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| x The Keddie Murders |
The Keddie Murders is an unsolved 1981 American quadruple-murder that took place in Keddie, a former resort town in the foothills of Northern California's Sierra Nevada mountains. The murders took place in cabin 28, during the late evening of April...
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| x September 11, 2001 attacks |
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The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/11) were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks that were committed in the United States on September 11, 2001, striking the areas of New York City and Washington,...
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| x Osama bin Laden |
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Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden ( /oʊˈsɑːmə bɪn moʊˈhɑːmɨd bɪn əˈwɑːd bɪn ˈlɑːdən/; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), was the founder of Al-Qaeda, the jihadist...
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| x 1998 United States embassy bombings |
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The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998, in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capitals of Dar es...
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| x Tupac Shakur |
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Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), known by his stage names 2Pac, Pac, and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music...
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| x Tupac 1994 assault | ||
| x Daegu subway fire |
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| x Kim Dae-han | ||
| x O. J. Simpson |
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Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947), nicknamed "The Juice", is a retired American college and professional football player, football broadcaster and actor. Simpson was a running back, the American Football League's Buffalo Bills'...
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| x O.J. Simpson Las Vegas 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 Sarah Osborne | ||
| x Victor Manuel Gerena |
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Víctor Manuel Gerena (born June 24, 1958) is an American fugitive wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the armed robbery, in connection with the Los Macheteros group, of a Wells Fargo armored car facility. On May 14, 1984, he became the...
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| x Glen Stewart Godwin |
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Glen Stewart Godwin (born June 26, 1958) is an American fugitive and convicted murderer who was added to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on December 7, 1996, nine years after he escaped from Folsom State...
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| x James J. Bulger |
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James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger, Jr. (born September 3, 1929) is a former organized crime figure from Boston, Massachusetts. Local folklore depicted Bulger as a Robin Hood–style social bandit dedicated to protecting the neighborhood and its residents....
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| x Robert William Fisher |
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Robert William "Bobby" Fisher, Sr. (born April 13, 1961) is an American fugitive wanted for murder of his wife and their two children in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 10, 2001. He was named by the FBI as the 475th fugitive to be placed on the list of...
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| x Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco |
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Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco (born April 22, 1976), is a Mexican fugitive wanted for murder of his girlfriend and her two children, and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in Elmore County, Idaho. On March 17, 2005 he became the 480th fugitive listed...
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| x Emigdio Preciado, Jr. |
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Emigdio Preciado, Jr. (born August 19, 1969) is an Mexican-American criminal, gang member and a former fugitive who was added to the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on March 14, 2007. Preciado is the 485th fugitive to be placed on the list....
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| x Alexis Flores |
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Alexis Flores (born July 18, 1975) is a Honduran fugitive wanted for the kidnapping, rape and murder of five-year-old Iriana DeJesus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2000. Flores is the 487th fugitive to be placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted...
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| x Jason Derek Brown |
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Jason Derek Brown (born July 1, 1969) is an American fugitive wanted for first degree murder and armed robbery in Phoenix, Arizona on November 29, 2004. On December 8, 2007 he was named by the FBI as the 489th fugitive to be placed on the Ten Most...
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| x Edward Eugene Harper |
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| x 1995 Riyadh truck bombing | ||
| x Tituba |
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Tituba was a 17th-century slave belonging to Samuel Parris of Salem, Massachusetts. Tituba was one of the first three people accused of practicing witchcraft during the Salem witch trials which took place in 1692. Tituba was the first person accused...
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| x Sarah Good |
Sarah Good (July 11, 1653 – July 19, 1692) born in Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts, was one of the first three women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692.
Sarah Good, who was homeless, was described by the people...
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| x Thomas James Holden | ||
| x Morley Vernon King |
Morley Vernon King (born 1901) was the second person to be listed (March 15, 1950) on the original FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
He remained for two years on the list, until he was apprehended October 31, 1951 in a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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| x William Nesbit |
William Raymond Nesbit (June 1, 1899 – August 1983) was a 1930s jewel thief, born in Marshalltown, Iowa. On December 31, 1936, he killed fellow thief Harold Baker in a gunpowder explosion in Minnehaha County, near Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He was...
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| x Henry Randolph Mitchell | ||
| x Omar August Pinson |
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Pinson was first convicted of armed robbery in January 1936, and was sentenced to 18 months in the Eldora, Iowa State Reformatory. He was released and then in 1941 sentenced to the Missouri State Penitentiary for automobile...
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| x Lee Emory Downs |
March 20, 1950 #6 One month on the listLee Emory Downs - U.S. prisoner was returned to prison for burglary attempt of Colombian consulate in San Francisco, after his parole in 1968; was arrested April 7, 1950 with...
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| x Orba Elmer Jackson | ||
| x Glen Roy Wright |
March 22, 1950 #8 Nine months on the listGlen Roy Wright - deceased in prison May 7, 1954. He was a U.S. prisoner arrested December 13, 1950 at Salina, Kansas; charged with unlawful flight February 8...
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| x Henry Harland Shelton |
March 23, 1950 #9 Three months on the listHenry Harland Shelton - U.S. prisoner serving a sentence of forty-five years for kidnapping and five years concurrently for car theft; pled guilty August 21, 1950; was wounded during...
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| x Morris Guralnick | ||
| x Willie Sutton |
William "Willie" Sutton (June 30, 1901 - November 2, 1980) was a profligate U.S. bank robber. During his forty-year criminal career he stole an estimated $2 million, and eventually spent more than half of his adult life in prison. For his talent at...
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| x Stephen William Davenport |
(replaced Orba Elmer Jackson, #7 on the original Ten list)April 4, 1950 #12 One month on the list Stephen William Davenport - U.S. prisoner arrested May 5, 1950 in Las Vegas, Nevada by local police
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| x Henry Clay Tollett | ||
| x Frederick J. Tenuto |
(replaced Stephen William Davenport, #12, as the first replacement of a fugitive who was not among the original Ten)May 24, 1950 #14 Fourteen years on the listFrederick J. Tenuto - PROCESS DISMISSED March 9, 1964 at&...
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| x Thomas Kling |
(replaced Henry Harland Shelton, #9 on the original Ten list)July 17, 1950 #15 Two years on the list Thomas Kling - U.S. prisoner arrested February 20, 1952 in New York by local police
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| x Meyer Dembin | ||
| x 1931 Leavenworth Penitentiary Breakout | ||
| x Watergate scandal |
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The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon...
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| x St. Valentine's Day massacre |
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of 7 mob associates as part of a prohibition era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish...
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| x Detective |
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A detective or investigator is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes". Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or...
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| x Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman murders | ||
| x Al Capone |
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Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the "Capones", was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging...
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| x Metropolitan Police Service |
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The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is the territorial police force responsible for Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London which is the responsibility of the City of London Police. The MPS also has significant national...
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| x Indian Police Service |
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| x Toronto Police Service |
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The Toronto Police Service (TPS), formerly the Metropolitan Toronto Police, is the police service for the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest municipal police service in Canada and second largest police force in Canada after the...
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| x Edmonton Police Service |
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Edmonton Police Service (EPS) is the municipal police force for the City of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The current head of the EPS is Roderick Knecht.
One current deputy chief, David Korol, & and two temporary acting deputies, head up the...
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| x Swedish Police Service |
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| x Cold case |
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Cold case refers to a crime or an accident that has not yet been solved to the full and is not the subject of a recent criminal investigation, but for which new information could emerge from new witness testimony, re-examined archives, retained...
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| x Jacob C. Davis |
Jacob Cunningham Davis (September 16, 1820 – December 25, 1883) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois and is one of five men tried and acquitted of the murder of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Born near Staunton,...
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| x Donald Marshall, Jr. | ||
| x Robert King |
Robert Shannon King, OBE (22 March 1920 – 30 June 1991) was an Australian politician. Born in Warracknabeal, Victoria, he attended Carey Grammar School in Melbourne before serving in the military 1940-45. He returned to Warracknabeal as a farmer and...
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| x Robert Edward King, 1st Viscount Lorton |
General Robert Edward King, 1st Viscount Lorton (12 August 1773 - 20 November 1854), styled The Honourable from 1797 to 1800, was an Irish peer and politician.
Born in London at his parents' town house, he was the third child and second son of...
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| x Robert Matthews | ||
| x John Bindon |
John Dennis Arthur "Biffo" Bindon (4 October 1943 – 10 October 1993) was a British actor and bodyguard who had close links with the London underworld. The son of a London cab driver, Bindon was frequently in trouble as a youth for getting into...
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| x Daniel Sickles |
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Daniel Edgar Sickles (October 20, 1819 – May 3, 1914) was a colorful and controversial American politician, Union general in the American Civil War, and diplomat.
As an antebellum New York politician, Sickles was involved in a number of public...
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