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 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.
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A three-year-old child disappeared from a holiday apartment in Portugal.
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Munich massacre
The Munich massacre was a terrorist attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, carried out by eight members of the Palestinian militant organisation Black September.
- Place
- Munich, West Germany, Germany
- Date
- 5–6 Sep 1972
- Sources
- 2 cited
John Wayne Gacy murders
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who sexually assaulted and killed at least thirty-three young men and boys between 1972 and 1978 in Norwood Park Township, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois.
- Place
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Date
- 1972–1978
- Sources
- 2 cited
D. B. Cooper hijacking
A passenger vanished after parachuting from a Boeing 727 with ransom money.
- Place
- Pacific Northwest, United States
- Date
- 24 Nov 1971
- Sources
- 2 cited
Harvey and Jeannette Crewe murders
A New Zealand farming couple disappeared, and a wrongful conviction followed.
- Place
- Pukekawa, Waikato, New Zealand
- Date
- 17 Jun 1970
- Sources
- 3 cited
Isdal Woman case
An unidentified woman was found dead in Norway's Isdalen valley.
- Place
- Bergen, Norway
- Date
- 29 Nov 1970
- Sources
- 2 cited
Highway of Tears cases
There is a disproportionately high number of Indigenous women on the list of victims, hence the association with the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement.
- Place
- Northern British Columbia, Canada
- Date
- 1969–present
- Sources
- 2 cited
Tate–LaBianca murders
The perpetrators killed five people (not including the unborn child of an 8½ month pregnant Sharon Tate) on the night of August 8–9: Tate and her companions Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski and Steven Parent.
- Place
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Date
- 8–10 Aug 1969
- Sources
- 2 cited
Zodiac Killer case
The Zodiac Killer (also known by the pseudonym The Zodiac) is an unidentified serial killer who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area between December 1968 and October 1969.
- Place
- Northern California, United States
- Date
- 1968–1969
- Sources
- 2 cited
Fred and Rose West murders
Fred is known to have committed at least two murders on his own; Rose is known to have murdered Fred's stepdaughter, Charmaine.
- Place
- Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
- Date
- 1967–1987
- Sources
- 2 cited
Beaumont children disappearance
Three siblings disappeared during a trip to Glenelg Beach.
- Place
- Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Date
- 26 Jan 1966
- Sources
- 3 cited
Wanda Beach murders
Schmidt and Sharrock were reported missing at 8:30 pm by Sharrock's grandmother.
- Place
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Date
- 11 Jan 1965
- Sources
- 2 cited
Moors murders
A homicide case documented in Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom, during 1963–1965.
- Place
- Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Date
- 1963–1965
- Sources
- 2 cited
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American boy who, at 14 years old, was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955.
- Place
- Money, Mississippi, United States
- Date
- 28 Aug 1955
- Sources
- 2 cited
Black Dahlia murder
Elizabeth Short was killed in Los Angeles in a case that remains unresolved.
- Place
- Los Angeles, California, United States
- Date
- 15 Jan 1947
- Sources
- 2 cited
Lindbergh kidnapping
Charles Lindbergh and his wife, aviator and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was murdered after being abducted from his crib in the upper floor of the Lindberghs' home, Highfields, in East Amwell, New Jersey, United States.
- Place
- East Amwell, New Jersey, United States
- Date
- 1 Mar 1932
- Sources
- 2 cited
Hinterkaifeck murders
Six people were killed at an isolated Bavarian farmstead.
- Place
- Gröbern, Bavaria, Germany
- Date
- 31 Mar 1922
- Sources
- 2 cited
Jack the Ripper murders
Attacks ascribed to Jack the Ripper typically involved women working as women in the sex trade who lived in the slums of the East End of London.
- Place
- Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom
- Date
- 1888
- Sources
- 2 cited
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