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David Carpenter
David Carpenter, known as the "Trailside Killer," is an American serial killer who murdered hikers in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1980 and 1981.
David Fuller
David Fuller (born 1954) is a British hospital electrician and double murderer who sexually abused over 100 corpses in Kent NHS mortuaries from 2005 to 2020; caught by familial DNA in 2020, given whole-life orders, and subject of the two-phase Fuller Inquiry.
David Gilbert (activist)
David Gilbert (born 1944) is an American radical activist who co-founded Columbia's SDS chapter, joined the Weather Underground, and was imprisoned for the 1981 Brink's robbery.
David Hunt (gangster)
David Charles Hunt, the 'Long Fella' (born 1961), East London organised crime figure of the Hunt Syndicate; found in the 2013 libel case Hunt v Times Newspapers to head a network involved in extreme violence and fraud.
David Milgaard
David Milgaard (1952–2022), Canadian man wrongfully convicted of the 1969 rape-murder of Gail Miller in Saskatoon; served 23 years, exonerated by DNA in 1997; Larry Fisher was the real killer; namesake of Canada's 2024 Milgaard's Law.
David Misch
David Emery Misch (born 1961) is a California convicted murderer, imprisoned since 1990 for the killing of Margaret Ball, convicted in 2024 of the 1986 Xavier and Duey murders, and charged in the 1988 Michaela Garecht kidnapping.
David Owen Brooks
David Owen Brooks (born 1955, died 2020) was a teenage accomplice of Houston serial killer Dean Corll in the 1970-73 Houston Mass Murders, luring victims for $10-$200 each; convicted of one murder, he served 45 years of a life sentence before dying of COVID-19 in prison.
David Parker Ray
David Parker Ray (November 6, 1939 – May 28, 2002), the "Toy-Box Killer", was a New Mexico kidnapper and torturer arrested in 1999 near Elephant Butte, sentenced to over 223 years, never convicted of murder, and died in prison in 2002.
David Yaras
David Yaras (Dave Yaras), Chicago Outfit figure the FBI assessed as the Chicago family's chief representative in Miami; Rogers Park gambling boss; charged with murder, robbery, extortion, never convicted; died of a heart attack playing golf, Miami, January 1974.
Dawood Ibrahim (दाऊद इब्राहिम)
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar (दाऊद इब्राहिम), born 1955, is the Indian fugitive boss of the crime syndicate D Company, prime accused in the 1993 Mumbai bombings that killed 257, a US-designated global terrorist, and an INTERPOL Red Notice subject believed to be in Pakistan.
Dead Rabbits
Dead Rabbits: name given to an Irish Five Points street-fighting group of 1850s New York, rivals of the Bowery Boys, famous for the July 1857 riot; historians dispute whether the gang existed under that name.
Dean Corll
Dean Arnold Corll, the "Candy Man," was a Houston-area serial killer who, with accomplices Henley and Brooks, murdered at least 27 to 29 boys from 1970 to 1973 until Henley killed him in August 1973.
Dean O'Banion
Dean O'Banion (Dion, Deanie), 1892-1924, Irish-American boss of Chicago's North Side Gang, bootlegging rival of Torrio and Capone; murdered November 10, 1924, in his State Street flower shop, feeding the Beer Wars.
Dear Boss letter
Dear Boss letter: 1888 letter to London's Central News Agency, first signed "Jack the Ripper", claiming the Annie Chapman murder; widely judged a journalist's hoax, it gave the Whitechapel killer his enduring name.
Death by boiling
Death by boiling: execution by immersion in boiling water or oil. Known chiefly from Henry VIII's 1531 Acte for Poysoning; victims included Richard Roose and Margaret Davy at Smithfield; repealed 1547.
Death by burning
Death by burning, or burning at the stake, is an execution method historically used for heresy, witchcraft, and treason, codified in laws such as the 1530 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina and now banned under international human rights law.
Death by sawing
Death by sawing: a historical execution method in which a condemned person was cut in half with a saw, often suspended upside down; reported from antiquity and medieval Europe, declined with Enlightenment reforms.
Death of Amber Thurman
Amber Nicole Thurman, a 28-year-old Georgia medical assistant, died in August 2022 after a 20-hour hospital delay of a D&C for sepsis from abortion pills; the state committee ruled her death preventable under Georgia's six-week abortion ban.
Death of Ana Clara Benevides
Death of Ana Clara Benevides Machado, 23, Brazilian psychology student who died of heat exhaustion at Taylor Swift's Eras Tour show in Rio de Janeiro on November 17, 2023, prompting investigations of organizer T4F and Brazilian water-access laws.
Death of Azaria Chamberlain
Death of Azaria Chamberlain: nine-week-old Australian baby taken by a dingo from her family's tent at Uluru on 17 August 1980; her mother Lindy Chamberlain was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1982 and exonerated in 1988, with a dingo finding only in 2012.
Death of Brian Wells
Death of Brian Wells: 2003 collar-bomb killing of Erie, Pennsylvania pizza deliveryman Brian Douglas Wells, who robbed a PNC Bank with a bomb locked to his neck; the device detonated in police custody, later tied to the Diehl-Armstrong conspiracy.
Death of Caylee Anthony
Death of Caylee Anthony, the 2008 unsolved death of an Orlando two-year-old found decomposed near her home; mother Casey Anthony was acquitted of murder in 2011; ruled homicide by undetermined means.
Death of Celine Cremer
Celine Cremer (Céline Cremer), 31, Belgian tourist who died by accident in June 2023 after becoming lost walking to Philosopher Falls, Tasmania; coroner Madeleine Wilson ruled out third-party involvement, a private search found her remains.
Death of Christoph Bulwin
Death of Christoph Bulwin: the unresolved 2011 Regenschirmmord (umbrella murder) case, in which a Hannover software engineer was stabbed with a syringe, poisoned with dimethylmercury, and died in May 2012.
Death of Conrad Roy
Death of Conrad Roy: Fairhaven, Massachusetts 18-year-old who died by carbon monoxide suicide in July 2014 after girlfriend Michelle Carter urged him on by text and phone; her 2017 involuntary manslaughter conviction was upheld in 2019.
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
Death of Diana, Princess of Wales: fatal 31 August 1997 car crash in Paris's Pont de l'Alma tunnel with Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul, pursued by paparazzi; French and British inquiries found no conspiracy, 2008 inquest ruled unlawful killing.
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 Elisa Lam
Death of Elisa Lam (藍可兒): 2013 accidental drowning of a 21-year-old Canadian student found in a Cecil Hotel rooftop water tank in Los Angeles; coroner ruled no foul play, bipolar disorder a contributing condition.
Death of Émile Soleil
Death of Émile Soleil: French toddler, two and a half, who vanished 8 July 2023 at Haut-Vernet, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; skull found March 2024, 2025 experts found violent facial trauma, probable third-party intervention, no charges filed.
Death of Jeffrey Epstein
Death of Jeffrey Epstein: the financier died by hanging at MCC New York on August 10, 2019, ruled suicide by the NYC medical examiner, disputed by pathologist Michael Baden, with DOJ OIG-documented jail failures.