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- 0001-06-23 (xsd:gMonthDay)
- 0001-07-09 (xsd:gMonthDay)
- 0001-12-15 (xsd:gMonthDay)
- 1970.0 (dbd:second)
- 1980.0 (dbd:second)
- 5.049216E8 (dbd:second)
- 518400.0 (dbd:second)
- In 1996, when heart surgeon Dr. Darryl Sutorius is found dead in the basement of his upscale Cincinnati, Ohio home, police assume that he committed suicide. Friends and family indicate that he suffered prolonged bouts of depression and had spoken of killing himself. But, further investigation reveals that his new wife Della Sutorius has a history of violence and an insatiable desire for money. The story of how he died is finally decided in court, as teams of forensic scientists face-off to prove the doctor died not at his own hand, but at the hand of his wife, who is convicted of first-degree murder. (en)
- In this 1996 international case of extortion, murder, and stolen identities, a Canadian scam-artist Albert Johnson Walker assumes the identity of co-worker Ronald Platt in Harrogate, England as part of a money-laundering scheme. Platt later turns up dead in an ocean, with an anchor tied around his torso. The only clues to his real identity are a Rolex watch and a maple leaf tattoo. The anchor used to sink Platt's dead body ultimately sunk Walker. (en)
- This examination of the role an autopsy plays in a murder investigation focuses on the suspicious 1997 death of Ringgold, Georgia resident Virginia Ridley. Police charged her husband Alvin "The Zenith Man" Ridley with murder, but a medical examiner discovered that she died of natural causes. (en)
- Police suspect John F. Boyle Jr. in the New Year’s Eve 1989 disappearance of his wife, 44-year-old Noreen, from their Mansfield, Ohio home when he signs mortgage papers for a new house in Erie, Pennsylvania with a woman pretending to be his spouse. After witnesses see Dr. Boyle near an area where a new pile of concrete was found, and the recollections of their 12-year-old son, Collier, regarding what he heard the night his mother went missing, the police find Noreen's body in the basement of Dr. Boyle's new house. Boyle killed Noreen during yet another fight over his infidelity and buried her in the new house. Boyle was arrested for murdering his wife and sent to prison. (en)
- 9.468E8 (dbd:second)
- In 1995, in Farmington Hills, Michigan when 23-year-old college student Tina Biggar goes missing, her boyfriend and family fear that she has been murdered. A police investigation reveals details about her past that no one, not even her closest friends, suspected: She was a student by day and a $100-an-hour call-girl by night. Her many clients were all suspects in her disappearance, as was her boyfriend. But when her body is discovered two weeks after her disappearance, police obtain evidence that reveals that her killer was former client Kenneth Ray Tranchida, as well as more details about her bizarre double-life and its tragic consequences. (en)
- In 1998, when Lansing, Michigan convenience store employee Wanda Mason is found dead, having been shot at point blank range, investigators find that the entire murder has been caught on the store's videotape security camera. But the image of the killer is so degraded that it seems impossible to positively identify him, until old fashioned forensic science and space age technology come together to reveal the identity of the killer as Ronald Leon Allen. (en)
- In 1987, Nancy Newman and her two daughters, 8-year old Melissa and 3-year-old Angie, are found sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in their Anchorage, Alaska home. The crime scene has no shortage of evidence, but investigators cannot find a conclusive link to their prime suspect. To solve the puzzle, an FBI analyst designs a unique experiment, in which pubic hairs found at the scene are used to establish that not only that Kirby Anthoney was in the home, but that he was there when the crime was committed. (en)
- In 1996, when the decomposed body of a teenage girl is discovered in Easton, Pennsylvania, police have no clues to her identity. Weeks earlier, stabbing victim Kathy Sagusti told investigators that she thought she might have heard a murder taking place in her basement. Investigators eventually discover the identity of the girl as Richezza Williams, a 13-year-old runaway from Long Island, New York. Sagusti positively identifies her as the murder victim and says that Corey Maeweather, Kwame Henry, and Stanley Obas were the murderers. To prove it, investigators turn to bug larvae found on the body and a surprise piece of evidence: a tiny wad of chewing gum found near the victim's body. (en)
- In 1988, when Russ Stager, a popular Durham, North Carolina high school gym teacher and National Guardsman, is found dead of what appears to be an accidental gunshot wound, his ex-wife, Jolynn Snow, is suspicious. She thinks that his second wife, Barbara Stager, may have planned his murder. When police learn that Barbara's previous husband, Larry Ford, died in almost identical circumstances, they re-examine the crime scene and find evidence that Russ's death was no accident. But one of Coach Stager's former students is the one who breaks the case when he finds a cassette tape recorded by Stager just before his death, that tells the true story of the 9 strange years of his second marriage and his new wife's insatiable greed. The tape is played in court, and Barbara Stager is convicted of her husband's murder. (en)
- In 1986 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, when 32-year-old Betty Wolsieffer, the wife of a well-known dentist Glen Wolsieffer, is found dead, police are unsure who killed her and injured her husband. Some fibers and a study of the weather patterns on the night of the murder break the case open and reveal that Glen killed his wife because she was sick of his affairs, and his own injuries were self-inflicted. (en)
- The story of Archbishop Valerian D. Trifa, former head of the Romanian Orthodox Church in America, is related. Following World War II, Trifa emigrated from Bucharest, Romania to the United States. In 1957, survivors of Nazi atrocities in Romania recognized him as having directed a bloody 1941 pogrom against Jews. His United States citizenship was revoked, and he was deported to Portugal in 1984. He died just three years later. (en)
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