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| x The Keddie Murders |
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The Keddie Murders was a 1981 American quadruple-murder that took place in Keddie, a resort town in Northern California. The victims were Glenna Sharp, known as Sue (age 36), her son John (age 15), and his male friend Dana Wingate (age 17)....
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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 Osama bin Laden |
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Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (with numerous variations; Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʾAwaḍ bin Lādin) (born 10 March 1957) is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founding leader of al...
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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 Tupac Shakur |
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Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – Present), also known by his stage names 2Pac (or simply Pac) and Makaveli, was an American rapper. He has sold 75 million albums to date and is one of the best-selling music artists in the world. In addition to...
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| x Tupac 1994 assault | ||
| 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 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 football player, football broadcaster, actor, and spokesman. He originally attained fame in sports as a running back at the collegiate and professional...
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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 |
Sarah Osborne (also variously spelled Osbourne, Osburne, or Osborn)(c. 1643–May 10, 1692) was one of the first three women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692. Osborne is sometimes referred to as "Goody Osborne", Goody...
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| x Victor Manuel Gerena |
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Victor Manuel Gerena (born June 24, 1958) is an American wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the armed robbery of a Wells Fargo armored car facility, in connection with the Los Macheteros group. On May 14, 1984, he became the 386th...
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| x Glen Stewart Godwin |
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Glen Stewart Godwin (born June 26, 1958) is a fugitive and convicted murderer who was added to the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on December 7, 1996, nine years after he escaped from Folsom Prison in California where he was serving a 25...
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| x James J. Bulger |
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James Joseph Bulger, Jr. (born September 3, 1929)—known as "Whitey" Bulger—is a wanted fugitive and alleged leader of the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish-American crime family based in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the older brother of William Michael...
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| x Robert William Fisher |
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Robert William Fisher (born April 13, 1961) is a wanted fugitive suspected of murdering his wife and their two children. On June 29, 2002 he was named by the FBI as the 475th fugitive to be placed on the list of FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. He...
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| x Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco |
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Jorge Alberto Lopez-Orozco (born April 22, 1976) was a fugitive wanted for murder of his girlfriend and her two young children, ages 2 and 4, and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in Elmore County, Idaho. On March 17, 2005 he became the 480th...
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| x Emigdio Preciado, Jr. |
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Emigdio Preciado, Jr. (born August 19, 1969 or August 19, 1968 or September 19, 1969) was wanted for opening fire on two sheriff's deputies in Los Angeles, California on September 5, 2000, seriously injuring one of them. He was believed to be...
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| x Alexis Flores |
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Alexis Flores (born June 18, 1975) is a Honduran fugitive wanted for kidnapping 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 Fugitives list....
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| x Jason Derek Brown |
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Jason Derek Brown (born July 1, 1969 or January 17, 1971) is a fugitive currently wanted by the FBI for first degree murder, armed robbery and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. On December 8, 2007 he was named by the FBI as the 489th fugitive to...
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| x Edward Eugene Harper |
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Edward Eugene Harper (born March 1, 1946) is a former fugitive who was wanted for failure to appear in court on charges he had molested two children. Harper was added to the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on November 29, 2008. After 15 years on...
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| x 1995 Riyadh truck bombing | ||
| x Tituba |
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Tituba, also called Tituba Indian, was one of the first three people accused of practicing witchcraft during the Salem witch trials which took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692. Tituba was the third person accused by Betty Parris and Abigail...
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| x Sarah Good |
Sarah Good (July 11, 1655 - July 19, 1692) was one of the first women to be accused and convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts.
Sarah Good was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft in Salem,...
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| x Thomas James Holden |
Thomas James Holden was the first person placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. He was listed on March 14, 1950 and was arrested on June 23, 1951 in Beaverton, Oregon. His arrest followed a tip...
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| 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 |
His listing on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List lasted until July 18, 1958 when the Federal District Court at Jacksonville dropped the bank robbery charge as too much time had passed. He had spent 8 years on the list.
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| x Omar August Pinson |
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 |
March 21, 1950 #7 Two days on the listOrba Elmer Jackson - U.S. prisoner sentenced to two years to run concurrently with his sentence being served, and returned to Leavenworth on September 19, 1950; was arrested March...
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| 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 |
March 24, 1950 #10 Nine months on the listMorris Guralnick - U.S. prisoner was arrested December 15, 1950 at a Madison, Wisconsin clothing store; was charged July 22, 1948 with unlawful flight...
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| x Willie Sutton |
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William "Willie" Sutton (June 30, 1901 - November 2, 1980) was a prolific U.S. bank robber. For his talent at executing robberies in disguises, he gained two nicknames, "Willie the Actor" and "Slick Willie." When not disguised, Sutton was an...
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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 |
(replaced Lee Emory Downs, #6 on the original Ten list)April 11, 1950 #13 One year on the listHenry Clay Tollett - deceased, fatally wounded June 4, 1951 by a California Highway Patrol officer during the...
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| 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 |
(replaced Omar August Pinson, #5 on the original Ten list)September 5, 1950 #16 One year on the list Meyer Dembin - U.S. prisoner surrendered November 26, 1951 to the U. S. Attorney in New York City
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| x 1931 Leavenworth Penitentiary Breakout | ||
| x Watergate scandal |
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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 Detective |
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A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators (P.I.s or "Private I's", hence the play-on-words, "Private Eyes"). Informally, and primarily in fiction, a...
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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 crime syndicate dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging of liquor and other illegal activities during the Prohibition Era of the 1920s and 1930s....
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| x Metropolitan Police Service |
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The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) is the territorial police force responsible for policing within Greater London, excluding the 'square mile' of the City of London which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.
A number of informal...
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| x Indian Police Service |
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The Indian Police Service (Devanāgarī: भारतीय पुलिस सेवा, Bhāratīya Polīce Sevā), simply known as Indian Police or IPS, is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India; other two being the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and...
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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 unit in Canada after the Royal...
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| x Edmonton Police Service |
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Edmonton Police Service is responsible for policing in the City of Edmonton, Alberta.
The current head of the EPS is Chief Mike Boyd, who was previously the interim Chief of the Toronto Police Service. Recruited by the Edmonton Police Commission to...
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| x Swedish Police Service |
The Swedish Police Service (in Swedish: Polisen) is a collection of Government agencies concerned with police matters in Sweden.
The Swedish Police Service consists of 26 122 (December 2008) employees of which 39 per cent are women. The staff...
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| x Cold case |
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Cold case refers to a crime or accident that has not been solved and is not the subject of current criminal investigation or civil litigation, but for which new information could emerge from new witness testimony or re-examined archives, as well as...
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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. |
Donald Marshall, Jr. (13 September 1953–6 August 2009) was a Mi'kmaq man who was wrongly convicted of murder. The case inspired a number of disturbing questions about the fairness of the Canadian justice system, especially given that Marshall was an...
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| x Robert King |
Robert Shannon King (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's town house, he was the third child and second son of...
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| x Robert Matthews |
Robert Matthews (1778–1841) was a United States religious impostor whose aliases included Robert Matthias, Jesus Matthias, Matthias the Prophet, and Joshua the Jewish Minister. He is remembered today chiefly for his brief encounter with Joseph Smith...
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| x John Bindon |
John Dennis Arthur "Biffo" Bindon (4 October 1943 – 10 October 1993) was a flamboyant British actor and bodyguard, noted for his film roles as a London underworld figure and tough police detective, and his involvement with the underworld in real...
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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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