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2012 Veracruz murder of journalists

The 2012 Veracruz murder of journalists is about the disappearance, murder and dismemberment of three journalists and a woman who worked in public relations whose bodies were discovered in Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico.

A Balladeer

Its title track is about the disappearance of porn star Bambi Woods (known from her role in Debbie Does Dallas).

Abdul-Aziz Shennib

Later, at a press conference in Cairo, Sir Abdul Aziz Shennib revealed that Gaddafi had ordered the murder of Lebanese cleric Musa al-Sadr, whose disappearance in August 1978 had, until his revelation, been the subject of speculation.

Abe Saffron

One of the most contentious incidents in Saffron's career was his rumoured involvement in the disappearance and presumed murder of newspaper publisher and anti-development campaigner Juanita Nielsen in July 1975.

Among the Dust of Thieves

The film dramatizes the days leading up to Fountain’s disappearance near White Sands, New Mexico and the first, unsuccessful investigation of his apparent murder by John C. Fraser of the Pinkerton Agency.

Arthur Upfield

The plot is based on the 1880 disappearance of the geologist Lamont Young near Mystery Bay, New South Wales.

Bhakti Hridaya Bon Swami

In 1942, after the disappearance of his Guru, Srila Sarasvati Prabhupada, Swami Bon voted for Swami Bhakti Vilas Tirtha to be the next Acharya of the Gaudiya Math.

Bourke, New South Wales

Bourke was mentioned in the trial of Bradley John Murdoch on 24 November 2005, as the place where murder victim Peter Falconio was allegedly seen, 8 days after his disappearance from near Barrow Creek, Northern Territory.

Charles Budd Robinson

He was reported as missing on December 11, with the assistant resident of Amboina (now Ambon in Indonesia) writing about the nature of his disappearance.

Château de Méréville

Next, an entirely new type of structure was built on a small island in the centre of the main lake - a rostral column, in honour of the marquis' two young sons Edouard (1762–1786) and Ange Auguste (1766–1786), news of whose disappearance had arrived in France earlier that year.

Christ and Satan

Actual scripture leaves the ending open with the sudden disappearance of Satan (Matthew 4:1-11), but Christ and Satan takes the more fictional and epic approach with a victory for Christ over Satan—adding to what scripture seems to have left to interpretation.

Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran

This is stated to be related to the disappearance of the Twelfth Imam whom it asks God to return.

Danielle Jones

Murder of Danielle Jones (1985–2001), 2001 British crime regarding the disappearance of Danielle Sarah Jones

Death of Jill Meagher

At around 10:00 pm on 28 September, five days after Meagher's disappearance, he led police to where her body was buried in a shallow grave at Black Hill Road in Gisborne South.

Faustino Aguilar

As a novelist, he authored the Tagalog-language novels Busabos ng Palad (Pauper of Fate) in 1909, Sa Ngalan ng Diyos (In the Name of God) in 1911, Ang Lihim ng Isang Pulo (The Secret of an Island) in 1926, Ang Patawad ng Patay (The Pardon of the Dead) in 1951, Ang Kaligtasan (The Salvation) in 1951, and Pinaglahuan (Place of Disappearance) in 1906 (published in 1907).

Fendler

Donn Fendler (born 1927), American whose disappearance launched a manhunt

Fifty Mission Cap

The song's lyrics describe the mysterious disappearance of Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player Bill Barilko.

Flight for Freedom

Film historians and Earhart scholars consider Flight for Freedom an "a-clef" version of the Amelia Earhart life story concentrating on the sensational aspects of her disappearance during her 1937 world flight.

Francis Hong Yong-ho

After his disappearance, he was for many years was listed as the Bishop of Pyongyang, North Korea.

Fred West

Partington, a university student, was the cousin of novelist Martin Amis and the sister of author Marian Partington, who wrote about her sister's disappearance and the discovery of her remains in her memoir If You Sit Very Still (2012).

Golden Valley, Herefordshire

Owain Glyndŵr is said to have spent his final years after his disappearance following the eventual failure of his rebellion against King Henry IV in hiding under an alternative identity with his daughter, Alys Scudamore, previously known as Alys ferch Owain Glyndŵr, and her husband, a Herefordshire Scudamore, namely Sir John Scudamore in the Golden Valley.

Gunnel

Gunnel Gummeson (born 1930), Swedish teacher, central figure in a famous case of disappearance

Guy-André Kieffer

In a 2006 interview regarding her book Bitter Chocolate, CBC journalist Carol Off claimed that Kieffer's disappearance and probable murder was related to his investigation of the shady practices involving the Ivorian government and the cocoa industry.

Ingemar Eliasson

In 2003, Eliasson chaired a Commission of Inquiry into the 1945 disappearance and subsequent death of the diplomat Raoul Wallenberg.

Jamie Croft

He has also appeared in many movies and mini-series including, That Eye, The Sky, 20th Century Fox's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Joey, The Real Macaw, The Farm, Disappearance, Blurred, The Pact, was the voice as Napoleon in Napoleon (1995 film) and Hercules.

Jesse Wayne Brazel

He had been involved in a gunbattle with Lee and another man while working on the Albert Jennings Fountain disappearance case, resulting in one of Garrett's deputies being killed, and the eventual arrest but not conviction of Lee.

Kingston Centre

This move, combined with the disappearance of smaller department stores including Biway Stores, Family Fair, Marks and Spencer, Zellers and Woolworth, left Kingston Shopping Centre without a department store anchor.

Leges regiae

It must be remembered that the fire caused by the Galli Senones in 390 or 387 BC was another reason of their disappearance.

Levanna projectile point

They are associated with the Owasco Indians and others, and their disappearance coincides roughly with the appearance of the Iroquois culture.

Mazes and Monsters

Jaffe had based her 1981 novel on inaccurate newspaper stories about the disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III from Michigan State University in 1979.

Mike McPheters

He was involved with the formation of the Miami SWAT team and the investigation of the D. B. Cooper hijacking as well as one of the many ultimately futile investigations of the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance.

Missing women

BC Missing Women Investigation, an ongoing criminal investigation into the disappearance of at least 60 women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

Murder of Imette St. Guillen

Within days after the revelation of the alleged lying of bar manager Daniel Dorrian in St. Guillen's disappearance and murder, a New York City writer named Jeff Ragsdale organized a group of people through Craigslist to start a demonstration in front of The Falls bar.

Murder of Melanie Hall

While living in Bath, singer/songwriter Peter Hammill (also with Van der Graaf Generator) had the idea for a song, later released on his album Thin Air (2009), called "Your Face on the Street" inspired by the disappearance of Melanie Hall.

Murder of Nathalie Mahy and Stacy Lemmens

Around 3 a.m., their disappearance was noticed and the police and Child Focus alerted.

National Team for Transportation Safety and Security

The National Team for Transportation Safety and Security was set up a few days after the disappearance of Adam Air Flight 574 on January 1, 2007, by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, partially as a response to the high number of recent transportational accidents in Indonesia, and also as a direct response to the loss of the aircraft, along with other civil aviation accidents within Indonesia.

Penmarch

It owed its prosperity to its cod-banks, the disappearance of which together with the discovery of the Newfoundland cod-banks and the pillage of the place by the bandit La Fontenelle in 1595 contributed to its decline.

Rajan case

Rajan's father T. V. Eachara Warrier fought a long battle against the establishment to bring to light the facts behind the disappearance and through that expose atrocities committed by the state.

Rubén López Sabariego

Rubén López Sabariego was a Cuban bus driver working on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, whose mysterious disappearance and death there became a cause celebre in Cuba.

Sheila Nickerson

Her 1996 nonfiction work Disappearance: A Map, is part personal memoir about the loss of a colleague and part nonfiction account of disappearances in Alaska, including Franklin's lost expedition in 1845, polar expeditions of Captain Bob Bartlett and Vilhjalmur Stefansson and more recent vanishings such as those of U.S. Congressmen Nick Begich and Hale Boggs.

Simone Gbagbo

In July 2008 she was formally called for questioning by a French investigative judge, examining the April 2004 disappearance and presumed death in Abidjan of French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer.

Slim Susie

The film is set in a small industrial town in the Swedish province of Värmland, where a young man returns from the big city to investigate the sudden disappearance of his sister.

SS Yongala

In the years that followed the disappearance of the Yongala, stories began to surface about a ghost ship, exactly resembling the Yongala, being frequently seen moving in the distance in seas between Bowen and Townsville.

Technology of The Saga of Seven Suns

Klikiss robots – Klikiss robots were built and designed by the original Klikiss before their disappearance ten thousand years ago; they were reactivated in approximately the 1940s C.E. by the Ildirans.

The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca

The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca is a 1997 Spanish-American drama-biographical film directed by Marcos Zurinaga.

Thomas Underhill

Amelia Earhart, American aviation pioneer and author famous for her mysterious disappearance.

Tom Ketchum

It is alleged that Ketchum was involved with the February 1, 1896, disappearance and presumed murders of Albert Jennings Fountain and his son Henry Fountain of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Towards a Sociology of the Novel

This disappearance of the subject can also be seen in the theater of absence exemplified by playwrights like Beckett and Adamov, as well as in non-representational art.

Vanishing on 7th Street

Paul (John Leguizamo) is a projectionist in a Detroit theater who is reading about the 16th century disappearance of the Roanoke Colony when the lights suddenly go out in the theater.


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