


Ĭolombian politician, writer and self-taught journalist best known for creating the Vallenato Legend Festival. His body and camera were recovered four days later. Īmerican freelance journalist who was struck by falling debris while shooting photos of the collapsing towers of the September 11 attacks. The remaining two, Jimmy Millen and Frank Torpey, were unable to be charged, as Millen had been killed by the others while Torpey died before he could be arrested. His case went unsolved until 2015, when two of his original killers, Mark Searle and Steve McNicol, were charged, convicted and imprisoned. Martin-Smith was murdered and his body dismembered by four acquaintances, who were involved in the drug trade, who believed he was a police informant.

Some of the ransom was allegedly used to fund the September 11 attacks and the 2001 Indian Parliament attack. Managing director of a shoe store who was kidnapped from a rural road in Tiljala, India on July 25, 2001, but was released a little over a week later after the ransom was paid. Bradley Murdoch was convicted of Falconio's murder, and sentenced to life in prison. Ī British tourist from Hepworth, West Yorkshire, who disappeared in the Australian outback in July 2001, while traveling with girlfriend Joanne Lees. Last seen at a bus stop near her home in East Tilbury, Essex, Jones' uncle Stuart Campbell was found guilty of her murder in December 2002 (despite her body not being found) after he was found to have used her phone in the period after her disappearance. In 2004, Michel Fourniret confessed to kidnapping and killing her. On March 1, 2002, her skeletal remains were found in a forest in Paliseul. Mananya Thumpong failed to return home from her local library in Sedan on May 5, 2001. Although his body has never been found, Banfield's wife and daughter were later found guilty of his murder in 2012, though their convictions were overturned on appeal in 2013. Ī 63-year-old father who disappeared from his Harrow home in May 2001. Her skeletal remains were found in Rock Creek Park on May 22, 2002. Her mother and stepfather were convicted of her murder in 2008 and sentenced to 25 years and life in prison, respectively.Īn American intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who was last seen alive on April 30, 2001. The victim remained unidentified until May 5, 2005. Her head was found in a trash bag nearby on May 1, 2001. Three-year-old Erica Green was a murder victim whose decapitated body was discovered on April 28, 2001, in Kansas City, Missouri, 12 to 48 hours after death. Irish sex offender Robert Howard, who is suspected in other murders, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. She was presumed as a runaway until her body was found on March 15, 2002. Williams was an English schoolgirl who vanished while going window shopping in Deptford on April 21, 2001. She was kept as a political hostage, possibly due to the fact that her husband owned FARC money, but was later released as part of a prisoner exchange. Wife of the then-Governor of Colombia's Huila Department, Jaime Lozada Perdomo, who was kidnapped along with her sons by FARC guerillas in 2001. The ransom was paid after 18 hours, and he was released without incident. Serbian business magnate who was kidnapped and held for ransom by a criminal group whose members would later be held responsible for the murder of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić in 2003. Her mutilated body was found buried in a shallow grave in Miura, Kanagawa on Februseveral months after Joji Obara was arrested for her rape and murder. Lucie Blackman was a British woman working in Japan as a hostess who went missing after going on a paid date with a client on July 1, 2000. On July 25, 2022, Quinn's friend, Robert Jason Owens, confessed that his uncle, Walter "Gene" Owens, had killed Quinn, and the two had dismembered and burned Quinn's body in Bent Creek Experimental Forest. Zebb Quinn was an American male teenager who went missing on January 2, 2000, in Asheville, North Carolina. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
