Murder

Murder  (Violence)
Interest of	Malcom Wallace

Murder, as used on this website, refers to the deliberate taking of human life. It includes the initiation of projects such as the Guatemala syphilis experiment, in which this may have been a byproduct rather than the primary result of the actions taken. Where death of a specific person was intended, we use the word "assassination". People whose death seems unnaturally early (or otherwise unlikely due to natural causes) are referred to as cases of "premature death".

Decreasing rate of clearup

In the US, the rate at which murders are cleared up declined steadily from 91% in 1965 to 54% in 2020.

 

Examples

Page name	Murdered	Description
1950s/Murders		Murder victims of the 1950s
1960s/Murders		Murder victims of the 1960s
1970s/Murders		Murder victims of the 1970s
1972 Munich massacre		A famous attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics.
1980s/Murders		Murder victims of the 1980s
1990s/Murders		Murder victims of the 1990s
2000s/Murders		Murder victims of the 2000s
2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla		A convoy delivering aid to Gaza. 9 of those aboard were murdered by the IDF.
2010s/Murders		Murder victims of the 2010s
2011 Tucson shooting		A "lone nut" killing of Justice John Roll
2014 Ukraine coup/Odessa massacre		Events in Odessa culminating in the deaths of 48 (official narrative) and up to 120 (evidence-based alternative narrative) anti-Kiev Junta demonstrators by fire, gun-shots and beatings in and around the Odessa Trade Union building on 2 May 2014
2016 Magnanville stabbing		President Hollande called it “incontestably a terrorist act” and said France was facing a terror threat “of a very large scale”
2018 Gaza Massacre		A massacre of at least 135 unarmed protestors including many women and children, and the wounding of many thousands more by Israeli IDF sniper teams, during the Palestinian 'Great March of Return' and the weeks following its end on 15 May 2018
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse		Top level sanctioned torture on US prisoners, both to gather information about the effects of torture on victims and perpetrators as well as to intimidate and sew dragon's teeth.
Air India Flight 182		The biggest mass killing in Canadian history. Bomb blast brought a plane down off the coast of Ireland.
Annecy shootings		A mysterious shooting which was generally avoided by the corporate media.
Assassination		Assassination is the extra-judicial killing of particular people, often indicative of deep politics at work. Illegal under most legal systems, the Western commercially controlled media has recently been introducing a euphemism for this: if carried out by "us" (Western democracies such as the USA) against "them" (demonized bogeymen), the preferred term is "targeted killing", the legality of which goes unquestioned.
Assassination of the Marquesses of Urquijo		Murder of prominent Spanish bank owners in 1980
Bentalha massacre		Algerian civil war massacre, where GIA, the group which took responsibility, might have been infiltrated and taken over by the Algerian government.
Boston Marathon bombings		A suspicious bombing with an even more suspicious attempt at a clean up - including the murder of Ibragim Todashev while in police custody.
Caracazo		Police massacre of 2-3000 people after protest against collapsing neoliberal economy.
Copper Green		'Copper Green' was one of several codewords for a US Black Ops program, formed with the direct approval of the then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who reportedly told special access members to “Grab whom you must. Do what you want.”
Decapitation
El Mozote Massacre
Gibraltar shootings		The execution of all 3 members of an IRA 'active service unit' (ASU) by British SAS soldiers in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988. Government files on the SAS shootings that should have been made available in 2015 for public scrutiny are being withheld by the Cabinet Office, which is accused of suppressing ‘politically sensitive information’.
Guatemala syphilis experiment		A murderous experiment which infected healthy subjects with syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid and possibly other diseases.
Human sacrifice		Doctrine or ideology driven ritual murder
J. D. Tippit/Murder		An accessory murder to the JFK assassination
Jonestown		The People's Temple cult, in Jonestown, lead by Jim Jones. In 1978 hundreds of members were poisoned by drinking a cyanide laced drink.
June 2009 Washington Metro train collision		A train accident which some consider a murder, since it eliminated a high ranking witness to the events of 9-11.
Montesi case
Nice truck event		French vehicle-ramming attack in Nice on 14 July 2016. It was filmed by Richard Gutjahr, who 8 days later filmed the shooting in Munich.
Phoenix Program		A clandestine CIA research project into the use of terror as a means of social control. Techhniques from South East Asia, were later developed in Latin America
RFK/Assassination		The assassination of Robert Kennedy, who had resolved to bring to track down and prosecute the killers of him brother, JFK, once he had himself become president.
Ruby Ridge
Russian apartment bombings		A 'Russian 9/11' which boosted support for the second war that was launched in Chechnya
Sharpeville massacre		South African police shot and killed 69 people and injuring 180 others, who had been protesting apartheid.
Soham murders
Stephen Lawrence/Murder		Home Secretary Theresa May branded the revelations about the Lawrence case, some 21 years after the murder, as "profoundly shocking and disturbing", adding that "policing stands damaged today". She said the full truth had yet to emerge.
Sétif and Guelma massacre		Large French colonial massacre in 1945.
Taksim Square massacre
Tuskegee syphilis experiment		A murderous experiment which looked at the progression of syphilis. Subjects were told that they were being treated, while in fact treatment was denied them. Exposed after 40 years by a whistleblower who went to the press.
Vietnam War/My Lai Massacre		The systematic, cold-blooded murder, butchery and rape of 504 Vietnamese civilians including 173 children by a company of 115 US army soldiers.

 

Murder victims on Wikispooks

Title	Murdered	Description
John Amery	19 December 1945
Charles-Victor Bracht	7 March 1978
Francisco Caamaño	16 February 1973	Dominican soldier and politician who tried to change things. Captured and summarily executed with the assistance of the CIA.
Roland Carnaby	29 April 2008	A senior spook who was shot by a Houston police officer following a high speed motor car chase and died of his wounds.
Ronni Chasen	16 November 2010	Shot and killed while driving home from the premiere of the film 'Burlesque'.
Jo Cox	16 June 2016	Jo Cox was a UK politician murdered in the run up to the 2016 EU Referendum. Echoing the assassination of Sweden's Anna Lindh, the event appears not to have greatly influenced the outcome, and was officially carried out by a "lone nut".
Francis Cromie	31 August 1918
Jill Dando	26 April 1999	A high profile BBC TV presenter shot dead in front of her house.
Dilawar	10 December 2002	A taxi driver who was in the wrong place at the the wrong time. Tortured while in US custody and dead within the week. A leaked autopsy revealed "homicide", but the US authorities have not taken any action in this regard.
Joseph Fenton	26 February 1989	Belfast man killed by the Provisional IRA (IRA) for acting as an informer for the Royal Ulster Constabulary's (RUC) Special Branch
Evo Fernandes	April 1988	Le Cercle attendee, Murdered in unclear circumstances.
Valentine Fleming	20 May 1917
Yvonne Fletcher	17 April 1984	Yvonne Fletcher was shot dead while on duty during a protest outside the Libyan embassy on 17 April 1984, cue for the breakdown of diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya. In 2017 a decision was announced not to prosecute her murder on grounds of "national security".
Matthew Gannon	21 December 1988	CIA officer killed in the Lockerbie Bombing
Jeff German	3 September 2022	Murdered journalist in Las Vegas
David Graham	September 2006	David Graham was a dentist who became suspicious after meeting two of the "19 hijackers". He reported being first ignored and then threatened by the FBI. He compiled a large report of his investigations into why the FBI were ignoring his warnings. Poisoned.
Cyrus Hashemi	21 July 1986	Spooky arms dealer, Iran-Contra/Premature death
Ashley Henley	15 June 2021	Former state legislator
Dexter Jacobson	14 August 1990
George F. Baker Jr	11 December 1977	A "prominent socialite" shot dead in 1977. 1001 Club. His son was presumed dead after flying a small plane.
David Kelly	17 July 2003	Dr David Kelly, a UN weapons inspector who died in highly suspicious circumstances
John Douglas Kinser	22 October 1951
Jim Koethe	21 September 1964	Violently murdered in September 1964 in his Dallas apartment, before he could finish his book on the JFK Assassination.
Karyn Kupcinet	28 November 1963
Stephen Lawrence	22 April 1993
Leonie	26 June 2021	A 13 year old Austrian girl who was brutally murdered by migrants in June 2021. Coverage of her death was minimal due to a media blackout.
Mikhail Lesin	5 November 2015	Credited with creating US enemy no.1 Russia Today; died mysteriously in Washington DC, officially ruled an accident by "a series of drunken falls."
Chandra Levy	22 May 2002	Murdered Washington intern. Congressman Gary Condit was prime suspect, but case pinned on a Salvadorean immigrant who had the case dropped in a retrial. The case is still officially unsolved.
Mary Mahoney	July 1997	White House intern murdered randomly just as she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the Clinton White House
Viktoria Marinova	6 October 2018	Marinova was an investigative journalist. After an interesting segment on alleged fraud with EU funds by businessmen and politicians - promising to uncover more about those individuals next week - Marinova was murdered in the most popular place for joggers in the city of Ruse. Although deemed a rape and murder, some of her belongings have never been found.
Philip Marshall	2 February 2013	A CIA pilot who published two popular and insightful books on 9-11. He was found shot dead with his children.
Jean Charles de Menezes	22 July 2005	Shot dead by UK police 2 weeks after the 7-7 bombings. Police originally lied about the circumstances, and might never have admitted the truth if Lana Vandenberghe had not blown the whistle and revealed the real chain of events.
Mary Pinchot Meyer	12 October 1964	Wife of Cord Meyer, lover of JFK, murdered in 1964.
Daniel Mitrione	10 August 1970	US policeman turned spook who taught torture techniques to police in South America.
Simon Monjack	23 May 2010	Film director husband of Brittany Murphy who died under odd circumstances within months of his wife's mysterious death.
Baha Mousa	16 September 2003	An Iraqi civilian tortured to death by UK soldiers.
Jonathan Moyle	March 1990	28-year-old editor of the magazine 'Defence Helicopter World' when he was found dead in a Santiago Hotel in March, 1990
Brittany Murphy	20 December 2009	A famous Hollywood actress who died in December 2009 under odd circumstances. Who killed Brittany Murphy? Was it mold or murder?
Robert Nairac	15 May 1977	British soldier who was abducted and killed by the IRA in 1977 while visiting a bar in South Armagh.
Rosemary Nelson	15 March 1999	Northern Irish human rights lawyer who was killed by a Loyalist paramilitary group in 1999.
Amiram Nir	30 November 1988	Mossad Iran Contra figure who was murdered in 1988 and whose documents were subsequently mopped up by unidentified spooks.
John O'Neill	11 September 2001	A respected and sincere opponent of "terrorism" who faced opposition in trying to investigate the U.S.S. Cole attack and who was the FBI's leading expert on Al Qaeda. Later made Head of Security for the World Trade Center, where he was killed on his first day at work, September 11th, 2001.
Lee Harvey Oswald	24 November 1963	A patsy. Accused of the assassination of President John F Kennedy and shot to death 2 days later himself by another 'Lone-nut' gunman
Mino Pecorelli	20 March 1979	"Maverick journalist with excellent secret service contacts" shot dead in Rome a year after former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro's 1978 kidnapping and subsequent killing.
Salvatore Princiotta	May 2007	A 9/11 firefighter who was murdered.
Brian Downing Quig	16 June 2003	Deep politics researcher who publicised CIA drug trafficking. Fatal hit by a car in 2003.
Seth Rich	10 July 2016	A Washington DC staffer who was murdered for unclear reasons, and whom Julian Assange hinted may have been a source for Wikileaks. The FBI claimed for 4 years they had no data on him, later admitting that they had thousands of pages of documents and his laptop.
Rey Rivera	24 May 2006
Christopher Rodway	17 November 2000	British victim of the 2000 Riyadh Bombing
John Roll	8 January 2011	A judge shot less than 72 hours after ruling against US government
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Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Rodrigo Duterte	“Just because you’re a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you’re a son of a bitch. Freedom of expression cannot help you if you have done something wrong...The constitution can no longer help you if you disrespect a person.”	Rodrigo Duterte Wikiquote	2016
George Orwell	“[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet.”	George Orwell	31 December 1943

 

Official examples

Name	Description
"Bucha massacre"
Brabant Massacres	A set of murders between 1982 and 1985, in which 28 people died and 40 were injured. It became Belgium's most notorious unpunished crime spree.
Jonestown	The People's Temple cult, in Jonestown, lead by Jim Jones. In 1978 hundreds of members were poisoned by drinking a cyanide laced drink.

 

Convicted of Murder

Person	Born	Died	Nationality	Summary	Description
Mehmet Ali Ağca	9 January 1958		Turkey	Assassin
Mark David Chapman	10 May 1955		US	Patsy	The convicted but probable controlled patsy killer of John Lennon.
Timothy McVeigh	23 April 1968	11 June 2001	US	Soldier Security guard
James Earl Ray	10 March 1928	23 April 1998		Patsy	Charged by the US government for the killing of Martin Luther King. He died in jail having never had a trial.
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez	12 October 1949