Worried about his legitimate grandson's life, and the growing power of Castile within Portugal's borders, Afonso ordered the murder of Inês de Castro in 1355.

But if Joyce got involved in murder or salacious scandal, the role would probably go to the sponsor's wife, Mrs. Oatnut Grits.

* 1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate ( wife of Roman Polanski ), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

Unlike his sources, Shakespeare gives Banquo no role in the King's murder, making it a deed committed solely by Macbeth and his wife.

As attorney general, Bacon successfully prosecuted Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset and his wife, Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset for murder in 1616.

* Archie: An ex-convict and former Confederate soldier who is imprisoned for the murder of his adulterous wife, he is taken in by Melanie and then later became Scarlett's coach driver.

In 1903, the Serbian Parliament requested that Prince Peter — grandson of Đorđe Petrović ( Karađorđe ) — come to the throne of the Kingdom of Serbia, following the murder of King Aleksander Obrenović and his wife, Draga Mašin, by the Black Hand.

When Reyn-Bardt was confronted with the discovery of the skull from Lindow Moss, he confessed to the murder of his wife.

Petty treason in English common law included the murder of a husband by his wife, but not the murder of a wife by her husband.

In 1974, Palmyra was the site of the double murder of a wealthy San Diego couple, Malcolm " Mac " Graham and his wife, Eleanor " Muff " Graham.

This change was necessary to support the plot change in which the killing of Kimble's wife was not a senseless murder by a transient during a botched robbery attempt ( as in the original series ) but rather the result of a fiendish plot by an evil drug company executive.

Rous also attributes the murder of Henry VI to Richard, and claims that he poisoned his own wife.

Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife.

Lamb has, like many Thorne Smith heroes, a shrewish ( and in this case adulterous ) wife who at one point tries to murder him ( at the time he is a goldfish ).

* October 3 – O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of double murder for the deaths of former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

* November 16 – U. S. doctor Sam Sheppard is acquitted in his second trial for the murder of his pregnant wife in 1954.

* March 16 – In Newport, Rhode Island, Claus von Bülow is found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife.

His second wife, Margaret, remarried to Andrew Ker, one of those involved in the murder of David Rizzio.

Namesys went out of business in 2008 after Reiser was charged for the murder of his wife.

When Bellerophon came to Proetus to be purified of a murder which he had committed, the wife of Proetus fell in love with him, and invited him to come to her: but, as Bellerophon refused to comply with her desire, she charged him before Proetus with having made improper proposals to her.

* In 1994, Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) detectives successfully tested hairs from a cat known as Snowball, and used the test to link a man to the murder of his wife, thus marking for the first time in forensic history the use of non-human DNA to identify a criminal.

Graham was having an affair with the victim's wife at the time of the murder.

Archer also develops a romantic relationship with Barbara Barga, an American reporter whom he first met at the Spode murder scene and who appears involved in the mystery.

In 1944, he played the role of Walter Neff, an insurance salesman ( numerous other actors had turned the role down ) who plots with a greedy wife Barbara Stanwyck to murder her husband in Double Indemnity ( 1944 ).

Throughout their climb up the spheres of Tree of Life Sophie / Promethea and Barbara encounter difficulties such as imprisonment by the demon Asmodeus, as well as meeting figures such as Sophie's father Juan ( who died when she was little ), Barbara's guardian angel Boo Boo and Promethea's father, who she has not seen since his murder in 411 A. D.

According to Sayers ' friend and biographer Barbara Reynolds, Sayers had begun work in 1936 on Thrones, Dominations, a murder mystery novel in which the Wimsey marriage was to be contrasted with those of two other couples.

Leonard Smith was tried twice for murder, with his lawyers arguing that Barbara Smith's alleged infidelity had driven him insane.

is a 1958 film noir written by Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz, produced by Walter Wanger, and directed by Robert Wise, which tells the heavily fictionalized story of a woman, Barbara Graham, convicted of murder and facing execution.

In Sorry, Wrong Number ( 1948 ), an invalid woman ( Barbara Stanwyck ) overheard a murder plot on the phone – against herself.

The American author Barbara Paul has written several murder mystery novels based on Geraldine Farrar, Enrico Caruso, and the Metropolitan Opera.

* Mable Monohan ( 1888 – 1953 ), murder victim ; her death sent Barbara Graham, Emmet Perkins and Jack Santo to the gas chamber

The Laramie Project is a play by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project ( specifically, Leigh Fondakowski, Stephen Belber, Greg Pierotti, Barbara Pitts, Stephen Wangh, Amanda Gronich, Sara Lambert, John McAdams, Maude Mitchell, Andy Paris, and Kelli Simpkins ) about the reaction to the 1998 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming.

A spate of newspaper-driven Hollywood scandals during the early 1920s included Taylor's murder, the Roscoe Arbuckle trial and the drug-related deaths of such stars as Olive Thomas, Wallace Reid, Barbara La Marr, and Jeanne Eagels, which prompted Hollywood studios to begin writing contracts with " morality clauses " or " moral turpitude clauses ", allowing the dismissal of contractees who breached them.

Millionaire Sam Stone ( DeVito ) intends to murder his hated wife, Barbara ( Midler ) to gain control of her $ 15 million family fortune and run off with his mistress Carol.

" Oklahoma City University Law Review, Volume 22, Number 1 ( 1997 ) This Article explores the implications of the 1958 film I Want to Live, which deals with the life of Barbara Wood Graham, a woman executed for murder.

Mattson has returned to General Hospital on two occasions, first in 2004 for six months where she was reunited with her former Santa Barbara co-star Jed Allan in a storyline where Heather tried to murder the aging Edward Quartermaine after marrying him for his money

* Five fingers on a hand – each murder victim had one of their fingers severed ( starting with Marius Veland's thumb and lastly Barbara Svendsen's ring finger ).

In time, Terry grows into the cowl, and Bruce grows to accept him as his heir to the Batman legacy, demonstrating a great deal of faith in him despite his criminal past ; in the episode " Eyewitness ," when Terry was framed for murder, Bruce trusted Terry's claims of innocence even after Barbara Gordon told Bruce that she had seen Terry kill a man.

She advises Terry to give up being Batman, and once tries to arrest him after he is framed for murder by Spellbinder ; however, when the truth comes out, Barbara rewards Terry with a civic service award as an apology.

Barbara Kopple's 1976 documentary, Harlan County USA, included a segment on Yablonski's murder and its aftermath.

Barbara Kopple's 1976 documentary, Harlan County USA, included a segment on Yablonski's murder and its aftermath.

Hoyt decided to commit the murder in the Goleta Hills north of Santa Barbara, California.

Influencing a socialite into playing a game of Sardines at a party, Reich executes his plan during the game, but at the moment he shoots D ' Courtney, D ' Courtney's young daughter, Barbara, witnesses the murder and runs away.

Barbara and Robert Curley's 10-year-old son Jeffrey was the victim of a 1997 kidnap, rape and murder by two men, Salvatore Sicari, twenty-one, and Charlie Jaynes, twenty-two.

Tippit shortly after the Kennedy murder, but does not mention witnesses Barbara and Virginia Davis ( who claim to have seen Oswald crossing their lawn and emptying his pistol immediately after the shooting ) or witnesses Ted Callaway and Sam Guinyard ( who claim to have seen Oswald carrying a gun and fleeing on foot after the shooting ).

Barbara Yorke even raises the possibility that Swithhelm was in some way accessory to the murder and that he and his brother Swithfrith were the two brothers portrayed by Bede.