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Who Killed Rubén Espinosa and Nadia Vera?
The authorities insist it was a robbery gone wrong, but many signs point to a political assassination. By Francisco Goldman.
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One murder every hour: How El Salvador became the homicide capital of the world
On the deadliest day of the century in the world’s most homicidal country, a gang leader and convicted murderer sits quietly in a vegetable farm ruing what he calls a disappearing opportunity for peace. Marvin is a senior figure in the Mara Salvatrucha, one of El Salvador’s two biggest gangs. They have been at war with each other for two decades and now find themselves under attack by the state amid a bloody escalation of violence.
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Feminists In Mexico Are Being Warned To Be Quiet Or Be Killed
Nadia Vera, 32, a proud feminist and social activist, was murdered in her flat in Mexico City along with four other women last month. Three of them, including Vera and her journalist friend Rubén Espinosa (both pictured above), were allegedly raped and tortured before being shot in the head. Many believe they were targeted because they dared to demand equal rights for women across the country, attending protests, staging plays and writing politically charged poems.
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ISIS throws 9 homosexuals from tall building in Mosul
According to a local source in Nineveh province, ISIS organization threw nine civilians from a tall building on charges of homosexuality in the city of Mosul. The source said in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “gunmen belonging to ISIS threw on Sunday nine civilians from the top of a high building in the city of Mosul after being accused of homosexuality.”
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If These Girls Knew That Slender Man Was a Fantasy, Why Did They Want to Kill Their Friend for Him?
Payton had been called “Bella” since about the first grade. Morgan had been Bella’s best friend since fourth. Both girls loved cats and playing dress-up. Morgan was obsessed with Harry Potter; at least one time at lunch, she and Bella imagined that Voldemort was pursuing them through the cafeteria. Now in sixth grade, they talked on the telephone every night. Morgan’s favorite teacher was Jill Weidenbaum, for reading and writing, and on May 30, 2014...
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Ex-NFL running back Lawrence Phillips charged with killing cellmate
Former running back Lawrence Phillips has been charged with first-degree murder in the April death of his cellmate at Kern Valley State Prison.
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Wrestling legend Jimmy 'Superfly' Snuka charged in girlfriend's 1983 death
Wrestling legend Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka is being charged with third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for the death of his girlfriend more than 32 years ago in an assault at an Allentown area motel, Lehigh County authorities said.
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Meet the Single Worst Human to Ever Walk This Earth
Carl Panzram — a tattooed, 6-foot-tall giant of a man with cold gray eyes — stowed away on a ship bound for Angola around 1920 to work as a merchant seaman. After arriving in Lobito Bay, he hired a half-dozen local guides for a crocodile-hunting expedition. But Panzram had other prey on his mind. As their canoe wended its way down the river, he shot each crew member dead before feeding their corpses to the hungry crocodiles lurking below.
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Woman admits capturing, enslaving, and murdering disabled adults and children to claim their benefits
A woman captured mentally disabled people, locked them up and enslaved them over a 10 year period in a horrifying scheme to claim their benefits. The US department of Justice said Linda Weston admitted multiple counts of murder and slavery charges after her crimes were exposed by an FBI investigation.
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Professor shot and killed at Delta State University; active shooter sought
A Delta State University Professor was shot and killed on campus Monday morning. Bolivar County Deputy Coroner Murray Roark said history professor Ethan Schmidt was killed inside an office in Jobe Hall around 10:30 a.m. He was shot in the head. Schmidt directed the first-year seminar program and specialized in Native American and colonial history, said Don Allan Mitchell, an English professor at the school, who called him “a gentleman in every sense of the word.”
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Murder charges laid in Alberta Amber Alert case
The mother of a two-year-old girl killed in southern Alberta broke down in tears after an old friend of hers was charged with first-degree murder in the case. Cheyenne Dunbar, who is 20, says she has no idea why someone would want to harm her baby, Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette. RCMP say Derek James Saretzky faces two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Hailey and her father Terry Blanchette.
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Russia reopens Tsar Nicholas family murder case
Russian investigators have exhumed the remains of the last tsar and his wife, as they re-examine the 1918 murder of the imperial family. Samples were taken from Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and from the bloodstained uniform of Alexander II, Nicholas's grandfather, killed in 1881. The murdered Romanov family members are buried at a St Petersburg cathedral.
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'Dead' woman emerges 31 years after she disappeared and 28 years after a man confessed to killing her
A woman who vanished 31 years ago and was assumed dead after a man confessed to killing her has emerged alive and well, admitting she plotted her own disappearance. The alleged murder victim, Petra Pazsitka, from the northern German city of Braunschweig, was 24 when she disappeared in 1984 while living in student accommodation.
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Honor Killing: Syrian Gang Rape Survivor Murdered in Germany
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After his car broke down, Florida church drummer shot and killed by plainclothes officer
Their band, Future Prezidents, had finished their gig almost an hour earlier, so bass player Mathew Huntsberger was surprised to get a call from drummer Corey Jones, 31, around 1:45 a.m. on Sunday. Jones told Huntsberger that his SUV had broken down and asked if he could help, so Huntsberger drove to find his bandmate, who was stranded north of West Palm Beach, Fla., on Interstate 95. He brought along some oil, but when...
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23rd October 1998 - An abortion-performing doctor is murdered
Doctor Barnett Slepian is shot to death inside his home in Amherst, New York, by an anti-abortion radical, marking the fifth straight year that a doctor who was willing to perform abortions in upstate New York and Canada had been the victim of a sniper attack.
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'Person of interest' named in 1989 Jacob Wetterling disappearance
An Annandale, Minn., man first questioned 26 years ago about the disappearance of Jacob Wetterling has re-emerged as a “person of interest” in a chilling abduction that has long stymied investigators and haunted the public, authorities said Thursday. Daniel James Heinrich, 52, was arrested at his home Wednesday night on charges of receiving and possessing child pornography. At a news conference Thursday in Minneapolis...
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A College Romance That Led to Murder
Decades ago, two young lovers were convicted of a brutal slaying. Years later, why has the case become a cause? By Nathan Heller.
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Honor killing in America: DOJ report says growing problem is hidden in stats
The estimated 27 victims of so-called "honor killings" each year in the U.S. don't fit neatly into the FBI's exhaustive Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics. Hidden among thousands of nondescript murders and cases labeled as domestic violence are a mounting number of killings motivated by a radical and dark interpretation of Islam. Honor killings and violence, which typically see men victimize wives and daughters because of behavior that has somehow insulted...
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The wild tale of ‘Shrimp Boy’ Chow, notorious Chinatown ex-mobster and now alleged murderer
It's a saga ripe for a movie plot involving shady dealings, misplaced allegiances and millions of taxpayer dollars either fruitlessly squandered or well-spent in the name of justice. (Nov. 9)
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