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Violence against men in the United States

  • Murder trial of O. J. SimpsonAround 95 million Americans watched the prelude to the murder trial of O. J. Simpson live, on the 17th of June 1994. Television stations had interrupted game 5 of the NBA Finals to show a slow police pursuit of a white Ford Bronco. Inside…
  • John Wayne GacyOn the 21st of December 1978, an evidence technician named Daniel Genty crawled into a space measuring 28 by 38 feet beneath a ranch-style house outside Chicago. He worked his way to the southwest corner and began to dig. Within minutes he…
  • William BoninWilliam George Bonin was an American serial killer, and the prosecution against him once called him "the most arch-evil person who ever existed." Between 1968 and 1980 he attacked boys and young men in southern California, and briefly in…
  • Elmer Wayne HenleyAt 8:24 on the morning of the 8th of August 1973, Elmer Wayne Henley Jr. phoned the Pasadena Police Department from Dean Corll's home in Pasadena, Texas. He was seventeen years old. He told the operator: "Y'all better come here right now!…
  • Jeffrey DahmerJeffrey Dahmer killed seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He became known as the Milwaukee Cannibal and the Milwaukee Monster. On the night of the 22nd of July 1991, police officers in a Milwaukee apartment pinned him to the…
  • Attempted assassination of Ronald ReaganThe attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan began, on the 30th of March 1981, with a reporter's question outside the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. Mike Putzel of the Associated Press called out "Mr. President" and never finished…
  • Murder of John LennonJohn Lennon signed an autograph for his killer hours before the shooting. Chapman waited outside the Dakota.
  • Andrew CunananAndrew Cunanan killed five people in the space of three months in 1997. Four of them had been his friends, lovers, or strangers who simply owned something he wanted. The fifth was one of the most famous fashion designers in the world. For…
  • Attica Prison riotThe Attica Prison riot of September 1971 left 43 men dead at a New York state prison, the highest toll in the history of United States prison riots. During the uprising, a declaration from the inmates' side insisted: "We are men! We are…
  • Aileen WuornosAileen Carol Wuornos was born on the 29th of February 1956, a leap day that comes around only once every four years. She became an American serial killer, and she was executed in 2002 after a long wait on Florida's death row. Her story has…

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