Investigation closed cases

On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini, died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances.

Place

Tehran, Iran

Date

16 Sep 2022

Sources

2 cited

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.

Place

Bridger–Teton National Forest, Wyoming, United States

Date

Aug–Sep 2021

Sources

3 cited

On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident journalist, was killed by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

Place

Istanbul, Turkey

Date

2 Oct 2018

Sources

2 cited

The Burari deaths were a ritual mass suicide of eleven family members from Burari, India, in 2018.

Place

Burari, Delhi, India

Date

1 Jul 2018

Sources

2 cited

A political violence case documented in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia, during 13 Feb 2017.

Place

Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia

Date

13 Feb 2017

Sources

2 cited

About an hour later, he was found dead in his room from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Place

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

Date

1 Oct 2017

Sources

2 cited

On 7 January 2015, at about 11:30 a.m. in Paris, France, the employees of the French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo were targeted in a terrorist shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers, Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi.

Place

Paris, France

Date

7 Jan 2015

Sources

2 cited

The Lindt Café siege (also known as the Sydney siege) was a terrorist attack that occurred on 15–16 December 2014 when a lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held ten customers and eight employees of a Lindt Chocolate Café hostage in the APA Building in Martin Place, Sydney, Australia.

Place

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Date

15–16 Dec 2014

Sources

2 cited

The perpetrator, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, shot and killed 26 people.

Place

Newtown, Connecticut, United States

Date

14 Dec 2012

Sources

2 cited

In the early morning of 22 March 2010, Paulette Gebara Farah, a four-year-old Mexican girl with disabilities, disappeared from her bedroom in her family's apartment, located in a private building in the upscale residential area of Interlomas, in Huixquilucan, State of Mexico.

Place

Huixquilucan, State of Mexico, Mexico

Date

22–31 Mar 2010

Sources

2 cited

A suspicious deaths case documented in Orlando, Florida, United States, during 2008.

Place

Orlando, Florida, United States

Date

2008

Sources

2 cited

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

Place

Palm Beach, Florida and New York City, United States

Date

2005–2019

Sources

2 cited

A terrorism case documented in Karachi, Pakistan, during Jan–Feb 2002.

Place

Karachi, Pakistan

Date

Jan–Feb 2002

Sources

2 cited

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

Place

Columbine, Colorado, United States

Date

20 Apr 1999

Sources

2 cited

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.

Place

Strasshof an der Nordbahn, Austria

Date

2 Mar 1998–23 Aug 2006

Sources

2 cited

The Dunblane massacre was a school shooting that took place at Dunblane Primary School in Dunblane, near Stirling, Scotland, on 13 March 1996, when 43-year-old Thomas Hamilton killed 16 pupils and one teacher and injured 15 others before killing himself.

Place

Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date

13 Mar 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

Fourteen women were killed in an antifeminist attack at a Montréal engineering school.

Place

Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Date

6 Dec 1989

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

Sweden’s prime minister was shot after leaving a Stockholm cinema.

Place

Stockholm, Sweden

Date

28 Feb 1986

Sources

4 cited

A bomb destroyed a passenger aircraft over the Atlantic, killing all 329 people aboard.

Place

Atlantic Ocean near Ireland, Canada

Date

23 Jun 1985

Sources

3 cited

A political violence case documented in Manila, Philippines, during 21 Aug 1983.

Place

Manila, Philippines

Date

21 Aug 1983

Sources

2 cited

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

A passenger vanished after parachuting from a Boeing 727 with ransom money.

Place

Pacific Northwest, United States

Date

24 Nov 1971

Sources

2 cited