Homicide cases

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

Place

Accra, Ghana

Date

1998–2000

Sources

2 cited

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

Place

Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Date

30–31 Dec 2000

Sources

5 cited

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.

Place

New Delhi, India

Date

29–30 Apr 1999

Sources

2 cited

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

Place

Adelaide and Snowtown, Australia

Date

1992–1999

Sources

7 cited

Fan Man-yee was abducted and killed in Kowloon; three men were convicted of manslaughter.

Place

Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong, China

Date

Mar–Apr 1999

Sources

2 cited

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.

Place

Itaewon, Seoul, South Korea

Date

3 Apr 1997

Sources

2 cited

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.

Place

Cebu, Philippines

Date

16 Jul 1997

Sources

2 cited

The Kobe child murders (Japanese: 神戸連続児童殺傷事件, Hepburn: Kōbe renzoku jidō sasshō jiken) occurred in Suma, Kobe, Japan, on 16 March and 24 May 1997, when two children, ten-year-old Ayaka Yamashita (山下 彩花, Yamashita Ayaka) and eleven-year-old Jun Hase (土師 淳, Hase Jun) were murdered.

Place

Suma, Kobe, Japan

Date

Feb–May 1997

Sources

2 cited

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

Place

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Date

7–13 Sep 1996

Sources

4 cited

Nanjing University student Diao Aiqing disappeared in January 1996.

Place

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Date

Jan 1996

Sources

2 cited

Priyadarshini Mattoo (23 July 1970 – 23 January 1996) was a 25-year-old law student who was found sexually assaulted and killed at her house in New Delhi on 23 January 1996.

Place

New Delhi, India

Date

23 Jan 1996

Sources

2 cited

The Claremont serial killings is the name given by the media to a case involving the disappearance of an Australian woman, aged 18, and the killings of two others, aged 23 and 27, in 1996–1997.

Place

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Date

1996–1997

Sources

2 cited

A six-year-old child was found dead in her family home after being reported missing.

Place

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Date

25–26 Dec 1996

Sources

2 cited

A homicide case documented in Los Angeles, California, United States, during 12 Jun 1994.

Place

Los Angeles, California, United States

Date

12 Jun 1994

Sources

2 cited

Sithole murdered at least 37 women and one toddler between 16 July 1994 and 6 November 1995.

Place

Gauteng, South Africa

Date

1994–1995

Sources

2 cited

More than 500 women were killed between 1993 and 2011 in Ciudad Juárez, a city in northern Mexico.

Place

Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

Date

1993–present

Sources

2 cited

On 12 February 1993 in Merseyside, England, two 10-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, abducted and killed a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February 1993).

Place

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Date

12 Feb 1993

Sources

2 cited

A Black British teenager was murdered in a racist attack in southeast London.

Place

London, United Kingdom

Date

22 Apr 1993

Sources

4 cited

A homicide case documented in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during 28 Dec 1992.

Place

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Date

28 Dec 1992

Sources

2 cited

Estrellita Vizconde, 49, suffered thirteen stab wounds; Carmela Vizconde, 19, suffered seventeen stab wounds and had been raped before she was killed; and Anne Marie Jennifer, 7, had nineteen stab wounds.

Place

Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines

Date

30 Jun 1991

Sources

2 cited

Milat, then 51 years old, was convicted of the murders on 27 July 1996 and was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences, as well as 18 years without parole.

Place

Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales, Australia

Date

1989–1992

Sources

2 cited

Joseph Lyle Menendez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menendez (born November 27, 1970), commonly referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers convicted of killing their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home in 1989.

Place

Beverly Hills, California, United States

Date

20 Aug 1989

Sources

2 cited

A homicide case documented in Gansu and Inner Mongolia, China, during 1988–2002.

Place

Gansu and Inner Mongolia, China

Date

1988–2002

Sources

2 cited

Junko Furuta (Japanese: 古田 順子, Hepburn: Furuta Junko; 18 January 1971 – 4 January 1989) was a 17-year-old Japanese high school student who was abducted and killed.

Place

Adachi, Tokyo, Japan

Date

25 Nov 1988–4 Jan 1989

Sources

2 cited