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Dr. John Boyle was convicted in a highly publicized trial for the murder of his wife, Noreen, on December 31, 1989. Their son, Landry, and daughter, Elizabeth, provided key insights; Landry recounted a scream and thump he heard, while Elizabeth, only three, described seeing her father hit her mother.
Death of Joan Robinson Hill. The death of Joan Robinson Hill at 38 years old led to her husband, John Hill, becoming the first person to be indicted by the State of Texas on the charge of murder by omission. The case precipitated a series of events that included the 1972 murder of John Hill and, two years later, the fatal police shooting of the ...
Joan Olive Robinson Hill (February 6, 1931 – March 19, 1969) was a socialite and equestrian from Houston, Texas. Her unexplained death at age 38 led to her husband, John Hill, becoming the first person to be indicted by the state of Texas on the charge of murder by omission. The case precipitated a series of events that included the 1972 ...
FCI Cumberland, Maryland, U.S. Jeffrey Robert MacDonald (born October 12, 1943) is an American former medical doctor and United States Army captain who was convicted in August 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters in February 1970 while serving as an Army Special Forces physician. MacDonald has always proclaimed his innocence of ...
Murder ofMichele Marie Somers MacNeill. Michele Marie MacNeill, née Somers, (January 15, 1957 – April 11, 2007) was an American homemaker and model. Michele was married for nearly 30 years to the physician Martin MacNeill and was the mother of eight children. She died in Pleasant Grove, Utah, on April 11, 2007, while at home recovering from ...
John David Smith III (born April 2, 1951) [citation needed] is an American murderer convicted in 2001 of killing his first wife in 1974 and also has been indicted on charges for the 1991 murder of his second wife. Skull fragments found in a locker owned by him belong to a third unidentified woman; they're the basis of an ongoing "Jane Doe ...
Michael Iver Peterson (born October 23, 1943) is an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, on December 9, 2001. After eight years, Peterson was granted a new trial after the judge ruled a critical prosecution witness gave misleading testimony. [1] In 2017, Peterson submitted an Alford plea ...
John Schneeberger (born 1961) is a North Rhodesian-born criminal who drugged and sexually assaulted one of his female patients and also his stepdaughter while working as a physician in Canada. For years, he evaded arrest by implanting a fake blood sample inside a plastic tube in his arm, which confounded DNA test results.