Homicide cases

A British wildlife photographer was killed while travelling in Kenya.

Place

Maasai Mara, Kenya

Date

Sep 1988

Sources

3 cited

A homicide case documented in Southern Ontario, Canada, during 1987–1992.

Place

Southern Ontario, Canada

Date

1987–1992

Sources

2 cited

A homicide case documented in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, during 1986–1994.

Place

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Date

1986–1994

Sources

2 cited

Ten women and girls were killed in and around Hwaseong between 1986 and 1991.

Place

Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Date

15 Sep 1986–3 Apr 1991

Sources

4 cited

A homicide case documented in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada, during 1983–2002.

Place

Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

Date

1983–2002

Sources

2 cited

Two children were killed in Singapore in 1981; three adults were convicted of murder.

Place

Toa Payoh, Singapore

Date

24 Jan–6 Feb 1981

Sources

2 cited

Between 1978 and 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer murdered seventeen men and boys in Ohio and Wisconsin.

Place

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Date

1978–1991

Sources

2 cited

Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer and HGV driver who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and girls, and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980.

Place

Northern England, United Kingdom

Date

1975–1980

Sources

2 cited

Theodore Robert Bundy (né Cowell; November 24, 1946 – January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed dozens of young women and girls between 1974 and 1978.

Place

Multiple locations in the United States, United States

Date

1974–1978

Sources

2 cited

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

A New Zealand farming couple disappeared, and a wrongful conviction followed.

Place

Pukekawa, Waikato, New Zealand

Date

17 Jun 1970

Sources

3 cited

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Six people were killed at an isolated Bavarian farmstead.

Place

Gröbern, Bavaria, Germany

Date

31 Mar 1922

Sources

2 cited

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