Borowitz Crime Subject Files

Finding Aid

Prepared by Cara Gilgenbach, May 9, 2002; Updated February 2014; March 2018

Inclusive Dates: 1940-2015
Extent: 6.33 cubic foot (1 record storage box, 10 half-size record storage boxes + 1 document case)
Physical Location: 11th floor

Scope and Content: This collection contains subject files on various prominent murder cases and other crimes. Files, most of which date from the 1990s, contain articles, clippings, essays, and other secondary sources. Most files contain only a couple of items. Two exceptions are the O. J. Simpson murder case for which there is a large group of files and the "Little Gregory" case which also contains several files. See the inventory below for more details.

Accruals: Material will be added to this collection on a continual basis.

Arrangement: Files are arranged alphabetically by subject.

Language of the Material: Most materials are in English, but please note that some items are written in languages other than English.

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. Abortion violence against [clinics and doctors]
2. Accidental death
3. AIDS
4. "Aldine Folio Murders" [short story by Lawrence G. Blochman, 1940]
5. American Psycho [book by Bret Easton Ellis]
6. Anastasia [supposed Russian royal family member, survived assassination]
7. Andrews, Theresa [Ravenna, Ohio, murdered September, 2000 from the Cleveland Plain Dealer]
8. Andrews, Theresa [Ravenna, Ohio, murdered September, 2000 from the Kent Record-Courier]
9. Andrews, Theresa [Ravenna, Ohio, murdered September, 2000 from the Akron Beacon Journal]
10. Antiquities trade
11. Arbuckle, Roscoe "Fatty"
12. Archaeological sites, looting of
13. Armored truck robberies [Brink's, etc.]
14. Arson, United States
15. Art and historical exhibitions/auctions
16. Art theft and fraud
17. Arvin, Newton [American critic arrested for possession of pornography, 1960]
18. Assassination
19. Atlanta, Georgia [child murders, 1981]
20. Attorneys
21. Austen, Jane
22. Author [articles about more than one]
23. Baader-Meinhoff [German terrorist gang]
24. Bakhtiar, (Dr.) Chapour [murdered by I. R. I. agents, 1991]
25. Bank of Credit and Commerce International (B. C. C. I.), fraud case
26. Basson, Wouter [accused Afrikaner serial killer]
27. Battleship Iowa explosion
28. Belgian crimes
29. Bembenek, Lawrencia [convicted murderer of husband's ex-wife, claims she is innocent]
30. Berkowitz, David [Son of Sam]
31. Bierenbaum, Bob [doctor accused of killing his wife]
32. Bilancia, Donanto "The Dandy" [Italian serial killer, 1999]
33. Billionaire Boys Club
34. "Billy the Kid" [William Bonney]
35. Bird, Tom and Lorna Anderson [lovers, killed Anderson's husband]
36. Bloch, Felix [accused Soviet spy]
37. Blunt, Anthony [spy]
38. Boesky, Ivan and Dennis Levine [complaints and orders]
39. Boggs, (Dr.) Richard Pryde [doctor involved in insurance fraud and murder, 1988]
40. Bolles, Don [murdered reporter]
41. Bonnie and Clyde
42. Book reviews-Fiction
43. Book reviews-Earl of Lucan

Box 2
Folder -- Contents

1. Book reviews-History [pre-twentieth century people and subjects]
2. Book reviews-Holocaust
3. Book reviews-Miscellaneous
4. Book reviews-Non-fiction [twentieth century to present people and subjects]
5. Book reviews-Spies
6. Borden, Lizzie
7. Bouman, Ray and Billy Kirkpatrick [bank robbers]
8. Boutboul murder case
9. Brando, Christian
10. Brawley, Tawana [defamation lawsuit, New York, 1998]
11. Buetner-Janusch, John [N.Y.U. Professor, poisoned candy]
12. Bulger, James [2 year-old, abducted and killed by 10 year old neighbor, 1993]
13. Bull, Gerald V. [physicist]
14. Bundy, Ted [serial killer]
15. Buono, Angelo [Hillside Strangler]
16. Burbach, Christelle [murdered French toddler, 1989]
17. Bush, George [sex scandal with "Jennifer"]
18. Capital punishment
19. Car theft
20. Celebrity-related crimes [perpetrators and victims]
21. Central Park jogger case
22. Chagnon, Napoleon [controversial anthropologist]
23. Chamberlain, Lindy [accused of murdering her baby, portrayed by Meryl Streep in Evil Angels]
24. Chambers, Robert
25. Chanal, Pierre [murder case]
26. Chang, Penny [Shaker Heights High School student, murdered, March, 1999]
27. Chappaquiddick [Ted Kennedy-Mary Jo Kopechne auto accident]
28. Chikatilo, Andrei "Citizen Ch" [Russian serial killer, 1992]
29. Chekhov, Anton
30. Child murders, France
31. Children accused of killing their parents [matricide, patricide]
32. Cianci, Buddy [Mayor of Providence, R. I.]
33. Civil rights related crimes and murder, United States
34. Clark, Hadden [serial killer, Cape Cod]
35. Clinton, Bill-Monica Lewinsky Scandal
36. Clinton, Bill-Paula Jones Case
37. Clubs, all-male
38. Columbia, cocaine cartels
39. Columbine High School [shootings in Littleton, Colorado, April, 1999]
40. Combs, Sean "Puffy" [acquitted of shooting charges, March, 2001]
41. Conscientious objectors
42. Copeland, David [accused nail bomber, London, 1999]
43. Cornwell, Ronnie [con man, father of novelist John La Carré]
44. The Cotton Club murder [murder of Ray Radin]
45. Crafts, Richard [wood-chipper murderer]
46. Crime and court officers [lawyers, judges, etc.]
47. Crime [general, also covers more than one case, person, or location]
48. Crime, Great Britain
49. Crime, international
50. Crime memorabilia and relics
51. Crime [miscellaneous]
52. Crime and pop culture
53. Crime and punishment

Box 3
Folder -- Contents

1. Crime and Punishment issue, The New Yorker, February 24 and March 3, 1997
2. Crime and scandals, the media coverage of and how they become celebrities
3. Crime solving and technical breakthroughs [arson, DNA, science technology, witness recall]
4. Criminal offenders as authors
5. Crippen, (Dr.) Hawley
6. Cuba
7. Cunanan, Andrew [murderer of Gianni Versace]
8. Dahmer, Jeffrey [serial killer, Wisconsin, 1992]
9. Dando, Jill ["Crime Watch" telecaster, murdered London, April, 1999]
10. Dartmouth college
11. DeLorean, John [auto maker, charged, then acquitted of cocaine trafficking, 1984]
12. Demjanjuk, John [accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," a concentration camp guard]
13. De Salvo, Albert Henry [Boston strangler]
14. Devi, Phoolan
15. Dietz, (Dr.) Park Elliott [medical criminologist]
16. Dillinger, John
17. Dostoyevsky, Fydor [includes Idiot Dostoevskogo i uogolovnaya khronika ego by V. S. Dorovatovskaya-Liubimova]
18. Dotson, Gary [wrongly accused of rape, 1979]
19. Douglas, William [Tufts professor, murdered Robin Benedict]
20. Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
21. Dreyfus, (Capt.) Alfred [French soldier wrongfully convicted of espionage, 1894]
22. Drug abuse
23. Dubuisson, Pauline
24. DuPont, John [murdered Dave W. Schultz, Pennsylvania, January, 1996]
25. Durst, Robert A. [accused of murdering wife and elderly neighbor, acquitted of neighbor's murder 2003]
26. Einhorn, Ira [convicted of murdering girlfriend, fled to France]
27. EL AL bomb plot, 1986
28. El Salvador [El Mozote massacre, 1981]
29. Euthanasia and assisted suicide [cases and organizations]
30. Explosions
31. Family feuds
32. Ferguson, Colin [Long Island Railroad gunman,1993]
33. Ferri, Gian Luigi [shot employees at Petit and Martin law firm, 1993]
34. Ferraro, Salvatore and Giovanni Scattone [two students at Rome's Institute of Jurisprudence accused of having murdered Marta Russo to support their theory of the perfect crime]
35. Field, Robyn [Berea, Ohio teen, murdered 1986]
36. Film reviews influenced or based on true crime and related information
37. Fingerprint evidence, judicial challenge to
38. Fisher, Amy [shot Mary JO Buttafuoco]
39. Folklore
40. Forgeries, rare documents
41. Fort Bragg killings, 2002
42. Fossey, Dian [murdered 1985, film Gorillas in the Mist based on her life]
43. Frank, Leo [case and musical "Parade"]
44. Frankel, Martin R. [insurance swindler, 1999]
45. Fraud

Box 4
Folder -- Contents

1. [French police] La Prefecture de Police
2. French Revolution Bicentennial-1989 [French magazine articles]
3. French Revolution Bicentennial-1989 [magazine articles and local events]
4. French Revolution Bicentennial-1989 [newspaper clippings]
5. French Revolution Bicentennial-1989 [Pierpoint Morgan Library Exhibition]
6. Fugitives
7. Gangs of New York film by Martin Scorsese
8. Garris, John [murdered Metropolitan opera singer]
9. Genetics and crime
10. Genovese, Kitty
11. Georges, Guy [suspected serial killer, Paris, France]
12. Gerardi, (Bishop) Juan [Guatemalan murder victim]
13. Giuliani, Rudolph
14. Goetz, Bernhard ["subway vigilante"]
15. Gordon, Gordon, Lord [swindler who bested Jay Gould]
16. Gotti, John
17. Gotti, John, Jr.
18. Grant, Gina [juvenile killer refused admission by Harvard College]
19. Grave desecration
20. Grave robbing
21. Green Parrot Murder
22. Green River killer [Gary Ridgeway, plead guilty, 2003]
23. Gross, (Dr.) Elliot M. [former Chief Medical Examiner of New York City, accused of having mishandled several cases]
24. Guise, Duc de [assassination of]
25. Halder, Biswanath [accused Case Western Reserve University gunman, 2003]
26. Hampton, David [posed as Sidney Poitier's son]
27. Hansen, Duncan [University of Chicago high school mate of Albert Borowitz, acquitted in 1960 Chicago murder of divorced wife, Susan]
28. Hanssen, Robert [spy, January, 2001]
29. Happy Land Social Club fire, 1990
30. Harding, Warren G.
31. Harris, Jean [murdered Dr. Herman Tarnower]
32. Hart, Gary and Donna Rice affair
33. Hartzell, Oscar [American swindler]
34. Harvard University
35. Hearst, Patty
36. Heath, William [the second "Paul Pry", English artist, painted the watercolor Dick Turpin, part of the Borowitz true crime collection]
37. Hebborn Eric [art forger]
38. Heisenberg, Werner and Niels Bohr [Atomic bomb mystery]
39. Helmsley, Leona and Harry
40. Henderson, Donald Winslow [Canadian murderer/fugitive]
41. Henry V [Agincourt war atrocities]
42. Highsmith, Patricia [author of The Talented Mr. Ripley]
43. Hill, Joe [a.k.a. Joseph Hillstrom]
44. Hinckley, John, Jr. [shot President Ronald Reagan, 1982]
45. Hiss, Alger
46. Hitler diaries hoax
47. Hoaxes, scams and swindlers
48. Hogue, James [Princeton impostor]
49. Holloway, Wanda Webb [arranged to murder cheerleading rival of her daughter, 1991]

Box 5
Folder -- Contents

1. Holmes, Sherlock
2. Hubrecht, Louis [New York City, landlord murderer]
3. Humboldt Murders [rural Nebraska, 1993, murderers: Thomas Nissen and John Lotter, subject of feature film Boys Don't Cry and documentary The Brandon Teena Story]
4. Hutchinson, R. C. [pseudonym of Ray Coryton, Elephant and Castle, novel]
5. Immigration
6. In Cold Blood [murders by Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, Kansas, 1959, book by Truman Capote is based on this murder case]
7. International Association of Crime Writers
8. Iran-Contra affair
9. Irish Republican Army [IRA]
10. Irving, Clifford [faked his 'authorized' biography of Howard Hughes, 1971]
11. Izzi, Eugene [author, died mysteriously]
12. Jackson, Mike Wayne [murdered his parole officer and 2 others September 22, 1986, before killing himself]
13. Jails and prisons
14. James, Jesse
15. Jascalevich, (Dr.) Mario [a.k.a. Dr. X, accused of murdering patients, was acquitted]
16. Jenkins, John H. [murdered historic document dealer]
17. Jenkins, Steven [murdered two bankers foreclosing on his family's farm, 1983]
18. Jenny Jones show murder trial, 1999
19. Jesus
20. JFK [book and film reviews other than Oliver Stone's]
21. JFK [motion picture, directed by Oliver Stone]
22. JFK, and the Mob
23. JFK, assassination
24. Johnson, (Dr.) Samuel [exposer of fakes and frauds]
25. Joyce, James [Ulysses]
26. Judd, Winnie Ruth [trunk murderess]
27. Judicial errors
28. Kaichen, Pamela [soccer mom bandit, 2003]
29. Kelly, Ned [Australian bushranger]
30. Kennedy, Robert [items related to his murder in 1969]
31. Kidnapping, United States
32. Kimberlin, Brett Coleman
33. Kimes, Sante and Kenneth [mother and son, con artists and murderers]
34. King, Martin Luther (Jr.), assassination
35. King, Rodney
36. Kipp, Craig [charged with killing mother, charges dropped]
37. Knoblespiess, Roger [French poet, arrested for armed robbery]
38. Knoller, Marjorie [dog-bite murderer]
39. Konigsberg, Harold [mob hitman]
40. Korean war
41. Koresh, David [Branch Davidian shootout, Texas, 1993]
42. Landru, Henri [French serial killer]
43. Legal ethics
44. Leopold-Loeb murder case
45. Levy, Chandra
46. Lewis, James W. [plotted to extort money in the Tylenol poisonings, 1982]
47. Libel cases
48. Lincoln, Abraham, assassination
49. Lindbergh Kidnapping
50. Little "Celine" Murder [1988]
51. Liu, Henry [Chinese-American journalist, murdered by Bamboo Union gangleader Chen Chi-Li]
52. Long Island [crime and murder cases]
53. Louis XVI
54. Louis XVII [DNA test, 2000]
55. Lundgren, Jeffrey [cult leader, murderer]
56. Lyttkens, Yngve and Alice [Swedish writers]
57. MacDonald, Jeffrey R. [Green Beret who murdered family, miniseries Fatal Vision based on the crime]
58. Mafia, Sicily
59. Mafia, United States
60. Mafia, United States [Irish]

Box 6
Folder -- Contents

1. Manson, Charles
2. Marchal, Ghislaine [murdered, 1991]
3. Mass murderers, United States, 20th century
4. Masters, Alan
5. Mata Hari
6. Maxwell, Robert
7. Mc Collum, Ruby
8. Mc Guiness, Joe [controversial writer and related litigation]
9. Mercenaries
10. Medical professionals who murder [nurses, doctors, etc.]
11. Meling, Joseph [murdered wife by cyanide in her Sudafed, Washington, 1993]
12. Menendez, Lyle and Eric [murdered parents, 1989]
13. Mengele, Josef
14. Mihaljevic, Amy [unsolved murder 10 year-old girl, 1989]
15. Miller, Richard W. [ex-FBI agent, Soviet spy]
16. Mintik, Helen [violinist, murdered at the Metropolitan Opera by Craig Crimmons, 1980]
17. Missing persons
18. Molly Macguires [Irish-American miners]
19. Monroe, Marilyn
20. Moody, Walter LeRoy [mail bomber]
21. Moors murderers [Myra Henley and Ian Brady]
22. Morgan, Kate [mysterious death on beach of Del Coronado Hotel, San Diego, 1892]
23. Morris, Earl [film maker]
24. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
25. Murder cases, Alaska
26. Murder cases, California
27. Murder cases, Connecticut
28. Murder cases, Florida
29. Murder cases, Georgia
30. Murder cases, New Jersey
31. Murder cases, New York state
32. Murder cases, Ohio
33. Murder cases, Pennsylvania
34. Murder cases, Texas
35. Murder cases, United States, 20th century
36. Murder for hire, murder plots
37. Murder for insurance
38. Murder, Great Britain
39. Murder, international
40. Murder and society
41. Murder sites
42. Museums, related to crime
43. Musorgsky, Modest
44. Myerson, Bess [former Miss America, tried and acquitted for bribery and conspiracy, 1988]
45. Mysteries
46. Mystery Writers Annual, 1984 Edgar Allan Poe Awards Dinner, program

Box 7
Folder -- Contents

1. Nazi regime, Germany
2. Nepal Royal Murders, [June, 2001]
3. Neo-Nazis [groups and crimes]
4. Neulander, (Rabbi) Fred J. [murdered wife 1994; tried 2001]
5. New Sweden, Maine [poisoning case, 2003]
6. New York City, crime
7. New York City Police Department
8. Obituaries
9. Oedipus
10. Ohio crimes
11. Oklahoma City Bombing [April, 1995]
12. Old West outlaws, United States
13. Opera and murder mysteries
14. Opera and theater reviews
15. Palme, Olof [assassination of]
16. Pan Am flight 103 [exploded over Lockerbee, Scotland, 1988]
17. Papin, Christine and Lea [inspired by "The Maids"]
18. Papon, Maurice [tried for complicity in Vichy crimes against humanity]
19. Parental violence and youth sports
20. Paris Student Uprising [May, 1968]
21. Parker-Hulme Murder [Hulme is now know as Anne Perry, crime writer]
22. Parole
23. Pelton, Ronald [convicted for spying for the Soviets, 1986]
24. Peterson, Laci [murdered by husband Scott, 2003]
25. Philby, Kim [Soviet spy]
26. Pirates
27. The "Pizza Connection" [mafia smuggling heroin]
28. Poe, Edgar Allen
29. Poisonings
30. Police detectives, female
31. Police and race relations [articles and cases]
32. Police shootings
33. Pollard, Jonathan [U.S. spy for Israel]
34. Pope John Paul II [assassination attempt, 1981]
35. Popes
36. Popieluszko, Jerzy [pro-solidarity Polish priest murdered, 1984]
37. Porter, Phil [murdered, Shaker Heights, Ohio, 1985]
38. Postal worker shootings
39. Posthumous pardons
40. Potts, Beverly [possible break in case as reported in cleveland.com, 2015]
41. Powers, Katherine Ann [antiwar radical, evaded capture for more than 20 years]
42. Prisons
43. Prison riots
44. Profeta, Michele [accused serial killer, "The Monster of Padua"]
45. Proust, Marcel
46. Prozac as a defense
47. Psychological studies related to crime [false and recovered memory, multiple personalities, etc.]
48. Qaddafi, Muammar [leader of Libya]
49. Racism and related crimes, United States
50. Rader, Dennis L. [BTK Serial Killer]
51. Radio reviews
52. Ramirez, Richard [The Nightstalker]
53. Rampage killers [series of four articles in the New York Times]
54. Ramsey, JonBenet [murdered six-year-old, Boulder, Colorado, December, 1996]
55. Redgrave, Vanessa [breach of contract suit against the Boston Symphony Orchestra]

Box 8
Folder -- Contents

1. Reid, Charles J. Jr. [review essay of The London Hanged: Crime and civil society in the 18th century]
2. Reilly, Peter [convicted of killing mother, 1973, conviction overturned, 1976]
3. Religion and violence [World Trade bombing 1993; Waco,Texas; Bosnia]
4. Religious cults
5. Retrying court cases
6. Rey, Florence [convicted in Paris for her role in "Bonnie & Clyde" style murders, 1998]
7. Richard III
8. Rifkin, Joel [serial killer]
9. Ridgway, Gary Leon [suspected "Green River" killer]
10. Riner, Olivia [Swiss au pair acquitted of murder]
11. Roberts, David [convicted of arson, rape, and murder]
12. Robinson, Davis Ashton [oilman acquitted of son-in-law's murder]
13. Rogers, John [Rowfant Club member, murder victim, February 2002]
14. Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius
15. Rosenberg, Pierre [Louvre art scandal, 1988]
16. Ross, Alex ["True Crime"]
17. Ross, Leonard [committed suicide]
18. Rothstein, Arthur [NYC underworld financier]
19. Roughead, William [the 'Henry James' of crime]
20. Rudolph, Eric [suspected Olympic Park bomber]
21. Rushdie, Salman
22. Safra, Edmond [billionaire murdered by his nurse, 1999]
23. Salamander letter [forged document related to the founding of the Mormon church and the related murders]
24. Sardou, Victorien [theory that Sardou's La Tosca was based on an actual incident in French history]
25. Savage, Richard
26. Scarpa, Gregory, Sr. [Colombo Family Mafioso on FBI payroll]
27. School shootings [elementary, high schools and colleges]
28. Schreuder, Frances [plotted murder of father, her son committed, Utah, subject of books Nutcracker and At Mother's Request]
29. Self-defense
30. Sereny, Gitta [author of The Case of Mary Bell ]
31. Serial killers, United States, 20th century
32. Shabazz, Qubilah [daughter of Malcolm X, accused of trying to murder Louis Farrakhan]
33. Sheppard, Sam
34. Shipman, (Dr.) Harold E. [doctor accused of serial killings in England]
35. Ships [H. M. S. Bounty, Morro Castle] and Shipwrecks
36. Shroud of Turin
37. Simenon, Georges [author, created Inspector Maigret]
38. Simpson, O. J., Murder case (1 cubic foot box)
39. Skakel, Michael [Martha Moxley murder, Connecticut, 1975]
40. Smart, Pam [teacher who seduced students to kill her husband]
41. Smith, Susan [murdered her two sons, South Carolina, October, 1994]

Box 9
Folder -- Contents

1. Smith, William Kennedy [rape case, Florida, April, 1991]
2. Snipers
3. Socrates
4. 'Son of Sam' Law
5. Soviet Union [pre-1989]
6. Speck, Richard
7. Spies
8. Sports [fixed games]
9. State police, New Jersey
10. Steinberg, Joel [murdered Lisa Steinberg, his adopted daughter]
11. Stewart, Martha [insider trading]
12. Strange cases
13. Stuart, Charles [murdered pregnant wife, reported they had been attacked by a black man,1989]
14. Subliminal messages
15. Suicide
16. Suicide bombers
17. Suspicious deaths
18. Swango, Michael [physician accused of serial killings]
19. Tadesse, Sinedu [murdered her Harvard roommate, Trang Ho, 1995]
20. Tanay, Emilie [murdered by Jean-Marc Deperois, 1994]
21. Tampering, food and drugs
22. Tawell, John [English murderer, (b.1784-d.1845)]
23. Taylor, William Desmond [Hollywood director, murder unsolved, 1922]
24. Taylor, Zachary [12th president, body exhumed to determine if he was murdered]
25. Tax cases
26. Television reviews
27. Terrorism and terrorists [attacks, individuals, and groups]
28. Terrorist attacks, September 11, 2001 [New York City, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania]
29. Theft [items, body parts, etc.]
30. Thomas, Clarence-Anita Hill Scandal
31. 'Three strikes' law
32. Till, Emmett Louis [racially motivated murder, 1955]
33. Time, Inc., v. Hill
34. Tissier, Patrick [French murderer]
35. Tocnaye, Alain de le [attempted to assassinate Charles de Gaulle, 1962; inspired the book and film The Day of the Jackal]
36. Torres, Emanuel [suspected in killing of Caroline Isenberg]
37. True crime, bibliography
38. Tucker, Forrest [bank robber]
39. Tylenol poisonings [1980s]
40. Tyson, Mike
41. Unabomber [Ted Kaczynski]
42. Van de Portaele, Ingrid and Muriel Sanchez [young cousins murdered by Christain van Geloven, 1991]
43. Vatican Swiss Guard Murder-Suicide (1998)

Box 10
Folder -- Contents

1. Vel' D'Hiv' [Paris stadium where Jews were rounded up for deportation in 1942]
2. Vietnam war
3. Villemin, Gregory "Little Gregory" Murder [France] (1 document case)
4. Von Bülow, Claus [convicted, then acquitted of attempted murder of his wife "Sunny"]
5. Wachtler, Sol
6. Walker, John, Michael and Arthur [father and 2 sons spied for Soviets, sentenced 1986]
7. Wallenberg, Raoul [Swedish diplomat, arrested by Soviets after saving Jews from the Nazis]
8. Warmus, Carolyn [murdered lover's wife, Betty Jeanne Solomon]
9. Watkins, "Fast Eddie" [Ohio bank robber]
10. Weber, Simone [murderer 1991]
11. Weiner, Earle and Dorma
12. Welch, Bernard C. [career criminal, murderer]
13. White collar crime
14. White, Stanford, [murdered by Harry Thaw, husband of Evelyn Nesbitt, White's lover]
15. Westerfield, David A. [trial for the murder of Danielle Van Dam]
16. Whitworth, Jerry A. [spied for Soviets, convicted 1986]
17. Wilde, Oscar
18. Williams, Vanessa [Miss America was disqualified after nude photos surfaced]
19. Witchcraft
20. Women who murder [studies, physiology, general information]
21. World Trade Center bombing, 1993
22. World War II [massacres, murders]
23. Woodward, Ann and Billy [case inspired Truman Capote's Answered Prayers and Dominick Dunne's The Two Mrs. Grenvilles]
24. Woodward, Louise [nanny accused of killing employers child, Massachusetts, February, 1997]
25. Worthington, Christa [murder victim]
26. Wournos, Aileen [serial killer]
27. Wrongly convicted or accused
28. Wyatt-Brown, Bertram [author of Southern Honor]
29. Yahweh, Yahweh Ben [accused cult leader, encouraged disciples to kill, Florida, 1992]
30. Yakuza [Japanese Mafia]
31. Yates, Andrea [drowned her five children, Texas, June, 2001]
32. Young, Kevin [acquitted of murdering Lisa Pruett, 1993]