Nebraska

1,991 murders reported in Nebraska from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 83%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Charles Starkweather
1957–1958 · Lincoln, Nebraska
SpreeExecuted11 victims
Charles Starkweather, 19, killed eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958, most of them during an eight-day spree with his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
Anthony Garcia
2008–2013 · Omaha, Nebraska
SerialConvicted4 victims
Anthony Garcia, a physician who had been dismissed from Creighton University's pathology residency in 2001, killed four people in Omaha in revenge against faculty members he blamed.
Keith Jesperson
1990–1995 · Pacific Northwest, California, Wyoming, Nebraska and Florida
SerialPleaded guilty8 victims
Keith Hunter Jesperson, a long-haul truck driver, killed eight women in six states between 1990 and 1995.
Norfolk bank murders
2002 · Norfolk, Nebraska
MassConvicted5 victims
Shortly before 9 a.m.