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The Christian martyrs of the 1622 Great Genna Martyrdom; 17th-century Japanese painting A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, 'witness' stem μαρτυρ-, martyr-) is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party.
Investigation Discovery (ID) is a channel dedicated to true crime documentaries that launched in 2008. Most of ID's programs are original productions. It also airs re-titled off-network reruns, including ABC's 20/20, CBS's 48 Hours, and NBC's Dateline.
The Red Barn Murder was an 1827 murder in Polstead, Suffolk, England. A young woman, Maria Marten, was shot dead by her lover William Corder at the Red Barn, a local landmark. The two had arranged to meet before eloping to Ipswich. Corder sent letters to Marten's family claiming that she was well, but after her stepmother spoke of having ...
Plaque in Maidstone, Kent, commemorating those burnt nearby. Protestants were executed in England under heresy laws during the reigns of Henry VIII (1509–1547) and Mary I (1553–1558), and in smaller numbers during the reigns of Edward VI (1547–1553), Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and James I (1603–1625).
On February 17, 2001, the burnt body of 21-year-old Kandee Louise Martin was found inside the trunk of her burned car in Dorchester County, South Carolina. [3]The day before, according to court sources, 20-year-old Marion Bowman Jr. was with his sister when he encountered Martin and her group of friends.
On March 16, 2021, four-and-a-half months after his arrest, a grand jury heard the evidence against Edgar and indicted him for the murder of Lewis. But Edgar, who was still out on bail during his ...
Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn (shortened to Murder in the Red Barn) is a 1935 British film melodrama film directed by Milton Rosmer and starring Tod Slaughter and Eric Portman. It is based on the true story of the 1827 Red Barn Murder , in which a 25-year-old woman was killed by her lover and her stepmother claimed to have dreamt ...
Murder victim Michael Corrado. Michael Corrado was the victim of a fatal bar fight in 2009. Originally from Detroit, the 22-year-old moved to Ohio to run a toy store. At the time of his death, his ...