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| x O. J. Simpson |
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Murder | Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman murders |
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 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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| x Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar |
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Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (May 21, 1921 – October 21, 1990), also known by his spiritual name, Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, was an Indian philosopher, author, social revolutionary, poet, composer and linguist. Sarkar was the founder of Ananda Marga (the...
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| x Gaston Means |
Gaston Bullock Means (1879, Concord, North Carolina – 1938, Leavenworth, Kansas) was an American private detective, Salesman, bootlegger, Forger, swindler, murder suspect, blackmailer, and con artist.
While not involved in the Teapot Dome scandal,...
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| x Robert T. Burton |
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Robert Taylor Burton (October 25, 1821 – November 11, 1907) was a member of the presiding bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1874 until his death. He was also one of the principal officers in the Nauvoo...
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| x Mark Aldrich |
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Mark Aldrich (January 22, 1802 – 1874) was a founder of Warsaw, Illinois, an Illinois state senator for the Whig Party, the first American mayor of Tucson, Arizona, and one of five defendants tried and acquitted of the murder of Joseph Smith, Jr.,...
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| x Thomas C. Sharp |
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Thomas Coke Sharp (September 25, 1818 – April 9, 1894) was a prominent opponent of Joseph Smith, Jr. and the Latter Day Saints in Illinois in the 1840s. Sharp promoted his anti-Mormon views largely through the Warsaw Signal newspaper, of which he...
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| x William N. Grover |
William N. Grover (born c. 1818) was a United States Attorney for the eastern district of Missouri and was one of five defendants tried and acquitted for the murder of Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.
Joseph Smith, Jr....
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| x Levi Williams |
Levi Williams (c. 1810–1858) was a member of the Illinois militia and a Baptist minister who was active in opposing the presence of the Latter Day Saints in Hancock County, Illinois during the 1840s. He is one of five defendants who were tried and...
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| x Mario Jascalevich |
Mario Enrique Jascalevich (August 27, 1927 - September 1984) was a physician tried for the murder of five of his patients with curare. There had been a string of suspicious deaths in 1966 at a Bergen County, New Jersey hospital that were...
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| x John Considine |
This article is about the writer and actor. For his grandfather, the vaudeville pioneer, see John Considine (Seattle). For the former Florida state representative, see John J. Considine.
John Considine (born January 2, 1935 in Los Angeles,...
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| x Robert Blake |
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Robert Blake (September 18, 1933) is an Italian-American actor who starred in the film In Cold Blood and the U.S. television series Baretta. In 2005, he was tried and acquitted for the 2001 murder of his wife, but on November 18, 2005, Blake was...
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| x Robert Durst |
Robert "Bobby" Alan Durst (born 1943) is a son of the late New York real estate mogul Seymour Durst, and brother of commercial developer Douglas Durst.
Durst grew up, one of four children, in Scarsdale, New York and attended Scarsdale High School....
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| x Thomas Coyle |
Thomas Coyle (born May 10, 1988) is an English rugby league player with Wigan Warriors. He is a scrum half.
A former St John Fisher pupil, Thomas Coyle signed for the Wigan Warriors from the local amateurs Wigan St. Patricks. His father, Bernard...
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| x John Bodkin Adams |
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John Bodkin Adams (21 January 1899 – 4 July 1983) was an Irish-born British general practitioner, convicted fraudster and suspected serial killer. Between the years 1946-1956, more than 160 of his patients died under suspicious circumstances. Of...
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| x Kikkik |
Kikkik was an Inuit woman who, in 1958, was charged with but acquitted of murder, child neglect and causing the death of one of her children. Her story was told by Farley Mowat.
Kikkik was a member of the Ihalmiut (Ahiarmiut), a Caribou Inuit band...
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| x Stephen Angulalik |
Stephen Angulalik (ca. 1898 – 1980) was an internationally known Ahiarmiut Inuit from northern Canada notable as a Kitikmeot fur trader and trading post operator at Kuugjuaq (Perry River), Northwest Territories. His stories and photos were carried...
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| x Louise Woodward |
The Louise Woodward case concerned a young English au pair convicted, at age 19, of the 1997 involuntary manslaughter of eight-month-old Matthew Eappen while he was in her care in his home in Newton, Massachusetts, in the United States. Louise...
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| x John Henry Carpenter |
John Henry Carpenter (June 24, 1928 - September 4, 1998) was most widely known as the friend of actor Bob Crane who in June 1992 was accused of Crane's 1978 murder.
John Carpenter was of Aboriginal American heritage. He was born on an Indian...
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| x David Hendricks |
David Hendricks is an American businessman convicted of killing his wife and three children in 1984 but acquitted in a retrial in 1991.
Hendricks was a member of the Exclusive branch of the Plymouth Brethren, a strict Christian sect. He ran a...
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| x Leonard Arthur |
Dr Leonard John Henry Arthur MB, BChir, MRCP, D Obst RCOG (20 April 1926 – 1983) was a British doctor tried in 1981 for the attempted murder of John Pearson, a newborn child with Down's Syndrome. He was acquitted.
The case was highly controversial,...
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| x Delia Day |
Delia Day was the pseudonym of Susan Anton, an artist, weblogger and self-described sex slave who lived in Mississippi with her husband Travis.
They were married for ten years and practiced what many would consider a hardcore BDSM lifestyle with...
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| x Basil Parasiris |
Basil Parasiris is a 42-year-old former Montreal-area businessman who was acquitted of a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a seventeen-year veteran Laval police officer, Sergeant Daniel Tessier, on March 2, 2007.
On March 2, 2007,...
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| x Albert Tirrell |
Albert Jackson Tirrell (1824 – 1880) was a man whose trial for the murder of the prostitute for whom he had left his wife scandalized Boston society in 1846. He used sleepwalking as a defense against charges of murder, marking the first time in...
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| x Bill Lancaster |
Captain William Newton "Bill" Lancaster (14 February 1898 – 20 April 1933, Tanezrouft, Algeria) was a pioneering British aviator.
Born in Birmingham, England, Lancaster emigrated to Australia as a child prior to World War I. In 1916, he joined first...
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| x Shankar Kistaiya |
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Shankar Kistaiya was an accused in the Mahatama's Gandhi's assassination case. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but was acquitted by the high court.
Not much is known about Shankar Kistaiya's early life except for the fact that he was employed...
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| x Vinayak Damodar Savarkar |
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Swatantryaveer Vināyak Dāmodar Sāvarkar (Marathi: स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर) (May 28, 1883 – February 26, 1966) was an Indian politician and an Indian Independence Movement activist, who is credited with developing the Hindu nationalist...
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| x Robert Palin |
Robert Thomas Palin (c.1835–6 July 1861) was a convict transported to Western Australia. His execution in 1861 was the only time in the convict era of Western Australia that Ordinance 17 Victoria Number 7 was used to secure the capital punishment of...
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| x Sholom Schwartzbard |
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Sholom Schwartzbard (August 18, 1886, Izmail, Bessarabia, now Ukraine – March 3, 1938, Cape Town, South Africa) was a Bessarabian-born Jewish anarchist known primarily for the assassination of the Ukrainian politician Symon Petliura. He was known in...
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| x Guildford Four |
The Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven were two sets of people wrongfully convicted in the 1970s by English courts who later had their convictions quashed. The Guildford Four were convicted of bombings carried out by the Provisional Irish...
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| x Brian Spencer |
Brian Roy "Spinner" Spencer (September 3, 1949 in Fort St. James, British Columbia, Canada – June 2, 1988 in Riviera Beach, FL) was a Canadian Professional ice hockey player who played 10 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres,...
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| x Steven Truscott |
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Steven Murray Truscott (born January 18, 1945 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian man who was sentenced to death in 1959, when he was a 14-year old student, for the alleged murder of classmate Lynne Harper. His death sentence was commuted...
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| x Alfred de Marigny |
Alfred de Marigny (1910-1998) was a French Mauritian acquitted of the murder of his father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes.
Marie Alfred Fouquereaux de Marigny, whose real name was Alfred Fouquereaux, "de Marigny" being his mother's name, was born on March...
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| x Levi Weeks |
Levi Weeks (1776-1819) was the accused in the infamous Manhattan Well Murder trial of 1800, the first recorded murder trial in the United States. At the time of the murder, Weeks was a young carpenter in New York City. He was the brother of Ezra...
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| x Sam Sheppard |
Samuel Holmes Sheppard (December 29, 1923(1923-12-29) – April 6, 1970) was an American osteopathic physician involved in an infamous and controversial murder trial when he was convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard....
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| x Kazuyoshi Miura |
Kazuyoshi Miura (三浦 和義, Miura Kazuyoshi, July 27, 1947 - October 10, 2008) was a Japanese businessman, who was accused of being involved in the killing of his wife, Kazumi Miura. The prolonged legal battle lasting decades ended when he presumably...
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| x Lizzie Borden |
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Lizzie Andrew Borden (July 19, 1860 – June 1, 1927) was a New England spinster who was the central figure in the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother on August 4, 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts in the United States. The murders,...
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| x Oliver M. Lee |
Oliver Milton Lee, known simply as Oliver Lee (October 1865 - 15 December 1941) was a part time deputy U.S. marshal, rancher, and gunman. Oliver Milton Lee was born in Texas, and died in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where, a state park is named in his...
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| x Hugo Selenski |
Hugo Selenski is a convicted drug dealer killer from Luzerne County, in Northeastern Pennsylvania, charged in 2003 with the murder of two of five people whose bodies were unearthed from his back yard. Officials have said there might be as many as 12...
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| x Mel Ignatow |
Mel Ignatow (March 26, 1938 – September 1, 2008) was a resident of Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., who murdered his fiancee, Brenda Sue Schaefer, in 1988. The case was controversial because Ignatow was acquitted of the charge, but photographs proving...
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| x George Scarborough |
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George Scarborough (October 2, 1859 - April 5, 1900) was a cowboy, lawman, and possible outlaw (disputed) who lived during the time of the Wild West. He is best known for having killed outlaw John Selman, killer of John Wesley Hardin, and for his...
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| x Edward Charles Allaway |
Edward Charles Allaway was a former custodian who worked at the California State University, Fullerton. On July 12, 1976, opened fire with a .22-caliber rifle in the library basement, killing seven and injuring two. He was found not guilty by reason...
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| x Benny Fein |
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Benjamin "Dopey Benny" Fein (c. 1889-1962) was an early Jewish American gangster who dominated New York labor racketeering in the 1910s. With a criminal record dating back to 1900, Fein's arrest record included thirty charges from petty theft and...
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| x Russell Johnson |
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Russell Maurice Johnson (born 1947), dubbed the Bedroom Strangler, is a rapist and serial killer who sexually assaulted and murdered several women in the late 1970s in London, Ontario and Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He was found not guilty by reason of...
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| x Mark Haydon |
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Mark Ray Haydon (born 4 December 1958 ) is an Australian criminal, currently serving 25 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 18 years for his role of assisting offenders in the Snowtown murders.
Haydon was found guilty of assisting serial...
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| x Victor Peirce |
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Victor George Peirce (November 11, 1958 – May 1, 2002) was an Australian criminal from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Peirce was a member of the Pettingill family, headed by matriarch and former Richmond brothel owner Kath Pettingill.
In 2005,...
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| x Pietro Pacciani |
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Pietro Pacciani (January 7, 1925 – February 22, 1998), was a farmer of Mercatale, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, suspected of being the infamous serial killer known as the Monster of Florence (Il mostro di Firenze).
Pietro Pacciani was arrested in...
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| x Belva Gaertner |
Belva Gaertner (September 14, 1884 - May 14, 1965) was acquitted on a charge of murder in Chicago.
On March 11, 1924, Belva Gaertner, a thrice-divorced cabaret singer who used the professional name Belle Brown, shot and killed her lover Walter Law ...
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| x John Holmes |
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John Curtis Holmes (August 8, 1944 – March 13, 1988) better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character in a series of related films), was one of the most prolific male porn stars of all time, appearing in about 2,500 adult...
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| x John Bobbitt |
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Sexual abuse | John and Lorena Bobbitt incident |
John Wayne Bobbitt (born 23 March 1967 in Buffalo, New York) and Lorena Leonor (née Gallo) (born 1970 in Bucay, Ecuador) were an American couple, married on June 18, 1989, whose difficult relationship gained worldwide notice for an incident in 1993...
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| x James O'Brien | First degree murder | October 1992 Rape and Murder of Shauna Howe | |||
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| x Eldred Walker | First degree murder | October 1992 Rape and Murder of Shauna Howe | |||
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| x Timothy O'Brien | First degree murder | October 1992 Rape and Murder of Shauna Howe | |||
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| x Eddie Nash |
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Murder | Wonderland Murders |
Eddie Nash (born 1929) is a former nightclub and restaurant manager in Los Angeles, as well as a convicted gangster and drug dealer; he is best known for his involvement in the quadruple Wonderland Murders.
Born Adel Gharib Nasrallah in Palestine,...
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