Event Types: Crime

Police in Amstetten, Austria, arrested Josef Fritzl, freeing his daughter Elisabeth and her six surviving children whom he had fathered while holding her captive in a basement cell for 24 […]

In the deadliest vehicle-ramming attack in Canadian history, an incel – men who think women owe them sex, and turn aggressive and violent because they can’t get it – killed […]

Boko Haram terrorists kidnapped some 276 girls from a school in northeastern Nigeria.

Opening statements began in the retrial of Bill Cosby, charged with drugging and molesting Andrea Constand at his suburban Philadelphia home. (Cosby was convicted and sentenced to three to 10 […]

The Asian Women’s Fund was a fund set up by the Japanese government in 1994 to distribute monetary compensation to “comfort women” – those enslaved by the Japanese military to […]

Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted on federal charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University, including Allison B. Krause and Sandra Lee Scheuer. (The […]

Michael Donald, a black teenager in Mobile, Alabama, was abducted, tortured and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. A lawsuit brought by Donald’s mother, Beulah Mae Donald, later […]

Figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Oregon, to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan, avoiding jail but drawing a $100,000 fine.

Bar manager Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her Queens, New York, home; the case gained notoriety over the supposed reluctance of Genovese’s neighbors to respond to […]

Chelsea Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history, pleaded guilty at Fort Meade, Maryland, to 10 charges involving illegal possession or distribution […]