Missouri

22,777 murders reported in Missouri from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 65%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

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.
Austin yogurt shop murders
1991 · Austin, Texas
MassIdentified, never tried4 victims
On the night of December 6, 1991, four teenage girls, Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Harbison, were killed at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!
Killing of Ken McElroy
1981 · Skidmore, Missouri
SingleUnsolved1 victim
On July 10, 1981, Ken Rex McElroy, 47, was shot and killed as he sat in his pickup truck on the main street of Skidmore, a farming town in northwest Missouri, with his wife beside him.
Ray and Faye Copeland
1986–1989 · Mooresville, Missouri
SerialConvicted5 victims
Ray and Faye Copeland, an elderly farm couple near Mooresville in northwest Missouri, hired drifters as farmhands in the late 1980s and used them to buy cattle with bad checks; Ray had a long record of fraud.