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A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!
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How could a worse choice be made for your honour than in such haste to marry such a subject, who besides other and notorious lacks, public fame has charged with the murder of your late husband, besides the touching of yourself also in some part, though we trust in that behalf falsely.
A notorious murder case in Kansas City, Missouri referred to the baby victim as Precious Doe.
One notorious UK case is that of Colin Stagg, a man who was falsely accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell, in which a female police officer posed as a potential love interest to try to tempt Stagg to implicate himself.
* Sarah Louise Northcott, convicted of murder in 1928 in Riverside County, California for her role in the notorious Wineville Chicken Coop Murders.
In 31 AD, Antonia exposed a plot by her daughter Livilla and Tiberius ’ notorious Praetorian prefect, Sejanus, to murder the Emperor Tiberius and Caligula and to seize the throne for themselves.
Boleslav is notorious for the murder of his brother Wenceslaus, through which he became Duke of Bohemia.
It was most notorious for its late-night kidnapping, torture and murder ( by throat slashing ) of random Catholic civilians.
In 1876, the building ( then named the " Bedford Hotel ") housed the coroners inquest into the notorious unsolved murder of Charles Bravo, a resident and lawyer who was poisoned, possibly by his wife.
* June Brown, actress, used to live in South Croydon near Purley but moved after the death of her husband and a notorious murder.
One of the most notorious murder gangs operated by the Chilean Army was the Caravan of Death, whose members travelled by helicopter throughout Chile between 30 September and 22 October 1973.
The hotel was the site of a notorious murder on May 20, 1896, when owner Marshall Way killed his 44-year-old wife, Ellen Sheldon Way, in the dooryard.
Heavenly Creatures is a 1994 New Zealand film directed by Peter Jackson, from a screenplay he co-wrote with his wife, Fran Walsh, about the notorious 1954 Parker – Hulme murder case in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Fran Walsh suggested to Peter Jackson ( who was noted for horror-comedy films ) that they write a film about the notorious Parker-Hulme murder.
The whole of this intermediate period is full of plots and counterplots, some still inexplicable, as, for instance, the Fersen murder on June 20, 1810 evidently intended to terrorize the Gustavians, whose loyalty to the ancient dynasty was notorious.
In 1925 Stephenson was tried and convicted in a notorious abduction, rape and murder of a young white schoolteacher, a state education official.
One of Hartnett's next films was the drama-mystery The Black Dahlia, in which he played a detective investigating the notorious real-life murder of actress Elizabeth Short.
A notorious example from South Africa is the corrective rape and murder of Eudy Simelane, LGBT-rights activist and member of the women's national football team.
The first and most notorious incident was the murder of missionary Carl Volkner outside his church at Opotiki on 2 March 1865, which came to be known as the Volkner Incident.
According to Melissa Kirschke Stockdale in Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, it was a " volatile combination of revolutionary passions, escalating apprehension, and the near breakdown of unity in the moderate camp that provided the impetus for the most notorious address in the history of the Duma ..." The speech was a milestone on the road to Rasputin's murder and the February Revolution.
He has been involved in landmark cases such as The State of Texas v. John Hill ( a basis for the book Blood and Money ), and the notorious T. Cullen Davis murder trial.
Monkey Dust is a British satirical cartoon, notorious for its dark humour and handling of taboo topics such as bestiality, murder, suicide and paedophilia.
While serving as dean in 1850, Holmes became a witness for both the defense and prosecution during the notorious Parkman-Webster murder case.
The film became notorious in the United Kingdom when it was suggested it may have inspired the real-life murder of British child James Bulger, a suggestion rejected by officers investigating the case.
Menahem Mendel Beilis, 1874 – July 7, 1934, ( sometimes spelled Beiliss ;, ) was a Ukrainian Jew accused of ritual murder ( see Blood libel ) in Kiev in the Russian Empire in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the " Beilis trial " or " Beilis affair ".
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Scandals and corruption, including the notorious Teapot Dome scandal, eventually pervaded his administration ; one of his own cabinet and several of his appointees were eventually tried, convicted, and sent to prison for bribery or defrauding the federal government.
The most notorious scandal was the Teapot Dome affair, most of which came to light long after Harding's death, which concerned an oil reserve located in Wyoming, which was covered by a rock formation in the shape of a teapot.
The royal visit of James's brother-in-law Christian IV, king of Denmark, a notorious soak, adds further scandal.
After contributing an episode to L ' An 01 ( The Year 01 ) ( 1973 ), a collective film organised by Jacques Doillon, Resnais made a second collaboration with Jorge Semprun for Stavisky ( 1974 ), based on the life of the notorious financier and embezzler whose death in 1934 provoked a political scandal.
McLaren, manager of the Sex Pistols, Adam and the Ants and Bow Wow Wow, and notorious for generating scandal, proposed some new material that was sexually suggestive, and did not fit with what at the time was the band's tomboyish and straightforward image.
However, notorious and open lewdness, when carried to the extent of exciting public scandal, continued to be an indictable offence at common law.
After having paid the politician Neil Hamilton to ask questions in the House of Commons in the now notorious ' cash-for-questions ' scandal, Fayed and Hamilton became high profile enemies when the latter revealed the fact during a court case.
Stephen Thomas Ward ( 19 October 1912 – 3 August 1963 ) was an osteopath and artist who became notorious as one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair, a British public scandal which profoundly affected the ruling Conservative Party government.
It is a scandal that a leading academics such as Galtung does not shy away from citing notorious forgeries such as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion to support his bigoted arguments.
Despite this burgeoning of the amenities of the town in 1845 a notorious scandal involving the hardships endured by the inmates of the workhouse led indirectly to reform of the Poor Law Act.
Agusta became involved in a notorious Belgian bribery scandal when it was revealed that the company had paid the two Belgian socialist parties who were then ( 1988 / 1989 ) in the government to assist the company in getting the contract for attack helicopters for the Belgian army.
Benjamin Bristow who successfully prosecuted and shut down the notorious Whiskey Ring scandal.
The present Code of Canon Law states that, unless the person concerned gave some signs of repentance before death, no form of funeral Mass may be offered for notorious apostates, heretics and schismatics ; those who for anti-Christian motives chose that their bodies be cremated ; and other manifest sinners to whom a Church funeral could not be granted without public scandal to the faithful.
Baiae was even more popular than Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Capri with the super-rich, notorious for the hedonistic temptations on offer, and for rumours of scandal and corruption.
McInerney's roman à clef opened a prescient glimpse into the notorious horse murders scandal, which did not become known to the public until 1992, when Sports Illustrated magazine published a confession from the man who had murdered Lisa Druck's horse at her father's behest, in order to claim the insurance on its life.
During Monro's tenure as Professor of Anatomy, Edinburgh was rocked by scandal due to the notorious " Burke and Hare murders " in which healthy individuals were intentionally killed in order to supply cadavers for dissection by anatomy lecturers and their students.
Domitius Calvinus came from a noble family and was elected consul in 53 BC, despite a notorious electoral scandal.
Since January 2006, while headmaster at the school, Smith has been notorious for making the indiscreet remarks that triggered the Cash for Peerages scandal.
As his disease became notorious, a rumor spread that Luchian allowed someone else to paint in his name ; the scandal brough about Luchian's arrest under charges of fraud ( he was released soon after ).
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