The topic of this paper is the phenomenology of murder - in its basic, qualified and privileged form. After a brief introduction and description of how the three criminal offenses were regulated in the Criminal Code from 1997, and how they were regulated and what changes occurred in the legal description of the current Criminal Code from 2011, we move on to the frequency of the criminal offenses in the Republic of Croatia and the world. The main part of the work refers to the frequency of the crime of murder, aggravated murder and manslaughter in the Republic of Croatia from 2013 to 2022. All data were taken from the online database of the Central Bureau of Statistics. This is followed by the murder rate in the world and Europe for 2021 and the most dangerous regions of the world according to these data, with a special reference to the stereotype of the Balkan region as a dangerous area. This is followed by a presentation of the statistical figure of the murder of journalists as a special manifestation of a risky profession. At the end of the work, a conclusion was drawn about the stereotype of the murderer in the Republic of Croatia and where the Republic of Croatia and the Balkans are in relation to other regions of the world with regard to the murder rate.