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Pavle Bulatović Pavle Bulatović (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: Павле Булатовић; 13 December 1948 – 7 February 2000) was a Yugoslav politician. Bulatović served as Interior Minister of Montenegro from 1990 to 1992, then as Federal ...
(51), socialist Yugoslav politician and former Minister of Defence, was shot to death at a restaurant in Belgrade on 7 February 2000. His assailant was never apprehended, but the murder is suspected to have been carried out by Montenegrin nationalists. *The 2000 Uganda cult massacres refers to 778 people who were found dead on 17 March 2000 in
Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The south ...
. Although they were originally thought to have died in a mass suicide, it was later changed to mass murder since the victims are known to have been strangled and stabbed. Whoever was behind the killings is unknown. * William Pokhlyobkin (76), was the foremost expert on the history of Russian cuisine and the author of numerous
culinary Culinary arts are the cuisine arts of food preparation, cooking and presentation of food, usually in the form of meals. People working in this field – especially in establishments such as restaurants – are commonly called chefs ...
books. Pokhlyobkin was found murdered in his apartment, in
Podolsk Podolsk ( rus, Подольск, p=pɐˈdolʲsk) is an industrial city, center of Podolsk Urban Okrug, Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Pakhra River (a tributary of the Moskva River). History The first mentions of the village of Podol, ...
somewhere between 27 and 31 March 2000. His dead body was uncovered by the chief editor of the Polyfakt publishing house, who was worried about the delay of the book ''Cuisine of the Century'' and came from Moscow to Podolsk to see Pokhlyobkin. * Radio Haiti-Inter journalist Jean Dominique (69), and Jean-Claude Louissaint, another station employee, were fatally shot outside the station as Dominique arrived at the station's offices in
Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( , ; ht, Pòtoprens ) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is defin ...
on the morning of 3 April 2000. Political pressure and threats, possibly from those whose corruption Dominique reported on, have allegedly hindered the investigation. No suspects have ever been officially named. *
Žika Petrović Živorad "Žika" Petrović ( sr-cyr, Живорад Жика Петровић; 1939 – 25 April 2000) was a Serbian engineer and business executive. He was assassinated in the spring of 2000. At the time of his death, Petrović was the CEO of Se ...
(60–61), a Serbian business executive and CEO of Jat Airways, was shot to death by two masked men in front of his parents' home in Belgrade on April 25, 2000. His killers have never been apprehended. * André Desjardins (69), was a Canadian union official noted for his involvement with organized crime. Desjardins served as the president of the ''Conseil des métiers de la construction'' and vice president of the '' Fédération des travailleurs du Québec'' (Quebec Federation of Labour, FTQ) union between 1970 and 1974, becoming known as ''Le roi de la construction'' ("the king of construction"). During this time, Desjardins was involved in the scandal that led to the Cliche commission of 1974–75 headed by Judge
Robert Cliche Robert (12 April 1921 – 15 September 1978) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge. Biography Born and raised in Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce, in the Beauce region of Quebec, Robert Cliche studied law at Laval University from 1941 to 1944. ...
to examine corruption in Quebec construction unions. Afterward, Desjardins was one of the leading loan sharks in Montreal until his murder by unknown persons on 27 April 2000. * Mark Moran (35), of Australia's Moran crime family, was shot and killed outside his Aberfeldie home on the evening of 15 June 2000, another of the many still-unsolved Melbourne gangland killings. Carl Williams, who was beaten to death by a fellow prison inmate in 2010, is the prime suspect. * Kirsty Jones (23), a British national who was on holiday in
Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...
, was found raped and strangled in her hotel room in
Chiang Mai Chiang Mai (, from th, เชียงใหม่ , nod, , เจียงใหม่ ), sometimes written as Chiengmai or Chiangmai, is the largest city in northern Thailand, the capital of Chiang Mai province and the second largest city i ...
on 10 August 2000. Her killer was never identified, and the statute of limitations on the case ran out in 2020. * A 17 August 2000
bombing A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-transmitted mechan ...
at the Centrs shopping mall in
Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the B ...
, the capital of
Latvia Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
, killed one person. A suspect arrested and tried for planting one of the bombs was acquitted a year later by the country's Supreme Court. No one else has ever been identified. *
Loyalist Loyalism, in the United Kingdom, its overseas territories and its former colonies, refers to the allegiance to the British crown or the United Kingdom. In North America, the most common usage of the term refers to loyalty to the British Cro ...
paramilitary
Jackie Coulter Jackie Coulter (1912 in Whiteabbey – 1981) was a Northern Irish former footballer. Career He played for a number of intermediate clubs before signing for Belfast Celtic as a seventeen-year-old. At Celtic Park he developed into one of the f ...
(46), was shot and killed on 21 August 2000, along with Bobby Mahood, a former member of the
Ulster Volunteer Force The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalism, Ulster loyalist paramilitary group. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a former British Army soldier from Northern Ireland. The group undertook T ...
, while sitting in a parked car along Crumlin Road in
Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingd ...
, Northern Ireland. While the
Progressive Unionist Party The Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) is a minor unionist political party in Northern Ireland. It was formed from the Independent Unionist Group operating in the Shankill area of Belfast, becoming the PUP in 1979. Linked to the Ulster Volunt ...
later admitted that the UVF, its military wing, had carried out the killings in reprisal for an attack on it by members of Coulter's rival
Ulster Defence Association The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland. It was formed in September 1971 as an umbrella group for various loyalist groups and undertook an armed campaign of almost 24 years as one of ...
, no suspects have ever been named. It is believed the real target may have been Mahood's brother, Jackie, who the killers may have mistaken him for. Coulter and Bobby Mahood were reportedly trying to broker an end to Loyalist feud that claimed both their lives. * The
Persian Princess The Persian Princess or Persian Mummy is a mummy of an alleged Persian princess who surfaced in Pakistani Baluchistan in October 2000. After considerable attention and further investigation, the mummy proved to be an archaeological forgery and po ...
or Persian Mummy is a
mummy A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay fu ...
of an alleged Persian princess who surfaced in
Pakistani Baluchistan Balochistan (; bal, بلۏچستان; ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southwestern region of the country, Balochistan is the largest province of Pakistan by land area but is the least populated one. It shares land ...
in October 2000. After considerable attention and further investigation, the mummy proved to be an archaeological forgery and possibly a murder victim. Her identity remains unknown. * Bubby Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito were two people in the
Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...
who were found murdered two days after being kidnapped in November 2000. The people behind their killings remain unknown. * Ernest Lluch (63), was a
Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: ** Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Ca ...
economist and politician from
Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...
. He was Minister of Health and Consumption from 1982 to 1986 in the first post-
Francisco Franco Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 19 ...
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español ; PSOE ) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources: * * * * political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in go ...
(PSOE) government of
Felipe González Felipe González Márquez (; born 5 March 1942) is a Spanish lawyer, professor, and politician, who was the Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997, and the 3rd Prime Minister of Spain since t ...
. He was assassinated on 21 November 2000 by unknown members of the Basque terrorist organisation,
ETA Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ...
. The murder remains unsolved. *
Haris Brkić Haris Brkić ( sr, Харис Бркић; July 24, 1974 – December 15, 2000) was a Yugoslav basketball player. He achieved greatest results in Partizan and he is still remembered by fans for his great contribution to the club. Club career Born ...
(26), was a Yugoslav
basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
player who played for
Partizan Partizan may refer to: Sport * JSD Partizan, a sports society from Belgrade, Serbia, which includes the following clubs: ** AK Partizan, athletics **Biciklistički Klub Partizan, cycling **Džudo Klub Partizan, judo ** FK Partizan, association fo ...
. He was shot on 15 December 2000, by an unknown assailant while unlocking his car at the parking lot in front of Pionir Hall in Belgrade. Brkić died three days later. It is still not known who had killed him. * Mikio Miyazawa, his wife Yasuko, and their children Niina and Rei were murdered in their Setagaya, Tokyo home on 31 December 2000. Police were able to find a considerable amount of forensic evidence, including undigested food in excrement, that could help identify a suspect, but no arrests were ever made. The case led to the abolition of Japan's statute of limitations for murder in 2010. *
Gaffar Okkan Ali Gaffar Okkan (1952 – January 24, 2001) was a Turkish police chief who was assassinated in an ambush in Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey. Early life Ali Gaffar Okkan was born in Hendek, Sakarya Province in 1952. He graduated from Police C ...
(49), a
Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities and mi ...
police chief, was assassinated on 24 January 2001 in an ambush in
Diyarbakır Diyarbakır (; ; ; ) is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey. It is the administrative center of Diyarbakır Province. Situated around a high plateau by the banks of the Tigris river on which stands the historic Diyarbakır Fortress, ...
, southeastern Turkey. * Jill-Lyn Euto (18), a student, was found stabbed to death in her sixth-floor apartment at 600 James St,
Syracuse, NY Syracuse ( ) is a City (New York), city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, Onondaga County, New York, United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, New York, Buffa ...
, on 28 January 2001. No arrests have been made. *
Miodrag Stojanović Miodrag "Gidra" Stojanović ( Serbian Cyrillic: Миодраг Гидра Стојановић; 24 October 1950 – 18 February 2001) was a Montenegrin Serb boxer, kickboxer and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. He achieved a Guinness World Reco ...
(50), a
Montenegrin Serb Serbs of Montenegro ( sr, / ) or Montenegrin Serbs ( sr, / ),, meaning "Montenegrin Serbs", and meaning "Serbs Montenegrins". Specifically, Their regional autonym is simply , literal meaning "Montenegrins",Charles Seignobos, Political Histo ...
kickboxer and MMA fighter, with ties to organized crime, was shot and killed by an assassin at his home in
Belgrade, Serbia Belgrade ( , ;, ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 mi ...
on February 18, 2001. To this day, his killer has not been apprehended. *
Bonnie Lee Bakley Bonny Lee Bakley (June 7, 1956 – May 4, 2001) was the second wife of actor Robert Blake, who was her tenth husband. Bakley was fatally shot while sitting in Blake's parked car outside a Los Angeles-area restaurant in May 2001. In 2002, Blake ...
(44), was the second wife of actor Robert Blake. Bakley was fatally shot while sitting in Blake's parked car outside a
Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the wor ...
area restaurant in May 2001. In 2002, Robert Blake was charged with Bakley's murder,
solicitation of murder Contract killing is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or persons. It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of payment, monetary or otherwise. Either party may be ...
,
conspiracy A conspiracy, also known as a plot, is a secret plan or agreement between persons (called conspirers or conspirators) for an unlawful or harmful purpose, such as murder or treason, especially with political motivation, while keeping their agr ...
, and special circumstance of
lying in wait In criminal law, lying in wait refers to the act of hiding and waiting for an individual with the intent to kill or inflict serious bodily harm to that person. Because lying in wait involves premeditation, some jurisdictions have established that ...
. In March 2005, a jury found Blake not guilty of the crimes. Seven months later, Blake was found liable in a
wrongful death Wrongful death claim is a claim against a person who can be held liable for a death. The claim is brought in a civil action, usually by close relatives, as enumerated by statute. In wrongful death cases, survivors are compensated for the harm, ...
lawsuit brought against him by Bakley's children. Officially, Bakley's murder remains unsolved. *On 1 May 2001,
Chandra Levy Chandra Ann Levy (April 14, 1977 – May 1, 2001) was an 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 ...
(24), a college student who had just ended an internship with the
Federal Bureau of Prisons The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is a United States federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Justice that is responsible for the care, custody, and control of incarcerated individuals who have committed federal crimes; that i ...
, disappeared after leaving her Washington, DC apartment building. Her remains were found on 22 May 2002 in Washington's
Rock Creek Park Rock Creek Park is a large urban park that bisects the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The park was created by an Act of Congress in 1890 and today is administered by the National Park Service. In addition to the park proper, the Rock Cr ...
. A suspect was tried and convicted but the charges were dropped after the verdict was overturned on appeal. * Peggy Knobloch (9), a girl from Lichtenberg, Bavaria,
Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...
, was kidnapped and murdered on 7 May 2001. Her body was found 15 years later in a forest near
Wurzbach Wurzbach () is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in southern Thuringia, Germany. It is situated southeast of Saalfeld, and northwest of Hof. History Within the German Empire (1871-1918), Wurzbach was part of the Principality of Reu ...
. In 2020, investigators shelved the investigation of her murder without solving it. * Abraham Grünbaum (71), a Polish-Israeli orthodox rabbi who led a
yeshiva A yeshiva (; he, ישיבה, , sitting; pl. , or ) is a traditional Jewish educational institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are stu ...
in
Bnei Brak Bnei Brak or Bene Beraq ( he, בְּנֵי בְּרַק ) is a city located on the central Mediterranean coastal plain in Israel, just east of Tel Aviv. A center of Haredi Judaism, Bnei Brak covers an area of 709 hectares (1752 acres, or 2.74 s ...
, was murdered while on his way to a prayer session in
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, Switzerland. While connections were suggested to a right-wing terrorist group, nobody has been arrested in his murder. *
Milan Pantić Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has ...
(46), a journalist for the Serbian newspaper '' Večernje Novosti'', was shot to death in front of his apartment in Jagodina, Serbia on 11 June 2001. It's suspected that his killing was related to his work, as he had previously been threatened over the phone. *The body of a 15-to-16-year-old girl, nicknamed the Girl from the Main, was found floating along the
Main Main may refer to: Geography *Main River (disambiguation) **Most commonly the Main (river) in Germany * Main, Iran, a village in Fars Province *"Spanish Main", the Caribbean coasts of mainland Spanish territories in the 16th and 17th centuries * ...
in
Nied The Nied (; ) is a river in Lorraine, France, and Saarland, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Saar. It is formed where two streams converge: the ''Nied allemande'' ("German Nied") and the ''Nied française'' ("French Nied"), which join ...
,
Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...
on 31 July 2001. She had apparently suffered serious physical abuse prior to her murder, probably over the years. The decedent is thought to originate from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area, but lived in
Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian dialects, Hessian: , "Franks, Frank ford (crossing), ford on the Main (river), Main"), is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as o ...
. Neither her identity, nor that of her killers, has been established. * Henryk Siwiak (46), a Polish immigrant to New York City, was shot and killed on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street known for its heavy drug activity, on the night of 11 September 2001. He is officially the only homicide victim in the city on that day, since the victims of the
September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commerc ...
are not included in crime statistics. The diversion of police resources in the aftermath of the attacks constrained the investigation. No suspects have ever been identified. * Thomas C. Wales (49), was an American federal prosecutor and gun control advocate. On 11 October 2001, he was killed by a bullet fired through the window of his basement home-office in
Seattle Seattle ( ) is a port, seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the county seat, seat of King County, Washington, King County, Washington (state), Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in bo ...
, Washington. No suspects have been charged, and the investigation continues. *
Digna Ochoa Digna Ochoa (born Digna Ochoa y Plácido; May 15, 1964 – October 19, 2001) was a human rights lawyer in Mexico. During her career, Ochoa had represented some of Mexico's poorest constituents against government interests. On October 19, 2001, O ...
(37), was a human rights lawyer in Mexico. She was born in Misantla, in the state of
Veracruz Veracruz (), formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave), is one of the 31 states which, along with Me ...
; she was killed on 19 October 2001 in Mexico City. Her body was found in the law office where she worked. A note was found by her body, warning the members of the
human rights law International human rights law (IHRL) is the body of international law designed to promote human rights on social, regional, and domestic levels. As a form of international law, international human rights law are primarily made up of treaties, a ...
center where she had recently worked that the same thing could happen to them. *Five people died as a result of the U.S.
2001 anthrax attacks The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and " anthrax", from its FBI case name), occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September ...
in autumn of that year. However, no one has ever been arrested in the case. Biowarfare researcher Bruce Edwards Ivins (62), killed himself in 2008 just before he was supposedly to be charged. He was the FBI's prime suspect. Others, including some of the targets of the attacks, have disputed that conclusion, or believed he may not have been acting alone. *Kent Heitholt (48), sports editor of Missouri's ''
Columbia Daily Tribune The ''Columbia Daily Tribune'', commonly referred to as the ''Columbia Tribune'' or the ''Tribune'', is one of two daily newspapers in Columbia, Missouri, the other being the ''Columbia Missourian''. It is the only daily newspaper in Columbia whos ...
'', was found beaten and strangled in his car at the newspaper's parking lot early on 1 November 2001.
Ryan W. Ferguson Ryan W. Ferguson (born October 19, 1984) is an American man who spent nearly 10 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of a 2001 murder in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri. At the time of the murder, Ferguson was a 17-year-old high-sc ...
was convicted of the murder in 2005, despite strongly protesting his innocence; eight years later, he was released, after the two key witnesses against him said they had been pressured to lie on the stand. No other suspects have been named in the case. * Odunayo Olagbaju was a
Nigerian Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This name was allegedly coined in the late 19th century by British jour ...
politician who was an
Osun State Osun State (; yo, Ìpínlẹ̀ Ọ̀ṣun), occasionally known as the State of Osun by the state government, is a state in southwestern Nigeria; bounded to the east by Ekiti and Ondo states, to the north by Kwara State, to the south by Ogu ...
legislator. He was stabbed to death in December 2001 right in front of a police station in Ile Ife, Nigeria. In May 2002, eleven suspects were arrested for the killing. In August, seven additional suspects were arrested. By the end of 2002, the original eleven had been freed on bail, but the incident remained under investigation, and has not been solved. * Nigerian Minister of Justice Bola Ige (71), was shot and killed in his
Ibadan Ibadan (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria after Lagos and Kano, with a total population of 3,649,000 as of 2021, and over 6 million people within its ...
home on 23 December 2001. Several suspects have been tried in the case; all were acquitted. No other suspects have been identified. *
Daniel Pearl Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who worked for ''The Wall Street Journal.'' He was kidnapped and later decapitated by terrorists in Pakistan.' Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and rais ...
(38), an American
journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...
, was kidnapped on 1 February 2002 in
Karachi Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former ...
,
Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
, and was found dead on 16 May 2002. Pearl's murder remains unsolved. * John Gilbride (34), a baggage handler for US Airways at
Philadelphia International Airport Philadelphia International Airport is the primary airport serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The airport served 19.6 million passengers annually in 2021, making it the 21st busiest airport in the United States. The airport is located from t ...
, was shot dead in his car outside his home in Maple Shade, New Jersey, on 10 September 2002. He was involved in a custody dispute with his former wife, the widow of the founder of the radical group
MOVE Move may refer to: People * Daniil Move (born 1985), a Russian auto racing driver Brands and enterprises * Move (company), an online real estate company * Move (electronics store), a defunct Australian electronics retailer * Daihatsu Move ...
, and was worried that members of the group might carry out threats they had made to kill him. While other former members of
MOVE Move may refer to: People * Daniil Move (born 1985), a Russian auto racing driver Brands and enterprises * Move (company), an online real estate company * Move (electronics store), a defunct Australian electronics retailer * Daihatsu Move ...
believe the group is responsible, and current members assert in turn that the murder was either faked or that the government did it in an attempt to frame them, it has also been suggested that gambling debts were involved. No suspects have been identified. * Jennifer Servo (22), a TV news reporter, was found beaten and strangled in her
Abilene, Texas Abilene ( ) is a city in Taylor and Jones Counties in Texas, United States. Its population was 125,182 at the 2020 census, making it the 27th-most populous city in the state of Texas. It is the principal city of the Abilene metropolitan stati ...
, apartment on 16 September 2002. Police have suspected either her former boyfriend or a co-worker she had begun a new relationship with, but so far lack the evidence to arrest either. *On 30 October 2002, two gunmen went into a
Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long ...
, New York, recording studio and shot Jason Mizell (37), better known as
Jam Master Jay Jason William Mizell (January 21, 1965 – October 30, 2002), better known by his stage name Jam Master Jay, was an American musician and DJ. He was the DJ of the influential hip hop group Run-DMC. During the 1980s, Run-DMC became one of the bi ...
, a founding member of pioneering hip hop group Run-DMC, in the head at point-blank range; he died shortly thereafter. No one was charged for the crime until August 2020, but conviction is still outstanding. * Ilia Pavlov (42), a Bulgarian banker, financier and alleged member of the Bulgarian mafia, was shot to death in his office on 7 March 2003. While authorities stated that a sniper had taken him out, his killer was never arrested. *Bulgarian-born Australian mobster Nik Radev (44), was shot fatally as he got out of his car on 15 April 2003, in the
Melbourne, Australia Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
suburb of
Coburg Coburg () is a town located on the Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only in 1920. Until the revolution of 1918, it ...
. Like many other Melbourne gangland killings, police believe it was related to his criminal activities, and suspect a rival drug dealer, but have not made any arrests. *
Edelio López Falcón Edelio López Falcón (1965 – 6 May 2003), commonly referred to as El Yeyo, was a Mexican suspected drug lord and former high-ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, a criminal group based in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Prior to his involvement in drug ...
(37–38), also known as ''"El Yeyo"'' was suspected of being a drug lord and former member of a major criminal group called the Gulf Cartel, who were based in
Tamaulipas Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...
. Even though López Falcón survived an attempt on his life once before he was killed in Guadalajara on 6 May 2003. His killers are unknown, but investigators believe they were probably members of
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former paramilitary group, who were based in the Gulf Cartel's. *Jason Johnson, better known by his stage name Camoflauge (21), was an American
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who was shot dead in
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on 19 May 2003. The murder remains unsolved. *The body of Molly Bish (16), of
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, was found in woods near neighboring Palmer on 9 June 2003, almost three years after she was last seen by her mother when she dropped her off at her lifeguarding job. Several suspects have been investigated, but no arrests have been made. *On August 13, 2003, a group of Serbian children were fired upon by unknown assailants while playing in Goraždevac, Kosovo. Two of them were killed, while four others were injured. This incident is known as the
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. * On 15 September 2003, two Singaporeans - 26-year-old
Tay Chow Lyang On 15 September 2003, two Singaporean students and flatmates Tay Chow Lyang (郑潮亮) (b. 1977–d. 15 September 2003) and Tony Tan Poh Chuan (陈宝川) (b. 3 December 1976–d. 15 September 2003), were found brutally murdered in their flat ...
and 27-year-old Tony Tan Poh Chuan - were found murdered at their rented flat, and their third and only surviving flatmate Ram Puneet Tiwary (aged 24 in 2003) discovered the bodies. Tay was bludgeoned to death while Tan was killed upon arriving home after a lecture. Tiwary, who was also Singaporean, was charged nine months later with the murders and insisted his innocence. At first, Tiwary was found guilty and sentenced to
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without parole for Tan's murder while getting a concurrent 25 years for Tay's murder in 2006. However, Tiwary's appeal led to a re-trial in 2009, which once again issued a guilty verdict of murder and a reduced 48-year sentence in jail for Tiwary. As a result of his second appeal, Tiwary was finally acquitted due to lack of evidence and he returned to Singapore in 2012. The murderer(s) of Tay and Tan were never identified or caught as of today. *In September 2003, a body was found among other bodies in
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, that was thought to have been the remains of Paul McGonagle (35), an
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who had disappeared in November 1974, but this has not been proven to be true. The bodies' identities remain unknown. *South African memoirist and socialite
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(52), a close friend of Winnie Mandela, was shot and killed in her car while traveling to
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on 10 November 2003, where she was expected to testify in the trial of an Israeli man accused of killing her husband. She was the third witness in that trial to be killed. * Katsuhiko Oku (45), was a Japanese diplomat who played rugby for
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and
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, who was killed on 23 November 2003, by persons unknown. No suspects have ever been identified. *James Adarryl Tapp Jr., better known by his stage name Soulja Slim, was an American rapper and songwriter. He was known for writing the U.S. number one hit "
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". Tapp died on 26 November 2003, after an unknown assailant shot him four times, three in the face and once in the chest, on the front lawn of the home of his mother and stepfather, Phillip "Tuba Phil" Frazier of Rebirth Brass Band, in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. *Retired
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outfielder Iván Calderón (41), was shot in the back several times outside a bar in his native
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on 27 December 2003. No suspects have ever been identified. *Patrice Endres (38), disappeared from her hair salon, Tamber's Trim-N-Tan, on Georgia Highway 369 on 15 April 2004, in
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, around 11:30 am to 12:00 pm. Her skeletal remains were discovered by police on 6 December 2005, behind Lebanon Baptist Church in
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. Her murder remains unsolved. * Jonathan Coulom (10), was abducted on the night of 7 April 2004 in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins,
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. His body was found, bound with a cinderblock, in a pond in
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on 19 May 2004. A prison inmate claimed that German serial killer Martin Ney killed Coulom, but has not has been charged with the crime. (Ney has been extradited to France as of January 2021, and is now facing a French judge for Coulom's murder later this year). * Kaj Linna, a Finnish man who was accused of murdering a man named Robert Lindberg and was arrested in Swansea, Wales in 2004, three months after the murder and was remanded into custody on 12 July the same year. In 2005, Linna was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was later found to be innocent and set free. Robert Lindberg's killer has not been found. * John Whitehead (55), half of the McFadden & Whitehead songwriting team, was shot fatally while fixing a car outside his Philadelphia home on 11 May 2004. It may have been a case of mistaken identity; however, no suspects have been named. * Zhang Hong Jie (25), a communications student murdered in her flat in
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, Australia in June 2004, whose body was discovered in January 2005. Hongjie's former boyfriend Zhang Long was detained, as he was accused of killing Hong Jie, but he has not been charged with her murder. * Paul Klebnikov (41), was an American journalist and historian of
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. On 9 July 2004, while leaving the ''
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'' office, Klebnikov was attacked on a Moscow street late at night by unknown assailants who fired at him, and shot four times from a slowly moving car. He survived for a short while, but later died in the hospital. Though the murder appeared to be the work of assassins for hire, as of 2018, the organizers of the murder have yet to be identified. *Andre Louis Hicks, better known as his stage name Mac Dre (34), was an American
rapper Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...
and
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from
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, who was murdered in Kansas City, Missouri on 1 November 2004 by an unknown person. The murder remains unsolved. *
Enrique Salinas Enrique Eduardo Guillermo Salinas de Gortari (November 15, 1952 – December 6, 2004) was the third of four brothers of former president of Mexico Carlos Salinas. Death On December 6, 2004 his corpse was found, with a plastic bag placed ov ...
(52), who was the brother of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas, was found dead with a plastic bag over his head in a parked car, in the municipality of
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, Estado de México outskirts of
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on 6 December 2004. The perpetrator behind Salinas' murder remains unknown. *
Deyda Hydara Deyda Hydara (June 9, 1946 – December 16, 2004) was a co-founder and primary editor of '' The Point'', a major independent Gambian newspaper. He was also a correspondent for both AFP News Agency and Reporters Without Borders for more than 30 ...
(50), was a co-founder and primary editor of '' The Point'', a major independent Gambian newspaper. He was also a correspondent for both AFP News Agency and
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for more than 30 years. Hydara also worked as a radio presenter in the Gambia, for a radio station called Radio Syd, during his early years as a freelance journalist. On 16 December 2004, he was assassinated by an unknown gunman while driving home from work in
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. *In 2005, ten members of the local Musaev family were kidnapped and killed in Grozny; they were later found in a
mass grave A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may Unidentified decedent, not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of executi ...
. *The Jeff Davis 8: Eight women, all involved in prostitution and/or drugs, were found dead in Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, between 2005 and 2009. Investigators initially believed they were murdered by a serial killer, but reporting by Ethan Brown has suggested instead that there are multiple suspects, and local law enforcement personnel may be complicit. *On 9 February 2005, the body of Geetha Angara (43), was found in a water tank at a
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plant; the autopsy showed that before drowning, she had been choked and beaten the previous day, around the time she was last seen. Investigators ruled the death a homicide; despite minimal forensic evidence, they were eventually able to narrow the case down to three suspects, since access to the plant was tightly controlled and usually limited to employees only. No arrests have ever been made. * Rashawn Brazell (19), disappeared from his house in
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on 14 February 2005. Four days later, severed body parts were found on the tracks near the Nostrand Avenue station, and were positively identified through fingerprints as being his. One of his arms and legs were found in a recycling plant in
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. * Françoise Chabé (28–29), was a French woman,
murdered Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the ...
by
strangulation Strangling is compression of the neck that may lead to unconsciousness or death by causing an increasingly hypoxic state in the brain. Fatal strangling typically occurs in cases of violence, accidents, and is one of two main ways that hanging ...
on 26 February 2005 at her home in
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, in the
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of
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. Her widower, Ludovic Chabé, was convicted of her murder in 2013, but was acquitted on appeal in 2015. * Ihab el-Sherif (51), the Egyptian ambassador to Iraq, was kidnapped by
Al-Qaeda in Iraq Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI; ar, القاعدة في العراق, al-Qā'idah fī al-ʿIrāq) or Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia ( ar, القاعدة في بلاد الرافدين, al-Qā'idah fī Bilād ar-Rāfidayn), officially known as ''Tanzim Qaidat a ...
militants from
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on 3 July 2005. Four days later, a video was uploaded of el-Sherif stating his identity, followed by an announcement that he had been killed. The claim was confirmed by the Egyptian government, but his killers have not been caught. *
Brett Kebble Roger Brett Kebble (19 February 1964 – 27 September 2005) was a South African mining magnate with close links to factions in the ruling political party, the African National Congress. Known to be personally eccentric, he became a major player ...
(41), was a
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mining magnate with close links to
factions Faction or factionalism may refer to: Politics * Political faction, a group of people with a common political purpose * Free and Independent Faction, a Romanian political party * Faction (''Planescape''), a political faction in the game ''Plan ...
in the ruling political party, the
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. Kebble was shot dead near a bridge over the M1 in
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at around 9 p.m. on 27 September 2005 while driving to a dinner engagement with his business associate,
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. *The body of a toddler wrapped in a blanket off an interstate highway near Naperville in DuPage County, Illinois, on 8 October 2005 was identified six years later as Atcel Olmedo (2). The exact cause of death was impossible to determine due to the condition of his remains, but it appeared he had been severely beaten. His mother and stepfather are considered possible suspects; they are believed to have returned to Mexico. *
Stepan Senchuk Stepan Romanovich Senchuk ( uk, Степан Романович Сенчук; 23 March 1955 – 29 November 2005) was born in the city of Prokopyevsk in Kemerovo Oblast Russia . He was part of a family that was subjected to repression. Senchuk stud ...
(50), was the deputy of the
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regional council from 1994 to 1998, where he headed the Agrarian Party. He was shot dead on 29 November 2005 at 19:20 in his car. His killer is unknown. * Adre-Anna Jackson (10), was a Native American girl who disappeared in December 2005 in Lakewood, Washington. (updated December 06, 2017) In April 2006, children found her body that was skeletonized in Tillicum in a thicket. Whoever killed Jackson is not known. * Tiago João da Silva (17), was a Brazilian robber who became known as the "Menino-aranha" (lit. spider-boy) because he scaled buildings to steal. He once scaled a 14-floor building,Bandidos famosos do estado inspiram produções artísticas
'' Diário de Pernambuco'' (16 March 2015)
and scaled more than 40 buildings during his robbery spree, beginning when he was nine.O menino-aranha: Uma história de notícia
''Jornalismo Brasileiro''
He was murdered on 18 December 2005 by unknown assailants. *
Elson Becerra Elson Evelio Becerra Vaca (26 April 1978 – 8 January 2006) was a Colombian footballer. Club career Born in Cartagena, Becerra began playing football with Deportes Tolima's youth academy. He joined the senior squad at age 17, helping the ...
(27), was a Colombian
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who was shot dead on 8 January 2006 in his hometown of Cartagena by people whose identities are unknown. No one has been arrested or charged with the murder. * Tom Fox (54), an American peace activist affiliated with the Christian Peacemaker Teams, was abducted and killed by Islamic militants while on a mission in Baghdad, Iraq. His body was found in a garbage dump on 10 March 2006. The man believed to have ordered his killing, Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri, was never arrested, as he was killed a year later. *
Ifeoma Aggrey-Fynn Ifeoma Iphie Aggrey-Fynn (8 June 1980 – 2 June 2015), known to most simply as Iphie, was a Ghanaian-Nigerian media personality, writer and public speaker. Early life and education Aggrey-Fynn was born to a Ghanaian father and a Nigerian mother. ...
(34), a
Ghanaian Ghana (; tw, Gaana, ee, Gana), officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It abuts the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, sharing borders with Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, and Tog ...
-
Nigerian Nigerians or the Nigerian people are citizens of Nigeria or people with ancestry from Nigeria. The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This name was allegedly coined in the late 19th century by British jour ...
media personality, writer and public speaker, who had gone to visit her parents at
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in
Abia State Abia State ( ig, Ȯha Abia) is a state in the South-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, it is bordered to the north and northeast by the states of Enugu, and Ebonyi, Imo State to the west, Cross River State to the east, Akwa Ibom State to ...
. She was on her way back to Port Harcourt on 2 June 2006, when the
bus A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...
she was traveling in was attacked by armed bandits. As the driver was fleeing, the gunmen opened fire on the vehicle. Aggrey-Fynn was hit by bullets and died from her wounds. Her killers' identities remain unknown. * Christopher Arepa and Cru Omeka Kahui, two New Zealand infants from a Māori family who died in
Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The most populous urban area in the country and the fifth largest city in Oceania, Auckland has an urban population of about I ...
's
Starship Children's Hospital Starship Children's Hospital is a public children's hospital in Auckland, New Zealand. Opened on 18 November 1991, it was one of the first purpose-built children's hospitals in New Zealand, and is the largest such facility in the country. Althou ...
, after being admitted with serious head injuries on 18 June 2006. Their family initially refused to cooperate with police in the
homicide Homicide occurs when a person kills another person. A homicide requires only a volitional act or omission that causes the death of another, and thus a homicide may result from accidental, reckless, or negligent acts even if there is no inten ...
investigation into the children's deaths. The father, Chris Kahui, was charged with their murder. His defence was that the mother, Macsyna King, was responsible for the deaths. After a six-week trial, the jury took just one minute to acquit him. No other suspects have been named. * Mario Condello (53), a member of the Australian Mafia, was fatally shot in the driveway of his Brighton home on 6 February 2006, the day before he was to stand trial for plotting to murder another mob boss, Carl Williams. While Williams would later be convicted of in turn
conspiring A conspiracy, also known as a plot, is a secret plan or agreement between persons (called conspirers or conspirators) for an unlawful or harmful purpose, such as murder or treason, especially with political motivation, while keeping their agree ...
to have Condello murdered, and police believe the killer was a hit man currently in prison for another killing, the murder officially remains unsolved. *John Edward Hawkins, mostly known by his stage name Big Hawk (36), was a rapper from Houston, Texas who was murdered on 1 May 2006, by persons unknown in the very city that he was from. The murder remains unsolved. * Frauke Liebs (21), a student nurse, disappeared on 27 June 2006, and on 4 October 2006, her skeletonized remains were found off a road near Lichtenau, Germany. She had last been seen leaving a bar on 20 June, and called her roommate several times in the days afterwards indicating she would come home, but was being vague about when or how. Although the body was too decomposed to establish a cause of death, the police now believe she was being held against her will and was murdered. * Robert Wone (32), was murdered on 2 August 2006, in his friend's Washington, D.C., apartment. He was "restrained, incapacitated, and sexually assaulted" prior to his death. The only individuals present in the apartment at the time were its three residents, all friends of Wone. They have denied involvement and insisted that an intruder committed the crime. Authorities claim that there was no evidence of a break-in: the apartment appeared to be washed and cleaned, the three residents appeared freshly showered, and the evidence was not consistent with the residents' accounts. In addition, the residents tampered with the crime scene, waited an inordinate amount of time to call 911, and exhibited strange behavior when paramedics and police arrived. Authorities believe that either some, or all of the three house-mates murdered Wone, and engaged in a cover-up. * Tair Rada was a 13-year old Israeli girl whose body was found stabbed to death in a locked stall in her school's girls' bathroom in 2006. Her murder and the subsequent investigation were featured in a Netflix true crime docuseries, Shadow of Truth. * Ubiratan Guimarães (63), known as ''Colonel Ubiratan'', was a
colonel Colonel (abbreviated as Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank used in many countries. It is also used in some police forces and paramilitary organizations. In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a colonel was typically in charge ...
in the São Paulo Military Police, and a Brazilian politician. He was the commanding officer responsible for the Carandiru massacre. Guimarães was killed under unclear circumstances in his
São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for 'Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the Ga ...
apartment, on 9 September 2006. * Anna Politkovskaya (48), was a Russian journalist, writer, and human rights activist who was reporting political events in her country, mainly the
Second Chechen War The Second Chechen War (russian: Втора́я чече́нская война́, ) took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from August 1999 ...
that was currently happening. She had previously been poisoned in retaliation for her work in journalism, but recovered after receiving treatment. On 7 October 2006, she was murdered in an elevator. Several suspects were charged, but the identity of her killer remains unknown. *
Movladi Baisarov Movladi Baisarov (1966 – November 18, 2006) was a Chechen warlord and former Federal Security Service (FSB) special-task unit commander. Baisarov was shot dead on the street in central Moscow by members of the Chechen extra-agency guard on Nov ...
(39–40), was a Chechen
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and former
Federal Security Service The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) RF; rus, Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации (ФСБ России), Federal'naya sluzhba bezopasnosti Rossiyskoy Feder ...
(FSB) special-task unit commander. Baisarov was shot dead on the street in central Moscow by members of the Chechen extra-agency guard on 18 November 2006. * Jukka S. Lahti (51), was murdered in Ulvila, Finland on 1 December 2006. It is currently unknown who killed him, despite investigations having been conducted. * Helen Hill (36), an animator who was fatally shot during an attempted robbery of her home in the Faubourg Marigny section of
New Orleans New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans
the disruptions caused by Hurricane Katrina. No suspect has ever been identified. *Beginning in February 2007, and lasting until August 2008, a series of 13 murders of gay men were committed in
Paturis Park The Paturis Park murders are a series of 13 murders of gay men committed between July 2007 and August 2008. The murders took place in Paturis Park ("Parque dos Paturis") in Carapicuíba, Brazil, and were perpetrated by an unidentified serial kill ...
in Carapicuíba, Brazil. The killer, known as the "Rainbow Maniac", has yet to be identified. *During a 19 February 2007 convoy to the Central American Parliament in
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, one car carrying three
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party members of the Salvadoran Congress, abruptly left the others for a dirt road near El Jocotillo. The burnt and tortured bodies of all three, along with their driver, were found in the vehicle a short distance away the following day. Four Guatemalan police officers were arrested shortly afterwards, but were then killed in prison two weeks later. Attempts to further investigate the crimes have resulted in either acquittals of suspects, or the murders of investigating officials. * Frank Newbery was beaten to death inside his convenience store at Cooks Hill, Australia. His killer has not been found. *Colorado marijuana activist Ken Gorman (51), was shot and killed in his home on 17 February 2007. The case remains open. *On 14 March 2007, a torso was found that was thought to be that of Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown (33–34), a minority
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,
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parish priest who disappeared with Wenceslaus Vinces Vimalathas during the Sri Lankan Civil War on 20 April 2006, and is presumed dead. However, the Sri Lankan government announced in June 2007 that subsequent DNA analyses had proved that the remains were not those of either man. Its identity remains unsolved. * Michèle Kiesewetter (22), was a police officer from Germany, who was killed in
Heilbronn Heilbronn () is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn District. With over 126,000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state. From the late Middle Ages, it developed into an important trading centre. A ...
on 25 April 2007 by
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terrorists Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...
. The police are trying to find out further clues as to who the perpetrators are. * Snehal Gaware (21), a resident of Dombivili,
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, Maharashtra, in
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, was murdered on 20 July 2007, allegedly by her boyfriend, who was arrested and charged with her murder in April 2010. He had continued his education in the United States in the meantime. Police dropped the charges the following year, citing a lack of evidence. * Adnan Patrawala (16), the son of a businessman from
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, India, was kidnapped for ransom by an unknown abductor, who murdered him the following day after the case began to gain publicity. Five people were accused of the crime, but all were acquitted, with Patrawala's murder remaining unsolved. *Almost a month after she was last seen being forced into a van at a
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wet market, the body of 8-year-old Nurin Jazlin was found stuffed in a bag outside a
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shop. She had apparently died hours earlier on 16 September 2007, of a bacterial infection resulting from injuries sustained during a sexual assault. Several suspects were arrested, but eventually released for lack of evidence; police have released a CCTV video showing the body being discarded by a motorcyclist, as well as several other people who may have been involved. However, they have not been able to identify any of them. *
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was forced to commit suicide on 21 September 2007 in
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, India.Rizwanur death was suicide
. CBI-India, ''The Times of India''
He may have also been murdered. * Paul Quinn (21), died on 20 October 2007 in
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, Ireland, after being beaten with farm implements by a group of people. He was beaten with such length and severity as to break every major bone in his body. It is believed his death was the result of a feud with local IRA members. No suspects have been named. * John Pezzenti (55), a wildlife photographer, was found shot dead in his
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, apartment 3 December 2007. Neither a motive, nor a suspect, has emerged from the investigation. * Yuriy Chervochkin (22), was a Russian opposition activist who was fatally attacked on 10 December 2007. In the early hours of 11 December 2007, Chervochkin died in hospital. His case shook Russian opposition, as he was attacked two days before the
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, and some observers remained convinced that the perpetrators of the crime were members of the Russian Militsiya. * Benazir Bhutto (54), a former prime minister of
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, was assassinated by gunfire and a suicide bombing on 27 December 2007, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Mishandling of the crime scene and poor evidence-gathering hampered the investigation, and the assassins and their backers were never identified. * Lane Bryant shooting – on 2 February 2008, a gunman trying to rob a
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store in the Brookside Marketplace in Tinley Park, Illinois killed five women (a manager and four customers). The shooter has not been apprehended, although police do not consider it a "
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" yet. *Real-estate agent Lindsay Buziak (24), was stabbed an undisclosed number of times while showing a house to an unknown couple in Saanich, British Columbia, Canada, on 2 February 2008. Buziak had expressed reservations to her boyfriend, as the couple had claimed to have been referred to her by a coworker who was unreachable at the time. He had waited outside in his car for part of the time, and was taken into custody along with a friend, but was later cleared. Buziak was stabbed from behind without any defensive wounds, and the couple had made the appointment with a disposable cell phone. The investigation is ongoing. * Georgi Stoev (35), a former member of the Bulgaria mafia, and later a writer who wrote extensively on organized crime, was shot to death on the streets of Sofia on April 7, 2008. Nobody was ever charged in his murder. *Michael Allen, better known as VL Mike (32), was an American rap artist from
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Tonderai Ndira (32–33), a Zimbabwean MDC–T activist, was abducted and later killed by a group of armed gunmen between May 13–22, 2008. While it has been proposed that he was the target of a government-backed
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, his killers have never been identified. * Aarushi Talwar (13), and Hemraj Banjade (45), were murdered on the night of 15–16 May 2008 at Aarushi's home in
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, India. Aarushi's parents were first suspected and charged, but the charges were dropped, and their domestic servants became suspects. Then, her parents were again charged, and were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, but were exonerated after an appeal in the High Court. No other arrests have been made, and the murderer remains unknown. *
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(14), was kidnapped on 12 July 2008 and was found dead inside the trunk of an abandoned car in
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on 1 August 2008. His murder remains unsolved. *
Soran Mama Hama Soran Mama Hama ( ku, سۆران مامە حەمە ; ar, سوران مامه حمه ; born 1987) was a reporter for ''Livin'' magazine in Kirkuk, Iraq. He was shot by unidentified gunmen and died in Kirkuk at approximately 9 p.m. on July 21, 2 ...
(20–21), was a reporter for ''Livin'' magazine in Kirkuk,
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. He was shot by unidentified gunmen and died in Kirkuk, at approximately 9 p.m. on 22 July 2008, in the suburban neighborhood of Shorija. It is believed that he was the victim of corrupt police and government personnel, which he had previously reported on. *
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(41), the highest-ranking woman in the Afghan police force, was shot and killed by an unknown assassin while leaving her
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home for work on 28 September 2008. No suspects have been officially named, although it is believed that the
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may be connected to the crime. * Miguel Angel Villagómez Valle (29), was a Mexican journalist, editor, and publisher who founded and operated the newspaper ''La Noticia de Michoacán in 2004'' until his murder in
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, Mexico. On the night of 9 October 2008, he was kidnapped on his way home from work after he took two colleagues home. The state attorney said that minutes later, he was intercepted by at least two cars with armed individuals who abducted him. On the following day, police found his body at around 10 a.m. at the side of the road near a dump, about a kilometer away from the exit to the town of La Unión. His body was covered in bruises, and had six gunshot wounds to the back, and one gunshot to the head. * Amy Yeary (18), whose body was discovered on November 23, 2008, in Ashford, Wisconsin. Originally unidentified, and referred to as the Fond du Lac County Jane Doe, the use of DNA and dental records in 2021 led to her identification. No arrests have been made. * Francis Nyauri (30–31), also known as "Mong'are Mokua", was a
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freelance journalist for the ''Weekly Citizen'' newspaper in
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, Nyamira County, Kenya. He had published several articles about local police officials, exposing acts of corruption and
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, approximately two weeks before his dead body was found decapitated with hands bound on 29 January 2009. * Matt Stewart (31), was a nurse and father of three who was beaten and shot to death inside his home on 9 June 2009 in
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. His wife, Angel, claims the couple were attacked in their bed by an unknown intruder. Following the attack, Angel ran to a neighbor's house to call for help. In January 2010, Mooresville Police released a composite sketch of the suspect. Investigators briefly pursued the possible involvement of
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spree killer Patrick Tracy Burris, only to later declare there to have been no connection between Burris and the unsolved murder of Matt Stewart. No arrests have been made. * Lavelle Felton (29), was an American professional basketball player who was celebrating signing a new contract with a German team at a
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nightclub, on 13 August 2009. After leaving and stopping at a gas station, he was fatally shot by an unknown gunman. * Christian Poveda (41), was a
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-French photojournalist and a film director, who was assassinated on 2 September 2009 in
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, possibly by a member of a
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. * José Arturo Vásquez Machado was governor of the Cabañas department in the Republic of
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from 1994 to 2003. During the night of 9 November 2009, Arturo Vasquez was taken to an emergency room in San Salvador, where he died from wounds that he sustained in an attack perpetrated by unknown individuals. * Ivan Khutorskoy (26), was a
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, nicknamed "Bonecrusher," who was a prominent member of the Russian
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movement. He was murdered in his home in a suburb of Moscow on 16 November 2009. * José Luis Romero (44), was a Mexican radio journalist for Línea Directa Radio and Radio Sistema del Noroeste in
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,
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, Mexico; he was known for his reporting about drug trafficking. He disappeared on 30 December 2009, and had been missing for two weeks until his body was found, having been tortured and brutally murdered. Romero's murder, along with other Mexican journalists who have been killed during their job, was interpreted by CNN as intimidation toward journalists.


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* Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (52), a senior military commander of the organization
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, and cofounder of the
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, its military wing, was found dead in his
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hotel room on 19 January 2010. Initially, his death was thought to be from natural causes, and Hamas, in a public statement, attributed it to cancer. However, later investigation showed that he had been injected with suxamethonium chloride to paralyze him, and then suffocated with a pillow. The Dubai police circulated pictures of 20 guests and visitors believed to have been associated with the killing, who they suggested were operatives of Israel's foreign intelligence service, the
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. Many had entered the
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on forged passports from Western countries; the disclosures caused diplomatic tensions between those countries and Israel, but did not lead to any public arrests or identifications. * Lorenzo González Cacho (8), of
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, was pronounced dead on arrival at a clinic his mother brought him to on 9 March 2010. She claimed his injuries had resulted from a fall from bed; this was contradicted by an autopsy, which revealed severe facial and head wounds, as well as some stabbing injuries. She and several other people in the house at the time have been publicly identified as suspects, but not charged. * Pedro Alcantara de Souza, was a Brazilian
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activist operating in the state of
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. He was killed in the town of
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on 1 April 2010, shot in the head five times. *
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(18), was a young American woman who was found dead in between April and May 2010 along with two men in a truck along a Mexican federal highway in
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, Mexico. The trio had been beaten and murdered, but the killers are not known. * Scott Guy (31), a farmer from New Zealand, was shot dead at the gate of his family farm in
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in July 2010. Six months later, his brother-in-law, Ewen Macdonald, was charged with his murder, but was found not guilty. As a result, the murder remains unsolved. * The body of Namibian schoolgirl Magdalena Stoffels (17), was found in a river near
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on 27 July 2010; she had been raped, and then murdered. Police arrested a local man they found washing some clothing in a nearby portion of the river shortly afterward, and charged him with the crime due to scratches on his body, and what they believed were bloodstains on the clothing. A year later, he was released, as the forensic evidence did not provide any stronger link to the crime. The investigation is ongoing. * Amber Tuccaro (20), a
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First Nations woman who was last seen alive on 18 August 2010, while hitchhiking to
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with an unknown man. Her body was found in 2012 in nearby
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. * Gregorio Barradas Miravete (28), was a politician from Mexico who was a member of the National Action Party who was kidnapped in
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. on 8 November 2010 as was then killed. His killer is not known. * Marisela Escobedo Ortiz (51–52), was a Mexican social activist from
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, who was killed while protesting the murder of her daughter that occurred in 2008. On 16 December 2010, Marisela was killed by an unknown assassin by a single shot to the head. * A worker at a landfill outside
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, spotted the body of John P. Wheeler III (66), founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, contract employee of Mitre Corp., and an official who had served in the Department of Defense under Republican administrations, in some waste being unloaded on 31 December 2010. He had been beaten to death sometime after being seen at an intersection downtown the preceding afternoon; witnesses who had seen him in various locations around Wilmington over the previous two days said he had appeared somewhat confused and disoriented, but sober, claiming at one point to have been robbed, but refused offers of help. He was reportedly involved in a feud with a neighbor and may have been involved in an attempted arson; no suspects have emerged. * Peter Gibb (48), an Australian fugitive who died on the morning of 23 January 2011 at Frankston Hospital, from injuries caused by three unknown men who attacked him at his home in Seaford. The case remains unsolved. * Muzafar Bhutto (41), a Sindhi nationalist politician in
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, was last seen alive on 24 February 2011. His body, with many gunshot wounds, was found near a
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bypass on 22 May 2012, fourteen months later. No suspects have been officially identified. * The Dupont de Ligonnès murders involved the murder of five members of the same family in Nantes, in the département of Loire-Atlantique in north-western France, followed by the disappearance of the father of the family. Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès and her four children were murdered in early April 2011. Their bodies were found on 21 April 2011 at their home in Nantes. The father, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, disappeared at the same time, and is considered the prime suspect in their murders. He has reportedly contacted the French media, but has not been captured. * Phylicia Barnes (16), an American girl who is thought to have been murdered in
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,
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. She disappeared on 28 December 2010, and was found dead on 20 April 2011. The murder remains unsolved. *
Anjuman Shehzadi Anjuman Shehzadi (1987 – 15 May 2011) was a Pakistani stage and film actress. She was known for her bold dances. Biography She was born as Yasmeen or Uzma in . She started her artistic career in 2000. She worked in more than one hundred stage ...
(33–34), a Pakistani stage and film actress, known for her bold dance. She died on 15 May 2011 in
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under mysterious circumstances. * José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva (52), a Brazilian conservationist and environmentalist, and his wife Maria do Espírito Santo (51), campaigned against logging and
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of trees in the Amazon rainforest. They were shot and killed in an ambush attack on 24 May 2011 at a settlement called Maçaranduba 2, which is located near their home in Nova Ipixuna, Pará. José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva had been refused police protection by local authorities, according to reports by the ''Diário do Pará'' and ''
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''. * On the afternoon of 12 September 2011, Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman, and Raphael Teken were found with their throats cut almost to the point of decapitation in different rooms of Mess's
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apartment. Their bodies were sprinkled with $5,000 in cash and seven pounds of marijuana, an amount having an even higher street value at the time, suggesting robbery had not been the motive. It was determined that the three had been killed the previous evening. After Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed following the
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a year and a half later, which his brother Dzhokhar was later convicted of perpetrating, it was disclosed that he had been suspected of involvement in the Waltham murders, due in part to his acquaintanceship with one of the victims.
Ibragim Todashev Ibragim Todashev (Ибрагим Тодашев; 22 September 1985 – 22 May 2013) was a Chechen-born former mixed martial artist, former amateur boxer and friend of Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. At his apartment in Orlando, Flori ...
, another friend of Tsarnaev's who had been suspected of involvement, was killed when he reacted violently during an FBI interrogation shortly after the bombings. Police still suspect Dzhokhar, convicted for his role in the bombings, of being involved as well, but have not formally charged him. * Nauman Habib (32), was a Pakistani cricketer who went missing on 9 October 2011 and was found dead just two days later after being murdered. Whoever killed him is unknown. * On the evening of 27 December 2011, Russ Faria returned to his Troy, Missouri, home to find his 42-year-old wife Betsy Faria dead of multiple stab wounds, some of which had nearly severed her arms. He told 9-1-1 that he believed she had taken her own life since she was suffering from terminal breast cancer, but within days, police arrested and charged him with murder, and he was convicted of the charge in November 2013. A local journalist exposed inconsistencies in the evidence and prosecutorial misconduct. In late 2015, the conviction was overturned on appeal, and Faria was retried and acquitted. A key reason for the appeal was prosecutors' failure to investigate Pam Hupp, a friend of Betsy's with a checkered past who had been the last person to see her alive, was found to have benefited financially from her death, and had changed her story about her whereabouts at the time of the killing several times. In 2017, Hupp pleaded guilty to another murder prosecutors believe she committed in an attempt to cast further suspicion on Russ Faria; she was sentenced to life without parole. The investigation into Betsy Faria's death has been reopened. * Christopher Guarin (41), a Filipino journalist, radio show host, and a local tabloid publisher and editor-in-chief, murdered in General Santos City,
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, Philippines. Guarin was the 150th Filipino journalist to have been killed since the democratic revolution of 1986. Guarin was attacked and killed on 5 January 2012 after receiving death threats. * Wendy Albano (52), was an American businesswoman murdered in February 2012 in a hotel room in Thailand.Police in India arrest suspect in 2012 murder of South Tampa designer
/ref> Authorities in the U.S. got in touch with the U.S. State department, eventually leading to the arrest of a suspect hiding in India years later. The chief suspect was an Indian business associate who fled to India after her death. He has yet to be charged in court. *Married
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journalists Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, both 27, were found stabbed to death in their
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apartment on 11 February 2012. Their deaths, of all the many murders of journalists in the country, drew protests and public outrage both in Bangladesh and abroad. Both were working on stories at the time that could have led to violent reprisals. The government initially promised to have suspects in custody within days, but to date, no arrests have been made. * Bashir Ahmed Qureshi (54), another Sindhi nationalist leader, suddenly collapsed during a dinner with members of his party on 7 April 2012 in Sakrand, Pakistan. He died in hospital early the next morning. A week later, pathologists announced that he had been poisoned with
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and ruled his death a murder; no suspects have been identified. * Regina Martínez Pérez (48), a Mexican journalist and veteran crime reporter for '' Proceso'', a center-left Mexican news magazine known for its critical reporting of the social and political establishment, was murdered early in the morning of 28 April 2012 in her home in the Felipe Carrillo Puerto neighborhood in
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, the capital of Veracruz. When police went to her home to investigate in response to a neighbor's call about her door being open all day, Martínez Pérez's corpse was found on the bathroom floor. * Lorena Escalera (25), known professionally as "Lorena Xtravaganza", was an American
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performer known for her impersonations of Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez. She was found unconscious and unresponsive in her Bushwick apartment on 2 May 2012. Escalera's apartment was set on fire after she had been strangled and suffocated. * Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi, a Pakistani feminist and women's rights activist, was shot to death by two motorcyclists on 5 July 2012, while en route to her workplace in Hayatabad. *The person or people behind the Annecy shootings, in which an Iraqi-born British engineer, several of his family members, and a French cyclist were murdered at a campsite in the French Alps on 5 September 2012, have never been identified officially, and the case remains under investigation. *
Alfred Schakron Fouad "Alfred" Schakron ( ar, فؤاد شكرون; 6 June 1961 – 24 October 2012) was a Belizean businessman and the ex-husband of People's United Party political hopeful Yolanda Schakron. He was murdered in broad daylight outside a Belize C ...
(51), was a Belizean businessman and the ex-husband of
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political hopeful
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. He was murdered in broad daylight on 24 October 2012 outside a
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gym, leaving police mystified as to the motive of the crime, or the identity of the killers. * Mohammed Shuwa (72), was a
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Major General and the first General Officer Commanding of the Nigerian Army's 1st Division. Shuwa commanded the Nigerian Army's 1st Division during the
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. He was murdered in his Maiduguri home on 2 November 2012 by suspected
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militants. *The Kharkiv beheadings, was a crime committed on 15 December 2012 in
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, in which a judge and his family were beheaded with a
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. * Keith Ratliff (32), producer of the popular YouTube gun-enthusiast channel '' FPSRussia'', was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in his custom gun shop in Carnesville, Georgia, on the evening of 3 January 2013, about 24 hours after he had last been seen alive. Police believe he knew his killer, as none of his guns were taken or used to kill him, and he would have only allowed an acquaintance to get close enough to him to do it. The investigation is continuing. *In the early morning hours of 11 January 2013, Paris police forced their way into a local Kurdish information center, where they found the bodies of
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(PKK) members Sakine Cansız (55), Fidan Doğan (30), and Leyla Söylemez, a younger woman. They had last been seen in the office where they were found the previous afternoon. Nothing had been taken, all were shot execution-style, and the killer or killers locked the door after leaving, suggesting that someone acquainted with at least one of the victims committed the crime with the intention of killing all three. The person who was captured by the police, and is said to have killed them, later died of cancer. As a result, the murder remains unsolved. * Irish police detective Adrian Donohoe (41), was shot fatally when ambushed by an armed gang, which then robbed a
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in Bellurgan,
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on the morning of 26 January 2013; he was the first Garda Síochána officer killed in the line of duty since 1996. No arrests have been made, although the Garda have several suspects, all but one of whom have fled the country; the other is in prison on unrelated charges. *Fausto Valdiviezo (53), was a senior Ecuadorians, Ecuadorian journalist and television presenter who was murdered on 11 April 2013. The investigation into his murder is looking at suspects. *In the early morning on 21 April 2013 between 281 to 1,729 people were killed during an event called the Ghouta chemical attack in areas around Damascus as they were hit by rocket artillery, rockets that contained the deadly chemical weapons, chemical agent sarin. It is unknown who were behind these attacks. *West Fertilizer Company explosion, An explosion at a fertilizer factory in West, Texas, on 27 April 2013 killed fifteen people. After an investigation that took almost three years, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced that the cause was an ammonium nitrate fire that had been deliberately set, although this finding has been disputed. No suspects have been named. *Islam Bibi (38–39), a female Muslims, Muslim who was the highest ranking police officer in Afghanistan in the Helmand Province, Helmand province Headquarters, and had also fought for Women in Afghanistan, feminism, and was among the first to do so. Bibi was assassinated on 4 July 2013 by unknown persons after she had received multiple death threats, and her murder remains unsolved. *Murder of Otávio Jordão da Silva, Otávio Jordão da Silva (20), a Brazilian amateur association football, football referee, was lynching, lynched, dismemberment, quartered, and decapitation, beheaded by football spectators, after he stabbed a player in a match he officiated on 30 June 2013. *MC Daleste, Daniel Pedreira Senna Pellegrine (20), better known by his stage name "MC Daleste" was a Brazilians Funk ostentação, funk paulista singer, songwriter and
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. Daleste was fatally shot in the abdomen on 7 July 2013 while performing during a free show in Campinas, São Paulo, before a crowd of four thousand people. He died later the same day in Paulínia's City Hospital. *Murder of Dwayne Jones, Dwayne Jones (16), a Jamaican teenager who was killed by a mobbing, violent mob in Montego Bay on the evening of 21 July 2013, after he attended a dance party dressed in women's clothing. The incident attracted national and international media attention, and brought increased scrutiny to the status of LGBT rights in Jamaica. *Fernando Solijon (48), a Filipinos, Filipino radio journalist for DXYZ-FM, DXLS, an affiliate of the Love Radio Network in Iligan city,
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. Solijon was known for being analytical of alleged corruption and wrongdoing in the Philippines. Solijon was shot multiple times as he was getting into his car after drinking with friends. Solijon died on his way to the hospital on 29 August 2013. *João Rodrigo Silva Santos (35), was a Brazilian
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, who was murdered by suspected drug traffickers on 29 October 2013 in Rio de Janeiro. *Two members of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn (political party), Golden Dawn political party were 2013 Neo Irakleio Golden Dawn office shooting, shot and killed by passing motorcyclists outside the party's offices in the Athens suburb of Irakleio, Attica, Neo Irakleio on 1 November 2013. A leftist organization claimed that the attack was retaliation for Murder of Pavlos Fyssas, the murder of an antifascist rapper several weeks earlier, for which another Golden Dawn member is facing charges. The investigation is continuing. *On 5 November 2013, the Mexican police had stated that several mutilated bodies were found at a ranch known as La Borbolla, along the highway that connects Jiménez and Padilla, and that Disappearance of Carlos Ornelas Puga#Kidnapping, Carlos Ornelas Puga, a Catholic Church, Catholic priest who is believed to have been kidnapped by gunmen in the Mexican state of
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on 3 November 2013, may be among them. This has not been proven to be true, and their murder cases remain unsolved. *On 30 January 2014, family members Zhou Yongkang#Family murders in Texas, Maoye Sun (50), Mei Xie (49), Timothy Sun (9), and Titus Sun (7), were found dead from gunshots in their home in Cypress, Texas. Officials ruled all four deaths to be homicides, and estimated the time of death to be 24–25 January 2014. A window was broken and the back door was open. No weapons were found at the scene. Zhou Yongkang, Zhou Yangkang, a former Chinese Communist Party leader, reportedly confessed to ordering the hit in order to hide his illicit oil dealings, but the claim is disputed and not likely to be true, and thus, their murder cases remain unsolved. *Pedro Palma (47), was a Brazilian journalist, editor, and publisher for the ''Panorama Regional'' in Miguel Pereira, Rio de Janeiro, Miguel Pereira, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Palma was killed by two unknown people on 13 February 2014. *Benjamín Galván Gómez (41), was a Mexican businessman, Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI politician, and mayor of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas between 2011 and 2013. Frequently threatened due to his anti-organized crime sentiment, Galván was abducted from a drugstore on 27 February 2014. His mutilated corpse was found the next day, and positively identified a month later. Several suspected
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members were arrested for his murder, but all were killed before they could go to trial. *Reşat Amet (39), was a Crimean Tatar activist for ethnic Crimean Tatars, Tatar causes, and a Crimean Tatar hero. On 3 March 2014, he was abducted by three unidentified men in military uniform from the "Crimean self-defense" detachments, who took him away. On 15 March 2014, Amet's body was found by police in a forest near the village of Zemlyanychne in Bilohirsk district, about 60 kilometers east of the Crimean capital. *Rubylita Garcia (52), was a Filipinos, Filipino host for a local radio talk show on channel DWAD and a journalist for the daily tabloid ''Remate'' in Bacoor, Philippines. She reported on corruption in the Philippines. She was murdered on 6 April 2014 after being shot. * On 6 May 2014, the headless body of Murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond, Russell Dermond (88), was found slumped over a seat in his car in the garage of his house on Lake Oconee, in Putnam County, Georgia. The severely beaten body of his wife Shirley (87), was found 10 days later, weighted down in the lake. The couple had last been seen alive on 1 May 2014. Russell's head has never been found, and no suspects have ever been identified. *Camille Lepage (26), was a French photojournalist who was killed during the Central African Republic Civil War, conflict in the Central African Republic by persons unknown, on 12 May 2014. Her death was described as a "murder" by the French presidency, and it marked the first death of a Western journalist in the conflict. *Tito Torbellino (33), whose real name was Tomás Eduardo Tovar Rascón, was American songwriter and singer who was shot dead by an unknown person on 29 May 2014 at a restaurant in Ciudad Obregón, Mexico. *Murder of Octavio Rojas Hernández, Octavio Rojas Hernández, was a Mexican reporter who was murdered at his home in Cosolapa, San José Cosolapa, Oaxaca, Mexico, on 11 August 2014, after a young man came to Hernández's door to ask about buying the vehicle that was parked outside his home. Rojas had just arrived at his home following a social event in Palma Sola, Cosolapa, and was about to eat, but left the house to talk with the young man about the vehicle. The unidentified man shot Rojas four times: two times in the head, once in his abdomen, and once in his left arm. After hearing the gunshots, his wife ran outside to see what had happened, but the murderer had fled the area. * On 28 September 2014, Deaths of John and Joyce Sheridan, John and Joyce Sheridan were found dead in their Skillman, New Jersey, home. Firefighters found their bodies in the house's master bedroom after putting out a fire there. Both had suffered stab wounds which were found to have killed them; the case was initially believed by the Somerset County, New Jersey, Somerset County prosecutor's office to have been a Murder–suicide, murder-suicide. In 2022 guilty pleas in a similar murder, also combining a stabbed victim and a fire set to destroy evidence, elsewhere in the state led its Attorney General's office to reopen the case. * The Chens, Chen family homicides, a Chinese family of four, were found slain in their Guilderland, New York, home on 8 October 2014, stabbed and beaten with hammers early that morning, the first quadruple homicide ever to occur in New York's Capital District, New York, Capital District. Links to organized criminal activity, particularly gambling and the human trafficking, trafficking of immigrant restaurant workers from the Chinese province of Fujian to and within the U.S. have been posited, as well as to two other unsolved killings of Chinese families in the U.S. in preceding years. The investigation is continuing. *Alexander Bednov, Alexander Bednov (45), was the leader of the pro-Russian Russian separatist forces in Donbas, Batman Rapid Response Group. He was assassinated in Luhansk on 1 January 2015, with conflicting reports on who was responsible for his murder. *Death of Alberto Nisman, Alberto Nisman, an Argentines, Argentine lawyer and prosecutor who specialized in international terrorism, was found dead in the early hours of 19 January 2015, a few days short of making an appearance before the congress to accusate Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. He was found shot in the head in his apartment in the Torre del Parque building, in the upscale Le Parc Puerto Madero development in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires. *Rapper The Jacka (37), born Dominick Newton, was shot to death along an Oakland, California street on 2 February 2015. Police have not identified any suspects. *Assassination of Boris Nemtsov, Boris Nemtsov (55), was a Russian physicist and Liberalism in Russia, liberal politician, was assassinated on 27 February 2015, beside his Ukraine, Ukrainian partner Anna Duritskaya, on a bridge near the Kremlin in Moscow, with four shots fired from the back. Though five men were found guilty of agreeing to kill Nemtsov for 15 million rubles, these men were hired to kill him, but were not the people who did kill him, so the case is unsolved. * Murder of Chloé Ansel, Chloé Ansel (9), was a French people, French girl who was kidnapped on 15 April 2015 from Calais and was found dead less than just two hours later in the nearby woods. The prime suspect believed to have abducted and killed her later committed suicide in custody, so the case remains unsolved. * Kenyan investigative journalism, investigative journalist John Kituyi, John Kituyi (63), was attacked and beaten fatally by two assailants on motorcycles, while walking home from work on 30 April 2015. A man was later arrested and charged with robbery after Kituyi's mobile phone SIM card was found in his possession, but no suspects have been identified in the murder. *Gerard Davison, Gerard Davison (47), a commander in the Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provisional IRA, was shot dead on the morning of 5 May 2015 on Welch Street in
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. No suspects have been named, although press reports speculate that he may have been killed by fellow Irish nationalists who had a grudge against him. * Lionel Pickens (31), better known as rapper Chinx, was fatally wounded during a drive-by shooting in
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, New York on 17 May 2015. The investigation is continuing. *Rubén Espinosa, Rubén Espinosa (32), was a Mexican self-taught photographer and journalist. He worked for AVC News agency and '' Proceso'' and ''Cuartoscuro'' magazines. He covered daily news and social protests. He documented several protests where individuals were assaulted. Espinosa was killed on 31 July 2015 in Narvate,
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, Mexico along with four women. *Murder of Ebby Steppach, Ebby Steppach (18), an American woman who disappeared on 25 October 2015 from Little Rock, Arkansas, and was found dead on 14 May 2018. Steppach has been determined to have been murdered, and her killer is unknown. *Murder of Giulio Regeni, Giulio Regeni (28), was an Italian University of Cambridge, Cambridge University graduate who was disappeared on 25 January 2016, and was found murdered on 3 February 2016 in Egypt. Regeni was a PhD student at Girton College, Cambridge, researching Egypt's independent trade unions, and a former employee of the international consulting firm Oxford Analytica. The killer is unknown. *Murder of Missy Bevers, Missy Bevers (45), was an American fitness instructor who was found dead at the Creekside Church of Christ in Midlothian, Texas on 18 April 2016. Surveillance videos from inside the church released by police show an unknown person walking around in police tactical gear prior to her murder. Police believe the person in the video is Bevers's murderer but the case remains unsolved. *The Ivashevka massacre involved the murder of six members of a family, and the critical wounding of a seventh on the night of 24 April 2016, in the village of Ivashevka, Syzransky District, Samara Oblast. The victims included Colonel Andrey Gosht, the deputy head of police HQ in Samara Oblast, and former head of the Syzran town police from 2013 to 2015, along with his wife, his mother and father, his sister-in-law, and her daughter. *Murder of Eunice Olawale, Eunice Olawale (41), was a
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Christians, Christian female preacher who was murdered by suspected Islamic extremism, Muslim extremists in the early hours of 9 July 2016, while evangelizing in the Federal capital city of Abuja. *Death of Emilie Meng, Emilie Meng (17), a teenager who disappeared in Korsør, Korsør, Denmark in the early hours of 10 July 2016. Five months later, her body was found in Køge Municipality. *Murder of Seth Rich, Seth Rich (27), a Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer, was found with two gunshot wounds in his back shortly before dawn on 10 July 2016, near his home in the Bloomingdale (Washington, D.C.), Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington, D.C.. He never regained consciousness, and died later in the hospital. Police have attributed his death to a botched robbery attempt; his wristwatch band was torn, but nothing else was taken from him, and there were signs of a struggle. Conspiracy theorists have claimed he was murdered for 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak, leaking DNC emails to WikiLeaks. *Pavel Sheremet (44), was a Belarusian-born Russian and Ukrainian journalist who was imprisoned by the government of Belarus in 1997, sparking an international incident between Belarus and Russia. Sheremet died in Kyiv on 20 July 2016 in a car explosion. The Ukraine Prosecutor's Office have said the explosion was caused by a bomb, and labelled the death of Sheremet as an unsolved murder. *Arsen Pavlov (33), had led the Sparta Battalion, an armed group fighting the Ukrainian army, in the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War. Pavlov was killed on 16 October 2016 by an Improvised explosive device, IED explosion in his apartment's elevator in Donetsk. Pavlov's bodyguard was also killed in the blast. Donetsk People's Republic officials claimed the IED explosion was activated from a distance by a Ukrainian Neo-Nazism, neo-nazi group, the self-styled "Misanthropic Division". The leader of the group, however, denied any involvement in the assassination. Ukrainian officials also denied the allegations, stating that Arsen Pavlov was "lucky" to be killed, so he would not have to face justice for his crimes. This further suggested the rebel leader was likely assassinated by Russia's special forces, as part of a wider purge against the early leaders of the rebel movement; pointing to the fact that about half dozen rebel commanders have been assassinated. *Elwyn Crocker Jr. and Mary Crocker, Elwyn Crocker Jr. (14), and Mary Crocker (13), were children discovered buried in their father's backyard in Effingham County, Georgia. Elwyn Crocker Jr. disappeared in November 2016, and his sister Mary Crocker disappeared in October 2018. Neither child was reported missing to the police, and were only discovered after a tip was received that Mary Crocker was deceased, and then after talking with Crocker Sr. police began to believe that they should search the grounds of the home. Various people were all arrested, and were charged with concealing a death, and Child abuse, child cruelty. No trial has yet taken place. *Soe Moe Tun (34–35), a Myanmar, Burmese investigative journalist for the ''Eleven Media Group, Daily Eleven'' in Monywa, Sagaing Region found murdered on 13 December 2016. He was best known for his investigative reporting about sensitive issues, such as illegal logging, the Letpadaung Copper Mine project, and illegal karaoke lounges in his local area. * Mikhail Tolstykh (36), was a commander of the Donetsk People's Republic's Somalia Battalion of the Separatist forces of the war in Donbass, Separatist Forces in the War in Donbas (2014–2022), War in Donbass. On 8 February 2017 while working in his Donetsk office, Tolstykh was killed by an explosion said to be caused by the RPO-A Shmel rocket launcher fired from an unknown distance. DPR officials accused Ukrainian forces of carrying out the attack, while Ukrainian security officials claimed it to be the result of DPR infighting. It is unknown for certain who killed him. *On 14 February 2017, police found the bodies of Murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German, Abigail Williams (13) and Liberty German (14), on a Delphi, Indiana, hiking trail where they had last been seen the day before; they have not disclosed how the girls died, but have called it a homicide. An image and audio recording of a possible suspect were found on one of their cell phones; despite being widely disseminated, he has not been identified publicly. Arrest made on 28 October 2022 of a suspect, a local man in connection with the murders. *Denis Voronenkov (45), was a Russian politician who served as a member of the State Duma from 2011 to 2016. He was a member of the Unity (Russian political party), Unity party from 2000 to 2003, and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from 2011 to 2016. Voronenkov was shot dead in Kyiv as he left the Premier Palace hotel on 23 March 2017. *Amílcar Henríquez (33), was a Panamanians, Panamanian
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. On 15 April 2017, Henríquez was killed in his hometown of Colón, Panama, Colón in a drive-by shooting. He was shot while leaving his house, and two other people were also injured in the incident. *On 18 April 2017, Professor of Molecular Genetics Tahira Malik was found stabbed to death in her house in the residential colony of the University of the Punjab in
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. She was an Ahmadiyya, Ahmadi, a member of a minority Islamic movement, severely Persecution of Ahmadis, persecuted in Pakistan for its beliefs. A sectarian motive for the killing was suspected; the perpetrator remains unknown. *Maksym Shapoval (38), was an officer in the Ukrainian military, and head of the special forces of the Chief Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Chief Intelligence Directorate. Shapoval had just recently returned from the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, on 27 June 2017, when he was assassinated in a car bomb attack in central Kyiv. *Houssenaly Zahid Raza, was an Honorary Malaysian Consul in Madagascar who was assassinated in Antananarivo on 24 August 2017. His murder is suspected to be linked to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Raza had been tasked with returning pieces of debris suspected to be from Flight 370 that had been washed up on Madagascan shores to Malaysia. Other people involved in the investigation of MH370 have received death threats as well. *Daphne Caruana Galizia (53), was a Maltese people, Maltese journalist, writer, and Political corruption, anti-corruption activist, who reported on Politics of Malta, political events in Malta. On 16 October 2017, Caruana Galizia died in a car bomb attack close to her home. The perpetrators of this crime remain unknown. *On 15 December 2017, the bodies of Canadian pharmaceutical magnate Barry Sherman (75), one of the country's richest men, and his wife Honey (70), were found hanging from belts, their hands tied, seated on the deck of their indoor swimming pool at their home in the Toronto suburb of North York. A month later the police, who had first explored a murder-suicide theory, confirmed earlier unofficial reports that the Shermans' deaths were, in fact, homicides. The investigation was hampered by legal resistance to search warrants for evidence at Sherman's notoriously litigious corporation, Apotex; as of April 2019, police said that they had a working theory of the crime, but have not publicly identified any suspects; their investigation is continuing. *Iryna Nozdrovska (38), was a Ukrainian lawyer, who was reported missing on 29 December 2017. Her body was found in a river outside of Kyiv on 1 January 2018, and a murder investigation was opened. An autopsy revealed multiple stab wounds in her neck. *Oliver Ivanović (64), was a Kosovo Serbs, Kosovo Serb politician who served as the State Secretary of the Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija from 2008 to 2012, and was also a member of the Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija from 2001 to 2008. He was assassinated by unknown perpetrators on 16 January 2018 in North Mitrovica. *The 2018 Bulawayo bombing happened after a grenade exploded in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe at the White City Stadium on 23 June 2018. The explosion killed two people, and left forty-seven people injured. The perpetrators behind this are unknown. *Dennis Day (Mouseketeer), Dennis Day (76), who was an original cast member of ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' disappeared on 17 July 2018 in Phoenix, Oregon, and was found dead on 7 April 2019 after being murdered. The case is currently unsolved. *Alexander Zakharchenko (42), was a Separatism, separatist leader who was the head of state and Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic, a self-proclaimed state and rebel group which declared independence from Ukraine on 11 May 2014. Zakharchenko was killed by a bomb explosion in a café called Separ on Pushkin Boulevard in Donetsk, on 31 August 2018. Preliminary reports say that DNR's finance minister, Alexander Timofeyev, was also wounded in the blast. His murderer remains unknown. *Fernando Albán (56), a Venezuelan–Colombian politician, activist, and lawyer who died while he was being held in the headquarters of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) in Plaza Venezuela, Caracas. His death is claimed to have been a murder, but it is unknown who is responsible for it. *Edmundo Rada, Venezuelan councilman and opposition politician was reported missing on 16 October 2019. He was found dead the following day on the side of the road out of Petare, Caracas, burned and with two coup de grâce shots in the back of his neck. *Kevin Fret (24), a Puerto Rican rapper, and the first openly gay male Latin trap artist, was shot to death by an unidentified gunman on 10 January 2019 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. The assailant has not been located. *Telésforo Santiago Enríquez, was a Mexican radio journalist, and professor of Indigenous peoples of Mexico, indigenous education in Oaxaca state, Oaxaca, Mexico who was ambushed and shot dead on 2 May 2019. His dead body was found in a vehicle that afternoon. Authorities reported that he had been driving in the neighborhood of Ampliación Tres Cruces when he was ambushed and killed. * Marc Batchelor (49), a South African professional footballer. Batchelor was shot to death outside his home in Olivedale, Gauteng, Olivedale on 15 July 2019. His killer is unknown.


2020s

* Marc Angelucci (52), was an American lawyer, attorney, prominent men's rights activist, and the vice-president of the National Coalition for Men. He was fatally shot at his Cedarpines Park, California home on 11 July 2020. A possible suspect, Roy Den Hollander, also active in the men's rights community, committed suicide a week later after killing New Jersey federal judge Esther Salas's son during an attack on her house; he had had differences with Angelucci that led to his expulsion from the organization. The murder remains unsolved. * Luca Attanasio (43), was an Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo killing of Luca Attanasio, who was killed in an attack on a World Food Programme convoy on 22 February 2021, along with Carabinieri, carabiniere Vittorio Iacovacci (30), and driver Mustapha Milambo. The perpetrators of the attack are unknown. On 5 March 2021, Mwilanya Asani William, an attorney investigating the case, was also killed by gunmen in an ambush. * Janikhel protest, Four dead youths (13–17), who had gone missing earlier in the month of March, were later discovered on 21 March 2021, after a shepherd's dog picked up their scent in the Bannu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It was revealed that the teenagers, whose identities later became known, had been badly tortured, and their killer is unknown. The cases have been named the "Janikhel incident" by media. * Murder of Oluwabamise Ayanwole, Oluwabamise Ayanwole (21–22), was a Nigerian woman who was kidnapped in Lagos, Nigeria on 26 February 2022 after boarding a Bus rapid transit, BRT. Nine days later she was found dead after being murdered in Lagos Island, near to the Carter Bridge. Her killer is not currently known. * 2022 Pittsburgh shooting, Two teenage boys were killed in a mass shooting on April 17, 2022, at an Airbnb party in Pittsburgh. As of January 2023, no one has been arrested or charged for the murders.


See also

* List of unsolved murders (before 1900) * List of unsolved murders (1900–1979) * List of unsolved murders (1980–1999)


References

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