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Murder–suicide
Murder–suicide, also called homicide–suicide or dyadic death, is a homicide followed by the perpetrator's suicide, usually within 24 hours. US incidence about 0.45 per 100,000; mostly male perpetrators, intimate partner victims, firearms.
Murder, Inc.
Murder, Inc., also called the Brownsville killers' ring, was a Brooklyn-based contract-killing arm of the U.S. crime syndicate founded circa 1930, led by Albert Anastasia and Louis Lepke Buchalter, credited with 63 New York-area slayings from 1931 to 1940, and dismantled after Abe Reles turned informant in 1940.
Murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German
Delphi murders: killings of Abby Williams, 13, and Libby German, 14, near Monon High Bridge, Delphi, Indiana, February 13, 2017; Richard Allen convicted 2024, sentenced to 130 years, appeal pending.
Murders of Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth
Murders of Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth, the Suitcase Murders or Bodies on the Bridge: Colombian adult-film performer Yostin Andres Mosquera killed the civil partners in Shepherd's Bush, London, on 8 July 2024 and dumped remains near Clifton Suspension Bridge; convicted 2025, jailed life, minimum 40 years.
Murders of Ayşenur Halil and İkbal Uzuner
Murders of Ayşenur Halil and İkbal Uzuner: two 19-year-old women killed in Istanbul on 4 October 2024 by Semih Çelik, who died by suicide; case closed without prosecution in January 2025.
Murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope
The murders of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope: two New Zealanders, 21 and 17, who vanished from the Marlborough Sounds on 1 January 1998; Scott Watson was convicted in 1999, with appeals over hair and identification evidence continuing to 2026.
Murders of Bernice and Ben Novack Jr.
The murders of Bernice and Ben Novack Jr. were 2009 murder-for-hire killings by Narcy Novack and Cristobal Veliz, who hired hit men to kill the Fontainebleau hotel heir and his 86-year-old mother for a $10 million estate.
Murders of Bobby Whitt and Myoung Hwa Cho
Murders of Bobby Whitt and Myoung Hwa Cho, also the Boy Under the Billboard case: 1998 North Carolina and South Carolina killings solved after 20 years via genetic genealogy; father John Russell Whitt confessed and pleaded guilty in 2020.
Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom
2007 Knoxville, Tennessee double murder: Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, were carjacked, raped, and killed at 2316 Chipman Street; five convictions including Lemaricus Davidson's death sentence, retrials after the judge's drug arrest, and a hate-crime controversy.
Murders of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield
Murders of Chris Kyle and Chad Littlefield: February 2, 2013 shootings of the American Sniper author and his friend by Marine veteran Eddie Ray Routh at a Texas range; 2015 capital murder conviction, life without parole, 2017 appeal affirmed.
Murders of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan
The murders of Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan, known as the Au Pair Affair, were 2023 killings in Fairfax County, Virginia, plotted by Christine's husband and the family's au pair.
Murders of Greg and Kimberly Malnory
The murders of Greg and Kimberly Malnory: 1997 Charlotte County, Florida killings of a married couple, ages 25 and 26, by coworker James Dennis Ford at a sod farm; their toddler survived, and Ford was executed in 2025.
Murders of Harold and Joey Pugh
Murders of Harold and Joey Pugh: July 20, 1997 shooting deaths of a father and his 11-year-old son on Cane Creek, Colbert County, Alabama, during a bank-robbery plot by Mark Moore, Michael Craig Maxwell, Thomas Dale Ferguson, Donald Risley, and Keno Graham; two death sentences, one by judicial override.
Murders of J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett
1999 unsolved-then-solved double murder of Dothan, Alabama teens J.B. Beasley and Tracie Hawlett, found shot in a car trunk in Ozark; Coley McCraney was convicted in 2023 via genetic genealogy.
Murders of John and Lois McCullough
Murders of John and Lois McCullough: June 2019 killings at Great Baddow, Essex, by their daughter Virginia McCullough, who hid the bodies for four years and was jailed for life with a 36-year minimum term in 2024.
Murders of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce Pearce
The 2008 murders of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson, 20, and daughter Khandalyce Pearce, 2, by Daniel James Holdom; bodies found in Belanglo Forest and a Wynarka suitcase, identified in 2015, life sentences in 2018.
Murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon
Murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon: 1975 abduction and killing of sisters aged 10 and 12 from Wheaton Plaza, Maryland; Lloyd Lee Welch Jr. pleaded guilty in 2017, 48-year sentence, bodies never found.
Murders of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman
1999 Oklahoma cold case: teenagers Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman vanished from Welch after Danny and Kathy Freeman were shot and their home burned; Ronnie Busick pleaded guilty in 2020, was released in 2023, and the girls' remains remain unfound.
Murders of Molly LaRue and Geoff Hood
The 1990 murders of thru-hikers Molly LaRue and Geoff Hood at the Thelma Marks Shelter on Cove Mountain, Pennsylvania, on the Appalachian Trail; Paul David Crews was convicted in 1991.
Murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone
Murders of Nicola Hughes and Fiona Bone: two Greater Manchester Police constables, aged 23 and 32, killed on 18 September 2012 by Dale Cregan in a gun and grenade ambush in Hattersley, Tameside, lured by a hoax 999 burglary call; Cregan received a whole life sentence in 2013.
Murders of Susan and Kimberly Pittman
Murders of Susan Pittman, 41, and her 13-year-old daughter Kimberly Pittman in Savannah, Georgia, on April 11, 2002, by Darryl Scott Stinski and Dorian Frank O'Kelley, both sentenced to death.
Murders of Tylee Ryan and J. J. Vallow
Murders of Tylee Ryan, 16, and JJ Vallow, 7, Idaho children missing since September 2019, found buried June 2020 on Chad Daybell's property; Lori Vallow Daybell got life, Daybell the death sentence.
Murders of Wanda and Sheila Romines
1986 stabbing murders of Wanda Lou Romines, 51, and daughter Sheila, 15, in Union County, Tennessee, by Stephen Michael West and Ronald Martin; West executed 2019, Martin serving life.
Murders of William Redmond and Helen Phelps
1980 New Year's Eve murder-for-hire killings of William "Pat" Redmond and Helen Phelps in Phoenix; perpetrators Murray Hooper, William Bracy, Edward McCall, allegedly hired by Robert Cruz; Hooper executed 2022.
Murray Gleeson
Murray Gleeson (Anthony Murray Gleeson, born 1938) is an Australian jurist, 11th Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia 1998-2008 and earlier Chief Justice of NSW 1988-98, known for concise judgments, the black-letter Gleeson Court, and his Al-Kateb dissent.
Museum of Death
Museum of Death: private museum of death-related artifacts founded June 1995 by JD Healy and Cathee Shultz in a Wyatt Earp mortuary in San Diego, now in Hollywood and New Orleans; serial killer artwork, crime scene photos, Heaven's Gate bunk beds; self-guided, no photos, no age limit.
Musitano crime family
The Musitano crime family, also known as the Musitano 'ndrina, is a Canadian mafia family based in Hamilton, Ontario, known for the 1997 murder of crime boss Johnny Papalia.
Musk v. Altman
Musk v. Altman, 4:24-cv-04722-YGR (N.D. Cal.), Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft alleging betrayal of OpenAI's nonprofit founding mission; a jury found the claims time-barred on May 18, 2026.
Muslim minority of Greece
Muslim minority of Greece: the recognized Muslim community of Western Thrace, defined by religion under the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, comprising Turkish-origin people, Pomaks, and Roma, exempted from the Greek-Turkish population exchange.
Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019
The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019 (Triple Talaq Law) is an Indian statute declaring talaq-e-biddat void and criminalizing its pronouncement with up to three years' imprisonment, plus subsistence allowance and custody rights.