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found not guilty by reason of insanity.", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "black_dahlia_1947", "events": [ { "label": "1947-01-15", "description": "Elizabeth Short found mutilated in a Leimert Park vacant lot.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "1947-01-23", "description": "Personal effects mailed to the press; case never solved.", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "bugsy_siegel_1947", "events": [ { "label": "1947-06-20", "description": "Siegel shot through a window at Beverly Hills.", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "somerton_man_1948", "events": [ { "label": "1948-11-30", "description": "Body found on Somerton Beach, Adelaide.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "1949", "description": "Tam\u00e1m Shud scrap + unbreakable cipher linked to a rare book.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "2022", "description": "DNA tentatively links Somerton Man to a Melbourne family.", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "carteron_family_1946", "events": [ { "label": "1946-09-16", "description": "Four Carteron family members gunned down with a Sten.", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "boy_in_the_box_1957", "events": [ { "label": "1957-02-25", "description": "Battered body of a boy found in a cardboard box, Philadelphia.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "2023", "description": "Police announce a tentative ID via genetic genealogy (sealed).", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "db_cooper_1971", "events": [ { "label": "1971-11-24", "description": "Dan Cooper skyjacks Northwest 305; 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Oswald arrested.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "1963-11-24", "description": "Jack Ruby kills Oswald on live television.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "1964-09-27", "description": "Warren Commission: Oswald acted alone.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "1979", "description": "HSCA: 'high probability of a second gunman.'", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "rfk_1968", "events": [ { "label": "1968-06-05", "description": "RFK shot at the Ambassador Hotel; Sirhan convicted.", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "mlk_1968", "events": [ { "label": "1968-04-04", "description": "MLK assassinated at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "1999", "description": "Civil jury finds government-led conspiracy; no criminal charges.", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "tylenol_1982", "events": [ { "label": "1982-09-29", "description": "First Tylenol poisoning death reported, Chicago area.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "1982-10", "description": "Seven dead; 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no charges filed.", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "tupac_1996", "events": [ { "label": "1996-09-07", "description": "Tupac shot in a Las Vegas drive-by after the Tyson fight.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "1996-09-13", "description": "Tupac dies; case unsolved for 27 years.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "2023-09-29", "description": "Duane 'Keffe D' Davis arrested and charged.", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "biggie_1997", "events": [ { "label": "1997-03-09", "description": "Biggie shot in a Los Angeles drive-by; no one charged.", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "jonbenet_1996", "events": [ { "label": "1996-12-26", "description": "JonBen\u00e9t found strangled in the basement; ransom note found.", "year": "", "month": "" }, { "label": "2008-07", "description": "Ramseys formally cleared via touch-DNA; later re-challenged.", "year": "", "month": "" } ] }, { "case_id": "sodder_children_1945", "events": [ { "label": "1945-12-24", "description": "House fire; 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