- August 24 and August 25, 2002: The bodies of Miranda Gaddis and Ashley Pond are found on the property of Ward Weaver III. He was later arrested for the crime.
- August 4, 2002: Soham murders of 2002 in the UK, Ian Huntley murders two ten year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman (convicted December 17 2003).
- July 15, 2002: Samantha Runyon is kidnapped and murdered in Orange County, California. A man named Alejandro Avila is arrested for the crime.
- Summer 2002: Danish girl disappeared in Isle of Wight in United Kingdom. A 52 year old man admitted that he choked the girl to death.
- April 13, 2002: Laci Peterson's unborn son Connor is found in the San Francisco Bay, California. His mother's dead body was found on the next day, on April 14. Scott Peterson is being charged for the crime. He has not been found guilty or innocent yet.
- March 18, 2002: Miranda Gaddis, Ashley Pond's 13-year old friend, disappears.
- January 9, 2002: Ashley Pond disappears on her way from her Oregon City, Oregon apartment complex to her school.
- June 20, 2001: Andrea Pia Yates of Clear Lake City, Houston, Texas drowns her five children in a bathtub.
- July 2000: 11 and 13 year old sisters got killed by knifeman in Bollnäs, Sweden. The man deluged the older of these girls.
- June 2000: one 10 year old girl was stabbed in Orrefors, Sweden.
- Spring 2000: Two young men abducted, raped and killed 8 and 10 year old girls in Kristiansand, Norway.
- December 30, 1998: Javed Iqbal admits that he killed 100 boys in Pakistan
- April 20, 1997: Laura Kate Smither's decapitated, naked body is found.
- April 3, 1997: Laura Kate Smither is abducted near her Friendswood, Texas home.
- Autumn 1996: One 5 year old little girl was raped and killed in Oskarshamn, Sweden.
- June 6, 1996: Darlie Routier's two sons, Damon and Devon are stabbed to death in Rowlett, Texas. The mother will later be found guilty of the crime.
- October 25, 1995, Susan V. Smith's two sons go missing in Union, South Carolina. Susan alleged that they were kidnapped by a carjacking, but they were found dead in a lake. They were drowned inside her Mazda Protege. Since Japanese cars sink longer than North American cars do, their deaths apparently were agonizing. Susan was charged and found guilty with murdering the boys. She has the life in prison sentence.
- 1995, 1996: Marc Dutroux is charged with abduction of six girls, sexually abusing them and causing death to four of them.
- July 29, 1994: Megan Nicole Kanka is abducted, raped, and murdered by Jesse Timmendequas
- October 1, 1993: Polly Klaas of Petaluma, California is kidnapped from her bedroom from a slumber party, before being strangled to death. Richard Allen Davis is later convicted of the crime and sentenced to death.
- January 11, 1992: Shanda Sharer is killed by four other girls in Jefferson County, Indiana.
- 1989: The most known child murder in Finland was done by Veikko "Jammu" Siltavuori, who abducted and murdered two 8 year old girls in Myllypuro suburb in Helsinki.
- July 27, 1981: Adam Walsh, son of John Walsh, disappears from a shopping mall in Hollywood, Florida. His head would be found 120 miles away. His body was never found.
- August 2, 1976: Andrea Wilborn is shot to death in Priscilla Davis's Mockingbird Lane Mansion in Fort Worth, Texas, before the assailant goes after Priscilla and boyfriend Stan Farr. Priscilla is injured and Farr dies.
- March 1, 1932: Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh, a famous aviator, disappeared. He would later be found dead. A man was charged and executed for killing the child, but many are unsure if that man was truly responsible.