New York
63,489 murders reported in New York from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 55%. Explore the statistics →
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Cases
David Berkowitz
SerialPleaded guilty6 victimsDavid Berkowitz shot young people sitting in parked cars and walking at night in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn between July 1976 and July 1977, killing six and wounding several others, and sent taunting letters signed "Son of Sam".
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
SingleExecuted1 victimOn 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.
Chester Gillette
SingleExecuted1 victimGrace Brown, 20, a farmer's daughter from South Otselic who worked at the Gillette Skirt Factory in Cortland, became pregnant by Chester Gillette, the owner's nephew.
Michael Ross
SerialExecuted8 victimsMichael Ross, a Cornell graduate and insurance salesman, raped and murdered young women and girls in eastern Connecticut and New York between 1981 and 1984.
Murder of Kitty Genovese
SingleConvicted1 victimCatherine "Kitty" Genovese, a 28-year-old bar manager, was stabbed by Winston Moseley near her home in Kew Gardens, Queens, in the early hours of March 13, 1964, and died on the way to the hospital.
Richard Kuklinski
SerialConvicted5 victimsRichard 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.
Ronald DeFeo Jr.
MassConvicted6 victimsIn the early hours of November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr., 23, shot and killed his parents and four younger siblings as they slept in the family's home in Amityville, on Long Island's south shore.
