Victim Targets - Women

Lloyd Neurauter was convicted of murdering his ex-wife, 46-year-old Michele Neurauter, at her home in Corning, New York, on August 27, 2017. Michele was initially found hanging from a cord in what appeared to be a suicide, but investigators noticed suspicious injuries and determined that she had been strangled. Neurauter eventually admitted that he had planned and carried out the murder, saying he wanted to gain custody of their youngest daughter and was struggling with the financial consequences of their divorce. He also coerced their 19-year-old daughter, Karrie, into helping him. Neurauter pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

Liam McAtasney was convicted of murdering 19-year-old Sarah Stern in Neptune City, New Jersey, in December 2016. McAtasney lured Stern to the Route 35 bridge, strangled her with a belt and stole approximately $20,000 she had inherited from her mother. He then dumped her body from the bridge into the Shark River and attempted to conceal the crime with the help of his friend Preston Taylor. McAtasney was convicted of murder and related charges in 2019 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Brian Steven Smith is a South African-born convicted murderer who was found guilty of killing two Alaska Native women, Kathleen Jo Henry and Veronica Abouchuk, in Anchorage, Alaska. The case became known as the “Memory Card Murders” after a sex worker stole Smith's cellphone and discovered footage of Henry being tortured and killed. She copied the footage to an SD memory card and gave it to police, providing the breakthrough that connected Smith to the murders. Smith was convicted of all 14 charges against him in February 2024 and sentenced to 226 years in prison.

Nicholas Hartman murdered his wife, Alisa Hartman, in Florida in 2012, beating her to death inside their home. The killing initially presented investigators with a suspicious domestic homicide scene, but evidence ultimately led to Hartman being prosecuted for his wife's death. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to 50 years in prison, bringing the case to a close after the investigation established his responsibility for Alisa's death.

Elizabeth Anne "Betty" Broderick was convicted of murdering her ex-husband, Daniel T. Broderick III, and his new wife, Linda Kolkena Broderick, in San Diego, California, on November 5, 1989. After years of an increasingly bitter marriage, divorce and custody dispute, Betty entered the couple's home using a key she had obtained from one of her children and fired five shots from a .38-caliber revolver, killing both while they slept. She surrendered to police later that day. After her first trial ended in a hung jury, Broderick was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder at a second trial in 1991 and sentenced to 32 years to life imprisonment. She died in custody on May 8, 2026, aged 78.

Mark Daniel Gooch murdered 27-year-old Mennonite teacher Sasha Krause in January 2020 after travelling from Arizona to the Mennonite community where she lived near Farmington, New Mexico. Krause disappeared on January 18 while retrieving materials for a Sunday school class, and her body was discovered more than a month later in the Coconino National Forest near Flagstaff, Arizona. She had been shot in the head and her wrists were bound. Gooch, who had been raised in the Mennonite faith but later rejected it, was convicted of first-degree murder and kidnapping in October 2021 and sentenced to natural life imprisonment plus five years for kidnapping in January 2022.

Lawrence "Larry" Rudolph, a prominent Pennsylvania dentist and big-game hunter, murdered his wife, Bianca Rudolph, while the couple were on a safari in Zambia in October 2016. Rudolph claimed Bianca accidentally shot herself while packing a shotgun before a hunting trip, and her death was initially ruled accidental. A lengthy international investigation later concluded that Rudolph deliberately shot Bianca to collect millions of dollars in life insurance and pursue a long-term extramarital relationship. In 2022, a federal jury convicted him of foreign murder and mail fraud, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder together with an additional term for fraud.

Alexander Christopher Ewing was responsible for four murders during a series of violent attacks in the Denver metropolitan area in January 1984. On January 10, he sexually assaulted and murdered 50-year-old Patricia Louise Smith in her Lakewood home, and six days later attacked the Bennett family in Aurora, killing Bruce Bennett, his wife Debra and their seven-year-old daughter Melissa with a hammer. The crimes remained unsolved for more than three decades until DNA evidence linked Ewing, who was already serving a prison sentence in Nevada, to the killings. He was convicted of the three Bennett murders in 2021 and Patricia Smith's murder in 2022, receiving three consecutive life sentences for the Bennett killings and another life sentence for Smith's murder.