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1996 Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36
1996 Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65 1994 Lina Basquette, actress (Night for Crime, Hard Hombre), dies at 87 1994 Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime 1992 Supreme Court rules hate crime laws violated free-speech rights 1989 Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC 1987 Ken Drake, actor (Crime and Punishment USA), dies 1984 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested 1975 Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell and Mardian convicted of Watergate crime 1974 Harry Baum, actor (Crime and Punishment), dies at 58 1972 John Litel, actor (Big Boss, Crime Doctor, My Buddy), dies at 79 1968 John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80 1964 Victoria Sellers, born in London, England, actress, Crime Zone, Warlords 1962 Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48 1961 "Detectives," TV Crime Drama; moves to NBC-TV 1959 Veronica Guerin,, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau 1954 Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime) 1953 "Racket Squad," TV Crime Drama, last airs on CBS 1952 Maria Schneider, born in Paris, actress, Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor 1951 Senate committee reports of at least 2 major U.S. crime syndicates 1947 Bill Smitrovich, actor, Crime Story, Miami Vice 1945 Nazi war crime trial opens in Nuremberg 1943 Andre Techine, director and writer, Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous 1940 Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race and Crime), suicide at 63 1930 Colin Dexter, born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, author, crime writer of 13 detective novels and 33 episode television series featuring fictional character Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, portrayed by John Thaw 1919 Bernhard Wicki, St. Polten Austria, director/actor, Crime and Passion 1917 Jan Miner, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actress, Crime Photographer 1917 Sidney Sheldon, born in Chicago, American writer, Academy-Award winner, crime fiction novelist 1914 Frank Lovejoy, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw 1909 Leo Malet, born in Montpelier, France, writer, novelist, aligned with Surrealists, friends with Renee Magritte, Andre Breton, famous for crime novel character Nestor Burma 1908 Inez Courtney, born in New York City, actress, 13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven 1907 Elizabeth Morna MacTaggart Ferrars, crime writer 1896 Herbert R O'Connor, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Sen-Md, TV narrator, Crime Syndicate 1894 Cliff Hall, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Crime Photographer 1884 Juan B Alberdi, Figarillo, Arg writer (Crime of War), dies at 74 1881 Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment), dies at 59 1876 Willem A Bonger, Dutch sociologist/criminologist, Race and Crime 1853 Alphonse Bertillon, born in France, anthropologist, devised crime ID system 1834 1st U.S. interstate crime compact (New York - New Jersey) ratified 1821 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist, Crime and Punishment |
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