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Serial killer edit
A serial killer is typically defined as a person who murders three or more people, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break (a "cooling off period") between them.
Mass murder edit
Mass murder is the act of murdering a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity.
- 2012 Seattle cafe shooting spree
- Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. (Ku Klux Klan member)
- Cincinnati nightclub shooting
- Priscilla Ford
- Marlon Jones
- Kharkiv beheadings
- Malmö school stabbing
- Moner Mohammad Abu Salha
Assassination edit
Assassination is the murder of a prominent person, often an elected official, military, celebrity, journalist or activist, when executed by a third party or assassin, usually for political reasons or payment.
- Charles C. P. Arndt
- Louis Cardis
- Marcella Grace Eiler
- Laurence Foley
- Assassination of Orhan Gündüz
- George LeBreton
- Russell G. Lloyd Sr.
- John Gordon Mein
- Francis E. Meloy Jr.
- William Nordeen
- Lamar Smith (activist)
- Mike Swoboda
- Robert O. Waring
- John H. Wood Jr.
Murder edit
A murder is the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another.
- Glenn Lee Benner II
- Michael Bethke (insanity defense)
- Veronza Bowers Jr.
- Lavinia Burnett
- Attina Marie Cannaday (also kidnapper)
- Michael Harold Chapel
- Nick Clatterbuck
- Eugene Herbert Clay
- Thunder Collins
- Mary Frances Creighton
- Kerry Lyn Dalton
- Jesse Evans (mobster hitman)
- Vernon Lee Evans
- Chandra Prakash Gajurel
- Sonny Leitch
- Christopher McCowen (also rapist)
- Charles A. McCoy, Jr. (sniper)
- Duncan McKenzie (murderer)
- Barry Mills (Aryan Brotherhood) (also gang member)
- Leroy Nash
- William Nesbit (Jewel Thief)
- Curtis Osborne
- Harold Lamont Otey
- Phillup Partin
- Donna Roberts
- Roy Michael Roberts
- Vladimir Sarenpya
- Leonard Shockley
- Kermit Smith Jr. (executed)
- Randall Lee Smith
- Robert Sorrells
- Salvatore Testa (mobster hitman)
- Percy Levar Walton
- Robert Wayne Williams (executed)
- Scott Williams (serial killer)
- Ed Wutke
Lynching edit
Lynching is the murder of a person by an informal group (mob) action without due process of law. It is not limited to deaths by hanging.
- Alexander Boyd (county solicitor)
- John Cecil Jones
- Steve Long
- Felix Hall
- Fred Rochelle
- Robert Lewis (lynching victim)
- Matthew Williams (laborer)
- Perry massacre
- 1866 Gallatin County race riot
- Lynching of Joseph Vermillion
- Lynching of Michael Green
- Lynching of William Burns
- Lynching of King Johnson
- Lynching of Stephen Williams
- Lynching of Eliza Woods
- Lynching of Alfred Blount
- Lynching of Olli Kinkkonen
Filicide edit
Filicide is the deliberate act of a parent killing their own child.
- Phillip Austin
- Francisca Ballesteros
- Elizabeth Butchill
- Alice Crimmins
- Nicole Diar
- Modise Mokwadi Fly
- Janie Lou Gibbs
- Penelope Kenny
- Deanna Laney murders
- Robin Lee Row (also mariticide)
- Celine Lesage
- Diane O'Dell
- Robin Lee Row (also mariticide)
- Ramon Salcido (also mariticide)
- Hans Schleif
- Lydia Sherman (also mariticide)
- Sarah Simpson
- Silvia Meraz
- Charles Mihayo
- Caroline Whitting
- Murder of Joseph Wallace
- Murder of the Kumari-Baker sisters
Mariticide edit
Mariticide is the murder of a husband by his wife.
- Jane Laut
- Barbara Stager
- Robin Lee Row (also filicide)
Parricide edit
Parricide is the act of killing one's parents or another close relative.
Uxoricide edit
Uxoricide is the act of murdering one's wife.
- Raphel Cherry
- Henry Debosnys
- Wattie Holm
- J.J. Paulsen
- Ken Ramos
- Nikolay Soltys (also parricide, familicide, filicide)
Victims edit
- Murder of Hussain Saeed Alnahdi
- Paul Martin Andrews
- Saint Laura of Constantinople
- Rod Craig
- Dantrell Davis
- Christine Demeter (victim of uxoricide)
- Nancy Eaton (homicide)
- Murder of Alayna Ertl
- The Jacka (unsolved)
- Murder of Troy LaFerrara
- Pat Lowther (victim of uxoricide)
- Jonathan Magbie
- Denise Morelle
- Bosco Tjan (unsolved)
- Murder of Naomi Miller
- Murder of Laree Slack
Organized crime edit
Organized crime is a category of transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for money and profit.
Fraud edit
In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.
Other crimes edit
- Kendall Carroll (officer involved shooting)
- Mad Hatter (bank robber)
- Candice Rose Martinez (robbery)
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Misc. edit
- Tadas Blinda, wikify
- Colombian necktie, start
- Marc Dutroux, C-class article that needs expansion, citation improvement