Famous People Who Died of murder

• Bakley, Bonny Lee

  The victim in the Robert Blake murder case

• Bulger, James "Whitey"

  The Boston Irish gangster who was a fugitive, 1995-2011

• Levy, Chandra

  The intern who disappeared from Washington D.C. in 2001

• O'Hair, Madalyn Murray

  Head of American Atheists

• Ramsey, JonBenet

  The 6-year-old beauty contestant killed in Colorado in 1996

• Short, Elizabeth

  The "Black Dahlia" murder victim

• Smith, Joseph

  Founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Stratten, Dorothy

  Playboy model and girlfriend of director Peter Bogdanovich

• Tate, Sharon

  Famous victim of Charles Manson

• Till, Emmett

  The Black teenager murdered in Mississippi in 1955

• Williams, Maria P.

  The first black woman to write and produce a movie, in 1923

See: All Causes of Death