Event Types: Crime

Khioniya Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia, drivign a knife into his abdomen and yelling, “I have killed the Antichrist!” At trial, she was […]

Serial bigamist Theresa Vaughn, age 24, confessed in court in Sheffield, England to having been married over 62 times since 1917 in 50 cities in three different countries. She said […]

Katie Mulcahey is arrested for lighting a cigarette, violating the 1-day old “Sullivan Ordinance” banning women from smoking in public, and is fined $5. Appearing before the judge she stated […]

India is named the most dangerous country to be a women because of sexual violence and slave labour by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009.

The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Although she was acquitted, the murders became notorious for decades after.

A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about one-third of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of […]

Members of the Symbionese Liberation Army held up a branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco; a member of the group was SLA kidnap victim Patricia Hearst, who by […]

Elizabeth Smart, the 15-year-old girl who vanished from her bedroom nine months earlier, was found alive in a Salt Lake City suburb with two drifters, Brian David Mitchell and Wanda […]

Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is the first woman to be convicted of treason against the United States. The American broadcaster was employed by Nazi Germany to disseminate Axis propaganda during […]