Georgia

30,607 murders reported in Georgia from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 73%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Atlanta child murders
1979–1981 · Atlanta, Georgia
SerialConvicted30 victims
Between July 1979 and May 1981, at least 28 Black children, teenagers and young men were killed or went missing in and around Atlanta.
Alday family murders
1973 · Seminole County, Georgia
MassExecuted6 victims
On May 14, 1973, four men who had escaped from a Maryland prison camp, Carl Isaacs, his brother Billy Isaacs, his half-brother Wayne Coleman, and George Dungee, broke into Jerry and Mary Alday's mobile home on the…
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
1991–1999 · Texas and other states along US rail lines
SerialExecuted13 victims
Angel Maturino Resendiz, a Mexican drifter who rode freight trains across the United States, was linked to at least 15 killings, most of them in homes or along railroad tracks, between the 1980s and 1999.
Derrick Todd Lee
1998–2003 · Baton Rouge and south Louisiana
SerialConvicted7 victims
Derrick Todd Lee was linked to the deaths of seven women in and around Baton Rouge and Lafayette, Louisiana, between 1998 and 2003.
Gary Hilton
2007–2008 · North Georgia, western North Carolina and the Florida Panhandle
SerialPleaded guilty4 victims
On New Year's Day 2008, Meredith Emerson, 24, went hiking with her dog on Blood Mountain in north Georgia and was abducted by Gary Hilton, a drifter then 61.