Murder

Minnesota man accused of posing as FBI agent to free Luigi Mangione from Brooklyn jail

Mangione, 27, is awaiting trial in a death penalty murder case on charges that he gunned down Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, in Manhattan in 2024.

 Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan Supreme Court on New York state murder and terrorism charges in New York City, U.S., February 21, 2025.
Israel Police vehicles; illustrative.

Jerusalem man indicted for premeditated murder, abduction of cousin’s husband

Supreme Court justices preside over a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025

Prosecution appeals sentence in killing of teen Lital Yael Melnick, seeks harsher conviction

A VEHICLE of the Tate County Sheriff is seen parked outside a gas station convenience store after a shooting, in Arkabutla, Mississippi, US February 17, 2023.

Mississippi man arrested for murder of family members, pastor, no known motive


A 12,000-year-old cold case: is this earliest murder recorded in Southeast Asia?

"TBH1 lived for several months after the injury occurred," the researchers wrote, adding that without effective treatment the fracture likely led to infection and death within weeks or months.

The reconstructed skull of a man who died 12,000 years ago in what is now Vietnam.

Australia mushroom murderer Erin Patterson left me 'half alive', lone surviving victim says

A jury found the 50-year-old guilty of the attempted murder of Ian Wilkinson, Heather's husband, who survived the 2023 meal at Erin Patterson's home in Leongatha.

Erin Patterson, an Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged husband's elderly relatives with a meal laced with poisonous mushrooms, arrives at Supreme Court of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, August 25, 2025.

Terminally-ill Eilat man arrested for son's murder over 50 years ago

It is unclear how the case will be treated within the legal system, as the statute of limitations does not go this far back.

A road in Eilat with the hotels in the background. October 22, 2008

Was Jeffrey Epstein murdered? His brother certainly thinks so

'Well, the bombshell revelation is that Jeffrey did not commit suicide. And the government is covering it up. How much more do you need than that?'

 US financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019.

Masked in a niqab, American hitwoman attempts assassination in UK murder plot

Aimee Betro, 45, flew to the UK, disguised herself in a niqab, and aimed a handgun at her target. However, the weapon jammed, allowing him to escape.

Police outside of the venue of political party Reform UK's Local Election Campaign Launch, in Birmingham, central England, on March 28, 2025.

Shooting, explosives, sleepless nights: Witnesses recount life amid rampant crime in Arab society

Sara Abu Siam from Lod says fear of violence now defines daily life for Arab youth in Israel, as crime surges and police response lags behind.

 Israeli Border Police force members patrol near the entrances to the Arab-Jewish town of Lod, Israel May 13, 2021.

Israel's concerning new femicide problem: Sons murdering their mothers - opinion

One-third of all femicides in Israel were later found to be matricides.

BEFORE HER father, Vendyl Jones, died in 2010, Sarah Richardson would help him on archaeological digs. This past May, she was murdered by her son, Joel, in yet another femicide in Israel.

Iran's ‘black widow,’ accused of poisoning 11 husbands to death, faces execution 

Her motive is thought to be financial, with her inheriting both properties and dowries from the dead husbands. 

Pictures of Iranian military commanders, nuclear scientists and others killed in Israeli strikes are displayed in Behesht Zahra Cemetery in southern Tehran, Iran, July 11, 2025

Family of five massacred after being accused of practising witchcraft

More than 2500 people have been killed in India since the year 2000 over accusations of witchcraft.

A goat grazes outside a community health centre in Bahadurganj subdivision of Kishanganj district, Bihar, India, March 21, 2023. (illustrative)

Gunmen abduct 60 in northern Nigeria, kill villagers in overnight raids

The incident followed a separate mass abduction in Sabongarin Damri, in Zamfara state, on Saturday in which 70 people were taken.

People gather as security personnel stand guard during a visit of government officials following a deadly gunmen attack in Yelwata, Benue State, Nigeria, June 16, 2025.