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seven followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh were convicted for being part of a 1985 assassination plot to murder the United States Attorney for the District of Oregon?

the gravestone of executed murderer, Floyd Allen supposedly read in part, "judicially murdered by the State of Virginia over the protests of more than 100,000 of its citizens"?

in the 1806 George Sweeney Trial, the murderer of a founding father of the United States, George Wythe, went free because testimony from black witnesses against a white man was not allowed?

in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, when Dorothy Talbye fell into despair with fits of violence in 1638, she was excommunicated from the church, bound and chained to a post, publicly whipped and finally, after murdering her daughter, hanged?

in 1846, Albert Tirrell became the first to successfully use sleepwalking as a defense for murder and arson in the United States?

in 1922, the Chicago Police Department attempted to frame local labor leader Fred Mader for murder?

the Indian politician Jamuna Nishad was dropped as cabinet minister after being named in the murder case of a police constable?

the Strangeways Prison inmate Gordon Park was convicted of murdering his first wife 28 years after the fact?

the 7th Earl of Pembroke was convicted of murder but pardoned by King Charles II?

the scandalous murder of silent film director William Desmond Taylor has never been solved?

the Abergil Crime Family is facing charges of money laundering, murder and drug trafficking, both in Israel and the United States?

the venomous snake used for murder in Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" is most likely the Indian Cobra or one of its hybrids?

the murder of Michael Francke while he was at work became the basis of the movie Without Evidence?

German tailor Franz Muller committed the first murder on a British train, in 1864?

Come Out by composer Steve Reich was made out of the recorded speech of a young man injured in a race riot who was wrongly arrested for murder?

Scotland Yard introduced the murder bag forensics kit after a police officer was reported to have scooped chunks of flesh from a murder victim into a bucket with his bare hands?

serial killer Nannie Doss was given the moniker "The Jolly Black Widow" after confessing to the murder of four of her five husbands?

Methodist minister Ephraim Kingsbury Avery is amongst the first clergymen known to have been tried for murder in the United States?

Louisiana Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand was overruled in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the exclusion of two blacks as jurors in a high-profile murder case?

Korean independence activist Jang In-hwan used Arthur Schopenhauer's "patriotic insanity" defense when on trial for the murder of Japan lobbyist Durham Stevens, in San Francisco in 1908?

Abraham Shakespeare, an illiterate casual laborer, won a $17 million Florida Lotto jackpot in 2006, but was murdered three years later?

Death Risk Rankings, nicknamed the "death calculator", allows users to view their chance of dying of sixty-six causes of death, such as murder, in a twelve-month span?

Alfred and Albert Stratton were the first men to be convicted of murder in the United Kingdom through fingerprint evidence?

Victor Chang AC was a famous Australian heart surgeon and was murdered on 4 July 1991, following an extortion attempt on his family?

Richard Honeck, an American murder convict, was freed after serving 64 years of a life sentence, reputedly the longest prison term which ended in parole?

Kirk o' Field (pictured) in Edinburgh was the location of one of the world's great unsolved historical mysteries, the murder of Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary Queen of Scots, in 1567?

Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa committed murder, kidnapping, racketeering, and tax evasion during the 1990s, all in an attempt to establish a chain of gas stations in New York City?

French physician Edme Castaing is thought to have been the first person to commit murder using morphine, 18 years after it was discovered?

Murder

1 What role did Rajendranath Zutshi play in the movie Murder?

2 Who played CID Inspector the movie Murder?

3 Who played Angela Maurer the movie Murder?

4 Who played Simran Saigal the movie Murder?

5 What role did Aaron McCusker play in the movie Murder?

6 What role did Ashmit Patel play in the movie Murder?

7 Who played D.S. T J Holland the movie Murder?

8 Who played DCI Billie Dory the movie Murder?

9 What role did Ralph Michael play in the movie Murder?

10 Who played Willy the movie Murder?

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