Virginia

22,743 murders reported in Virginia from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 79%. Explore the statistics →

Cases that span several states show only their locations in Virginia. Open on the big map

Cases

D.C. sniper attacks
2002 · Washington, D.C. metropolitan area
SpreeConvicted11 victims
Over three weeks in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad, 41, and Lee Boyd Malvo, 17, shot people at random from a modified Chevrolet Caprice in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., killing ten and wounding three.
Byron De La Beckwith
1963 · Jackson, Mississippi
SingleConvicted1 victim
In the early morning of June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers, the NAACP's field secretary in Mississippi, was shot in the back in the carport of his Jackson home as he stepped out of his car, and died at a Jackson hospital.
Colonial Parkway murders
1986–1989 · Virginia Peninsula and Hampton Roads, Virginia
SerialIdentified, never tried8 victims
Between 1986 and 1989, four couples were killed or disappeared in eastern Virginia, three of them on or near the Colonial Parkway.
Haysom murders
1985 · Bedford County, Virginia
SingleConvicted2 victims
Derek and Nancy Haysom were stabbed to death in their home near Lynchburg, Virginia, on March 30, 1985.