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Mark J. Gerard, 76 (1934 - 2011)
The Associated Press, The Associated PressMark J. Gerard, the veterinarian for champion horses Secretariat and Kelso whose racing career was ruined when he ran a ringer in a 1977 race at Belmont Park, has died. He was 76.He died June 21 in Miami from complications from a stroke, according to his sister, Joyce Aimee Titchnell of Los Angeles. He was at work on June 6 at a stable in Wellington, Fla....
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U.S. Troops' Success (2011)
Leave a condolence or light a candle for the victims of 9/11 on the Memory Book Click here to view the September 11th Memorial Page By KIMBERLY DOZIER and DAVID ESPO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Osama bin Laden, the face of global terrorism and architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was killed in a firefight with elite American forces Monday, then quickly buried at sea in a...
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Judith Coplon Socolov, 88 (1922 - 2011)
JIM FITZGERALD, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — She was young and smart and claimed she was in love, and when Judith Coplon was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1949 she became a sensation. A 28-year-old Justice Department employee, Coplon had been caught with secret U.S. documents at a meeting with a Russian agent on a Manhattan street. She claimed she was meeting him only because...
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John E. du Pont (1938 - 2010)
JENNIFER C. YATES, The Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — John du Pont, the chemical fortune heir who killed an Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler at his palatial estate near Philadelphia, died Thursday after being found unresponsive in his prison cell. He was 72. Du Pont was found just before 7 a.m. at the Laurel Highlands state prison near Somerset, state prisons spokeswoman Susan...
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Emilio Eduardo Massera, 85 (1925 - 2010)
DEBORA REY, The Associated PressBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine coup leader Emilio Eduardo Massera died Monday after suffering for years from a heart condition and dementia that left him too ill to be tried for crimes against humanity. He was 85.Massera, a former admiral and member of the military junta that toppled President Isabel Peron in 1976, died at about 4 p.m. of a cerebral...
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Marilyn Buck, 62 (1947 - 2010)
DAVID B. CARUSO, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Marilyn Buck, a violent leftist incarcerated for 25 years for her role in some of the most notorious radical acts of the 1980s, including...
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Frank Colacurcio, Sr., 93 (1917 - 2010)
GENE JOHNSON, The Associated PressSEATTLE (AP) — Frank Colacurcio Sr., Seattle's elderly strip club boss and notorious organized crime figure, died Friday at age 93.His attorney, Irwin Schwartz,...
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Vivian Blake (2010)
By HOWARD CAMPBELL, Associated Press Writer KINGSTON, Jamaica The founder of a cocaine-smuggling gang blamed for about 1,400 slayings has died of illnesses at a Jamaica hospital, a year after...
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Evaristo Porras (2010)
(Associated Press) By LIBARDO CARDONA Associated Press Writer BOGOTA Evaristo Porras, a former high-flying Medellin cartel drug trafficker associated with Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, has...
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Howard Barton Unruh, 88 (1921 - 2009)
By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI, Associated Press Writer TRENTON, N.J. Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the nation's...
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Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69 (1940 - 2009)
MOSCOW -- Vyacheslav Ivankov, a Russian crime boss who spent nearly 10 years in a U.S. prison, died Friday in a Moscow hospital, two months after being shot several times coming out of a restaurant....
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Susan Atkins, 61 (1948 - 2009)
By LINDA DEUTSCH, AP Special Correspondent LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) -- Susan Atkins, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson whose remorseless witness stand confession to killing pregnant...
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Richard Overton, 81 (1928 - 2009)
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Richard Overton, a mathematician and computer expert who was serving a life sentence for gradually poisoning his wife to death with cyanide, has died. He was 81. Overton's...
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Eddie Hatcher (2009)
Raleigh, N.C. - Eddie Hatcher, who took 19 hostages at a small-town North Carolina newspaper more than two decades ago in a supposed bid to call attention to government corruption, has died. He was...
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Bill Keating (2009)
FORT WORTH, Texas - Bill Keating, Montague County's former sheriff who faced up to a decade in federal prison for a sexual assault and was accused in a jail sex scandal, has died at 62. Keating...
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Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton (1946 - 2009)
The following article courtesy of The Wall Street Journal By STEPHEN MILLER A scrawny, long-bearded mountain man with a foul mouth and a passing acquaintance with copper tubing and kettles,...
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William Zantzinger, 69 (1939 - 2009)
Charlotte Hall, Md. William Zantzinger, a Maryland socialite whose fatal beating of a black barmaid was recounted in a Bob Dylan protest song of the 1960s, was buried Friday. He was 69. ...
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Ellie Nesler (2008)
FRESNO, Calif. - Ellie Nesler, who sparked a national debate about vigilantism after killing her son's accused molester in a courtroom in 1993, has died of cancer. She was 56. Nesler died Friday...
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Nicholas Pari, 71 (1937 - 2008)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Nicholas Pari, an associate of the Patriarca crime family who told police where the body of a man killed in a 1978 mob slaying was buried, died Thursday. He was 71. State Police...
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Nicholas Montos (2008)
BOSTON (AP) _ Nicholas Montos, the oldest prison inmate in Massachusetts and a career criminal who was the first person to make the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list twice, died Sunday. He was 92. Montos...
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Nikola Kavaja (2008)
BELGRADE, Serbia - Nikola Kavaja, who hijacked a U.S. passenger jet in 1979 with the intention of crashing it into Yugoslav Communist Party headquarters, has died. Kavaja, 76, died of a heart...
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Arthur Shawcross, 63 (1945 - 2008)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. Serial killer Arthur Shawcross, who was serving life in prison for strangling 11 women in the Rochester area, has died at 63. Shawcross died late Monday at an Albany...
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James Fantroy, 71 (1937 - 2008)
DALLAS - James Fantroy, a former Dallas City Council member who chose prison over admitting publicly that he embezzled public funds, has died. He was 71. Fantroy died Sunday after a lengthy...
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Frank (Lefty) Rosenthal, 79 (1929 - 2008)
MIAMI -- Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal--sports handicapper extraordinaire, Las Vegas gaming executive and the inspiration for the blockbuster movie "Casino"--died Monday. He was 79. He died from a...
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Frank J. Valenti (2008)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Frank J. Valenti, who oversaw organized crime activity in Rochester during its violent heyday in the 1960s and '70s, has died. He was 97. He died Saturday at a nursing home...
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Philomena Gotti (2008)
VALLEY STREAM, NY - Philomena Gotti, whose brood of 13 children included Gambino crime family kingpin John Gotti and four other sons with mob ties, died Tuesday. She was 96. She died at her Long...
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Jamiel Alexander "Jimmy" Chagra, 63 (1944 - 2008)
El Paso, Texas - Drug kingpin Jamiel Alexander "Jimmy" Chagra, accused of leading a 1979 conspiracy to assassinate the federal judge set to preside over his drug trial, has died. He was 63. ...
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Edward Davidson (2008)
BENNETT, Colo. — A convicted spammer fatally shot his wife and young daughter in an apparent murder-suicide Thursday while being sought after escaping prison last weekend, authorities said. A...
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Frank Schweihs (2008)
CHICAGO -- Frank "The German" Schweihs, reputedly one of Chicago's most feared mob enforcers, has died while awaiting trial on charges he took part in a conspiracy that included numerous organized...
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Dinko Sakic, 86 (1921 - 2008)
ZAGREB, Croatia - Dinko Sakic, the last known living commander of a World War II concentration camp, died overnight in a Croatian prison hospital while serving a 20-year sentence for war crimes,...
