Documented criminal cases from Vietnam are added only when reliable reporting, court records or other strong sources support a substantive account. Court findings are separated from allegations, unresolved responsibility stays unresolved, and victim context comes before spectacle.
A case appears under Solved / Adjudicated only when the available record supports a sufficiently definitive investigative or legal outcome. Cases with unresolved responsibility, open investigations or materially incomplete outcomes belong under Unsolved / Partial.
Investigative journalist Lê Hoàng Hùng died in January 2011 after being set on fire at his home in Long An. His wife, Trần Thúy Liễu, confessed, was convicted of murder and received a life sentence that was upheld on appeal.
Open case file →Four members of one family were killed in Bản Phồng, Nghệ An, in July 2015. Vi Văn Hai was convicted of murder and later withdrew his appeal against the death sentence.
Open case file →Provincial leaders Phạm Duy Cường and Ngô Ngọc Tuấn were shot at their Yên Bái offices in 2016. Police identified forest-protection official Đỗ Cường Minh as the shooter; he died before any trial.
Open case file →Lê Văn Mạnh was convicted of robbery, rape and murder in Thanh Hóa Province and executed in 2023. He maintained his innocence, and credible allegations of a coerced confession made the final conviction deeply contested.
Open case file →Vietnamese courts convicted Lê Thanh Vân of murdering 13 people with cyanide between 1998 and 2001 for financial gain. Her death sentence was upheld on appeal in February 2005 and carried out in October 2005.
Open case file →Trương Mỹ Lan was convicted in two major phases of the Vạn Thịnh Phát–SCB financial-crime case. Appellate rulings became legally effective; a 2025 law removed capital punishment for embezzlement, while restitution to bondholders continues.
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Three people were killed and thirteen injured in a 2016 Đắk Nông land dispute. Đặng Văn Hiến was convicted of murder; his death sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment.
Open case file →Trần Văn Thêm was twice sentenced to death for Nguyễn Khắc Văn's 1970 murder before another man confessed and Vietnamese judicial authorities formally cleared and apologized to him decades later.
Open case file →Nguyễn Phương Linh was murdered in Hanoi in 2010. Nguyễn Đức Nghĩa was convicted of murder and robbery, lost his appeal and was executed in 2014.
Open case file →Lê Thị Thanh Huyền died after an unauthorized cosmetic procedure in Hanoi in 2013. Nguyễn Mạnh Tường's 19-year sentence was upheld on appeal in 2015.
Open case file →Nguyễn Thanh Chấn spent about a decade imprisoned for Nguyễn Thị Hoan's murder before he was exonerated and Lý Nguyễn Chung was convicted.
Open case file →Trần Đức Linh and Trần Trí Thành were killed in 2019. Four women were convicted, and the principal appellate challenges were rejected in 2021.
Open case file →Cao Mỹ Duyên was kidnapped and murdered in Điện Biên during Tết 2019. Nine defendants were tried, and six death sentences were upheld on appeal in 2020.
Open case file →Three members of a family were killed during a 2011 robbery at the Ngọc Bích gold shop in Bắc Giang. Lê Văn Luyện was convicted and received an 18-year sentence under juvenile sentencing rules.
Open case file →Six members of one family were murdered in Bình Phước Province in 2015. Nguyễn Hải Dương and Vũ Văn Tiến received death sentences; Trần Đình Thoại received 16 years in prison.
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Vũ Hoàng Dung, known as Dung Hà, was killed in Ho Chi Minh City in 2000. Trương Văn Cam, known as Năm Cam, was convicted of ordering the killing and later executed after his death sentence was upheld.
Open case file →Cases in which responsibility remains unresolved, materially incomplete or legally unadjudicated.
Nguyễn Văn Chưởng was sentenced to death for a 2007 Hải Phòng murder, but allegations of a coerced confession, pressured alibi witnesses and fair-trial violations have kept the conviction materially contested.
Open case file →Four members of one family died after carbon monoxide was released into their Cam Lâm home in 2023. Hồ Xuân Hải was convicted of murder and sentenced to death at trial in 2024; this file does not assume an unverified appellate outcome.
Open case file →Four people were killed across four Vietnamese localities in 2014. Trần Văn Điểm was convicted of murder and robbery and sentenced to death at trial in December 2015; this file does not assume a later appellate outcome not verified by the reviewed sources.
Open case file →Huỳnh Văn Nén spent nearly seventeen years imprisoned after two wrongful murder convictions. Another man was later convicted of Lê Thị Bông's murder, while the sourced record for the second underlying homicide remains less complete.
Open case file →Hàn Đức Long was sentenced to death four times in a 2005 Bắc Giang child-murder case before the judgments were quashed and the prosecution against him was discontinued for insufficient evidence.
Open case file →Five people were killed in and around Củ Chi in January 2020. Police identified Lê Quốc Tuấn as the suspect, but he died during an armed confrontation before trial.
Open case file →Five members of the Mai Xuân Chinh family were murdered in Bình Tân in 2018. Nguyễn Hữu Tình admitted the killings and received a death sentence at first instance.
Open case file →Two postal workers were murdered in Long An in 2008. Hồ Duy Hải was convicted and sentenced to death, but the case remains materially disputed over evidence and procedure.
Open case file →Crime by Region separates proven facts, allegations, acquittals and pending proceedings. Cases are not marked solved merely because a suspect was named or arrested.
Graphic detail is minimized. Sources are used to explain investigations and legal outcomes rather than sensationalize suffering or mythologize offenders.