Texas
87,268 murders reported in Texas from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 77%. Explore the statistics →
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Cases
University of Texas tower shooting
MassIdentified, never tried17 victimsIn the early hours of August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman, a 25-year-old UT Austin student and former Marine, killed his mother and his wife in their Austin apartments.
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
SerialExecuted13 victimsAngel Maturino Resendiz, a Mexican drifter who rode freight trains across the United States, was linked to at least 15 killings, most of them in homes or along railroad tracks, between the 1980s and 1999.
Austin yogurt shop murders
MassIdentified, never tried4 victimsOn the night of December 6, 1991, four teenage girls, Amy Ayers, Eliza Thomas, and sisters Jennifer and Sarah Harbison, were killed at an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!
Genene Jones
SerialConvicted2 victimsGenene Jones, a licensed vocational nurse, worked in the pediatric intensive care unit at Bexar County Hospital in San Antonio, where an unusual number of children died or suffered emergencies on her shifts, and then at…
Houston Mass Murders
SerialConvicted29 victimsBetween 1970 and 1973, at least 28 teenage boys and young men, most from the Houston Heights, were lured, abused and killed by Dean Corll, helped by two teenagers, Elmer Wayne Henley and David Owen Brooks.
Israel Keyes
SerialDied before trial3 victimsIsrael Keyes, an Anchorage construction contractor and Army veteran, abducted 18-year-old barista Samantha Koenig from a coffee stand in Anchorage on February 1, 2012, killed her, and then demanded ransom.
Texarkana Moonlight Murders
SerialUnsolved5 victimsBetween February 22 and May 3, 1946, an unidentified attacker the Texarkana Gazette called the "Phantom Killer" attacked eight people at night on weekends around Texarkana, on the Texas-Arkansas line, killing five.
