Connecticut

6,473 murders reported in Connecticut from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 67%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Cheshire home invasion murders
2007 · Cheshire, Connecticut
SingleConvicted3 victims
On July 23, 2007, Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky broke into the Petit family's home in Cheshire, Connecticut, overnight.
Ted Kaczynski
1978–1995 · Lincoln, Montana
SerialPleaded guilty14 victims
Between 1978 and 1995 Ted Kaczynski, a former mathematics professor living in a remote cabin near Lincoln, Montana, mailed or planted 16 bombs that killed three people and injured more than 20 at universities, an…
Michael Ross
1981–1984 · Eastern Connecticut
SerialExecuted8 victims
Michael Ross, a Cornell graduate and insurance salesman, raped and murdered young women and girls in eastern Connecticut and New York between 1981 and 1984.
Richard Crafts
1986 · Newtown, Connecticut
SingleConvicted1 victim
Helle Crafts, a Danish-born flight attendant, disappeared from her Newtown, Connecticut, home in November 1986, after telling friends that if something happened to her they should not assume it was an accident.