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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 Neronha
Peter Neronha is an American attorney and Democrat serving his second term as Attorney General of Rhode Island, after nearly eight years as the state's US Attorney.
Peter Rachman
Peter Rachman (Perec Rachman, 1919-1962) was a Polish-born Notting Hill landlord notorious for intimidating rent-controlled tenants; "Rachmanism" entered the Oxford English Dictionary, and his posthumous 1963 exposure stemmed from the Profumo affair.
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.
Petrese B. Tucker
Petrese B. Tucker, born 1951, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Petroleum Industry Act 2021
The Petroleum Industry Act 2021 (PIA) is a Nigerian law providing the legal, governance, regulatory, and fiscal framework for the petroleum industry and host communities, signed in 2021.
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.
Pheasant Island
Pheasant Island (Île des Faisans, Isla de los Faisanes) is an uninhabited islet in the Bidasoa river between France and Spain, the world's smallest condominium, changing sovereignty every six months and site of the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees.
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.
Phil Weiser
Phil Weiser is an American Democratic attorney who has served as Attorney General of Colorado since 2019, and previously was dean of the University of Colorado Law School.
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 A. Brimmer
Philip A. Brimmer is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Colorado since 2008, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Philip G. Reinhard
Philip G. Reinhard, born 1941, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke
Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke and 4th Earl of Montgomery (1653–1683), English peer notorious for violence; imprisoned for blasphemy 1678, twice tried for killing men (Nathaniel Cony, William Smeeth), escaped by peerage privilege.
Philip M. Halpern
Philip M. Halpern, also known as Philip Morgan Halpern, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of New York since 2020.
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 Morris v. Uruguay
Philip Morris v. Uruguay (ICSID ARB/10/7) was an investor-state arbitration under the 1988 Switzerland-Uruguay BIT challenging Uruguay's 80% health warnings and single presentation rule; all claims were dismissed on 8 July 2016.
Philip P. Simon
Philip P. Simon, born in 1962, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Indiana since 2003.
Philip Perry
Philip J. Perry (born 1964, San Diego) is an American lawyer, husband of Liz Cheney, who was DHS General Counsel 2005-2007, OMB General Counsel, acting Associate Attorney General, and a Latham & Watkins litigation partner.
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.
Philipp Zorn
Philipp Zorn (1850–1928) was a German jurist and one of the leading constitutional law teachers of the German Empire, holding chairs at Bern, Königsberg, and Bonn.
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.
Philippe Sands
Philippe Sands (Philippe Joseph Sands, born 1960) is a Franco-British international lawyer, UCL Professor of the Public Understanding of Law, and author of East West Street, Lawless World, and 38 Londres Street.