JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was an American child beauty queen who was killed at the age of six in her family's home in Boulder,Colorado. A long handwritten ransom note was found in the home. Her father,John,found the girl's body in the basement of their house about seven hours after she had been reported missing. She had sustained a broken skull from a blow to the head and had been strangled;a garrote was found tied around her neck. The autopsy report stated that JonBenét's official cause of death was "asphyxia by strangulation associated with craniocerebral trauma". Her death was ruled a homicide. The case generated worldwide public and media interest,in part because her mother Patsy Ramsey,a former beauty queen,had entered JonBenét into a series of child beauty pageants. The crime is still considered a cold case and remains an open investigation with the Boulder Police Department.
Capturing the Friedmans is a 2003 HBO documentary film directed by Andrew Jarecki. It focuses on the 1980s investigation of Arnold and Jesse Friedman for child molestation. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2003. Some of the Friedmans' alleged victims and family members wrote to the Awards Committee,protesting the nomination.
The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation is one of the largest Caribbean and Latino street and prison gangs worldwide. The gang was founded by Puerto Ricans in Chicago,Illinois,in 1954.
Neil M. Cohen is an American Democratic Party politician,who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1994 to 2008 where he represented the 20th Legislative District. He had also served in the Assembly from the 21st District from 1990 to 1992.
Kathleen Maura Rice is an American lawyer and politician who served as the United States representative for New York's 4th congressional district from 2015 to 2023. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Before serving in Congress,Rice served as the Nassau County district attorney,and,before that,she served as a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Philadelphia and as an assistant district attorney in the Kings County District Attorney's Office in New York City.
Martin H. Tankleff is an American man who was wrongly convicted of murdering his wealthy parents,Seymour and Arlene Tankleff,on September 7,1988,when he was 17 years old. After serving almost 18 years of imprisonment,his conviction was vacated and he was released from prison in 2007. He is now an attorney.
Michael Byron Nifong is an American former attorney and convicted criminal. He served as the district attorney for Durham County,North Carolina until he was removed,disbarred,and very briefly jailed following court findings concerning his conduct in the Duke lacrosse case,primarily his conspiring with the DNA lab director to withhold exculpatory DNA evidence that could have acquitted the defendants.
The Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD) provides police services to 5 of the 10 Towns in Suffolk County,New York. It is one of the largest police agencies in the United States,with approximately 2500 sworn officers.
Michael John Devlin is an American criminal convicted of kidnapping and child sexual abuse of two young boys,Shawn Hornbeck and Ben Ownby. He is serving 74 life sentences plus 2,020 years at Western Missouri Correctional Center in Cameron,Missouri. His life sentences are 30 years each;his total sentence is 4,240 years.
Vincent Asaro is an American mobster and former captain in the Bonanno crime family.
Cyrus Roberts Vance Jr. is an American attorney and politician who served as the District Attorney of New York County,New York,also known as the Manhattan District Attorney. He was previously a principal partner at the law firm of Morvillo,Abramowitz,Grand,Iason,Anello,&Bohrer,P.C. He is the son of Cyrus Vance Sr.,former Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter. Vance did not seek reelection as District Attorney in the 2021 election,and was succeeded by Alvin Bragg. He is currently a partner at Baker McKenzie.
Rufus Seth Williams is a former district attorney of the city of Philadelphia. He began his term January 4,2010. He formerly served as an assistant district attorney. Williams was the first African-American district attorney in Philadelphia and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. On March 21,2017,Williams was indicted on 23 counts of bribery,extortion,and fraud. His trial began June 19,2017. He resigned and pleaded guilty to one charge on June 29,2017.
On the morning of September 4,2005,six days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans,members of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD),ostensibly responding to a call from an officer under fire,shot and killed two civilians at the Danziger Bridge:17-year-old James Brissette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison. Four other civilians were wounded. All the victims were African-American. None were armed or had committed any crime. Madison,a mentally disabled man,was shot in the back. The shootings caused public anger and further eroded the community's trust had in the NOPD and the federal response to Hurricane Katrina overall.
The Gilgo Beach serial killings were a series of killings between 1996 and 2011 in which the remains of up to eighteen people were found in Gilgo Beach,located on the South Shore of Long Island,New York,United States. Most of the known victims were sex workers who advertised on Craigslist. The perpetrator in the case is known as the Long Island Serial Killer (LISK).
Ralph Allan Lee Shortey is an American convicted sex offender and former politician and businessman. A member of the Republican Party,he was elected to the Oklahoma Senate in 2010,defeating several challengers in primary elections,re-elected in 2014 and served his term until 2017. Shortey advocated 'family values' during his campaigns. During his tenure,he established a Republican consulting firm. Shortey was the state campaign chair for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
On October 24,2018,a man and woman were shot and killed by a gunman at a Kroger grocery store in Jeffersontown,Kentucky,a suburb of Louisville.
William J. Corcoran was an American lawyer who served as District Attorney of Middlesex County,Massachusetts from 1913 to 1917. He later faced a number of criminal indictments and was convicted of one count of extortion.
Alvin Leonard Bragg Jr. is an American politician and lawyer who serves as the New York County District Attorney,covering Manhattan. In 2021,he became the first African American elected to that office. Bragg had previously served as Chief Deputy Attorney General of New York and as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York.
James Burke is a convicted criminal and former Police Chief of the Suffolk County Police Department in Suffolk County,New York. In May 2013,the FBI and the US Attorney's Office opened an investigation into alleged actions by Burke when employed as Chief of the Suffolk County Police Department,namely the alleged assault of a suspect in police custody,a subsequent cover-up,and coercion of witnesses. The former chief pleaded guilty to reduced charges in February 2016. In November 2016,he was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for assault and obstruction of justice.
