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Heriberto Seda
Heriberto Seda, the New York Zodiac or Zodiac II, killed three and wounded six in 1990-1993 shootings, sent Zodiac-signed letters, was caught in 1996 via his confession handwriting, and remains imprisoned.
Hi-Fi murders
Hi-Fi murders: April 22, 1974 torture-murders during a robbery at the Hi-Fi Shop, Ogden, Utah; airmen Dale Pierre Selby and William Andrews executed (1987, 1992) after Utah's longest death-row appeals; Keith Roberts convicted of robbery only.
High treason in the United Kingdom
High treason in the United Kingdom is the statutory crime of disloyalty to the Crown, defined by the Treason Act 1351, punishable by life imprisonment since 1998, last prosecuted against William Joyce in 1946.
High Treason Incident
The High Treason Incident (大逆事件, Taigyaku Jiken) was a Japanese state prosecution of 1910–1911 in which 26 socialists and anarchists were tried for plotting to assassinate Emperor Meiji.
Highway of Tears
Highway of Tears is a 724-kilometer stretch of Yellowhead Highway 16 in British Columbia. It is known for dozens of Indigenous women who have gone missing or been murdered since 1969.
Highwayman
A highwayman was a mounted robber who held up travelers on public roads, peaking in 18th-century Britain; the word dates to 1617, the crime declined with better roads and policing, and the last mounted robbery came in 1831.
Hillside Strangler
Hillside Strangler, also the Hillside Stranglers: cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, who raped and murdered ten women and girls in Los Angeles, 1977-1978; Bianchi's failed multiple-personality defense and 2025 parole denial distinguish the case.
Hinterkaifeck murders
Hinterkaifeck murders, six killings of the Gruber-Gabriel household and maid Maria Baumgartner on an Upper Bavarian farm on 31 March 1922; over 100 suspects investigated, never solved.
History of Australia (1788–1850)
History of Australia 1788–1850: British colonization from the First Fleet at Sydney Cove under Arthur Phillip through the convict transportation era, colonial expansion, frontier conflict, and the Australian Colonies Government Act 1850.
History of rape
History of rape: how law and society defined nonconsensual sex from Roman status-based offenses and medieval canon law through Hale's marital exemption, Brownmiller's 1975 reframing, ICTY/ICC wartime prosecutions, and modern consent-based reforms.
History of zoophilia
History of zoophilia, also called bestiality, traces human-animal sexual contact from Hittite and biblical death-penalty laws, through medieval Christian criminalization, to DSM-III (1980) paraphilia classification and modern animal-welfare-based statutes in most US states and Europe.
HIV trial in Libya
The HIV trial in Libya (1999–2007) prosecuted five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for infecting children with HIV at Benghazi's Al-Fateh hospital; two death sentences were overturned scientifically and ended in pardon.
HM Prison Belmarsh
HM Prison Belmarsh: high-security men's prison in Thamesmead, southeast London, opened 18 July 1991. Only reception prison in the high-security estate, with a high security unit for category A prisoners.
HM Prison Bronzefield
HMP Bronzefield, Ashford, Middlesex: first purpose-built private women's prison in the UK, opened 17 June 2004, run by Sodexo; largest women's prison in Europe after Holloway closed.
HM Prison Dartmoor
HM Prison Dartmoor is a men's category C prison in Devon, England. Built by the Admiralty in 1806–09, it originally held prisoners of war and civilian inmates.
HM Prison Frankland
HMP Frankland is a high-security category A men's prison in Brasside, County Durham, opened in 1980, holding around 850 serious and life-sentence prisoners, with Westgate, separation, and close supervision units.
HM Prison Manchester
HM Prison Manchester, known as Strangeways until 1994, is a men's category B high security training prison in Manchester city centre. Built 1866-68 by Alfred Waterhouse, it was placed on Urgent Notification in 2024 over drone drug deliveries, violence and self-harm.
HM Prison Maze
HM Prison Maze, also Long Kesh, was a maximum-security prison near Lisburn holding paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles (1971-2000), known for the H-Blocks, the 1981 hunger strikes, and the 1983 escape of 38 prisoners.
HM Prison Pentonville
HM Prison Pentonville, London N7, is a category B men's reception prison opened in 1842 as the 'Model Prison' designed by Joshua Jebb; its separate system, radial wings, heating/ventilation and later mental-health crisis shaped Victorian prison architecture worldwide.
HM Prison Wakefield
HM Prison Wakefield, known as Wakefield Prison and nicknamed "Monster Mansion", is a high security men's prison in West Yorkshire, England, holding category A and B prisoners serving long or life sentences.
HM Prison Wandsworth
HMP Wandsworth is a men's category B local prison in south west London, opened 1851 as the Surrey House of Correction, capacity about 1,371. Repeatedly criticized for overcrowding; given an Urgent Notification in May 2024.
HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs
HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, "The Scrubs", a category B local prison for adult men on Du Cane Road, London; built 1874–1891 by Edmund du Cane as England's first telegraph-pole plan prison, with Grade II chapel and gatehouse.
Hỏa Lò Prison
Hỏa Lò Prison (Nhà tù Hỏa Lò, Maison Centrale), the French-built 1896 Hanoi prison known as the "Hanoi Hilton" when it held American POWs from 1964 to 1973, including John McCain; now a preserved museum fragment.
Hoeryong concentration camp
Hoeryong concentration camp (Kwan-li-so No. 22) was a North Korean political prison camp at Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, built in the 1960s, holding up to 50,000 prisoners, and closed in 2012 with inmates transferred to Camp 16.
Home invasion
Home invasion: forcible or unlawful entry into an occupied residence with intent to rob or harm occupants; distinct from burglary, measured through NCVS household burglary data, and criminalized by statute in Florida, Nevada, and Illinois.
Homer Van Meter
Homer Van Meter (1905/1906–1934), Fort Wayne-born bank robber and Dillinger gang lieutenant, also linked to Baby Face Nelson; killed by St. Paul police on August 23, 1934.
Homicide
Homicide is the killing of one person by another, whether criminal (murder, manslaughter, felony murder) or lawful (self-defense). Covers common law malice aforethought, murder degrees, the Model Penal Code, and 2025 US rates of about 4.1-4.3 per 100,000.
Honor killing
Honor killing: murder of a woman by family members for perceived sexual or behavioral transgressions. Also honour crimes, femicide. Up to 5,000 victims yearly per UNFPA; planned family-council killings under community pressure.
Hoshang Amini (هوشنگ امینی)
Hoshang Amini (هوشنگ امینی) was an Iranian serial killer who confessed to 67 murders near Varamin between 1954 and 1962, and was executed in 1963.
Hostage
Hostage: a person seized or detained and threatened to compel a third party to act. Also called hostage-taking; prohibited by the 1979 UN Hostages Convention and Geneva Convention IV; historically a diplomatic institution in Rome and medieval Europe; Iran held 52 Americans 444 days.