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Earll family murders
The Earll family murders were the 1902 killings of six family members on a farm in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. Farmhand Albert Edwin Batson was convicted and hanged in 1903.
Easter Sunday heist
Easter Sunday heist: the March 31, 2024 GardaWorld Sylmar burglary in Los Angeles, also called the Garda robbery, in which thieves stole up to $30 million in cash, the largest cash heist in the city's history.
École Polytechnique massacre
Antifeminist mass shooting at Montreal's École Polytechnique on 6 December 1989, in which Marc Lépine, 25, with a .223 Sturm-Ruger rifle, killed 14 women before killing himself; it drove Canadian gun control and December 6 national remembrance.
Ed Buck
Ed Buck (Edward Buck), West Hollywood Democratic donor and LGBTQ activist, convicted in 2021 of nine federal counts including providing fatal meth doses to Gemmel Moore (2017) and Timothy Dean (2019); serving 30 years, fined $200,000, ordered in 2026 to pay $2 million to Moore's mother.
Edward Paisnel
Edward John Louis Paisnel (1925–1994), the Beast of Jersey, was a Jersey building contractor and masked sex offender who attacked women and children in night raids; convicted of 13 counts in 1971 and sentenced to 30 years.
Elizabeth Haysom
Elizabeth Roxanne Haysom, Canadian University of Virginia student, pleaded guilty in 1987 as accessory before the fact in her parents' 1985 Bedford County murders; sentenced to 90 years, paroled and deported to Canada in 2019.
Elizabeth Smart
Elizabeth Smart, American abduction survivor and child-safety activist, kidnapped June 5, 2002 from Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee, held nine months, rescued March 12, 2003; founded the Elizabeth Smart Foundation in 2011.
Email spam
Email spam, also known as unsolicited bulk email or junk email, is unsolicited commercial email sent indiscriminately; the first such message went over ARPANET in 1978.
Embezzlement
Embezzlement, also called theft by conversion or abus de confiance, is the fraudulent appropriation of entrusted property, distinct from larceny because the original taking was lawful; a specific-intent statutory crime under 18 U.S.C. § 666 and § 641.
Emmanuel Nwude
Emmanuel Nwude, Nigerian businessman and former Union Bank director, defrauded Brazil's Banco Noroeste of $242 million (1995–1998) by impersonating CBN Governor Paul Ogwuma and selling a fictitious Abuja airport; convicted 2005 and again in 2026.
Enedina Arellano Félix
Enedina Arellano Félix, also known as Enedina Arellano Félix de Toledo or La Jefa, born 1961 in Sinaloa, is the sister of the Tijuana Cartel founders, reportedly its financial operator from 2006 and leader from 2008, and an OFAC-sanctioned individual.
Enforced disappearance
Enforced disappearance, also known as involuntary disappearance, occurs when state agents deprive someone of liberty and then deny it or conceal their fate, leaving them outside the law's protection.
Enforcement Directorate
Directorate of Enforcement (ED), India's financial investigation agency under the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance. Enforces PMLA, FEMA, and FEOA; established 1956; headquartered in New Delhi; investigates money laundering, attaches assets, and prosecutes economic offenders.
Enumclaw horse sex case
Enumclaw horse sex case, also called the Mr. Hands incident: July 2, 2005 death of Kenneth Pinyan from sex with a stallion near Enumclaw, Washington; led to Washington's 2006 bestiality law, a Class C felony.
Epstein files
The Epstein files, also called the Jeffrey Epstein files, are Justice Department and court records about Jeffrey Epstein, released publicly from 2025 under the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Eric Smith (murderer)
Eric M. Smith is the American who murdered 4-year-old Derrick Robie in Savona, New York, in 1993 at age 13, was tried as an adult, received nine years to life, and was paroled in February 2022 after 28 years. Not the Crips member Eric Smith of EDNY.
Erika and Benjamin Sifrit
Erika and Benjamin Sifrit were a married couple from Pennsylvania convicted of the 2002 murders of two Virginia tourists. They were sentenced to prison terms of 35 years and life plus 20 years.
Eve teasing
Eve teasing: South Asian (Indian English) term for public sexual harassment of women and girls, covering catcalling, groping, stalking, and obscene gestures; criticized as a trivializing euphemism for street harassment.
Extortion
Extortion: obtaining property or benefit through threats, legally distinct from blackmail; at common law an officials' offense, now covered by the Hobbs Act and 18 U.S.C. 873, and a top FBI-reported cybercrime via ransomware and sextortion.
Extrajudicial killing
Extrajudicial killing, also called summary or arbitrary execution, is deliberate killing by state agents or allied non-state actors outside judicial process, prohibited under ICCPR Article 6 and monitored by a UN Special Rapporteur.
False accusation of rape
False accusation of rape: a rape claim determined false. Shaped by Hale's 17th-century warning, colonial forensic suspicion, and rape-myth research; rigorous studies place confirmed false reports near 2–10%.
Familicide
Familicide, or family annihilation, is the killing of multiple family members, typically an intimate partner and one or more children, by a perpetrator who is overwhelmingly male and dies by suicide in about half of cases; roughly 23 US incidents occur yearly.
Fancy Bear
Fancy Bear, also known as APT28 or Sofacy, is a Russian state-sponsored cyber-espionage group assessed as GRU Unit 26165, active since 2004 and behind the 2016 DNC hack.
Farmville murders
The Farmville murders were the September 2009 bludgeoning deaths of four people, including Longwood professor Debra Kelley, at 505 First Avenue in Farmville, Virginia; horrorcore rapper Richard "Syko Sam" McCroskey pleaded guilty in 2010 and received life sentences.
Fat Leonard scandal
Fat Leonard scandal: Leonard Glenn Francis, Malaysian owner of Singapore's Glenn Defense Marine Asia, bribed US Navy officers and overbilled port services, defrauding about $34-35 million; 35 charged, 15-year sentence in 2024.
Feeding Our Future
Feeding Our Future was a Minnesota nonprofit and child nutrition program sponsor at the center of the largest COVID-19 relief fraud case in the United States, a $250 million scheme; founder Aimee Bock was sentenced to 500 months.
Fence (criminal)
Fence (criminal): a person who knowingly buys, receives, or resells stolen property as intermediary between thieves and buyers; also called a receiver. Covers etymology from "defense," Jonathan Wild, receiver typologies, and receiving-stolen-property law in the US, England, and the Philippines.
Filicide
Filicide is the killing of a child by a parent, sometimes extended to killings by stepparents and parent equivalents; distinct terms cover neonaticide and infanticide.
Five Families
The Five Families are New York City's major Italian-American Mafia organizations: Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese, formed after the 1930–31 Castellammarese War under Lucky Luciano's Commission. Once controlling rackets citywide, they remain active in gambling and labor racketeering despite RICO-era prosecutions.
Five Points Gang
Five Points Gang: late-1890s New York street gang founded by Paul Kelly (Paolo Antonio Vaccarelli) in the Five Points slum, heir to the Dead Rabbits and Bowery Boys, tied to Tammany-era voter fraud.