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Am Cyanide case
The Am Cyanide case: Thai criminal proceedings against Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, aka Aem Cyanide, accused of cyanide-poisoning 15 people from 2015 to 2023 over debts; three death sentences, two life terms, three acquittals by 2026.
Amado Carrillo Fuentes
Amado Carrillo Fuentes, "El Señor de los Cielos," led Mexico's Juárez Cartel in the 1990s, flying cocaine in Boeing 727s; he died July 4, 1997 during plastic surgery in Mexico City, confirmed by DNA tests.
Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox, American author and exoneree, was twice convicted and finally acquitted in 2015 by Italy's Court of Cassation of the 2007 Perugia murder of Meredith Kercher; her calunnia conviction was upheld in 2025.
Amber alert
An AMBER Alert, from America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, is a U.S. child-abduction alert system begun in 1996 in Dallas-Fort Worth after the murder of Amber Hagerman; it uses broadcast and wireless emergency alerts under DOJ coordination.
Amelia Dyer
Amelia Dyer (1837/1838–1896), English baby farmer and serial killer, hanged at Newgate for murdering infant Doris Marmon; convicted on one charge though estimated 200–400 victims, case led to 1897 and 1908 child protection acts.
American Crime Story
American Crime Story, FX anthology drama from Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, and Brad Simpson dramatizing real US criminal cases; seasons The People v. O.J. Simpson, The Assassination of Gianni Versace, and Impeachment, 2016–2021, 29 episodes.
American Mafia
The American Mafia, or La Cosa Nostra, is Italian-American organized crime operating in the United States since the 1920s through families such as New York's Five Families.
American Murder: The Family Next Door
American Murder: The Family Next Door is a 2020 American true-crime documentary directed by Jenny Popplewell and released on Netflix, about the 2018 Watts family murders.
American Society of Criminology
The American Society of Criminology (ASC) is an international organization of students, scholars, and practitioners in criminology and criminal justice, founded in Berkeley, California in 1941.
Amit Soussana (עמית סוסנה)
Amit Soussana (עמית סוסנה), Israeli lawyer from Kibbutz Kfar Aza, held hostage 55 days by Hamas after October 7, 2023; first freed hostage to publicly describe sexual abuse in captivity, in a March 2024 New York Times interview; later a hostages advocate and International Women of Courage awardee.
Amnesty
Amnesty is an official clemency act exempting groups or classes from prosecution, usually for political offenses, distinct from individual pardons; used in peace processes but constrained by international human rights law, as in Peru, Iraq, and Thailand.
Amos Robinson and Abron Scott
Amos Robinson and Abron Scott are Florida men convicted of the 1983 murder of Carlos Orellana. They were later indicted for the rapes and murders of Linda Lansen and Barbara Grams.
Amy Archer-Gilligan
Amy Archer-Gilligan (Amy Duggan, 1873-1962) ran the Archer Home for the elderly in Windsor, Connecticut, and was convicted in 1917 of arsenic-poisoning boarder Franklin Andrews; suspected of up to two dozen deaths, she inspired Arsenic and Old Lace.
Amy Fisher
Amy Fisher (born 1974), the "Long Island Lolita," shot Mary Jo Buttafuoco in Massapequa, New York on May 19, 1992 during an affair with Joey Buttafuoco; she served nearly seven years in prison.
An Unbelievable Story of Rape
An Unbelievable Story of Rape, a 2015 ProPublica and Marshall Project investigation by T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and inspired Netflix's Unbelievable.
Ana Cumpănaș
Ana Cumpănaș (Anna Sage), the "Woman in Red," was a Romanian-born brothel madam who informed on John Dillinger for a $5,000 reward and promised help against deportation; the FBI killed Dillinger at the Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934, and she was deported to Romania, dying there in 1947.
Anatoly Moskvin (Анатолий Юрьевич Москвин)
Anatoly Yuryevich Moskvin (Анатолий Юрьевич Москвин), born 1966 in Gorky, is a Russian Celticist, philologist, and cemetery researcher found in 2011 with 26 to 29 mummified bodies from graves in his Nizhny Novgorod flat; judged insane, he has been in compulsory psychiatric treatment since 2012.
Anatoly Onoprienko (Анатолій Юрійович Онопрієнко)
Anatoly Onoprienko (Анатолій Онопрієнко), the Beast of Ukraine or Terminator, Ukrainian serial killer convicted of 52 murders in 1989 and 1995–1996; death sentence commuted to life, died in Zhytomyr prison in 2013.
Anatoly Slivko
Anatoly Slivko (Анатолий Сливко) was a Soviet serial killer who murdered seven boys in Nevinnomyssk between 1964 and 1985 while leading a children's tourist club.
Andre Melendez
Andre "Angel" Melendez (May 1971–1996) was a Colombian-born NYC Club Kid killed and dismembered in March 1996 by Michael Alig and Robert "Freeze" Riggs; both pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter.
Andre Rand
Andre Rand, born Frank Rostum Rushan in 1944, is a convicted Staten Island kidnapper serving 25-years-to-life terms for the 1987 Jennifer Schweiger and 1981 Holly Ann Hughes kidnappings, suspected in other child disappearances.
André Stander
André Stander (1946–1984) was a South African police captain at Kempton Park who robbed banks from 1977, escaped prison in 1983, and led the Stander Gang through about 20 heists before being shot dead by police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in February 1984.
Andrea Yates
Andrea Pia Yates, Texas mother who drowned her five children in Clear Lake City, Houston, on June 20, 2001 while psychotic; convicted 2002, reversed on appeal over false expert testimony, found not guilty by reason of insanity at 2006 retrial.
Andrei Chikatilo (Андрей Романович Чикатило)
Andrei Chikatilo (Андрей Романович Чикатило), the Rostov Ripper, was a Soviet serial killer and former teacher convicted of 52 murders of children and women, 1978–1990, arrested 1990, executed 1994.
Andrew C. Thornton II
Andrew C. Thornton II (1944–1985), Kentucky narcotics officer turned smuggler who led "The Company," died in a 1985 parachute run from Colombia; his dropped cocaine killed a bear, the "Cocaine Bear" story.
Andrew Cunanan
Andrew Phillip Cunanan was an American spree killer who committed five murders during a cross-country rampage in 1997, ending the spree by killing the fashion designer Gianni Versace.
Andrew Dawson (murderer)
Andrew Dawson, English killer dubbed the Angel of Mercy, murdered shopkeeper Henry Walsh in Ormskirk in 1981 and, while on life licence, stabbed neighbors John David Matthews and Paul Hancock to death in Derby in 2010, receiving a whole life order.
Andrew Luster
Andrew Stuart Luster, Max Factor great-grandson, convicted in 2003 of GHB-drugging and raping three women, fled trial, was captured in Mexico by Duane Chapman, resentenced to 50 years, and paroled in 2026.
Andrew Veniamin
Andrew 'Benji' Veniamin, Melbourne underworld hitman and Carl Williams associate, suspected in several gangland murders including Victor Peirce's; shot dead by Mick Gatto at La Porcella, Carlton, in 2004; Gatto acquitted on self-defence.
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz
Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, "the Railway Killer" (el asesino del ferrocarril), was a Mexican serial killer who traveled by freight train, killed at least 15 people, was captured in 1999, and executed in Texas in 2006.