Mississippi

8,994 murders reported in Mississippi from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 83%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Murder of Emmett Till
1955 · Money and Sumner, Mississippi
SingleAcquitted1 victim
In August 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Black boy from Chicago, was visiting relatives near Money, Mississippi.
Byron De La Beckwith
1963 · Jackson, Mississippi
SingleConvicted1 victim
In the early morning of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers, the NAACP's field secretary in Mississippi, was shot in the back in the carport of his Jackson home as he stepped out of his car, and died at a Jackson hospital.
Mississippi Burning murders
1964 · Neshoba County, Mississippi
SingleConvicted3 victims
On June 21, 1964, during Freedom Summer, three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, drove to Longdale to look into the burning of Mount Zion Methodist Church.