murder cases

NAME: ANNI DEWANI BORN: 12 MARCH 1982 DISAPPEARED: 13 NOVEMBER 2010 CAUSE OF DEATH: GUNSHOT IN CHEST&NECK NATIONALITY: SWEDISH SPOUSE: SHRIEN DEWANI Anni Ninna Dewani  ( née   Hindocha ; 12 March 1982 – 13 November 2010) was a  Swedish  woman of  Indian origin  who was murdered while on her honeymoon in South Africa after the taxi in which she and her husband Shrien Dewani were traveling was hijacked. Three arrests were made in the days following the crime; hijackers Mziwamadoda Qwabe and Xolile Mngeni, and hotel receptionist Monde Mbolombo admitted to their involvement in an unintentionally fatal robbery and kidnapping. Facing life in prison, Qwabe and Mbolombo later changed their stories to allege the crime had been a premeditated murder for hire at the behest of Anni's husband Shrien Dewani. Taxi driver Zola Tongo initially claimed to be an innocent victim of the incident, but faced with the weight of evidence implicating him in the crime and in...

NAME: JUNKO FURUTA BORN: 18 JANUARY 1971 DIED: 4 JANUARY 1989   CAUSE OF DEATH: MURDER   BODY DISCOVERED:29 MARCH 1989 OCCUPATION: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT KNOWN FOR: TORTURE AND MURDER VICTIM Junko Furuta  ( 古田 順子 ,  Furuta Junko )  was a Japanese high school student who was  abducted ,  raped ,  tortured and murdered  in the late 1980s. Her murder case was called the "concrete-encased high school girl murder case"  ( 女子高生コンクリート詰め殺人事件 ) , due to her body being discovered in a concrete drum. The abuse was mainly perpetrated by four teenage boys, Hiroshi Miyano, Jō Ogura, Shinji Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe, over a period of 40 days from 25 November 1988 to 4 January 1989.   The crime has been described as the worst case of  juvenile delinquency  in  post-war Japan .  The perpetrators' sentences ranged from  juvenile detention  to 20 years in prison. BACKGROUND Furuta was born in  Misato, Saita...

NAME:JAHSEH R ONFROY BORN: 23 JANUARY 1998      DIED; 18 JUNE 2018                OCCUPATION: RAPPER        STAGE NAME: XXXtentacion   During the afternoon of June 18, 2018, American rapper and singer Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy, known professionally as  XXXTentacion , was murdered in an apparent robbery just outside RIVA Motorsports, an upscale seller of motorcycles and  watercraft  in  Deerfield Beach ,  Florida . He was shot multiple times in the neck and was in critical condition before being pronounced dead at 5:30 p.m. Authorities have charged four men with  first-degree murder  and  robbery  with a  firearm . If convicted, they face  life imprisonment  without the possibility of  parole , or the  death penalty . On August 12, 2022, Robert Allen reached a   plea deal   with the prosecution in exchange for testimo...