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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 worst mass murder at the time, died Monday. He was 88. Camden County Prosecutor Warren W. Faulk said Unruh died at 3:35 p.m. in a Trenton nursing facility after an extended illness. Unruh had...
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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. He was 69. His death was announced by the main federal investigative agency, which said the cause had not yet been established. Ivankov had undergone several operations since the shooting but...
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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 actress Sharon Tate in 1969 shocked the world, has died. She was 61 and had been suffering from brain cancer. Atkins' death comes less than a month after a parole board turned down the terminally...
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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 daughter, Valerie Overton, said her father had been suffering from diabetes and dementia. He died Thursday at a hospice in Northern California after he had been transferred from Folsom State Prison. ...
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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, who lived near Forestburg, about 60 miles northwest of Fort Worth, apparently died of a heart attack, his attorney, Mark Daniel, told The Associated Press on Friday. Autopsy results were...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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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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...
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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,...
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John Gotti, 61 (1940 - 2002)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - John Gotti, the swaggering "Dapper Don" boss of the Gambino crime family who was sentenced to life in prison in 1992 on murder charges after years of evading the law, died at...
