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| x Alma Tirtschke | The Gun Alley Murder | |||
| x Aonghas Óg | Murder |
Aonghas Óg (died 1490) was a Scottish nobleman who was the last independent Lord of the Isles.
He was the bastard son of John of Islay, Earl of Ross (Eoin). Aonghas became a rebel against both his father and against the Scottish crown. He is not to...
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Perth Mint Swindle |
The Perth Mint is Australia's oldest currently operating mint (with the earlier mints, the Sydney Mint and Melbourne Mint having since shut down).
After the foundation stone was laid in 1896 by Sir John Forrest, the Mint opened on June 20, 1899 as a...
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1986 Dan Rather mugging incident |
Daniel Irvin "Dan" Rather, Jr. (born October 31, 1931) is a journalist and former news anchor for the CBS Evening News and is now managing editor and anchor of a television news magazine, Dan Rather Reports, on the cable channel HDNet. Rather was...
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| x Todd Bachman | 2008 attack at Beijing Drum Tower during Olympics | |||
| x Charles Sumner |
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Charles Sumner congress assaut |
Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American politician and statesman from Massachusetts. An academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery forces in Massachusetts and a leader of the Radical...
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| x Pope John Paul II |
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1981 Pope John Paul II assassination attempt |
Pope John Paul II (Polish: Jan Paweł II, Latin: Joannes Paulus PP. II, Italian: Giovanni Paolo II), born Karol Józef Wojtyła (pronounced [ˈkaɾɔl ˈjuzɛv vɔi̯ˈtɨwa] ( listen); 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) served as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic...
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| x Andy Warhol |
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Andy Warhol and Mario Amaya shooting |
Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), more commonly known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a...
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| x Mario Amaya | Andy Warhol and Mario Amaya shooting |
Mario Amaya (1933 – June 29, 1986) was an art critic, museum director, magazine editor and former director of the New York Cultural Center (1972-1976) and the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia (1976-1979). He was also the chief curator of...
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| x Dayana Mendoza |
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Dayana Sabrina Mendoza Moncada (born June 1, 1986 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a model, Miss Venezuela 2007, and Miss Universe 2008.
Mendoza has stated that she enjoys "design, photography, advertising and wave surfing." She was once kidnapped in...
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| x Alfred Duraiappah | Assassination of Alfred Duraiappah |
Alfred Duraiappah (died 27 July 1975) was a former MP and mayor of Jaffna, Sri Lanka who was assassinated, reputedly by LTTE of Sri Lanka.
Alfred Duraiappah was a former MP and mayor of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, whose assassination by the LTTE leader...
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| x Nicholas Markowitz |
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Murder of Nicholas Markowitz |
Nicholas Samuel Markowitz (September 19, 1984–August 9, 2000) was a U.S teenager who was kidnapped and murdered at the age of 15 after a feud over drug money between his half-brother Benjamin Markowitz and Jesse James Hollywood. Nicholas Markowitz...
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| x Reginald Oliver Denny |
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Reginald Denny incident |
On March 3, 1991, video tape captured Rodney King, an African-American, being repeatedly beaten by a group of LAPD officers. More than a year later, on April 29, 1992, all four officers (three white and one Hispanic) were acquitted when the jury...
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| x Johnny Gosch |
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Kidnapping | The Disappearance of Johnny Gosch |
John David "Johnny" Gosch (born November 12, 1969) was a 12-year-old paperboy in West Des Moines, Iowa when he disappeared on September 5, 1982, presumably kidnapped. His case and the subsequent publicity played an important part in the growing...
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| x James Alford White | 2009 Southeast Alabama Killing Spree | |||
| x Lisa McLendon | 2009 Southeast Alabama Killing Spree | |||
| x Andrea D. Myers | 2009 Southeast Alabama Killing Spree | |||
| x James Irving Starling | 2009 Southeast Alabama Killing Spree | |||
| x Corrine Gracy Myers | 2009 Southeast Alabama Killing Spree | |||
| x Tracy Michelle Wise | 2009 Southeast Alabama Killing Spree | |||
| x Bruce Wilson Malloy | 2009 Southeast Alabama Killing Spree | |||
| x Dean James Wise | 2009 Southeast Alabama Killing Spree | |||
| x Virginia E. White | 2009 Southeast Alabama Killing Spree | |||
| x Sonja Smith | 2009 Southeast Alabama Killing Spree | |||
| x Barbara Daly Baekeland |
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Murder | The Baekeland Murder |
Barbara Daly Baekeland (1922 – November 17, 1972) was a wealthy socialite who was murdered by her son, Antony Baekeland. She was the wife of Brooks Baekeland, grandson of Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite plastic.
She was murdered at her London...
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| x Elisabeth Fritzl |
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Fritzl case |
Elisabeth Fritzl is an Austrian woman who alleges that her father, Josef Fritzl, held her captive for 24 years in a dungeon in the family's home in Amstetten, Austria.
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| x Karmein Chan | Kidnapping |
Karmein Chan (1978? - 1991) was a 13-year-old Australian girl from Templestowe, Victoria who was abducted and murdered on the 13th of April in 1991.
While both her parents worked at their Chinese restaurant in Eltham, an individual abducted Karmein...
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| x Michael Dunahee | Kidnapping |
Michael Wayne Dunahee (born May 12, 1986) is a missing child from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, who disappeared when he was four years old, presumed to be abducted, and has never been found. He disappeared from the playground at Blanshard Park...
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| x Tommaso Onofri | Kidnapping |
Tommaso "Tommy" Onofri (6 September 2004 - March 2, 2006) was an Italian 18-month-old toddler who lived with his parents at Parma, Italy, who was protagonist of a resounding case of a kidnapping in early 2006.
Tommaso Onofri was abducted from his...
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| x Prince Pedro Thiago of Orléans-Braganza | Kidnapping |
Prince Pedro Thiago of Orléans-Braganza (born 12 January 1979) is a member of the Imperial Family of Brazil and heir to the leadership of the Petrópolis branch founded by his grandfather Prince Pedro Gastão.
He was born in Petrópolis the son of...
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| x John Paul Getty III | Kidnapping |
Jean Paul Getty III (born 4 November 1956) was the first of four children of Paul Getty and Gail Harris. He is the grandson of oil billionaire Jean Paul Getty, and the father of actor Balthazar Getty.
Getty spent most of his childhood in Rome, Italy...
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| x Yossele Schumacher | Kidnapping |
Yossele Schumacher is an Israeli whose abduction as a child became a cause célèbre in Israel and led Shin Bet and its director Isser Harel on a worldwide search for his whereabouts.
Schumacher was born in Russia and immigrated to Israel as a child...
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| x Megumi Yokota | Kidnapping |
Megumi Yokota (Japanese: 横田めぐみ; Yokota Megumi; October 15 1964—March 13 1994?) is one of at least thirteen Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was abducted on November 15, 1977 at the age of thirteen and...
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| x Sano Fusako |
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Kidnapping |
Fusako Sano (佐野 房子, Sano Fusako, also known by the pseudonym Sachiko Yamada) is a Japanese woman who was kidnapped at age ten by Nobuyuki Sato (佐藤宣行 Satō Nobuyuki), and held in captivity for nine years and two months from November 13, 1990 to...
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| x Hitomi Soga | Kidnapping |
Hitomi Soga (Japanese: 曽我ひとみ Soga Hitomi, born May 17, 1959) is a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea together with her mother, Miyoshi Soga, from Sado Island, Japan, in 1978. She was "given" to and later married Charles Robert Jenkins,...
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| x Jonathan Sellers |
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Kidnapping |
Jonathan Lee Sellers (April 18, 1983- March 27, 1993) was one of two boys found murdered in San Diego, California in March 1993. His older half-brother is Alton Williams, cast member of The Real World: Las Vegas.
On Saturday March 27, 1993, Jonathan...
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| x Steven Stayner |
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Kidnapping |
Steven Gregory Stayner (April 18, 1965 – September 16, 1989) was a Central California resident of the city and county of Merced, California, who was abducted at the age of seven and held until the age of 14, when he escaped and rescued another...
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| x Bobby Greenlease | Kidnapping |
Robert C. "Bobby" Greenlease (1947-1953) was the son of multi-millionaire automobile dealer Robert Cosgrove Greenlease, Sr., of Kansas City, Missouri. The elder Greenlease made his fortune introducing General Motors vehicles to the Great Plains in...
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| x Kevin Andrew Collins |
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Kidnapping |
Kevin Andrew Collins (born January 24, 1974; disappeared February 10, 1984) gained national attention as one of the first missing children to appear on milk cartons and on the cover of national publications, such as Newsweek magazine in 1984. His...
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| x Jacob Wetterling |
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Kidnapping |
Jacob Erwin Wetterling (born February 17, 1978 – ?) was a boy from St. Joseph, Minnesota who was kidnapped from his hometown at the age of 11 on October 22, 1989. His fate remains unknown.
Jacob, his brother, and a friend were bicycling home from a...
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| x Peggy Ann Bradnick | Kidnapping |
Peggy Ann Bradnick (born 1949) was 17 years old when she was kidnapped by an ex-convict and ex-mental patient, William Diller Hollenbaugh a.k.a. "The Mountain Man","The Bicycle Man", and "Bicycle Pete," near Shade Gap, Pennsylvania in May 1966. She...
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| x Edward Cudahy, Jr. | Kidnapping |
Edward Aloysius Cudahy, Jr. (1884-1966), also known as Eddie Cudahy, was kidnapped on December 18, 1900 in Omaha, Nebraska. Edward Cudahy, Sr. was the wealthy owner of the Cudahy Packing Company, which helped build the Omaha Stockyards to world...
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| x Kimberly Leach |
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Murder | Ted Bundy Murders |
Kimberly Diane Leach (October 28 1965 – February 9 1978) was a 12 year old student at Lake City Junior High School, in Lake City, Florida. She was the youngest and final known murder victim of serial killer Ted Bundy.
On February 9, 1978, Kimberly...
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| x Florence Sally Horner |
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Kidnapping |
Florence Sally Horner (1937–1952) was a girl abducted by a child molester in 1948.
At the age of 11, Horner stole a 5-cent notebook from a store in Camden, New Jersey. Frank La Salle, a 50 year-old mechanic, caught her stealing, told her that he was...
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| x Bobby Franks |
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Kidnapping |
Robert Emanuel "Bobby" Franks (September 19, 1909 – May 21, 1924) was the fourteen-year-old murder victim of the notorious teenaged thrill killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb.
Franks was the son of Chicago millionaire Jacob Franks and a neighbor...
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| x Jimmy Ryce | Kidnapping |
Samuel James "Jimmy" Ryce (September 26, 1985–September 11, 1995) was a child that was abducted, raped and killed by Juan Carlos Chavez in Redlands, Florida, United States.
On September 11, 1995, nine-year-old Jimmy was taking the bus from school....
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| x Michael Anthony Hughes | Kidnapping |
Michael Anthony Hughes (March 21, 1988 - Missing since September 12, 1994) was abducted from Indian Meridian Elementary School in Choctaw, Oklahoma (near Oklahoma City) on September 12, 1994 by Franklin Delano Floyd, who has claimed to be the child...
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| x Lyon Sisters | Kidnapping |
Katherine Mary Lyon (aged 10), and Sheila Mary Lyon (aged 12) were two sisters who disappeared without a trace during a trip to a local mall in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., in 1975. Known colloquially as The Lyon Sisters, their case resulted in...
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| x Amy Mihaljevic |
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Kidnapping |
Amy Renee Mihaljevic (December 11, 1978 – October 27, 1989) was an elementary schoolgirl who was kidnapped and murdered in the U.S. state of Ohio in 1989. Her murder case raised national attention. The story of her unsolved kidnap/murder was one of...
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| x Charley Ross | Kidnapping |
Charles Brewster Ross (born May 4, 1870 - ?) was the primary victim of the first kidnapping for ransom in America to receive widespread attention from the media. Charley Ross should not be confused with Charles Sherman Ross, a completely unrelated...
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| x Joseph Rodriguez | Kidnapping |
Joseph Rodriguez (1932 – missing from September 6, 1936) was a four year old resident of East Harlem (also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio), New York, whose disappearance in 1936 remains one of the oldest known unsolved missing persons cases in...
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| x Marion Parker | Kidnapping |
Marion Parker (1915 - December 17, 1927) was a 12-year-old American child who was murdered and dismembered by William Edward Hickman, who called himself "The Fox." She was the daughter of Perry Parker, who was a prominent banker in Los Angeles,...
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| x Jessica Lunsford |
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Kidnapping |
Jessica Marie Lunsford (October 6, 1995 – February 27, 2005) was a nine-year-old girl who was abducted from her home in Homosassa, Florida in the early morning of February 24, 2005. Believed held captive over the weekend, she was raped and later...
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| x Shauna Howe |
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Kidnapping | October 1992 Rape and Murder of Shauna Howe |
Shauna Howe was an 11-year-old girl whose October 1992 rape and murder received much media attention in Pennsylvania for more than ten years. Howe was walking home from a Girl Scouts Halloween party in Oil City, Pennsylvania and was two blocks from...
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| x Etan Patz |
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Kidnapping |
Etan Kalil Patz (October 9, 1972 – unknown; legally dead 2001) was a six-year-old child who disappeared in lower Manhattan on May 25, 1979. At the time, news coverage of Patz's disappearance was made into a media circus in the New York City area. He...
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| x Bizzy Bone | Kidnapping |
Bryon McCane ll (born September 12, 1976), better known by his stage name Bizzy Bone is an American rapper and is a member of the Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. His name within the group was originally 'Layzie Bone' (A name which is now...
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| x Erica Pratt | Kidnapping |
Erica Pratt (born 1995) was an American kidnapping victim. She was abducted on July 22, 2002 from a Philadelphia sidewalk. Her abductors bound her hands and feet and held her captive in a vacant house until she was able to free herself by gnawing at...
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| x Bobby Dunbar | Kidnapping |
Bobby Dunbar was the name of a 4 year old child who disappeared while on a fishing trip near Swayze Lake in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, on August 23, 1912. After an eight-month nationwide search, investigators believed that they had found the...
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| x Paul Martin Andrews | Kidnapping |
Paul Martin Andrews (born 1959) is an American rape victim and an advocate for rape victims.
In 1973, he was kidnapped in his native Virginia and hidden in an underground box by a known sexual predator, Richard Ausley. Thirty years after his ordeal,...
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| x Elizabeth Smart |
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Kidnapping |
Elizabeth Ann Smart (November 3, 1987) is an American woman who survived a nine-month kidnapping and is now a political activist. She currently studies music at Brigham Young University.
Elizabeth Ann Smart born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Ed and...
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