Court set aside her bail in July 2026.
Murder of Raymond Fife
Murder of Raymond Fife: 1985 rape, torture, and killing of a 12-year-old in Warren, Ohio. Timothy Combs got life and died in prison in 2018; Danny Lee Hill was sentenced to death, with decades of appeals over bite-mark evidence and intellectual disability.
Murder of Reagan Simmons-Hancock
Reagan Simmons-Hancock, a 21-year-old pregnant woman, was murdered by her friend Taylor Parker in New Boston, Texas, in 2020, and Parker was sentenced to death in 2022.
Murder of Rebecca Kunash
Murder of Rebecca Kunash: 1979 abduction, rape, and drowning of a six-year-old Merritt Island, Florida girl by Marine private Bryan Frederick Jennings, tried three times and executed in 2025.
Murder of Reena Virk
Murder of Reena Virk: 1997 killing of a 14-year-old in Saanich, British Columbia, beaten by a teen group and drowned by Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski; three Ellard trials, 2009 Supreme Court conviction, 2024 Hulu series.
Murder of Renukaswamy
Murder of Renukaswamy, also called the Darshan Thoogudeepa case: June 2024 killing of a 33-year-old Chitradurga man in Bengaluru; 17 accused including actor Darshan and Pavithra Gowda; 3,991-page chargesheet; trial ongoing.
Murder of Rhys Jones
Murder of Rhys Jones: 2007 fatal shooting of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool, by Croxteth Crew member Sean Mercer; eight-month Merseyside Police investigation, 2008 murder conviction, and related gang sentences.
Murder of Richard Everitt
Murder of Richard Everitt: 15-year-old white schoolboy stabbed once in the back on 13 August 1994 in Somers Town, north London, by a Bangladeshi gang avenging a jewellery mugging; Badrul Miah got life in 1995, the knife-wielder was never identified.
Murder of Rob Andrew
Murder of Rob Andrew: 2001 Oklahoma City shooting of advertising executive Rob Andrew; estranged wife Brenda Andrew and lover James Pavatt convicted, both death sentences; Supreme Court remand in Andrew v. White (2025).
Murder of Robert Brooks
The murder of Robert Brooks was the December 2024 killing of a 43-year-old incarcerated man beaten to death by New York corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility.
Murder of Robert Eric Wone
Murder of Robert Eric Wone: unsolved 2006 stabbing of the Radio Free Asia general counsel, 32, at Joseph Price's Swann Street NW, Washington, D.C. townhouse; housemates acquitted of obstruction, civil suit settled, payments disputed in 2026.
Murder of Robin Cornell and Lisa Story
1990 Cape Coral, Florida double murder of Robin Cornell, 11, and babysitter Lisa Story, 32; unsolved until Joseph Zieler's 2016 DNA match, 2023 conviction, and death sentence.
Murder of Robin Samsoe
Murder of Robin Samsoe: 1979 kidnapping and killing of a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl by Rodney James Alcala, convicted and sentenced to death three times across 1980, 1986, and 2010 trials.
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.