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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.
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.