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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.
Murder of William Clayton Jr.
Murder of William Clinton Clayton Jr., a 68-year-old courier shot March 6, 1998, at an ATM in Centre, Alabama, by paroled murderer Keith Edmund Gavin, who was convicted of capital murder and executed July 18, 2024.
Murder of XXXTentacion
The murder of XXXTentacion, also known as Jahseh Onfroy, was the June 18, 2018 armed-robbery shooting of the 20-year-old rapper outside RIVA Motorsports in Deerfield Beach, Florida; three men received life sentences in 2023.
Murder of Yap Shing Xuen
Murder of Yap Shing Xuen: 14 October 2025 stabbing death of a 16-year-old student at SMK Bandar Utama Damansara (4), Selangor, Malaysia, by a 14-year-old schoolmate; 2026 insanity acquittal, prosecution appeal, civil suit.
Murder of Yara Gambirasio
Murder of Yara Gambirasio: 2010 killing of a 13-year-old from Brembate di Sopra, Italy, solved in 2014 via the Ignoto 1 DNA profile and familial searching; Massimo Giuseppe Bossetti received a life sentence in 2016.
Murder of Yeardley Love
Murder of Yeardley Love: 2010 killing of UVA women's lacrosse player Yeardley Love by ex-boyfriend George Huguely V; 2012 second-degree murder conviction, appeals, and the One Love Foundation founded in her memory.
Murder of Yetunde Price
Murder of Yetunde Price: Yetunde Hawanya Tara Price, eldest half sister of Venus and Serena Williams, was shot dead September 14, 2003, in Compton, California, age 31; Robert Maxfield received 15 years for voluntary manslaughter in 2006.
Murder of Yingying Zhang (章莹颖)
Murder of Yingying Zhang (章莹颖), June 9, 2017 killing of a 26-year-old visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois by Brendt Christensen, convicted 2019 and sentenced to life without parole; remains unrecovered.
Murder of Yvonne Jonsson
Murder of Yvonne Jonsson, the Royal Park murder: 19-year-old Swedish-Sri Lankan student killed July 1, 2005 in Colombo; Jude Jayamaha convicted, sentenced to death, pardoned in 2019, pardon quashed in 2024.
Murder of Zebb Quinn
Zebb Wayne Quinn, 18, vanished in Asheville, North Carolina on January 2, 2000 after leaving Walmart with coworker Robert Jason Owens; his 2022 accessory plea legally established Quinn was murdered, but his body was never found.
Murder trial of O. J. Simpson
The 1995 Los Angeles criminal trial of O. J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman; acquitted October 3, 1995, later found liable in a 1997 civil trial.