Michigan

39,060 murders reported in Michigan from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 68%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Bath School disaster
1927 · Bath Township, Clinton County, Michigan
MassIdentified, never tried44 victims
On May 18, 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer of the Bath Township school board, set off dynamite he had hidden under the Bath Consolidated School, killing 38 people, most of them children.
Ted Kaczynski
1978–1995 · Lincoln, Montana
SerialPleaded guilty14 victims
Between 1978 and 1995 Ted Kaczynski, a former mathematics professor living in a remote cabin near Lincoln, Montana, mailed or planted 16 bombs that killed three people and injured more than 20 at universities, an…
John Norman Collins
1967–1969 · Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Michigan
SerialConvicted7 victims
Between 1967 and 1969, a series of young women and girls were killed around Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Michigan, in what became known as the "Michigan Murders".
Oakland County Child Killer
1976–1977 · Oakland County, Michigan
SerialUnsolved4 victims
Between February 1976 and March 1977, four children from the suburbs north of Detroit were abducted and killed: Mark Stebbins, Jill Robinson, Kristine Mihelich and Timothy King.