New Jersey

18,955 murders reported in New Jersey from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 64%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Bruno Richard Hauptmann
1932 · Hopewell, New Jersey
SingleExecuted1 victim
On the night of March 1, 1932, 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., son of the aviator Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was taken from his crib at the family's new home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
Thomas Capano
1996 · Wilmington, Delaware
SingleConvicted1 victim
Anne Marie Fahey, 30, scheduling secretary to Delaware Governor Tom Carper, disappeared after dinner in Philadelphia on June 27, 1996, with Thomas Capano, a prominent Wilmington lawyer and former city attorney with whom…
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…
Hall-Mills murders
1922 · New Brunswick, New Jersey
SingleAcquitted2 victims
The Rev.
Joseph Kallinger
1974–1975 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and northern New Jersey
SerialConvicted2 victims
Joseph Kallinger, a Philadelphia shoemaker, killed his own son Joseph Jr.
Richard Kuklinski
1980–1983 · North Jersey and New York
SerialConvicted5 victims
Richard Kuklinski, a Jersey City-born criminal who lived a suburban family life in Dumont, New Jersey, killed business associates and others between 1980 and 1983.