[
  {
    "character_id": "lizzie_borden",
    "name": "Lizzie Borden",
    "role": "acquitted",
    "case_ids": [
      "lizzie_borden_1892"
    ],
    "description": "Daughter tried and acquitted of the axe murders of her father and stepmother."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "andrew_borden",
    "name": "Andrew Borden",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "lizzie_borden_1892"
    ],
    "description": "Father, hacked to death with an axe."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "abby_borden",
    "name": "Abby Borden",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "lizzie_borden_1892"
    ],
    "description": "Stepmother, hacked to death with an axe."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "stanford_white",
    "name": "Stanford White",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "stanford_white_1906"
    ],
    "description": "Famous architect shot on the Madison Square Garden rooftop."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "harry_thaw",
    "name": "Harry K. Thaw",
    "role": "convicted",
    "case_ids": [
      "stanford_white_1906"
    ],
    "description": "Millionaire found NGRI for White's murder."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "evelyn_nesbit",
    "name": "Evelyn Nesbit",
    "role": "witness",
    "case_ids": [
      "stanford_white_1906"
    ],
    "description": "Thaw's wife; her past relationship with White was the motive."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "elizabeth_short",
    "name": "Elizabeth Short",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "black_dahlia_1947"
    ],
    "description": "22-year-old aspiring actress; the Black Dahlia."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "bugsy_siegel",
    "name": "Bugsy Siegel",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "bugsy_siegel_1947"
    ],
    "description": "Mobster who built the Flamingo Las Vegas."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "somerton_man",
    "name": "The Somerton Man",
    "role": "unidentified",
    "case_ids": [
      "somerton_man_1948"
    ],
    "description": "Unidentified man found dead on Somerton Beach; Tam\u00e1m Shud."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "db_cooper",
    "name": "D.B. Cooper (Dan Cooper)",
    "role": "unidentified",
    "case_ids": [
      "db_cooper_1971"
    ],
    "description": "Skyjacker who parachuted into the Cascades with $200,000."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "jimmy_hoffa",
    "name": "Jimmy Hoffa",
    "role": "missing",
    "case_ids": [
      "jimmy_hoffa_1975"
    ],
    "description": "Teamsters union president; vanished from the Machus Red Fox lot."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "zodiac_killer",
    "name": "The Zodiac Killer",
    "role": "unidentified",
    "case_ids": [
      "zodiac_1968"
    ],
    "description": "Self-named serial killer; taunting letters and cryptograms."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "jfk",
    "name": "John F. Kennedy",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "jfk_1963"
    ],
    "description": "35th US president, assassinated in Dallas."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "lee_harvey_oswald",
    "name": "Lee Harvey Oswald",
    "role": "suspect",
    "case_ids": [
      "jfk_1963"
    ],
    "description": "Warren Commission conclusion; killed by Jack Ruby two days later."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "jack_ruby",
    "name": "Jack Ruby",
    "role": "convicted",
    "case_ids": [
      "jfk_1963"
    ],
    "description": "Killed Oswald; the 'Trial of the Century' side-show."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "rfk",
    "name": "Robert F. Kennedy",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "rfk_1968"
    ],
    "description": "Senator, assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "sirhan_sirhan",
    "name": "Sirhan Sirhan",
    "role": "convicted",
    "case_ids": [
      "rfk_1968"
    ],
    "description": "Convicted; claims he was hypnotized / manchurian-candidated."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "mlk",
    "name": "Martin Luther King Jr.",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "mlk_1968"
    ],
    "description": "Civil rights leader, assassinated in Memphis."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "james_earl_ray",
    "name": "James Earl Ray",
    "role": "suspect",
    "case_ids": [
      "mlk_1968"
    ],
    "description": "Pleaded guilty then recanted; 1999 civil jury found conspiracy."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "tupac",
    "name": "Tupac Shakur",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "tupac_1996"
    ],
    "description": "Rapper shot in a Las Vegas drive-by; Keffe D charged 2023."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "keffe_d",
    "name": "Duane 'Keffe D' Davis",
    "role": "charged",
    "case_ids": [
      "tupac_1996"
    ],
    "description": "Arrested 2023 and charged with Tupac's murder; trial ongoing."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "biggie",
    "name": "The Notorious B.I.G.",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "biggie_1997"
    ],
    "description": "Rapper shot in LA six months after Tupac; no one charged."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "jonbenet_ramsey",
    "name": "JonBen\u00e9t Ramsey",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "jonbenet_1996"
    ],
    "description": "6-year-old beauty queen found strangled in her basement."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "patsy_ramsey",
    "name": "Patsy Ramsey",
    "role": "person-of-interest",
    "case_ids": [
      "jonbenet_1996"
    ],
    "description": "Mother; reported the ransom note; cleared via touch-DNA 2008."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "john_ramsey",
    "name": "John Ramsey",
    "role": "person-of-interest",
    "case_ids": [
      "jonbenet_1996"
    ],
    "description": "Father; bonus amount matched the ransom demand."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "madeleine_mccann",
    "name": "Madeleine McCann",
    "role": "missing",
    "case_ids": [
      "madeleine_mccann_2007"
    ],
    "description": "3-year-old vanished from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "christian_brueckner",
    "name": "Christian Br\u00fcckner",
    "role": "suspect",
    "case_ids": [
      "madeleine_mccann_2007"
    ],
    "description": "Convicted sex offender named prime suspect 2020; never charged."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "libby_german",
    "name": "Libby German",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "delphi_2017"
    ],
    "description": "Teenager who filmed the suspect ('Down the Hill' audio)."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "abby_williams",
    "name": "Abby Williams",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "delphi_2017"
    ],
    "description": "Teenager murdered alongside Libby on the Monon High Bridge trail."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "richard_allen",
    "name": "Richard Allen",
    "role": "convicted",
    "case_ids": [
      "delphi_2017"
    ],
    "description": "Pleaded guilty 2024 to two counts of murder."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "missy_bevers",
    "name": "Missy Bevers",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "missy_bevers_2016"
    ],
    "description": "Fitness instructor beaten to death inside a church."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "stephen_paddock",
    "name": "Stephen Paddock",
    "role": "deceased",
    "case_ids": [
      "las_vegas_2017"
    ],
    "description": "Shooter; motive never established."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "tina_sharp",
    "name": "Tina Sharp",
    "role": "victim",
    "case_ids": [
      "keddie_cabin_1981"
    ],
    "description": "Missing fourth girl; skull found 3 years later, 50 miles away."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "axeman",
    "name": "The Axeman of New Orleans",
    "role": "unidentified",
    "case_ids": [
      "axeman_1918"
    ],
    "description": "Serial axe killer; sent the jazz letter to newspapers."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "joseph_deangelo",
    "name": "Joseph James DeAngelo",
    "role": "convicted",
    "case_ids": [
      "golden_state_killer_1974"
    ],
    "description": "Former cop; EAR-ONS solved 2018 via genetic genealogy."
  },
  {
    "character_id": "rex_heuermann",
    "name": "Rex Heuermann",
    "role": "charged",
    "case_ids": [
      "gilgo_beach_2010"
    ],
    "description": "Architect charged 2023 with 4 of the Gilgo Four murders."
  }
]