The D.C. True Crime Reader
After some conversation on Twitter, here is a list of scandalous and/or notorious D.C. crimes of the last 20 years or so. Links go to Wikipedia or news articles about each.
2018: Wendy Martinez stabbed (Logan Circle jogger)
2018: Bones of three women found at house in Southeast
2017: Bethesda secret tunnel death
2015: Savopoulos family held hostage and murdered
2015: Suspicious Dupont Circle death of Russian defector Mikhail Lesin
2015: D.C. lawyer catfish murder
2014: Disappearance of Relisha Rudd
2011: Lululemon Bethesda murder
2011: Murder of Viola Drath by her fake German count/Iraqi general husband
2010: South Capitol Street shooting
1990s-2009: Gang leader Azariah Israel
2008–2009: The “Mother-Daughter” Killer
2008: Double-decker bus accidental deaths
2006: Mysterious murder of Robert Wone (Swann Street murder)
2006: Murder of New York Times journalist David Rosenbaum
2006: Georgetown throat slashing
2003: Colonel Brooks’ Tavern triple murder
2003 (and earlier)–2004: The D.C. arsonist
2002: D.C. snipers
2001–2002: Disappearance and murder of Chandra Levy
1999: Murder of Joyce Chiang
1997: Georgetown Starbucks murders
1997: The Aspen Hill murder that strained U.S.-Israel relations and inspired a Law & Order episode
1995: Capitol Hill McDonald’s robbery/murder
1994: O Street Market shooting (now the Giant Food in Shaw)
1993: The Shotgun Stalker
1984: Murder of Catherine Fuller on H Street
1975: The disappearance of the Lyon sisters
1971–1972: The Freeway Phantom
