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Stephen Burrell Small (18 March 1947 – 2 September 1987) [1] was a prominent American businessman in Kankakee, Illinois. In 1987, he was kidnapped and held for ransom by Danny Edwards and Nancy Rish. The conditions of his confinement caused him to die of asphyxiation.
Sentence. 6 years in prison (reduced from 13 years) [6][7] Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012) [8][9] was a 15-year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. A month before her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of ...
Alma mater. Rollins College. Deborah Jeane Palfrey (March 18, 1956 – May 1, 2008), [1] dubbed the D. C. Madam by the news media, operated Pamela Martin and Associates, an escort agency in Washington, D.C. Although she maintained that the company's services were legal, she was convicted on April 15, 2008, of racketeering, using the mail for ...
A Utah woman accused of murdering her friend in a botched suicide pact earlier this year has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of manslaughter, authorities confirmed.. Heavenly Faith Garfield ...
Litigation. Wrongful death lawsuit by Bland's mother settled for $1.9 million. Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old African-American woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County, Texas, on July 13, 2015, three days after being arrested during a traffic stop. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Officials found her death to be a suicide.
Matthew Wolfe. GirlsDoPorn was an American pornographic website active from 2009 until 2020. [1] In October and November 2019, six people involved with the website were charged on counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. [2][3][4][5] In December 2019, two more individuals were charged with obstruction of sex trafficking ...
Hedda Nussbaum (born August 8, 1942) is an American woman who was a caregiver of a six-year-old girl who died of physical abuse in 1987. The death of the girl, Lisa Steinberg, sparked a controversial trial and media frenzy. The legal case was one of the first to be televised " gavel to gavel." [1] Supporters characterized Nussbaum as a victim ...
William Francis Melchert-Dinkel (born July 20, 1962) is an American former licensed practical nurse who was convicted in 2011 of convincing people online to complete suicide. [2][4][5][6][7] He told those contemplating suicide what methods worked best, that it was an acceptable choice to take their own life, that they would be better off in ...