World Homicide Tracker

More than 14 years after Il Jae Kim was found murdered in his Anaheim apartment, forensic DNA advances finally identified and led to the arrest of...

• Major upgrade: $245M facility adds 12 autopsy stations and 70k-sq-ft crime lab replacing 1980s site
• Streamlined ops: Co-located labs, medical...

Homicide investigator testimony outlines a clear evidentiary trail in the Tori Dunn case.

• DNA swabs seized from Dunn’s boyfriend at the scene
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Elizabeth Banks will portray Karen Read in a new Prime Video series dramatizing her high-profile murder trial, converting a still-contested homicide case into entertainment while legal and public controversies remain unresolved.

Dalton Perkins' two-day trial for second-degree murder began Wednesday, with charges including armed criminal action and domestic assault tied to the May 2025 shooting death of a 56-year-old Sturgeon man during a reported argument.

An early account of the Whitehall Township homicide confirms the victim and cause but withholds key details.

• Known facts: Daniel S. Latorre, 40,...

• Ebony Mack, 26, was shot inside her Southeast DC apartment on March 17, 2011, and pronounced dead at the hospital; no arrests have followed despite...

Pennsylvania State Police exhumed remains of an unidentified African American man, middle-aged and 5’10”, found murdered on Susquehanna Trail in 1969...

A tenfold reward increase to $250,000 marks SFPD's push to revive the unsolved 2016 Oceanview shooting of Keron Lamotte, showing how major payouts can re-energize decade-old homicide cases.

Police are probing five deaths along Lansing's River Trail for possible serial killer ties, but key gaps remain.

• Established patterns: All victims...

Montana ranks fourth nationally in serial killers per capita, with eight known offenders linked to 47 victims. Cases like Wayne “Missoula Mauler”...

Arizona families are demanding systemic fixes for thousands of cold cases that linger without resolution.

• 6,787 unsolved homicides statewide, with...

Prosecutors described a planned execution where Casey Harmon allegedly shot a young couple in the head as their 2-year-old son watched, then abandoned...

Anthony Lamont Graham, 31, was found dead in Baltimore on October 11, 2016, his homicide still unsolved. His case exemplifies how families endure...

The DA publicly labeled Jane Doe's lawsuit a "different narrative" from her 2024 statements, yet relied only on a six-page document while unaware of...

Albert Garland, a Brooklyn-born Army veteran and devoted father who ran a poultry shop on Delancey Street, was shot dead while closing up on August...

Fifty years after the 1976-1977 abductions and murders of Mark Stebbins, Jill Robinson, Kristine Mihelich, and Timothy King, their families still...

Prosecutors will argue that Jason Timothy Simpson strangled Ashley Todd Silverman to death in their Cecilton home last June before staging the scene...

Systemic gaps in records and scrutiny keep many Black homicide and disappearance cases unresolved.

• Tulsa Race Massacre evidence was scattered or...

Evidence that UK special forces may have committed murder or manslaughter in Afghanistan has been passed to the Defence Serious Crime Command. The military police investigation is now paused while the independent inquiry continues.