
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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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.

The rapper was fatally shot in Las Vegas in 1996; thirty years later, a jury convicted Duane Davis of orchestrating the attack.

Three children died after an attack at their Duxbury home; their mother pleaded not guilty to murder charges on lack-of-criminal-responsibility grounds.

A three-year-old child disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal.
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A suspicious deaths case documented in Orlando, Florida, United States, during 2008.

On 26 March 2007, 22-year-old English teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker was murdered by 28-year-old Tatsuya Ichihashi (市橋 達也, Ichihashi Tatsuya), in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
Shots were fired at her after a political rally at Liaqat National Bagh, and a suicide bomb was detonated immediately following the shooting.

On 14 September 2007, Andrew Paul Gosden, a 14-year-old schoolboy from Doncaster, South Yorkshire, disappeared after travelling alone to Central London.

A three-year-old child disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal.

A Mongolian woman was abducted and killed near Kuala Lumpur.

Moninder Singh was convicted in two out of the five cases against him, and his servant Surinder Koli, who supposedly aided him, was convicted in 10 out of the 16 cases against him.

In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and was indicted in 2019 for sex trafficking minors in the 2000s.

Yoo Young-chul murdered multiple people in Seoul between 2003 and 2004. He was arrested in July 2004, convicted of twenty murders, and sentenced to death.

The Richthofen case refers to the murder, subsequent investigation, and trial of Manfred Albert von Richthofen and Marísia von Richthofen, a couple murdered by the brothers Daniel and Cristian Cravinhos at the instruction of their daughter, Suzane von Richthofen.
A terrorism case documented in Karachi, Pakistan, during Jan–Feb 2002.

Both children were murdered – most likely by asphyxiation – and their bodies disposed of in an irrigation ditch close to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk.

A homicide case documented in Modesto, California, United States, during 24 Dec 2002.

Coordinated explosions in Bali killed 202 people from more than twenty countries.

British citizen Lucie Blackman disappeared in Tokyo on 1 July 2000.

A series of killings of women in Accra led to the conviction of Charles Quansah.

Four members of the Miyazawa family were killed in their Tokyo home.

Jessica Lal (5 January 1965 – 30 April 1999) was a model in New Delhi who was working as a celebrity barmaid at a crowded socialite party when she was shot dead at around 2:00 am on 30 April 1999.

A mass killing case documented in Columbine, Colorado, United States, during 20 Apr 1999.

Twelve people were killed in South Australia by a group of offenders.

Fan Man-yee was abducted and killed in Kowloon; three men were convicted of manslaughter.
At the age of 10, on 2 March 1998, she was abducted and held in a secret cellar by her kidnapper, Wolfgang Přiklopil, for more than eight years, until she escaped on 23 August 2006.

The Itaewon murder took place on April 3, 1997, when 17-year-old Arthur Patterson killed 22-year-old Cho Jung-pil (Korean: 조중필; born 1974), a Hongik University student, by stabbing him at a Burger King in Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea.

Francisco Juan Larrañaga et al.) was a trial regarding an incident on July 16, 1997, in Cebu City, in which sisters Marijoy and Jacqueline Chiong were allegedly kidnapped, raped, and murdered.
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