The murders are often extremely ingenious, involving some convoluted piece of deception.

According to the preserved part of the inscription, unintentional homicides receive a sentence of exile, while intentional murders are punishable by death.

The West Memphis Three are three men who were tried and convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas.

* 1959 – The Walker family murders are committed.

He also supported the innocence of Giusva Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro, who were later condemned for the bombing and for numerous murders, declaring: " They are good guys and they want me well.

Other murders which are attributed to people suspected of being part of the goth culture include the Richardson family murders, although such cases did not raise the same amount of media attention as the school shootings.

* 1975 – Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota ; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.

* 1971 – Charles Manson and three female " Family " members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.

In Brazil, for example, trials by jury are applied in cases of voluntary crimes against life, such as First and Second-degree murders, forced abortion and instigation of suicide, even if only attempted.

There are 27, 299 prisoners in Malaysia, a country with 581 thefts, 8 rapes, and 2 murders per 100, 000 people.

The meaning of Pipo's and Libo's murders come out as well: the trees are the " third stage " in the life of the piggies.

The Michael Powell film Peeping Tom ( 1960 ) featured a filmmaker who committed murders and used the acts as the content of his documentary films, although no murders are seen in the film.

Hiding in the cellar of the farmhouse are white married couple Harry ( Karl Hardman ) and Helen Cooper ( Marilyn Eastman ) and their daughter Karen ( Kyra Schon ), who sought refuge after a group of zombies turned over their car ; and white teenage couple Tom ( Keith Wayne ) and Judy ( Judith Ridley ) who arrived after hearing an emergency broadcast about a series of brutal murders.

** In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and three female " Family " members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.

** Greater Manchester Police announce that they are to search for the bodies of 2 missing children ( who both vanished more than 20 years ago ) after the Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley confess to 2 more murders.

Homophobic murders in Brazil are sometimes referred to as homocausto or " homocaust ", a portmanteau of homosexual and holocaust.

While he justifies the murders by claiming they are a Masonic warning to an apparent Illuminati threat to the throne, the killings are, in Gull's mind, part of an elaborate mystical ritual to ensure male societal dominance over women ( see " Interpretations " below ).

" The murders are an occult ritual, a complex sacrifice using Victorian London itself as an altar.

Though multiple accidental ( SIDS ) deaths are rare, so are multiple murders ; with only the facts of the deaths as evidence, it is the ratio of these ( prior ) improbabilities that gives the correct " posterior probability " of murder.

The number of murders and assaults perpetrated upon Negroes is very great ; we can form only an approximative estimate of what is going on in those parts of the South which are not closely garrisoned, and from which no regular reports are received, by what occurs under the very eyes of our military authorities.

The character Miss Marple, for instance, dealt with an estimated two murders a year ; De Andrea has described Marple's home town, the quiet little village of St. Mary Mead as having " put on a pageant of human depravity rivaled only by that of Sodom and Gomorrah ".

The murders committed by the Manson " Family " have been described by social commentators as one of the defining moments of the 1960s.

* 15th century: Leonardo da Vinci made the first known mention of air tanks in Italy: he wrote in his Atlantic Codex ( Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan ) that systems were used at that time to artificially breathe under water, but he did not explain them in detail due to what he described as " bad human nature ", that would have taken advantage of this technique to sink ships and even commit murders.

Valachi described in detail the organizational structure of the Mafia, unmasked many of the leaders and recalled old feuds and murders.

In some jurisdictions, certain types of murders automatically qualify for capital punishment, but if the defendant in a capital case is sufficiently mentally disabled in the United States he or she may not be executed, for reasons described in Atkins v. Virginia, similar to those utilizing an insanity defense.

The murders were brought on by Ferrell's belief that he was rescuing his friend, Heather Wendorf, from what she described as ' Hell '.

In 2010 the case was described as being " one of the highest-profile unsolved racially-motivated murders ".

At the time of Dobson's sentencing, The Independent described the Lawrence killing – despite having happened more than 17 years previously – as " one of the highest-profile unsolved racially-motivated murders ".

In 1934, Birkett acted as counsel for the second of the two Brighton trunk murders, a case which was described as " his greatest triumph in a capital case ".

Various groups of people described to be in Jahannam include ; disbelievers, hypocrites, polytheists, the People of the Book who reject the truth, arrogant rejectors of truth, sinners and criminals, tyrants, the unjust, transgressors, concealers of God's revelations, persecutors of believers, people who commit suicide and murders.

They found no reported series of American murders in the same town which included all of the details Capote described — the sending of miniature coffins, a rattlesnake murder, a decapitation, etc.

However, no medical evidence was introduced either by the prosecution or the defence during the trial, in spite of bizarre symptoms experienced on the day of the murders which she described in her confession.

Boshoff claimed a symbolism of the murder for farm murders that he described as " nothing other than a state of war ".

The lough was the scene of the 1882 " Lough Mask murders ", when two bailiffs working for Lord Ardilaun were killed, described as " an old man and a lad ".

They argue that scientific dating methods have established that the book and ink used to write in it are from the nineteenth century ; that the symptoms of arsenic addiction, claimed to be described accurately in the book, are known to very few persons ; that some details of the murders provided in it were known only to police and the Ripper himself before the book's publication ; and that one of the original crime scene photographs shows the initials " F. M ." written on a wall behind the victim's body in what appears to be blood.

It claimed responsibility for Stride's and Eddowes's murders, and described the killing of the two women as the " double event ", a designation which has endured.

Police officials at the time of the murders named one of their suspects " Kosminski " ( without a forename ), and described him as a Polish Jew in an insane asylum.

" Other notable instances included his closing argument as prosecutor in the 1876 murder trial of John Kehoe, vilified at the time as the " King of the Mollie Maguires ," in which he portrayed the murders and other crimes attributed to Mollies as being an evil unparalleled in all human history, and as not locally motivated, but driven by orders from other places — Pittsburgh, New York — even other lands — England, Ireland, Scotland ; and his three-hour argument in 1881 before a gathering of outraged stockholders of the bankrupt Reading Railroad, inside Philadelphia's Academy of Music, by which he turned open hostility into enthusiastic rounds of applause One twentieth-century commentator described Gowen's oratory skills thus:

Bunting and Wagner have been described, alongside backpacker murders killer Ivan Milat as Australia's worst serial killers.

Author Willie Morris described the audience at Dupree's final high school game as " the most distinctive crowds I had ever seen ... four thousand or so people seemed almost an equal of mix of whites, blacks, and Indians ... After Marcus scored his touchdown, Sid Salter saw Cecil Price, Sr. ( who was linked with the murders of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss.

Ilie Ilaşcu ( born 30 July 1952 in Taxobeni, Făleşti district ) is a Moldovan-born Romanian politician, famous for being sentenced to death by the separatist Transnistrian government for alleged involvement in two murders and for actions which have been described as Moldovan state-sponsored terrorism by Transnistrian government officials.

Police investigation and interviews of local coeds led them to Brudos, who described the murders in detail.

The perpetrator of the murders had been described as a " hero " and a " legend " by members of his family, during a weekly program.

After initially denying his involvement in the slayings of ten young women, Bianchi unexpectedly began a detailed confession and calmly described each of the murders in detail.