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| x Harvey Milk |
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Dan White | Nov 27, 1978 | San Francisco City Hall |
Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician who became the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay...
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| x George Moscone |
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Dan White | Nov 27, 1978 | San Francisco City Hall |
George Richard Moscone ( /mɒsˈkoʊni/; November 24, 1929 – November 27, 1978) was an American attorney and Democratic politician. He was the 37th mayor of San Francisco, California, US from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978....
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| x John Lennon |
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Mark David Chapman | Dec 8, 1980 | The Dakota |
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founder members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed...
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| x Lee Harvey Oswald |
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Jack Ruby | Nov 24, 1963 |
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to four government investigations, the sniper who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
A former U.S....
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| x John F. Kennedy |
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Lee Harvey Oswald | Nov 22, 1963 12:30pm | Dallas |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29 , 1917 – November 22 , 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy , was the 35th President of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Major events...
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| x Robert Ford |
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Edward Capehart O'Kelley | Jun 8, 1892 | Creede |
Robert Newton "Bob" Ford (January 31, 1862 – June 8, 1892) was an American outlaw best known for killing his gang leader Jesse James in 1882. Ford was shot to death by Edward O'Kelley in his tent saloon with a shotgun blast to the front upper body....
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| x Jesse James |
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Robert Ford | Apr 3, 1882 | Jesse James Home Museum |
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was...
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| x Al Adamson | Jun 21, 1995 |
Al Adamson (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was a prolific director of B-grade horror films throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
After assisting his father, Victor, in making the 1963 movie Halfway to Hell, Adamson decided to work in the motion picture...
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| x Alex Odeh |
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Oct 11, 1985 |
Alex Odeh (April 4, 1944 – October 11, 1985) was an Arab-American anti-discrimination activist who was killed in a bombing as he opened the door of his office at 1905 East 17th Street, Santa Ana, California. Odeh was west-coast regional director of...
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| x Orlando Anderson | May 29, 1998 |
Orlando Tive "Baby Lane" Anderson (August 13, 1974 – May 29, 1998) was an alleged affiliate of the South Side Compton Crips and was a person of interest in the brief investigation of the murder of acclaimed American rapper Tupac Shakur by Compton...
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| x Walter H. Auble |
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Sep 9, 1908 |
Walter H. Auble (1861 – September 9, 1908) was the police chief in Los Angeles, California, on a one-year appointment from November 1905 to 1906. He was born around 1861 in Illinois and was killed in a shooting on September 9, 1908. He was only the...
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| x The Notorious B.I.G. |
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Mar 9, 1997 |
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), best known as The Notorious B.I.G., was an American rapper. He was also known as Biggie Smalls (after a character in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again).
Wallace was raised in the...
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| x David Bacon | Sep 13, 1943 |
David Bacon (March 24, 1914 – September 12, 1943) was an American film actor.
He was born Gaspar Griswold Bacon, Jr. in Barnstable, Massachusetts, and his family was one of the prominent, politically active Boston Brahmin families. His father,...
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| x Chauncey Bailey | Aug 2, 2007 |
Chauncey Wendell Bailey, Jr. (October 20, 1949 – August 2, 2007) was an American journalist, noted for his work primarily on issues of the African-American community. He served as editor-in-chief of The Oakland Post from June 2007 until he was shot...
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| x Bonnie Lee Bakley | May 4, 2001 |
Bonnie Lee Bakley (June 7, 1956 – May 4, 2001) was the wife of actor Robert Blake.
Bonny Lee Bakley was born in Morristown, New Jersey to arborist Edward J. Bakley and his wife, Marjorie Lois Bakley. Bakley had three other siblings: Margerry Lisa...
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| x Judith Barsi |
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József Barsi |
Judith Eva Barsi (June 6, 1978 – July 25, 1988) was a Hungarian American child actress. She was small in stature and often played characters younger than her actual age. After years of physical and mental abuse, Barsi and her mother were shot and...
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| x Georgette Bauerdorf |
Georgette Elise Bauerdorf (May 6, 1924 – October 12, 1944) was a twenty-year-old oil heiress who was strangled in her home at the El Palacio Apartments on 8493 Fountain Avenue, West Hollywood, California. She was educated in a convent on Long Island...
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| x Susan Berman |
Susan Berman (1945–2000) was a reporter and author who was the daughter of Davie Berman, a mob figure in Las Vegas. She wrote extensively about her late-in-life realization of her father's place in a criminal empire. She was murdered execution style...
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| x Paul Bern |
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Paul Bern (December 3, 1889 – September 5, 1932) was a German-born American film director, screenwriter and producer for MGM.
Bern was born Paul Levy to a Jewish family in Wandsbek, which was then a town in the Prussian province of Schleswig...
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| x Black Dahlia |
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Jan 15, 1947 |
"The Black Dahlia" was a nickname given to Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – January 15, 1947), an American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. Short acquired the moniker posthumously by newspapers in the habit of...
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| x Francis Boggs |
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Francis W. Boggs (March 1870 – October 27, 1911) was a stage actor and pioneer silent film director. He was one of the first to direct a film in Hollywood.
He was born in Santa Rosa, California to George W. Boggs and Alabama McMeans. While in his...
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| x Lenny Breau |
Leonard Harold "Lenny" Breau (August 5, 1941 – August 12, 1984) was a musician, guitar player, and music educator. He was known for blending many styles of music including: jazz, country, classical and flamenco guitar. Breau, inspired by country...
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| x Susan Cabot |
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Timothy Scott Roman |
Susan Cabot (July 9, 1927 – December 10, 1986) was an American actress.
Born Harriet Shapiro to a Russian Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, Cabot led an early life filled with turmoil; she was raised in eight different foster homes. She...
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| x Margaret Campbell |
Margaret Campbell (April 24, 1883 – June 27, 1939) was an American character actress in silent films.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Campbell had been the leading lady of the Bramhall Players and appeared on Broadway in revivals of Hamlet and The...
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| x Nicholas Candy |
Nicholas Candy (1949 - 1996) was a British-born U.S. permanent resident who was killed, at age 47, by his father-in-law, Richard Keech, a World War II veteran in his late 70s, in a contentiously disputed case. The prosecution contended that it was...
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| x Thor Nis Christiansen |
Thor Nis Christiansen (28 December 1957 – 30 March 1981) was a serial killer from Solvang, California. He committed his first three murders in late 1976 and early 1977, killing young women of similar appearance from Isla Vista, California. His...
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| x Barbara Colby |
Barbara Colby (July 2, 1940 – July 24, 1975) was an American actress.
Born in New York City on July 2, 1940, she started her acting career in the theater. Following a solid performance in Six Characters in Search of an Author in 1964, she moved to...
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| x Joe Cole |
Joseph Dennis "Joe" Cole (April 10, 1961 – December 19, 1991) was a roadie for Black Flag and Rollins Band. He was the best friend and roommate of the musician/author/actor Henry Rollins. His memoirs were published posthumously by 2.13.61 publishing...
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| x Corine Christensen |
Corine Christensen (1955 – 1986) was a prostitute and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) student, who was murdered in California on November 3, 1986. With her boyfriend, James Marino, she also supplied drugs to Richard Bandler, the co-developer of...
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| x Tara Correa-McMullen |
Tara Correa-McMullen (May 24, 1989 – October 21, 2005), born Shalvah McMullen, was an American actress who was most well-known for a recurring role playing a gang member, Graciela Reyes, on the CBS television series Judging Amy. In 2005, she co...
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| x Ennis Cosby | Mikhail Markhasev | Skirball Center Drive |
Ennis William Cosby (April 15, 1969 – January 16, 1997) was the son of comedian-actor Bill Cosby and Camille Cosby. He was murdered during a mugging.
Several events in the life of Ennis Cosby were intentionally mirrored by the events in the life of...
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| x Kirsten Costas |
Kirsten Marina Costas (July 23, 1968 – June 23, 1984) was an American high school student who was murdered by her classmate, Bernadette Protti, in 1984.
In 1994, the story was made into a television movie entitled A Friend to Die For (also known as...
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| x Barry Crane |
Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, (November 10, 1927, Detroit, Michigan – July 5, 1985, Los Angeles, California) was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player.
Crane (sometimes credited as Barry Cohen) produced The...
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| x William Maurice Davis |
William Maurice Davis, also known as Willie Mo D, was a small time drug dealer and bookie in the Oakland, California area who was shot and killed in his backyard swimming pool in what has become an infamous gangland murder. Police responding to the...
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| x Karel de Leeuw |
Karel deLeeuw, or de Leeuw ((1930-02-20)February 20, 1930 – August 18, 1978(1978-08-18)), was a mathematician at Stanford University, specializing in harmonic analysis and functional analysis. He received his doctorate at Princeton in 1954 under...
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| x Dominique Dunne |
Dominique Ellen Dunne (November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982) was an American actress.
Dunne made appearances in several made for television movies, television series, and films, and played a supporting role as the oldest daughter, Dana Freeling, in...
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| x Abigail Folger | Aug 9, 1969 | Laurel Canyon |
Abigail Anne "Gibbie" Folger (August 11, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee and member of the prominent United States Folger family. She was the great...
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| x Marcus Foster |
Marcus Albert Foster (March 31, 1923 – November 6, 1973) was a respected African-American educator who gained a national reputation for educational excellence while serving as principal of Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as...
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| x Marvin Gaye |
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range, who achieved major success...
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| x Dedrick D. Gobert |
Dedrick D. Gobert (November 25, 1971 – November 19, 1994) was an American actor best known for his supporting role as "Dooky" in the 1991 John Singleton film Boyz n the Hood.
Born Dedrick Dwayne Fontenot in Louisiana, Gobert appeared in Poetic...
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| x Ronald Goldman |
Ronald Lyle "Ron" Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was an American waiter and an aspiring model. He was murdered along with Nicole Brown Simpson allegedly by her former husband O. J. Simpson, an actor and retired American football player. The...
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| x Haing S. Ngor |
Dr. Haing Somnang Ngor (Chinese: 吳漢潤; pinyin: Wú Hànrùn, March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his debut...
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| x Latasha Harlins |
Latasha Harlins (July 14, 1975 – March 16, 1991) was a 15 year-old African-American girl who was shot and killed on March 16, 1991 by Soon Ja Du, a 51 year-old Korean store owner. Harlins was a student at Westchester High School in Los Angeles,...
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| x Brooke Hart |
Brooke Hart (June 11, 1911 – November 9, 1933) was the oldest son of Alexander Hart, the owner of L. Hart and Son Department Store in San Jose, California. His kidnapping and murder was reported throughout the United States, and the lynching of his...
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| x Evelyn Hernandez |
Evelyn Hernandez (1978 – May 1, 2002) was a woman who disappeared along with her five-year-old son in San Francisco, California in May 2002. She was nine months pregnant with her second child at the time she went missing.
Ms. Evelyn Hernandez, a 24...
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| x Huang Yuanyong |
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Huang Yuanyong (黃遠庸), (Pen name: Huang Yuansheng 黃遠生, Wade-Giles: "Huang Yüan-yung") (15 January 1885 – 25 December 1915) was a renowned Chinese author and journalist during the late Qing Dynasty (清朝) and early Republic of China (民國初年). Huang made...
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| x Ronald Hughes |
Ronald Hughes (March 16, 1935 – c. November 1970) was a court-appointed attorney who represented Manson family member Leslie Van Houten and an alleged Manson family murder victim.
Hughes was among the first lawyers to meet with Charles Manson in...
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| x Meredith Hunter |
Meredith Curly Hunter (October 24, 1951 – December 6, 1969) was an 18-year-old American who was killed at the 1969 Altamont Free Concert. During the performance by The Rolling Stones, Hunter was involved in a scuffle with members of the Hells Angels...
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| x Peter Ivers |
Peter Scott Ivers (September 1946 - March 3, 1983) was an American musician, best known as the host of New Wave Theatre.
Ivers was born in Illinois, but raised in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Roxbury Latin School and...
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| x Don Jordan |
Don Jordan (1934-1997) was a boxer born in Los Angeles, California and was the undisputed Welterweight Champion of the World from 1958 to 1960. His nickname was ‘Geronimo’. Managed by Don Nesseth.
Born 22 June 1934 in Los Angeles, Jordan’s brief...
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| x Charlie Keever |
The Murder of Charlie Keever and Jonathan Sellers occurred on March 27, 1993, in San Diego County, California. The murders of both boys was solved via a DNA match after a delay of eight years.
Charles “Charlie” Allen Keever (1980–March 27, 1993) was...
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| x Robert F. Kennedy |
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Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. An icon of modern American liberalism and...
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| x Victor Kilian |
Victor Arthur Kilian (March 6, 1891 – March 11, 1979) was an American actor who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Victor Kilian began his career in entertainment at the age of...
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| x Polly Klaas |
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Polly Hannah Klaas (January 3, 1981 – October 1993) was an American murder victim whose case gained national attention. At the age of twelve, she was kidnapped at knife point from her mother's home during a slumber party in Petaluma, California, on...
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| x Suesan and Sheila Knorr |
Suesan Marline Knorr (September 27, 1966 - July 16, 1984), and Sheila Gay Sanders (March 13, 1965 - June 24, 1985), were teenaged sisters from Sacramento, California, who were both abused and later killed by their mother, Theresa Knorr. Suesan was...
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| x Karyn Kupcinet |
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Karyn Kupcinet (March 6, 1941 – November 28, 1963) was an American actress who was found dead at her West Hollywood, California home, in the days following the JFK assassination. It has been theorized that her death, officially ruled a homicide, was...
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| x Leno LaBianca |
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Susan Atkins |
Pasqualino Antonio "Leno" LaBianca (August 6, 1925 – August 10, 1969) and his wife Rosemary LaBianca (December 15, 1930 – August 10, 1969) were victims of the Manson Family murders.
Rosemary LaBianca was born in Arizona to parents who divorced. Her...
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| x Robert Lees |
Robert Lees (July 10, 1912 – June 13, 2004) was an American television and film screenwriter. Lees was best known for writing comedy, including several Abbott and Costello films.
Born in San Francisco, California, Lees started in show business as a...
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| x Henry Liu | Kuomintang | Oct 15, 1984 | Daly City |
Henry Liu (7 December 1932 – 15 October 1984), often known by his pen name Chiang Nan (江南), was a writer and journalist from Taiwan, Republic of China. Born in Jingjiang, Jiangsu, China, he was a vocal critic of the Kuomintang (Nationalist Party),...
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| x Todd Loren |
Todd Loren (1960–1992, born Stuart Loren Shapiro) was an American comic book publisher, owner of Revolutionary Comics and its title Rock 'N' Roll Comics.
As a teenager, Loren promoted comic conventions and record collector shows in the Detroit area....
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