Indiana

16,938 murders reported in Indiana from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 67%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Delphi murders
2017 · Delphi, Carroll County, Indiana
SingleConvicted2 victims
On February 13, 2017, Abigail "Abby" Williams, 13, and Liberty "Libby" German, 14, went for a walk on the Monon High Bridge Trail outside Delphi, Indiana, and did not come home.
Herb Baumeister
1993–1995 · Westfield and Indianapolis, Indiana
SerialIdentified, never tried10 victims
Herb Baumeister, the founder of a chain of Indianapolis thrift stores, is believed to have killed young men he met at gay bars in Indianapolis in the mid-1990s and buried their remains on Fox Hollow Farm, his estate in Westfield.
Murder of Sylvia Likens
1965 · Indianapolis, Indiana
SingleConvicted1 victim
In July 1965, Sylvia Likens, 16, and her younger sister were left as paying boarders with Gertrude Baniszewski, a divorced mother of seven, at her house on East New York Street in Indianapolis while their parents worked the fair circuit.
Murders of Half and Susanne Zantop
2001 · Etna (Hanover), New Hampshire
SinglePleaded guilty2 victims
On January 27, 2001, Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop were stabbed to death in their home in Etna, New Hampshire, by two teenagers from Chelsea, Vermont, Robert Tulloch, 17, and James Parker, 16, who…