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Personal life of Jeffrey Epstein
Personal life of Jeffrey Epstein: Brooklyn-born financier (1953–2019), never married, longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell; Dalton teacher, no degree; homes in Manhattan, Palm Beach, New Mexico, Paris, and Little Saint James; Harvard donor.
Peru Two
The Peru Two, Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid, were arrested at Lima airport in 2013 with 11 kg of cocaine, jailed for six years and eight months, and released in 2016.
Perverted-Justice
Perverted-Justice (Perverted-Justice.com), US volunteer watchdog group founded 2002 by Xavier Von Erck in Portland, Oregon; members posed as minors online, worked on Dateline's To Catch a Predator, and closed operations in 2019.
Peter Avsenew
Peter Avsenew, Florida man twice convicted and sentenced to death for the 2010 murders of Stephen Adams and Kevin Powell in Wilton Manors; 2022 reversal over his mother's remote testimony, retrial, and pending appeal SC2024-0048.
Peter Bergmann case
Peter Bergmann case: unsolved 2009 Sligo, Ireland death of an unidentified man who used the false name Peter Bergmann, gave a fake Vienna address, discarded his belongings, and was found dead on Rosses Point beach; still unidentified.
Peter Clemenza
Peter Clemenza, aka Fat Clemenza, is the Bronx caporegime of the Corleone family in Puzo's The Godfather, played by Richard S. Castellano; he was written out of Part II after a pay dispute and replaced by Frankie Pentangeli.
Peter Gotti
Peter Gotti (1939–2021), brother of John Gotti, was acting boss of the Gambino crime family 1999–2002; convicted of racketeering, money laundering, extortion, and plotting to kill Sammy Gravano, he died in federal prison at Butner.
Peter Gunn
Peter Gunn, American private eye TV series (1958–1961) created by Blake Edwards, starring Craig Stevens and Lola Albright, 114 episodes on NBC then ABC, famed for Henry Mancini's jazz score and the Peter Gunn Theme.
Peter Kürten
Peter Kürten (1883-1931), the "Vampire of Düsseldorf", was a German serial killer convicted of nine murders and seven attempted murders in 1931 and guillotined in Cologne; the term Serienmörder was coined for his case.
Peter Madsen
Peter Madsen (born 1971), Danish engineer, co-founder of Copenhagen Suborbitals and builder of the UC3 Nautilus submarine; convicted in 2018 of murdering journalist Kim Wall aboard it and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Peter Manuel
Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (1927-1958), Scottish serial killer born in New York, murdered at least eight people around Glasgow and Lanarkshire 1956-1958, conducted his own defence, and was hanged at Barlinnie Prison on 11 July 1958.
Peter Moore (serial killer)
Peter Moore (born 1946), the 'man in black', a north Wales cinema manager who murdered four men in 1995, received a whole-life tariff at Wakefield after his 1996 Mold Crown Court trial.
Peter Scully
Peter Gerard Scully is an Australian sex offender serving life imprisonment in the Philippines for trafficking and raping children, with a further 129 years added in 2022.
Peter Stumpp
Peter Stumpp, also Stubbe Peeter or Peter Stumpf, the Werewolf of Bedburg, was a German farmer executed 31 October 1589 after a torture-extracted confession to werewolfery, murder, and cannibalism, known chiefly through a 1590 London pamphlet.
Peter Sutcliffe
Peter Sutcliffe, aka Peter Coonan, the Yorkshire Ripper, English serial killer (1946-2020) who murdered 13 women and attempted seven more murders, 1975-1980; arrested in Sheffield January 1981 after nine police interviews, jailed for life.
Peter Tobin
Peter Tobin (27 August 1946 – 8 October 2022), Scottish serial killer and sex offender, convicted of murdering Angelika Kluk, Vicky Hamilton and Dinah McNicol; died in HMP Edinburgh serving a full life order.
Peterborough ditch murders
Peterborough ditch murders: three March 2013 knife murders of Lukasz Slaboszewski, John Chapman, and Kevin Lee by Joanna Dennehy near Peterborough, followed by two attempted murders in Hereford; she received a whole life order in 2014.
Pettingill family
Pettingill family, Melbourne crime family led by matriarch Kath Pettingill (Granny Evil), active 1970s to 2000s; sons Dennis Allen (Mr Death), Victor Peirce and Trevor Pettingill, Walsh Street police killings 1988, inspiration for Animal Kingdom.
Phil Leonetti
Philip "Crazy Phil" Leonetti (born 1953), underboss of the Philadelphia/Scarfo crime family under uncle Nicodemo Scarfo, convicted of racketeering in 1988, became a government witness in 1989, testified against Gigante and others, served five years, wrote Mafia Prince.
Philadelphia crime family
The Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Philadelphia Mafia or Philly mob, is a La Cosa Nostra organization based in Philadelphia and active since the early 1900s.
Philip Markoff
Philip Markoff (1986-2010), called the Craigslist Killer, was a Boston University medical student charged with murdering Julissa Brisman and robbing women met via Craigslist in 2009; he died by suicide in 2010 before trial, and charges were dismissed.
Philip Rastelli
Philip "Rusty" Rastelli (c. 1918-1991) led New York's Bonanno crime family from the early 1970s until his death, surviving the 1979 Galante murder and an internal war, before a 1986 RICO labor racketeering conviction over Teamsters Local 814.
Philip Testa
Philip Charles Testa, 'The Chicken Man', was boss of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra family for just under a year after Angelo Bruno's 1980 murder; he was killed by a nail bomb at his South Philadelphia home on March 15, 1981, and succeeded by Nicodemo Scarfo.
Philippa Mdluli
Philippa (Phillipa May) Mdluli, Swazi businesswoman and the last person executed in Swaziland (Eswatini), hanged at Matsapha in 1983 for the ritual murder of a toddler after a 1982 Court of Appeal dismissal.
Philippine criminal law
Philippine criminal law, chiefly the Revised Penal Code (Act No. 3815, effective January 1, 1932), defines crimes and penalties in the Philippines, descends from the Spanish Penal Code of 1870, and is being consolidated into a proposed new Criminal Code.
Phillip Paske
Phillip Ronald Paske (1953–1998) was a Chicago criminal and child pornography producer who ran the Delta Project trafficking ring with John David Norman and later worked for serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Phishing
Phishing is social engineering in which attackers impersonate trusted parties by email, text, or phone to steal credentials or access. Coined in 1995 via AOL's AOHell tool; now AI-driven, with smishing, vishing, and phishing-as-a-service variants.
Photograph of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell
Photograph of Prince Andrew, Virginia Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, taken 10 March 2001 at Maxwell's London home by Jeffrey Epstein, published 2011; central evidence in Giuffre's allegations, disputed, later apparently confirmed by a Maxwell email.
Pig butchering scam
Pig butchering scam (sha zhu pan, 杀猪盘), also called cryptocurrency investment fraud or romance baiting: a confidence scam using fake crypto platforms, run from Southeast Asian scam centers with trafficked labor, causing billions in losses.
Pike County shootings
Pike County shootings, also called the Pike County massacre or Rhoden family massacre: the April 21–22, 2016 execution-style murders of eight Rhoden family members at four homes near Piketon, Ohio, by the Wagner family over a custody dispute; three Wagners convicted or pleaded guilty, Billy Wagner's trial pending.