Colorado man says he commited 48 murders
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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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George Ryan was sentenced him to six and a half years in federal prison for racketeering and fraud.
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A man was charged Sunday with murdering his wife and her four children in a domestic dispute at their home, authorities said.
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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 accused of being the Phoenix Baseline Killer was sentenced to 438 years in prison Friday for the sexual assaults of two sisters. Mark Goudeau still faces trial for the slayings of eight women and a man in 2005-2006, and faces a possible death sentence if he is convicted. He has pleaded not guilty.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - Texas executed a man on Thursday who confessed to killing three people in a 1999 robbery, including two who were injected with cleaning fluid before they were stabbed to death.
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Russian man jailed for 48 murders that he marked off on a chessboard.
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WISE, Va. - The former mayor of a tiny coal town who prosecutors say masterminded a scheme to buy votes with beer, cigarettes and even pork rinds, pleaded guilty Thursday to 243 felonies, including vote-rigging and corruption.
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Many people in this southern Illinois town thought Bruce Mendenhall was loud, hot-tempered and a little peculiar, but they were still stunned to hear police say he has confessed to killing six people.
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NICKEL MINES, Pennsylvania  - The man who stormed an Amish school and killed five girls had confessed to his wife he molested two girls 20 years ago, and police said he may have planned to sexually abuse his 10 hostages.
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Police say the Baseline Killer roamed neighborhoods in the Phoenix area for nearly a year, preying on people at random, killing nine and assaulting and robbing others.
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Preliminary information suggests that a man who apparently committed suicide after setting a fire in Yosemite National Park had earlier killed his wife and two young daughters, police said Sunday.
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A man charged with killing four children by setting fire to a row house pleaded guilty Wednesday to four counts of criminal homicide in a deal that spared him the death penalty.
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A man who confessed to killing 13 women more than a quarter-century ago is a "stalking predator" who should be convicted in the slaying of another woman, a prosecutor said during closing arguments Tuesday.
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A man pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder in the deaths of two women whose bodies were found buried in a Denver backyard.
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The man charged with abducting and killing a 24-year-old Georgia woman who disappeared while on a New Year's Day hike has been named a suspect in three additional deaths, authorities said Friday.
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MOSCOW - A Russian man known as the "Chessboard Killer" because he wanted to commit a murder for each of the 64 squares on the chessboard was convicted yesterday of killing 48 people, most of them in a Moscow park.