- Gwen Araujo
Gwen Amber Rose Araujo was a transgendered teenager who died during or shortly after being attacked by multiple individuals. The events leading up to Araujo's death were the subject of a pair of criminal trials in which it was alleged that the attackers were angered by the discovery that Araujo - who, at the time, was living as female - was biologically male. In the most recent trial, two of the defendants were convicted of second-degree murder, …
- Patty Hearst
Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954), now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, is an American newspaper heiress and occasional actress. The granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, she gained notoriety in 1974 when, following her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army, she ultimately joined her captors in furthering their cause. Apprehended after having taken part in a bank robbery with other SLA members, …
- David Lloyd
David Lloyd (c. 1938 - 30 May 2006) was an evolutionary biologist and the seventh New Zealander to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in London. He did pioneering work on the theory of plant reproduction. In December of 1992, Lloyd fell victim to poisoning by acrylamide, a common laboratory chemical. As a result, he laid in a coma for three months and he was left blind, mute, and quadriplegic.
- Abner Louima
Abner Louima is a Haïtian immigrant who was assaulted and brutalized by New York City police officers after being arrested outside a Brooklyn nightclub in 1997. In 1997, 30-year-old Abner Louima was married, had two children, and had been living in Brooklyn, New York for the previous six years. Although he had trained as an electrical engineer in Haiti, Louima worked as a security guard in a water-and-sewage plant in Flatlands, Brooklyn.
- Nancy Kerrigan
Nancy Kerrigan (born October 13, 1969 in Stoneham, Massachusetts) is a two-time American Olympic figure skating medalist and 1993 U.S. champion.
- Trisha Meili
Trisha Meili (b. June 24, 1960), often described in the media as the Central Park Jogger, was the victim in a high-profile assault and rape case in New York City in 1989. Raised in New Jersey and Pittsburgh, Meili received a B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. from Yale University, and an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management. She worked at the Wall Street investment bank Salomon Brothers, but went into seclusion for fourteen years following the crime.
- Mary Jo Buttafuoco
Mary Jo Buttafuoco is the former wife of Joey Buttafuoco. Both made headlines in 1992 when Joey's 17-year old lover, Amy Fisher, shot Mary Jo in the head. Fisher, nicknamed the "Long Island Lolita," served seven years in prison. Joey Buttafuoco plead guilty to one count of statutory rape and served four months in jail. Mary Jo and Joey Buttafuoco later moved to California and divorced on February 3, 2003. She is now remarried.
- Mukhtaran Bibi
Mukhtaran Bibi is a Pakistani woman from the village of Meerwala, in the rural "tehsil" (county) of Jatoi of the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan. Mukhtar Mai suffered a gang rape as a form of honor-revenge (see honour killing), on the demands of tribesmen - or by some accounts, on the orders of a "panchayat" (tribal council) - of a local clan known as the Mastoi, a clan that was richer and more powerful than Mukhtaran's clan, the Tatla.
- Aaron C. Hall
Aaron "Shorty" C. Hall (April 28, 1971 - April 12, 2007), was an allegedly gay 35-year old man who died during or shortly after being beaten for hours allegedly by two teenaged males. "Shorty" Hall has been called the Matthew Shepard of Indiana.
- Maria Korp
Maria Korp (b 1955?, d. August 5, 2005), 50, was an Australian woman reported missing for four days and later found, barely alive, in the boot of her car in Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne on February 13, 2005. In the time after her attack she spent many months in a coma and became the centre of a euthanasia controversy in Australia during 2005 surrounding the removal of a feeding tube. Maria Korp died on August 5, 2005. Her husband, Joe Korp, charged with her murder, …
- Malice Green
Malice Green was a black Detroit citizen who died while in police custody after being arrested by Detroit Police Officers Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers on November 5, 1992 during a traffic stop. Both officers were white. Green was under the influence of crack cocaine and alcohol and was approached by the officers because he was observed entering and exiting a known crack house. Green allegedly failed to relinquish a vial of crack cocaine, assaulted the officers, …
- Frank Gardner
Frank Rolleston Gardner, OBE (born July 31 1961) is a British journalist. He is currently the BBC's Security Correspondent, a post he has held since 2002. Educated at Marlborough College, a boys' independent school in Wiltshire, England, and at the University of Exeter, Gardner cites a meeting with the Arabian explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger in his youth, which led to a life of fascination with the Arab world and a degree in the Arabic language from University of Exeter.
- Louise Nicholas
Louise Nicholas is a New Zealand woman who made allegations that she was raped by three New Zealand policemen in her Rotorua flat in 1984. The allegations include sexual abuse with a police baton. The case was bought to the public by the Dominion Post Newspaper in 2004. Assistant Police Commissioner Clint Rickards and former policemen Brad Shipton and Bob Schollum were acquitted in March 2006 of charges of raping her.
- Gladys Staines
Gladys Staines (born 1951) is the widow of Australian missionary Graham Staines. Graham Staines was burnt alive along with their two sons Timothy (aged 9) and Philip (aged 7) in Orissa, India on January 22 1999. In 2004, she decided to go to Australia to stay with her daughter and father. She however said that she would continue to look after the people she and her husband had been looking after so far. In 2005, she was awarded the Padma Shri, …
- Helen Brach
Helen Vorhees Brach (November 10, 1911 - February 17, 1977?) was an heiress to the E. J. Brach & Sons Candy Company family fortune, who lived near Chicago, Illinois. She disappeared on February 17, 1977 and was declared legally dead in May 1984. She was married to Frank Brach son of Emil J. Brach the founder of Brachs, who sold the company in 1966. Helen Brach's hobby was collecting show horses. In the show horse circuit she was known as "the candy lady".
- Gary Kremen
Gary Alan Kremen (born 1963) is an entrepreneur who first registered the domain name "sex.com" in 1994. He also started "match.com" in 1993. He was assisted early on by Peng Ong, the founder of Interwoven, management consultant and entrepreneur Simon Glinsky, and Fran Maier of TrustE. In 1996 Stephen M. Cohen, contacted Network Solutions and fraudulently had the domain transferred to his name.
- Clea Rose
Clea Rose (29 January 1984-20 August 2005) was an Australian university student who died after a hit-and-run crime in 2005. A talented student, she was struck by a car driven by an underage driver who was being pursued by local police. She died three weeks later from a catastrophic brain injury. The incident saw criminal charges laid against the driver of the car and two passengers, …
- Murder Of Amanda Dowler
Amanda Jane "Milly" Dowler (June 25, 1988 - c.March 21, 2002) was a British schoolgirl who was murdered on the way home from school in Walton-on-Thames. Her disappearance in March 2002, followed by the discovery of her remains six months later, resulting in nationwide media attention, a police investigation (Operation Ruby) involving over 100 officers at its peak and numerous tributes.
- Sean W. Kennedy
Sean W. Kennedy (April 8, 1987, Charleston, SC - May 16, 2007, Greenville, SC) was a gay 20-year old man who was beaten and killed as he was leaving a bar.
- William H. Seward
William Henry Seward, Sr. (May 16, 1801 - October 10, 1872) was a Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
- Arash Ghorbani-Zarin
Arash Ghorbani-Zarin (1986 - 2004) was an Iranian student at Oxford Brookes University who was murdered by the brothers of his girlfriend, Manna Begum in a case of honour killing. His body was discovered in a car in Rosehill, Oxford, on November 20, 2004. He had been stabbed 46 times. Miss Begum's father, Bangladeshi-born waiter Chomir Ali (44), had intended for his daughter to enter a forced marriage, which she had refused.
- Barbara Jane Mackle
Barbara Jane Mackle (born 1948) is an American heiress who was the victim of a notorious crime. Her book about the ordeal was the basis of two television movies.
- Kris Kime
Kristopher Kime was a 20-year-old Auburn, Washington resident and Highline Community College student who was knocked down hit his head on the pavement and died during Mardi Gras riots that occurred in Seattle's Pioneer Square district early in the morning of February 28, 2001.
- Reginald Oliver Denny
Reginald Oliver Denny (born April 21, 1953 in San Pedro, California) was a construction truck driver who, after being dragged from his truck, was nearly beaten to death by rioters during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. These rioters were later determined to be gang members. The attack was captured by a Los Angeles News Service helicopter piloted by Bob Tur and shot by Marika Tur. The video was broadcast live on US national television as the attack occurred.
- Gerald Barnes
Gerald C. Barnes, M.D. (University of Wisconsin, 1965) is a semiretired orthopaedic surgeon with Kaiser Permanente in Stockton, California. In the late 1970s an actor, pharmacist, and impostor named Gerald Barnbaum illegally obtained copies of Dr. Barnes' medical license and diplomas, and obtained other personally identifying information about him so he could steal the doctor's identity. Barnbaum, who had changed his last name legally to Barnes, …
- Olive Oatman
Olive Oatman (1838-1903) was a woman from Illinois famous for her abduction and forced slavery by the Yavapai people (though many historians argue that it is impossible to know whether or not these were Yavapai, or some other tribe.). Born into the family of Roys and Mary Ann Oatman, Olive was one of eleven siblings, including an unborn one. She grew up in the Mormon religion. Roys Oatman was a follower of James C. Brewster, …
- Allen R. Schindler Jr.
Allen R. Schindler, Jr. was a gay Radioman Third Class in the United States Navy and a victim of a hate crime. He was brutally murdered in a public toilet in Yokosuka, Japan by shipmate Terry M. Helvey, who acted with the aid of an accomplice, Charles Vins. The case became synonymous with the gays in the military debate that had been brewing in the United States culminating in the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" bill.
- Tjandamurra O'Shane
Tjandamurra O'Shane (born 1990) is an Indigenous Australian who was the victim of a racial attack on October 10, 1996 at the age of six. O'Shane was burned on 70 percent of his body while playing at a school in Cairns, Queensland, when he was doused in gasoline and ignited. O'Shane, a nephew of New South Wales magistrate Pat O'Shane, was critically injured by the gasoline attack, and he had to spend a long period recuperating at a Brisbane hospital.
- Joe Cinque
Joe Cinque was a civil engineer, living in Canberra, who died in 1997 as a result of a heroin overdose administered by his girlfriend Anu Singh. Singh had first laced his coffee with Rohypnol. Singh was subsequently acquitted of murder but convicted of manslaughter over the death, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. She was paroled after four years. The incident was the basis of Australian author Helen Garner's book "Joe Cinque's Consolation".
- Shazia Khalid
Shazia Khalid is a Pakistani medical doctor. On the night of January 2, 2005 she was allegedly raped by Captain Hammad, an officer of the Pakistan Army's Defence Services Group stationed at Sui, Dera Bugti, in a heavily-guarded government-owned natural gas plant. She was severely injured in the attack.
- Garlin Case
The Garlin case refers to the three adults and one juvenile charged in the June 4, 2007 murder of Tammie Garlin and to the earlier horrific physical abuse visited upon Garlin's 11 year old son. Garlin's 15 year old daughter is alleged to have been a willing participant in both her mother's murder and the torture of her brother. All of this is detailed in the Columbia County, Wisconsin complaint, first published on June 20.
- Misha'Al Bint Fahd al Saud
Misha'al bint Fahd al Saud was a Saudi Arabian princess who was a victim of an honour killing, being publicly killed by her own family on a trumped-up charge of adultery in 1977, at the age of 19. She was a granddaughter of Prince Muhammad bin Abdul Aziz, who was an older brother of the then King of Saudi Arabia, Khalid bin Abdul Aziz. She was legally married according to the Sharia, but the king refused to recognize her marriage to a commoner.
- Cheryl Araujo
Cheryl Ann Araujo (1961-1986) was an American rape victim whose case became national news, and was the basis of the 1988 film "The Accused". Araujo was gang-raped by four men on a pool table in a tavern while other patrons watched but did not interfere. During the prosecution, the defendants' attorneys used cross-examination of Araujo to such an extent that the case became widely seen as a template for "blaming the victim" in rape cases.
- Walter Mikac
Walter Mikac is an Australian pharmacist who became widely known in the aftermath of the Port Arthur massacre, where his wife Nanette Mikac (nee Moulton) and daughters, six-year-old Alannah Mikac and three-year-old Madeline Mikac were among 35 people killed by Martin Bryant on April 28, 1996. In the subsequent debate surrounding gun politics in Australia, Mikac became a prominent advocate for tightening gun laws.
- Abigail Witchalls
Abigail Witchalls (born 25 November 1978) is an English woman who was left paralysed after being stabbed in front of her twenty-one-month old son Joseph in Surrey, England, on 20 April 2005. Born Abigail Hollins, the daughter of Dr. Martin Hollins and his wife Sheila, she comes from a committed Catholic family with ties to the Lay Community of St Benedict. Abigail married Benoit Witchalls on October 12 2002. On 20 April 2005, Abigail, while out walking with her son Joseph, …
- Ghazala Khan
Ghazala Khan was a Danish‐Pakistani woman, who was shot and killed in Denmark by her brother after she had married against the will of the family. The murder of Ghazala had been ordered by her father to save the family honour, making it a so‐called honour killing.
- Frederick W. Seward
Frederick William Seward (July 8, 1830 - April 25, 1915) was the Assistant Secretary of State during the American Civil War, serving in Abraham Lincoln's administration as well as under Andrew Johnson during Reconstruction and for over two years under Rutherford B. Hayes.
- Monica Coghlan
Monica Coghlan (3 May 1951 - 27 April 2001) was the prostitute at the centre of a scandal that involved English Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer in 1987. Although he won a libel case against the "Daily Star" newspaper, which had alleged that he slept with her, it was later revealed in a separate legal proceeding in 2001 that he had perjured himself in the trial. Archer was jailed himself for this in July 2001.
- Truddi Chase
Truddi Chase (born near Rochester, New York) is the author of "When Rabbit Howls" (1987), which is often called the first autobiographical account of Multiple Personality Disorder by an individual, rather than by their therapist. (However, see discussion below.) The focus of the book is the internal process the author undergoes as her personalities ("the Troops") become aware of one another and their functions in protecting the mental cores.
- Hatun Sürücü
Hatun Aynur Sürücü was a Kurdish woman whose family was originally from Erzurum, Turkey. She was murdered at the age of 23 in Berlin, by her own youngest brother, in a so-called honor killing. Sürücü had divorced the cousin she was forced to marry at the age of 16, and was reportedly dating a German man. Her murder inflamed a public debate over forced marriage in Muslim families.