Delaware

1,960 murders reported in Delaware from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 77%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Thomas Capano
1996 · Wilmington, Delaware
SingleConvicted1 victim
Anne Marie Fahey, 30, scheduling secretary to Delaware Governor Tom Carper, disappeared after dinner in Philadelphia on June 27, 1996, with Thomas Capano, a prominent Wilmington lawyer and former city attorney with whom…
Billy Bailey
1979 · Cheswold, Delaware
SingleExecuted2 victims
In 1979 Billy Bailey, who had walked away from a prison work-release program, robbed a local liquor store and then shot and killed Gilbert Lambertson, 80, and his wife Clara, 73, in their farmhouse near Cheswold, Delaware.
Steven Pennell
1987–1988 · New Castle County, Delaware
SerialExecuted4 victims
Steven Brian Pennell, a married electrician and father of two, abducted and killed women he picked up along U.S.