Alabama

18,995 murders reported in Alabama from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 75%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

16th Street Baptist Church bombing
1963 · Birmingham, Alabama
MassConvicted4 victims
On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, a dynamite bomb planted by members of the Ku Klux Klan exploded at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, a center of the civil rights movement.
D.C. sniper attacks
2002 · Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
SpreeConvicted11 victims
Over three weeks in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, shot people at random from a modified Chevrolet Caprice in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., killing ten and wounding three.
Amy Bishop
2010 · Huntsville, Alabama
MassPleaded guilty3 victims
On February 12, 2010, Amy Bishop, a biology professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville who had been denied tenure, opened fire at a biology department faculty meeting in the Shelby Center for Science and Technology.
Lynching of Michael Donald
1981 · Mobile, Alabama
SingleExecuted1 victim
On the night of March 21, 1981, two members of the United Klans of America, Henry Hays and James Knowles, abducted Michael Donald, a 19-year-old Black man walking home in Mobile, killed him, and hanged his body from a…