A torture murder is a murder where death was preceded by the torture of the victim. In many legal jurisdictions a murder involving "exceptional brutality or cruelty" will attract a harsher sentence if the killing is not sanctioned by authorities or carried out by state security forces themselves.
A torturemurder is a murder where death was preceded by the torture of the victim. In many legal jurisdictions a murder involving "exceptional brutality...
Isauro Aguirre were charged and convicted of first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture. According to prosecutors, Aguirre allegedly abused Gabriel...
(January 3, 1949 – October 26, 1965) was an American teenager who was tortured and murdered by her caregiver, Gertrude Baniszewski, many of Baniszewski's children...
torture-murdered in Greensburg, Pennsylvania as an act of revenge in February 2010. Daugherty, who was mentally disabled, was tortured and murdered before...
teenager who was murdered in Manchester, England at the age of 17 by her abuser, James Patterson Smith (born c. 1948). She was tortured by him over a period...
was a 35-year-old mother-of-two from Ealing, west London, who was tortured and murdered by three people she considered to be her friends. Spencer, who was...
who was abducted, raped, tortured and subsequently murdered. Her case was called the "concrete-encased high school girl murder case" (女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件...
The couple were taken to a rental house. Both of them were raped, tortured, and murdered. Four males and one female were arrested, charged, and convicted...
Low where petrol was poured over her and she was set alight. The torture and murder arose from the "avenging [of] trivial grievances: a sexual insult...
spring of 1999, when a nightclub hostess was abducted in Lai Yiu Estate, tortured and raped in an apartment in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, after stealing a wallet...
"Woman's torture-murder sentence stands". Associated Press. January 8, 2008. Archived from the original on January 30, 2008. "Appeal denied in 1992 torture death"...
gruesome nature of the crime. Sheila and Clay Fletcher were charged with murder for Lacey's death. In February 2024, they were given a plea deal for the...
counts, including murder, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit rape and kidnapping." Authorities initially pursued torture and rape charges...
killing Exceptional brutality or cruelty, torturemurderMurder committed by an offender previously convicted of murder Methods which are dangerous to the public...
Hollywood. Blake Leibel, her fiancé, was convicted of first-degree murder, torture and aggravated mayhem on June 20, 2018. On June 26, 2018, he was sentenced...
American serial killers and rapists who committed the kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of five teenage girls in southern California over a five-month period...
serial murder traits. A child used as a scapegoat will be deprived of their capacity to feel guilt. Displaced anger could result in animal torture, as identified...
boyfriend, Kareem Leiva, were charged with first-degree murder with special circumstances of torture. According to Sheriff Jim McDonnell, the arrest of Leiva...
sons. While in prison awaiting trial for the Vehar murders, Hopkinson ordered the torture-murder of one of his employees, Jeff Green, who was about to...
Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person...
Lust murder, also called sexual homicide, is a homicide which occurs in tandem with either an overt sexual assault or sexually symbolic behavior. Lust...
Mass murder is the violent crime of killing a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in proximity. A...
arranged for her own torture and strangulation over the Internet. In 2001, Armin Meiwes, a citizen of Rotenburg, Germany, murdered and cannibalized Bernd...
August 1982) and Jon Venables (born 13 August 1982), abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 – 12 February...
Pedicide, child murder, child manslaughter, or child homicide is the homicide of an individual who is a minor. In many legal jurisdictions it is considered...
an American serial killer and sex offender who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered a minimum of twenty-eight teenage boys and young men between 1970...
the rape, torture, mutilation, and murder of 147 minors, predominantly young men and boys in western Colombia. Beginning a series of torture-rapes on minors...
Rat torture is the use of rats to torture a victim by encouraging them to attack and eat the victim alive. The "Rats Dungeon", or "Dungeon of the Rats"...
confession. Torture was still a labor-intensive process reserved for the most serious crimes; most torture victims were men accused of murder, treason,...