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In 2022, 415 violent crime incidents per 100,000 residents were reported to police in Kansas. This is 16 percent higher than the violent crime rate in 2012.

The crime rate in Kansas in 2022 was 9 percent higher than the United States average.

In 2022, 53 percent of violent crimes reported to police in Kansas were not solved. This is 1 percentage point lower than the unsolved rate in 2012.

  • Capital:  Topeka
  • Population:  2,907,289
  • Area:  82,278 sq mi
  • Violent Crime Rank:  17th
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Featured Kansas Missing Cases

Sidney Smith

Missing: May 12, 2000
On May 12, 2000, 1-year-old Sidney Keara Smith, her 1-month-old sister Monique, and their mother, Je ...Read More

Paula Godfrey

Missing: Sep 01, 1984
Paula Godfrey, a 19-year-old from Overland Park, Kansas, disappeared on September 1, 1984. She had b ...Read More

Bernard Mulanax

Missing: Dec 26, 2009
Bernard Francis Mulanax, a 43-year-old Native American man, was last seen on December 26, 2009, in M ...Read More

Jannah Abuhamda

Missing: Feb 21, 2012
Jannah Abuhamda, an 8-year-old girl from Overland Park, Kansas, was reported missing on February 21, ...Read More

Oscar Ramirez

Missing: Sep 01, 2019
Oscar Ramirez, a 17-year-old male, was last seen on September 1, 2019, in Kansas City, Kansas. Not m ...Read More

Matthew Mooney

Missing: Mar 23, 2020
Matthew Sean Mooney, 56 years old, was last seen on March 23, 2020, in Kansas City, Kansas, near the ...Read More

John Swortwood

Missing: Dec 03, 2011
John Swortwood, a 43-year-old man, was last seen on December 3, 2011, in Kansas City, Kansas. He was ...Read More

Joseph Kempter

Missing: Jul 05, 2004
Joseph Richard Kempter, a 63-year-old man from Topeka, Kansas, was last seen on July 5, 2004. At the ...Read More

Livingstone Njoroge

Missing: Dec 30, 1989
Livingstone Kiniaru Njoroge, a 32-year-old man from Kenya, was last heard from in December 1989 afte ...Read More

Floreanne Mayfield

Missing: Nov 20, 2016
Floreanne Mayfield, age 70, was last seen on November 20, 2016, in Kansas City, Kansas. Suffering fr ...Read More
Featured Kansas Murder Cases

Peter Long

Murdered: Feb 17, 2024
Peter Long, 42, from Kansas City, Kansas, tragically passed away on February 17, 2024. Long was know ...Read More

Kristy C Thow

Murdered: May 18, 2023
On May 18, 2023, 29-year-old Kristy Choua Thow of Shawnee, Kansas, tragically lost her life in a dom ...Read More

Hamp Lewis

Murdered: Jun 09, 2004
On June 9, 2004, Hamp Lewis, a 77-year-old retired Santa Fe Railroad worker, was found murdered in W ...Read More

Jose Lumbreras Sr.

Murdered: Aug 21, 2023
On August 21, 2023, 50-year-old Jose Lumbreras, Sr., a resident of Wichita, Kansas, was tragically m ...Read More

Kathy Kelly

Murdered: Sep 01, 1984
Kathy Kelly's unsolved murder occurred on September 1, 1984, in Wichita, Kansas. Her body was discov ...Read More

Lawrence Daigle

Murdered: Aug 09, 1998
On August 9, 1998, the bodies of Lawrence Daigle, 54, and his wife Teresa Daigle were discovered alo ...Read More

Mason Kwan Stanford

Murdered: Oct 06, 2023
Mason Kwan Stanford, an 8-year-old from Louisburg, Kansas, passed away on October 7, 2023, at Childr ...Read More

Claude Hodges

Murdered: Jan 28, 2024
On January 28, 2024, 14-year-old Claude Julius Hodges Jr. of Wichita, Kansas, was tragically shot an ...Read More

Lationna Johnson

Murdered: May 19, 2023
On May 20, 2023, 19-year-old LaTionna Janay Johnson was fatally shot in Wichita, Kansas. The inciden ...Read More

Michael Sanchez

Murdered: Sep 06, 2024
On September 6, 2024, Michael Sanchez, 47, was found deceased from multiple gunshot wounds in the 13 ...Read More

Charles Thompson

Murdered: Dec 21, 1987
On December 21, 1987, Charles W. Thompson, a prominent attorney and Democratic Chairman of the Wyand ...Read More