• Murder in Wyoming law constitutes the intentional killing, under circumstances defined by law, of people within or under the jurisdiction of the U.S....
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  • In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy of acts, known collectively as homicide...
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  • Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998. He was taken by rescuers to Poudre Valley Hospital in...
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    outlets, his murder has resulted in "a shift in American culture" toward LGBT rights. A 2017 poll found a majority of Wyoming residents are in favor of same-sex...
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  • list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Wyoming. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement...
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  • Great Basin Murders is the name given to a series of murders of at least nine women committed between 1983 and 1997 across the states of Wyoming, Utah, Nevada...
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  • among law enforcement agencies. "Wind River Agency | Indian Affairs". www.bia.gov. Retrieved 2023-03-19. Missing & Murdered Indigenous People. Wyoming Survey...
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  • 1996 in Wyoming. Most of the victims were young women who initially disappeared, only to be later found murdered. Because Kimmell's body was located in a...
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  • Murder, as defined in common law countries, is the unlawful killing of another human being with intent (or malice aforethought), and generally this state...
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    Zone of Death (Yellowstone) (category United States Sixth Amendment case law)
    for any major crime, up to and including murder. The United States District Court for the District of Wyoming is currently the only United States district...
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  • Hopkinson in 1992 for ordering the murder of four people. As of March, 2022, there are no defendants who are sentenced to death in Wyoming. The last defendant...
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  • Mark Hopkinson (category People convicted of murder by Wyoming)
    of Wyoming in 1992 for the murders of Vincent Vehar, Beverly Vehar, John Vehar, and Jeffrey Green. He is the only person to have been executed in Wyoming...
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  • Trial of Ed Cantrell (category Murder trials in the United States)
    State of Wyoming v. Ed Cantrell (officially the State of Wyoming v. Edward Lee Cantrell) was a state trial of Wyoming police officer Ed Cantrell for the...
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    Tom Horn (category People convicted of murder by Wyoming)
    throughout the West, Horn was convicted in 1902 of the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell near Iron Mountain, Wyoming. Willie was the son of sheep rancher...
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  • The rule of felony murder is a legal doctrine in some common law jurisdictions that broadens the crime of murder: when someone is killed (regardless of...
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    international media in 1998 after the murder of Matthew Shepard, who was a gay student at the University of Wyoming. His murder generated an international...
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    Gerry Spence (category University of Wyoming College of Law alumni)
    with Murder (2015). Spence graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1949 and from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1952 and was first in his...
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    Dennis Shepard (category People from Casper, Wyoming)
    Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old student at University of Wyoming who was murdered in October 1998 in what became one of the most high-profiled cases highlighting...
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  • The University of Wyoming (UW) is a public land-grant research university in Laramie, Wyoming, United States. It was founded in March 1886, four years...
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    The Laramie Project (category Plays set in Wyoming)
    about the reaction to the 1998 murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. The murder was denounced as a hate crime...
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  • 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between November 1957 and January 1958, when he was...
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    A. J. Rosier (category People murdered in Wyoming)
    served in the Wyoming Senate from 1927 until his murder in 1932. Rosier was a member of the Republican Party and represented Carbon County in the legislature...
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    Justifiable homicide is not identified in WISQARS." In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction. In many US jurisdictions there is a hierarchy...
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  • drove the van from Wyoming back to his parents' Florida home and refused to discuss her whereabouts. He was deemed a person of interest in the case and an...
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  • Evanston, Wyoming. That bombing killed attorney Vincent Vehar, his wife, and one of his sons. While in prison awaiting trial for the Vehar murders, Hopkinson...
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    as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War, was a range conflict that took place in Johnson County, Wyoming from 1889 to 1893. The conflict began...
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  • feature of American criminal law. Initially, it was widely believed by scholars that the felony murder rule had originated in England. However, more recent...
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    is a city in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. The city's population was 10,682 at the 2020 census, making it the most populous city in the county...
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    County, Wyoming. It is located in the High Plains. The town was founded in July 1886, by Frank S. Lusk, a renowned Wyoming rancher, partner in the Western...
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  • jurisdiction of the Court for the District of Wyoming, there are no residents available to form a jury for crimes committed in this specific "Venn diagram" location...
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