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History-sheeter

History-sheeter, in Indian English, is a person with a long criminal record. The term is found in newspapers of South Asian countries such as India, and Pakistan. According to Anastasia Piliavsky, the concept of "history sheeter" has origins in t ...

Homicide in Spain

Homicide, according to the Spanish Criminal Code 1995 is a crime which contravenes the legal right to "independent human life". It is found in article 138 which states: "He who kills another will be punished, as a defendant of homicide, with a pr ...

Honda-kai

The Honda-kai were a Japanese yakuza gang active in Kobe in the middle of the 20th century. The Honda-kai was a "bakuto" gang, mainly devoted to illegal gambling. After World War II, they formed an alliance with the Yamaguchi-gumi syndicate, then ...

John Hulbert (executioner)

John W. Hulbert Jr. was the executioner for the states of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts from 1913 to 1926. Hulbert was trained as "state electrician" by his predecessor, Edwin F. Davis, and oversaw 140 executions during his tenure. Hulbe ...

Human trafficking in Florida

Human trafficking in Florida is the illegal trade of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labor as it occurs in the state of Florida. After California and New York, Florida has the most human trafficking cases in the United States. Flor ...

Hush money

Hush money is a term for a form of bribery in which one person or party offers another an attractive sum of money or other enticement, in exchange for remaining silent about some illegal, stigmatic, or shameful behavior, action, or other fact abo ...

Ichiwa-kai

The Ichiwa-kai was a yakuza gang based in Osaka, Japan. It was formed on June 13, 1984 when Hiroshi Yamamoto, a top lieutenant in the Yamaguchi-gumi, broke from that gang to form his own organization with over 10.000 members. The split stemmed fr ...

Index of Spousal Abuse

The Index of Spousal Abuse is a 30-item self-report scale developed to measure the severity of physical and non-physical aggression inflicted on a woman by her spouse or partner. The ISA has become a popular measure in medical settings. It was cr ...

Inking (attack)

Main incidents include inking at Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal followed by chilli powder attack on 2016 and Swaraj Abhiyan party founder and former Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav on 2014. In 2015, Indian activist Sudheendra Kulkar ...

Innocence commissions

An innocence commission is a legal commission set up by a government for post-conviction review of cases, to try to ensure that wrongful convictions do not stand and that no innocent person is executed.

Internet Crime Complaint Center

The mission of the Internet Crime Complaint Center, also known as IC3, is to provide the public with a reliable and convenient reporting mechanism to submit information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation concerning suspected Internet-facilita ...

Interstate 80 rapist

While many have been convinced that other assaults took place by the same man, only three have been successfully linked by DNA: September 9, 2013 at 4:20am December 10, 2013 at 9:15pm January 8, 2014 at 4:30am

IRS impersonation scam

IRS impersonation scams involve scammers targeting American taxpayers by pretending to be Internal Revenue Service collection officers. The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them ...

Jhabua nuns rape case

The Jhabua nuns rape case is a case of alleged rape of four nuns in the Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh in India in 1998 by a group of 24 tribals. A Jhabua court issued a warrant against Digvijay Singh then state chief minister and 14 others fo ...

Murder of Christy Sarah Jones

The murder of Christy Sarah Jones, a British national on holiday in Thailand, took place in 2000. Jones was found raped and strangled on 10 August in her hotel room in Chiang Mai. The case, which received widespread national and overseas press co ...

Marlon Jones

Marlon Jones is a Jamaican criminal who was added to the FBIs Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in December 2016. He was captured within one day of being on the list. He is allegedly connected to an October 15, 2016 shooting at a Los Angeles, Califo ...

Murder of Samantha Josephson

The murder of Samantha Josephson, which occurred on March 29, 2019, is a prominent case in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Josephson, 21, had ordered an Uber and mistakenly entered a car that she thought was her ride. The alleged driver is accu ...

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that provides an interface for researchers, academicians, attorneys, clinicians, and practitioners. The journal advocates for increased networking in the sexu ...

Journal of Sexual Aggression

The Journal of Sexual Aggression is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles about research findings and the development of theory, policy, and practice regarding sexual aggression in all its forms. The scope of the journal extend ...

George Joynt

George Joynt was an Irish-American mobster and associate of the Winter Hill Gang. He was the first to be murdered as a counterattack by the Charlestown Mob in revenge for murdering Bernie McLaughlin.

2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach

The 2014 JPMorgan Chase data breach was a cyber-attack against American bank JPMorgan Chase that is believed to have compromised data associated with over 83 million accounts – 76 million households and 7 million small businesses. The data breach ...

Wa'el Hamza Julaidan

Wael Hamza Julaidan is one of the original founders of al-Qaeda in August 1988. He had previously 1984 established "the Service Office" or Maktab al-Khidamat in Afghanistan, along with bin Laden and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam. Many of the supporters of ...

Kharkiv beheadings

The Kharkiv beheadings was a crime committed in 2012 in Ukraine, in which a judge and his family were beheaded with a machete. The judge, Vladimir Trofimov, his wife Irina, their son Sergei, and the sons partner were attacked in the eastern Ukrai ...

Kill Haole Day

Kill Haole Day is the term for bullying incidents that occurred in some Hawaii schools, when non-white students would harass and attack white students. The incidents saw their height in the late 1970s. In his 2009 book, lawyer and former Hawaii g ...

Saizo Kishimoto

Saizō Kishimoto was a Japanese gangster. Born in Kobe, he joined the Japanese Imperial Navy air squadron during World War II. After the war, he became a city employee of the Kobe City Office. In 1955, he joined a clan with Yakuza leader Nakayama ...

Kokusui-kai

The Kokusui-kai, founded in 1958, is a Tokyo-based yakuza organization with an estimated 500 members. Despite its relatively low membership, it is widely viewed as a wealthy and successful gang, controlling Tokyos fashionable Ginza district. Its ...

Murder of Alexandria Kostial

Alexandria Kostial was a 21-year-old University of Mississippi student who was found dead near a Mississippi lake in July 2019. A suspect, 22-year-old Brandon Theesfeld of Fort Worth, Texas, was arrested and charged with murder after Kostials rem ...

Kubus scheme

The Kubus scheme was a scheme that originated in South Africa in the 1980s and was subsequently exported to the United States. It involved the cultivation of milk yeast cultures, which was sold to the originator, and the recultivating of the next ...

Murder of the Kumari-Baker sisters

Davina and Jasmine Kumari-Baker were murdered by their mother who stabbed them to death at their home in Stretham, Cambridgeshire, England, while they slept on 13 June 2007. Rekha Kumari-Baker was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum tar ...

Kyokuto Sakurai-soke-rengokai

The Kyokuto-SakuraiSoke-Rengokai is a now-defunct yakuza gang formerly based in Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan. It was an organization of the tekiya. It was designated by the Japanese police as a boryokudan group in July, 1993. It disbanded in November ...

Murder of Troy LaFerrara

Troy LaFerrara was a Port Trevorton, Pennsylvania man murdered on November 11, 2013. Miranda Barbour and her husband, Elytte Barbour, were found guilty and sentenced to life in prison in September 2014. The murder is notable because of the claim ...

Lam Kwok-wai

Lam Kwok-wai is one of Hong Kongs two known serial killers. He was convicted of 10 rapes and three murders. His murder weapon was his bare hands; he referred to his right hand as his "fork". He was given 11 life sentences.

Sonny Leitch

William "Sonny" Leitch, also known as the Saughton Harrier and Danger Man, is a retired Scottish career criminal. Leitch was born in Craigneuk, Lanarkshire, and was a childhood friend of Thomas Joseph Winning, Cardinal Winning. Leitch claims that ...

Celine Lesage

Celine Lesage is a French woman found guilty in 2010 of murdering six of her newborn babies between 2000 and 2007. She suffocated four of them, and strangled two. On October 19, 2007, a new boyfriend, Luc Margueritte, found the six corpses in the ...

Lexington murders

The Lexington murders was one of the most notable crimes in California during the 19th century. Lloyd Leadbetter Majors, Joseph Jewell and John Franklin Showers, were responsible for the brutal murder and robbery of William Peter Renowden and Arc ...

Liberty Bell Ruby

The Liberty Bell Ruby is a sculpture crafted from the worlds largest mined ruby, discovered in east Africa in the 1950s. It weighs four pounds, is eight and a half thousand carats, and is sculpted into a miniature form of the Liberty Bell. It has ...

Thomas Ray Lippert

Thomas Ray Lippert was a former convict and former business law professor at Southwest State College in Marshall, Minn. who worked at a fertility clinic named Reproductive Medical Technologies Inc. in Utah from 1988 to the mid 1990s where he repo ...

Michael Lee Lockhart

Michael Lee Lockhart was a multi-state serial killer who received death sentences in three states. He was executed on December 9, 1997, by the state of Texas.

Long firm fraud

A long firm fraud is a crime that uses a trading company set up for fraudulent purposes; the basic operation is to run the company as an apparently legitimate business by buying goods and paying suppliers promptly to secure a good credit record. ...

Murder of Mackenzie Lueck

The murder of Mackenzie Speth Lueck occurred in June 2019. 23-year-old Lueck, a student at the University of Utah, was reported missing and her bound, burned and buried remains were later discovered. 31-year-old Ayoola Ajayi was arrested and char ...

Luen Group

Luen group is one of several organized crime groups of Hong Kong, known as triads. The membership of the group exceeds 8.000 and is made up of several subgroups, including Luen Lok Tong, Luen Tei Ying, Luen To Ying, Luen Ying She and Luen Kung Lo ...

Luigi's Restaurant shooting

On August 6, 1993, 22-year-old Fort Bragg soldier Kenneth Junior French, Armed with two shotguns and a rifle, opened fire on a restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina killing 4 people and injuring 7 others. The victims were Wesley Scott Cover, ...

2019 Lyon stabbings

On 31 August 2019, nine people were stabbed by an Afghan asylum-seeker One of the victims died and two remain hospitalized. The attack happened outside a subway station in Lyon, France. The police are not investigating the attack as terrorism, bu ...

Madatharuvi case

Madatharuvi case refers to a murder in Kerala, India. The case involved the 1966 murder of a widow named Mariyakutty. A priest, Fr. Benedict Onamkulam, was convicted of the crime. Sessions court sentenced the priest to death but the Churchapproac ...

Mail robbery

Mail robbery is the robbery of mail usually when it is in the possession, custody, or control, of the delivering authority, which in most countries is the postal operator and can involve the theft of money or luxury goods.

Malmo Ostra hospital murders

Malmo Ostra hospital murders is the name of a Swedish case of serial murders committed by the then 18-year-old Anders Hansson at a hospital in Malmo between October 1978 and January 1979. Hansson poisoned elderly patients during working hours as ...

Mandamento (Sicilian Mafia)

Within Cosa Nostra a mandamento is traditionally a district of three geographically contiguous Mafia cosche in Sicily. A capomandamento represents the head of a territory, the mandamento, and is usually entitled to be part of the provincial Mafia ...

Mara (gang)

A mara is a form of gang originating in the United States, which spread to Central American countries such as El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

Marked bill

Marking bills is a technique used by police to trace and identify money used in illegal activities. The serial numbers of the bills are recorded, and sometimes markings are made on the bank notes themselves. Non-law enforcement uses of marking bi ...

Stevan Markovic (bodyguard)

In the 1950s Markovic and his friend Milos Milosevic were involved in streetfighting in Belgrade. They met Alain Delon, a young movie star at the time, who was filming a movie in Belgrade in a co-production with SFR Yugoslavia. Delon employed Mil ...