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Ramón Arellano Félix
Ramón Eduardo Arellano Félix (1964–2002), Mexican trafficker, enforcer of the Arellano-Félix Organization (Tijuana Cartel); FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive #451 in 1997; killed in a February 2002 Mazatlán shootout, identity confirmed by DNA testing.
Randall Dale Adams
Randall Dale Adams, American man wrongfully convicted of the 1976 murder of Dallas officer Robert Wood; David Ray Harris was the real killer. Exonerated in 1989 after Errol Morris's film The Thin Blue Line.
Randall Woodfield
Randall Brent Woodfield (born 1950), the I-5 Killer or I-5 Bandit, is a Portland State football player drafted by the Green Bay Packers in 1974 who became a serial killer along Interstate 5, sentenced to life plus 90 years.
Randy Kraft
Randy Steven Kraft, the "Scorecard Killer," is an American serial killer convicted in 1989 of 16 murders of young men in California and sentenced to death; a coded 61-entry list found in his car is believed to tally 67 victims.
Ranjit Cheema
Ranjit Cheema, also identified as Ranjit Singh Cheema, was a Canadian organized-crime figure based in Vancouver. He pleaded guilty in the United States in 2008 to involvement in an international drug-smuggling operation,.
Rankin County torture incident
Rankin County torture incident: January 24, 2023 raid in Braxton, Mississippi, where six white "Goon Squad" officers tortured Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker without a warrant, shot Jenkins in the mouth, and got 10 to 40 year sentences.
Ransom
A ransom is money or other consideration paid or demanded for freeing a kidnapped person or recovering stolen property, from medieval war captives to modern ransomware extortion.
Rape
Rape is a crime in which a person is subjected to a sexual act without their consent, whether through physical force, threats, incapacitation, or coercion.
Rape by deception
Rape by deception, also called rape by fraud or sex by deception, is sex obtained through lies or non-disclosure that vitiates consent. Covers fraud in factum versus inducement, Lawrance, CPS guidance, US, Canadian, Israeli, and Indian law, and stealthing.
Rape by gender
Rape by gender covers how rape law and statistics treat victims and perpetrators by gender: gender-specific versus gender-neutral statutes, consent-based reforms, CDC NISVS rape and made-to-penetrate definitions, and prevalence and reporting differences for women and men.
Rape culture
Rape culture, a feminist concept from 1970s America (New York Radical Feminists, Susan Brownmiller), describes societies normalizing sexual violence; covers rape myths, cross-cultural evidence, prevalence data, prevention programs, and criticism.
Rape in India
Rape in India is a criminal offense defined in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, formerly IPC Section 375; police recorded 31,516 cases in 2022, with a 27.4% conviction rate.
Rape in Islamic law
Rape in Islamic law (ikrah ala al-zina) is coercive intercourse treated under zina doctrine. Key facts: hadd punishments, four-witness rule, Pakistan's 1979 Hudood Ordinance, 2006 Protection of Women Act, 2021 reforms.
Rape in Japan
Rape in Japan, now non-consensual sexual intercourse (不同意性交等), is a Penal Code offense redefined by 2017 and 2023 reforms; recognized cases rose from 1,655 in 2022 to 3,936 in 2024.
Rape in Pakistan
Rape in Pakistan is criminalized under Pakistan Penal Code Sections 375 and 376, reshaped by the 1979 Zina Ordinance, the 2006 Protection of Women Act, and 2016 and 2021 amendments, with special courts and a sex offenders register but under 3 percent conviction.
Rape in Sweden
Rape in Sweden (våldtäkt) is a sexual offence under Brottsbalken Chapter 6, defined since 1 July 2018 by lack of consent, with negligent rape added; Sweden's high reported rape statistics reflect broad legal definitions and recording practices.
Rape in the United States
Rape in the United States: state-defined criminal offense with no single national definition. Measured by NCVS, NISVS, YRBSS, and FBI UCR; 135,755 rapes reported in 2017; marital rape exemption fully abolished by 2005.
Rape kit
Rape kit (sexual assault kit): standardized evidence collection package used in medical forensic exams of sexual assault survivors; DNA testing identifies offenders and serial rapists; origins in 1970s Chicago Vitullo kit; large US testing backlog.
Rape of males
Rape of males: non-consensual penetration of men and boys, including being made to penetrate. Covers prevalence (CDC: 1 in 31 men), male rape myths, disclosure barriers, psychological impact, and gender-specific rape laws.
Rape of Queena Vuong
Queena Vuong (Queena Phu), 18, was raped and beaten April 24, 2008 outside the Bloomingdale Regional Public Library, Valrico, Florida, by Kendrick Morris, 16, leaving her blind and paralyzed; Morris was resentenced to life in prison in 2017.
Rape pornography
Rape pornography depicts rape or non-consensual sexual activity, usually simulated. Covered by UK extreme pornography law (possession offence extended 2015; CPS 2019 guideline excluded consenting-adult material); effects research shows weak, contested associations.
Raphael Rowe
Raphael Rowe is a British journalist who spent about ten years in prison as one of the wrongly convicted M25 Three before joining the BBC and hosting Netflix's Inside the World's Toughest Prisons.
Rat torture
Rat torture, also called the rat trap method, is torture in which a rat is trapped against a victim's body, usually the abdomen, and heated so it bites through. Poorly documented in medieval records; known mainly from early modern accounts, Mirbeau's Torture Garden, and Freud's Rat Man case.
Ravi Pujari (ರವಿ ಪುಜಾರಿ)
Ravi Pujari (ರವಿ ಪುಜಾರಿ), Raviprakash Sulya Pujari, Indian underworld gangster from Udupi, Karnataka; extradited from Senegal in 2020 as Anthony Fernandes; faces 200+ extortion and murder cases under IPC and MCOCA.
Ray and Faye Copeland
Ray and Faye Copeland, also Faye Della Copeland, were a Mooresville, Missouri farm couple convicted of murdering five transient farmhands in a 1986–1989 bad-check cattle scheme; they became the oldest US couple sentenced to death, and Ray died on death row in 1993 while Faye's sentence was commuted and she was paroled in 2002.
Ray Ferritto
Ray Ferritto, Erie, Pennsylvania mobster also active in Los Angeles, killed Danny Greene with a car bomb in Lyndhurst, Ohio, on October 6, 1977, then became a government witness whose testimony helped topple the Cleveland Mafia.
Ray Lamar Johnston
Ray Lamar Johnston, Florida death row inmate convicted of the 1997 murder of Leanne Coryell and of Janice Nugent; distinct from Lamar Johnson, the exonerated St. Louis man, and other namesakes.
Rayful Edmond
Rayful Edmond III (1964-2024), D.C.'s biggest crack cocaine kingpin of the late 1980s, ran a 1,700-pound-a-month trafficking operation, dealt from prison, became a federal informant, and died at 60 before his planned release.
Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck
Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the Lonely Hearts Killers, met via a lonely hearts club in 1947, swindled and murdered women including Janet Fay and Delphine Downing, were convicted in 1949, and executed at Sing Sing on March 8, 1951.
Raymond Washington
Raymond Lee Washington (1953–1979), also called Ray Washington, was the South Los Angeles teenager who founded the Crips gang, allying with Stanley Tookie Williams in 1971; he was shot dead in 1979.