Event Types: Crime

15-year-old heiress Ellen Turner is abducted by 30-year-old Edward Gibbon Wakefield, to force her to marry him. He later became a successful politician, despite being found guilty of kidnapping and […]

University student Özgecan Aslan was murdered as she resisted an attempted rape in Turkey, sparking nationwide protests and public outcry against harassment and violence against women.

279 female students aged between 10 and 17 are kidnapped from the Government Girls Science Secondary School by bandits in Zamfara State, Nigeria. All hostages were released on 2 March […]

During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.

Fugitive gangsters Fred Barker and his mother, Kate “Ma” Barker, were killed in a shootout with the FBI at Lake Weir, Florida.

Texas executed Karla Faye Tucker, 38, for the pickax killings of two people in 1983; she was the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.

An incel – men who think women owe them sex, and turn aggressive and violent because they can’t get it – killed six people and injured 14 others by gunshot, […]

Chicago police officer Anthony Abbate was convicted of committing aggravated battery for punching and kicking Karolina Obrycka, a bartender half his size, after she’d refused to serve him more drinks, […]

Michigan State University officials announced they would pay $500 million to settle claims from more than 300 women and girls who were assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar.

Bill Cosby was convicted of drugging and molesting Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia mansion in 2004; it was the first major celebrity trial of the #MeToo […]