Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko's 2006 murder by radiation poisoning is thought to have been carried out with polonium-210, an alpha emitter.

Among the charges was that the Black Hand had attempted to murder Prince Regent Alexander.

Besides checkmating Barbarossa, Alexander humbled King Henry II of England for the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170, to whom he was unusually close.

Alexander also sent him to England to investigate the murder of Thomas Becket, and he absolved King Henry II of England of the murder during the Council of Avranches.

* Alberto di Morra is sent by Pope Alexander III to the Council of Avranches, where Henry II of England is absolved of the sin of murder in the matter of the assassination of Thomas Becket.

* Seius Sallustius is executed for the attempted murder of his son-in-law Emperor Alexander Severus.

Further convoluting the case is the possible role of propaganda in the surviving accounts: Attalus was executed in Alexander's consolidation of power after the murder ; one might wonder if his enrollment among the conspirators was not for the effect of introducing political expediency in an otherwise messy purge ( Attalus had publicly declared his hope that Alexander would not succeed Philip, but rather that a son of his own niece Eurydice, recently married to Philip and brutally murdered by Olympias after Philip's death, would gain the throne of Macedon ).

* The Macedonian general Parmenion declares for Alexander III and assists in the murdering of the princes of the Lynkestis region, who are alleged to be behind Philip's murder, along with other possible rivals and members of factions opposed to Alexander.

When the US Army took over Shepton Mallet prison in Somerset during 1942, renaming it Disciplinary Training Center No. 1 and housing troops convicted of offences across Europe, 2 men were executed by firing squad for murder ; Pte Alexander Miranda on 30 May 1944 and Pte Bejamin Pigate on November 28, 1944.

Plutarch reports an angry letter from Alexander to Darius, naming Bagoas as one of the persons that organized the murder of his father, Philip II.

In 330 BC, Ecbatana was also the site of the murder of the Macedonian Greek General Parmenio ( or Parmenion ) under the order of Alexander the Great.

In October 1878, at Beechworth court, Mr Justice Sir Redmond Barry presided over a case in which Mrs. Ellen Kelly ( King ) and two other men in aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a Victoria Police Constable named Alexander Fitzpatrick.

Tupac Shakur's bodyguard, Frank Alexander, produced a documentary about the murder, Tupac Shakur: Before I Wake, in which he stated that it would be inconceivable that Suge, who was the driver of the car in which Tupac was killed, and a very large man, would put himself in the path of bullets if he knew they were coming.

Most famous is the one he wrote against Pope Alexander VI after the murder of Giovanni Borgia, eldest son of the Pope, whose body was recovered from the Tiber River — Sannazaro cheekily described Alexander VI as a " fisher of men " ( playing on the Christ's words to Peter ).

Alexander Lowen has also specified five major subtypes from phallic (" skirtchasing ") to sociopathic ( i. e., dissociative, capable of mayhem and murder ) as outlined in his book, Narcissism: Denial of the True Self.

According to Yuri Felshtinsky and Vladimir Pribylovsky, top KGB officers Alexander Korzhakov and Alexander Komelkov may have plotted Listyev's murder at the hands of Solntsevskaya bratva.

Either way, Heracles lived in obscurity until Alexander IV's murder by Cassander in 310 BC or 309 BC.

In a seemingly unconnected story, a travelling salesman named Alexander Bonaparte Cust has travelled to all of the murder locations on the day the crimes occurred.

Kutuzov was a favorite of Tsar Paul I, and after that emperor's murder he was temporarily out of favor with the new Tsar Alexander I, though he remained loyal.

* The Triple Frontier ( or here referenced as the Tri-Border Area ) was featured as the backdrop for the NCIS episode " An Eye for an Eye ", as NCIS Special Agents Anthony DiNozzo ( Michael Weatherly ) and Caitlin Todd ( Sasha Alexander ) traveled to this area of southern Paraguay in order to investigate a professor involved in a case in which a pair of blue eyeballs were mailed to a murder victim.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

He catches criminals not merely because he is paid to do so ( frequently he does not receive a fee at all ), but because he enjoys his work, because he firmly believes that murder must be punished.

Finally, in The Maltese Falcon among others, the clash between detective and police is carried to its logical conclusion: Sam Spade becomes the chief murder suspect.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.

The real question was how one passed from anti-Semitism of this sort to murder, and the answer to this question is not to be found in anti-Semitism itself.

`` Of course, it could be because this is his first murder case.

But slowly they take over as Alain Delon ( Life, Sept. 15 ), playing a sometimes appealing but always criminal boy, casually tells a rich and foot-loose American that he is going to murder him, then does it even while the American is trying to puzzle out how Delon expects to profit from the act.

Usually, the detective either stumbles across the murder or is called upon by an old acquaintance, who is somehow involved.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

This reign is one which faces opposition from several prophets of Yahweh throughout as well as various consequences because of his marriage to Jezebel, because of his worship of Baal, disobedience to prophetic warnings and words, and also because of the murder of Naboth.

; Piracy with violence: Section 2 of the Piracy Act 1837 provides that it is an offence, amongst other things, for a person, with intent to commit or at the time of or immediately before or immediately after committing the crime of piracy in respect of any ship or vessel, to assault, with intent to murder, any person being on board of or belonging to such ship or vessel.

* 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Marietta, Georgia, United States.

In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).

In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".

* 1992 – In New York, Mafia boss John Gotti is convicted of murder and racketeering and is later sentenced to life in prison.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

As Tess faded into the background as a major character, the changing face of law enforcement in real life was also reflected in Tracy's taking on a female assistant, rookie policewoman Lizz Worthington, who joined the police force in 1956 and immediately was assigned to help in the investigation of her long-lost sister's murder by juvenile delinquent Joe Period.

One of the earliest parodies of the whodunit genre in general is Englishman E. C. Bentley's ( 1875 – 1956 ) novel Trent's Last Case ( 1913 ), which introduced Philip Trent, a detective who gets everything wrong right from the start: assigned to investigate the murder of English millionaire Sigsbee Manderson, who is found shot in the library of his country house, Trent makes his first major mistake when he falls head over heels in love with the main suspect.

Detective Superintendent Douglas Archer, a British homicide detective assigned to Scotland Yard, is called in to investigate a murder of a well-dressed man in an apartment in Shepherd Market.

Vito " Socko " Gurino, a 275-pound gangster, was sought for questioning in the Brooklyn murder investigation as the member assigned to eliminate witnesses against the " Combination ".

# Inspector Crome-An Inspector assigned to Betty's murder case.

He was temporarily assigned to the Swedish Security Police ( SÄPO ), where he investigated the murder of a SÄPO agent.

He is reported to have assigned every reporter on the staff to cover the 1911 murder of Avis Linnell by Clarence Richeson.

Among the differences are Scorpio's point of view-he uses astrology to make decisions ( including being inspired to abduct Ann Mary Deacon ), Harry working on a murder case involving a mugger before he is assigned to Scorpio, and the omission of the suicide jumper and Harry throwing away his badge at the end.

He also attested that he was assigned to murder his psychologist, Dr. Uwe Geertz, and then commit suicide.

Sean is assigned to investigate the murder, and the three childhood friends are caught up in each other's lives again.

:: First seen in chapter five, Inspector Lunge is a BKA detective assigned to the murder case at the hospital.

" King Vidor said of the case in 1968: " Last year I interviewed a Los Angeles police detective, now retired, who had been assigned to the case immediately after the murder.

Borsellino was assigned to investigate the murder and became a special target when he signed the arrest warrant for Francesco Madonia on a charge of ordering the murder of Basile.

* Calliope Skouros — a Greek-Australian detective who is assigned a 5-year old unsolvable murder case.

Secret Service operative James Bond, code name 007, is assigned to apprehend a hero of the Second World War implicated in a murder involving a cache of Nazi gold.

Semyon Reznik targets the Russophobia essay for its factual inaccuracies, and argues that Shafarevich depicts the murder of Tsar Nicholas II as an example of Jewish ritual murder, and further notes that Shafarevich has assigned Jewish ethnicity to a number of non-Jewish individuals involved in the execution and perpetuates the false claims of graffiti in Yiddish at the murder site, Aron Katsenelinboigen, on the other hand, stated that while there are multiple antisemitic claims in Shafarevich's writings, he stops short of claiming blood libel.

One of the most famous incidents was the December 1993 rape and murder of Brandon Teena, a young trans man who was raped and murdered by two male friends after they found out that he had been assigned female at birth.

Among them are Josef Mengele, the infamous doctor assigned to Auschwitz ; Klaus Barbie, Gestapo Chief of Lyon ; Alois Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's assistant ; and Amon Göth, who was sentenced to death and hanged for committing mass murder during the liquidations of the ghettos at Tarnow and Krakow, the camp at Szebnie and the Plaszow camp, portrayed in the film Schindler's List.

It was probably there that death squads were designated and assigned missions, leading to the murder of Mihai Stelescu, a former associate, in June of the next year.

In 1999, Lindell and Bosch again met when Lindell's FBI team was assigned to assist Bosch's team in investigating the murder of civil rights attorney Howard Elias.

After the Yablonski murder, Labor Secretary George P. Shultz assigned 230 investigators to the UMWA investigation.