All news on the topic: Murder

Theresa Cain shot dead her husband, 74-year-old dad, 13-year-old son and critically injured her daughter during a murder-suicide at their home in Ohio, US

Leah Croucher was 19 when she went missing while walking to work in February 2019, before a three and a half year search led to her body being found in a loft at a property in Loxbeare Drive, Milton Keynes

Pietro Addis knifed grandmother Sue Addis 17 times at her home in Brighton after it was heard she had expressed fears the cannabis-addicted teen was becoming 'paranoid'

Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of two counts of murder after his wife and their son were shot dead at their rural home in South Carolina, US, in a case highlighted in Netflix documentary Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal

Lorraine Thorpe was 15 when she and Paul Clarke tortured and murdered Rosalyn Hunt and her own father ,and was later jailed for life - but she's up for parole later this summer

Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh shot dead his wife and their son in June 2021 on the family's hunting estate in South Carolina, US, in a case highlighted in the Netflix documentary Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal

From the mysterious death of a housekeeper to being owned by a suspected drug smuggler, the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh are just the latest grim details in the history of Moselle estate in Islandton, South Carolina, US

A convicted murderer who savagely killed her five children by slitting their throats with a kitchen knife 16 years ago has been euthanised at her own request

A three-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard how Kevin Mannion murdered his girlfriend Elinor O'Brien after violently assaulting her several times throughout their eight-month relationship

Maurice Hastings was released from prison after DNA was proven not to be his last year in Los Angeles, US. His request for a DNA test back in 2000 had been rejected

Prosecutors said the 16-year-old lad died in a hospital in the northern German town of Bramsche late last night after sustaining gunshot wounds to the head - which were allegedly inflicted by an 81-year-old "firearm enthusiast"

Prosecutors say that they think a sweet potato was used as a silencer in the Cape Cod murder of Todd Lampley, in a plot used in hit show The Wire

Brianna, 14, was shot by her brother, Keon Martavious Thornhill, 19, at their family's house in Opa-Locka in Florida, US, according to the police

Missing mum-of-three Sarah Albone, 38, has not been seen since before Christmas last year, with police finding a body in her garden in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire

A dad-of-three was shot a reported seven times in a home in the early hours of this morning and died a short time later with the gunman fleeing on an electric scooter

The footage shows the moment the man, who has been named as Josip Mihajlovic, 27, by Croatian media, is arrested. He can be seen on his phone in the hotel lobby waiting for a lift when three plainclothes police officers suddenly enter and detain him

Daphne Caruana Galizia was called a 'one-woman WikiLeaks' who led the Panama Papers investigation and her blogs often attracted more readers than Malta's entire newspaper circulation

Detective Sergeant Tim Grogan reveals he still thinks of Julie Dart more than 30 years after her body was found ahead of a new documentary on killer Michael Sams

The 33-year-old nurse is alleged to have deliberately dislodged the youngster’s breathing tube just moments before a consultant walked into the nursery room

The safest and most dangerous places to live in England and Wales have been ranked on a new map. The data by the Office for National Statistics may be of concern for those in areas like West Yorkshire and the northeast

Ellen Gilland, 76, is accused of shooting her terminally ill husband Jerry Gilland, 77, dead in his hospital bed after they allegedly agreed a murder-suicide pact

Influencer Abby Choi's body parts were found in a fridge and a skull believed to be hers in a pot at a rural house in Hong Kong, with her ex-husband, father-in-law and brother-in-law all charged

Firing squads could be used to execute Bryan Kohberger who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students under new proposals drawn up in response to a shortage of lethal injections

Shaye Groves stabbed her on-off boyfriend Frankie Fitzgerald to death as he slept and was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life behind bars

Ex-partner Cesar Santana, 36, is accused of murdering teacher Luz Hernandez in Jersey City, US after she failed to turn up to work on February 6