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The murder of Wendy Sewell was committed on 12 September 1973. Wendy Sewell, a 32-year-old legal secretary from Bakewell, Peak District in Derbyshire was found beaten, sexually assaulted and murdered. In 1974, 17-year-old Stephen Downing was convicted of the murder of Sewell.
Death of Sara Sharif. Sara Sharif, a 10-year-old girl, was discovered dead in her family's residence in Woking, Surrey, England, on 10 August 2023. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Her death appears to have been caused by injuries. The three suspects fled to Pakistan [ 4][ 3] and were arrested on their return to the UK. They were charged with murder and remanded ...
On 7 September 2011, Cheshire Police announced that Ahmed's parents had been charged with her murder. [28] [29] Their trial at Chester Crown Court began in May 2012, and they were both found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 25 years on 3 August 2012. [30]
Violence against women. The Shafia family murders took place on June 30, 2009, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Shafia sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with their father's wife Rona Muhammad Omar, 52 (all of Afghan origin), were found dead inside a car that was discovered underwater in front of the northernmost Kingston Mills ...
Joyce Gilchrist (January 11, 1948 – June 14, 2015) [ 1] was an American forensic chemist who was accused of falsifying evidence in order to help prosecutors in Oklahoma. She participated in more than 3,000 criminal cases in 21 years while working for the Oklahoma City Police Department. [ 2][ 3][ 4] Her evidence led in part to 23 people being ...
David Leonard Wood. David Leonard Wood (born June 20, 1957), known as The Desert Killer, is an American serial killer and rapist who killed at least six girls and women in El Paso, Texas between May and August 1987, burying their bodies in the desert. While he has denied culpability for the crimes, he was nonetheless convicted and sentenced to ...
A Southern California woman has pleaded guilty in a $150-million counterfeit postage scheme. Pictured are Postal Service trucks parked outside a post office in January. (Nam Y. Huh / Associated Press)
Murder of Fawziyah Javed. Fawziyah Javed (4 September 1989 – 2 September 2021) was a British-Pakistani lawyer who was murdered by her husband Kashif Anwar after he pushed her at Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland. At the time of her death, Fawziyah was pregnant, she planned to divorce Anwar and raise her first child as a single parent.