One of Hollands most famous poets, Gerrit Achterberg, served years in prison for murdering his landlady in 1937.
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And was John Candy ever on SNL? I know that he did movies with SNL alums, but can’t remember him being a cast member.
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[OT]Candy just guest hosted. Although, he was invited and did almost join the cast of SNL after the debacle of the 1980-81 season.[/OT]
Do political figures who ordered people murdered count or is that similar to killing in a military context?
The painter Caravaggio murdered at least once, and some sources say he may have committed as many as three murders.
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Neither Wiki nor imdb say that it was a hit and run. At the time of the accident was it reported that she drove off without stopping? If she did drive off, did the cops find her or did she come forward voluntarily?
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According to pretty much every source, both Internet and print I could find, it was not a hit and run. Rebecca stopped immediately, got out of her car, and went to care for the boy. Accounts differ between whether she called 911 herself or asked someone else present to do it, but she definitely did not leave the scene of the accident. She also paid for the funeral and for grief counselling for the boy’s parents.
The only reason she was charged at all was because she was talking on a cellphone at the time. The poor kid was jaywalking on a busy street, and after reading the accounts, I really feel sorry for Rebecca as well as for the boy and his family. Rebecca’s was a tragic accident that could have happened to anybody.
Stuntman Gary McLarty shot and killed a man in 1991. He’s most famous for his one line in Blues Brothers. When asked if he’d like anything else to go with the toy muppet he’s carrying, he asks “Yes, do you have a Miss Piggy?” right before the car crashes into the Toys 'R Us. I
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Robert Blake was acquitted too. That doesn’t mean they’re both not murderers.
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Yeah, but the difference is, Fatty Arbuckle was almost certainly innocent.
Is there anything to the rumor that Ty Cobb killed a mugger who tried to rob him?
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William S. Burroughs shot and killed his girlfriend in a drunken game of “William Tell.”
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Hence my advice at the end of this thread.
Michael Massee shot and killed Brandon Lee on the set of The Crow. (It was an accident, and I don’t know how famous he was BEFORE the killing, though.)
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Is there anything to the rumor that Ty Cobb killed a mugger who tried to rob him?
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Busby Berkeley killed someone in an car accident. IIRC, he was driing drunk. He was tried but found not guilty. There were rumors that the studio had bribed jurors or the DA.
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Yeah, but the difference is, Fatty Arbuckle was almost certainly innocent.
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I was talking about O.J. Simpson and Robert Blake, not Fatty Arbuckle.
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Busby Berkeley killed someone in an car accident. IIRC, he was driing drunk. He was tried but found not guilty. There were rumors that the studio had bribed jurors or the DA.
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Hey! If the other driver had just stayed in step, it would never have happened!
(Okay, I’m going to hell for that one. At least it’ll be warm…)
Carl Mays won over 200 games as a major-league baseball pitcher, but is best known for throwing a pitch that killed Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman in 1920.
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Some people would add Michael Schiavo.
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Some people would add Tom DeLay.
William Randolph Hearst might qualify.
Going back a ways, playwright Ben Jonson killed actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel.
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Is there anything to the rumor that Ty Cobb killed a mugger who tried to rob him?
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Well, neither of them were celebrities, but Ty’s mother shot Ty’s father to death. According to the story on Ken Burn’s* Baseball* his dad was the jealous type and suspected his wife was having an affair. So he tried to sneak into his own house, when he was supposed to be out, to see if he could catch her. She shot the guy as he was coming through the window, and it was not determined if she really knew that it was her husband.
Charles Smith, formerly of the Boston Celtics, was found guilty of vehicular homicide after killing two college students in a hit and run accident in 1992.