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62 relations: African Americans, America's Most Wanted, American Greed, Andrew Jackson, Angola Three, Assault, Barataria Bay, Baton Rouge Police Department, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Battle of New Orleans, Bayou Hedge Fund Group, C-Murder, Calvin Brock, Clifford Etienne, Crime, D.C. sniper attacks, Dateline NBC, Dead Man Walking (book), Derrick Todd Lee, Edwin Edwards, Elmo Patrick Sonnier, Extortion, Firearm, Furman v. Georgia, Gregg v. Georgia, Harvey, Louisiana, Hedge fund, Helen Prejean, Homicide, Hurricane Katrina, Imprisonment, Jean Lafitte, John Allen Muhammad, Lamon Brewster, Lawrence Clay-Bey, Lee Boyd Malvo, List of Governors of Louisiana, Louisiana, Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Mail and wire fraud, Mike Tyson, Money laundering, Murder, New Orleans, Nikolai Valuev, Piracy, Privateer, Property crime, Racket (crime), ..., Rape, Robert Hillary King, Robert W. Williams, Ronald Dominique, Samuel Israel III, Sean Vincent Gillis, Serial killer, Solitary confinement, Texas, U.S. state, Uniform Crime Reports, Washington, D.C.. Expand index (12 more) »
African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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America's Most Wanted
America's Most Wanted is an American television program that was produced by 20th Television.
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American Greed
American Greed, also known as American Greed: Scams, Scoundrels, And Suckers aka American Greed: Scams, Schemes, And Broken Dreams, is an original primetime series airing on the business news network CNBC.
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Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
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Angola Three
The Angola Three are three former prison inmates ('''Robert King''', Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace) who were put in solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary (also known as Angola Prison); the latter two after being convicted in April 1972 of the killing of a prison corrections officer.
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Assault
An assault is the act of inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such an action.
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Barataria Bay
Barataria Bay, also Barrataria Bay, is a bay of the Gulf of Mexico, about 15 miles (24 km) long and 12 miles (19 km) wide, in southeastern Louisiana, in Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, United States.
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Baton Rouge Police Department
The Baton Rouge Police Department, or BRPD, is the primary law enforcement agency in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana and its second-largest city.
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Battle of New Orleans
The Battle of New Orleans was a series of engagements fought between December 14, 1814 and January 18, 1815, constituting the last major battle of the War of 1812.
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Bayou Hedge Fund Group
The Bayou Hedge Fund Group was a group of companies and hedge funds founded by Samuel Israel III in 1996.
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C-Murder
Corey Miller (born March 9, 1971) better known by his stage name C-Murder, is an American hip hop artist, songwriter, actor, and author.
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Calvin Brock
Calvin Vance Brock (born January 22, 1975 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2007.
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Clifford Etienne
Clifford Etienne (born March 9, 1970) is an American former professional boxer who is currently serving a 105-year prison sentence without possibility of parole.
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Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority.
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D.C. sniper attacks
The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002, in the states of Maryland and Virginia, and the District of Columbia.
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Dateline NBC
Dateline NBC, or simply Dateline, is a weekly American television newsmagazine/reality legal show that is broadcast on NBC.
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Dead Man Walking (book)
Dead Man Walking (1993) is a work of non-fiction by Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and one of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille based in New Orleans.
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Derrick Todd Lee
Derrick Todd Lee (November 5, 1968 – January 21, 2016), also known as the Baton Rouge Serial Killer, was an American serial killer.
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Edwin Edwards
Edwin Washington Edwards (born August 7, 1927) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the U.S. Representative for from 1965 to 1972 and as the 50th Governor of Louisiana for four terms (1972–1980, 1984–1988 and 1992–1996), twice as many elected terms as any other Louisiana chief executive.
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Elmo Patrick Sonnier
Elmo Patrick "Pat" Sonnier (February 21, 1950 – April 5, 1984) was a convicted American murderer and rapist in Louisiana who was executed by electrocution at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Louisiana on April 5, 1984.
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Extortion
Extortion (also called shakedown, outwrestling and exaction) is a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from an individual or institution, through coercion.
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Firearm
A firearm is a portable gun (a barreled ranged weapon) that inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas produced by exothermic combustion (deflagration) of propellant within an ammunition cartridge.
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Furman v. Georgia
Furman v. Georgia, was a criminal case in which the United States Supreme Court struck down all death penalty schemes in the United States in a 5–4 decision, with each member of the majority writing a separate opinion.
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Gregg v. Georgia
Gregg v. Georgia, Proffitt v. Florida, Jurek v. Texas, Woodson v. North Carolina, and Roberts v. Louisiana,, reaffirmed the United States Supreme Court's acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the United States, upholding, in particular, the death sentence imposed on Troy Leon Gregg.
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Harvey, Louisiana
Harvey is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Hedge fund
A hedge fund is an investment fund that pools capital from accredited individuals or institutional investors and invests in a variety of assets, often with complex portfolio-construction and risk-management techniques.
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Helen Prejean
Helen Prejean, C.S.J. (born April 21, 1939, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Roman Catholic sister, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph based in New Orleans, and a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.
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Homicide
Homicide is the act of one human killing another.
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that caused catastrophic damage along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge and levee failure.
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Imprisonment
Imprisonment (from imprison Old French, French emprisonner, from en in + prison prison, from Latin prensio, arrest, from prehendere, prendere, to seize) is the restraint of a person's liberty, for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority.
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Jean Lafitte
Jean Lafitte (–) was a French pirate and privateer in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century.
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John Allen Muhammad
John Allen Muhammad (December 31, 1960 – November 10, 2009) was an American convicted murderer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Lamon Brewster
Lamon Tajuan Brewster (born June 5, 1973) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1996 to 2010.
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Lawrence Clay-Bey
Lawrence Marvin Clay-Bey (born December 14, 1965) is an American former professional boxer who fought at heavyweight.
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Lee Boyd Malvo
Lee Boyd Malvo (born February 18, 1985), also known as John Lee Malvo, is a convicted murderer who, along with John Allen Muhammad, committed murders in connection with the Beltway sniper attacks in the Washington Metropolitan Area over a three-week period in October 2002.
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List of Governors of Louisiana
This is a list of the Governors of Louisiana (Gouverneurs de Louisiane), from acquisition by the United States in 1803 to the present day.
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Louisiana
Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women
Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW) is a prison for women located in St. Gabriel, Louisiana.
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Louisiana State Penitentiary
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South" and "The Farm"Sutton, Keith "Catfish". "". ESPN Outdoors. May 31, 2006. Retrieved on August 25, 2010.) is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections.
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Mail and wire fraud
In the United States, mail and wire fraud is any fraudulent scheme to intentionally deprive another of property or honest services via mail or wire communication.
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Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005.
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Money laundering
Money laundering is the act of concealing the transformation of profits from illegal activities and corruption into ostensibly "legitimate" assets.
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Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.
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Nikolai Valuev
Nikolai Sergeyevich Valuev (Никола́й Серге́евич Валу́ев; born 21 August 1973) is a Russian politician and former professional boxer.
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Piracy
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable items or properties.
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Privateer
A privateer is a private person or ship that engages in maritime warfare under a commission of war.
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Property crime
Property crime is a category of crime that includes, among other crimes, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism.
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Racket (crime)
A racket is a planned or organized criminal act, usually in which the criminal act is a form of business or a way to earn illegal or extorted money regularly or briefly but repeatedly.
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Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.
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Robert Hillary King
Robert Hillary King (born May 30, 1942), also known as Robert King Wilkerson, is a former member of the Black Panther Party who spent 32 years in Angola Prison, Louisiana 29 of them in solitary confinement.
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Robert W. Williams
Robert Wayne Williams (c. 1951 – December 14, 1983) was convicted of the January 5, 1979 murder of Willie Kelly, a 67-year-old security guard.
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Ronald Dominique
Ronald Joseph Dominique (born January 9, 1964) is an American serial killer from the Bayou Blue area of Houma, Louisiana.
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Samuel Israel III
Samuel Israel III (born July 20, 1959) is an American-born former hedge fund manager for the Bayou Hedge Fund Group, which he founded in 1996.
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Sean Vincent Gillis
Sean Vincent Gillis (born June 24, 1962) is an American serial killer who stalked, kidnapped, raped, murdered, and mutilated eight Louisiana women between 1994 and 2003 in the Baton Rouge Metro and surrounding areas.
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Serial killer
A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people,A serial killer is most commonly defined as a person who kills three or more people for psychological gratification; reliable sources over the years agree.
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Solitary confinement
Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which an inmate is isolated from any human contact, often with the exception of members of prison staff, for 22–24 hours a day, with a sentence ranging from days to decades.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.
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U.S. state
A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.
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Uniform Crime Reports
The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) compiles official data on crime in the United States, published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Louisiana
