Wyoming
883 murders reported in Wyoming from 1976 to 2025; police reports named an offender in about 90%. Explore the statistics →
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Cases
Charles Starkweather
SpreeExecuted11 victimsCharles Starkweather, 19, killed eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958, most of them during an eight-day spree with his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
Murder of Matthew Shepard
SingleConvicted1 victimMatthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay University of Wyoming student, was abducted from a Laramie bar on the night of October 6, 1998, by Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, who drove him to a rural area east of town,…
Alferd Packer
MassConvicted5 victimsIn the winter of 1873-74 Alferd Packer and five other prospectors set out across the San Juan Mountains of Colorado against advice to wait for spring.
Keith Jesperson
SerialPleaded guilty8 victimsKeith Hunter Jesperson, a long-haul truck driver, killed eight women in six states between 1990 and 1995.
Mark Hopkinson
SerialExecuted4 victimsMark Hopkinson, a Bridger Valley businessman, arranged the dynamite bombing of the Evanston, Wyoming, home of attorney Vincent Vehar on August 7, 1977, after a lawsuit over an unpaid sewer fee; Vehar, his wife Beverly…
Tom Horn
SingleExecuted1 victimOn July 18, 1901, 14-year-old Willie Nickell, the son of a sheep rancher, was shot dead near his family's homestead gate near Iron Mountain, Wyoming, amid a range feud between sheep and cattle interests.
