Explore 24 documented cases from Switzerland. Each file separates established findings from allegations and unresolved questions, with a focus on investigation rather than graphic detail.
Forty-eight people were found dead at Cheiry and Salvan in October 1994. Swiss investigators concluded that many were murdered, but the suspected organizers also died and no surviving person was prosecuted in Switzerland.
Open case file →Nineteen-year-old Marcel von Allmen was murdered near Interlaken in 2001 by members of a small extremist group; four defendants were convicted.
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Werner Ferrari was convicted of abducting and killing children in Switzerland over a period spanning many years.
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Michel Peiry traveled widely through Europe in the 1980s and was linked to a series of attacks and killings of young men.
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Nurse Roger Andermatt killed elderly patients in care facilities around Lucerne during the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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Five-year-old Ylenia Lenhard disappeared from a public swimming pool area in 2007, triggering a nationwide search.
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Social therapist Adeline Morel was killed while accompanying a convicted offender outside a Geneva detention facility in 2013.
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A gunman entered the cantonal parliament building in Zug in 2001 and killed fourteen people before taking his own life.
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Rabbi Abraham Grünbaum was shot dead in Zurich in 2001 while visiting Switzerland.
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Teenagers Karin Gattiker and Brigitte Meier disappeared in 1982 and were later found dead in a cave in northern Switzerland.
Open case file →Four people were murdered in a family home in Rupperswil in 2015; a local man was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2018.
Open case file →Already serving a life sentence, Erich Hauert murdered a 20-year-old woman during unsupervised prison leave in 1993, prompting scrutiny of offender risk management.
Open case file →Jewish cattle dealer Arthur Bloch was murdered by Nazi sympathizers in Payerne in 1942; five perpetrators were convicted the following year.
Open case file →A bomb brought down Swissair Flight 330 near Würenlingen in 1970, killing all 47 aboard; no suspect was ever brought to trial.
Open case file →In 1986, Zürich construction-office chief Günther Tschanun shot four colleagues dead and wounded a fifth; his final conviction was for murder and attempted murder.
Open case file →Marco Camenisch was convicted of murdering Swiss border guard Kurt Moser at Brusio in 1989; a retrial later reduced his sentence.
Open case file →The 2013 murder of a 19-year-old woman by an offender already under electronic monitoring triggered major scrutiny of Swiss release and risk-management practices.
Open case file →Iranian opposition figure Kazem Rajavi was shot dead near Coppet in 1990; a Swiss federal investigation into the assassination was ordered resumed in 2021.
Open case file →Former ski champion Corinne Rey-Bellet and her brother were killed in 2006; the principal suspect died before the allegations could be tried.
Open case file →A 2010 armed standoff in Biel left a police officer seriously injured and led to years of litigation over psychiatric measures and preventive detention.
Open case file →A murder conviction was overturned and a retrial ended in acquittal, leaving one of Switzerland’s most famous homicide cases unresolved.
Open case file →A 2024 domestic homicide led to a life sentence for murder in May 2026; the judgment was reported as not yet final the following month.
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