- Anita Cobby Murder
Anita Lorraine Lynch was born on 2 November, 1959. Anita met her future husband, John Cobby, while studying for her nursing degree. They married on 27 March, 1982. At the time of her murder, though, the couple had divorced and Anita was living with her parents in Blacktown, New South Wales. - Red Barn Murder
The Red Barn Murder was a notorious murder committed in Suffolk, England in 1827. A young woman, Maria Marten, was shot dead by her lover, William Corder, the son of the local squire. The two had arranged to meet at the Red Barn, a local landmark, before eloping to Ipswich in order to be married. Maria was never heard from again. Corder fled the scene and although he sent Marten's family letters claiming she was in good health, … - Black Dahlia
Elizabeth "Betty" Short, was an aspiring actress, today better known as the Black Dahlia. She was the victim of a gruesome and unsolved murder at the age of 22. - Vladimir Putin
President Vladimir Putin said air strikes did nothing to settle the situation around Iraq and urged any action taken against it to be sanctioned by the United Nations. - Scott Peterson
Scott Lee Peterson (born 24 October, 1972) is a former fertilizer salesman convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and unborn son Conner Peterson. Laci was eight months pregnant at the time of the murder. Peterson's case dominated the American media for many months. On March 16, 2005, Peterson was sentenced to death and currently resides on death row in San Quentin State Prison. Scott Peterson has not admitted any guilt. - Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) was a leading news anchor for CNN from 1980 to his retirement in 2001. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963 to 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Shaw is widely remembered for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating. - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook April 24, 1954) is an African-American journalist, political activist, and former militant leader from Philadelphia. An early member of the Black Panther Party, Abu-Jamal was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner. Originally sentenced to death, Abu-Jamal's sentence, but not his conviction, was overturned in December 2001 by Judge William H. Yohn, Jr. - Hans Reiser
Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 1963) is an American computer programmer famous for his contributions to the free software community in the field of file systems. In particular he is deeply involved in the Linux kernel development with his widespread ReiserFS journaling file system and its successor Reiser4. In 1997 Reiser founded and has since headed Namesys Inc., … - 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, … - Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 - November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer. Dahmer murdered at least 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1989 and 1991. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving acts of forced sodomy, necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism. - Ed Gein
Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906 - July 26, 1984), was an American serial killer. Though only two murders on his part were proved, he gained great infamy due to necrophiliac behavior (which involved the skinning of his murder victims and exhumed corpses, the decoration of his home with parts of corpses, and the creation of articles of clothing and furniture from the skin of corpses). Besides the death of his brother in 1944 under mysterious circumstances, … - Emmett Till
Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 - August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager from Chicago, Illinois who died in what has been characterized as a "brutal murder" in a region of Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta in the small town of Money in Leflore County. His murder was one of the key events that energized the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. The main suspects were acquitted but later admitted to committing the crime. - Lana Clarkson
Lana Clarkson (April 5, 1962 - February 3, 2003) was an American actress. She was born in Long Beach, California. Clarkson is best known for her film work with Roger Corman, appearing first in his fantasy epic "Deathstalker" (1983). Her work as a sword weilding vixen led to her being offered the title role in Corman's next film, the cult classic "Barbarian Queen" (1985), … - John Allen Muhammad
John Allen Muhammad (b. December 31, 1960) is an American serial killer. With his younger partner Lee Boyd Malvo, he carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing 10 people. This was an apparent attempt to extort $10 million. Muhammad and Malvo were arrested in connection with the attacks on October 24, 2002, following tips from alert citizens. His trial for one of the murders (the murder of Dean Harold Meyers in Prince William County, … - Daddy Long Legs
Daddy Long Legs is the co-founder of the band The Bloodhound Gang, which he left after their first major release, "Use Your Fingers". One of his reasons to leave was that Jimmy Pop wanted to take the band into another direction, while Daddy himself wanted to keep producing old-school hip-hop. After he and his friend M.S.G. left The Bloodhound Gang, they (along with a few recruited members) formed a horrorcore group called WOLFPAC in 1996. - Joe Hill
Joe Hill, born Joel Emmanuel Hägglund, and also known as Joseph Hillström was a radical songwriter, labor activist and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the Wobblies. He was executed for murder after a controversial trial. After his death, he became the subject of a folksong. - Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben (born January 4, 1962) is an American, Jewish author of mystery novels. - Terry Nichols
Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is a U.S. Army veteran who was convicted of being an accomplice of Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of murder in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, April 19, 1995), which claimed 168 lives. Nichols was convicted of eight counts of manslaughter in a United States District Court and was sentenced to life imprisonment in ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. - John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and men, 27 of whom he buried in a crawl space under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers, between 1972 and his arrest in 1978. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, … - Jessica Lunsford
Jessica Marie Lunsford (October 6, 1995 - February 27, 2005) was a nine-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in Homosassa, Florida on February 23, 2005, then raped and murdered by 47-year-old John Couey. The media covered the investigation and trial of her killer extensively. - Lisa Nowak
Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo, is a United States Naval officer and a former NASA astronaut. She was selected by NASA in 1996 and qualified as a mission specialist in robotics. Nowak flew aboard the Space Shuttle during mission STS-121 in July 2006. She was responsible for operating the robotic arms of the shuttle and the International Space Station. On February 5, 2007, Nowak was arrested in Orlando, Florida, … - Tony Martin
Anthony Edward Martin (born 1944) is a farmer from Norfolk, England. He is most notable for being convicted of the murder of Fred Barras, a 16-year-old burglar that he caught in his house. He was sentenced to life in prison, but his conviction was reduced on appeal to manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility to a five-year sentence, of which he had to serve three. - James Coburn
James Coburn was executed for the crime of robbery in Alabama on September 4, 1964. He was the last person in the United States of America to be executed for a crime other than murder or conspiracy to murder. - Ronald Goldman
Ronald Lyle Goldman (July 2, 1968 - June 12, 1994) was an aspiring actor and part-time model who was murdered in Los Angeles, California, in 1994 at the age of 25. Also found murdered was his friend Nicole Brown Simpson, the ex-wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. The subsequent criminal investigation and trial was called by some the "trial of the century". - Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is a mystery/crime writer. He originally started working as a journalist, but trained as a lawyer and later practised law. Many of his books tend to promote lateral thinking, particularly his short story collection "Twisted". One of his books, "The Blue Nowhere", features criminal hackers (one using social engineering to commit murder), as well as a law enforcement computer crime unit. - Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee Lucas (August 23, 1936 - March 13, 2001) was an American criminal, convicted of murder and once listed as America's most prolific serial killer. However, he later recanted his confessions. He once flatly stated "I am not a serial killer" in a letter to researcher Brad Shellady. Lucas confessed to involvement in about 3,000 murders, an average of about one murder per day between his release from prison in mid-1975 to his arrest in mid-1983. - Richard Ramirez
Ricardo "Richard" Muñoz Ramirez aka The Nightstalker (born February 29, 1960 in El Paso, Texas) is a convicted serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison. Prior to his capture, Ramirez was dubbed the "Night Stalker" by the news media as he terrorized California with a series of car and home abductions, rapes, and murders during the first half of 1985. - Barry George
Barry George (born 15 April 1960) was convicted on 2 July 2001 of the murder of television presenter Jill Dando. On June 20, 2007 the BBC reported that George won the right to appeal his conviction. - Martha Moxley
Martha Elizabeth Moxley (August 16 1960 - October 30 1975) was a fifteen-year-old murder victim in a case that attracted worldwide publicity. Born in San Francisco, California, Moxley and her family moved to Belle Haven, an exclusive section of Greenwich, Connecticut, in the summer of 1974. Just 15 months later, on the evening of October 30, 1975, Moxley left with friends to attend a Halloween party at the Skakel home, one block away. - Levi Bellfield
Levi Bellfield, a 38-year-old man from West Drayton, West London, was is charged with the murders of two women and the attempted murders of two other women between 2001 and 2005. Amelie Delagrange a 22-year-old French exchange student living in South-West London, was crossing a cricket pitch on Twickenham Green on the 19th August 2004 when she was attacked with a hammer or iron bar and left for dead. Her body was found later by a local barman. - Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley was an English mass murderer, most notably involved in the "Moors murders". - James Bulger
James "Jamie" Patrick Bulger (16 March 1990 - 12 February 1993) was a two-year old toddler who was abducted and murdered by two 10 year-old boys, Jon Venables (born 8 August 1982) and Robert Thompson (born August 23, 1982), in Merseyside, England. The murder of a child by two other children caused an immense public outpouring of shock, outrage and grief, particularly in Liverpool and surrounding towns. - David Anthony
David Lamar Anthony (born 1948), better known as David Anthony, is a convicted murderer who allegedly killed his wife and her two children. The Anthony murder case and subsequent trial received much media attention in the United States, particularly in Arizona. Anthony's wife, the former Donna Romero, had been married once before, to Samuel Romero. She had two children from her first marriage, Danielle and Richard Romero. - Mark Dean Schwab
Mark Dean Schwab (born December 16, 1968) is a prisoner in the state of Florida, where he is awaiting execution for the rape and murder of eleven-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez, Jr., on April 18, 1991. He was convicted of the crime in 1992, and sentenced to death, in addition to two life sentences. Schwab had been released on March 4, 1991, after only three years for an aggravated rape committed in 1987, for which he was sentenced to 8 years in prison. - Barry Scheck
Barry C. Scheck (b. September 19, 1949 in Queens, NY) is an American lawyer. Although he received national media attention while serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team, winning an acquittal in the highly publicized murder trial, Scheck's more influential legal work lies in his dedication to exposing wrongful convictions as director of the Innocence Project. - Eric Smith
Eric M. Smith (born January 22, 1980) is an American murderer, incarcerated for the murder, sexual abuse and mutilation of four-year-old Derrick Robie on August 2 1993, in Savona, New York. According to court documents, Smith, a loner, was often tormented by bullies for his large, protruding ears, thick glasses, and freckles. The murder case made national headlines, largely due to the young age of the killer and victim. - Marc Dutroux
Marc Dutroux (born 6 November 1956 in Brussels) is a Belgian criminal, convicted of having, in 1995 and 1996, kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered. He was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein. He was arrested in 1996 and has been in prison since then. His widely publicised trial took place in 2004. - Mariane Pearl
Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (b. July 23, 1967 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French freelance journalist, reporter and Global Diary columnist for "Glamour" magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the "Wall Street Journal" reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002. Of Dutch-Jewish, Afro-Latino-Cuban and Chinese Cuban ancestry and raised in Paris, … - Gary Ridgway
Gary Leon Ridgway (born February 18, 1949), known as the Green River Killer, is one of the most prolific serial killers in American history. On November 30, 2001, as he was leaving a Renton, Washington factory where he worked, he was arrested for the murders of seven women whose deaths were attributed to the "Green River Killer". Four murders were linked to him through DNA and three through paint he used at his job. - David Parker Ray
David Parker Ray (6 November 1939 - 28 May 2002) was an American serial rapist and murderer. He was sentenced to 224 years in prison at a hearing in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico - having been convicted of numerous offenses involving the abduction and sexual torture of three young women at his Elephant Butte Lake home. Ray was earlier convicted for his crimes against Kelly Van Cleave, formerly of Truth or Consequences, in July 1996.
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