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Pencil sketch of Marc Dutroux made by Cart /Ann-Sophie Qvarnström. Original art. Sketch made and scanned directly afterwards. This is not done from one specific photo. As I usually do when I draw portraits of people that I can't see in person, I look at a lot of photos of them and then create my own rendition of them.
Photo: W.carter · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Child sexual abuseSolved

Marc Dutroux case

Marc Paul Alain Dutroux (French: [maʁk pɔl alɛ̃ dytʁu]; born 6 November 1956) is a Belgian convicted serial killer, serial rapist, and serial child molester.

Place
Multiple locations in Belgium, Belgium
Date
1995–1996
Sources
2 cited
Erik Galen Menéndez (right) and Joseph Lyle Menéndez (left)’s mugshots taken in Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California. Today they are 53 and 56 years old. They have been imprisoned since 1996.
Photo: These pictures are mugshots taken by the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California. · Public domain ↗
HomicideSolved

Menendez brothers case

Joseph Lyle Menendez (born January 10, 1968) and Erik Galen Menendez (born November 27, 1970), commonly referred to as the Menendez brothers, are American brothers convicted of killing their parents, José and Mary Louise "Kitty" Menendez, in their Beverly Hills home in 1989.

Place
Beverly Hills, California, United States
Date
20 Aug 1989
Sources
2 cited
A street in Adachi, Tokyo, providing geographic context for the case
Photo: Kentin · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
HomicideSolved

Murder of Junko Furuta

Junko Furuta (Japanese: 古田 順子, Hepburn: Furuta Junko; 18 January 1971 – 4 January 1989) was a 17-year-old Japanese high school student who was abducted and killed.

Place
Adachi, Tokyo, Japan
Date
25 Nov 1988–4 Jan 1989
Sources
2 cited
Italian reporter in front of family Fritzl’s home (Ybbsstraße, Amstetten in Austria)
Photo: wisdom · CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗
KidnappingSolved

Fritzl case

Three children remained in captivity with their mother, one died shortly after birth and was cremated by Fritzl, and the other three were brought up in the family home upstairs by Fritzl and his wife Rosemarie, after Fritzl convinced her and the authorities that they were foundlings each time.

Place
Amstetten, Austria
Date
1984–2008
Sources
2 cited
Uluru in Australia's Northern Territory, where Azaria Chamberlain disappeared
Photo: Dietmar Rabich · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗
Wrongful convictionSolved

Azaria Chamberlain case

Azaria Chantel Loren Chamberlain (11 June 1980, Mount Isa – 17 August 1980, Uluru / Ayers Rock) was a nine-week-old Australian baby girl who was killed by a dingo on the night of 17 August 1980 during a family camping trip to Uluru (Ayers Rock) in the Northern Territory.

Place
Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia
Date
17 Aug 1980
Sources
2 cited
Millgarth Police Station in Leeds. Taken on the afternoon of Saturday the 3rd October 2009.
Photo: Mtaylor848 · CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗
HomicideSolved

Yorkshire Ripper murders

Peter William Sutcliffe (2 June 1946 – 13 November 2020), also known as Peter Coonan, was an English serial killer and HGV driver who was convicted of murdering thirteen women and girls, and attempting to murder seven others between 1975 and 1980.

Place
Northern England, United Kingdom
Date
1975–1980
Sources
2 cited