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The murder of Dolores Della Penna is an unsolved murder case dating from July 1972 in which a 17-year-old high school graduate was abducted, tortured, murdered and dismembered by an unknown number of individuals in Kensington, Philadelphia.
Harrison Frank "Marty" Graham (born September 9, 1959) is an American serial killer who murdered seven women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between mid-1986 to mid-1987, keeping their remains in his apartment.
Articles and categories related to notable criminals presently or previously from Philadelphia The main articles for this category are Crime in Philadelphia and List of people from Philadelphia . For more information, see Philadelphia .
Gary Michael Heidnik (November 22, 1943 – July 6, 1999) was an American murderer and serial rapist who kidnapped, tortured and sexually violated six women, murdering two of them, while holding them captive in a self-dug pit in his basement floor in Philadelphia between 1986 and 1987.
Troy Graves (born May 4, 1972) is an American murderer and serial rapist.He was known as the "Center City rapist" in Philadelphia, committed a series of rapes in from 1997 to 1999; during a 1998 rape, he also murdered his victim, Shannon Schieber.
Ira Einhorn was born in Philadelphia into a middle-class Jewish family. [2] [4] As a student at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his undergraduate degree in English in 1961 before returning to complete some graduate work in the discipline in 1963, [5] [6] he became active in ecological groups and was part of the counterculture, anti-establishment, and anti-war movements of the ...
The Philadelphia Inquirer printed 400,000 flyers depicting the boy's likeness, which were sent out and posted across the area, and were included with every gas bill in Philadelphia. [13] The crime scene was combed over and over again by 270 police academy recruits, who discovered a man's blue corduroy cap, a child's scarf, and a man's white ...
Nicodemo Domenico Scarfo Sr. (March 8, 1929 – January 13, 2017) also known as "Little Nicky", was an American mobster who served as boss of the Philadelphia crime family from 1981 to 1990. Infamously known for his murderous reputation, Scarfo led the family through its bloodiest period until his conviction in 1988.