Pennsylvania
34,705 murders reported in Pennsylvania from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 72%. Explore the statistics →
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Cases
Boy in the Box
SingleUnsolved1 victimOn February 25, 1957, the body of a young boy who had been beaten to death was found wrapped in a blanket inside a cardboard bassinet box in woods off Susquehanna Road in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia.
Bryan Kohberger
MassPleaded guilty4 victimsEarly on November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students, Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin, were stabbed to death in an off-campus rental house in Moscow, Idaho; two roommates survived.
Thomas Capano
SingleConvicted1 victimAnne 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…
Gary Heidnik
SerialExecuted2 victimsBetween November 1986 and March 1987 Gary Heidnik abducted six women and held them captive in the basement of his North Philadelphia house, where two of them, Sandra Lindsay and Deborah Dudley, died.
Joseph Kallinger
SerialConvicted2 victimsJoseph Kallinger, a Philadelphia shoemaker, killed his own son Joseph Jr.
Murder of Skylar Neese
SinglePleaded guilty1 victimSkylar Neese, a 16-year-old honors student at University High School, slipped out of her family's Star City, West Virginia, home on the night of July 5-6, 2012, and was killed by two classmates, Rachel Shoaf and Shelia…
