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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.
Eastern State Penitentiary
Eastern State Penitentiary, opened in Philadelphia in 1829, was the world's first full-scale penitentiary and home of the Pennsylvania System of solitary confinement with labor; designed by John Haviland, it influenced 300+ prisons, abandoned the system in 1913, closed in 1971, and is now a museum.
Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting
The Eaton Township Weis Markets shooting: on June 8, 2017, employee Randy Stair (Andrew Blaze) killed three coworkers with shotguns at the Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania supermarket, then killed himself.
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.
Ed Gein
Ed Gein (Edward Theodore Gein, 1906–1984), the Butcher of Plainfield, was a Wisconsin murderer and grave robber arrested in 1957, found not guilty by reason of mental defect, and the inspiration for Psycho, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill.
Eddie Nash
Eddie Nash, born Adel Gharib Nasrallah, was a Los Angeles nightclub and restaurant owner who was acquitted of the 1981 Wonderland murders but in 2001 pleaded guilty to racketeering.
Edgar Ray Killen
Edgar Ray Killen, Mississippi Baptist preacher and Ku Klux Klan organizer (Kleagle) who organized the 1964 Mississippi Burning killings of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner; convicted of manslaughter in 2005, sentenced to 60 years, died in prison in 2018.
Edgar Valdez Villarreal
Edgar "La Barbie" Valdez Villarreal is an American-born drug trafficker from Laredo, Texas, who led Beltrán Leyva Organization forces until his 2010 arrest in Mexico.
Edmund Kemper
Edmund Kemper (born 1948), known as the "Co-Ed Killer," is an American serial killer who murdered six women in the Santa Cruz area and was sentenced to life in 1973.
Eduardo Arellano Félix
Eduardo Arellano Félix, nicknamed El Doctor, is a Mexican physician and former chief financial officer of the Arellano Felix Organization (Tijuana Cartel), captured in Tijuana in 2008, extradited to the United States in 2012, sentenced to 15 years, and deported to Mexico in 2021.
Edward Edwards (serial killer)
Edward Wayne Edwards (1933–2011), born Charles Wayne Murray, was an American serial killer who confessed to five murders in Ohio and Wisconsin (1977–1996) after once appearing on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list; unproven theories link him to the Zodiac, JonBenét Ramsey, and Teresa Halbach cases.
Edward Oxford
Edward Oxford (1822–1900) fired two pistols at Queen Victoria on Constitution Hill, 10 June 1840; tried for high treason, acquitted as insane, detained at Bedlam, later emigrated to Australia.
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.
Effects and aftermath of rape
Effects and aftermath of rape: immediate medical care (STI prophylaxis, emergency contraception within 120 hours, hepatitis B and HPV vaccination), rape trauma syndrome and PTSD, long-term health effects, and secondary victimization in legal systems.
Ekaterina Trendafilova (Екатерина Трендафилова)
Ekaterina Trendafilova (Екатерина Трендафилова) is a Bulgarian jurist who served as an International Criminal Court judge and has led the Kosovo Specialist Chambers since 2017.
El Dorado Correctional Facility
El Dorado Correctional Facility (EDCF), opened 1991 near El Dorado, Kansas, is the Kansas Department of Corrections' newest prison for adult males, housing maximum, medium, and special management custody, operating the statewide Reception and Diagnostic Unit, and serving as the system's primary mental health facility with 192 behavioral beds.
Electric chair
The electric chair is a U.S. execution device passing lethal current through electrodes on the body, first used on William Kemmler in New York in 1890; now authorized in nine states, rarely used, last in Tennessee in 2020.
Electrocution
Electrocution by electric chair: a US execution method proposed in 1881 by dentist Albert Southwick, first used on William Kemmler in 1890, dominant for nearly a century, now a backup method in nine states.
Electronic tagging
Electronic tagging (electronic monitoring, EM): ankle-worn devices used by courts, prisons, and parole authorities to enforce curfews, exclusion zones, and alcohol bans. First criminal justice order 1983; about 500,000 people monitored in 2022; cheaper than prison, costlier than probation.
Element (criminal law)
In criminal law, an element of a crime is a component the prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt, typically including actus reus, mens rea, and causation.
Elizabeth Báthory
Elizabeth Báthory (Báthory Erzsébet), 1560–1614, Hungarian countess of Čachtice Castle, the "Blood Countess." Arrested 1610 by Palatine Thurzó, never tried; the blood-bath legend appears only in 18th-century accounts.
Elizabeth Fry
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), born Elizabeth Gurney, English Quaker prison reformer; founded the Newgate women prisoners association (1817) and first woman to give Commons evidence; her work shaped the 1823 Gaols Act and she appeared on the £5 note.
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.
Elizabeth Stride
Elizabeth Stride (Elisabeth Gustafsdotter, 1843-1888), called Long Liz, a Swedish-born Whitechapel resident found with her throat cut in Dutfield's Yard on 30 September 1888, the third canonical Jack the Ripper victim and the only one not mutilated.
Elizabeth Wettlaufer
Elizabeth Wettlaufer, Canadian former registered nurse and Canada's first known healthcare serial killer, killed eight Ontario long-term care residents with insulin overdoses (2007–2016), pleaded guilty June 1, 2017, and prompted the Gillese Inquiry's 91 recommendations.
Elmer McCurdy
Elmer J. McCurdy (1880–1911) was an American outlaw killed by an Oklahoma posse in 1911, whose embalmed body spent decades as a traveling sideshow attraction until rediscovered in 1976.
Elmer Wayne Henley
Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. (born 1956) is an American murderer serving six consecutive 99-year terms for his role in the Houston Mass Murders; he killed Dean Corll in 1973.
Elmo Lee Smith
Elmo Lee Smith (b. 1921, Richmond, Virginia; d. 1962), Bridgeport, Pennsylvania handyman convicted of the 1959 rape-murder of teenager Maryann Mitchell; executed April 2, 1962 at Rockview, the 350th and last Pennsylvania electric-chair execution.