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Ben Field (murderer)
Benjamin Luke Field, former deputy churchwarden of Maids Moreton, convicted in 2019 of murdering lecturer Peter Farquhar (36-year minimum term); the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction in April 2026 over a causation misdirection, with a Supreme Court appeal pending.
Ben Hall (bushranger)
Ben Hall was an Australian bushranger who led a prolific gang in New South Wales in the early 1860s and took part in the Eugowra gold escort robbery.
Benjamín Arellano Félix
Benjamín Arellano Félix (aliases El Min, El Colores), Sinaloa-born leader of the Tijuana Cartel (Arellano Félix Organization); arrested in Puebla in 2002, extradited to the US in 2011, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 25 years.
Benjamin Hoskins Paddock
Benjamin Hoskins Paddock (1926–1998), also Patrick Benjamin Paddock, American bank robber, FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #302 from 1969 to 1977; escaped La Tuna prison, captured 1978 in Oregon as Bruce Ericksen; father of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock.
Benjamin Ritchie
Benjamin Donnie Ritchie (1980-2025), Indiana man executed May 20, 2025 for the 2000 fatal shooting of Beech Grove police officer William Toney during a foot chase; convicted 2002, appeals over FASD and lead exposure failed, pentobarbital execution drew botched-execution concerns.
Bennie Demps
Bennie Eddie Demps (1950-2000), Florida death row inmate executed by lethal injection June 7, 2000; sentenced to death in 1971 (Lake County murders, commuted after Furman) and again in 1978 for the 1976 prison murder of inmate Alfred Sturgis.
Bernardo Provenzano
Bernardo Provenzano (1933–2016), Corleonesi boss and head of Cosa Nostra from 1993 after Totò Riina's arrest; fugitive 43 years, captured 2006 near Corleone, ran the Mafia via pizzini notes, died under 41-bis in Milan.
Bernie Tiede
Bernie Tiede, born Bernhardt Tiede II, is a former East Texas mortician convicted of murdering wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent in Carthage, Texas, in 1996 and hiding her body in a freezer.
Betty Broderick
Betty Broderick (Elisabeth Anne Broderick, born Elisabeth Anne Bisceglia, 1947) was an American convicted of the 1989 San Diego murders of ex-husband Dan Broderick and his wife Linda Kolkena; convicted of second-degree murder in 1991, sentenced to 32 years to life, died in prison 2026.
Betty Lou Beets
Betty Lou Beets, Texas woman executed February 24, 2000 for the 1983 capital murder of her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets for remuneration; second woman and oldest person executed in Texas since 1982; case centered on battered woman syndrome claims.
Bevan Spencer von Einem
Bevan Spencer von Einem (born 1946, died 5 December 2025) was an Adelaide accountant convicted in 1984 of murdering 15-year-old Richard Kelvin, the only conviction in the unsolved 'Family' murders; he died in prison of metastatic cancer.
Beverley Allitt
Beverley Allitt is a former nurse convicted in 1993 of murdering four children and harming nine others on Ward 4 of Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital in 1991.
Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel
Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel (born 1990, Gujarat, India) is an FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive wanted for the April 12, 2015 murder of his wife Palak at a Dunkin' Donuts in Hanover, Maryland; he fled, was last known near Newark, and carries a $1 million reward.
Bharat Bhushan Tiwari
Bharat Bhushan Tiwari (भरत भूषण तिवारी), 28, of Bilauti village, Bhojpur, Bihar, died in a contested June 17, 2026 police encounter after a livestreamed standoff, prompting a judicial inquiry and murder FIR.
Bible John
Bible John is the unidentified serial killer believed responsible for the murders of Patricia Docker, Jemima McDonald, and Helen Puttock in Glasgow 1968-1969, all strangled after nights out at the Barrowland Ballroom; nicknamed for quoting scripture in a taxi.
Big Jim Colosimo
Big Jim Colosimo (Giacomo Colosimo), Chicago vice lord of the Levee District who built brothel and gambling empire, was murdered May 11, 1920 after refusing bootlegging, enabling Torrio and Capone's Outfit.
Bilkis Bano case
Bilkis Bano case (Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India, 2024 INSC 24): 2002 Gujarat riots gang rape and murder case; 11 life convicts released on remission in August 2022, quashed by the Supreme Court on 8 January 2024 because Maharashtra, the convicting state under Section 432(7)(b) CrPC, was the appropriate government.
Bill Cosby sexual assault cases
Bill Cosby sexual assault cases: the civil suits and Pennsylvania criminal prosecution of comedian Bill Cosby over drugging-and-assault allegations by more than 60 women; 2018 conviction on three counts of aggravated indecent assault was vacated in 2021; Constand settled for $3.38 million, Huth won $500,000.
Bill Doolin
Bill Doolin (William M. Doolin, 1858-1896), Oklahoma outlaw and leader of the Doolin Gang or Wild Bunch after the Dalton Gang's Coffeyville demise; captured by Tilghman 1896, killed by Heck Thomas posse near Lawson.
Billy Clanton
Billy Clanton (William Harrison Clanton, ca. 1862–1881), youngest son of Newman Haynes Clanton, Texas-born Arizona rancher and Cowboy killed at the O.K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone on October 26, 1881, buried in Boothill Graveyard.
Billy Hill (gangster)
Billy Hill (William Charles Hill, 1911–1984), London gangster and self-styled boss of Britain's underworld; Eastcastle Street robbery mastermind, Jack Spot's rival, Kray twins' mentor, author of Boss of Britain's Underworld.
Billy Jensen
Billy Jensen is an American investigative journalist and true-crime author known for using geo-targeted Facebook ads to help solve unsolved murders; author of Chase Darkness with Me and collaborator on I'll Be Gone in the Dark.
Billy McFarland
Billy McFarland (William Z. McFarland), American founder of the failed Fyre Festival and Fyre Media; convicted of wire and bank fraud, sentenced in 2018 to six years, released early in March 2022, and later sold the Fyre brand for $245,300.
Billy Milligan
Billy Milligan (William Stanley Milligan, 1955-2014), Ohio man acquitted by reason of insanity in 1978 on rape, robbery, and kidnapping charges based on a multiple personality disorder (DID) diagnosis of 24 personalities; first such verdict.
Billy the Axeman
Billy the Axeman is the name given to an unidentified American serial killer blamed for family axe murders mainly in the Midwest between 1911 and 1912.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney, was a New Mexico outlaw of the 1878 Lincoln County War, convicted of murdering Sheriff Brady in 1881, escaped killing two guards, and was shot dead by Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner.
Bindy Johal
Bindy Johal (Bhupinder Singh Johal), Indian-born Vancouver drug trafficker and Punjabi Mafia figure of the 1990s, acquitted at a costly trial for the Dosanjh killings, shot dead at the Palladium nightclub on 20 December 1998; killing unsolved.
Birching
Birching, corporal punishment with a birch rod or bundle of birch twigs, used in British civil courts, Royal Navy discipline, schools, and the Isle of Man until its 1978 condemnation by the European Court of Human Rights and final abolition.
Birmingham Boys
The Birmingham Boys, also known as the Brummagem Boys, were an English street gang led by Billy Kimber that controlled bookmaking and protection rackets at Britain's racecourses until the 1930s.
Birmingham Six
The Birmingham Six were six Irish men wrongly convicted in 1975 of the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings that killed 21 people; their convictions were quashed in 1991 after 16 years, prompting the CCRC's creation.