London Olsen, 11, of Baltimore, Maryland, was strangled on Thursday, January 23, 2025, in her family’s Middle River home. Her mother has been charged with murder.
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London Olsen, 11, of Baltimore, Maryland, was strangled on Thursday, January 23, 2025, in her family’s Middle River home. Her mother has been charged with murder.
According to police, Ka’Niyah Baker, 13, had been missing from foster care in Columbia, South Carolina since January 12, 2025. Her burned and stabbed body was found three days later.
On Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 33-year-old Chelsea Milledge, a mother of four, was fatally shot in her home in Albany, Georgia. A 21-year-old man has been arrested.
Authorities believe Krystal Anderson, a mother from Aiken County, South Carolina, was killed on August 20, 2022, by her boyfriend, Tony Berry, and stuffed her body into the trunk of his car.
Washington, D.C. resident Alexis Shuler, 29, went missing on Friday, January 10, 2025 after being with her boyfriend and the father of one of her children. Her body was found between a newly built wall in his home. He is charged with murder.
On the night of Saturday, January 18, 2025, Taylor J. Wilkinson, 20, was walking alongside her older sister on a Roxbury roadside when they were struck by a vehicle. The impact killed Wilkinson, while her sister survived. The driver fled the scene.
The body of Tracy Nyariki, 31, was found in her former partner’s vehicle in Aberdeen, Maryland. Police siad that she had been dismembered.
Chaquanda Latise Odom, 36, of California, Maryland, was shot to death on January 3, 2025 inside her vehicle in Lexington Park, Maryland. Her ex-husband has been charged.
Monet Newton, 24, worked with the Phoenix Suns and was days away from graduating after earning her master’s degree. She was found in a Glendale, Arizona residence unalived in a murder-suicide on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
Star Tucker, 30, was killed on Thursday, January 2, 2025, about 8 p.m. in what authorities describe as a “domestic” incident.
Tiffany Woods was shot to death on December 27, 2024, in Hammond, Indiana. Her ex-husband is wanted in relation to the killing. He is believed to be in Chicago.
Mahogany Jackson, 20, was abducted, tortured and sexually assaulted by a group of youths she thought were her friends. Her body was found on Monday, Feb. 27, 2024 in a wooded area of the city.
Brittany Bolden, 34, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was shot to death on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2024. She leaves behind four children.
Egypt Zapporah Carter, 23, was shot and killed while in her car in a quiet neighborhood in Woodbridge, Virginia, on Feb. 2, 2024, around 2 a.m.
Jo’Miya Ann Wilson, 20, was fatally shot on December 2, 2024, in a domestic-related event in Hazel Green, Alabama, according to authorities, who continue to investigate.
Lanai Dees, 21, was fatally shot in her vehicle on Sunday, November 17, 2024 on a street in South Los Angeles. Law enforcement is investigating the murder but needs the public’s help.
Natasha Renee Harris, 30, was found around 7:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, in a parking lot outside some apartments suffering from gunshot wounds, according to the Anne Arundel County Police.
Breaja Jones, 21, was fatally shot inside her Clovis, California home on Saturday, October 19, 2024. The father of her baby girl has been charged.
Heather Smith, 48, was found dead in her Harris County, Texas, home by her boyfriend on Friday, August 30, 2024. Her neighbor has been charged with capital murder.