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Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel
Bhadreshkumar Chetanbhai Patel (born 1990, Gujarat, India) is an FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive wanted for the April 12, 2015 murder of his wife Palak at a Dunkin' Donuts in Hanover, Maryland; he fled, was last known near Newark, and carries a $1 million reward.
Bharat Bhushan Tiwari
Bharat Bhushan Tiwari (भरत भूषण तिवारी), 28, of Bilauti village, Bhojpur, Bihar, died in a contested June 17, 2026 police encounter after a livestreamed standoff, prompting a judicial inquiry and murder FIR.
Bianca Jagger
Bianca Jagger (Bianca Pérez Mora-Macías), Nicaraguan-born British human rights advocate, founder of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, 2004 Right Livelihood laureate, Council of Europe death-penalty abolition ambassador, ex-wife of Mick Jagger.
Bible John
Bible John is the unidentified serial killer believed responsible for the murders of Patricia Docker, Jemima McDonald, and Helen Puttock in Glasgow 1968-1969, all strangled after nights out at the Barrowland Ballroom; nicknamed for quoting scripture in a taxi.
Big Jim Colosimo
Big Jim Colosimo (Giacomo Colosimo), Chicago vice lord of the Levee District who built brothel and gambling empire, was murdered May 11, 1920 after refusing bootlegging, enabling Torrio and Capone's Outfit.
Bilateral divorce and recognition treaties
Bilateral divorce and recognition treaties are agreements between two states governing whether, and on what conditions, a divorce granted by one state's courts is recognized in the other.
Bilateral treaties of Australia
Bilateral treaties of Australia: two-party international agreements concluded under the Constitution's section 61 executive power, covering FTAs, BITs, defense alliances (ANZUS, PNG, Fiji), and social security and extradition treaties.
Bilateral treaties of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Bilateral treaties of the Hawaiian Kingdom: nineteenth-century friendship, commerce, navigation, and reciprocity agreements with the United States, Britain, France, Japan, and others, concluded 1826–1893 and terminated or disputed after the 1898 U.S. annexation.
Bilateral treaty
Bilateral treaty: an international agreement between two subjects of international law with treaty-making capacity, also called a two-party treaty or accord. Most UN-registered treaties are bilateral; governed by the 1969 Vienna Convention, usually a signed instrument or exchange of notes.
Bilkis Bano case
Bilkis Bano case (Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India, 2024 INSC 24): 2002 Gujarat riots gang rape and murder case; 11 life convicts released on remission in August 2022, quashed by the Supreme Court on 8 January 2024 because Maharashtra, the convicting state under Section 432(7)(b) CrPC, was the appropriate government.
Bill Bufalino
Bill Bufalino (William Eugene Bufalino Sr., 1918-1990) was a Detroit attorney, Jimmy Hoffa's personal lawyer and IBT counsel from 1947, 21-year president of Teamsters Local 985, cousin of mobster Russell Bufalino, and a character in The Irishman.
Bill Clinton pardon controversy
The Bill Clinton pardon controversy covers the 140 last-day pardons of January 20, 2001, notably fugitive financier Marc Rich, the bypassed Justice Department review, congressional findings, and the closed pay-to-play investigation.
Bill Cosby sexual assault cases
Bill Cosby sexual assault cases: the civil suits and Pennsylvania criminal prosecution of comedian Bill Cosby over drugging-and-assault allegations by more than 60 women; 2018 conviction on three counts of aggravated indecent assault was vacated in 2021; Constand settled for $3.38 million, Huth won $500,000.
Bill Doolin
Bill Doolin (William M. Doolin, 1858-1896), Oklahoma outlaw and leader of the Doolin Gang or Wild Bunch after the Dalton Gang's Coffeyville demise; captured by Tilghman 1896, killed by Heck Thomas posse near Lawson.
Bill Gates Sr.
Bill Gates Sr. (William Henry Gates II, 1925–2020) was a Seattle lawyer, co-founder of Preston Gates & Ellis, UW regent, and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
Bill of attainder
A bill of attainder, or act of attainder, is a law that convicts and punishes a person or group without trial; the US Constitution bans Congress and states from passing one.
Bill of lading
Bill of lading (B/L), the core maritime carriage document: goods receipt, evidence of the contract of carriage, and document of title. Covers straight, order, charterparty, and electronic (eBL) forms under the Hamburg Rules, MLETR, and trade finance use.
Bill of rights
Bill of rights: a formal charter of individual rights against state power, from the English Bill of Rights 1689 and the US Bill of Rights (first ten amendments, 1791) to modern statutory charters like Canada's Charter and the UK Human Rights Act.
Bill of Rights 1689
Bill of Rights 1689 (also Bill of Rights 1688), 1 Will. & Mar. Sess. 2 c. 2: English statute from the Glorious Revolution limiting the Crown, confirming parliamentary rights, and settling succession under William III and Mary II.
Bill Weld
Bill Weld (William Floyd Weld, born 1945) is an American attorney and politician, 68th governor of Massachusetts 1991-1997, former U.S. Attorney and Justice Department Criminal Division chief, later Libertarian 2016 vice-presidential nominee and 2020 Trump primary challenger.
Billy Clanton
Billy Clanton (William Harrison Clanton, ca. 1862–1881), youngest son of Newman Haynes Clanton, Texas-born Arizona rancher and Cowboy killed at the O.K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone on October 26, 1881, buried in Boothill Graveyard.
Billy Hill (gangster)
Billy Hill (William Charles Hill, 1911–1984), London gangster and self-styled boss of Britain's underworld; Eastcastle Street robbery mastermind, Jack Spot's rival, Kray twins' mentor, author of Boss of Britain's Underworld.
Billy Jensen
Billy Jensen is an American investigative journalist and true-crime author known for using geo-targeted Facebook ads to help solve unsolved murders; author of Chase Darkness with Me and collaborator on I'll Be Gone in the Dark.
Billy McFarland
Billy McFarland (William Z. McFarland), American founder of the failed Fyre Festival and Fyre Media; convicted of wire and bank fraud, sentenced in 2018 to six years, released early in March 2022, and later sold the Fyre brand for $245,300.
Billy Milligan
Billy Milligan (William Stanley Milligan, 1955-2014), Ohio man acquitted by reason of insanity in 1978 on rape, robbery, and kidnapping charges based on a multiple personality disorder (DID) diagnosis of 24 personalities; first such verdict.
Billy the Axeman
Billy the Axeman is the name given to an unidentified American serial killer blamed for family axe murders mainly in the Midwest between 1911 and 1912.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney, was a New Mexico outlaw of the 1878 Lincoln County War, convicted of murdering Sheriff Brady in 1881, escaped killing two guards, and was shot dead by Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner.
Billy W. Lewis, Jr.
Billy Wayne Lewis, Jr. (born 1978) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Alabama since 2025, nominated by President Trump.
Bin Cheng
Bin Cheng (郑斌, 1921–2019) was a Chinese-born British international lawyer, UCL Professor of Air and Space Law, author of General Principles of Law (1953) and Studies in International Space Law (1997), and originator of the instant custom theory.
Bindy Johal
Bindy Johal (Bhupinder Singh Johal), Indian-born Vancouver drug trafficker and Punjabi Mafia figure of the 1990s, acquitted at a costly trial for the Dosanjh killings, shot dead at the Palladium nightclub on 20 December 1998; killing unsolved.