Washington

11,385 murders reported in Washington from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 78%. Explore the statistics →

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Cases

Gary Ridgway
1982–1998 · King County, Washington
SerialPleaded guilty49 victims
Gary Ridgway killed at least 49 women and girls in King County, Washington, mostly between 1982 and 1984, many of whom he picked up along Pacific Highway South near Sea-Tac Airport.
Bryan Kohberger
2022 · Moscow, Idaho
MassPleaded guilty4 victims
Early 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.
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…
Carnation murders
2007 · Carnation, King County, Washington
MassConvicted6 victims
On Christmas Eve 2007, Michele Anderson and her boyfriend Joseph McEnroe, both 29, shot and killed six members of her family at her parents' rural home near Carnation, Washington: her parents, her brother, his wife, and…
Charles Rodman Campbell
1982 · Snohomish County, Washington
MassExecuted3 victims
On April 14, 1982, Charles Rodman Campbell killed Renae Wicklund, her daughter Shannah, and their neighbor Barbara Hendrickson at the Wicklund home in Clearview, Snohomish County.
Christopher Monfort
2009 · Seattle, Washington
SingleConvicted1 victim
On Halloween night 2009, Christopher Monfort ambushed two Seattle police officers in their parked patrol car in the Leschi / Central District area, killing Officer Timothy Brenton and wounding his trainee partner; nine…
Donald Moeller
1990 · Sioux Falls, South Dakota
SingleExecuted1 victim
On May 8, 1990, nine-year-old Becky O'Connell walked to a convenience store in her Sioux Falls, South Dakota, neighborhood to buy sugar and candy and did not come home.
George Waterfield Russell Jr.
1990 · Bellevue, Washington
SerialConvicted3 victims
George Russell, a petty thief and nightclub regular who grew up on Mercer Island, killed three women on Seattle's Eastside in the summer of 1990.
Isaac Zamora
2008 · Skagit County, Washington
SpreePleaded guilty4 victims
On the afternoon of September 2, 2008, Isaac Zamora, 28, shot and killed six people, including Skagit County sheriff's deputy Anne Jackson, in and around the town of Alger, Washington, and on Interstate 5.
Joseph Duncan
1996–2005 · Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
SerialConvicted7 victims
Joseph Edward Duncan III, a convicted sex offender who had served prison time for raping a boy in 1980, killed Brenda Groene, her fiancé Mark McKenzie and her 13-year-old son Slade at their home near Coeur d'Alene,…
Keith Jesperson
1990–1995 · Pacific Northwest, California, Wyoming, Nebraska and Florida
SerialPleaded guilty8 victims
Keith Hunter Jesperson, a long-haul truck driver, killed eight women in six states between 1990 and 1995.
Robert Lee Yates Jr.
1975–1998 · Spokane, Washington
SerialConvicted15 victims
Robert Lee Yates Jr., a former Army helicopter pilot, killed a young couple near Walla Walla in 1975 and a woman found in Skagit County in 1988, then killed at least a dozen women in Spokane and the Tacoma area between…
Ted Bundy
1974–1978 · Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Florida
SerialExecuted20 victims
Ted Bundy abducted and murdered young women and girls in Washington, Oregon, Utah, Colorado, Idaho and Florida between 1974 and 1978.
Wah Mee massacre
1983 · Seattle, Washington
MassConvicted13 victims
On the night of February 18-19, 1983, three gunmen robbed the Wah Mee, an exclusive high-stakes gambling club in the Louisa Hotel building in Seattle's Chinatown-International District; 14 people were tied up and shot,…
Westley Allan Dodd
1989 · Vancouver, Washington
SerialExecuted3 victims
Westley Allan Dodd, a repeat child sex offender, killed three young boys in Vancouver, Washington, in the autumn of 1989: brothers Cole and William Neer in David Douglas Park, and four-year-old Lee Iseli of Portland.