Encyclopedia - Murder: Encyclopedia - Murder
In the criminal law, murder is the crime where one human being causes the death of another human being, without lawful excuse, and with i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder - Murder And Other Illegal Killings
Some instances of premeditated, intentional killing may be treated as justifiable homicide which excludes liability for murder and, in so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder - Murder Demographics
Murder occurrences vary wildly among different countries and societies. In the Western world, murder rates in most countries have decline...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Child Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Child Murder - Killing Of Children By Other Children
In most countries, there are very few cases where children are killed by other young children. According to the U.S. Department of Justic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Child Murder: Encyclopedia - Child Murder
The murder of children is considered a particularly abhorrent crime in most societies; they are perceived within their communities and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zebra Murders: Encyclopedia - Zebra Murders
The Zebra murders were a number of connected murders performed by a black supremacist serial killer ring that took place in San Francisco...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attempted Murder: Encyclopedia - Attempted Murder
In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cleveland Torso Murderer: Encyclopedia - Cleveland Torso Murderer
The Cleveland Torso Murderer (also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run) was an unidentified serial killer active in the Cleveland, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 187 Murder: Encyclopedia - 187 Murder
187 is the numeric code for the crime of murder used by law-enforcement officials, particularly in the state of California. This number i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder In Small Town X: Encyclopedia - Murder In Small Town X
Murder in Small Town X was an American reality television series that aired on FOX from July through September 2001. The show is notewort...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders: Encyclopedia - 1982 Chicago Tylenol Murders
The Tylenol murders occurred in the autumn of 1982, when seven people in the Chicago, Illinois area in the United States died after inges...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zebra Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Zebra Murders - The Killings Resume
The new year came and went, and there was, it turned out, a respite in the violence. However, on April 1, 1974, two Salvation Army cadets...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Child Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Child Murder - Killing By Family Members Vs. Killing By Strangers
Most murderers of children are relatives, acquaintances or caretakers. Younger children are more likely to be murdered by a relative whil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moors Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Moors Murders - Other Media
The Moors murders served partly as the inspiration for Edward Gorey's short story The Loathsome Couple. The Moors Murders are also the su...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zebra Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Zebra Murders - Reaction To The Murders
The murders certainly brought panic to the city. People would try to find safety in numbers whenever they would go out, and as much as po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mass Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Mass Murder - Mass Murder By A State
The concept of state-sponsored mass murder covers a range of potential killings. On one hand, there are clear examples of state-sponsored...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zebra Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Zebra Murders - The First Wave Of Murders
On October 19, 1973 a couple, Richard and Quita Hague, who were kidnapped by a group of men and forced into a white van as they took an a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mass Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Mass Murder - Mass Murder By Individuals
Outside of a political context, the term "mass murder" refers to the killing of several people at the same time. Examples would include s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Midsomer Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Midsomer Murders - Episodes
So far, forty-four episodes have been broadcast in the United Kingdom. These are the episodes, listed in production order, and the date o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moors Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Moors Murders - Victims
Moors murders - Pauline Reade. Their first victim was 16-year-old Pauline Reade, a neighbor of Hindley's, who disappeared on her way to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder Inc.: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder Inc. - Background
Murder, Inc., as it was called by the press, was a chapter of a so-called National Crime Syndicate in the USA. It was essentially an enfo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Moors Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Moors Murders - Arrest And Imprisonment
Brady was immediately arrested and charged with the murder of Edward Evans. Hindley was only arrested several days later, when police fou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zebra Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Zebra Murders - Reaction To The Second Wave
Once again the new wave of killings brought the city to a state of shock as people took the same precautions as they had when the first w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zebra Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Zebra Murders - The Death Angels
The zebra killings were the work of an extremist sect of the black nationalist group, the Nation of Islam. According to their beliefs, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zebra Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Zebra Murders - Arrest And Conviction
After seeing his face on a wanted poster for the crimes, a man named Anthony Harris, an employee at the Black Self-Help Moving and Storag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lake Bodom Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Lake Bodom Murders - Arrest Of Nils Gustafsson
In late March 2004, almost 44 years after the event, Nils Gustafsson was arrested by the police on the suspicion that he was the murderer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - A6 Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - A6 Murder - Suspects
A6 murder - Peter Alphon. The first suspect was Peter Alphon, a travelling salesman, who had behaved strangely in the period following ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soham Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Soham Murders - The Trial
Huntley's defence conceded that he disposed of the girls' bodies and that they were in his house when they died. However, he claimed that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sakakibara: Encyclopedia Ii - Sakakibara - The Murders
On May 27, 1997, the head of Jun Hase, a student at Tainohata Elementary School, was found in front of the school gate hours before stude...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lake Bodom Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Lake Bodom Murders - Theories
Some years later – between June 3 and 6 of 1972 (approximately the 11th anniversary of the murders) – a man announced in his suicide ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - West Port Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - West Port Murders - Spree
By 1827, Burke and his mistress, Helen MacDougal, were regular tenants at Hare's lodging house in Edinburgh. It is not known whether the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder At The Aba: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder At The Aba - Origins
Asimov recounts the unusual history behind Murder at the ABA in his second autobiographical volume, In Joy Still Felt (1980). According t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ronald Goldman: Encyclopedia Ii - Ronald Goldman - The Murder
On July 30, 1993, Brett Cantor, the owner of a Hollywood nightclub called the Dragonfly, was murdered with knife in a method identical to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder At The Aba: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder At The Aba - Characters
Almost all of the speaking parts in Murder at the ABA belong to fictitious persons. As part of the novel's ambiance, Asimov included seve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diagnosis: Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Diagnosis: Murder - Episodes
Diagnosis: Murder - Season 1 1993-199419 episodes. 01. Miracle Cure (10/29/93) 02. Amnesia (11/5/93) 03. Murder At The Telethon (11/12/...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Chase: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Chase - The Third Murder/mass Murder
On January 13, 1978, two days after killing Teresa Wallin, Chase purchased two puppies from a neighbor, which he then killed and drank th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder Inc.: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder Inc. - History
Murder, Inc. was established in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1920s by Joe Adonis, and initially led by Martin "Bugsy" Gol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder Inc.: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder Inc. - History
Murder, Inc. was established in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1920s by Joe Adonis, and initially led by Martin "Buggsy" Go...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd: Encyclopedia Ii - The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd - Controversy
The book is most notable for two aspects that led to controversy on its publication: use of the unreliable narrator, and a surprise endin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder By Decree: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder By Decree - The Film
It is England in the autumn of 1888 and Victoria of the United Kingdom still rules over the British Empire. Sherlock Holmes (Christopher ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sleeping Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Sleeping Murder - Plot
"Let sleeping murder lie": This is the motto which is not obeyed by Gwenda Halliday, a woman in her early twenties who has recently marri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dial M For Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Dial M For Murder - Plot
Tony Wendice is a former tennis player who has succeeded in marrying Sheila (called Margot in the movie) only for her money, without the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Regicide: Encyclopedia Ii - Regicide - Regicides As Murders
Regicide has particular resonance within the concept of the Divine Right of Kings, whereby monarchs were presumed by decision of God to h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soham Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Soham Murders - The Bichard Inquiry
The inquiry was announced on December 18 2003, and Sir Michael Bichard was appointed as the chair. The stated purpose was: “Urgently to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Soham Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Soham Murders - After The Trial
Following the announcement of Huntley's conviction, it emerged that various authorities were aware of allegations, from a number of sourc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Felony Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Felony Murder - Illustrative Example
The following example employs general principles of law in the United States for the purpose of illustration. The Doe Gang attempts to ro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jeffrey Dahmer: Encyclopedia Ii - Jeffrey Dahmer - Murders
Most of his victims were African American and Asian gay men whom he subjected to sexual assaults. His main goal was for a completely comp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hillside Strangler: Encyclopedia Ii - Hillside Strangler - Murders
On October 17, 1977, a prostitute named Yolanda Washington disappeared. Her naked body was discovered several days later near the Warner ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anita Cobby Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Anita Cobby Murder - The Trial
All accused pleaded not guilty, however shortly before trial proceedings began, Travers changed his plea to guilty. A mistrial was called...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrew Cunanan: Encyclopedia Ii - Andrew Cunanan - Murders
The first murder of the spree was that of his friend Jeffrey Trail on April 27, 1997, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The next victim was Cuna...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zodiac Killer: Encyclopedia Ii - Zodiac Killer - Murders
Zodiac first came to police attention following the apparently random killing of Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on December 20, 1968,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Einsatzgruppen: Encyclopedia Ii - Einsatzgruppen - Methods Of Murder
The standard method employed by the Einsatzgruppen was to post a proclamation ordering all the Jews and other condemned people in an occu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charles Cullen: Encyclopedia Ii - Charles Cullen - Murders
Cullen committed his first murder on June 11, 1988. Judge John W. Yengo Sr., had been admitted to St. Barnabas Medical Center suffering f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sal Mineo: Encyclopedia Ii - Sal Mineo - Murder
By 1976 Mineo's career seemed to be turning around again. Playing the role of a gay burglar in a San Francisco run of the stage comedy P....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Karla Homolka: Encyclopedia Ii - Karla Homolka - Murders
On October 17, 1987, Homolka, then 17, met Bernardo, who was 23, at a hotel restaurant. Their relationship soon became sexual. They would...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Memorial To The Murdered Jews Of Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Memorial To The Murdered Jews Of Europe - Description
2711 concrete slabs ("steles") are arranged in a grid pattern on the 19000 square meter site. The steles are 2.38m long, 0.95m wide and v...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Bonin: Encyclopedia Ii - William Bonin - Murder Spree
Bonin's first victim was a fourteen-year-old hitchhiker named Thomas Lundgren. The youth was kidnapped, assaulted and killed on May 28, 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dean Corll: Encyclopedia Ii - Dean Corll - The Murders
In early 1970, when he was aged thirty and training to be an electrician, Corll began to abduct and murder young men and boys, the victim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Diagnosis: Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Diagnosis: Murder - Tv Movies
Made prior to the series start: Diagnosis of Murder (January 5, 1992) The House on Sycamore Street (May 1, 1992) A Twist of the Knife (F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anna Mae Aquash: Encyclopedia Ii - Anna Mae Aquash - Murder
On February 24, 1976, Aquash was found dead by the side of State Road 73 on the far northeast corner of the Pine Ridge Reservation, about...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder On The Orient Express: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder On The Orient Express - Plot
Detective Hercule Poirot is travelling on the Orient Express. On the journey, Poirot meets a very close friend Bouc, who works for the Co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meat Is Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Meat Is Murder - About The Album
Meat Is Murder is the most eclectic Smiths album, featuring such divergent styles as funk, rockabilly, ballad, and dance, along with the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder My Sweet: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder My Sweet - Reaction
The film receives mostly positive reviews, even when compared to Chandler's novel Farewell, My Lovely. Alison Dalzell, writing for Edinbu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Meat Is Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Meat Is Murder - Track Listing
All songs written by Morrissey/Marr. Meat Is Murder - LP. "The Headmaster Ritual" (4:52) "Rusholme Ruffians" (4:20) "I Want the One I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cleveland Torso Murderer: Encyclopedia Ii - Cleveland Torso Murderer - Victims
Most researchers consider there to be twelve definite victims of the Torso Murder, and anywhere from one to thirty possible victims. Vict...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anita Cobby Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Anita Cobby Murder - Aftermath
Anita's parents are the founders of the Victims of Homicide Support Group, a community support group that helps families deal with heinou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Amityville Horror: Encyclopedia Ii - The Amityville Horror - The Murders
Main Article: Ronald DeFeo, Jr. On November 13, 1974, police found that all but one of the members of the family residing at 112 Oceansid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder By Death: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder By Death - Cast Of Characters
The action of the movie takes place in and around the isolated country home of eccentric multi-millionaire Lionel Twain (Capote), inhabit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cassidy: Encyclopedia Ii - Cassidy - Murder Investigation
On June 8, 2005 a warrant was issued for the murder of a 22-year-old man during an April 15, 2005 shooting. Cassidy's attorney has stated...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Amityville Horror: Encyclopedia Ii - The Amityville Horror - The Murders
Main Article: Ronald DeFeo, Jr. On November 13, 1974, police found that all but one of the members of the family residing at 112 Oceansid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - West Port Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - West Port Murders - Detection
Next day Ann Gray became suspicious when Burke would not let her approach a bed where she had left her stockings. When the Grays were lef...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jimmy Conway: Encyclopedia Ii - Jimmy Conway - Child Murders
A detail not commonly known about Conway until Henry Hill's 2004 book Gangsters and Goodfellas is that he apparently had a reputation for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andrei Chikatilo: Encyclopedia Ii - Andrei Chikatilo - Murder Spree
In 1978, Chikatilo moved to Shakhty and committed his first documented murder. On December 22, he lured a nine-year-old girl to an old sh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd: Encyclopedia Ii - The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd - Plot Summary
The book is set in the fictional village of King's Abbott in England. It is narrated by Dr. James Sheppard, who becomes Poirot's assistan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jam Master Jay: Encyclopedia Ii - Jam Master Jay - Murder And Aftermath
Mizell was shot in the head and killed in a Merrick Boulevard recording studio in Queens at 7:30 pm on October 30, 2002. The other person...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ray Ryan: Encyclopedia Ii - Ray Ryan - Murder In Evansville
On October 18, 1977, Ray Ryan went to a health club, as he often did. When he finished his workout, the 73-year-old Ryan walked outside t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anita Cobby Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Anita Cobby Murder - Hunt For The Killers
On 6 February, the NSW State Government posted an AUD$50,000 reward for information leading to the capture of her killers. On 9 February,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Amityville Horror: Encyclopedia Ii - The Amityville Horror - The Murders
On November 13, 1974, Suffolk County Police responded to a 911 call to the residence of Ronald DeFeo Sr. on 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary Bell: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary Bell - The Murders
She strangled toddler Martin Brown on May 25, 1968, when she was 10 years old. She was, as far as anyone knows, alone on this occasion. B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jeffrey Lundgren: Encyclopedia Ii - Jeffrey Lundgren - The Murders
Five years went by before the murders took place. The Averys never lived on Lundgren's home, but they did live in the same barn that the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anita Cobby Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Anita Cobby Murder - The Accused
The five accused suspects had over 50 prior convictions for offences including armed robbery, assault, larceny, car theft, breaking and e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - West Port Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - West Port Murders - In Popular Culture
The West Port murders have entered the timeless culture of children’s folklore. Threats of visits from Burke and Hare are used by some ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Silk-miller Police Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Silk-miller Police Murders - Operation Lorimer
Police investigations into the murders were named Operation Lorimer. Victorian Police Minister Andre Haermeyer announced an AUD$500,000 r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lizzie Borden: Encyclopedia Ii - Lizzie Borden - The Murder And The Trial
On August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden discovered the body of her father at the home at 92 Second Street in Fall River. She called to the famil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lizzie Borden: Encyclopedia Ii - Lizzie Borden - The Murder And The Trial
On August 4, 1892, Lizzie Borden discovered the body of her father at the home at 92 Second Street in Fall River. She called to the famil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wanda Beach Murders: Encyclopedia Ii - Wanda Beach Murders - Marianne Schmidt And Christine Sharrock
Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock were best friends and next door neighbours, living in the Sydney suburb of West Ryde. Sharrock li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carl Panzram: Encyclopedia Ii - Carl Panzram - Murder Spree
In 1920, at the age of 29, Panzram took the final step in his life of crime by graduating to murder. He lured sailors in New York away fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - George Chapman Murderer: Encyclopedia Ii - George Chapman Murderer - Was He Jack The Ripper?
One of the detectives at Scotland Yard, Frederick Abberline, is reported to have told the policeman who arrested Chapman: "You've got Jac...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Dictionary Murder, Killing, Kill, Ded,: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Murder, Killing, Kill, Ded,
  Murder [132] To see murder committed in your dreams, foretells much sorrow arising from the misdeeds of others. Affair will a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Dictionary Killing, Murder: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Killing, Murder
  Killing, Murder 1. If the dreamer is killing an enemy, this implies the end of a difficult time in his life attained through hi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Murder Dream Symbol: Dreams Interpretation Dictionary - Murder
Murder Dreaming that you have committed a murder indicates that you are putting an end to an old habit and your former ways of thinki...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpreation Murder: Dream Interpretations Dictionary - Murder
  Dream Interpretation Murder This dreams calls for a feeling of guilt and shame which were subdued in the waking life. Dreamin...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpretation Dictionary Murder, Suicide: Dream Interpretation - Murder, Suicide
  Murder, Suicide Causing death has very diverse meaning depending on who dies, why and how they die, and what interpretive frame...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpretation Dictionary Murder, Suicide: Dream Interpretation - Murder, Suicide
  Murder, Suicide Causing death has very diverse meaning depending on who dies, why and how they die, and what interpretive frame...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpreation Assassination, Murder: Dream Interpretations Dictionary - Assassination, Murder
  Dream Interpretation Assassination, murder Dreams of assassination or murder have similar meanings. There are strong feelings...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Murder Dream Symbol: Dreams Interpretation Dictionary - Murder
Murder Dream Symbols: Repressed hostility or resentment towards someone or something. If your are being murdered, it represents a repr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder - Country-specific Murder Law
Murder - United Kingdom. Further information: murder in English law, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and ... See also:Murder, Murder - M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder - Country-specific Murder Law
Murder - United Kingdom. About 850 murders per year (reported in 2000) are committed in the United Kingdom. This is low compared to the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder - Other Uses Of The Word
The word "murder" is sometimes used colloquially to mean some forms of mistreatment, e.g. a bad singer "murdering" a song, or describing ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Murder: Encyclopedia Ii - Murder - Mitigating Circumstances
Most countries allow conditions that "affect the balance of the mind" to be regarded as mitigating circumstances. This means that a perso...   » Read the article