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Accident on Hill Road

Creepshow 2, a 1987 movie with a scene, The Hitch-hiker, in which a similar vehicular homicide was portrayed where the zombie-like victim followed the driver all the way back to her garage.

Al Giardello

He is based on Baltimore Police Department Shift Lieutenant Gary D'Addario, a member of the BPD homicide unit described in David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets which served as the inspiration for the series as a whole.

Andrew Vachss

He's so committed to his family of choice—not his DNA-biological family, which tortured him, or the state which raised him, but the family that he chose—that homicide is a natural consequence of injuring any of that family.

Andrew Valdez

After graduating law school, Valdez began his professional career as a public defender with the Legal Defenders Association Felony and Homicide Division.

Anna Pou case

In 2006, Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti arrested Dr. Anna Pou and two nurses, publicly stating that "this is a homicide".

Axl Rotten

Rotten appeared in an uncredited, non-speaking role on the first episode of the show Homicide: Life on the Street, entitled "Gone for Goode," seen being questioned in "The Box" while Lieutenant Al Giardello gives Det. Tim Bayliss his introductory tour of the Homicide Unit.

Babylon South

It was the sixth book featuring Sydney homicide detective Scobie Malone, and deals with Malone coming across an old case of his - the 1966 disappearance of the head of ASIO.

Barbara Kopple

She has directed episodes of the television drama series Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz, winning a Directors Guild of America award for the former.

Beau Felton

He was loosely based on Det. Donald Kincaid, from David Simon's nonfiction book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, on which the series was based.

Boring, Maryland

Boring is mentioned in Series One, Episode 7 of the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street.

Brock Manhunter

Larry Storch, better known as Brock Manhunter (born June 26, 1966) is a former LAPD homicide detective co-author of a book about serial killers with famed FBI profiler John E. Douglas.

Bruno Kirby

He starred as Barry Scheck in a 2000 CBS drama American Tragedy, played a paroled convict in a season three episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, and also directed an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street.

Chor Police

Inspector Sunil Rana (Shatrughan Sinha) has been assigned the case of triple-homicide of the Sinha family, namely Mr. Sinha (Ashok Kumar); his son Inspector Rohan (Vinod Mehra), and Rohan's wife (Bindiya Goswami).

Crevalcore train crash

The official inquiry, led by Bologna's public prosecutor Andrea Scarpa, charged 10 people, including Trenitalia CEO Mauro Moretti and the Head of the infrastructure division of RFI Michele Mario Elia, of causing a rail disaster, involuntary homicide and involuntary wounding.

Dale G. Madison

He received his first performer screen film credit in the original 1988 John Waters movie Hairspray and has appeared on NBC’s Homicide: Life on the Streets as well as Showtime's Barbershop: The Series.

David Eggby

Beginning his career as a photographer for the Royal Australian Navy, Eggby then moved on to work for Australian television production company Crawfords, working on such shows as Homicide and Matlock Police.

Die Chefin

First Police Chief Inspector Vera Lanz (Katharina Böhm) is working for the homicide division in Munich, having lost her husband in a mysterious death.

Don Battye

He was a writer, script editor, and producer on several Australian television series for Crawford Productions including soap opera The Box in 1976 & 1977, The Sullivans and police procedural drama series Division 4, Bluey (1976) and Homicide.

Elizabeth Linington

She was awarded runner-up scrolls for best first mystery novel from the Mystery Writers of America for her 1960 novel, Case Pending, which introduced her most popular series character, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Luis Mendoza.

Forensic entomologist

A more recent and widely publicized homicide case that employed the use of forensic entomology was the David Westerfield trial.

Frank Battaglia

D'Addario is best known as the shift commander featured in David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets book and was the inspiration for the character of Al Giardello seen on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street.

Grant Cooper

Cooper has also represented several Hollywood actors, including Lynne Baggett for homicide, Joan Bennett, and Shirley Temple in her divorce from John Agar.

Insect indicators of abuse or neglect

Lucilia illustris (Meigen) –Green Bottle Fly (found often in animal crime and human homicide)

James Yates

The James Yates murders, a 1781 multiple homicide, the basis for the early American novel Wieland

JAPW Women's Championship

She has also been successful in her first title defense by defeating Portia Perez on August 1, 2009, at European Homicide.

Leaton Rose

The band then recorded a four track demo, Choose to Love, Live or Die, which was later re-released as an EP by Final Prayer Records, who also released a Split EP in 2003 featuring two songs by I Killed the Prom Queen ("Homicide Documentaries" and "Death Certificate for a Beauty Queen").

Liquor in the Front

The song "In Your Wildest Dreams" (along with "The Reverend" himself) was featured in a Homicide: Life on the Street episode from season four, entitled "Full Moon".

Maggie Millar

Maggie Millar (born 6 January 1941) is an Australian actress, who trained in England she has appeared in Pantomine and Theatre and is best known for her many TV appearances like Bellbird, Matlock Police, Homicide and A Country Practice.

Main Street Armory

For the next 15 months the Armory became N.E.W.'s home venue, and such wrestling superstars such as The Latin American X-Change (Homicide and Hernandez) (L.A.X.), Koko B. Ware, Too Cool, The Heart Throbs, and Extreme Championship Wrestling legend The Sandman have since competed inside the arena.

Marcus Giamatti

He has also guest-starred on a number of popular series, such as The X-Files, Homicide: Life on the Street, Monk, The Mentalist and House M.D. and Criminal Minds.

Michael Marisi Ornstein

Television credits include a recurring role as Detective Bonnaventura on Homicide: Life on the Street, and a two-episode arc on Third Watch, as well as parts in Seinfeld, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Murder of Brian Glick

The Murder of Brian Glick involved homicide victim Brian Glick, who was murdered at the age of 21 on October 25, 1993 by Dennis Tate and Michael Olson in Bloomington, Minnesota.

Now and Then, Amen

It was the fifth book featuring Sydney homicide detective Scobie Malone.

Pembleton

Frank Pembleton, a fictional homicide detective on the television drama series Homicide: Life on the Street

Philadelphia poison ring

Moreover, the Alfonsi case fit with a rapidly-emerging common Modus operandi in a lot of other homicide investigations.

Police ranks of the United States

Lieutenants can supervise an entire watch shift of a police station or detective squad (Narcotics, Homicide, etc.) in larger police departments and entire precincts in smaller police departments.

Richard Sprague

As First Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia Sprague run up a record of 69 homicide convictions out of 70 prosecutions.

Russert

Megan Russert, fictional Baltimore homicide detective (and fictionally a relative of the real Tim Russert)

Seattle Police Department

The AMC series The Killing stars Mireille Enos as Sarah Linden, a lead Seattle Police homicide detective.

Smart Blonde

Glenda Farrell plays Torchy Blane, former showgirl, newspaper reporter on the police beat, and girlfriend of Homicide Detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane).

Stanley Bolander

It is generally agreed that Bolander is based on the Homicide book's cigar-smoking detective Donald Worden, though Worden was not paired with Jay Landsman, the sergeant on whom John Munch was based.

The Link Men

The series was the first drama series made in-house by the Nine Network as part of an attempt to rival the cop shows produced by Crawford Productions such as Homicide and Division 4.

Tommy Le Noir

Several of Le Noir’s homicide cases have earned national media attention – having been featured on CBSCold Case Files, Dick Wolf’s Arrest & Trial and A&E’s Forensic Files among others.

Trinidad and Tobago Police Service

This section now provides a wide range of services including Fingerprinting, Photography, Robbery, Homicide, stolen Vehicles and Interpol.

Wearside Jack

A major breakthrough came during 2005 when senior officers from West Yorkshire Police's Homicide and Major Inquiry Team (HMET), headed by Det Chief Supt Chris Gregg, decided to review the case.

William Reade

Reade held a deer park, in Selsey, that was plagued with poachers so much so, that the incensed bishop issued a decree excommunicating the offenders by "Bell, book, and candle", and he ordered that the ritual should be performed at all churches within the deanery.


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