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Daniel Blank
Daniel Joseph Blank (born 1962) is a Louisiana serial killer who confessed to six River Parishes home-invasion murders in 1996-97; distinct from Daniel Arthur Blank of the Zizians.
Daniel Camargo Barbosa
Daniel Camargo Barbosa (1930–1994), "El Sádico del Chanquito," a Colombian serial killer and rapist who murdered girls in Colombia and Ecuador; escaped Gorgona prison in 1984, confessed 71 Ecuadorian killings, drew Ecuador's 16-year maximum sentence, and was killed in prison by a victim's relative.
Daniel Holtzclaw
Daniel Ken Holtzclaw (born 1986), former Oklahoma City police officer convicted December 2015 on 18 of 36 counts of rape and sexual assault against eight Black women, sentenced to 263 years; appeals affirmed 2019, certiorari denied 2020.
Daniel Kinahan
Daniel Joseph Kinahan (born 1977) is an Irish alleged crime boss, OFAC-sanctioned leader of the Kinahan Organized Crime Group, ex-MTK Global boxing figure, arrested in Dubai in April 2026 and extradited to Ireland in August 2026.
Daniel Lewis Lee
Daniel Lewis Lee, executed July 14, 2020 at USP Terre Haute, was the first federal execution since 2003. He was sentenced to death for the 1996 white-supremacist robbery-murders of an Arkansas family of three.
Daniel Remeta
Daniel Eugene Remeta, American spree killer who murdered five people in Florida, Arkansas, and Kansas during a February 1985 crime spree with accomplices Lisa Dunn and James C. Hunter, drew multiple death sentences and was executed in Florida on March 31, 1998.
Daniel Siad
Daniel Siad, also recorded as Amar Siad, was an Algerian-born Swedish model scout who recruited women for Jeffrey Epstein, appeared in roughly 2,000 Epstein files records, faced French rape and trafficking complaints, and was found dead in Colombes in July 2026.
Daniel Wozniak (murderer)
Daniel Patrick Wozniak, Costa Mesa community theater actor, murdered Army veteran Samuel Herr and student Julie Kibuishi in May 2010 to steal $62,000; convicted 2015, sentenced to death 2016.
Danielle K. Citron
Danielle Keats Citron is an American law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law whose scholarship on cyberstalking, nonconsensual intimate imagery, and deepfakes reshaped United States law on online harassment.
Daniels family murders
The Daniels family murders were the December 4, 1997 shotgun killings of Danny, Kim, Jessica, and Bryant Daniels in Santa Claus, Georgia, by Jerry Scott Heidler.
Danilo Restivo
Danilo Restivo, Italian murderer (the "Barber of Potenza"), serving life in Britain for Heather Barnett's 2002 Bournemouth murder and 30 years in absentia for Elisa Claps's 1993 Potenza murder; hair placed in victims' hands.
Danny Bible
Danny Paul Bible (1951-2018), Texas "ice pick killer," executed June 27, 2018 for the 1979 rape-murder of Inez Deaton in Harris County after confessing following a 1998 Louisiana rape arrest.
Danny Greene
Danny Greene (Daniel John Patrick Greene), "The Irishman," was a Cleveland Irish-American racketeer, longshoremen's union boss, and Celtic Club founder who fought the Mafia in 1970s Bomb City, USA until his 1977 car-bomb assassination.
Danny Porush
Danny Porush, American former stockbroker, co-founder and president of Stratton Oakmont with Jordan Belfort; pump-and-dump frauds, guilty pleas, four-year prison term, and the real Donnie Azoff in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Danny Rolling
Danny Rolling, known as the Gainesville Ripper, was an American serial killer who pled guilty to murdering five college students in Gainesville, Florida, in 1990 and was executed in 2006.
Danny Wolfe
Danny Wolfe (Daniel Richard Wolfe, 1976-2010) was a Canadian gangster who co-founded the Indian Posse street gang in Winnipeg in 1988 with his brother Richard, served a life sentence for a double murder, joined the Hells Angels, and was killed in prison.
Dardeen family homicides
The Dardeen family homicides, also known as the Dardeen family murders, were the unsolved 1987 killings of Russell Keith and Ruby Elaine Dardeen, their son, and newborn daughter near Ina, Illinois.
Darfur genocide
The Darfur genocide is the campaign of mass killing, rape, and displacement by Sudan's government and its Janjaweed militias against non-Arab communities in Darfur from 2003, with renewed atrocities by the Rapid Support Forces since 2023.
Dark figure of crime
Dark figure of crime: unrecorded criminal occurrences absent from police statistics or crime surveys, named by Biderman and Reiss (1967); measured via victimization surveys like the NCVS and CSEW, varying by offense type and area.
Darknet market
Darknet markets (cryptomarkets, DNMs) are Tor-accessible e-commerce sites trading illicit goods, mainly drugs (about two thirds of activity), using cryptocurrency escrow; Silk Road (2011) was the first, followed by dozens of successors despite takedowns and exit scams.
Darlie Routier
Darlie Routier, Texas woman convicted in 1997 of capital murder and sentenced to death for the 1996 stabbing of her sons Devon and Damon in Rowlett; claims an intruder; ongoing DNA testing litigation.
DARVO
DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim, and Offender) is a perpetrator tactic named by Jennifer Freyd in 1997: deny wrongdoing, attack the accuser's credibility, and claim the victim role. Studied mainly in sexual violence contexts.
Dashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett, born Samuel Dashiell Hammett, was an American writer credited as the founder of hard-boiled detective fiction, author of The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man.
Date rape
Date rape: non-consensual intercourse by an acquaintance or date during a social engagement; also called acquaintance rape. Key facts: alcohol is the most common substance involved, Rohypnol and GHB are classic date rape drugs, and it is not a legally distinct rape category.
Date rape drug
Date rape drugs: any drug or alcohol, most often alcohol, used to make rape or sexual assault easier; includes Rohypnol, GHB, GBL, ketamine. Also called DFSA or chemical submission; rapid elimination hampers detection.
Daubert standard
Daubert standard: US evidence rule from Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals (1993) replacing Frye general acceptance with judicial gatekeeping of expert testimony under Rule 702, extended by Kumho Tire (1999) and codified in 2000 and 2023 amendments.
Dave Courtney
Dave Courtney (1959-2023), English self-styled celebrity gangster, author, and actor from Bermondsey, claimed Kray twins links, inspired Lock, Stock's Big Chris, died by suicide in Plumstead in 2023.
David and Catherine Birnie
David and Catherine Birnie, an Australian couple, murdered four females aged 15 to 31 in the 1986 Moorhouse murders in Willagee, Perth. Kate Moir's escape ended the spree; David died in prison in 2005, Catherine remains jailed.
David Barksdale
David Barksdale (1947-1974), called King David, led Chicago's Devil's Disciples and Black Disciples and in 1969 merged them with Larry Hoover's Supreme Gangsters into the Black Gangster Disciple Nation, ancestor of the Gangster Disciples and Black Disciples.
David Berkowitz
David Berkowitz (born 1953), the "Son of Sam" and ".44 Caliber Killer," murdered six and wounded seven in New York City, 1976-1977; arrested August 10, 1977 via a parking ticket, imprisoned at Shawangunk, repeatedly denied parole.