| April 27, 2008 | - In Basra, Iraq, a 17-year-old girl, Rand Abdel-Qader, was stomped, suffocated, and stabbed to death by her father, who accused her of having an affair with a British soldier. Local police arrested the father but released him without charge after two hours. “Not much can be done when we have an honor-killing case,” said police sergeant Ali Jabbar. “You are in a Muslim society and women should live under religious laws.” Rand's mother divorced the killer and went into hiding.
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Guardian
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| September 15, 2006 | - A Nigerian man accused of murder explained to authorities that he had actually killed a rogue goat with an axe, but the dead goat had then turned into the corpse of his brother.
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AP via the Buzz
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| August 2, 2006 | - A lawyer who represents one of four American paratroopers accused of murdering three Iraqi detainees told a military court in Tikrit that the dead men “got exactly what they deserved.”
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BBC and BBC
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| July 6, 2006 | -
Iraqi prime minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki denounced the immunity of American soldiers in Iraq in connection with the rape and murder of a teenage girl and three of her relatives, including another child. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said that there was no apparent connection between the rape-and-murder case and the killings of two soldiers from the unit under investigation.
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Detroit Free Press
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| June 14, 2006 | - In Thailand a man killed two soccer fans because he was annoyed by their cheering.
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USA Today
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| April 17, 2006 | - In Purcell, Oklahoma, a man named Kevin Ray Underwood was arrested for killing a 10-year-old girl named Jamie Rose Bolin. “I chopped her up,” he told police. “Regarding a potential motive,” said a police chief, “this appears to have been part of a plan to kidnap a person, rape them, torture them, kill them, cut off their head, drain the body of blood, rape the corpse, eat the corpse, then dispose of the organs and bones.” The police also announced that they had removed skewers and a meat tenderizer from Underwood's apartment.
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Winston-Salem Journal
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| April 4, 2006 | -
California legislators were considering a law that would make it a significant crime for a murderer to rape a victim's corpse; corpse rapists currently receive only 16 months of prison time for that portion of their crimes.
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RecordNet.com
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| January 29, 2006 | - U.S. murderers were learning how to cover their tracks by watching television crime shows.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| January 26, 2006 | - Authorities in Mexico City arrested a woman named Juana Barraza, a 48-year-old former wrestler who is thought to be the serial killer known as Mataviejitas, or "the Killer of Little Old Ladies," and who may be responsible for strangling up to 30 of them.
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BBC News
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| January 24, 2006 | -
French police realized that they had spent the last two years trying to identify a female murder victim--whose skeleton was found during a low tide in Plouezoc'h--who actually died in the 15th century. "We reckon it was pirates," said a policeman.
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AFP via Yahoo! News
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| August 14, 2005 | - In Kansas Dennis Rader, the B.T.K. serial killer, was sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences; he will be eligible for parole in 2180. Rader believed that his victims would serve as his slaves in the afterlife, performing roles like "sex toy and boy servant."
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The Wichita Eagle
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| July 26, 2005 | - A homeless man in Nashville, Tennessee, confessed to strangling two other homeless men. “I got addicted,” he explained, “to sucking the souls out of people.”
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Local6.com
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| May 31, 2005 | - In New York City, a nine-year-old girl
stabbed an eleven-year-old girl named Queen Washington to death. The girls were fighting over a pink rubber ball.
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New York Daily News
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| May 13, 2005 | - A man in Holland was being tried on charges that he killed his mother, skinned her, dressed up in her skin, and then went out to direct traffic and recite Bible verses. “He loved her so much,” said his lawyer.
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Daily Record
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| April 22, 2005 | - A Fresno, California, man was standing trial for killing nine of his children, seven of whom he fathered with his own daughters and nieces. “Jesus was a womanizer,” he explained.
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CourtTV.com
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| March 11, 2005 | - A falling tree crushed the legs of Edgar Killen, a Mississippi
Baptist minister and Ku Klux Klansman currently facing trial for the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers.
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Reuters
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| February 27, 2005 | - Arthur Shawcross, a cannibal
serial killer, was writing a cookbook.
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New Criminologist
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| February 26, 2005 | - Dennis Rader, an active Lutheran and a Cub Scout leader in Wichita, Kansas, confessed to six killings as the BTK (“bind, torture, and kill”) serial killer, wanted for thirty-one years.
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| February 23, 2005 | - An Orangeburg, New York, man beat his toddler daughter to death for refusing a peanut-butter sandwich.
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The WGAL Channel
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| February 18, 2005 | - An expert witness in the Robert Blake
murder case testified that he once crawled into a cage filled with crack-smoking
monkeys.
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E! Online
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| February 1, 2005 | - Convicted murderer Michael Ross withdrew his offer to "volunteer" to allow Connecticut to execute him.
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Newsday
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| January 10, 2005 | - All 790 men in Truro, Massachusetts, were asked to submit to a DNA test so that they could prove their innocence in a three-year-old murder case.
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BBC News
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| October 29, 2004 | -
Pakistan's lower house of parliament passed a bill that would impose the death penalty for honor killings, which have traditionally been ignored.
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New York Times
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| October 29, 2004 | - The U.S. murder rate was up.
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New York Times
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| October 7, 2004 | -
Chicago experienced its first murder-free night in five years.
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New York Times
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| September 8, 2004 | - The World Health Organization reported that suicide kills more people worldwide than murder and war put together.
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New Scientist
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| August 13, 2004 | - A British journalist was kidnapped in Basra and released a few days later; an Islamic website posted photographs of the beheading of an Egyptian.
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Associated Press
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| August 8, 2004 | -
Iraq's new government reinstated capital punishment and issued an arrest warrant for Ahmad Chalabi on counterfeiting charges; Salem Chalabi, Ahmad's nephew and the head of the special tribunal that will try Saddam Hussein for war crimes, was accused of murder.
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Associated Press
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| June 17, 2004 | - In South Africa, a man testified in court that he had killed an interior designer because she "did not make any nice comments about my place, so I went to my garage and fetched an axe."
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Reuters
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| June 3, 2004 | -
Swedish teenagers were charged with planning to kill people at their school to commemorate the Columbine massacre.
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New York Times
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| June 2, 2004 | - An 11-year-old Japanese schoolgirl fatally stabbed a classmate during their lunch hour.
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Associated Press
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| May 7, 2004 | - New charges in the Iraqi torture scandal included rape, murder, and child molestation.
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Intelwire
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| March 25, 2004 | - British researchers found that strange murders have increased in recent decades and that, contrary to expectations, the murders are not being committed by crazy people; most strange homicides, it was discovered, are committed by young men on drugs.
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British Medical Journal
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| January 19, 2004 | - Several communities in California were competing to host the murder trial of Scott Peterson.
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New York Times
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| December 26, 2003 | -
India's prime minister expressed support for building a Hindu temple on the site of a sixteenth-century mosque, which was destroyed by Hindu officials eight years ago, resulting in riots and killing. Hindus believe that Ram, a deity, was born there.
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| December 17, 2003 | - A nurse in New Jersey admitted to killing up to 40 patients "to alleviate pain and suffering."
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New York Times
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| November 25, 2003 | - John A. Muhammad was sentenced to die for his role in the Washington-area sniper killings.
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Associated Press
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| November 25, 2003 | - Two 16-year-olds in Texas were arrested for plotting to kill 24 people at their high school.
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New York Times
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| November 13, 2003 | - Four soldiers just back from Iraq were charged with stabbing another soldier to death, setting his body on fire, and leaving it in the woods.
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Associated Press
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| October 19, 2003 | - The U.S. Marines pressed charges against eight reservists in the death of an Iraqi prisoner, who was apparently tortured.
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New York Times
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| July 10, 2003 | - A racist factory worker in Mississippi who was angry at being forced to attend sensitivity training killed five co-workers and then himself.
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New York Times
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| August 14, 2001 | - Three teens in Baltimore were charged with murder in connection with a four-month bum-stomping spree that resulted in three deaths.
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| July 3, 2001 | - A New Orleans woman was charged with ten counts of attempted murder after an argument over an ugly baby; the woman threw fuel on ten people, three generations of one family (including two infants), and tried to set them on fire. Her match failed to light.
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| May 1, 2001 | - A live-in caretaker in Everett, Washington, was charged with murder for paying her 13-year-old daughter and four other teenagers to kill her client's son, 64, with baseball bats; her 11- and 7-year-old children helped her clean up the house afterwards; the 89-year-old client, a mute Alzheimer's patient, was neglected and survived by eating newspapers.
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| April 3, 2001 | - Marjorie Knoller, a San Francisco lawyer whose dog Bane killed a young woman who lived next door, was indicted for second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and failure to control a mischievous animal that causes a death.
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| March 20, 2001 | -
General Augusto Pinochet of Chile was released on bail pending his trial for accessory to murder and kidnapping.
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| March 13, 2001 | - A fifteen-year-old boy smiled as he murdered two classmates and wounded over a dozen others in Santee, California.
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| March 13, 2001 | - A Florida judge named Lazarus sentenced a fourteen-year-old boy to life in prison without parole for the murder two years ago of a six-year-old girl.
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| February 6, 2001 | - An innocent man who spent thirty-three years, two months, and five days in prison was released after documents were presented that proved not only that he was innocent but that he had been framed by Federal Bureau of Investigation informants, who themselves committed the murder in question. F.B.I. agents knew that their informants were guilty of the crime but remained silent to protect their sources.
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| January 30, 2001 | - A federal appeals court in Louisiana heard arguments that a Texas death-row inmate should be given a new trial because his lawyer slept through much of his murder trial.
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| December 5, 2000 | - The terms of the amnesty he negotiated upon his abdication included murder but not kidnapping, and the bodies of nineteen people who were abducted by the “Caravan of death,” a helicopter-borne death squad led by one of Pinochet's close aides, were never found, world-historical ruthlessness giving rise to world-historical irony—which then devolved into farce when an appeals court suspended the arrest order.
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| December 5, 2000 | - Three American teenagers in Germany were being tried for killing two women by dropping stones on cars from a bridge.
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| October 3, 2000 | - Members of a Coney Island gang called the Cream Team (which stands for Cash Rules Everything Around Me) were arrested on charges of kidnapping, assault, robbery, drugs, and attempted murder.
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| September 12, 2000 | - Prosecutors in Manhattan revealed that Dr. Michael J.
Swango, a doctor who has admitted to being a serial killer, kept a commonplace book in which he copied passages from thrillers that expressed his joy of killing: “I love it. Sweet, husky, close smell of an indoor homicide.”
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| September 5, 2000 | - JonBenet Ramsey's parents were questioned again by police in the continuing investigation of the child beauty queen's 1996 murder.
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| August 1, 2000 | - An American soldier pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of a Kosovo Albanian girl.
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