American Murder Victims

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 206. Chapters: Joseph Smith, Lee Harvey Oswald, Dean Corll, Jesse James, Marvin Gaye, The Notorious B.I.G., Chandra Levy, Murder of Imette St. Guillen, Sharon Tate, Phil Hartman, Leo Ryan, Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, Wild Bill Hickok, Larry Davis (criminal), Dimebag Darrell, Matthew Shepard, William Desmond Taylor, Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, Huey P. Newton, Murder of Kitty Genovese, Binghamton shootings, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, 2009 Pittsburgh police shootings, Joseph Standing, Selena, Parley P. Pratt, Murder of Eve Carson, Murder of Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder, Anthony Spilotro, Bryan Kocis, Joe Gallo, Murder of Nubia Barahona, Murder of Robert Eric Wone, Sam Giancana, Death of Jasmine Fiore, Career Girls Murders, Adrienne Shelly, Black Dahlia, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Murder of James Byrd, Jr., Liviu Librescu, Stanford White, Suzanne Jovin case, Helen Hill, William Remington, Nancy Benoit, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, Brandon Teena, Brian Douglas Wells, Michael Francke, Richard T. Antoun, Michael Sandy, Mary Pinchot Meyer. Excerpt: Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 - June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, the predominant branch of which is Mormonism. At age twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon, and in the next fourteen years he attracted thousands of followers, established cities and temples, and created a lasting religious culture. Smith was born in Sharon, Vermont, and by 1817 had moved with his family to the burned-over district of western New York, an area repeatedly swept by religious revivals during the Second Great Awakening. The Smiths believed in visions and prophecies, and participated in folk religious practices typical of the era. According to Smith, beginning in the early 1820s he had visions, in one of which an...