Kansas

4,912 murders reported in Kansas from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 83%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Dennis Rader
1974–1991 · Wichita, Kansas
SerialPleaded guilty10 victims
Dennis Rader killed ten people in and around Wichita, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991, and taunted police and the media with letters signed "BTK".
Lisa Montgomery
2004 · Skidmore, Missouri
SingleExecuted1 victim
On December 16, 2004, Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, a dog breeder who was eight months pregnant, was killed in her home in Skidmore, Missouri, by Lisa Montgomery, a Kansas woman who had contacted her online posing as a buyer for a puppy.
Oklahoma City bombing
1995 · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
MassConvicted
At 9:02 a.m.
Clutter family murders
1959 · Holcomb, Kansas
MassExecuted4 victims
Early on November 15, 1959, Herb and Bonnie Clutter and two of their children, Nancy, 16, and Kenyon, 15, were killed in their farmhouse outside Holcomb in western Kansas by Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, two recently…
Wichita Massacre
2000 · Wichita, Kansas
SpreeConvicted5 victims
Over a week in December 2000, brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr committed a string of robberies, kidnappings, rapes and murders in Wichita, Kansas.