- Neil Entwistle
Neil Entwistle (born September 18, 1978) is the widower of Rachel Entwistle and father of Lillian Entwistle and is charged with their murders. English-born Neil and American-born Rachel were married on Sunday, August 10, 2003, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Although the murders happened on January 20, 2006, the bodies of 27-year-old Rachel and 9-month-old Lillian were not found until January 22, in the master bedroom of the couple's rented Hopkinton, … - Michael Baden
Michael Baden is a board-certified forensic pathologist and medical doctor. Baden is the host of HBO's "Autopsy". Baden received his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine in 1959. Baden maintains a private forensic pathology consulting practice and is the co-director of the New York State Police Medicolegal Investigation Unit. Baden was the Chief Medical Examiner for the City of New York from 1978 to 1979. - Elliott Smith
Steven Paul "Elliott" Smith was an Academy Award-nominated American singer-songwriter and musician. His primary instrument was the guitar, but he was also proficient at piano, clarinet, bass, harmonica and drums. Smith had a distinctive vocal style characterized by his "whispery, spiderweb-thin delivery", and use of multi-tracking to create vocal harmonies. Although Smith was born in Omaha, Nebraska, raised primarily in Texas, and died in Los Angeles, California, … - Chris Reifert
Chris Reifert (born 1969) played drums on the legendary Death debut album, "Scream Bloody Gore". Since he parted ways with Chuck Schuldiner in 1987 after Schuldiner moved back to Florida, Reifert decided to stay in San Francisco, and in 1988 he formed his own band, Autopsy. In this band, he played not only drums but handled the vocals as well. After several albums, Autopsy split up in 1995 and Reifert and band mate Danny Coralles began playing in then side-project, … - Steve Digiorgio
Steve DiGiorgio (born November 7, 1967, Waukegan, Illinois) is an American musician. He played bass guitar in metal bands such as Death, Autopsy, Control Denied, Testament, Vintersorg, Iced Earth, and Sadus. He is widely renowned for his technical skills, and he is one of the very few bass players in the metal scene who plays a fretless bass. He is also a founding member of the jazz-band Dark Hall and is also the bass player for the Sebastian Bach band, … - William Smith
On March 8, 2005 William H. Smith was executed by the State of Ohio for the rape and murder of 47-year-old Mary Bradford of Cincinnati, Ohio that occurred on September 26, 1987. Smith and Bradford were seen talking and dancing together at a local bar where they were both regulars. They left the bar at different times on the night of September 26. On the following day, Bradford's boyfriend became concerned because he had not seen her that day. - Danny Coralles
Danny Coralles is an American guitarist. He played in the band Autopsy and after that band fell apart started a new band with former band-mate Chris Reifert. This band is named Abscess. He also participated in the projects The Ravenous, EatmyFuk and Doomed, also with Chris Reifert. - George Tiller
George Tiller (b. 1941) is a physician in Wichita, Kansas in the United States. He is the medical director of an abortion clinic in Wichita, Women's Health Care Services, which specializes in the provision of late-term procedures. Tiller studied at the University of Kansas School of Medicine from 1963 to 1967. Shortly thereafter, he held a medical internship with United States Navy, and served as flight surgeon in Oakland, California in 1969 and 1970. - Scott Baker
Scott Baker (b. April 30 1957, Holland, Michigan - d. June 23 2000, Toledo, Ohio) was a second-generation racecar driver. He raced in various late-model series as well as the ARCA circuit. He won five late-model feature races in 1995. When he was not racing, he ran his own business, Baker Metal Products. - Eric Cutler
Eric Cutler was one of the founding members of the pioneering death metal group Autopsy. He played lead and rhythm guitar, as well as writing a lot of the band's material, along with drummer and singer Chris Reifert. Since the split of Autopsy in 1995, Eric has been busy with home projects in his own home studio, while later around 1994-95 was involved in a Jazz-Funk Fusion band Dark Hall with Steve DiGiorgio - Ilario Pantano
Ilario Pantano (born 1971 in New York City) is a former United States Marine Corps second lieutenant who was accused of premeditated murder in the killing of two Iraqi civilians on April 15, 2004. A military tribunal found that "The government was unable to produce credible evidence or testimony that the killings were premeditated." and declined prosecuting Pantano for the killings, who maintained he had shot the men as they approached him in a threatening fashion. - Jessica Lowndes
Jessica Lowndes (born November 8, 1988) is a Canadian actress, who has only to date, appeared in television roles. She will make her film debut in the 2008 horror film, "Autopsy". - Thomas Stoltz Harvey
Dr. Thomas Stoltz Harvey (born October 10 1912) is a pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Albert Einstein in 1955. He kept Einstein's brain after the autopsy, apparently without permission from the Einstein family. The controversy that this provoked cost Harvey his job. In August, 1978, New Jersey Monthly reporter Steven Levy published an article: "I Found Einstein's Brain" based on his interview with Dr. Harvey when he was living in Wichita, Kansas. In 1988, Dr. - Dinah Cancer
Dinah Cancer is the stage name of Mary Simms. She is a vocalist, best known for her punk band 45 Grave, one of the founders of the genre of music known as "death rock". - Joseph Druce
Joseph Druce (b. 1965) is a convicted murderer best known for having killed John Geoghan - the former Roman Catholic priest who was convicted of sexually abusing children, and who had also been at the center of the Catholic sexual abuse scandal. In August of 2003, while in protective custody at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, Geoghan was trapped in his cell by Druce, who jammed the door closed so that guards could not reach him. - Victoria Snelgrove
Victoria Snelgrove (October 29, 1982 - October 21, 2004) was a Junior at Emerson College who was accidentally killed by Boston police while she and others were celebrating the Boston Red Sox' victory over the New York Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series. Snelgrove was a junior majoring in journalism at Emerson College, to which she had transferred from Fitchburg State College in the fall of 2003. She was 21 years old when she died. - Thomas Parr
Thomas Parr was an English man who supposedly lived for 152 years, often referred to simply as Old Parr, or Old Tom Parr. - Eliana Ramos
Eliana "Elle" Ramos (c. 1988 - February 13, 2007) was a Uruguayan fashion model. Ramos was a well-known fashion model in Latin America and was signed to Dotto Models, a renowned modeling agency in Argentina. On February 13, 2007, Eliana Ramos was found dead at her grandparents' home in Montevideo, Uruguay, at age 18. Preliminary examinations indicated the cause of death as heart attack, believed to be related to malnutrition; however, … - Bernard Spilsbury
Sir Bernard Henry Spilsbury was a British pathologist. His cases include the Brides in the Bath Murders, the Dr Crippen case, Brighton trunk murders, the Murder on the Crumbles case, Podmore Case and the Vera Page Case. He also had a critical role in developing Operation Mincemeat. Bernard Spilsbury was born at 35 Bath Street, Leamington Hastings, Warwickshire. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and St Mary's Hospital in London. - Ron Settles
Ron Settles was a Long Beach State (California State University, Long Beach) football player who was arrested by the Signal Hill Police Department in 1981. The morning after his arrest, he was found severely beaten and hanging in his jail cell. A huge furor erupted afterwards over the suspicious nature of his death. The police said he committed suicide, but this story was very weak. The Los Angeles District Attorney filed charges against them, … - Trupti Patel
Trupti Patel is a qualified pharmacist from Berkshire, England, who was acquitted in 2003 of murdering three of her children. The three children were Amar (5 September 1997-10 December 1997), Jamie (21 June 1999-6 July 1999), and Mia (14 May 2001-5 June 2001). Trupti Patel was born into a family of Punjabis who had moved from India to England. She spent her childhood in Lancashire, and attended grammar school. She then went to study at Kings College London, … - Charles Randal Smith
Dr. Charles Randal Smith was the head pediatric forensic pathologist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, from 1982 to 2003. The quality of his autopsies, and the resulting criminal charges and convictions of several people have been called into question, and a full public inquiry has been promised. - Katherine Knight
Katherine Mary Knight (born 1956) is the first Australian woman to be jailed for the term of her natural life. She was convicted in October 2001 of the murder of her "de facto" husband, John Charles Thomas Price (born 1956), and is currently detained in Mulawa Correctional Centre. Price and Knight lived together in Aberdeen, in the New South Wales Hunter Valley. Price was the father of two grown-up children when Knight, a former abattoir worker, … - Archibald Arnott
Archibald Arnott (b. 18 April 1772, Kirconnel Hall, Ecclefechan, Dumfries, Scotland - d. 1855, Kirconnel Hall, Ecclefechan, Dumfries, Scotland) was a British Army surgeon best remembered as Napoleon's doctor on St. Helena, and who was present at the Emperor's autopsy. He moved back to Ecclefechan in his retirement and he is buried in Ecclefechan churchyard. He entered the British Army on 14 April 1795 and was posted to the 11th Hussars as Assistant Surgeon. - Ben Linder
Benjamin Ernest Linder, born in California, was a young American engineer who was working on a small hydroelectric dam in rural northern Nicaragua when he was killed by anti-government Contra rebels. Coming at a time when U.S. support for the Contras was already highly controversial, Linder's death made front-page headlines around the world and further polarized opinion in the United States. - Kurt Benirschke
Kurt Benirschke (born May 26, 1924) is a German-born American pathologist, geneticist and expert on the placenta and reproduction in humans and myriad mammalian species. Benirschke was raised in a small town in Northern Germany and received his M.D. degree from the University of Hamburg. He immigrated to the United States in 1949. After an internship in New Jersey, he trained in pathology at university hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School in Boston. - J.J. Paulsen
John James "J.J." Paulsen is an American sitcom writer. He has written for The Cosby Show, In Living Color, and Grace Under Fire. He was born in Queens, New York. Paulsen was arrested for the April 2007 murder of his wife, Leanne Serrano-Paulsen, after police found her body in the attic of their Carmel, Indiana, home. Mrs. Paulsen's autopsy results indicated she died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head, … - Carl Clauberg
Dr Carl Clauberg (September 28, 1898-August 9, 1957) was a German medical doctor who conducted medical experiments on human beings in Nazi concentration camps during World War Two. He worked with Horst Schumann in X-ray sterilization experiments at Auschwitz. Carl Clauberg was born in 1898 in "Wupperhof" near Solingen, Germany, into a family of craftsmen. During the First World War he served as an infantryman. - Antonio Benivieni
Antonio Benivieni (1443-1502) was a Florentine physician who pioneered the use of the autopsy, a postmortum dissection of a deceased patient's body used to understand the cause of death. Benivieni published a treatise entitled "De Abditis Morborum Causis" ("The Hidden Causes of Disease") which is now considered one of the first works in the science of Pathology. Some of the protocols developed by Benivieni are similar to those used in autopsies to this day, … - Eliezer Waldenberg
Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg (December 10 1915 -November 21 2006) was known as the Tzitz Eliezer after his monumental halachic treatise "Tzitz Eliezer" that covers a wide breadth of halacha, including medical halacha, as well as more common halachic issues from Shabbat to kashrut. He was born in Jerusalem in 1915 and died there on November 21, 2006. - Christine Falling
Christine Laverne Falling (born March 12, 1963) is an American criminal. She pleaded guilty in 1982 for the murders of three children she was babysitting between 1980 and 1982. She admitted to three other murders for which she was not prosecuted. Falling was born in Perry, Florida; at the time of her birth her father was 65 years old and her mother was 16. - Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Krishnan Guru-Murthy (born April 5, 1970) is a British television newscaster and journalist currently fronting "Channel 4 News" (produced by ITN), which he joined in 1998. He first appeared on the "DEF II" programme "Open to Question" in 1988, and later presented the BBC's children's news programme, "Newsround", from 1991 to 1994, … - Bathsheba Spooner
Bathsheba Ruggles Spooner (c. 1746 - July 2, 1778) was the first woman to be executed in the United States by Americans rather than the British. She was the daughter of Brigadier General Timothy Ruggles. Spooner had become involved with a sixteen year-old soldier in the Continental Army, Ezra Ross, whom she was nursing from injury. She became pregnant by him and convinced him and two escaped British prisoners of war, Williams Brooks and James Buchanan, to kill her husband, … - Ameer Bukhari
Ameer Abbas Bukhari was initially reported by CNN to be one of the hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and was mistakenly referenced as being the brother of Adnan Bukhari - another man accused of being one of the hijackers. It was initially reported that his name had been found inside the blue Nissan that Mohammed Atta had rented and left in an airport parking lot. - Samuel Wilks
Sir Samuel Wilks (1824-1911), British physician and biographer. Wilks studied medicine at Guy's Hospital from 1844 to 1846. After graduation he was hired as a physician to the Surrey Infirmary (1853). In 1856 he came to Guy's Hospital again, first as assistant physician and curator of its Museum (a post he held for nine years), then as physician and lecturer on Medicine (1857). - Brahim Déby
Brahim Déby (July 7, 1980 – July 2, 2007) was the son of current Chadian President Idriss Déby. It is claimed that in 2005, his father met with him, unknown to the rest of their family at the time, and told Brahim he was his heir apparent.Many suspect he could have run for President to succeed his father in 2011. On May 24, 2006, Brahim Déby was arrested outside a Paris nightclub after getting involved in a brawl. - Aris Kindt
Aris Kindt (Aris the Kid) was the alias of a man (real name Adriaan Adriaanszoon) convicted of armed robbery in the Netherlands in the early 1600s. He was sentenced to death by hanging. His body was later autopsied by the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons on 16 January 1632. His autopsy was later captured in the 1632 Rembrandt painting "Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp", which depicts the surgeon Nicolaes Tulp at work. - Lois Jurgens
Lois Jurgens was the infamous subject of one of the most unusual child murder cases in history, in Minnesota. She was the adoptive mother of six children in the 1960s and 1970s, and brutally abused them all, killing one of them, three-year-old Dennis Jurgens, in 1965. Jurgens was one of sixteen children. Her brother, Jerome Zerwas, was the police lieutenant of the town of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, where she lived at the time. - John Arthur Spenkelink
John Arthur Spenkelink (born March 29, 1949 San Diego, California - died May 25, 1979 Raiford, Florida) was the first man to be executed in the electric chair after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the United States in 1976 (last before that was carried out in 1966 in Oklahoma). He struggled violently as he was being brought to his death. After serving in a California prison for petty crimes he travelled to Florida with another prison inmate. - Angelo Dubini
Angelo Dubini (December 8 1813 - March 28 1902) was an Italian physician who earned his doctorate from the University of Pavia in 1837 and spent most of his professional career at the Ospedale Maggiore in Milan. In 1865 he became head physician and director of the dermatology department at Maggiore. Dubini is remembered for his discovery of an intestinal parasite he named "Anchylostoma duodenale".
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