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| x Tupac 1994 assault | Assault | ||||
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| x Daegu subway fire |
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The Daegu subway fire of February 18, 2003 killed at least 198 people and injured at least 147. An arsonist set fire to a train stopped at the Jungangno Station of the Daegu Metropolitan Subway in Daegu, South Korea. The fire then spread to a second...
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| x O.J. Simpson Las Vegas Robbery | Robbery |
On the night of September 13, 2007, a group of men led by O.J. Simpson entered a room in the Palace Station hotel in Las Vegas and left with various sports memorabilia and one phone. According to Bruce Fromong, a...
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| x September 11, 2001 attacks |
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The September 11 attacks (often referred to as September 11th or 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda upon the United States on September 11, 2001. On that morning, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger...
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| x 1998 United States embassy bombings |
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In the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings (August 7, 1998) hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The attacks,...
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| x 1995 Riyadh truck bombing | |||||
| x 1931 Leavenworth Penitentiary Breakout | |||||
| x Watergate scandal |
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Slush fund |
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal in the United States in the 1970s. Named for the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., effects of the scandal ultimately led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, President of the United States,...
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| x St. Valentine's Day massacre |
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The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the murder of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North...
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| x Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman murders | Murder | Case closed | |||
| x Manhattan Well Murder | Murder | ||||
| x Mel Gibson DUI incident |
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Drunk driving | Case closed |
On July 28, 2006, at 2:36am PDT, Mel Gibson was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol after being stopped for speeding (87 mph/140 km/h in a 45 mph/72 km/h zone) in his 2006 Lexus LS 430 on Pacific Coast Highway in...
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| x Reichstag fire |
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Arson |
The Reichstag fire (German: Der Reichstagsbrand) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin on 27 February 1933. The event is seen as pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.
At 21:25hrs (UTC +1), a Berlin fire station received an...
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| x Hunters Brooke arson |
The Hunters Brooke arson refers to a series of fires that destroyed over two dozen houses in the new Hunters Brooke Development on Maryland Route 225, southeast of Indian Head, Maryland, in the United States, on December 6, 2004. It is considered to...
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| x 2008 Namdaemun fire |
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The 2008 Namdaemun fire was a fire set by Korean citizen and arsonist Chae Jong-gi (Hangul: 채종기) that occurred on the Namdaemun, the most historically significant gate in Seoul, South Korea, and the first of Korea's National Treasures, on the date...
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| x Solingen arson attack of 1993 |
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The Solingen arson attack of 1993 was one of the most severe instances of anti-foreigner violence in modern Germany. On the night of May 28 to May 29, 1993, four young German men belonging to the far right skinhead scene, with neo-Nazi ties, set...
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| x Yogurt Shop Murders | Murder |
Yogurt Shop Murders refers to the deaths of four teenage girls in a yogurt shop in Austin, Texas on the night of Friday 6 December 1991, after which the yogurt shop they were in was set aflame. The bodies of 13-year-old Amy Ayers (sometimes spelled...
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| x Aramoana massacre |
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Mass murder |
The Aramoana massacre was a mass murder that occurred on 13 November 1990 in the small seaside township of Aramoana, New Zealand. Resident David Gray, a 33-year-old unemployed man, began indiscriminately shooting people in the township with a scoped...
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| x The Gun Alley Murder |
The Gun Alley Murder was the rape and murder of 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke in Melbourne, Australia, in 1921. She was a schoolgirl and had last been seen alive close to a drinking establishment, the Australian Wine Saloon; under these circumstances...
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| x Perth Mint Swindle |
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Robbery | Open case |
The Perth Mint Swindle is the popular name of a 22 June 1982 gold robbery at the Perth Mint in Perth, Western Australia. A total of 49 gold bars weighing 68 kg were stolen. The value of the gold at the time was A$653,000.
Three brothers, Ray, Peter...
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| x Great Bookie Robbery | Robbery |
The Great Bookie Robbery was a crime committed in Melbourne, Australia on 21 April 1976.
A well-organized gang of six stole between $6 million and $12 million from the Victoria Club, which was located on the second floor of a building in Queen...
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| x Air France Robbery | Robbery |
In 1967 mobster Henry Hill, aged 23, committed a US$420,000 burglary at the Air France air-cargo terminal in New York City's JFK International Airport.
The heist is memorable for its sheer audacity, and the unusualness of the target, particularly in...
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| x Lufthansa heist |
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Robbery |
The Lufthansa heist was a robbery at John F. Kennedy International Airport on December 11, 1978. An estimated $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewels were stolen, at the time making it the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil. This...
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| x White Eagle: the Wells Fargo depot robbery | Robbery |
White Eagle was the name given by Los Macheteros (a guerrilla group seeking Puerto Rican independence from the United States) to its robbery of the Wells Fargo depot on 12 September 1983.
The group's code name for the robbery was "White Eagle" (or...
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| x 300 million yen robbery | Robbery |
The 300 million yen robbery (三億円事件, San Oku En Jiken), also known as the 300 million yen affair or incident, was the single largest heist in Japanese history. It occurred on the morning of December 10, 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. As of 2008 it remains...
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| x Brinks robbery | Robbery |
The Brinks robbery of 1981 was an armed robbery committed on October 20, 1981, which was carried out by Black Liberation Army members; including Jeral Wayne Williams (aka Mutulu Shakur), Donald Weems (aka Kuwasi Balagoon), Samuel Smith, Nathaniel...
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| x Gold dust robbery | Robbery |
The Gold dust robbery took place in 1839 in Falmouth, Cornwall. According to the New Newgate Calendar, pp. 480ff, "The extraordinary robbery to which these persons were parties involved circumstances probably more singular than any other which ever...
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| x NOKAS robbery | Robbery |
On April 5, 2004, the NOKAS teller central in Stavanger was robbed. The outcome of the robbery was approximately NOK 57,4 million (approx. USD 9.3 million), making it the largest robbery in Norwegian history. It was also the first time in many years...
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| x Norco shootout | Robbery |
The Norco shootout was an armed confrontation between five heavily-armed bank robbers and Riverside and San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies after the perpetrators robbed the Security Pacific Bank in Norco, California, USA on May 9, 1980. The...
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| x Pierre Hotel Robbery | Robbery |
The 1972 Pierre Hotel Robbery was a hotel robbery planned by Samuel Nalo and Robert Comfort, an associate of the Lucchese crime family, and carried out by several of his associates. It began in early November 1971. This robbery would later be listed...
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| x 1998 Bank of America robbery | Robbery |
In 1998, struggling mobster Ralph Guarino, decided to rob the World Trade Center's Bank of America. He recruited a friend named Salvatore Calciano, who had worked at the World Trade Center (WTC) for 20 years.
Salvatore explained to Ralph that...
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| x Agricultural Bank of China robbery | Robbery |
The Agricultural Bank of China robbery was the embezzlement of nearly 51 million yuan (c.US$6.7 million) from the Handan branch of the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) in Hebei province between March 16 and April 14, 2007. Perpetrated by two vault...
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| x Baker Street robbery | Robbery |
The Baker Street robbery was a robbery of the safe deposit boxes at a branch of Lloyds Bank on the corner of Baker Street and Marylebone Road, London, on the night of 11 September 1971. The robbers had rented a leather goods shop named Le Sac, two...
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| x Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza | Robbery |
The Banco Central burglary at Fortaleza was a bank robbery of the Banco Central in Fortaleza, a city in northeastern Brazil. It is one of the world's largest burglaries, along with the 1987 Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery in London.
On the...
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| x Bank of Australia robbery | Robbery |
The Bank of Australia robbery was the first bank robbery in Australia and apparently the largest. On 14 September 1828 a gang of five robbers - William Blackstone (bank robber), George Farrell (bank robber), James Dingle, John Wilford alias...
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| x Brinks Mat robbery | Robbery |
The Brinks Mat Robbery occurred on 26 November 1983 when six robbers broke into the Brinks Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England. The robbers thought they were going to steal £3 million in cash; however, when they arrived, they found three...
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| x Central Bank of Iraq robbery | Robbery | ||||
| x Chelembra bank robbery | Robbery |
The Chelambra bank robbery in the Malappuram district of Kerala, India is considered to be one of the biggest and most sensational bank robberies in the crime history of Kerala. In the early hours of 30 December 2007, the robbers made a hole in the...
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| x Dunbar Armored robbery | Robbery |
The Dunbar Armored robbery is the largest cash robbery to have occurred in the United States. It occurred in 1997 at the Dunbar Armored facility in Los Angeles, California. The thieves made off with some US$18.9 million.
The robbery was masterminded...
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| x Great Brinks Robbery | Robbery |
The Great Brink's Robbery was an armed robbery of the Brinks Building in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on January 17, 1950.
The robbery resulted in the theft of $1,218,211.29 in cash, and over $1.5-million in checks, money orders and other securities....
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| x The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery |
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Robbery |
The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery is a 1959 heist film shot in black and white. The noir film stars Steve McQueen as a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery. The film is based on a 1953 bank robbery attempt of Southwest...
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| x Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery | Robbery |
The Knightsbridge Security Deposit robbery took place on 12 July 1987 in Knightsbridge, England, part of the City of Westminster in London. This robbery, the Banco Central robbery at Fortaleza, and the $900 million stolen from the Central Bank of...
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| x Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery | Robbery |
The Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery of 1997 was the $17.3 million cash robbery of the Charlotte, North Carolina regional office vault of Loomis Fargo & Company on the evening of October 4, 1997 by armored car driver and vault supervisor David Scott Ghantt...
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| x Norrmalmstorg robbery |
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Robbery | Case closed |
The Norrmalmstorg robbery was a bank robbery and hostage crisis best known as the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome. It occurred at the Norrmalmstorg square in Stockholm, Sweden in 1973. It was the first criminal event in Sweden followed by live...
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| x North Hollywood shootout |
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Robbery |
The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Matasareanu, and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department in North Hollywood,...
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| x Northern Bank robbery |
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Robbery |
The Northern Bank robbery was a large robbery of cash from the Donegall Square headquarters of the Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Carried out by a large, proficient group on 20 December 2004, the gang seized £26.5 million in pounds...
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| x Santa Claus Bank Robbery |
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Robbery |
The Santa Claus Bank Robbery occurred on December 23, 1927 in the Central Texas town of Cisco. Marshall Ratliff, dressed as Santa Claus, along with Henry Helms and Robert Hill, all ex-cons, and Louis Davis, a relative of Helms, held up the First...
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| x Securitas depot robbery |
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Robbery |
The Securitas depot robbery was a robbery which took place in the early hours of 22 February 2006, between 01:00 and 02:15 UTC in England, an operation that succeeded in stealing the largest cash amount in British crime history. At least six men...
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| x Great Train Robbery |
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Robbery |
The Great Train Robbery is the name given to a £2.6 million train robbery committed on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England. The bulk of the stolen money was not recovered. At the time, it was...
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| x Sallins Train Robbery | Robbery |
The Sallins Train Robbery occurred on 31 March 1976 when the Cork to Dublin mail train was robbed near Sallins in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. Approximately IR£ 200,000 was stolen. Four members of the IRSP (Irish Republican Socialist Party),...
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| x Great Gold Robbery of 1855 | Robbery |
The Great Gold Robbery took place on the night of 15 May 1855, when three London firms sent a box of gold bars and coins each from London Bridge station for Paris via the South Eastern Railway. The gold bars alone were worth £12,000 at the time ...
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| x Bezdany raid | Robbery |
Bezdany raid was a train robbery carried out on the night of 26/27 September 1908 in the vicinity of Bezdany near Vilna (now Bezdonys near Vilnius) on a Russian Empire passenger and mail train by a group of Polish revolutionaries, led by future...
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| x Kakori train robbery | Robbery |
The Kakori train robbery (also called the Kakori Conspiracy or Kakori Case) (Hindi: काकोरी कांड) was a famous train robbery that took place at Kakori, near Lucknow, on August 9 1925 during the Indian Independence Movement against the British.
The...
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Murder, as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent (or malice aforethought), and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide (such as manslaughter). As...
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| x Frankfurt art theft |
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Robbery |
Three famous paintings were stolen from a Frankfurt art gallery in 1994. This case of art theft is unique in that the paintings were recovered by buying them back from the thieves; the people responsible for the theft were never brought to justice....
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| x Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis |
Eloá Pimentel hostage crisis refers to the kidnapping, hostage situation and murder of Brazilian 15-year-old girl Eloá Cristina Pimentel, which was accompanied by the shooting of her friend Nayara Silva, both committed by Eloá's ex-boyfriend...
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| x Ennepetal hostage taking |
On April 12, 2005, at around 1 p.m. local time, a 50 year-old Iranian national seized a regular bus with a number of school children in the town of Ennepetal, Germany in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The kidnapper entered the bus at a bus...
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| x Supreme Court of Justice hostage crisis |
The Supreme Court of Justice Hostage Crisis was a 1993 attack in which five gunmen from a group calling itself the "Death Commando" group took over the Costa Rican Supreme Court in San José on April 26 and held 19 supreme court judges (magistrates)...
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| x Japan Airlines Flight 472 |
Japan Airlines Flight 472 was an aircraft hijacking carried out by the Japanese Red Army (JRA) on September 28, 1977.
The Douglas DC-8, en route from Paris to Haneda Airport in Tokyo with 156 people on board, stopped in Mumbai, India. Shortly after...
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