Terry Lee Hankins (October 10, 1974 – June 2, 2009) was an American serial killer who killed five family members in Mansfield, Texas, between October 2000 and August 2001. After fully admitting responsibility, he was convicted of two of the murders and was sentenced to death. Hankins was executed by lethal injection on June 2, 2009, becoming the 200th inmate executed in … Read more
Chandra Ann Levy (April 14, 1977 – c. May 1, 2001) was an American intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in May 2001. She was presumed murdered after her skeletal remains were found in Rock Creek Park in May 2002. The case attracted attention from American news media for several years. Due to a miscommunication, the Metropolitan Police Department of the … Read more
Mario Roberto Flores Mejía (born July 18, 1975) better known by the alias Alexis Flores, is a Honduran former fugitive who was wanted for the kidnapping, rape, and murder of five-year-old Iriana DeJesus in Philadelphia in 2000. Flores was the 487th fugitive to be placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.[1] On March … Read more
On September 26, 2014, police found a body later identified as 19-year-old Shao Tong (Chinese: 邵童, November 1994 – September 2014),[1] a Chinese undergraduate at Iowa State University (ISU), in the trunk of a car registered in her name parked in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Iowa City, Iowa. She had been reported missing nine days earlier.[2] The cause of death … Read more
Hannah Elizabeth Graham (February 25, 1996 – c. September 13, 2014) was an 18-year-old second-year British-born American student at the University of Virginia who went missing on September 13, 2014. She was last seen early in the morning that day, at the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia.[6] Five weeks later, her remains were discovered on … Read more
Jersey Dianne Bridgeman was a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her home while she was sleeping in Bentonville, Arkansas, on November 20, 2012, six days after her birthday. Later that day, Bridgeman was found murdered. Her case garnered considerable media attention, which spurred debates about child protection in part due to the prior convictions and lengthy sentences for … Read more
On July 18, 2018, Mollie Cecilia Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, disappeared while jogging near her home in Brooklyn, Iowa. A month later, police identified 24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera as a suspect in connection with the disappearance; surveillance footage showed Rivera’s car following Tibbetts on her jog. Rivera led police to the body … Read more
Geraldine Anita Largay was a retired nurse and U.S. Air Force veteran from Brentwood, Tennessee, who was flip-flop thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail. On July 24, 2013, she was reported overdue at a trail crossing on State Route 27 in Carrabassett Valley in Maine by her husband. One of the largest searches in the state’s history … Read more
Asunta Yong Fang Basterra Porto (born Yong Fang; 30 September 2000 – 21 September 2013)[1] was a Chinese-born Spanish girl whose body was found in Teo, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, on 22 September 2013, shortly before her thirteenth birthday. The coroner determined that she had died by asphyxiation and had been given at least twenty-seven … Read more
The murder of Mackenzie Lueck occurred on June 17, 2019. Lueck, a 23-year-old student at the University of Utah and self-proclaimed “sugar baby”, was reported missing[1] and her bound, burned, and buried remains were later discovered.[2][3] Ayoola Ajayi, 31, was arrested and charged with Lueck’s kidnapping and murder.[4][5] In October 2020, Ajayi pleaded guilty to … Read more