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Gary M. Heidnik
Gary M. Heidnik (born 1943, Philadelphia) murdered two imprisoned women, drew two death sentences in 1988, and was executed in Pennsylvania in 1999; his case shaped next-friend and competency-to-be-executed law.
Gary McKinnon
Gary McKinnon, Scottish hacker known as Solo, accessed 97 US military and NASA computers from London in 2001-2002; his decade-long UK extradition fight ended in 2012 when Theresa May blocked removal on suicide-risk human rights grounds.
Gary Plauché
Gary Plauché, Baton Rouge father who in 1984 shot and killed Jeffrey Doucet, his son Jody's kidnapper and abuser, on live TV; he pleaded no contest to manslaughter and got a suspended sentence.
Gary Ray Bowles
Gary Ray Bowles (1962–2019), the "I-95 killer," was an American serial killer who murdered six older gay men across Florida, Georgia, and Maryland in 1994, reached the FBI Ten Most Wanted list, and was executed in Florida on August 22, 2019.
Gary Ridgway
Gary Leon Ridgway, the Green River Killer, murdered women in the Seattle area from 1982; caught by 2001 DNA matching his 1987 saliva sample, he pleaded guilty to 48 murders in 2003 and a 49th in 2011, serving life without parole in Walla Walla.
Gas chamber
Gas chamber: airtight execution room using lethal gas, historically hydrogen cyanide from cyanide and acid. Adopted by Nevada in 1921; about 600 US executions before 1972; last known, Walter LaGrand, Arizona, 1999.
Geeta and Sanjay Chopra kidnapping case
The Geeta and Sanjay Chopra kidnapping case, also known as the Ranga-Singh case, was a 1978 murder in New Delhi where two siblings were abducted. (22 words)
Genaro García Luna
Genaro García Luna, Mexico's secretary of public security 2006-2012 under Calderón, was convicted in Brooklyn in 2023 of Sinaloa Cartel bribery and sentenced to 460 months and a $2 million fine, with billions in Florida civil judgments.
Genene Jones
Genene Ann Jones (born 1950), Texas pediatric nurse nicknamed the "Death Shift" nurse, convicted in 1984 of murdering Chelsea McClellan and in 2020 pleaded guilty to killing Joshua Sawyer; suspected in dozens of infant deaths.
Genocidal rape
Genocidal rape: use of rape as an act of genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention. Landmark ruling: Akayesu (ICTR, 1998), first international genocide conviction and first ruling that rape can constitute genocide.
Genocides in history
Genocides in history: episodes of group destruction named by Raphael Lemkin in 1944 and codified in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, from the Holocaust to Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Darfur.
Genovese crime family
The Genovese crime family is one of New York's Five Families of La Cosa Nostra, founded as the Luciano family and renamed for Vito Genovese in 1957; known for secrecy, labor racketeering, and relative freedom from informants.
GEO Group
The GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut Corrections) is a Boca Raton, Florida-based for-profit operator of prisons, ICE immigration detention centers, and reentry services, with about 95 facilities, 76,000 beds, and $2.4 billion 2024 revenue.
George Cornell
George Cornell (George Myers, 1927-1966) was an English criminal and Richardson Gang enforcer, shot dead by Ronnie Kray at the Blind Beggar pub, Whitechapel, on 9 March 1966, leading to Kray's life sentence.
George Floyd
George Floyd (1973–2020), Houston-raised Black American killed by Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin on 25 May 2020; death ruled a homicide; his killing sparked the largest US protest wave and George Floyd Square.
George Hodel
George Hill Hodel Jr. (1907–1999) was a Los Angeles physician who became a leading, never-charged suspect in the 1947 Black Dahlia murder of Elizabeth Short.
George Jackson (activist)
George Jackson (1941-1971), American prison activist and author of Soledad Brother and Blood in My Eye, a leading voice of the prison movement, shot dead at San Quentin in 1971 during an alleged escape.
George Jung
George Jacob Jung, known as Boston George, was an American drug trafficker who introduced powder cocaine to the United States on a large scale from the mid-1970s.
George Remus
George Remus (1878-1952), German-born Cincinnati pharmacist turned criminal-defense lawyer, became Prohibition's 'King of the Bootleggers' by buying distilleries, diverting medicinal whiskey, and bribing officials; he killed his wife in 1927 and was acquitted by insanity.
George Stinney
George Junius Stinney Jr. was an African American boy from Alcolu, South Carolina, executed in 1944 at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States that century.
George Zimmerman
George Zimmerman, former Sanford, Florida neighborhood watch volunteer, fatally shot unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, was charged with second-degree murder, and acquitted in July 2013; later defamation suits were dismissed.
Georgia Hardstark
Georgia Hardstark is an American podcast host and writer, co-host of the true crime comedy podcast My Favorite Murder (2016) with Karen Kilgariff and co-founder of Exactly Right Media, formerly a Cooking Channel personality.
Gerald and Charlene Gallego
Gerald and Charlene Gallego, the 'sex-slave murders' couple, killed at least 10 people in California, Nevada, and Oregon, 1978-1980; arrested in Omaha 1980; Gerald died on death row in 2002; Charlene freed 1997.
Gerald Pizzuto
Gerald Ross Pizzuto Jr., Idaho death-row prisoner convicted in 1986 of the 1985 murders of Berta and Del Herndon; his 4-3 clemency recommendation was rejected by Governor Little, upheld on appeal, with ongoing execution-method litigation.
Gerry Conlon
Gerry Conlon (Gerard Conlon, 1954-2014), Belfast member of the Guildford Four, wrongly convicted in 1975 of the 1974 IRA Guildford pub bombings, imprisoned 15 years until the 1989 quashing, father of the Maguire Seven case, later campaigner portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis in In the Name of the Father.
Gerry Hutch
Gerard "Gerry" Hutch, known as "The Monk", is an Irish former armed robber described by the Special Criminal Court as head of the Hutch Organised Crime Group.
Ghislaine Maxwell
Ghislaine Maxwell is a British former socialite convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking and related offenses involving Jeffrey Epstein. Sentenced to 20 years, she unsuccessfully challenged the conviction on appeal.
Gibbeting
Gibbeting, or hanging in chains, was a British post-execution punishment placing an executed criminal's body in an iron cage on a tall pole. Regulated by the 1752 Murder Act, it gibbeted 144 people, ended with James Cook in 1832, and was abolished in 1834; live gibbeting in Britain is legend.
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela
Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela (El Ajedrecista), with brother Miguel, led Colombia's Cali Cartel, which trafficked about 80% of world cocaine by the early 1990s; arrested 1995, extradited 2004, pled guilty 2006, sentenced 30 years, died in U.S. prison 2022.
Gilgo Beach serial killings
Gilgo Beach serial killings: Long Island murders of escorts, 1993–2010, exposed December 2010 when the "Gilgo Four" were found along Ocean Parkway. Rex Heuermann, arrested 2023, pleaded guilty in 2026 to seven murders plus an admitted eighth and received life without parole.