List of murdered American children

This is a list of murdered American children that details notable murders among thousands of cases of subjects who were or are believed to have been under the age of 18 upon their deaths. Cases listed are stated to be unsolved, solved or pending and, in some cases, where the victims' remains have never been found or identified. This list is inclusive only of subjects who have an existing article on the English-language Wikipedia.

## Before 1950

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Elsie Paroubek | c. April 8, 1911  | 4  | Chicago, Illinois  | Unsolved  | Murdered and dumped into a drainage canal.[1]
Little Lord Fauntleroy | 1920 or 1921  | 5–7  | Waukesha, Wisconsin  | Unsolved, unidentified  | Found dead in a quarry.[2]
Babes in the Wood murders (Pine Grove Furnace) | November 24, 1934[failed verification] | 8–12  | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  | Solved  | Murder–suicide and familicide.[3]
Arthur Schumacher | July 1925  | 8  | Wauwatosa, Wisconsin  | Unsolved  | Went missing on July 24, 1925. His body was found 3 weeks later.[4]

## 1950s–1960s

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Joseph Augustus Zarelli | February 1957  | 4  | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  | Unsolved, identified  | Previously known as "The Boy in the Box": Unidentified until 2022.[5]
Maria Ridulph | December 3, 1957  | 7  | Sycamore, Illinois  | Unsolved  | A suspect was convicted in 2012, but was eventually exonerated in 2016.[6][7]
Sharon Lee Gallegos | c. July 17–24, 1960  | 4  | Congress, Arizona  | Unsolved, identified  | Kidnapping and murder victim, snatched from right in front of her house. Her body was found in the desert 10 days after her abduction. The exact cause of death remains undetermined, but was ruled a homicide.[8]
16th Street Baptist Church bombing | September 15, 1963  | 11–14  | Birmingham, Alabama  | Solved  | Four girls killed in a bombing by the Ku Klux Klan.[9]
Sylvia Likens | October 26, 1965  | 16  | Indianapolis, Indiana  | Solved  | Her caretaker Gertrude Baniszewski was sentenced to life imprisonment and released on parole in 1985.[10]
Jane Durrua | November 5, 1968  | 13  | Keansburg, New Jersey  | Solved  | [11]
Marina Habe | December 30, 1968  | 17  | Los Angeles County, California  | Unsolved  | Daughter of writer Hans Habe and actress Eloise Hardt. Possible victim of Charles Manson’s followers.[12]

## 1970s–1980s

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Dean Corll victims | September 25, 1970 – August 3, 1973  | 13–17  | Houston, Texas  | Solved, unidentified  | One victim remains unidentified, Harris County John Doe (1973).[13]
Rhonda Johnson | August 4, 1971  | 14  | Galveston, Texas  | Solved  | Michael Self convicted in 1975, however murderer Edward Bell later confessed to killing them.[14]
Sharon Shaw | 13
Alphabet murders | November 16, 1971 – November 26, 1973  | 10–11  | Rochester, New York  | Unsolved  | The victims were Carmen Colón, Michelle Maenza, and Wanda Walkowicz.[15]
Timothy McCoy | January 3, 1972  | 16  | Chicago, Illinois  | Solved  | Victim remained unidentified until 1986; the first known victim of at least 33 of serial killer John Wayne Gacy and the only victim of his to be stabbed.[16]
Martha Morrison | September 1974  | 17  | Portland, Oregon  | Solved  | Victim remained unidentified until 2015.[17]
Linda Pagano | c. 1974 | 17  | Akron or Strongsville, Ohio  | Unsolved, identified  | A teenager who disappeared from her home in Akron, Ohio, on September 1, 1974, following an argument with her stepfather. Initially, Pagano was thought to have run away. On February 5, 1975, a partial skeleton belonging to a young white female was discovered in a park in nearby Strongsville. The young woman had been killed by a gunshot to the head. However, the case was never connected to Pagano's disappearance. Due to a clerical error, the skeleton was not added to NamUs or other databases until 2016, when the case was rediscovered by an amateur genealogist. In 2018, forensic DNA analysis confirmed the remains as belonging to Pagano. Her stepfather, the only potential suspect, died in 1990.[18]
Tatiana Blackwell | January 24 – February 2, 1976  | 14  | San Mateo County, California  | Unsolved  | Victims of an unidentified serial killer.[19]
Paula Baxter | 17
Oakland County Child Murders | February 1976 – March 1977  | 10–12  | Oakland County, Michigan | Unsolved  | During a 13-month period, four children (two girls and two boys) were abducted and murdered with their bodies left in various locations in suburban Detroit. Each child was held alive from 4 to 19 days before being killed. The boys were sexually assaulted. Their deaths triggered a murder investigation which at the time was the largest in U.S. history.[20] The murders are still unsolved.
Randall Reffett | May 14, 1976  | 15  | Chicago, Illinois  | Solved  | Victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.[21]
Samuel Stapleton | 14
William Carroll Jr. | June 13, 1976  | 16  | Chicago, Illinois  | Solved  | Victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.[21]
James Haakenson | August 5, 1976  | 16  | Chicago, Illinois  | Solved  | Unidentified until 2017; victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.[21]
Kenneth Parker | October 24, 1976  | 16  | Chicago, Illinois  | Solved  | Victims of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.[21]
Michael Marino | 14
Evelyn Colon | c. December 13–19, 1976  | 15  | White Haven, Pennsylvania  | Unsolved  | Unidentified until 2021; an alleged killer was initially charged,[22] but new evidence led to the dismissal of those charges and the case remains unsolved.[23]
Oklahoma Girl Scout murders | June 12, 1977  | 8–11  | Mayes County, Oklahoma  | Unsolved  | Three girls murdered while at a summer camp. The prime suspect has since died and DNA samples from the killer are now insufficient to process.[24]
Robert Winch | November 10, 1977  | 16  | Chicago, Illinois  | Solved  | Victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.[21]
Brian Glenfeldt | January 8, 1978  | 17  | Hialeah, Florida | Solved  | Victims of serial killer John Errol Ferguson.[25][26]
Belinda Worley | 17
Bear Brook murders | c. November 1978  | 11 months, 2–4, 7  | Allenstown, New Hampshire  | Unidentified (one child)  | Four victims total, three were children and one was an adult female.[27] The adult, oldest and youngest victims were identified in June 2019 as Marlyse Honeychurch, Marie Vaughn and Sarah McWaters. Honeychurch was the mother of the two now-identified children, who were half-sisters. The middle child, determined to be the daughter of serial killer Terry Peder Rasmussen, remains unidentified.[28]
Kerry Graham | December 1978  | 15  | Willits, California  | Unsolved  | Victims remained unidentified until 2015.[29][30]
Francine Trimble | 14
Robert Piest | December 11, 1978  | 15  | Chicago, Illinois  | Solved  | Final victim of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.[21]
Devonna Nelson | c. 1979  | 14  | Missoula, Montana  | Solved  | Presumed victim of probable serial killer Wayne Nance. She remained unidentified until 2009.[31]
Etan Patz | May 25, 1979  | 6  | New York City, New York  | Solved, body never found  | Perpetrator sentenced to 25-years-to-life in April 2017.[32]
Atlanta murders of 1979–81 | July 21, 1979 – March 12, 1981  | 9–14  | Atlanta, Georgia  | Solved  | Victims of a serial killer.[33]
Tammy Vincent | September 1979  | 16  | Tiburon, California  | Unsolved  | Victim remained unidentified until 2007.[34]
Tammy Alexander | November 9, 1979  | 16  | Caledonia, New York  | Unsolved, identified  | Teenager shot and left in a cornfield in upstate New York. Alexander was a hitchhiker, having run away from a broken home in Florida, and was never reported missing until years after her death. Known previously as only "Caledonia Jane Doe" or "Cali Doe", Alexander remained unidentified until 2015.[35]
Sherri Jarvis | November 1, 1980  | 14  | Huntsville, Texas  | Unsolved, identified  | Victim remained unidentified until 2021.[36]
Carol Cole | December 1980  | 17  | Bellevue, Louisiana  | Unsolved, identified  | Victim remained unidentified until 2015.[37]
Adam Walsh | c. July 27, 1981  | 6  | Indian River County, Florida  | Solved  | Victim of serial killer Ottis Toole.[38]
Frieda Powell | c. 1982  | 15  | Ringgold, Texas  | Solved, body never found  | Henry Lee Lucas, now deceased, confessed to killing his teenage girlfriend while in Texas. Authorities believe his confession, yet efforts to confirm the remains identified by Lucas to be hers were inconclusive.[39][40]
Shannah Wicklund | April 14, 1982  | 9  | Clearview, Washington  | Solved  | Murdered along with her mother and a neighbor in a revenge killing.[41]
Dawn Olanick | c. Early July 1982  | 17  | Blairstown, New Jersey  | Solved  | A teenaged murder victim found at the edge of a cemetery. A couple confessed in 2005 to killing her, but without her identity there was not enough information to put a case together.[42][43] Following Olanick's identification, the couple who confessed in 2005 was charged with her murder.
Ricky Stetson | August 22, 1982  | 11  | Portland, Maine  | Solved  | The first of three victims of John Joubert and the only victim murdered in Maine.[44]
Alisha Heinrich | December 3 or 4, 1982  | 18 months  | Moss Point, Mississippi  | Unsolved  | A toddler thrown from a bridge into a river. Known only as "Delta Dawn", Heinrich remained unidentified until 2020. Her mother, who disappeared alongside her, remains missing.[45]
Redhead murders | c. 1981–1992  | 9–17  | Various  | Unsolved, unidentified  | Victims of an unidentified serial killer that were left on the side of highways. Not all presumed victims have been verified to be linked.[46]
St. Louis Jane Doe | February 1983  | 10  | St. Louis, Missouri  | Unsolved, unidentified  | Found decapitated and naked from the waist down in the basement of an abandoned building.[47][48]
Danny Joe Eberle | September 18, 1983  | 13  | Bellevue, Nebraska  | Solved  | Second victim of John Joubert.[49]
Christoper Walden | December 2, 1983  | 12  | Papillion, Nebraska  | Solved  | Third and final victim on John Joubert.[50]
Colleen Orsborn | March 19, 1984  | 15  | Daytona Beach, Florida  | Solved  | Victim remained unidentified until 2011.[51]
Marcella Bachmann | c. September – October 1984  | 16  | Missoula, Montana  | Solved  | Presumed victim of probable serial killer Wayne Nance. She remained unidentified until 2006.[31]
Shari Smith | May 31 / June 1, 1985  | 17  | Lexington County, South Carolina  | Solved  | A 17-year-old who was abducted from the driveway of her home. Her killer called her family repeatedly to taunt them; even after the victim's death. Larry Gene Bell was later convicted of her murder and executed.[52]
Debra Helmick | June 15, 1985  | 9  | Richland County, South Carolina  | Solved  | A girl abducted from her front yard and subsequently murdered by Larry Gene Bell, also responsible for the abduction and murder of Shari Smith. He was later convicted and executed for her murder.[52]
Michele Avila | October 1, 1985  | 17  | Angeles National Forest, California  | Solved  |
Darcie Frackenpohl | 1987  | 17  | Sacramento, California  | Solved  | Victim remained unidentified for several months.[53]
Deanna Criswell | c. November 23, 1987  | 16  | Marana, Arizona  | Solved, identified  | Victim remained unidentified until 2015.[54]
April Tinsley | April 1–2, 1988  | 8  | Fort Wayne, Indiana  | Solved  | Suspect arrested on July 15, 2018.[55]
Aundria Bowman | c. March 11, 1989  | 14  | Hamilton, Michigan  | Pending  | A teenager listed as a missing person for over thirty years, after her adoptive parents reported her as a runaway. Her remains were located in February 2020 after her adoptive father confessed to her murder. He was previously charged with the 1980 murder of a woman in Virginia.[56]
Sue Ann Huskey | c. September 1989  | 17  | Williamson County, Texas  | Unsolved, identified  | Victim remained unidentified until January 2020.[57]
Jacob Wetterling | c. October 22, 1989  | 11  | St. Joseph, Minnesota  | Solved  | Victim remained a missing person for nearly 27 years before the location of his remains was disclosed by Jacob's murderer.[58]

## 1990s–2000s

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Robin Cornell | May 10, 1990  | 11  | Cape Coral, Florida  | Solved  | Robin Cornell was found dead and sexually assaulted together with her babysitter, Lisa Story. The murders were considered unsolved until 2016, when a DNA of a man named Joseph Zieler matched to one on the crime scene. Zieler was sentenced to death in 2023.[59]
Mandy Meyers and Mary Snyder | July 8, 1991  | 13  | Elfrida, Arizona  | Solved  | Both victims were raped and murdered by Richard Stokley and Randy Brazeal. Brazeal was jailed 20 years while Stokley was sentenced to death and executed in 2012.[60]
Anjelica Castillo | c. July 18, 1991  | 4  | Astoria, New York  | Solved  | Victim remained unidentified until 2013.[61]
Mandy Lemaire | August 22, 1991  | 11  | Tazlina, Alaska  | Unsolved  | Suspect's conviction was overturned in 1999. He died before the completion of the second trial.[62]
1991 Austin yogurt shop killings | December 6, 1991  | 13–17  | Austin, Texas  | Unsolved  | Four girls raped, shot, and burnt in an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt shop in Austin, Texas.[63]
Shanda Sharer | January 11, 1992  | 12  | Madison, IN  | Solved  |
Holly Piirainen | August 5, 1993  | 10  | Sturbridge, Massachusetts  | Unsolved  | [64]
Kori Lamaster | August 1993  | 17  | California  | Unsolved  | Victim remained unidentified until 2013.[65]
JonBenét Ramsey | December 26, 1996  | 6  | Boulder, Colorado  | Unsolved  | [66]
Amber Creek | February 1997  | 14  | Burlington, Wisconsin  | Solved[67] | Subject remained unidentified until 1998.[68]
Maryann Measles | October 19, 1997  | 13  | New Milford, CT  | Solved  |
Christina Marie Williams | June 12, 1998  | 13  | Seaside, California  | Solved[69] |
Columbine High School massacre | April 20, 1999  | 14–17  | Littleton, Colorado  | Solved  | A mass shooting where ten children (including Rachel Scott and Cassie Bernall) were murdered, along with two 18-year-old students and a teacher.[70][71]
Molly Bish | c. June 27, 2000  | 16  | Warren, Massachusetts  | Unsolved  | [72]
Iriana DeJesus | July 30, 2000  | 5  | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  | Unsolved  | Presumed victim of FBI Top Ten Most Wanted fugitive Alexis Flores.[73]
Brittney Fisher | April 10, 2001  | 12  | Scottsdale, Arizona  | Unsolved  | Children of FBI Top Ten Most Wanted fugitive Robert William Fisher.[74]
Bobby Fisher | 10
Red Lake shootings | March 21, 2005  | 15–16  | Red Lake, Minnesota  | Solved  | Murder–suicide.[75]
West Nickel Mines School shooting | October 2, 2006  | 7–13  | Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania  | Solved  | Murder–suicide.[76]
Erika Hill | February 25, 2007  | 15  | Fitchburg, Wisconsin  | Solved  | Victim remained unidentified until 2015.[77]
Daniel Benoit | June 22, 2007  | 7  | Fayetteville, Georgia  | Solved  | Murdered by his father, WWE star Chris Benoit, who committed suicide 2 days later.[78]
Crandon, Wisconsin shooting | October 7, 2007  | 14–17  | Crandon, Wisconsin  | Solved  | Murder–suicide.[79]
Matthew Caffey | March 1, 2008  | 13  | Alba, Texas  | Solved  | Orchestrated by their older sister, 16-year-old Erin Harvey. Currently serving a life sentence with possibility of parole.[80]
Tyler Caffey | 8
Caylee Anthony | c. June – December 2008  | 2–3  | Orlando, Florida  | Unsolved  | Cause of death ruled a homicide by medical examiner.[81]
Brittney Gary | c. November 2, 2008  | 17  | Jennings, Louisiana  | Unsolved  | Presumed victim of unidentified serial killer.[82]
Baby Boy Horry | c. December 3, 2008  | Newborn  | Conway, South Carolina  | Pending  | Cause of death ruled as hypothermia, investigated as homicide.[83] The boy's mother was later arrested in March, 2020, in connection with the homicide.[84]
Brittanee Drexel | c. Late May 2009  | 17  | Georgetown, South Carolina  | Pending  | A teenager who disappeared after leaving her home in Rochester, New York to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina without parental permission in April 2009. Her remains were located in 2022 after a suspect, Raymond Moody, confessed to her murder.[85]

## 2010s–2020s

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Gianni McStay | February 4, 2010  | 4  | Fallbrook, California  | Solved  | Perpetrator found guilty in 2019 and was sentenced to death in 2020.[86]
Joseph McStay | 3
Lydia Schatz | February 6, 2010  | 7  | Paradise, California  | Solved  | Perpetrators, Schatz's adoptive parents, found guilty in 2011.[87]
Mackenzie Cowell | February 9, 2010  | 17  | Wenatchee, Washington  | Solved  | Perpetrator accepted plea deal in 2012, though has since recanted.[88][89]
Lorenzo González Cacho | March 9, 2010  | 8  | Dorado, Puerto Rico  | Unsolved  | Case became notorious for gossip show SuperXclusivo's coverage along with other factors interrupting the investigation.[90]
DeBlase children murders | March 4, 2010 – June 20, 2010  | 3–4  | Alabama  | Solved  | Both perpetrators were sentenced to death for capital murder.[91][92]
Zahra Baker | September 24, 2010  | 10  | Hickory, North Carolina  | Solved  | Perpetrator found guilty of second-degree murder in 2011.[93]
Phylicia Barnes | December 2010  | 16  | Baltimore, Maryland  | Unsolved
Christina-Taylor Green | January 8, 2011  | 9[94] | Tucson, Arizona  | Solved  | Perpetrator sentenced November 8, 2012.[95]
Calyx Schenecker | January 27, 2011  | 16  | Tampa, Florida  | Solved  | Perpetrator found guilty of first-degree murder in 2014.[96]
Beau Schenecker | 13
Nubia Barahona | February 11, 2011  | 10  | near West Palm Beach, Florida  | Pending  | Case remains to go on trial due to several postponements.[97]
Hana Grace-Rose Williams | May 12, 2011  | 13  | Sedro-Woolley, Washington  | Solved  | Perpetrators charged in 2013, one convicted of manslaughter and the other convicted of "homicide by abuse."[98]
Leiby Kletzky | July 11, 2011  | 8  | Brooklyn, New York City, New York  | Solved  | Perpetrator charged with second-degree murder and second-degree kidnapping after a plea deal in 2012.[99]
Ame Lynn Deal | July 12, 2011  | 10  | Phoenix, Arizona  | Solved  | Four perpetrators were charged with several counts of child abuse, and two of the perpetrators were charged with first degree murder.[100]
Scott Dieter | August 7, 2011  | 11[101] | Copley Township, Ohio  | Solved  | Perpetrator killed onsite by police.[102]
Amelia Shambaugh | 16[101]
Autumn Johnson | 16[101]
Erica Parsons | December 17, 2011  | 13  | Salisbury, North Carolina  | Solved  | Perpetrators charged in 2019.[103][104]
Charles Powell | February 12, 2012  | 7  | South Hill, Washington  | Solved  | Murder-suicide[105]
Braden Powell | 5
Skylar Neese | July 6, 2012  | 16  | Wayne Township, Pennsylvania  | Solved  | Two perpetrators convicted in 2014. Neese was from West Virginia, and West Virginia signed into law Skylar's Law in response to the case. Skylar's Law modified Amber Alerts in West Virginia to issue an Amber Alert in cases where a child is missing but not suspected to be kidnapped.[106]
Veronica Moser-Sullivan | July 20, 2012  | 6  | Aurora, Colorado  | Solved
Jessica Ridgeway | October 5, 2012  | 10  | Westminster, Colorado  | Solved[107]
Haile Kifer | November 22, 2012  | 18  | Little Falls, Minnesota  | Solved  | Perpetrator hid in basement lying in wait for suspected burglars, the victims Kifer and Brady. After neutralizing the two teens, the perpetrator proceeded to taunt and kill them. Perpetrator was charged with premeditated first-degree murder in 2013.[108]
Nicholas Brady | 17
Lucia Krim | October 25, 2012  | 6  | Manhattan, New York City, New York  | Solved  | Perpetrator, the children's caregiver, convicted in 2018. Governor Cuomo signed into law Lulu & Leo's Law in response to the case. The law makes it a crime to knowingly misrepresent the qualifications of someone applying to be a caregiver.[109]
Leo Krim | 2
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting | December 14, 2012  | 6–7  | Newtown, Connecticut  | Solved  | Murder–suicide.[110]
Angelina Griego | January 19, 2013  | 2  | South Valley, New Mexico  | Solved  | Perpetrator pleaded guilty in 2015 and ultimately received three concurrent life sentences plus seven years to run consecutively with the life sentences.
Jael Griego | 5
Zephaniah Griego | 9
Antonio Santiago | March 21, 2013  | 1  | Brunswick, Georgia  | Solved  | Perpetrator found guilty and sentenced to life without parole in August 2013.
Martin W. Richard | April 15, 2013  | 8  | Boston, Massachusetts  | Solved  | Victim of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Gabriel Fernandez | May 24, 2013  | 8  | Palmdale, California  | Solved  | One perpetrator plead guilty in February 2018 and received a life sentence without possibility of parole. The other perpetrator plead not guilty, but he was found guilty of first-degree murder with circumstances of torture. The second perpetrator received the death penalty in December 2017, but since California does not currently allow capital punishment, his execution date remains undetermined.
Cherish Perrywinkle | June 21, 2013  | 8  | Orlando, Florida  | Solved  | Perpetrator found guilty of first-degree murder and sexual battery and was sentenced to death in May 2018.
Priscilla Perez | July 26, 2013  | 17  | Hialeah, Florida  | Solved  | Victim of the 2013 Hialeah shooting.
Ethan Anderson | August 3, 2013  | 8[111] | Boulevard, California  | Solved  | Perpetrator killed by an FBI tactical agent during manhunt.
Alexis Murphy | August 3, 2013  | 17  | Lovingston, Virginia  | Solved  | Perpetrator found guilty and given two life sentences in 2014.
Joshua Broussard | September 4, 2013  | 17  | Spring, Texas  | Solved  | Victim of the Spring High School stabbing.
William Zhuo | October 26, 2013  | 1  | Brooklyn, New York  | Solved  | Perpetrator pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison in 2015.
Kevin Zhuo | 5
Amy Zhuo | 7
Linda Zhuo | 9
Emani Moss | October 28, 2013  | 10  | Lawrenceville, Georgia  | Solved  | Perpetrator was found guilty and sentenced to death in 2019.
Garnett Spears | January 23, 2014  | 5  | Valhalla, New York  | Solved  | Perpetrator charged with first-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in 2015.[112]
Hailey Owens | February 18, 2014  | 10  | Springfield, Missouri  | Solved  | The perpetrator was found guilty in November 2017 and sentenced to death in January 2018.
Reat Underwood | April 13, 2014  | 14  | Overland Park, Kansas  | Solved  | Victim of 2014 Overland Park shootings. Perpetrator was convicted and sentenced to death in 2016, but died on May 3, 2021.[113]
Zachary Stay | July 19, 2014  | 4  | Harris County, Texas  | Solved  | Victims of the 2014 Harris County shooting. Perpetrator was convicted and sentenced to death in 2016. He currently sits on death row.
Rebecca Stay | 6
Emily Stay | 9
Bryan Stay | 13
Eddy Chen | October 8, 2014  | 7  | Guilderland, New York  | Unsolved  | Victims of the 2014 Chen family killings.
Anthony Chen | 10
Laquan McDonald | October 20, 2014  | 17  | Chicago, Illinois  | Solved  | Victim of police violence. Perpetrator was found guilty of second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm in 2018. He was sentenced to 81 months in prison in January 2018, and he was released on parole for good behavior in February 2022.
Shaylee Chuckulnaskit | October 24, 2014  | 14  | Marysville, Washington  | Solved  | Victims of the 2014 Marysville Pilchuck High School shooting. Perpetrator died from a self-inflicted gun wound.
Zoë Galasso | 14
Gia Soriano | 14
Andrew Fryberg | 15
Nina Flick | December 15, 2014  | 14  | Montgomery County, Pennsylvania  | Solved  | Victim of the 2014 Montgomery County shootings. Perpetrator died from a suicidal overdose during his manhunt.
Philip Savvas Savopoulos | May 14, 2015  | 10  | Washington, D.C.  | Solved  | Victim of the D.C. mansion murders. Perpetrator was found guilty in October 2018 and sentenced to four life terms in prison without the possibility of parole in February 2019.
Bella Bond | June 2015  | 2  | Boston, Massachusetts  | Solved  | Victim remained unidentified until September 2015.[114][115]
Daniel Bever | July 22, 2015  | 12  | Broken Arrow, Oklahoma  | Solved  | Perpetrators arrested after survivor, Crystal Bever, identified her two brothers, Robert Bever and Michael Bever, as the assailants.[116]
Christopher Bever | 10
Victoria Bever | 5
Madyson Middleton | July 26, 2015  | 8  | Santa Cruz, California  | Solved  | The perpetrator was 15 when he committed the crime. While he was initially charged as an adult, due to California law passed in 2019, he had to be charged as a juvenile. The perpetrator was sentenced to juvenile detention in 2021, and he was most recently denied parole in February 2025.[117]
2015 Harris County shooting | August 8, 2015  | 6-13  | Harris County, Texas  | Solved  | Six of the victims were children ages 6-13. The perpetrator was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2021.
Nash Lucas | October 24, 2015  | 2  | Stillwater, Oklahoma  | Solved  | Victim of 2015 Oklahoma State University homecoming parade attack.
Alexis Cruz | February 2, 2016  | 10  | Chicago, Illinois  | Solved  | Both perpetrators confessed and were found guilty in 2022.
Leonardo Cruz | 13
Tyler D. Smith | February 20, 2016  | 17  | Kalamazoo, Michigan  | Solved  | Victim of the 2016 Kalamazoo shootings. Perpetrator plead guilty in 2019.
Christopher Rhoden Jr. | April 21-22, 2016  | 16  | Pike County, Ohio  | Solved  | Victim of Pike County shootings
Victoria Martens | August 23, 2016  | 10  | Albuquerque, New Mexico  | Solved  | Three perpetrators, including Martens mother and her mother's boyfriend, were arrested at the scene. DNA evidence indicates a fourth unknown perpetrator.[118]
Sarai Lara | September 23, 2016  | 16  | Burlington, Washington  | Solved  | Victim of the Cascade Mall Shooting. Perpetrator confessed and was charged with five counts of aggravated murder in 2016. He killed himself in his jail cell before facing a conviction or sentencing.
Zymere Perkins | September 29, 2016  | 6  | Harlem, New York  | Solved  | Perpetrator, the victim's mother, plead guilty.
Jacob Hall | October 1, 2016  | 6  | Townville, South Carolina  | Solved  | Hall was mortally wounded on September 28.[119]
Emma Walker | November 21, 2016  | 16  | Knoxville, Tennessee  | Solved  | In May 2018, the perpetrator was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 51 years.
Alianna DeFreeze | January 6, 2017  | 14  | Cleveland, Ohio  | Solved  | The perpetrator was found guilty in 2018, and he was given the death sentence. His execution is scheduled for 2026.
Ashley Zhao | January 9, 2017  | 5  | Jackson Township, Ohio  | Solved  | Zhao was killed by her parents and concealed in her family's restaurant.[120]
Johnathon Higgins | January 2017  | 16  | Kitsap County, Washington  | Solved  | The three perpetrators were found guilty in 2024.
Hunter Schaap | 16
Abigail Williams | February 13, 2017  | 13  | Deer Creek Township, Indiana  | Solved  | Perpetrator convicted on all counts, sentenced to 130 years in prison.[121]
Liberty German | 14
Genesis Cornejo-Alvarado | February 16, 2017  | 14  | Houston, Texas  | Solved  | The two perpetrators pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 40 years in prison for the murder of Cornejo-Alvarado.
Jonathan Martinez | April 10, 2017  | 8  | San Bernardino, California  | Solved  | Victim of the 2017 North Park Elementary School shooting. Perpetrator died from a self-inflicted gun wound.
Jordan Edwards | April 29, 2017  | 15  | Balch Springs, Texas  | Solved  | The perpetrator, a police officer, was found guilty in 2018.
Reese Bowman | May 23, 2017  | 0  | Baltimore, Maryland  | Solved  | Victim was 8 months old at time of death. She was killed by a daycare worker allegedly because she would not take a nap.[122] The perpetrator pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in 2018.
Austin Edwards | May 27, 2017  | 11  | Lincoln County, Mississippi  | Solved  | Victim of the 2017 Mississippi shootings
Jase Rackley | June 6, 2017  | 6  | Sandy, Utah  | Solved  | Perpetrator died from a self-inflicted gun wound.
Nabra Hassanen | June 18, 2017  | 17  | Sterling, Virginia  | Solved  | The perpetrator pleaded guilty to rape and murder in 2018 and received a life sentence without possibility of parole.
Olivia Gant | August 20, 2017  | 7  | Colorado  | Solved  | Perpetrator, the victim's mother, pleaded guilty to child abuse negligently resulting in death in 2022.
Casey Jordan Marquez | December 7, 2017  | 17  | Aztec, New Mexico  | Solved  | Victims of the 2017 Aztec High School shooting. Perpetrator died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Francisco "Paco" Fernandez | 17
Bailey Nicole Holt | January 23, 2018  | 15  | Benton, Kentucky  | Solved  | Victims of the 2018 Marshall County High School shooting. The perpetrator plead guilty to murder in 2020.
Preston Ryan Cope | 15
Parkland high school shooting | February 14, 2018  | 14-17  | Parkland, Florida  | Solved  | Thirteen victims at the Parkland high school shooting were between the ages of 14 and 17.
Ron'Niveya O'Neal | March 18, 2018  | 9  | Riverview, Florida  | Solved  | Perpetrator was found guilty and given three life sentences without parole in 2021.
Ciera Hart | March 26, 2018  | 12  | Mendocino County, California  | Solved  | Killed by adoptive parents in a murder-suicide.
Abigail Hart | 14
Jeremiah Hart | 14
Devonte Hart | 15
Hannah Hart | 16
Santa Fe High School shooting | May 18, 2018  | 14-17  | Santa Fe, New Mexico  | Pending  | Eight victims were students ages 14-17. The perpetrator is currently considered unfit to stand trial and remains in a mental hospital.
Lesandro Guzman-Feliz | June 20, 2018  | 15  | Bronx, New York City, New York  | Solved  | Guzman-Feliz was killed in a case of mistaken identity in gang violence. Five individuals from the Dominican gang Trinitarios were convicted in 2019.
Anthony Avalos | June 21, 2018  | 10  | Lancaster, California  | Solved  | The two perpetrators, the victim's mother and her boyfriend, were found guilty in 2023 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Mary Welch | August 2, 2018  | 0  | Solon Township, Michigan  | Solved  | Victim died from malnutrition and dehydration. She was 10 months old at time of death. The two perpetrators were charged with first degree murder from child neglect, one convicted in 2020 and the other convicted in 2021.
Blake Shearer | August 6, 2018  | 16  | Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania  | Solved  | The victim was beaten to death in a public park after refusing to turn down his music. In 2019, the perpetrator pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter.
Bella Watts | August 13, 2018  | 4  | Frederick, Colorado  | Solved  | The girls' father Christopher Watts admitted to the murder and was sentenced to five life sentences without the possibility of parole.[123]
Celeste Watts | 3
Tanner Ernest | January 26, 2019  | 17  | Livingston parish, Louisiana  | Solved  | Victim of January 2019 Louisiana shootings
Sapphire McGlothlin-Pee | April 2019  | 12[124] | Sumner County, Tennessee  | Solved  | Victim of 2019 Sumner County murders
Bianca Devins | July 14, 2019  | 17  | Utica, New York  | Solved  | Perpetrator was sentenced to life imprisonment.[125]
Stephen Romero | July 28, 2019  | 6  | Gilroy, California  | Solved  | Victims of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting
Keyla Salazar | 13
Emma Grace Cole | July–September 2019  | 3  | Bloomington, Indiana  | Solved  | Perpetrator pleaded guilty in 2023.
Tylee Ryan | c. September 9, 2019  | 16  | Rexburg, Idaho  | Solved  | Murdered by their mother, Lori Vallow Daybell[126] and her then-lover and now husband Chad Daybell.[127]
J. J. Vallow | c. September 23, 2019  | 7
Gracie Anne Muehlberger | November 14, 2019  | 15  | Santa Clarita, California  | Solved  | Perpetrator died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Dominic Michael Blackwell | 14
Aleksander Todt | December 2019  | 13  | Celebration, Florida  | Solved  | The perpetrator, the children's father, confessed and was found guilty in 2022. Their mother, Megan Todt, and the family dog, Breezy, were also murdered.
Tyler Todt | 11
Zoe Todt | 4
Harmony Montgomery | 2019  | 5  | Manchester, New Hampshire  | Solved  | Montgomery was declared legally deceased in 2024. Perpetrator charged with second-degree murder in 2024.
Maylan Haynie | January 17, 2020  | 12[128] | Grantsville, Utah  | Solved  | Perpetrator was the older brother of the victims. He received five sentences of 25 years to life with parole.
Matthew Haynie | 14[128]
Alexis Haynie | 15[128]
Gannon Stauch | January 27, 2020  | 11  | Colorado Springs, Colorado  | Solved  | Perpetrator convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Patricia Jocelyn Alatorre | July 2, 2020  | 13  | Bakersfield, California  | Solved  |
Hawa Beye | August 5, 2020  | 0  | Denver, Colorado  | Solved  | Victims Hawa Beye and Khadija Diol were respectively 6-months-old and 22-months old at time of death. Both victims died in an arson attack at their family's home.
Khadija Diol | 1
Cannon Hinnant | August 9, 2020  | 5  | Wilson, North Carolina  | Solved  | Perpetrator entered and Alford plea and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Joseph Hawatmeh | November 3, 2020  | 12  | Henderson, Nevada  | Solved  | Perpetrator shot on site by police officers while holding victim hostage.
Haiken Jirachi Myers | December 8, 2020  | 1[129] | Williamsburg, West Virginia  | Solved  | Perpetrator died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Arikyle Nova Myers | 3[129]
Kian Myers | 4[129]
Riley James Bumgarner | 6[129]
Shaun Dawson Bumgarner | 7[129]
Damia Smith | January 9, 2021  | 15  | Chicago, Illinois  | Solved  | Victim of 2021 Chicago–Evanston shootings
Jalaiya Pridgeon | February 22, 2021  | 1[130] | Muskogee, Oklahoma  | Solved  | Victims of the 2021 Muskogee shooting. Perpetrator plead guilty and received a life sentence in October 2024.
Jaidus Pridgeon | 3[130]
Harmony Anderson | 5[130]
Neveah Pridgeon | 6[130]
Que’dynce Anderson | 9[130]
Matthew Farias | March 31, 2021  | 9[131] | Orange, California  | Pending  | Victim of the 2021 Orange, California office shooting. Perpetrator was deemed unfit to stand trial due to head injuries from a police shoot-out, and the case is indefinitely suspended while he receives medical treatment.
Noah Lesslie | April 7, 2021  | 5  | Rock Hill, North Carolina  | Solved  | Victims of 2021 Rock Hill shooting
Adah Lesslie | 9
Tristyn Bailey | May 9, 2021  | 13  | St. Johns County, Florida  | Solved  | Perpetrator was sentenced to life imprisonment.[132]
Oxford High School shooting | November 30, 2021  | 14–17[133] | Oxford Township, Michigan  | Solved  | Perpetrator was sentenced to life imprisonment.[134]
Murder of Kamarie Holland | December 13, 2021  | 5  | Phenix City, Alabama  | Solved  | The perpetrator, Jeremy Williams, was sentenced to death.[135]
Xavier Gonzalez | December 26, 2021  | 14[136] | Garland, Texas  | Solved  | Victims of the 2021 Garland shooting.
Ivan Noyala | 16[136]
Rafael Garcia | 17[136]
Jose David Lopez | March 7, 2022  | 15  | Des Moines, Iowa  | Solved  | Victim of 2022 East High School shooting
Robb Elementary School shooting | May 24, 2022  | 9–11[137] | Uvalde, Texas  | Solved  |
McKinzie Siau | July 19, 2022  | 1  | East Glacier Park Village, Montana  | Solved  | Victim was 18-months-old at time of death. Perpetrator crashed car into victim and her family before fatally shooting her and her father.[138]
Lula Schmidt | July 22, 2022  | 6  | Jackson County, Iowa  | Solved  |
James Roger Thompson | October 13, 2022  | 16  | Raleigh, North Carolina  | Solved  | Victim was shot once and stabbed 57 times by his 15-year-old brother. He was the first victim in the 2022 Raleigh shootings.[139]
Alexzandria Bell | October 24, 2022  | 15  | St. Louis, Missouri  | Solved  | Killed during school shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School.
Fernando Chavez-Barron | November 22, 2022  | 16  | Chesapeake, Virginia  | Solved  | Victim of 2022 Chesapeake shooting. Perpetrator died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Killing of the Haight family | January 4, 2023  | 4–17[140] | Enoch, Utah  | Solved  | Michael Haight murdered his wife, mother-in-law, and five children, and then killed himself.[140]
Nycholas Parraz | January 16, 2023  | 0  | Goshen, California  | Pending  | Younger victim was 10 months old at time of death. Victims of the 2023 Goshen shooting.
Alissa Parraz | 16
Covenant School shooting | March 27, 2023  | 9[141] | Nashville, Tennessee  | Solved  |
Shaunkivia Smith | April 15, 2023  | 17  | Dadeville, Alabama  | Pending  | Victim of 2023 Dadeville shooting
2023 Henryetta killings | May 3, 2023  | 13–17[142] | near Henryetta, Oklahoma  | Solved  | Perpetrator murdered his wife Holly Guess, his wife's children Tiffany Guess, Michael Mayo, and Rylee Allen, and two friends of Tiffany, Ivy Webster and Brittany Brewer.[142]
James Cho | May 6, 2023  | 3  | Allen, Texas  | Solved  | Perpetrator fatally shot by police officer.[143]
Daniela Mendoza | 11
Sofia Mendoza | 8
Jailyn Candelario | June 2023  | 1  | Cleveland, Ohio  | Solved  | Kristel Candelario abandoned her infant Jailyn Candelario at home while vacationing in Puerto Rico. Kristel received a sentence of life in prison on March 18, 2024.[144]
Dajuan Brown | July 3, 2023  | 15  | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  | Pending  |
Chase Doerman | July 15, 2023  | 3  | Monroe Township, Ohio  | Solved  | Victims of the 2023 Doerman killings. Perpetrator pleaded guilty and was sentenced in 2024.
Hunter Doerman | 4
Clayton Doerman | 7
Wadea al-Fayoume | October 14, 2023  | 6  | Plainfield Township, Illinois  | Solved, pending sentencing  | Perpetrator convicted of both first-degree murder and hate crime.
Preston Lord | October 28, 2023  | 16[145] | Queen Creek, Arizona  | Pending  | Suspects arrested in March 2024[146]
Jonathan Lewis Jr. | November 7, 2023  | 17[147] | Las Vegas, Nevada  | Solved  |
Ahmir Jolliff | January 4, 2024  | 11[148] | Perry, Iowa  | Solved  |
Xavier McLaughlin-Le | February 7, 2024  | 10[149] | East Lansdowne, Pennsylvania  | Solved  | Victims of the 2024 East Lansdowne shooting. Perpetrator died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Nakayla McLaughlin-Le | 13[149]
Natalya McLaughlin-Le | 17[149]
Audrii Cunningham | February 15, 2024  | 11  | Livingston, Texas  | Pending  | Murdered by neighbor during trip to school bus stop. Suspect arrested on February 16, 2024, and indicted on two counts of capital murder in April 2024.[150]
Madeline Soto | February 2024  | 13  | Kissimmee, Florida  | Solved  | Boyfriend of victim's mother has been charged with first degree murder. The accused boyfriend was found in possession of videos and photos of him sexually abusing Soto years before her death.[151]
Sakurako Oda | March 10, 2024  | 17  | Manoa, Hawaii  | Solved  | Murdered by their father, Paris Oda, alongside their mother. Paris Oda then killed himself.[152]
Orion Oda | 12
Nana Oda | 10
Jocelyn Nungaray | June 16, 2024  | 12[153] | Houston, Texas  | Pending  | Suspects arrested in June 2024.[153]
Mason Schermerhorn | September 4, 2024  | 14[154] | near Winder, Georgia  | Pending  |
Christian Angulo
Oliver Nephew | November 7, 2024  | 7  | Duluth, Minnesota  | Solved  | Perpetrator died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Jacob Nephew | 15
Rubi Vergara | December 16, 2024  | 14[155] | Madison, Wisconsin  | Solved  | Perpetrator died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Josselin Corea Escalante | January 22, 2025  | 16[156] | Antioch, Tennessee  | Solved  | Perpetrator died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Decker sisters | May 30, 2025  | 5-9  | Wenatchee, Washington  | Pending  | Suspect has not been apprehended.

## See also

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* List of unidentified decedents in the United States
* Parents of Murdered Children Memorial

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