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Serial killer
[edit]A serial killer is typically defined as a person who murders three or more people, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break (a "cooling off period") between them.
Mass murder
[edit]Mass murder is the act of murdering a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity.
- 2012 Seattle cafe shooting spree
- Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. (Ku Klux Klan member)
- Cincinnati nightclub shooting
- Priscilla Ford
- Marlon Jones
- Kharkiv beheadings
- Malmö school stabbing
- Moner Mohammad Abu Salha
Assassination
[edit]Assassination is the murder of a prominent person, often an elected official, military, celebrity, journalist or activist, when executed by a third party or assassin, usually for political reasons or payment.
- Charles C. P. Arndt
- Louis Cardis
- Marcella Grace Eiler
- Laurence Foley
- Assassination of Orhan Gündüz
- George LeBreton
- Russell G. Lloyd Sr.
- John Gordon Mein
- Francis E. Meloy Jr.
- William Nordeen
- Lamar Smith (activist)
- Mike Swoboda
- Robert O. Waring
- John H. Wood Jr.
Murder
[edit]A murder is the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another.
- Glenn Lee Benner II
- Michael Bethke (insanity defense)
- Veronza Bowers Jr.
- Lavinia Burnett
- Attina Marie Cannaday (also kidnapper)
- Michael Harold Chapel
- Nick Clatterbuck
- Eugene Herbert Clay
- Thunder Collins
- Mary Frances Creighton
- Kerry Lyn Dalton
- Jesse Evans (mobster hitman)
- Vernon Lee Evans
- Chandra Prakash Gajurel
- Sonny Leitch
- Christopher McCowen (also rapist)
- Charles A. McCoy, Jr. (sniper)
- Duncan McKenzie (murderer)
- Barry Mills (Aryan Brotherhood) (also gang member)
- Leroy Nash
- William Nesbit (Jewel Thief)
- Curtis Osborne
- Harold Lamont Otey
- Phillup Partin
- Donna Roberts
- Roy Michael Roberts
- Vladimir Sarenpya
- Leonard Shockley
- Kermit Smith Jr. (executed)
- Randall Lee Smith
- Robert Sorrells
- Salvatore Testa (mobster hitman)
- Percy Levar Walton
- Robert Wayne Williams (executed)
- Scott Williams (serial killer)
- Ed Wutke
Lynching
[edit]Lynching is the murder of a person by an informal group (mob) action without due process of law. It is not limited to deaths by hanging.
- Alexander Boyd (county solicitor)
- John Cecil Jones
- Steve Long
- Felix Hall
- Fred Rochelle
- Robert Lewis (lynching victim)
- Matthew Williams (laborer)
- Perry massacre
- 1866 Gallatin County race riot
- Lynching of Joseph Vermillion
- Lynching of Michael Green
- Lynching of William Burns
- Lynching of King Johnson
- Lynching of Stephen Williams
- Lynching of Eliza Woods
- Lynching of Alfred Blount
- Lynching of Olli Kinkkonen
Filicide
[edit]Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child.
- Phillip Austin
- Francisca Ballesteros
- Elizabeth Butchill
- Alice Crimmins
- Nicole Diar
- Modise Mokwadi Fly
- Janie Lou Gibbs
- Penelope Kenny
- Deanna Laney murders
- Robin Lee Row (also mariticide)
- Celine Lesage
- Diane O'Dell
- Robin Lee Row (also mariticide)
- Ramon Salcido (also mariticide)
- Hans Schleif
- Lydia Sherman (also mariticide)
- Sarah Simpson
- Silvia Meraz
- Charles Mihayo
- Caroline Whitting
- Murder of Joseph Wallace
- Murder of the Kumari-Baker sisters
Mariticide
[edit]Mariticide is the murder of a husband by his wife.
- Jane Laut
- Barbara Stager
- Robin Lee Row (also filicide)
Parricide
[edit]Parricide is the act of killing one's parents or another close relative.
Uxoricide
[edit]Uxoricide is the act of murdering one's wife.
- Raphel Cherry
- Henry Debosnys
- Wattie Holm
- J.J. Paulsen
- Ken Ramos
- Nikolay Soltys (also parricide, familicide, filicide)
Victims
[edit]- Murder of Hussain Saeed Alnahdi
- Paul Martin Andrews
- Saint Laura of Constantinople
- Rod Craig
- Dantrell Davis
- Christine Demeter (victim of uxoricide)
- Nancy Eaton (homicide)
- Murder of Alayna Ertl
- The Jacka (unsolved)
- Murder of Troy LaFerrara
- Pat Lowther (victim of uxoricide)
- Jonathan Magbie
- Denise Morelle
- Bosco Tjan (unsolved)
- Murder of Naomi Miller
- Murder of Laree Slack
Organized crime
[edit]Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.
Fraud
[edit]In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.
Other crimes
[edit]- Kendall Carroll (officer involved shooting)
- Mad Hatter (bank robber)
- Candice Rose Martinez (robbery)
Expand
[edit]- Disappearance of Beverly Potts
- Murder of Rachael Runyan
- Sholam Weiss
- Andrew Walker (murderer)
- Winterbourne View hospital abuse
Unverified
[edit]Misc.
[edit]- Tadas Blinda, wikify
- Colombian necktie, start
- Marc Dutroux, C-class article that needs expansion, citation improvement