Although still murky and unclear, reported links between the scandal, its key figures, and the murder of Santo André's mayor Celso Daniel and various mafia and criminal figures have only intensified its sensational tone and societal impact.

Celso Daniel's murder has not been properly solved by the local authorities, and the conclusions obtained by the investigations are still under dispute ; the criminals who kidnapped him have been arrested but theories about their motivation for the crime vary from suggestions that it was a botched kidnapping attempt caused by a misunderstanding of the mayor's identity to theories that the crime was politically motivated and the killers were actually paid by figures of Daniel's own political party, PT.

* 1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity.

Together with undersea archaeologist Daniel Lenihan, Hackman has written three historical fiction novels: Wake of the Perdido Star ( 1999 ), a sea adventure of the 19th century, Justice for None ( 2004 ), a Depression-era tale of murder, and Escape from Andersonville ( 2008 ) about a prison escape during the Civil War.

Mumia Abu-Jamal ( born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954 ) is an American convict, serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

** In Lumberton, North Carolina, Daniel Green is convicted of the murder of James Jordan, the father of basketball star Michael Jordan.

MOVE continues to advocate for the release of jailed MOVE sympathizer and former resident of Philadelphia, Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner.

Three more were executed: American Daniel Gearhart was sentenced to death for advertising himself as a mercenary in an American newspaper ; Andrew McKenzie and Costas Georgiou ( the self styled " Colonel Callan "), who had both served in the British army, were sentenced to death for murder.

The prosecutor, Aubrey Daniel wrote, " The greatest tragedy of all will be if political expedience dictates the compromise of such a fundamental moral principle as the inherent unlawfulness of the murder of innocent persons.

Fritz Gelowicz, 29, Adem Yilmaz, 29 and Daniel Schneider, 22, were charged with membership in a terrorist organization, making preparations for a crime involving explosives and, in Schneider's case, attempted murder.

Oscar Daniel and Earnest Knox were indicted for rape and murder on Monday September 30.

In May 2010, U. S. President Barack Obama signed legislation intended to promote a free press around the world, a bipartisan measure inspired by the murder in Pakistan of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter, shortly after the September 11 attacks in 2001.

" He is also alleged to have confessed to a role in many of the most significant terrorist plots over the last twenty years, including the World Trade Center 1993 bombings, the Bojinka plot, an aborted 2002 attack on the U. S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles, the Bali nightclub bombings, the failed bombing of American Airlines Flight 63, the Millennium Plot, and the murder of Daniel Pearl.

Paul Nakware Ekai, a discharged labourer formerly employed by Adamson, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to imprisonment at President Daniel arap Moi's pleasure.

* Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh — arrested in 2002 by Pakistani authorities for the abduction and murder of Daniel Pearl.

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been imprisoned in connection with the 1994 Kidnappings of Western tourists in India, went on to murder Daniel Pearl and also allegedly played a significant role in planning the September 11 attacks in the United States.

He has also been connected with the murder of Daniel Pearl.

The group was also implicated in the kidnapping and murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl.

Farooqi allegedly was involved in the murder of Daniel Pearl, as well as conspiring with Abu Faraj al-Libbi to kill General Pervez Musharraf during the assassination attempts in Rawalpindi on December 14 and December 25, 2003.

Daniel Gordon, a plumber whom Cathie was casually seeing, is arrested and tried for her murder, and Joe spends a few days in the courtroom listening to testimony.

Upon closer investigation, the list was discovered to be a cryptic " scorecard " of his many victims: " JAIL OUT " referring to 23-year-old Roland Young ( released from the Orange County drunk tank hours before his murder ) and " EDM " to the initials of Edward Daniel Moore.

Tadhg and barman Conall were aware of O ' Dowd's shenanigans, and stood idly by while O ' Dowd blackmailed Daniel McLoughlin for O ' Dowd's murder of the sumptious Anne Marie.

Having been cleared of the murder of Anne Marie, Daniel has since returned to the show in 2009.

The De Búrca family are still prime suspects of the murder, but Tina's mask is beginning to slip and Daniel will go to the poice unless she sleeps with him.

On November 17, 2004, touching on the kidnapping and murder of the Wall Street Journal < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s South Asia Bureau Chief Daniel Pearl, Cafferty remarked: " The Arab World is where innocent people are kidnapped, blindfolded, tied up, tortured and beheaded, and then videotape of all of this is released to the world as though they ’ re somehow proud of their barbarism.

A 1992 novel by Daniel D. Victor, The Seventh Bullet, imagines a Sherlock Holmes investigation into Phillips ' murder.

* Current vice mayor of Davao City, Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is noted for transforming the city from the murder capital of the nation to what tourism organizations there now call " the most peaceful city in Southeast Asia ".

However, crime continues to be a problem in Detroit long after Young's tenure as mayor ended ; according to national statistics the arson rate in Detroit was 6. 3x the national average in 2003 and the murder rate was 5. 1x the national average.

However, arson, murder, and crime, in general, remain serious problems in Detroit, and the city is far less safe than it was in 1973 before Young became mayor.

Also in 1894, Darrow took on the first murder case of his career, defending Patrick Eugene Prendergast, the " mentally deranged drifter " who had confessed to murdering Chicago mayor Carter H. Harrison, Sr .< ref name =" answers. com ">

Alexei Pichugin, the former Security Chief of Yukos, has been convicted on multiple counts of murder and attempted murder, and is now under investigation along with Yukos partner Nevzlin for the shooting death of Vladimir Petukhov, the mayor of the Yugansk oil province and a vehement opponent of Yukos, on Khodorkovsky's birthday in 1998.

Antonioni's film also inspired the Bollywood film Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron ( 1983 ), directed by Kundan Shah, in which two photographers inadvertently capture the murder of a city mayor on their cameras and later discover this when the images are enlarged.

This year was marked by the aforementioned murder of Walther Rathenau, an attempt to poison Philipp Scheidemann, the lord mayor of Kassel, with prussic acid on Whit Monday, and the stabbing of journalist Maximilian Harden on July 3.

After being convicted of ordering the murder of the mayor of West City, the leader of the Birger gang, Charlie Birger, was hanged in 1928.

When the new mayor, charismatic Sterling Golden, is implicated in a murder, Brenda flies off to Belize in Central America, in search of the missing green campaigner Verde.

Mayor Swope — The mayor of Zephyr who Cory suspects of the murder.

In 1993, the town became the focus of media attention when Antonio Sánchez, who was currently serving as mayor at the time, got involved into a double murder case involving two UPLB students.

According to court jury member and former BSP member Mihail Mihailov the plan to stage the murder was carried out by Rumen Petkov, then mayor of Pleven and senior member of BSP.

Since then, Maluf only managed to get himself elected to the Executive once, in 1992, again as mayor of São Paulo, despite his participation in nearly every gubernatorial and mayoral election for São Paulo state and São Paulo city, with the exception of 1989 when he was a presidential candidate in the first direct presidential elections since 1960 – in what was a disastrous campaign, remembered in Brazilian political lore only because of Maluf's " antic ", said at a speech made to Medical Faculty students in Belo Horizonte: declaring himself favourable to capital punishment in cases of rape followed by murder, he said jokingly that " if one has sexual urges, that's okay ; rape, but do not kill!

At Scrope's trial ( 12 October 1660 ) Richard Browne, late major-general for the parliament, and now lord mayor elect of London, deposed that in a private conversation held since the Restoration Scrope had used words apparently justifying the king's execution, and had refused to pronounce it murder.

Nevertheless, he still found time to murder several people, including his own deputy mayor.

The mayor must NOT disclose who the target was in the case of an attempted murder.

His exile from San Francisco is short-lived, however, when he is called back to the city to investigate the murder of a popular North Beach stripper named Tina D ’ Oro, who also happened to be a special friend of the mayor ’ s.

21, 1928-Bootlegger Charles Birger was executed by the State of Illinois for ordering the murder of West City, IL, mayor, Joe Adams.