Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia
The Maltese investigative journalist was killed by a car bomb in 2017, leading to convictions, a public inquiry and continuing disputes over who commissioned the attack.
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Killing of Tupac Shakur
The rapper was fatally shot in Las Vegas in 1996; thirty years later, a jury convicted Duane Davis of orchestrating the attack.
Killings of Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy
Three children died after an attack at their Duxbury home; their mother pleaded not guilty to murder charges on lack-of-criminal-responsibility grounds.
Disappearance of Madeleine McCann
A three-year-old child disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal.
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Sean Combs criminal case
American rapper and record producer Sean Combs, known professionally as Diddy (formerly Puff Daddy and P Diddy), has faced repeated accusations of sexual misconduct for incidents dating from 1990 to 2023.
- Place
- New York City, United States
- Date
- 2024–2025
- Sources
- 2 cited
Killings of Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy
Three children died after an attack at their Duxbury home; their mother pleaded not guilty to murder charges on lack-of-criminal-responsibility grounds.
- Place
- Duxbury, Massachusetts, United States
- Date
- 24–27 Jan 2023
- Sources
- 3 cited
Shakahola Forest incident
Kenyan investigators found mass graves near Shakahola after followers of Good News International Ministries were reportedly told to fast to death.
- Place
- Kilifi County, Kenya
- Date
- 2023
- Sources
- 2 cited
Murder of Abby Choi
Hong Kong model Abby Choi was reported missing in February 2023; police later recovered her remains and arrested several suspects.
- Place
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Date
- Feb 2023
- Sources
- 2 cited
Death of Mahsa Amini
On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini, died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances.
- Place
- Tehran, Iran
- Date
- 16 Sep 2022
- Sources
- 2 cited
Murder of Sarah Everard
On the evening of 3 March 2021, 33-year-old Sarah Everard was kidnapped in South London, England, as she was walking home to the Brixton Hill area from a friend's house near Clapham Common.
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Date
- 3 Mar 2021
- Sources
- 2 cited
Killing of Gabby Petito
In August 2021, 22-year-old American travelling vlogger Gabrielle Venora Petito was killed by her fiancé, Brian Christopher Laundrie, while they were traveling together on a vanlife journey across the United States.
- Place
- Bridger–Teton National Forest, Wyoming, United States
- Date
- Aug–Sep 2021
- Sources
- 3 cited
Murder of Fernando Báez Sosa
Fernando José Báez Sosa (2 March 2001 – 18 January 2020), an 18-year old Argentine law student, was beaten to death at the Le Brique nightclub in Villa Gesell, Buenos Aires Province, on 18 January 2020 by a group of eight from Zárate, Buenos Aires.
- Place
- Villa Gesell, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
- Date
- 18 Jan 2020
- Sources
- 2 cited
Murder of George Floyd
A homicide case documented in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, during 25 May 2020.
- Place
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Date
- 25 May 2020
- Sources
- 2 cited
Murder of Uyinene Mrwetyana
A homicide case documented in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, during 24 Aug 2019.
- Place
- Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Date
- 24 Aug 2019
- Sources
- 2 cited
2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
On 21 April 2019, Easter Sunday, three churches in Sri Lanka and three luxury hotels in the commercial capital, Colombo, were targeted in a series of coordinated IS-related terrorist suicide bombings.
- Place
- Multiple locations in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka
- Date
- 21 Apr 2019
- Sources
- 3 cited
Burning Sun scandal
Allegations of rape and spy cams quickly followed when singer and entertainer Jung Joon-young confessed to secretly filming himself having sex with women and sharing the videos, without their knowledge or consent, in the Jung Joon-young KakaoTalk chatrooms, resulting in his resignation from the entertainment industry on March 12, 2019.
- Place
- Seoul, South Korea
- Date
- 2019
- Sources
- 2 cited
Christchurch mosque attacks
A white supremacist killed 51 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques.
- Place
- Christchurch, New Zealand
- Date
- 15 Mar 2019
- Sources
- 5 cited
Murder of Zainab Ansari
Seven-year-old Zainab Ansari was abducted in Kasur in January 2018; Imran Ali was later convicted of her abduction, sexual assault, and murder.
- Place
- Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan
- Date
- 4–9 Jan 2018
- Sources
- 2 cited
Nth Room case
A copycat crime, known as the "Doctor's Room", (박사방; 博士房; baksabang) was operated by a man using the screen name Doctor (박사; Baksa, later identified as Cho Ju-bin), who is accused of blackmailing dozens of women, forcing them to take sexually exploitative videos, with some involving rape.
- Place
- South Korea, South Korea
- Date
- 2018–2020
- Sources
- 2 cited
Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi
On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident journalist, was killed by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Place
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Date
- 2 Oct 2018
- Sources
- 2 cited
Murder of Grace Millane
Grace Emmie Rose Millane (2 December 1996 – 2 December 2018) was a British tourist who was murdered in Auckland, New Zealand, on 2 December 2018.
- Place
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Date
- 1–2 Dec 2018
- Sources
- 2 cited
Burari deaths
The Burari deaths were a ritual mass suicide of eleven family members from Burari, India, in 2018.
- Place
- Burari, Delhi, India
- Date
- 1 Jul 2018
- Sources
- 2 cited
Parkland high school shooting
Seventeen people were killed, and 17 others were wounded.
- Place
- Parkland, Florida, United States
- Date
- 14 Feb 2018
- Sources
- 2 cited
Murder of Marielle Franco
A Rio de Janeiro councilwoman and her driver were assassinated after leaving a public event.
- Place
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Date
- 14 Mar 2018
- Sources
- 2 cited
2018 Toronto van attack
A rented van was driven onto sidewalks in North York, killing pedestrians and injuring others.
- Place
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Date
- 23 Apr 2018
- Sources
- 5 cited
Assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia
The Maltese investigative journalist was killed by a car bomb in 2017, leading to convictions, a public inquiry and continuing disputes over who commissioned the attack.
- Place
- Bidnija, Malta, Malta
- Date
- 16 Oct 2017
- Sources
- 4 cited
Assassination of Kim Jong-nam
A political violence case documented in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia, during 13 Feb 2017.
- Place
- Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia
- Date
- 13 Feb 2017
- Sources
- 2 cited
2017 Las Vegas shooting
About an hour later, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
- Place
- Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Date
- 1 Oct 2017
- Sources
- 2 cited
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