Crime types
Three children died after an attack at their Duxbury home; their mother pleaded not guilty to murder charges on lack-of-criminal-responsibility grounds.
Hong Kong model Abby Choi was reported missing in February 2023; police later recovered her remains and arrested several suspects.
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.
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.
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.
A homicide case documented in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, during 25 May 2020.
A homicide case documented in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, during 24 Aug 2019.
Seven-year-old Zainab Ansari was abducted in Kasur in January 2018; Imran Ali was later convicted of her abduction, sexual assault, and murder.
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.
Lucy Letby (born 4 January 1990) is a British former NHS neonatal nurse convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven others at the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester between June 2015 and June 2016.
A homicide case documented in Vosloorus, Gauteng, South Africa, during 26 Oct 2014.
A homicide case documented in Olongapo, Philippines, during 11 Oct 2014.
Reeva Steenkamp was shot and killed by Oscar Pistorius at his Pretoria home.
In December 2014, after eight days of deliberations, a jury convicted Magnotta of first-degree murder.
Brazilian model Eliza Silva Samudio was murdered in June 2010 by association football goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes das Dores de Souza, known simply as Bruno.
The two were killed on the night of 15–16 May 2008 at Aarushi's home in Noida, India.
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.
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.
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.
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.
British citizen Lucie Blackman disappeared in Tokyo on 1 July 2000.