Maryland

24,348 murders reported in Maryland from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 59%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Jeffrey MacDonald
1970 · Fort Bragg, North Carolina
SingleConvicted3 victims
Early on February 17, 1970, Colette MacDonald, who was pregnant, and her daughters Kimberley, 5, and Kristen, 2, were killed in the family's apartment at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
D.C. sniper attacks
2002 · Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
SpreeConvicted11 victims
Over three weeks in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, shot people at random from a modified Chevrolet Caprice in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., killing ten and wounding three.
Adnan Syed
1999 · Baltimore County, Maryland
SingleConvicted1 victim
Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old student at Woodlawn High School, disappeared on January 13, 1999; her body was found in Baltimore's Leakin Park on February 9.
Murder of Catherine Cesnik
1969–1970 · Baltimore, Maryland
SingleUnsolved1 victim
Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik, a 26-year-old member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame who taught English and drama at Archbishop Keough High School, left her apartment on the evening of November 7, 1969, to run errands and never came home.