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Death of Diane Whipple
Death of Diane Whipple: January 26, 2001 fatal mauling of a San Francisco resident by Presa Canarios Bane and Hera owned by attorneys Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel, leading to California's first dog-mauling murder conviction.
Death of Nikki Whitehead
Death of Nikki Whitehead: Jarmecca "Nikki" Whitehead, 34, was found stabbed to death in her Conyers, Georgia bathtub on January 13, 2010. Her 16-year-old identical twin daughters Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead pleaded guilty in 2014 to voluntary manslaughter, each serving 30-year sentences; Tasmiyah was paroled in 2026.
Death of Tina Watson
Death of Tina Watson: 26-year-old American bride who drowned on 22 October 2003 diving the Yongala wreck off Townsville, Queensland, on her honeymoon with Gabe Watson, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Australia and was acquitted of capital murder in Alabama in 2012.
Death of Victoria Martens
Death of Victoria Martens, 10-year-old Albuquerque girl killed on her birthday, 2016; also known as the Victoria Martens case. False confession, dropped murder charges, unidentified fourth suspect, and convictions of Michelle Martens, Fabian Gonzales, and Jessica Kelley.
Death threat
A death threat is a message or deed expressing firm intent to kill or gravely injure someone, criminal when it meets standards of seriousness, credibility, and intent.
Debora Green
Debora Green (born Debora Jones, 1951) is an American former oncologist who pleaded no contest to the 1995 arson killing of her children Tim and Kelly in Prairie Village, Kansas, and to ricin-poisoning her husband Michael Farrar; serving a hard 40 sentence.
Deborah Jeane Palfrey
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "D.C. Madam," ran the Pamela Martin & Associates escort service in Washington for 13 years, was convicted of racketeering and money laundering in 2008, and died by hanging two weeks later in a ruled suicide.
DeCavalcante crime family
DeCavalcante crime family, also called the New Jersey family or 'Real Sopranos': an Elizabeth/Newark-based La Cosa Nostra family, the only indigenous New Jersey Mafia family, built on construction union rackets under Simone 'Sam the Plumber' DeCavalcante and John Riggi.
Delroy Grant
Delroy Grant, the "Night Stalker", a Jamaica-born British serial rapist and burglar who attacked 203 elderly people in south-east London from 1991 to 2009, evading capture after a 1999 police name mix-up until his 2009 arrest and 2011 conviction.
Dena Schlosser
Dena Schlosser, Plano, Texas woman who killed her infant daughter Margaret in November 2004 during postpartum psychosis tied to Doyle Davidson's Water of Life church; jury deadlocked in 2006, judge then found her not guilty by reason of insanity.
Detroit Partnership
The Detroit Partnership is Detroit, Michigan's Italian-American La Cosa Nostra family, also called the Tocco–Zerilli crime family after its intermarried ruling families; known for Prohibition-era Purple Gang roots, gambling and extortion rackets, and the 1996 GAMTAX indictment of 17 members including boss Jack Tocco.
Diane Downs
Diane Downs (Elizabeth Diane Downs), American convicted murderer who shot her three children near Springfield, Oregon, in May 1983, killing Cheryl; convicted 1984, sentenced to life, denied parole four times, appeals and DNA testing requests pending.
Diane Zamora
Diane Michelle Zamora, a former US Naval Academy midshipman, was convicted of capital murder in 1998 for helping kill 16-year-old Adrianne Jones in Mansfield, Texas, in 1995.
Disappearance of Charlene Downes
Charlene Downes, 14, vanished in Blackpool on 1 November 2003 and is presumed murdered. Iyad Albattikhi and Mohammed Reveshi were tried; the 2007 jury hung, the 2008 retrial collapsed, and a 2009 IPCC report found the surveillance evidence flawed. Unsolved, £100,000 reward.
Disappearance of Heather Elvis
Disappearance of Heather Elvis: 20-year-old Myrtle Beach hostess last heard from December 18, 2013 at Peachtree Boat Landing; Sidney and Tammy Moorer convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy; she has never been found.
Disappearance of Johnny Gosch
Johnny Gosch, also known as John David Gosch, was a 12-year-old Des Moines Register paperboy who vanished in West Des Moines, Iowa, on September 5, 1982; the case remains unsolved.
Disappearance of Natalee Holloway
Disappearance of Natalee Holloway: American 18-year-old from Mountain Brook, Alabama, missing since May 30, 2005, in Aruba; prime suspect Joran van der Sloot confessed in 2023 via US extortion plea; body never found, Aruba case open.
Disorderly conduct
Disorderly conduct, also called breach of the peace or disturbing the peace, is a misdemeanor covering conduct that disturbs public peace, morals, or safety, varying by jurisdiction and often challenged as vague or overbroad.
Dixie Mafia
Dixie Mafia: a loose confederation of white Southern criminals active from the 1960s, based in Biloxi, Mississippi, with no formal hierarchy or ties to La Cosa Nostra; known for Gulf Coast corruption and the 1987 Sherry murders.
Donald Neilson
Donald Neilson (1936-2011), the Black Panther, English armed robber who murdered three sub-postmasters in 1974, kidnapped and killed heiress Lesley Whittle in 1975, and died in prison.
Doxbin (darknet)
Doxbin (darknet), also called the Doxbin, is the biggest public doxing website, historically on Tor, hosting over 176,000 doxes with personal data, tied to extortion, swatting, and far-right operators, with mostly denied removal requests.
Doxing
Doxing, also spelled doxxing, is the deliberate public release of personal information like addresses and phone numbers to shame or menace someone, a term from 1990s hacker culture.
DPS MMS scandal
DPS MMS scandal: 2004 Delhi Public School cellphone video case, also called DPS Dhamaka, in which an explicit clip of two underage students spread by MMS and was listed on Bazee.com, triggering arrests including CEO Avnish Bajaj and shaping India's Section 66E IT Act.
Dream Market
Dream Market was an English-language Tor darknet marketplace launched 15 November 2013, the largest after AlphaBay's takedown, accepting BTC, BCH, and XMR, which closed voluntarily in March 2019 citing DDoS extortion, unlike raided markets such as Silk Road, AlphaBay, and Hansa.
Drew Peterson
Drew Peterson, former Bolingbrook, Illinois police sergeant, convicted in 2012 of the first-degree murder of third wife Kathleen Savio, sentenced to 38 years; case known for Drew's Law hearsay statute; fourth wife Stacy Peterson missing since 2007.
Drive-by shooting
Drive-by shooting: firing a gun from a motor vehicle at people or property outside it, associated with US gang violence; less lethal than other shootings (41% lower fatality in LA data), criminalized federally since 1994.
Drug cartel
Drug cartel: term coined in the 1980s for Colombia's Medellín and Cali syndicates, now applied chiefly to Mexican DTOs such as Sinaloa and CJNG; large criminal organizations trafficking cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and marijuana.
Drug lord
Drug lord (also kingpin): leader of a drug trafficking organization controlling production, smuggling, distribution, and finances. Examples include El Chapo and El Mencho; the DEA's kingpin strategy targets them, with evidence of violence increases after captures.
Dunbar Armored robbery
Dunbar Armored robbery: $18.9 million armed takeover of the Dunbar Armored depot in Los Angeles on September 13, 1997, led by fired guard Allen Pace III; largest U.S. cash armed robbery until the 2024 GardaWorld heist.
Dupont de Ligonnès murders and disappearance
Unsolved 2011 Nantes case: Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, 50, suspected of shooting his wife Agnès and four children plus two labradors and burying them under the family terrace; he disappeared at Roquebrune-sur-Argens on 15 April 2011 and remains France's most famous fugitive.