https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56825822
George Floyd: The murder that drove America to the brink. 20 April 2021. By Tara McKelvey, BBC News, Minneapolis. BBC. Breez Sapphira, 28, at a shoe boutique where she worked, followed the trial

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/01/karen-read-mistrial-murder-john-okeefe/74203252007/
After five days of deliberation, the jury could not reach a verdict on Read, 44, who was charged with second-degree murder in the death of 46-year-old Boston police officer John O'Keefe after his

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/01/us/karen-read-murder-trial-deliberations/index.html
A judge declared a mistrial in the murder trial of Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of drunkenly driving into her police officer boyfriend and leaving him to die in January 2022, in a

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/karen-read-trial-john-okeefe-murder-investigation-rcna159517
Jurors in the murder case against Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman accused of running down and killing her police officer boyfriend John O'Keefe in 2022, continue deliberations.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/us/karen-read-murder-trial.html
Ms. Read's lawyers accuse the police of a cover-up. Ms. Read's lawyers had accused law enforcement officials of a sweeping conspiracy to hide the truth about the murder.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-07-01/karen-read-murder-case-ends-in-a-mistrial-prosecutors-say-they-will-try-again
Read, a former adjunct professor at Bentley University, faced second-degree murder and other charges in the death of Officer John O'Keefe, a 16-year member of the Boston police who was found

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c880r1l7dn5o
The trial of Karen Read, who is accused of murdering her boyfriend in January 2022, has garnered a massive internet following that has ultimately drawn massive crowds outside the courthouse.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/26/us/jonbenet-ramsey-25th-anniversary-dna/index.html
It's been 25 years since the murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey riveted the nation, and now Boulder, Colorado, investigators say they have analyzed almost 1,000 DNA samples to find the killer.

https://www.npr.org/sections/trial-over-killing-of-george-floyd/2021/04/20/987777911/court-says-jury-has-reached-verdict-in-derek-chauvins-murder-trial
Unintentional second-degree murder is defined as causing death without intent to do so, while committing or attempting to commit a felony offense. The maximum sentence for second-degree murder is

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/01/1160319398/alex-murdaugh-murder-trial-revelations
Alex Murdaugh is sentenced to 2 life terms for double murder of his wife and son. Murdaugh, 54, faces the possibility of life in prison after being found guilty of two counts of murder and other

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040904770/fbi-data-murder-increase-2020
The data shows 21,570 homicides in the U.S. in 2020, which is a staggering 4,901 more than in 2019. The tally makes clear — in concrete terms — just how violent last year was. The overall

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/10/27/what-we-know-about-the-increase-in-u-s-murders-in-2020/
The U.S. murder rate in 2020 was 42% lower than the suicide rate (13.5 deaths per 100,000 people) and 71% below the mortality rate for drug overdose (27.1 deaths per 100,000 people, as of the third quarter of 2020), the CDC data shows. As was the case with murders, drug overdoses increased sharply in 2020.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/briefing/crime-surge-homicides-us.html
By German Lopez. Jan. 18, 2022. In 2020, murders in the United States spiked more than 27 percent — the largest percentage increase in at least six decades. Last year, murders went up again

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/karen-read-murder-case-ends-in-mistrial-with-deeply-divided-jury/ar-BB1pdGk7
Karen Read's murder-or-conspiracy trial, scripted like a TV drama, ends in a mistrial. The Massachusetts jury had been deadlocked for days and couldn't come to a unanimous decision about Read's

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26160954-emmett-till
Till's murder was the pebble in the pond; Rosa Parks cited his lynching as among the reasons she refused to give up her seat a few months later. It also followed hard on the heels of Brown vs. Board of Education, as the South geared up to face threats to segregation. The most astounding part of the book is the simple naked racism and brutality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Martha_Moxley
Martha Elizabeth Moxley (August 16, 1960 - October 30, 1975) was a 15-year-old American high school student from Greenwich, Connecticut, who was murdered in 1975. Moxley was last seen alive spending time at the home of the Skakel family, across the street from her home in Belle Haven. [1] Michael Skakel, also aged 15 at the time, was

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_(short_story)
"The Murder" is a work of short fiction by John Steinbeck originally published in The North American Review, April 1934.The story was first collected in The Long Valley (1938) by Viking Press. "The Murder" was the first of Steinbeck's works to win a national award: the 1934 O. Henry prize for short fiction.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/upshot/murder-rate-usa.html
Desiree Rios for The New York Times. The big increase in the murder rate in the United States in 2020 has carried over to 2021. A sample of 37 cities with data available for the first three months

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2024/07/01/karen-read-boston-police-murder-trial/a2514fa6-37d9-11ef-93fe-36cbc6f6ab36_story.html
Read, a former adjunct professor at Bentley College, faced second-degree murder and other charges in the death of O'Keefe, a 16-year member of the Boston police who was found outside a Canton

https://people.com/under-the-bridge-true-story-reena-virk-8630998
Reena was 14 years old when a group of her peers, nicknamed the "Shoreline Six," invited her to a party under a bridge in Saanich, a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, in November 1997

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction. This state of mind may, depending upon the jurisdiction, distinguish murder from other forms of unlawful homicide, such as manslaughter.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/28/1041082833/during-the-pandemic-the-fbi-says-murders-surged-in-the-u-s
Numbers released by the FBI show an unprecedented 30% spike in murders last year. The murder rate is below its historic peaks reached in the 1990s, but the figures show the problem is more widespread.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/murder-crime
murder, in criminal law, the killing of one person by another that is not legally justified or excusable, usually distinguished from the crime of manslaughter by the element of malice aforethought. The term homicide is a general term used to describe the killing of one human being by another. A murder is considered a homicide, but homicide can

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Julius_Caesar
Causes The Ides of March coin, a Denarius portraying Brutus (), minted in 43-42 BC.The reverse shows a pileus between two daggers, with the legend EID MAR (Eidibus Martiis - on the Ides of March), commemorating the assassination. Possible bust of Julius Caesar, posthumous portrait in marble, 44-30 BC, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums Caesar had served the Republic for eight years in

https://allthatsinteresting.com/famous-murders
Wikimedia Commons, Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images, Julian Wasser/Online USA Inc./Getty Victims of some of history's most famous murder cases, from left: Elizabeth Short, Sharon Tate, Kitty Genovese, JonBenét Ramsey, Lizzie Borden (infamously, not a victim but a suspect), and Dorothy Stratten. Below, read the full stories behind some

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28862811-the-murder-that-never-was
In The Murder That Never Was, the fifth book in the Forensic Instincts Series, author Andrea Kane weave a riveting psychological thriller that features identity theft, performing enhancement drugs, a drug cartel, a megalomaniacal research scientist, emotional issues involving the foster care program, and an unorthodox criminal investigative team who is determined to protect their client.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/upshot/why-does-louisiana-consistently-lead-the-nation-in-murders.html
And in 2018, the murder rate was 7.7 per 100,000 in South Carolina and 2.0 in Massachusetts — again, about four times as high. In the 1800s, the South tended to have more "frontier justice

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-murder-that-never-was-andrea-kane/1123602076
Her latest storytelling triumph, The Murder That Never Was, extends the Forensic Instincts legacy where a dynamic, eclectic team of maverick investigators continue to solve seemingly impossible cases while walking a fine line between assisting and enraging law enforcement. The first showcase of their talents came with the New York Times

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unsolved-killings-record-high
The city's per capita homicide rate remains abnormally high and its murder solve rate is among the lowest in the nation, hitting just 36% last year. If you take out the handful of older, "cold

https://the-line-up.com/unsolved-murders-shivers-down-your-spine
Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 murder mystery novella The Mystery of Marie Rogêt captivated audiences during its day—perhaps, because, save for the victim's name and the location of her death, the story was true. Poe explicitly borrowed details from the real-life unsolved slaying of Mary Cecilia Rogers, a young New Yorker known to many as the "Beautiful Cigar Girl" who worked in a downtown