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Events leading to World War I. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand [a] was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip.
Etymology The modern English word "murder" descends from the Proto-Indo-European *mŕ -trom which meant "killing", a noun derived from *mer-"to die". Proto-Germanic, in fact, had two nouns derived from this word, later merging into the modern English noun: *murþrą "death, killing, murder" (directly from Proto-Indo-European*mŕ -trom), whence Old English morðor "secret or unlawful killing of ...
Willful Murder. Willful Murder ( Nihon no Atsui Hibi Bōsatsu: Shimoyama Jiken (日本の熱い日々 謀殺・下山事件)) is a 1981 Japanese drama film directed by Kei Kumai. [1] [2] [3] It dramatizes a journalist's investigation into the Shimoyama incident. It was entered into the 32nd Berlin International Film Festival. [4]
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- Suicide of Rosario Porto
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Asunta Basterra was born Fang Yong in 2000 in Yongzhou, Hunan, China. At nine months old she was adopted by Alfonso Basterra Camporro (born 1964) and María del Rosario Porto Ortega (1969–2020), an affluent Spanish couple from Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. Asunta was the first Chinese child to be adopted in the city of Santiago and one of the fir...
Asunta was first reported missing by her parents at 10:17pm on Saturday, 21 September 2013. They had eaten lunch together at her father's home that afternoon. Asunta was seen on a bank's security camera at 2pm walking to her father's house, and appeared on that same security camera at 5:21pm returning home to her mother's flat. Porto was seen on th...
The parents' activities could be reconstructed in the hours leading up to their daughter's disappearance and death, thanks to testimonies, surveillance cameras, and records from phones and digital devices: 1. 01:55 pm. Asunta leaves her home; 2. 02:00 pm. She passes a bank branch camera on her way to her father's flat, with whom she is going to hav...
In a first version of the events, Rosario Porto had declared that she left Asunta at around 19:00 hours at her home in Santiago de Compostela, and that when she returned a couple of hours later, the girl was no longer there. On Tuesday, 24 September, after the cremationof her daughter's body, Rosario was arrested and charged due to the inconsistenc...
At the end of the trial, which lasted more than four weeks and for which 135 witnesses were called,and after four days of deliberation, the jury returned a guilty verdict for both parents that resolved some of the main issues in the case, but also left doubts. The jury considered (in section 9 of the proven facts) that the time of death was between...
On 16 March 2016, the High Court of Justice of Galicia dismissed the appealsof the lawyers of both parents and confirmed the 18-year sentence, although it acknowledged that it was Rosario who suffocated her daughter. On 22 November, the Supreme Courtalso dismissed the appeals of the defence, acknowledging that there was no evidence of Alfonso Baste...
Rosario Porto attempted suicide in prison on two occasions. On 24 February 2017, after it was announced that she was going to be transferred to the prison of A Lama, in Pontevedra, she was found unconscious due to an intake of sleeping pills that she had been accumulating and had to be admitted to a hospital.She was subsequently transferred, and on...
In Spain, the disappearance and death of Asunta Basterra has attracted more media coverage and public attention than any other crime. The Professional Association of Journalists of Galicia and the Faculty of Journalism of the University of Santiago de Compostela criticised in a statement the news treatment given to the Asunta case. The BNG, Galicia...
Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr. Henry Howard Holmes or H. H. Holmes, was an American con artist and serial killer active between 1891 and 1894. By the time of his execution in 1896, Holmes had engaged in a lengthy criminal career that included insurance fraud, forgery, swindling, three to four bigamous marriages, horse theft and murder.
UNODC calculated a rate of 6.9 in 2010. [9] UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) reported a global average intentional homicide rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population for 2012 (in their report titled "Global Study on Homicide 2013"). [10] [11] In the 2019 edition, the global rate was estimated at 6.1 per 100,000 for 2017.
July – August 1971. Country. Finland. Date apprehended. September 1971. Ensio Kalevi Koivunen (23 June 1930 – 27 May 2003) was a Finnish serial killer [2] [3] who poisoned three female hitchhikers using carbon monoxide in the summer of 1971, and thereby got the nickname Häkä-Enska ("Carbon monoxide-Enska").
