Russian "chessboard killer" convicted of 48 murders
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A Russian supermarket worker, dubbed "the chessboard murderer", was convicted on Wednesday of killing 48 people after he confessed in court that the first time he took a life was like falling in love.
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The former acting mayor of a sleepy mill town on the Alabama-Georgia line was convicted Tuesday of murdering his wife while on a lunch break six years ago.
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A court has convicted seven men in the 2000 murder of journalist Igor Domnikov &#151; one of more than a dozen killed during President Vladimir Putin's years in power.
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BERLIN, Aug 23  - An alleged lieutenant of Carlos the Jackal, legendary international terrorist mastermind through two decades, was acquitted here Monday of murder and bomb attacks in France more than 20 years ago.
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Russia's bankers offered a big reward on   Friday for information on the killers of a top central bank   official who had crusaded against money laundering.
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The sole surviving suspect of the Beslan school siege is found guilty of murder and terrorism and jailed for life.
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Two Russian interior ministry troops are convicted of the killing of three civilians in Chechnya.
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BERLIN: An alleged lieutenant of Carlos the Jackal, legendary international terrorist mastermind through two decades, was acquitted yesterday of murder and bomb attacks in France more than 20 years ago.
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Russia's bankers offered a big reward on  Friday for information on the killers of a top central bank  official who had crusaded against money laundering.
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A man who injured nine people in a knife attack at a Moscow synagogue was sentenced to 16 years in prison after a second trial, Russian news agencies reported.
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A man is convicted and another cleared of the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky after a bungled robbery.
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A 36-year-old taxi driver is found guilty of the murder of his wife and three children.
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A Moscow court on Monday sentenced a man convicted of 48 murders, which he recorded on a chessboard, to life imprisonment, ending one of Russia's worst serial killing cases
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A man serving a life sentence in Colorado for murdering a teenage girl has claimed responsibility for as many as 48 slayings across the country dating back more than three decades, authorities said Thursday.
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A Russian physicist is convicted of spying for China, nearly a year after he was acquitted of the charges.
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A jury found four aging Chicago mobsters guilty on Monday of operating a decades-long criminal conspiracy that included 18 unsolved gangland murders, including two gruesome slaying depicted in the move "Casino."
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JERUSALEM -- A Jewish settler convicted of murdering four Palestinians and injuring a fifth in an attack he hoped would prevent Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip last year was sentenced yesterday to four consecutive life terms plus an additional 12 years in prison.