- 1076
| Feb 22 | Godfried III with the Hump, duke of Lower Lorraine, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
- 1146
| Aug 30 | A conference of European leaders outlaws the crossbow. By banning the effective weapon, it was believed that the leaders had ended wars for all time. | Ref: 4 |
- 1652
| Dec 08 | Adriaan W "Joris" van Geel Flemish missionary, murdered at 35. | Ref: 5 |
- 1671
| Jan 27 | Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 27 | Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City. | Ref: 5 |
- 1699
| Jul 06 | Pirate Captain William Kidd was captured in Boston, MA and deported back to England. | Ref: 4 |
- 1701
| May 23 | Captain William Kidd is hanged at London's Execution Dock in London after he was convicted of piracy and murder. | Ref: 68 |
- 1716
| Jan 08 | Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested. | Ref: 5 |
- 1718
| Nov 22 | Edward Teach, aka Edward Thatch and Blackbeard the Pirate, is killed on North Carolina's Outer Banks during a bloody battle with a British Royal Navy force sent from Virginia. | Ref: 3 |
- 1762
| Jun 28 | 1st reported counterfeiting attempt (Boston). | Ref: 51 |
- 1804
| Mar 05 | An uprising by Irish convicts at Castle Hill, New South Wales is crushed by government troops. | Ref: 62 |
- 1815
| Dec 07 | Michel Ney French marshal (Waterloo), murdered at 46. | Ref: 5 |
- 1819
| Aug 16 | Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators. | Ref: 5 |
- 1820
| Feb 14 | Charles F Duke of Berry, murdered at 42. | Ref: 5 |
- 1831
| Mar 19 | The first bank robbery in America was reported. The City Bank of New York City lost $245,000 in the heist. | Ref: 4 |
| May 12 | The first indicted bank robber in the US, Edward Smith, was sentenced to five years hard labor on the rock pile at Sing Sing Prison. | Ref: 4 |
- 1834
| Feb 26 | First US interstate crime compact (New York-New Jersey) ratified. | Ref: 5 |
- 1835
| Nov 06 | Cesare Lombroso professor of psychiatry: founder: criminology: identifying criminals by personality types; is born. | Ref: 4 |
- 1838
| Jun 15 | Catherine Hagerman becomes the first prostitute to be imprisoned in New York's Tomb's prison. | Ref: 52 |
- 1845
| Aug 27 | Anti-renters of Delaware County, New York disguised as Native Americans, kill the sheriff to resist the collection of rents. | |
- 1853
| Apr 22 | Alphonse Bertillon France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1854
| May 05 | English pirate Plumridge robs along pro-English Finnish coast. | Ref: 5 |
- 1855
| Nov 21 | Franklin Colman, a pro-slavery Missourian, guns down Charles Dow, a Free Stater from Ohio, near Lawrence, KS. | Ref: 2 |
- 1856
| May 27 | Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning. | Ref: 5 |
- 1858
| Feb 21 | Edwin T Holmes installs first electric burglar alarm (Boston MA). | Ref: 5 |
- 1860
| Jul 19 | Lizzie Borden, accused ax murderess, is born | Ref: 68 |
- 1863
| Dec 15 | The first bank robbery occurs in Malden MA when the Malden Postmaster, Edward Green, kills the clerk and robs the bank of $5000. He was later executed. | Ref: 52 |
- 1864
| Jul 09 | Franz Miller becomes first Train Murderer, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1867
| Mar 02 | Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah MO, 1 dead. | Ref: 5 |
| May 22 | (or 23rd) The James Gang robs the Richmond MO bank of $4000, killing 3 men. | Ref: 52 |
- 1868
| Mar 20 | Jesse James Gang robs bank in Russelville KY of $14,000. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 07 | Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1. | Ref: 5 |
- 1871
| Jun 02 | (or 3rd) The Ocobock Brothers’ Bank in Corydon, IA was relieved of the sum of $15,000 in cash by 24-year-old Jesse James and his gang of outlaws. | Ref: 52 |
- 1872
| Jan 07 | Edward Stokes fatally shoots one of Wall Street’s more colorful and unscrupulous characters, James Fisk. | Ref: 3 |
| Apr 12 | Jesse James gang robs bank in Columbia KY (1 dead/$1,500). | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate Hague's Dame, murdered by Henry Jut. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | Helena Beeloo Hague's maid, murdered by Henry Jut. | Ref: 5 |
- 1873
| Jul 21 | The first train robbery in America was pulled off by Jesse James and his gang. They took $3,000 from the Rock Island Express at Adair, IA. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 19 | James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation. | Ref: 2 |
- 1874
| Jan 31 | The James Gang robs the Little Rock Express outside Gads Hill MO of $22,000 in cash and gold. | Ref: 52 |
| Jul 01 | Joseph Douglas and William Mosher abduct and later kill 4-year old Charles Brewster Ross, arguably America's first sensational abduction. | Ref: 52 |
- 1875
| Jan 26 | Pinkerton agents, hunting Jesse James, kill his 18-year-old half-brother and seriously injure his mother with a bomb. | Ref: 2 |
| Jul 07 | The James Gang rob the Missouri-Pacific Express of $75,000 outside Otterville MO. | Ref: 52 |
- 1876
| Sep 07 | The James and Younger gang botches an attempt to rob the First National Bank of Northfield, Minn. | Ref: 2 |
- 1878
| Oct 27 | Three million dollars is stolen from the Manhattan Savings Bank in New York City in a celebrated robbery accredited to the gang leader George "Western" Leslie. The $3,000,000 is never found, but Leslie's prosperous crime career comes to an end in 1884 when he is murdered. | Ref: 3 |
- 1879
| Mar 19 | Jim Currie opens fire on the actors Maurice Barrymore and Ben Porter near Marshall, Texas. His shots wound Barrymore and kill Porter. | Ref: 2 |
- 1882
| May 13 | Jules-Nicolas Crevaux French explorer, murdered at 35. | Ref: 5 |
- 1885
| May 01 | Maria "Goeie Mie" Swanenburg sentence to life for killing 27 in Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
- 1886
| May 05 | A bomb explodes on the fourth day of a workers' strike in Chicago. | Ref: 2 |
- 1889
| Mar 28 | Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler killed by husband William Kemmler. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 16 | Robert Younger, in Minnesota's Stillwater Penitentiary for life, dies of tuberculosis. Brothers Cole and Bob remain in the prison. | Ref: 2 |
- 1891
| Jan 26 | Frank Costello, American syndicate gangster, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 15 | The Dalton gang holds up a train and takes $2,500 at Wagoner, Oklahoma. | Ref: 2 |
- 1892
| May 15 | Arthur Hodister British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 04 | Wealthy Fall River, Massachusetts, businessman Andrew Borden and his wife, Abby Durfee Gray Borden are murdered with an ax. Their daughter, Lizzie Borden, is later accused and acquitted of their murder. | Ref: 47 |
- 1893
| Jun 19 | (or 20th) A jury in New Bedford, Massachusetts, finds Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. | Ref: 47 |
| Jun 20 | A jury in New Bedford, Massachusetts, found Lizzie Borden innocent of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. | Ref: 5 |
- 1896
| Oct 11 | Charles "Lucky" Luciano Sicily, NYC Mafia gangster, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 11 | Charles "Lucky" Luciano Sicily, NYC Mafia gangster, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1897
| Feb 12 | Louis Buchalter, American crime boss, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1899
| Jan 17 | Al Capone, U.S. mobster known as "Scarface Al" who ran most of Chicago and the surrounding area, is born in Brooklyn, N.Y. | Ref: 2 |
- 1901
| Jun 30 | Willie Sutton, American bank robber and prison escapee, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1902
| Apr 18 | Denmark is first country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals. | Ref: 5 |
| May 10 | Biggest swindle of the century!$12 m. stolen from Paris safe hiding Henry Crawford's fortune. | Ref: 10 |
| Jul 04 | Meyer Lansky, American crime syndicate chief | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 06 | Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger, is born. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 26 | Albert Anastasia head of Murder Inc, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 22 | Joe Adonis Italy, American crime-syndicate boss in New York & New Jersey, is born. (Also 52) | Ref: 70 |
- 1903
| Apr 19 | (Prohibition) Eliot Ness, Treasury agent during Prohibition, is born. | Ref: 2 |
- 1904
| May 18 | Brigand Raizuli kidnaps American Ion H. Perdicaris in Morocco. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 28 | Fingerprinting is first used by the St. Louis Police Department. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 19 | Nathan Leopold, American murderer, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1905
| Jul 06 | John Walker’s fingerprints were the first ones to be exchanged by police officials in Europe and America. Law enforcement units in London and St. Louis, MO completed the exchange. | Ref: 4 |
- 1906
| Feb 28 | Bugsy Siegel, the gangster who created casinos in Las Vegas, is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Jun 25 | A love triangle came to a violent end atop NY's Madison Square Garden as architect Stanford White, the building's designer, was shot to death by Harry Thaw, the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit. | Ref: 68 |
- 1908
| May 24 | Sam Giancana, American gangster; led Chicago crime syndicate in 1950's and 1960's, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1909
| Mar 24 | Clyde Barrow bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame), is born. | Ref: 68 |
| Oct 19 | Cesare Lombroso professor of psychiatry: founder: criminology: identifying criminals by personality types; dies. | Ref: 4 |
- 1910
| Oct 01 | Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie & Clyde) is born. | Ref: 47 |
| Oct 16 | Dr. Crippin convicted of murdering his wife. | Ref: 10 |
- 1911
| May 19 | The first person to commit a crime and be convicted through the use of fingerprints turned out to be Caesar Cella. He had been 'thumbed' in NY City. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 21 | ‘Mona Lisa' stolen from Louvre after hanging in one place for more than a century;police mystified. | Ref: 10 |
| Aug 22 | The Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, is stolen from the Louvre in Paris, where it had hung for more than 100 years. It is recovered in 1913. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 18 | Russian Premier Piotr Stolypin dies four days after being shot at the Kiev opera house by socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 21 | Illinois Supreme Court is first to rule that fingerprints are admissible as evidence. | Ref: 10 |
- 1913
| Dec 27 | Charles Moyer, president of the Miners Union, is shot in the back and dragged through the streets of Chicago. | Ref: 2 |
- 1914
| Feb 07 | Jacques Mornard [Ramón Mercader], murderer (Trotsky), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Gaston Calmette editor (Le Figaro), killed by Madame Caillaux at 55. | Ref: 5 |
- 1916
| Mar 26 | Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 30 | Mexican bandit Pancho Villa kills 172 at the Guerrero garrison in Mexico. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 21 | Bill Carlisle, the infamous ‘last train robber,’ robs a train in Hanna, Wyoming. | Ref: 2 |
- 1919
| Oct 27 | Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim. | Ref: 5 |
- 1920
| Jan 26 | Matthias Enzberger German minister of finance, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 28 | Revolutionary and bandit Pancho Villa surrenders to the Mexican government. | Ref: 2 |
- 1921
| Mar 21 | "Big Jim" Colisimo US gangster, is murdered by Al Capone. | Ref: 5 |
| May 27 | Caryl Chessman, American criminal; wrote four books while on death row, is born. | Ref: 70 |
- 1923
| Feb 24 | Mass arrests in US of Mafia. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 21 | Marcus Garvey sentenced to 5 years for using the mail to defraud. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 27 | Yugoslav Premier Nikola Pachitch is wounded by Serb attackers in Belgrade. | Ref: 2 |
- 1924
| Feb 08 | Gee John US mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada), dies. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered in a "thrill killing" committed by Nathan Leopold Junior and Richard Loeb, two students at the University of Chicago. | Ref:77 |
| May 31 | Rich Chicago students Leopold and Loeb confess to thrill murder; Clarence Darrow to defend. | Ref: 10 |
| Sep 10 | Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder. | Ref: 5 |
- 1925
| Feb 08 | Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta GA. | Ref: 5 |
- 1927
| Mar 09 | The Flatheads Gang was responsible for the first armored-car robbery -- near Pittsburgh, PA. It was reported that $104,250 was taken in the heist. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 11 | The Flatheads Gang was responsible for the first armored-car robbery -- near Pittsburgh, PA. It was reported that $104,250 was taken in the heist. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 12 | Patrick Meehan petty criminal, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 01 | Lizzie Borden, teacher, famous murder suspect, dies at age 66. | Ref: 68 |
| Nov 24 | Federal officials battle 1,200 inmates after prisoners in Folsom Prison revolt. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 15 | Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 22 | Al Capone is arrested on a concealed weapons charge. | Ref: 52 |
- 1929
| Apr 06 | "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| May 07 | John Scalise, Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta and Albert Anselmi, all US gangsters, are murdered by Al Capone. | Ref: 5 |
- 1930
| Mar 17 | Mob boss Al Capone is released from jail. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 21 | Fire (set as part of an escape attempt) at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 320. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 23 | Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in New York NY. | Ref: 5 |
- 1931
| Jun 12 | Gangster Al Capone and 68 of his henchmen are indicted for violating Prohibition laws. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 17 | Mobster Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He will be released in 1939. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 24 | Al (Alphonse) Capone, the prohibition-era Chicago gangster, is sent to prison for tax evasion. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 18 | John T "Legs" Diamond US gangster, murdered at 35. | Ref: 5 |
- 1932
| Jan 02 | Young gang shoot dead 6 police in Springfield Missouri. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 23 | El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 02 | Clyde Barrow is released from jail for some petty thefts. | Ref: 47 |
| Feb 02 | Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta GA). | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 08 | Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 17 | "Baby Face" Nelson escapes from prison. | Ref: 51 |
| Mar 05 | Takuma Dan Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 07 | Erv A Kelley US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 13 | John Butcher is murdered during the holdup of his jewelry store. Clyde Barrow is named as the assailent though he states he was in the car. | Ref: 47 |
| May 04 | Mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, entered the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 05 | Clyde Barrow and Raymond Hamilton kill two policemen who were investigating their drinking in their car. | Ref: 47 |
| Dec 12 | Willie Sutton escapes from Sing Sing prison. | Ref: 52 |
- 1933
| Apr 07 | Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 22 | Bonnie and Clyde rob the Alma TX State Bank. | Ref: 52 |
| Jul 10 | First police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 22 | George "Machine Gun" Kelly kidnaps millionaire oilman Charles Urschel. | Ref: 52 |
| Aug 22 | The Barker Gang holds up a Federal Reserve mail truck and kills a highway patrolman. | Ref: 52 |
| Sep 26 | Indiana State Prison at Michigan City jailbreak. | Ref: 42 |
- 1934
| Jan 01 | Alcatraz officially becomes a Federal Prison | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 17 | The Barker Gang abducts Edward G Bremers, president of the Commerce Bank, for a ransom of $200,000. | Ref: 52 |
| Apr 01 | Bonnie & Clyde kill 2 police officers. | Ref: 5 |
| May 22 | Bonnie and Clyde are set up. They are killed the next day. | Ref: 52 |
| May 23 | Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are shot to death in a police ambush near Gibsland in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. | Ref: 94 |
| Oct 22 | Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, the notorious bank robber and folk hero, is fatally shot by Federal agent Melvin Purvis near a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio. | Ref: 3 |
| Nov 12 | (Manson) Charles Manson is born in Cincinnati, the illegitimate son of a sixteen-year-old girl named Kathleen Maddox. His father, who Manson never met, was a "Colonel Scott" from Ashland, Kentucky. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 27 | Baby Face Nelson is shot and killed by federal agents in Barrington, Illinois. Also killed were Inspector Sam Cowley and Agent Herman Hollis. Buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery, River Grove, Illinois. | Ref: 42 |
- 1935
| Jan 16 | Ma Barker and her boys (Fred, for one) shot and killed in Oklawaha FL. | Ref: 68 |
| Feb 17 | Thirty-one prisoners escape an Oklahoma prison after murdering a guard. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 22 | Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (New York). | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 19 | Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion. | Ref: 3 |
| Oct 23 | Dutch Schultz, American bootlegger, dies at age 33. | Ref: 70 |
- 1936
| Jan 28 | A fellow prison inmate slashes infamous kidnapper, Richard Loeb, to death. | Ref: 2 |
| May 01 | FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis. | Ref: 5 |
- 1938
| Apr 18 | Find headless Mad Butcher victim Cleveland. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 25 | Charles Starkwether serial murderer, with his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, in 1958 they embarked on a shocking, murderous rampage that lasted eight days and left 11 dead bodies in its wake--including Caril Ann's family, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1939
| Aug 24 | Louis ‘Lepke’ Buchalter, the leader of Murder, Incorporated, gives himself up to columnist Walter Winchell in New York City. Winchell turned the underworld leader over to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 22 | Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegal murders Harry"Big Greenie" Greenberg in Los Angeles. | Ref: 52 |
- 1940
| Mar 17 | Existence of Brooklyn kill-for-hire gang called Murder, Inc. revealed. | Ref: 10 |
| Oct 26 | Mario Orosco first victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 16 | The Mad Bomber leaves his first (pipe) bombwhen in the Con Edison Building in New York City with a note that read, "Con Edison crooks, this is for you." | Ref: 3 |
- 1941
| Jul 26 | Marx Dormoy French socialist, killed by a time bomb. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 30 | Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach. | Ref: 5 |
- 1942
| Mar 12 | Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano mobster (testified against Gotti), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1943
| Mar 19 | Al Capone's chief enforcer Frank Nitti commits suicide rather than go to jail. | Ref: 52 |
- 1944
| Jan 04 | Henri "Hans" Flu Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/anti-fascist, is murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | Louis Buchalter, American crime boss, dies at age 47. | Ref: 70 |
- 1946
| May 04 | 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in San Fransisco bay. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 22 | Evelyn Dick charged with butchering husband. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 24 | Ted Bundy, serial murderer, is born in Burlington VT. | Ref: 5 |
- 1947
| Jan 15 | -A grisly, still-unsolved murder case came to light in Los Angeles as the mutilated remains of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, known as the "Black Dahlia" for the dark outfits she wore, were found dumped in a vacant lot. | Ref: 6 |
| Jan 25 | Al Capone, U.S. mobster known as "Scarface Al" who ran most of Chicago and the surrounding area, dies of syphilis in Miami Beach, Florida, at age 48. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 09 | Willie Sutton escapes from Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. | Ref: 52 |
| Jun 20 | Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, 41, is shot dead at the Beverly Hills, CA, mansion of his girlfriend, Virginia Hill, apparently at the order of mob associates. | Ref: 68 |
- 1948
| Dec 18 | Janet Fay hammered to death by the Honeymoon Killers. | Ref: 5 |
- 1949
| Jan 15 | Black Dahlia murder victim found in Los Angeles (basis of the movie). | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 12 | Moslem Brotherhood chief Hassan el Banna is shot to death in Cairo. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 01 | Pablo Escobar Gaviria Colombian drug baron, is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1950
| Jan 17 | Eleven men rob Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities. The thieves were eventually caught. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 09 | Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in New York NY. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | The Mad Bomber leaves a bomb in Grand Central Station. It is found and disarmed. | Ref: 3 |
| Oct 12 | The Kefauver Crime Commission convened in NY to investigate interstate organized crime. TV was there the following year, showing Frank Costello’s hands for a long, long time on screen. Mr. Costello told Senator Estes Kefauver’s committee that he would refuse to testify on TV if his face was shown. So, viewers were shown his hands instead. | Ref: 4 |
- 1951
| Feb 28 | The Senate committee headed by Estes Kefauver (D-TN) issues a preliminary report saying at least two major crime syndicates were operating in the US. | Ref: 5 |
- 1954
| Mar 01 | In the U.S. Capitol, four members of an extremist Puerto Rican nationalist group fire more than thirty shots at the floor of the House of Representatives from a visitors’ gallery, injuring five U.S. representatives. Alvin Bentley of Michigan, George Fallon of Maryland, Ben Jensen of Iowa, Clifford Davis of Tennessee, and Kenneth Roberts of Alabama all eventually recover from their gunshot wounds and return to their seats in Congress. | Ref: 3 |
| Jul 04 | Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime). | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 30 | Dr. Sam Sheppard is arrested for his wife's murder. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Dec 21 | Dr. Sam Sheppard is convicted of murder of his wife, Marilyn, and sentenced to life in prison. | Ref: 5 |
- 1955
| Apr 10 | Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely. | Ref: 5 |
- 1956
| Sep 07 | Johnny Dio and five of his cronies were convicted for attacking journalist Victor Reisel. Dio and his gang had blinded the anti-gambling columnist by throwing acid in his face. | |
- 1957
| May 07 | (Prohibition) Eliot Ness untouchable (Prohibition Agent for Department of Treasury-Chicago, Untouchables), dies at age 54. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | 'Untouchable' Eliot Ness dies. | Ref: 24 |
| Sep 26 | Albert Anastasia, American gangster, dies at age 55. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 25 | Albert Anastasia head of Murder Inc, dies. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 14 | New York State Trooper Edgar Croswell uncovered a conference of crime bosses who had gathered from across the country on the estate of Joseph Barbara in Apalachin, New York. In response to the exposure of a nationwide criminal syndicate, Director Hoover instituted the Top Hoodlum program to develop information about prominent criminal leaders and their activities. | Ref: 14 |
| Dec 25 | Ed Gein judged insane and committed to Waupan State Hospital for a life sentence for the murders of Mary Hogan and Bernice Worden. | Ref: 5 |
- 1958
| Jan 14 | Colin Ferguson, murderer (6 people on the Long Island Railroad on Dec 7, 1993), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 29 | Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 23 | 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels. He was released unharmed and refused to help identify his kidnappers. | Ref: 5 |
- 1959
| Jun 29 | Larry Parham 4th victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (1st to die), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 08 | Richard Eberling, a former window washer for Sam and Marilyn Sheppard, is caught burglarizing homes in Cleveland. In his possession are two of Marilyn Sheppard's rings. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Nov 15 | Richard Hickock & Perry Smith kill Clutters. | Ref: 5 |
- 1962
| Jan 26 | Charles "Lucky" Luciano New York City NY Mafia gangster, dies at 65. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 12 | Frank Morris and Joseph and Clarence Angelin escape from Alcatraz. No trace was ever found. They were assumed "at large". | Ref: 52 |
| Aug 14 | The "White Gloves Gang" rob a mail truck of $1.5 million. They have not been caught. | Ref: 52 |
| Aug 28 | Dr Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid. | Ref: 5 |
- 1963
| Aug 03 | Great Train Robbery-$2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 08 | In what became known as Britain's Great Train Robbery, Bruce Reynolds and others rob the Glasgow-to-London mail train of $7.36 million. All the thieves are caught but less than $1 million is recovered. | Ref: 52 |
| Nov 21 | Robert Stroud (a.k.a. Bird Man of Alcatraz) dies. | Ref: 68 |
- 1964
| Mar 13 | In a notorious case, 38 residents of a Queens, New York neighborhood failed to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she was being stabbed to death. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 27 | Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 16 | 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery". | Ref: 5 |
| May 31 | Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 16 | Sam Sheppard is released from prison after a federal judge finds he was denied a fair trial because jurors were not shielded from heavy publicity. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Oct 29 | Thieves steal a jewel collection--including the world's largest sapphire, the 565-carat "Star of India," and the 100-carat DeLong ruby--from the Museum of Natural History in NY. The thieves were caught and most of the jewels recovered. Who pinched the Irish crown jewels? | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 26 | Moors Murderers claim last victim. | Ref: 5 |
- 1965
| Feb 26 | Norman Butler is arrested for the murder of Malcom X. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 23 | Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Perry E Smith US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | Robert E Hickok US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 26 | Sylvia Likens is tortured by teen girl gang. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 20 | In the largest U.S. drug bust to date, 209 pounds of heroin is seized in Georgia. | Ref: 2 |
- 1966
| Mar 11 | Three men are convicted of the murder of Malcolm X. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 13 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 16 | Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954 and freed after 9 years in jail. | Ref: 70 |
- 1967
| Mar 21 | (Manson) In prison for forging a treasury check, Charles Manson asks prison officials to let him remain in prison, but having completed a ten-year prison term, he is released. He heads for San Francisco. | Ref: 87 |
- 1968
| Jan 10 | Lyle Menendez NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers), is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | West Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration. | Ref: 5 |
- 1969
| Feb 14 | Vito Genovese US mafia chief, dies at 71. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | (Manson) Charles Manson visits 10050 Cielo Drive (the Tate residence) looking for Tony Melcher, who he hoped might publish his music. Tate's photographer curtly tells Manson to leave by "the back alley," possibly supplying a motive for the later attack at the Tate home. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 27 | NY City police, attempting to serve a search warrant, charged into the well-known gay hangout, the Stonewall Inn. Events quickly got out of hand. Police ejected customers, managers, bouncers. Everyone got booted outside onto the sidewalk. The crowd became increasingly unruly and someone threw a bottle at the police. The plain-clothes police team was trapped inside the bar for over two hours before the the NYPD Tactical Patrol Force arrived and drove the mob from in front of the Stonewall. Police arrested and jailed many of the chanting gays. For the next few nights, the Stonewall Inn became the focal point of gay protests. The gay community began to organize and form committees to bring about change. Many feel that the Gay Liberation Movement had its beginnings with the Stonewall Inn Riots. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 31 | (Manson) A music teacher named Gary Hinman is stabbed to death. On the wall near the body, in Hinman's blood, was printed "political piggy." | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 08 | (Manson) Manson tells Family members, "Now is the time for Helter Skelter." That evening he tells Patricia Krenwinkel, Susan Atkins, Tex Watson, and Linda Kasabian to get knives and changes of clothes. As he sends them from the ranch on their mission, he tells them "to leave a sign --something witchy." Watson drives to the Tate residence. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 09 | (Manson) Shortly after midnight, the brutal attack on residents at the Tate residence begins. In all, 102 stab wounds are inflicted on four victims; a fifth victim is shot. Left dead are actress Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Voytek Frykowski, Abigail Folger, and Steven Parent. The murders are discovered by housekeeper Winifred Chapman the next morning. The four Family members return to Spahn ranch, where Manson criticizes them for doing a messy job. That night, Manson, along with Patricia Krenwinkel, Tex Watson, Leslie Van Houten, Linda Kasabian cruise around, looking for potential victims. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 01 | (Manson) Under a bush near his home, a ten-year-old boy finds the gun used in the Tate murders. The boy's father turns the gun over to the LAPD. The LAPD fails to do a proper investigation. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 06 | Special Forces Captain John McCarthy is released from Fort Leavenworth Penitentiary, pending consideration of his appeal to murder charges. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 12 | (Manson) Charles Manson is arrested at Barker Ranch in Death Valley and charged with grand theft auto. He is put in jail in Independence. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 06 | (Manson) While incarcerated in Los Angeles on other charges, Susan Atkins tells a fellow inmate, Virginia Castro (Graham), that she participated in the Tate murders. She tells Castro of a "death list" of celebrities targeted by the Family, including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Tom Jones, Steve McQueen, and Frank Sinatra. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 12 | (Manson) Al Springer, a visitor to the Spahn ranch, tells LAPD detectives that on August 11 or 12 Charles Manson had bragged about "knocking off five" pigs the other night. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 17 | (Manson) Danny DeCarlo implicates Charles Manson in the Spahn ranch murder of Shorty Shea, and also suggests that persons at the Spahn ranch might also have been responsible for the Tate murders--but, he tells detectives, he would be afraid to testify. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 18 | (Manson) Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi is assigned the Tate-LaBianca case. | Ref: 87 |
- 1970
| Feb 17 | Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | Mafia "Boss" Carlo Gambino is arrested for plotting to steal $3 million. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 06 | Sam Sheppard dies of liver failure at age 46. (Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Jul 24 | (Manson) The Tate-LaBianca murder trial, with defendants Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten, opens in Los Angeles. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 07 | Four, including presiding judge, killed in courthouse shootout in San Rafael, Calif (Police charge Angela Davis provided weapons). | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 10 | (Manson) Judge Older grants Linda Kasabian immunity from prosecution for the Tate-LaBianca murders in return for agreeing to appear as the prosecution's star witness at the Manson trial. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 16 | (Manson) The state rests its case in the Manson trial. The defense announces, without having presented any evidence, that it also rests. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 20 | (Manson) Manson announces that he wishes to testify. He makes a strange statement, saying "The children that come at you with knives are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up...." On cross-examination, Bugliosi asks Manson if he thinks he is Jesus Christ. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 30 | (Manson) Manson defense attorney Ronald Hughes fails to show up in court. He is never seen again, leading to speculation he was murdered by The Manson Family. | Ref: 87 |
| Dec 23 | French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia. | Ref: 5 |
- 1971
| Jan 12 | Fed grand jury indicts Reverand Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 15 | (Manson) Vincent Bugliosi presents the prosecution's closing argument in the Manson trial. | Ref: 87 |
| Jan 19 | (Manson) Beatles' Helter Skelter is played at the Charles Manson trial. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 25 | (Manson) Charles Manson and three female followers were convicted in Los Angeles of murder and conspiracy in the 1969 slayings of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. Defense attorney Paul Fitzgerald says the trial wasn't fair. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 20 | Shalanda Burt US murderess, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | (Manson) Concluding the penalty phase of the trial, the jury fixes the penalty as death for all four Tate-LaBianca defendants. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 03 | Joseph Valachi US gangster, dies at 66. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 19 | (Manson) Judge Older sentences Manson to death. Manson is ordered sent to San Quenton's death row. | Ref: 87 |
| Jun 28 | Joseph Colombo mobster, shot dead at 48. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 12 | Juan Corona, indicted for 25 murders. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 29 | Nathan Leopold, American murderer, dies at age 66. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 20 | Robert E. Short receives approval from A.L. owners to move the franchise from Washington, D.C. to Arlington, Texas for the 1972 season. | Ref: 86 |
| Sep 30 | A nine-member citizens committee was organized to investigate the Attica, NY prison riot earlier in the month. 10 hostages and 32 prisoners were killed in the rioting -- the worst in U.S. history. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 05 | (Manson) (day unspecified) Charles "Tex" Watson is convicted on seven counts of first-degree murder. | Ref: 87 |
| Nov 09 | John List kills family & moves to Colorado. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 24 | It was a dark, freezing-cold, rainy Thanksgiving eve when Dan Cooper, now better known as D.B. Cooper, boarded a Northwest Orient airliner in Portland, Oregon. The chain-smoking Cooper, in his mid-forties, wore dark glasses, a dark suit and tie, and white shirt. He carried a black briefcase containing what resembled a bomb, using it to hijack the Boeing 727 plane. Cooper demanded and received $200,000, then parachuted from the plane over the Cascade Mountains in Southwestern Washington, never to be seen again. ($5,880 of the loot was found on the banks of the Columbia River in 1980.) Cooper left several lasting contributions ... the mystery: why did he do it, did he survive, and if so, where did he go and what did he do with the rest of the money; and a new aircraft design called the "Cooper Vane", a device that prevents the tail stairways on Boeing 727s from being lowered while in flight (Cooper’s escape route). | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 26 | Joe Adonis, mobster and bootlegger, dies at age 69. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 12 | A federal grand jury indicts Reverand Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | John Sinclair (sentenced to 10 years for selling 2 marijuana joints) is freed. | Ref: 5 |
- 1972
| Feb 18 | (Manson) The California Supreme Court declares the death penalty unconstitutional and Manson's sentence is automatically reduced to life in prison. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 07 | "Crazy" Joe Gallo mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | Michelangelo's sculpture ‘Pieta' victim of knife attack severing arm by mad Hungarian Lazlo Toth. | Ref: 10 |
| Jul 17 | First 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 10 | Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes. | Ref: 2 |
- 1973
| Jan 20 | Amilcar L Cabral fought for Guinea Bissau independence, murdered 51. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 05 | Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 18 | Frank Costello, American syndicate gangster, dies at age 82. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 25 | Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 10 | Grandson of J Paul Getty, J Paul Getty III is kidnapped. | Ref: 52 |
| Aug 09 | Dean Corll shot; he raped & killed 26 boys. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 21 | J Paul Getty III's ear is cut off and mailed to his family as proof that the kidnapping is no hoax. | Ref: 52 |
| Nov 26 | Albert DiSalvo Boston strangler, stabbed. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | US kidnap victem Paul Getty III freed. | Ref: 5 |
- 1974
| Feb 01 | Lynda Ann Healy first Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | Taiwan police shoot into crowd. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 12 | Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia WA. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 30 | Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub. 24 die (Port Chester NY). | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 14 | Bundy victms Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 26 | Largest theft of cash in history-Thieves get $4.3 million from Puralator Security in Chicago. | Ref: 10 |
| Dec 09 | Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail. | Ref: 5 |
- 1975
| Feb 17 | Art by Cezanne, Gauguin, Renoir, and van Gough, valued at $5 million, is stolen from the Municipal Museum in Milan. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 15 | Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail CO. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | James Rupers kills his family to inherit. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 19 | Sam Giancana, American gangster; led Chicago crime syndicate in 1950's and 1960's, dies at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 26 | Special Agents Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams were murdered while conducting an investigation on an Indian reservation near Pine Ridge, South Dakota. American Indian Movement leader Leonard Peltier was convicted of committing the murders. | Ref: 14 |
| Jun 30 | Bundy victim Shelley Robertson disappears in Colorado. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 15 | Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 02 | 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed. | Ref: 5 |
- 1976
| Jan 22 | Bank robbery in Beirut nets $20-50 million (record). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 30 | Five men ambush a Brinks truck in Montreal with an anti-aircraft gun. They get away with $2.8 million. | Ref: 52 |
| Mar 30 | Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 20 | Carl Fugate, Starkwether accomplice, paroled. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 06 | (Green River Killer) (date given as between July 6, 1976 and August 31, 1993) Jane Doe B-20, is last seen. She is listed as the 48th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Oct 15 | Carlo Gambino, Italian-born American organized crime leader, dies at age 74. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 01 | Konerak Sinthasomphone Milwaukee WI, Jeffrey Dahmer's victim, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 30 | Governor Carey of New York pardons seven inmates, closing the book on the Attica uprising. | Ref: 2 |
- 1977
| Jan 24 | 5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 08 | Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 04 | Violence during Puerto Rican Day in Chicago kills 2 | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 31 | Stacy Moskowitz shot to death by Son of Sam, at 20. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 08 | Interpol sends a resolution concerning video piracy. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 12 | South African black student leader Steven Biko died while in police custody, triggering an international outcry. | Ref: 17 |
| Oct 07 | Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel sent to prison on fraud charges | Ref: 62 |
- 1978
| Feb 24 | Louise Woodward Elton England, nanny who killed Matthew Eappen, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 06 | Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia. | Ref: 5 |
| May 20 | 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris France. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 19 | 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 11 | 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NY Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 million in cash & jewelry. | Ref: 5 |
- 1979
| Jan 29 | Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays". | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 10 | The Metropolitan Museum announces the first major theft in 110-year history, $150,000 Greek marble head. | Ref: 2 |
| May 21 | Former San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 20 | ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot to death in Managua, Nicaragua, by a member of President Anastasio Somoza's national guard. | Ref: 6 |
| Dec 17 | Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance executive, was fatally beaten after a police chase in Miami. Four white police officers were later acquitted. | Ref: 70 |
- 1980
| Jan 13 | Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 18 | Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion & fined $20,000. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 10 | "Scarsdale Diet" author Dr. Herman Tarnower is shot to death in Purchase, New York. (Jean Harris, convicted of murder, served nearly 12 years in prison before being released in January 1993.) | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 02 | Willie Sutton, American bank robber and prison escapee, dies at age 79. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 03 | Bernadine Dohrn, a former leader of the radical Weather Underground, surrendered to authorities in Chicago after more than a decade as a fugitive. | Ref: 6 |
- 1981
| Jan 21 | Bernhard Goetz is assaulted for 1st time on a New York subway train. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 24 | A jury in White Plains, NY, found Jean Harris guilty of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of "Scarsdale Diet" author Dr. Herman Tarnower. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 04 | A jury in Salt Lake City convicted Joseph Paul Franklin, an avowed racist, of violating the civil rights of two black men who were shot to death. (XDG, p 4A, 3/04/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 05 | US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 06 | Klaus Grabowski child molester, shot by parent. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 20 | Jean Harris is sentenced 15-to-life for slaying of the "Scarsdale Diet" author Dr Herman Townower. She would serve almost 12 years. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 25 | The U.S. Embassy in San Salvador is damaged when gunmen attack, firing rocket propelled grenades and machine guns. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 26 | Largest US bank robbery (Tucson AZ), more than $33 million stolen. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 09 | Mardiros Jamkodjian, and Armenian dissident, is arrested in Switzerland for the murder of a Turkish consular employee. | Ref: 17 |
| Jul 01 | Laurel Canyon Calif murders (4 die, 1 wounded). | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 20 | 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery. | Ref: 5 |
- 1982
| Jan 01 | (Green River Killer) (date given as between January 1, 1982 and March 21, 1984) Jane Doe B-10, is last seen. She is listed as the 45th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Feb 03 | Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 05 | DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Hans ter Laag Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Jan Kuiper Dutch news editor (IKON), murdered in El Salvador. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Joop Willemsen Dutch cameraman, murdered in El Salvador. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Koos Koster Dutch newscaster (IKON), murdered in El Salvador. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 12 | 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 19 | In a case that galvanized the Asian-American community, Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American was beaten to death outside a nightclub in Highland Park MI by two auto workers who later received probation for manslaughter. (XDG, p 4A, 6/19/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jun 25 | Porn star John Holmes acquitted on murder charges. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 26 | Porn star John Holmes is found Not Guilty of the infamous Wonderland gang ("Four on the Floor") murders. | Ref: 24 |
| Jul 08 | (Green River Killer) Wendy Lee Coffield, 16, is last seen. She is the 1st of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Jul 15 | Wendy Caulfield first Green River victim, is found near Seattle. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 17 | (Green River Killer) Gisele Ann Lovvorn, 17, is last seen. She is the 2nd of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Jul 25 | (Green River Killer) Debra Lynn Bonner, 23, is last seen. She is the 3rd of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Aug 01 | (Green River Killer) Marcia Faye Chapman, 31, is last seen. She is the 4th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Aug 11 | (Green River Killer) Cynthia Jean Hinds, 17, is last seen. She is the 5th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Aug 12 | (Green River Killer) Opal Charmaine Mills, 16, is last seen. She is the 6th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Aug 29 | (Green River Killer) Terry Rene Milligan, 16, is last seen. She is the 7th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Sep 15 | (Green River Killer) Mary Bridget Meehan, 18, is last seen. She is the 8th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Sep 20 | (Green River Killer) Deborah Lorraine Estes, 15, is last seen. She is the 9th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Sep 26 | (Green River Killer) Linda Jane Rule, 16, is last seen. She is the 10th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Oct 08 | (Green River Killer) Denise Darnell Bush, 22, is last seen. She is the 11th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Oct 09 | (Green River Killer) Shawnda Leea Summers, 17, is last seen. She is the 12th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Oct 20 | (Green River Killer) (date given as "between Oct 20 and Nov 7") Shirley Marie Sherrill, 22, is last seen. She is the 13th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Dec 01 | (Green River Killer) (date given as between December 1, 1982 and December 31, 1985) Jane Doe B-16, is last seen. She is listed as the 46th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Dec 01 | (Green River Killer) (date given as between January 1, 1982 and March 21, 1984) Jane Doe B-17, is last seen. She is listed as the 47th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Dec 08 | Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | André Kamperveen Suriname minister, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Bertus de Harder Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux), dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Bram Behr Suriname revolutionary, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Cyrill Daal Suriname worker's union leader, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Frank Wijngaarde Suriname journalist, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Gerald Leckie Suriname scholar, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Harald Riedewald Suriname attorney, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | John Baboeram Suriname lawyer, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Jozef Slagveer Suriname journalist, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Kenneth Goncalves Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Leslie Rahman Suriname journalist, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | Surendre Rambocus Suriname army lieutenant, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 12 | $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in NY NY. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 24 | (Green River Killer) (date given as "on or about") Colleen Renee Brockman, 15, is last seen. She is the 14th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Dec 28 | Nevell Johnson Jr., a black man, was mortally wounded by a police officer in a Miami video arcade, setting off three days of race-related disturbances that left another man dead. | Ref: 70 |
- 1983
| Jan 15 | Meyer Lansky reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach FL at 81. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 03 | (Green River Killer) Alma Ann Snutgm, 18, is last seen. She is the 15th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Mar 06 | A woman in New Bedford, Mass., reported being gang-raped atop a pool table in a tavern called Big Dan's; four men were later convicted. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 08 | (Green River Killer) Delores LaVerne Williams, 18, is last seen. She is the 16th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Apr 10 | (Green River Killer) Gail Lynn Mathews, 24, is last seen. She is the 17th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Apr 16 | (Green River Killer) Andrea M Childers, 19, is last seen. She is the 18th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Apr 17 | (Green River Killer) Sandra Kay Gabbert, 17, is last seen. She is the 19th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Apr 17 | (Green River Killer) Kimi-Kai Pitsor, 16, is last seen. She is the 20th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Apr 30 | (Green River Killer) Marie M Malvar, 18, is last seen. She is the 21st of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| May 03 | (Green River Killer) Carol Christensen, 21, is last seen. She is the 22nd of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| May 18 | (Green River Killer) Martina Theresa Authorlee, 18, is last seen. She is the 23rd of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| May 23 | (Green River Killer) Cheryl Lee Wims, 18, is last seen. She is the 24th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| May 31 | (Green River Killer) Yvonne Shelley Antosh, 19, is last seen. She is the 25th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| May 31 | (Green River Killer) (date given as between May 31 and June 13) Carrie Ann Rois, 15, is last seen. She is the 26th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Jun 03 | Gordon Kahl, a militant tax protester wanted in the slayings of two U.S. marshals in North Dakota, was killed in a gun battle with law enforcement officials near Smithville, Ark. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 08 | (Green River Killer) Constance Elizabeth Naon, 21, is last seen. She is the 27th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Jun 18 | IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in NYC. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 19 | (Green River Killer) Kelly Marie Ware, 22, is last seen. She is the 28th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Jul 25 | (Green River Killer) Tina Marie Thompson, 22, is last seen. She is the 29th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Aug 18 | (Green River Killer) April Dawn Buttram, 17, is last seen. She is the 30th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Sep 05 | (Green River Killer) Debbie May Abernathy, 26, is last seen. She is the 31st of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Sep 12 | Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 12 | (Green River Killer) Tracy Ann Winston, 19, is last seen. She is the 32nd of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Sep 28 | (Green River Killer) Maureen Sue Feeney, 19, is last seen. She is the 33rd of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Oct 11 | (Green River Killer) Mary Sue Bello, 25, is last seen. She is the 34th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Oct 26 | (Green River Killer) Pammy Annette Avent, 16, is last seen. She is the 35th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Oct 30 | (Green River Killer) Delise Louise Plager, 22, is last seen. She is the 36th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Nov 01 | (Green River Killer) Kimberly Nelson, 26, is last seen. She is the 37th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Nov 25 | World's greatest robbery-œ25,000,000 of gold, Heathrow, England. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 26 | Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 23 | (Green River Killer) Lisa Yates, 26, is last seen. She is the 38th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
- 1984
| Jan 02 | Riot in Tunis kills over 100. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 18 | Malcolm H Kerr 9th president of American University of Beirut, shot dead. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | (Green River Killer) Mary Exzetta West, 16, is last seen. She is the 39th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Mar 21 | (Green River Killer) Cindy Anne Smith, 17, is last seen. She is the 40th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Mar 24 | Burglars steal $22 million from Brinks vault in Rome. | Ref: 10 |
| Apr 09 | DOJ announced charges in the "Pizza Connection" case. FBI Agents and Italian law enforcement officials documented international connections between American and Italian organized crime groups in a large heroin distribution ring. Eighteen men were convicted including five organized crime family leaders. | Ref: 14 |
| Apr 17 | Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 18 | Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg was shot to death outside his home. Two white supremacists were convicted of civil rights violations in the slaying. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 07 | Richard Eberling, former window washer to Sam and Marilyn Sheppard, is convicted of killing 90-year old widow Ethel Durkin for her $1.5M estate. He gets life in prison. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Sep 25 | (Manson) Another inmate, claiming "God told me to kill Manson," sets Manson on fire, causing serious burns on large parts of his body. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 24 | 11 members of the Colombo crime family arrested. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 27 | Percy Norris deputy high commissioner of India, shot dead. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 22 | On the New York City subway, Bernhard Goetz, a forty-five-year-old white male, shoots four young black men after they ask him for five dollars. | Ref: 3 |
| Dec 27 | Four Polish officers are tried for the slaying of Reverend Jerzy Popieluszko. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 31 | NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in New Hampshire. | Ref: 5 |
- 1985
| Mar 06 | Mexican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 10 | Socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury in Providence, R.I., on charges he'd tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 19 | The estate of Sam Sheppard files a wrongful imprisonment lawsuit seeking a declaration of innocence. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Oct 27 | Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 11 | Computer store owner in Sacramento CA killed by package bomb. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 16 | Reputed organized-crime chief Paul Castellano was shot to death outside a NY City restaurant. John Gotti, his successor, is the suspected killer. | Ref: 70 |
- 1986
| Feb 10 | The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opens in Palermo, Italy. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 17 | Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 24 | Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | Maureen O'Boyle (future host of Current Affair) is raped. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 21 | The once-notorious Lexington Hotel in Chicago received a visitor, in the person of Geraldo Rivera, along with a camera crew. A record audience watched as the long-sealed vault of racketeer, Al Capone was opened during a much-hyped TV special. Guess what? All that Geraldo found were broken bottles and no trace that Capone and his gang had ever stashed anything there. | Ref: 4 |
| Apr 23 | Harold Arlen [Hyman Arluck] US composer, murdered at 81. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 29 | The nurse of Ethel Durkin (murdered by Eberling, Sam Sheppard's former window washer) says Eberling told her he killed Marilyn Sheppard. Eberling denies making the statement. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Aug 26 | Jennifer Levin strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 01 | (Green River Killer) (date given as October, 1986) Patricia Michelle Barczak, 19, is last seen. She is the 41st of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Dec 06 | Malik Oussekine Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22. | Ref: 5 |
- 1987
| Jan 01 | (Green River Killer) (date given as 1987) Roberta Joseph Hayes, 21, is last seen. She is the 42nd of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Jan 13 | 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 22 | R Budd Dwyer Pennsylvania State Treasurer, facing prison for conspiracy & perjury, shot himself to death at a televised news conference. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 13 | John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 30 | Hugh Dempster actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 16 | A jury in New York acquitted Bernhard Goetz of attempted murder in the subway shooting of four young blacks he said were going to rob him; he was convicted of illegal weapons possession. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 19 | It was on this day that consumer reporter David Horowitz was held at gunpoint on camera. During a KNBC-TV newscast in Burbank, CA, Horowitz was forced to read the assailant’s rambling note. The news director took the program off the air until police could get the gunman off the set. Horowitz was unharmed. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 26 | An investor who suffered heavy stock market losses shot and killed a Miami brokerage manager, wounded another then committed suicide | Ref: 62 |
| Nov 04 | Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 04 | Six-year old Elizabeth (Lisa) Steinberg is pronounced dead at a New York City hospital in a child-abuse case that sparked national outrage. Her illegal adoptive father, Joel Steinberg was later sentenced to prison for manslaughter. (XDG, p 4A, 11/04/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 21 | 3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man. | Ref: 5 |
- 1988
| Mar 25 | Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's so-called "preppie murder case." | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 07 | Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested. | Ref: 5 |
| May 03 | 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs FL. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Carlos Lehder Rivas, of Colombia's Medellín drug cartel, is convicted in Florida for smuggling more than 3 tons of cocaine into US. | Ref: 5 |
| May 23 | Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 17 | Women sentenced to 90 years in first product tampering murder case | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 04 | David L. Myers drives a railroad spike through the head Amanda Maher. (XDG, p 1A, 1/04/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 27 | Grand jury evidence shows Tawana Brawley fabricated rape story. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 17 | Lyndon LaRouche pleads innocent to fraud, conspiracy indictment. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 22 | 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 million in New Jersey. | Ref: 5 |
- 1989
| Jan 13 | New York City subway gunman Bernhard H. Goetz was sentenced to one year in prison for possessing an unlicensed gun that he used to shoot four youths he said were about to rob him. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 16 | Three days of rioting erupted in Miami when a police officer fatally shot a black motorcyclist, causing a crash that also claimed the life of a passenger. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 21 | A woman is assaulted & raped in the room of an Oklahoma football player. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 30 | Joel Steinberg found guilty of first degree manslaughter of daughter. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 21 | US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 21 | Randall Dale Adams, whose conviction for killing a police officer was overturned after the evidence was questioned in the documentary "The Thin Blue Line," was released from a Texas prison. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 23 | Joel Steinberg sentenced to 25 yrs for killing his adopted daughter. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 18 | Actress Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, was shot to death at her Los Angeles home by obsessed fan Robert Bardo, who was later sentenced to life in prison. (TWA, 1990) | Ref: 95 |
| Aug 03 | Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 20 | Video executive Jose Menendez and his wife, Kitty, were shot to death in their Beverly Hills, CA, mansion by their sons, Lyle and Erik. | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 20 | British conservationist George Adamson, 83, was shot and killed by bandits in Kenya. (TWA, 1990) | Ref: 95 |
| Oct 23 | A white man, Charles Stuart, claimed that he and his pregnant wife had both been shot by a black robber in Boston; Carol Stuart and her prematurely delivered baby died. Weeks later, Stuart was implicated in the killings and apparently committed suicide. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 16 | Six Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops. | Ref: 5 |
- 1990
| Jan 01 | (Green River Killer) (date given as 1990) Marta Reeves, 37, is last seen. She is the 43rd of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Jan 04 | Charles Stuart, who had claimed a gunman had killed his pregnant wife and wounded him, leaped to his death from a Boston Harbor bridge after he became a suspect. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 16 | 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 04 | 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 19 | Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 28 | Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Marí Mejía Guatemalian feminist, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 18 | Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100 million are stolen. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 11 | NYC police arrest "Dartman" (stabbed over 50 women with darts). | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 09 | Samuel K Doe Liberian president, killed by rebels | Ref: 5 |
- 1991
| Jan 11 | Jason Christmas dies of gunshot wound during robbery in New York at 49. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 22 | High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, was convicted in Exeter NH, of murder-conspiracy. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 22 | Law enforcement officers raid fraternities at University of Virginia seizing drugs. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 28 | President Reagan declared his support for the so-called "Brady Bill" requiring a seven-day waiting period for handgun purchases. | Ref: 64 |
| Jun 19 | Pablo Escobar, head of Colombia's Medellin drug cartel, surrendered to authorities. | Ref: 6 |
| Jul 03 | A Fort Worth, TX, police officer was videotaped beating a handcuffed prisoner in his patrol car (the officer was suspended, but later reinstated after a grand jury refused to indict him). | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 30 | Federal agents stage a raid on the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Alabama releasing twelve hostages and seizing 121 inmates who had rioted in effort to avoid being deported to Cuba. | |
| Sep 28 | Washington DC Mayor Marion Barry is sentenced to six months in jail for possession of crack cocaine. | Ref: 3 |
- 1992
| Jan 03 | California police pursue a driver who had killed another motorist along I-5 for more than 300 miles until he ran out of gas in Westminster. The driver was shot to death when police said he pointed a shotgun at them. (XDG, p 4A, 1/03/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 15 | Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 19 | Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | Manuel De Dios Unanue US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 12 | Salvo Lima mayor (Palermo)/MP (christian-democrat), murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 01 | Last defendant in St John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years probation. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 02 | Mob boss John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallano. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 15 | Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion. | Ref: 5 |
| May 07 | (Long Island) 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | (Long Island) In Massapequa, NY, Mary Jo Buttafuoco was shot and seriously wounded by her husband Joey's teen-age lover, Amy Fisher. | Ref: 70 |
| May 27 | Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 23 | John Gotti, convicted of racketeering charges, was sentenced in New York to life in prison. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 27 | Authorities find the body of kidnapped Exxon executive Sidney J. Reso buried in a makeshift grave in Bass River State Park in New Jersey. (The couple who kidnapped Reso, Arther and Irene Seale, were later convicted and sentenced to prison.) (XDG, p. 4A, 6/27/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 10 | A federal judge in Miami sentenced former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega, convicted of drug and racketeering charges, to 40 years in prison. A judge later cut Noriega's sentence to 10 years. (XDG, p 4A, 7/10/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 22 | Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escaped from his luxury prison near Medellin. He was slain by security forces in December 1993. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 05 | Federal civil rights charges were filed against four Los Angeles police officers acquitted of state charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King; two were later convicted. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 21 | The seige at Ruby Ridge begins. Eleven days after the shootout Randy Weaver surrendered. The FBI had killed (murdered?) his wife, one son and his dog. Weaver was later exonerated and successfully sued for token damages. | |
| Sep 07 | Troops in South Africa fire on African National Congress supporters nearthe Transkei homeland, killing 28 and wounding 200. (XDG, p 4A, 9/07/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 12 | Police in Peru captured Shining Path founder Abimael Guzman. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 01 | (Long Island) In Mineola, N.Y., Amy Fisher was sentenced to five to 15 years in prison for shooting and seriously wounding Mary Jo Buttafuoco. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 27 | Harry Connick Jr is caught with 9mm gun in New York's JFK airport. | Ref: 5 |
- 1993
| Jan 09 | Seven people are found shot to death in a restaurant in Palatine IL. (Two suspects were arrested in May 2002). (XDG, p 4A, 1/09/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 15 | Top mafia leader Salvatore "Totò" Riina arrested in Palermo. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 25 | A gunman shot and killed two CIA employees outside agency headquarters in Virginia. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 09 | Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 14 | The body of James Bulger, a 2-year-old boy who had been lured away from his mother in a Bootle, England shopping mall two days earlier, is found along a stretch of railroad track. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, ages 8 and 10 at the time, were later convicted of murder and spend 8 years in detention before being paroled. (XDG, p 4A, 2/14/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 10 | Abortion doctor Dr. David Gunn is shot and killed during an anti-abortion protest at the Pensacola Women’s Medical Services clinic in Florida by Michael Griffin. | Ref: 3 |
| Mar 11 | Dino Bravo wrestler (WWF), shot to death at 44. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 13 | Ralph Smith Fults US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | Mohammed el-Himi Brigadier-General of Egyptian police, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| May 14 | Patrick Haemers Belgian criminal, commits suicide at 40. | Ref: 5 |
| May 18 | Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola. | Ref: 5 |
| May 19 | Bandits stole three of Rome's most important paintings, two by Van Gogh and one by Cezanne, from the National Gallery of Modern Art. The paintings were recovered two month later by police. (XDG, p 4A, 5/19/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jun 23 | Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, VA, cut off her husband’s, uh, you know, with a butcher knife -- while he was sleeping. Police recovered the, uh, thingy, from the roadside where Lorena tossed it. It was surgically reattached to hubby John Wayne Bobbitt, who, by then, was wide awake. Lorena said that she chopped off John’s, uh, gizmo, because he had forced himself on her. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 19 | Dr George Tiller was shot and wounded outside an abortion clinic in Wichita KS by Rachelle Shannon. Shannon was later sentenced to 11 years in prison for the attack on Tiller, plus an additional 20 years for arson and acid attacks at abortion clinics in Oregon, California and Nevada. (XDG, p 4A, 8/19/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Aug 25 | Amy Biehl, a Fulbright scholar from Newport Beach CA, was slain by a mob in South Africa. (XDG, p 4A, 8/25/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 01 | In a case that drew national concern, 12-year-old Polly Klaas was abducted from her Petaluma, Calif., home by a knife-wielding intruder; her body was found more than two months later. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 08 | The US government issues a report absolving the FBI of wrongdoing in its final assault in Texas on the Branch Davidian compound, which went up in flames, killing as many as 85 people. (XDG, p 4A, 10/08/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 10 | A jury in Manassas VA acquits John Wayne Bobbit of marital sexual assault against his wife, Lorena, who'd sexually mutilated him. Lorena Bobbit was later acquitted of malicious wounding. (XDG, p 4A, 11/10/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 15 | A judge in Mineola, N.Y., sentenced Joey Buttafuoco to six months in jail for the statutory rape of Amy Fisher, who shot and wounded Buttafuoco's wife, Mary Jo. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 30 | Authorities in CA arrested Richard Allen Davis, who confessed to abducting and killing 12 year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 02 | Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot to death by security forces in Medellin at age 44. | Ref: 70 |
- 1994
| Jan 03 | A deadly prison riot breaks out in Maracaibo, Venezuala, claiming over 100 lives. (XDG, p 4A, 1/03/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 06 | Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed on the right leg by an assailant at Cobo Arena in Detroit. Four men, including the ex-husband of Kerrigan's rival, Tonya Harding, were later sentenced to prison. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 10 | Lorena Bobbitt went on trial in Manassas, Va., charged with malicious wounding of her husband, John. She was acquitted by reason of temporary insanity. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 12 | Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, was arrested in Minneapolis on charges she'd tried to hire a hitman to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan (the charges were later dropped in a settlement with the government). | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 13 | Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt & Derrick Brian Smith arrested & charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 14 | In Phoenix AZ, Shane Stant, who admitted to being the "hit man" in the clubbing assault on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, surrendered to authorities. (XDG, p 4A, 1/14/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 21 | A jury in Manassas, Va., acquits Lorena Bobbitt by reason of temporary insanity of maliciously wounding her husband, John, whom she'd accused of sexually assaulting her. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 24 | Michalis Vranopoulos head of Greek state bank, murdered at 48. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 27 | Figure skater Tonya Harding appeared before reporters in Portland OR to say that while she had no prior knowledge of the attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, she had failed to report "things I learned about the assault" afterward. (XDG, p 4A, 1/27/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 28 | In Los Angeles, Superior Court Judge Stanley Weisburg declares a mistrial in the case of Lyle Menendez, just over two weeks after a mistrial was declared in the case of Lyle's brother Erik. Both juries had deadlocked over whether the brothers had killed their wealthy parents. (Lyle and Erik Menendez were later retried, convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.) (XDG, p 5A, 1/28/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 01 | Jeff Gillooly pleads guilty in Portland, Ore., to taking part in the attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 05 | White separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, MS, of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963, and was immediately sentenced to life in prison. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 12 | Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | A Lebanese immigrant opens fire on a van of Hasidic students on New York's Brooklyn Bridge, killing one. (XDG, p 4A, 3/01/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 14 | Abdelkader Alloula Algerian playwright, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 14 | Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage writer, dies at 57. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | Figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Oregon, to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan, avoiding jail but drawing a $100,000 fine. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted in Zeewolde Netherlands. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | Amy Fisher's lover, Joey Buttafuoco, released from jail after 4 months & 9 days. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 06 | (Trump) Chuck Jones found guilty of breaking into Marla Maples home. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 18 | Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 19 | Frederick Ferrari crazy Gang Member, dies at 81. | Ref: 5 |
| May 06 | House passes the assault weapons ban. | Ref: 5 |
| May 07 | Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen. | Ref: 5 |
| May 09 | Massachusetts murderer Joel Rifkind found guilty in New York. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 29 | Abortion opponent Paul Hill shoots and kills Dr. John Bayard Britton and Britton's bodyguard, James H. Barrett, outside the Ladies Center clinic in Pensacola, Fla. (Hill was subsequently convicted and sentenced to death.) (TWA, 1995) | Ref: 95 |
| Oct 25 | Susan Smith of Union, S.C., claimed that a black carjacker had driven off with her two sons; Smith later confessed to drowning the children and was convicted of murder. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 27 | The U.S. Justice Department announces that the U.S. prison population has topped one million for the first time in American history. | Ref: 3 |
| Nov 02 | A jury in Pensacola FL convicts Paul Hill of murder for the shotgun slayings of an abortion provider and his bodyguard; Hill is sentenced to death. (XDG, p 4A, 11/02/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 03 | Susan Smith of Union, South Carolina, was arrested for drowning her two young sons, nine days after claiming the children had been abducted by a black carjacker. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 04 | In Union, South Carolina, townspeople jeered as Susan Smith was led into court, a day after the 23-year-old secretary was arrested and charged with murder in the drownings of her sons, three-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alexander. | Ref: 6 |
- 1995
| Jan 16 | In Union SC, a prosecutor announces he would seek the death penalty for Susan Smith, accused of drowning her sons Michael, 3 and Alex, 14 months. Smith was later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. (Ref: The Columbus Dispatch, 16 Jan 2000, p.9D) | |
| Jan 21 | Flavio "Negao" Pires da Conceicao drug Trafficker, dies at 25. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 13 | Abdelhafid Said Algerian student leader, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 13 | Azeddine Medjoubi head Algerian nationally theater, murdered at 49. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | Lembarek Boumaarafi Algerian murderer of President Boudiaf, dies. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 11 | Ernest Kabushemeye Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 17 | Ronnie Kray English gangster (The Firm), dies at 61. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 20 | Rachida Hammadi Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 31 | Mexican Grammy winning singer, Selena [Quintanilla Perez], 23, was shot to death in Corpus Christi, Texas, by the founder of her fan club. | Ref: 70 |
| May 24 | "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $1,500 for running a call girl ring that catered to the rich and famous. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 14 | Under pressure from Congress, FBI Director Louis Freech removes his friend Larry Potts as the bureau's deputy directory because of the controversy over Potts' role in the 1992 FBI seige at Ruby Ridge, ID. (XDG, p 4A, 7/14/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 18 | Opening statements are made in the trial of Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman charged with drowning her two young sons. (XDG, p 4A, 7/18/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 22 | Susan Smith was convicted by a jury in Union SC of the first degree murder for drowning her two sons. She is ultimately sentenced to life imprisonment. (XDG, p 4A, 7/22/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 28 | A jury in Union, S.C., rejected the death penalty for Susan Smith, sentencing her instead to life in prison for drowning her two young sons. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 23 | A jury in Houston convicted Yolanda Saldivar of murdering Tejano singing star Selena. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 04 | Elected PM of Italy 7 times, Giulio Andreotti becomes first world leader to be accused of murder. | Ref: 10 |
| Dec 04 | Adrianne Jones killed by David Graham & Diane Zamora, at 16. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 08 | In New York, an arsonist kills seven workers and himself in a Harlen clothing store that had been the target of a racially charged lease dispute. (XDG, p 4A, 12/8/2000) | Ref: 83 |
- 1996
| Feb 06 | Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 20 | A jury in Los Angeles convicts Erik and Lyle Menendez of first degree murder in the shotgun slayings of their millionaire parents. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 13 | James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke criminal, dies at 64. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | Lyle and Erik Menendez were spared the death penalty by a Los Angeles jury, which recommended they serve life in prison without parole for killing their wealthy parents. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 23 | A Bronx civil-court jury ordered Bernhard Goetz to pay $43 million to Darrell Cabey, one of four young men he'd shot on a subway car in 1984. | Ref: 6 |
| May 05 | The FBI released preliminary figures showing that serious crimes reported to police fell for the fourth straight year in 1995. | Ref: 6 |
| May 07 | Three US servicemen were convicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl and sentenced by a Japanese court to six and a-half to seven years in prison. | Ref: 6 |
| May 24 | Matthew Eappen Boston MA, baby murdered by nanny Louise Woodward, is born. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 03 | The FBI pulled the plug on electricity at the Freemen ranch in Montana in an attempt to persuade the occupants to negotiate an end to the 71-day-old standoff. | Ref: 6 |
| Jun 06 | A family of four became the first persons to leave the Freemen ranch in Montana since April. | Ref: 6 |
| Jun 13 | An 81-day-old standoff ended as 16 members of the anti-government Freemen group surrendered to the FBI and left their Montana ranch. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 18 | Richard Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, CA, of the 1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma. | Ref: 6 |
| Jun 24 | A jury ordered the city of Philadelphia to pay $1.5 million in damages for the bombing of MOVE headquarters in 1985 that killed eleven people. | Ref: 6 |
| Jun 27 | A Dallas police officer was charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill football star Michael Irvin. (Johnnie Hernandez later pleaded guilty to solicitation of capital murder.) | Ref: 64 |
| Jul 30 | A federal law enforcement source said security guard Richard Jewell had become a focus of the investigation into the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park. (Jewell was later cleared as a suspect by the Justice Department.) | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 12 | The Belarussian military shot down a hydrogen balloon during an international race, killing its two American pilots. | Ref: 6 |
| Sep 29 | Three U-S servicemen were indicted in the rape of a 12-year-old Okinawan girl and handed over to Japanese authorities. (They were later convicted.) | Ref: 6 |
| Nov 12 | Jonathan Schmitz was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting Scott Amedure, a gay man who'd revealed a crush on Schmitz during a taping of the "The Jenny Jones Show." Schmitz was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 17 | Six Red Cross workers were slain by gunmen in Chechnya. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 25 | Jon Benet Ramsey Colorado child beauty queen, murdered at 6. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 26 | JonBenet Ramsey, a 6-year-old child beauty contestant once crowned "Little Miss Colorado," is found strangled, bound and beaten in her home about seven hours after her mother called 911 to report the girl was missing. (CNN 10/13/99) The killer has not been found due to a botched investigation by the Boulder Police Department. | Ref: 9 |
- 1997
| Jan 16 | Entertainer Bill Cosby's only son, Ennis, 27, was shot to death while changing a flat tire on a dark road in Los Angeles. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 28 | Pietro Cavallero bandit, dies at 68. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 10 | Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | A jury in Media, Pa., convicted multimillionaire John E. du Pont of third-degree murder, deciding he was mentally ill when he killed world-class wrestler David Schultz. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 27 | Legislation banning most handguns in Britain went into effect. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 28 | The headline read, “Botched L.A bank heist turns into bloody shootout.” Two robbers, masked and wearing body armor, bungled a bank heist in North Hollywood, CA. As the pair left the bank, they unleashed an arsenal of weapons on police, bystanders, cars and TV choppers before they were killed. Fifteen people were injured, including ten policemen. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 05 | (Manson) (day unspecified) Charles Manson is denied parole (for the ninth time) in a hearing broadcast live on Court TV. Manson responds by saying, "That's cool....I'm not saying I wasn't involved [in Helter Skelter]. I'm just saying that I did not break God's law....Thank you." | Ref: 87 |
| Mar 09 | Gangsta rapper The Notorious B.I.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles; he was 24. | Ref: 3 |
| Mar 26 | Former drug counselor John G. Bennett Jr pleaded no contest in Philadelphia to charges stemming from a $100M charity fraud. (XDG, p 4A, 3/26/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Apr 29 | Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, a drill instructor at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted of raping six female trainees. | Ref: 70 |
| May 02 | Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders. | Ref: 5 |
| May 03 | A group of Texas separatists end a week-long standoff with authorities. Two armed followers escape into the woods. One is killed, the other eventually captured. (XDG, p 4A, 5/03/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| May 06 | Army Staff Sergeant Delmar Simpson gets 25-year sentence for rape. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | Jesse Timmedequas, found guilty of rape/murder of Megan Kanka, 7. | Ref: 5 |
| May 30 | Child molester Jesse K. Timmendequas was convicted in Trenton, N.J., of raping and strangling a 7-year-old neighbor, Megan Kanka a case that inspired "Megan's Law" requiring that communities be notified when sex offenders move in. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 24 | Eighteen-year-old Melissa Drexler of Freehold, N.J., who gave birth during her prom, was charged with murder in the death of her baby. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 23 | Police found the body of Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, on a houseboat in Miami Beach, Fla., an apparent suicide. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Aug 09 | Police officer Justin Volpe sodomizes prisoner Abner Louima in the bathroom of Brooklyn's 70th Precinct station house. (CNN 06/09/2000) | Ref: 9 |
| Sep 17 | Sam Sheppard's body is exhumed and tissue samples taken for DNA testing. The body is later cremated and the remains placed next to his wife's. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Oct 23 | British au pair Louise Woodward, charged with murdering a baby in her care, testified at her trial in Cambridge, Mass., that she'd never hurt 8-month-old Matthew Eappen, saying, "I love kids." | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 30 | A jury in Cambridge, Mass., convicted British au pair Louise Woodward of second-degree murder in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. The judge later reduced the verdict to manslaughter and set Woodward free. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 10 | A judge in Cambridge, Mass., reduced Louise Woodward's murder conviction to manslaughter and sentenced the English au pair to the 279 days she'd already served in the death of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 04 | The (Sam) Sheppard family lawyer says DNA tests show blood found in the Sheppard's home could be Richard Eberling's. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Dec 27 | Billy Wright, Northern Ireland's most notorious Protestant militant, is shot to death by three members of the Irish National Liberation Army at the Maze Prison outside Belfast. (XDG, p 4A, 12/27/2002) | Ref: 83 |
- 1998
| Jan 01 | (Green River Killer) (date given as 1998) Patricia Yellow Robe, 38, is last seen. She is the 44th of 48 women Gary Ridgway admits killing. (USA Today, p 3A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Jan 13 | Attorneys argue before the Ohio Supreme Court whether Sam Sheppard's wrongful imprisonment lawsuit should be dismissed. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Feb 03 | Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7½ years. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 14 | James Taylor murders Ronald and Carolyn Rihm, a couple who had been shielding Taylor's abused wife. (XDG, p 1A, 1/04/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 05 | (Sam) Sheppard's family attorney says that DNA tests on Sheppard's body exclude him from bloodstains around the Sheppard home. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Mar 06 | Matt Beck, an angry Connecticut state lottery accountant kills three supervisors and the lottery chief before killing himself at Connecticut state lottery. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 09 | In a case pitting former high school sweethearts against each other, Brian Peterson pleaded guilty in Wilimington, Delaware, to manslaughter in the death of his newborn son in a Newark motel and agreed to testify against the mother, Amy Grossberg. (A month later, Grossberg also pleaded guilty to manslaughter; she received two and a-half years in prison; Peterson, two years.) | |
| Mar 16 | Rwanda, with 125,000 suspects for 500,000 murders, began mass trials for the country's 1994 genocide. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 22 | A young woman charged along with her high school sweetheart with murdering their newborn at a Delaware motel pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Amy Grossberg was later sentenced to 2½ years in prison. Brian Peterson received a lesser sentence of two years because he'd cooperated with police. (XDG, p 6, 4/22/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jun 07 | In a crime that shocked the nation, James Byrd Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to his death in Jasper, TX. (Two white men were later sentenced to death for the crime; a third received life in prison.) | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 08 | Actor Charlton Heston formally assumed the presidency of the National Rifle Association. He vowed to use his star power to communicate the message that NRA members are regular, all-American folk. “At least that's a skill I have, and my public face is useful, too,” Heston said. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 13 | A jury in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., ruled that the Rev. Al Sharpton and two others had defamed a former prosecutor by accusing him of raping Tawana Brawley. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 25 | Richard Eblerling (Sam Sheppard's former window washer) dies in the Orient (Ohio) Correctional Institution. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Aug 05 | Marie Noe of Philadelphia was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, accused of smothering eight of her children to death between 1949 and 1968. (Noe later received 20 years' probation.) | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 17 | In Mexico, gunmen apparently sent by a drug lord, yanked three families from their beds before dawn and opened fire, killing 19 men, women and children near a popular Baja California resort. (XDG, p 4A, 9/17/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 23 | Dr. Barnett Slepian, a doctor who performed legal abortions, was killed at his home in suburban Buffalo, N.Y., when a sniper fired through his kitchen window. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 02 | The Ohio Supreme Court clears the way for Sam Sheppard's wrongful imprisonment suit. (Ref: Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Dec 27 | Six inmates, including four convicted killers, escape from Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Tennessee. (All would be recaptured by the end of the next day.) (XDG, p 4A, 12/27/2003) | Ref: 83 |
- 1999
| Jan 21 | Raul Salinas de Gotari, brother of a former Mexican president, is convicted of masterminding the murder of rival Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu. (XDG, p 4A, 1/21/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 04 | Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, was shot and killed in front of his Bronx home by four plainclothes New York City police officers during a nighttime search for a rape suspect. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 11 | A federal jury in New York finds several gun makers responsible in three area shootings for letting guns fall into the hands of criminals and assesses damages; gun makers were found liable in six other instances but no monetary damages were awarded in those cases. (However, the plaintiffs suffered a setback in 2001 when the New York Court of Appeals invalidated such claims.) (XDG, p 4A, 2/11/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 15 | The body of Amadou Diallo, the unarmed West African gunned down by New York City police, was returned to his native Guinea. | Ref: 6 |
| Feb 16 | Testimony began in Jasper TX trial of John Williams King, charged with murder in the gruesome dragging death of James Byrd Jr. (King is subsequently convicted and sentenced to death.) (XDG, p 4A, 2/16/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 25 | A jury in Jasper, Texas, sentences white supremacist John William King to death for chaining James Byrd Junior, a black man, to a pickup truck and dragging him to pieces. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 31 | Four New York City police officers were charged with murder for killing Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant, in a hail of bullets (the officers were later acquitted). | Ref: 70 |
| May 04 | Five New York City police officers go on trial for the torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. (one pleads guilty, one is convicted, three are acquitted.) (XDG, p 4A, 05/04/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| May 25 | Police officer Justin Volpe, 27, pleads guilty to federal civil rights charges. He admitted that he sodomized the prisoner, Abner Louima, with a stick in the bathroom of Brooklyn's 70th Precinct station house. (CNN 06/09/2000) | Ref: 9 |
| Jul 02 | Former Northwestern University basketball coach is shot to death in Skokie IL, the probable victim of white supremacist Benjamin Nathaniel Smith who was on a three day shooting binge that targeted minorities in IL and IN. (XDG, p 4A, 7/2/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 13 | Angel Maturino Resendiz, suspected of being the "railroad killer," surrendered in El Paso, Texas. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 11 | White supremacist Buford O Furrow, wanted in the wounding of five people at a Los Angeles Jewish community center and the shooting death of mail carrier, turns himself in to the FBI in Las Vegas, and waives extradition to Los Angeles. (XDG, p 4A, 8/11/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 15 | Gunman Larry Ashbrook opens fire in a Fort Worth, TX Baptist Church, killing seven people and himself. (XDG, p 4A, 9/15/2000) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 05 | Sam Sheppard's wife's (Marilyn) body is exhumed on the order of county prosecutors, along with the separately contained fetus she was carrying. DNA and other tests are performed. Prosecutors say they point to Sam Sheppard as the killer. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Oct 13 | After 13 months of work with prosecutors saying there wasn't enough evidence to charge anyone in the 6-year-old's strangulation. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 20 | Goliath, a 52-point buck, is kidnapped from a Rodney Miller's deer farm in Knox, PA. Goliath is worth several million dollars and will resurface as "Hercules" on July 29, 2003 at another deer farm in Reynoldsville PA, this one owned by Jeffrey Spence. (WSJ, p A1, 10/03/2003) | Ref: 33 |
| Oct 24 | An Israeli court sentenced American teen-ager Samuel Sheinbein to 24 years in prison for killing an acquaintance in Maryland in 1997. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 04 | Aaron McKinney, who beat gay college student Matthew Shepard and left him to die on the Wyoming prairie, avoided the death penalty by agreeing to serve life in prison without parole and promising never to appeal his conviction. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 18 | A jury in Jasper, TX, convicted Shawn Allen Berry of murder for his role in the dragging death of James Byrd Jr., but spared him the death penalty. | Ref: 70 |
- 2000
| Jan 31 | Sam Sheppard's wrongful imprisonment suit begins. (Ref:Dayton Daily News, 01/30/00, p 6A) | |
| Jan 31 | Britain's most prolific serial killer, Dr. Harold Shipman, is sentenced to 15 life sentences for murder. | Ref: 10 |
| Feb 25 | A jury in Albany NY acquits four white New York City police officers of all charges in the shooting death of unarmed African immigrant Amadou Diallo. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 04 | Joseph Palczynski is arrested in Baltimore County for assault on his girlfriend. (The Cincinnati Enquirer, 03/19/2000, p. A18) | |
| Mar 05 | Joseph Palczynski is released on bail despite a criminal record and a history of mental illness. (The Cincinnati Enquirer, 03/19/2000, p. A18) | |
| Mar 06 | Joseph Palczynski has a neighbor buy him a shotgun and rifle. (The Cincinnati Enquirer, 03/19/2000, p. A18) | |
| Mar 06 | Three white New York police officers were convicted of a cover-up in a police station attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 07 | Joseph Palczynski kills 3 people while kidnapping his ex-girlfriend. (The Cincinnati Enquirer, 03/19/2000, p. A18) | |
| Mar 08 | Joseph Palczynski kills a 4th person with a stray bullet while attempting to steal a car. His ex girlfriend escapes. (The Cincinnati Enquirer, 03/19/2000, p. A18) | |
| Mar 10 | Joseph Palczynski breaks into a home in Virginia, stealing guns and a van. When the van breaks down he has one William Terrell drive him to Baltimore. (The Cincinnati Enquirer, 03/19/2000, p. A18) | |
| Mar 17 | Joseph Palczynski shoots his way into the home of his ex-girlfriends relatives and holds them hostage. (The Cincinnati Enquirer, 03/19/2000, p. A18) | |
| Mar 17 | Smith & Wesson signs an unprecedented agreement with the Clinton administration to, among other things, include safety locks on all of its handguns to make them more childproof. In exchange, the agreement called for federal, state and city lawsuits against the gunmaker to be dropped. (XDG, p 4A, 3/17/2001) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 21 | Hostage Lynn Whitehead escapes from Joseph Palczynski and informs police he is asleep. The SWAT team enters and kills Palczynski and release the remaining two hostages. The hostages are unhurt. (CNN 03/22/2000) | Ref: 9 |
| Apr 18 | Robert L. Yates Junior was arrested in Spokane, Washington, and charged with murdering a teen-age prostitute. (Yates later confessed to killing 13 people, and was sentenced to 408 years in prison.). | Ref: 6 |
| May 06 | Jack Mazzan, who'd spent 20 years on death row for the murder of a judge's son, was released on bail, three months after the NV Supreme Court reversed his conviction. | Ref: 6 |
| May 14 | Tens of thousands of mothers rallied in Washington to demand strict control of handguns. | Ref: 6 |
| May 18 | Sante Kimes and Kenneth Kimes, mother-and-son grifters, were convicted in NY of murdering Irene Silverman in a plot to steal her elegant townhouse mansion. (The body of the 82-year-old millionaire widow has never been found.) | Ref: 6 |
| Jun 05 | Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count under an agreement that dropped murder charges in the stabbing deaths of two men outside a Super Bowl party in Atlanta. | Ref: 64 |
| Jun 08 | Two gunmen shot to death Brigadier Stephen Saunders, a British defense attache, in Athens, Greece; the elusive terrorist group November 17 claimed responsibility, saying it killed Saunders because of his role in NATO airstrikes against Yugoslavia. | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 01 | A US military court in Germany sentenced Army Staff Sergeant Frank Ronghi to life in prison without parole for sexually assaulting and killing Merita Shabiu, an eleven-year-old ethnic Albanian girl, while on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo. | Ref: 6 |
| Aug 27 | The Federal Communications Commission announced new government wiretapping rules intended to help law enforcement authorities keep pace with advances in phone technology. (However, a federal appeals court later threw out some of the new rules, citing privacy concerns.) | Ref: 6 |
| Sep 20 | Lawrence Russell Brewer became the second white supremacist to be convicted in the dragging death of James Byrd Junior in Jasper, TX. (Brewer was later sentenced to death.) | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 22 | Three armed robbers stormed into Stockholm's National Museum and made off with a Rembrandt self-portrait and two masterpieces by Renoir (eight men were later sentenced to prison for their roles in the theft; only one of the three paintings has been recovered). | Ref: 64 |
- 2001
| Jan 21 | White separatist Byron De La Beckwith, convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, dies in prison at age 80. (XDG, p 4A, 2/05/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 25 | A jury in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., found 13-year-old Lionel Tate guilty of first-degree murder in the death of a 6-year-old family friend. Tate had said he accidentally killed the girl while imitating moves by pro wrestlers. | Ref: 70 |
| Jan 28 | Madalyn Murray O’Hair author: Why I Am an Atheist; murdered: missing since Aug 1995, her body is found near Camp Wood TX. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 09 | A judge in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., sentenced 14-year-old Lionel Tate to life in prison for killing Tiffany Eunick, a 6-year old girl. Tate, who had been convicted of first-degree murder, said he was imitating pro-wrestling moves. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 07 | An unarmed black man wanted on 14 misdemeanor warrants was fatally shot by a white police officer in Cincinnati, sparking three days of riots. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 20 | The pilot of a Cessna 185, Kevin Donaldson, is shot down by the Peruvian Air Force when he is mistaken for a drug trafficker. Missionary Veronica Bowers and her 7-month old daughter are killed. Co-pilot Jim Bowers and 6-year old son Cory survive. (USA Today, p. 1, 4/25/2001) | Ref: 13 |
| Apr 30 | Chandra Levy, a federal government intern, was last seen at a health club near her apartment in Washington, D.C. Her remains were found more than a year later in a city park. | Ref: 70 |
| May 01 | Thomas Blanton Jr. became the second ex-Ku Klux Klansman to be convicted in the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Ala., that claimed the lives of four black girls. | Ref: 70 |
| May 04 | Bonny Lee Bakley, wife of actor Robert Blake, was shot to death in Los Angeles. (Blake was later charged with murder). | Ref: 70 |
| May 07 | Ronnie Biggs, the "Great Train Robber," who had eluded capture for decades following his prison escape in 1965, returned to Britain, where he was arrested and jailed to complete the 28 remaining years of his sentence. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 20 | Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the bathtub in her family's home in Houston. She was later sentenced to life in prison. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 06 | The United States turned over to Japanese authorities an American serviceman accused of rape. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 13 | A judge in San Jose, CA sentenced Andrew Burnett, the man who tossed a dog its death in a bout of road rage, to the maximum of three years behind bars. (XDG, p. 1A, 7/13/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 14 | Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant tortured in a New York City police station, agreed to an $8.7 million settlement. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 19 | Japanese prosecutors charged a U.S. airman with rape in an alleged attack on a woman in Okinawa. (Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland was later convicted and sentenced to nearly three years in prison.) | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 25 | Three masked men gun down Phoolan Devi, India's onetime "Bandit Queen" killing the outlaw-turned-legislator who was idolized by the poor. (XDG, p 4A, 7/25/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 03 | A man aboard a Greyhound bus in TN slashed the driver's throat, causing a crash that killed seven passengers, including the attacker. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 30 | Gary Leon Ridgeway is arrested in connection with four of the Green River serial killings in Washington State. (XDG, p 4A, 11/30/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 30 | Former Dekalb County, Georgia, Sheriff Sidney Dorsey and two other men are arrested and charged with murder in the slaying of Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown in a bitter runoff election. (Dorsey was later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment; the two other men were acquitted of murder in a separate trial. (XDG, p 4A, 11/30/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 05 | New Zealand yachtsman, Peter Blake, two-time winner of the America's Cup, was slain by Brazilian pirates on the Amazon River. (XDG, p 4A, 12/5/2002) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 12 | Kearis Bonham, 6, of Prichard, AL, is killed by a bullet intended for police, when police are called into an ambush on a false complaint. Seven people are charged in capital murder. (USA Today, p 3A, 1/21/2002) | Ref: 13 |
- 2002
| Jan 13 | Christian Longo, wanted on charges of killing his wife and three children and dumping their bodies into the coastal waters off Oregon, was arrested in Mexico. (XDG, p 4A, 1/13/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 20 | The bullet-riddled body of Celso Daniel, mayor of San Andre, Brazil (an industrial suburb of Sao Paulo), is found on the side of a highway 35 miles south of Sao Paulo with 18 bullet wounds. He had been abducted on the 18th. (The Columbus Dispatch, p A16, 1/21/2002) | |
| Jan 21 | A gunman ambushes two US defense workers in Kuwait, killing one and wounding the other. (XDG, p 4A, 1/21/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 22 | Police in San Diego arrested David Westerfield in connection with the disappearance of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 28 | A body found outside San Diego was identified as that of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam, who'd disappeared from her bedroom about a month earlier; a neighbor was later convicted of her murder and sentenced to death. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 12 | Andrea Yates of Houston was convicted of murder in the drowning deaths of her five children in the family bathtub. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 15 | Andrea Yates of Houston was sentenced to life in prison for drowning her five children in the family bathtub. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 28 | U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Timothy Woodland was convicted in a Japanese court and sentenced to nearly three years in prison for raping a woman on the southern island of Okinawa. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 05 | (Manson) (day unspecified) Charles Manson is refused parole for the tenth time at a hearing he refused to attend. Manson, now 67, will next be up for parole in 2007. | Ref: 87 |
| Apr 18 | Police arrested actor Robert Blake in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, nearly a year earlier. | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 22 | Actor Robert Blake was charged with murder, solicitation of murder and conspiracy in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, outside a Los Angeles restaurant. | Ref: 70 |
| May 11 | Joseph Bonanno, a 1950s, 1960s NY mob boss known as "Joe Bananas", dies at age 97. (XDG, p 8A, 1/01/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| May 22 | A mostly white jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry of murder in a 1963 church bombing that killed four black girls. | Ref: 70 |
| May 22 | ( Chandra Levy) The remains of Chandra Levy, the ex- federal intern who was linked to Congressman Gary Condit, is found in a heavily wooded park in Washington DC. The remains were identified by dental records. Levy disappeared in April of 2001. (USA Today, p 1A, 5/23/2002) | Ref: 13 |
| Jun 10 | Organized crime figure John Gotti died at a prison hospital in Missouri at age 61. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 09 | David Berkowitz, the "Son of Sam" killer is denied parole in New York. (USA Today, 7/10/2002, p 3A) | Ref: 13 |
| Jul 15 | Five-year old Samantha Runnion is kidnapped from her apartment complex in Stanton CA. Her body is found the next day; A suspect, Alejandro Avila, was later arrested. (XDG, p 4A, 7/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 22 | Factory worker Alejandro Avila was charged with murder and kidnapping in the abduction and slaying of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion of Stanton, Calif. | Ref: 70 |
| Aug 21 | A jury in San Diego convicted David Westerfield of kidnapping 7-year-old Danielle van Dam from her home and killing her. Westerfield was later sentenced to death. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 21 | The Hillside Strangler (Angelo Buono, Jr,) whose killings of young women terrorized Los Angeles in the 1970s, died in prison at age 67. | Ref: 70 |
| Sep 30 | ( Chandra Levy) USA Today reports on page 3A that Washington DC police are investigating a federal prison inmate, Ingmar Guandique, in the Chandra Levy case. He had been previously ruled out as a suspect. | Ref: 13 |
| Oct 19 | In York, Pa., former mayor Charlie Robertson was acquitted and two other men were convicted in the shotgun slaying of a young black woman during race riots in 1969. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 13 | Irv Rubin, the Jewish Defense League leader who prosecutors say plotted to bomb a southern California mosque, dies at age 57 from injuries from a suicide attempt in jail. (XDG, p 8A, 1/01/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 19 | After a prosecutor cited new DNA evidence, a judge in New York threw out the convictions of five young men in a 1989 attack on a Central Park jogger who had been raped and left for dead. | Ref: 70 |
- 2003
| Jan 03 | A California Superior Court Judge William Mudd sentences David Westerfield, the twice-divorced father of two convicted of kidnapping and murdering his 7-year-old neighbor, Danielle van Dam, to death.
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| Jan 07 | Police announced they had found traces of the deadly poison ricin in a north London apartment and arrested six men. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 03 | Record producer Phil Spector was arrested in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion in Alhambra, Calif. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 13 | Clare Harris, who'd run down her cheating husband with her Mercedes after catching him with his mistress, is convicted by a Houston jury of murder despite her claim that she'd hit him accidentally while in a heartsick daze. She would be sentenced to 20 years in prison. (XDG, p 4A, 2/13/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 13 | A US government plane carrying four Americans and a Columbian goes down in rebel territory in southern Columbia. The executed bodies are found in the wreckage. (XDG, p 4A, 2/13/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 25 | Former Waterbury CT Mayor Philip Giordano was convicted of violating the civil rights of two preteen girls by sexually abusing them. (Giordano was later sentenced to 37 years in federal prison.) | Ref: 70 |
| Apr 18 | Scott Peterson was arrested in San Diego in the death of his wife, Laci, who was eight months pregnant when she vanished on Christmas Eve. | Ref: 70 |
| May 10 | (I-270 Sniper) A 37-year old woman runs out of gas around 4AM in the westbound land of I-270 east of I-71. After walking for help, she returns to find the car's winshield shot out and the hood damaged. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| May 29 | Portions of an autopsy report on Lacy Peterson and the unborn baby are leaked. They indicate the baby had a cut on its chest and a length of plastic tape with a knot in it around its neck. The report did not say how either got there. (USA Today, p 7A, 5/30/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Jul 29 | Goliath, a 52-point buck, kidnapped from a Rodney Miller's deer farm in Knox, PA on October 20, 1999, resurfaces as "Hercules" at another deer farm in Reynoldsville PA, this one owned by Jeffrey Spence. (WSJ, p A1, 10/03/2003) | Ref: 33 |
| Aug 31 | (I-270 Sniper) A 41-year old woman from Akron OH finds a bullet hold in the back of her horse trailer after driving eastbound on I-270. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 10 | (I-270 Sniper) A woman driving north on US 23 north of I-270 had a flat tire. She didn't know the tire had been shot until she took the tire to be repaired. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 11 | (I-270 Sniper) A 36-year old man was driving about noon along I-270 when a bullet struck the rear side panel of his Nissan Sentra and exited through the rear window, shattering it. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Oct 17 | John Robinson Sr, age 59, avoids a possible death sentence by admitting he killed five women in Missouri. Robinson had already been convicted of killing three women in Kansas, according to USA Today. (USA Today, p 3A, 10/17/2003) | Ref: 14 |
| Oct 19 | (I-270 Sniper) Truck driver William Briggs, 56, turned north onto westbound I-270 off of US 23 at about 11:30pm and had driven about a mile when the driver's side window exploded. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 05 | (Green River Killer) Gary Leon Ridgway, 54, admits stangling 48 women in the Green River area near southern Seattle WA from 1982 to 1998. Ridgway has been a suspect since the mid-1980s, but it wasn't until 2001 that his semen was found on four bodies. By pleading guilty to the murders, Ridgway will receive life imprisonment without parole and without the possibity of appeal. (USA Today, p 1A, 11/06/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Nov 11 | (I-270 Sniper) A gunshot broke a window at an elementary school in Obetz (south of Columbus OH) at 1:30AM. Three weeks later (on December 2nd) authorities will confirm this shooting is related to the I-270 sniper. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 11 | New York real estate heir Robert Durst, 60, who said he accidentally killed a hot-headed neighbor in self-defense and then chopped up the body because he feared no on believed him, is acquitted of murder in Galveston TX. Durst is still under suspicion, but not charged, in the 1982 disappearance of his wife and a 2000 shooting of her friend, Susan Berman. (USA Today, p 6A, 11/12/2003) | Ref: 13 |
| Nov 17 | (I-270 Sniper) A United Parcel Service truck was eastbound on I-270 around 11am between Parsons Av and US 23 when the driver reported hearing a noise. A bullet hole was found behind the driver's seat. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 18 | (I-270 Sniper) A woman is driving a Ford Explorer around 9:30PM on US 23 north of Rathmell Rd when a bullet strikes the driver's side door. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 21 | (I-270 Sniper) Edward Cable, 53, a retired prison guard from Lucasville, reports a bullet fired into his minivan about 7:40pm on US 23 south of Rathmell, 1½ miles from I-270. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 25 | (I-270 Sniper) A tractor trailer driver for the Coca Cola Company reports finding a hole in the rear door of the trailer after making deliveries along I-270 between 1:00pm and 3:30pm. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 25 | (I-270 Sniper) A GMAC Jimmy driven by a 26-year old man from Orient (just south of Columbus) is struck around 2PM near the left rear fender. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Nov 25 | (I-270 Sniper) Gail Kinsey, 62, of Washington Court House, is killed at about 10AM on I-270 when a bullet rips through the driver's door of the Pontiac Grand Am driven by a friend. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 02 | (I-270 Sniper) Authorties confirm a 12th shooting broke a window at an elementary school in Obetz (south of Columbus OH) at 1:30AM on November 11. They said four of the shootings were from the same gun and that they believed all the shootings were connected. (XDG, p 2A, 12/03/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Dec 04 | Baltimore Federal Prosecutor Jonathan Luna is found at 5:30AM, near Lancaster PA, face-down in a stream, stabbed 36 times. (USA Today, p 2A, 12/09/2003) | Ref: 13 |
- 2004
| Jan 01 | Chicago announces a sharp drop in the number of homicides for 2003 at 599 (down from 648). However, Chicago topped New York (596) and Los Angeles (estimated at less than 500), to make Chicago the ranking city in this category. (XDG, p 1, 1/02/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Jan 06 | New York City will pay the family of Adadou Diallo, an unarmed man who was killed by New York police in front of his apartment, $3M. (USA Today, p 3A, 1/07/2004) | Ref: 33 |
| Jan 26 | (I-270 Sniper) At about 2:30 PM, a 911 caller identifies himself as "the highway shooter". Police do not release the tape. (XDG, p 1, 1/31/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Feb 08 | (I-270 Sniper) Two vehicles, a minivan and a Mercedes were hit by bullets credited to the I-270 sniper 40 miles southwest of Columbus OH near Jeffersonville. (XDG, p 2A, 2/10/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 15 | (I-270 Sniper) The Franklin County [OH] sheriff's department issues a warrant for the arrest of Columbus [OH] resident Charles A McCoy, as the prime suspect in the I-270 shootings. Police are stingy with details. (XDG, p 1, 3/14/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 17 | (I-270 Sniper) Columbus [OH] resident Charles A McCoy, the prime suspect in the I-270 sniper shootings, is arrested without incident in Las Vegas, after he was recognized in a casino by a tipster. (XDG, p 1, 3/18/2004) | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 19 | (I-270 Sniper) Columbus [OH] resident Charles A McCoy, the prime suspect in the I-270 sniper shootings, waives extradition from Las Vegas NV to Columbus OH in a brief appearance before a Nevada judge. (XDG, p 2A, 3/20/2004) | Ref: 83 |
| Mar 20 | (I-270 Sniper) Columbus [OH] resident Charles A McCoy, the prime suspect in the I-270 sniper shootings, is transported from Las Vegas NV to Columbus OH to appear in court on Monday, 3/22/2004. (XDG, p 2A, 3/20/2004) | Ref: 83 |
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