Sneak Peek: True Crime by VaccaD

Mugshot! WHAT WOMAN is this?

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In 2011, a Manitoba woman was detained for trying to bring the “Surprise” version of WHAT CONFECTION into the United States in violation of FDA rules, which warn that “imbedded non-nutritive objects in these confectionary products may pose a public health risk”? The “Joy” version of this product, which places the “non-nutritive objects” in separate packaging, became available in the U.S. in 2017.

On November 22, 1987, a Chicago PBS station had its signal hijacked by a still-unknown person. The perpetrator stood in front of a rotating piece of corrugated metal and ranted about local journalists, quoted Coca-Cola slogans while holding a Pepsi can, made farting noises, and presented his bare buttocks to be spanked by an accomplice with a flyswatter -- all while wearing a mask of WHAT ANIMATED CHARACTER and sometime Coca-Cola pitchbeing?

WHAT NAME is most often given to 5-amino-2,3-dihydrophthalazine-1,4-dione, a chemical which glows bright blue when combined with an oxidant (such as a hydrogen peroxide solution) and a catalyst? Since one such catalyst is the blood component hematin, this chemical is used in crime scene investigations to check for traces of blood that may not be visible to the naked eye.

Anthony Hopkins, Richard Burton, Leonard Nimoy, and Anthony Perkins were among those who played the role of psychiatrist Martin Dysart in the original Broadway run of WHAT PETER SHAFFER PLAY based on a news story of the blinding of six horses in a small town near Suffolk?

TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED: In 1799's Manhattan Well Murder, Levi Weeks was accused of murdering Elma Sands. While this crime is notable as the first American murder trial for which there is a recorded transcript, there is added intrigue in that WHAT TWO ATTORNEYS (later paired in a notorious true crime five years later) joined future Supreme Court justice Henry Brockholst Livingston for the defense?

Mugshot! WHAT MAN is this? (Note: not technically a mugshot.)

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In 2010,Thomas Hargrove created an SPSS algorithm to predict the presence of a serial killer from a community's crime statistics, and showed that it inferred the presence of Seattle’s Green River Killer from historical data. WHAT AMERICAN CITY, in which serial killer Darren Vann was arrested in 2012, did the algorithm find most likely to host an undetected serial killer? Coincidentally, the city’s name is also the Green River Killer’s real first name.

WHAT NAME is generally given to the 1963 heist in which a 15-person gang led by Bruce Reynolds stole £2.6 million from somewhere between Glasgow and London? (Ledburn, Buckinghamshire, to be more precise.) It shares its name with a hugely influential American silent film of 1903.

Two years after being shortlisted for the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, WHAT AUTHOR of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and Confessions of a Mask led a small group of supporters onto a military base, took the commander hostage, and unsuccessfully urged the soldiers to thwart the spread of Communism by overthrowing his country’s democratic and pacifistic constitution?

In 1978, punk rocker Sid Vicious was arrested for the murder of WHAT WOMAN, his girlfriend and manager? (He was never tried, as he died of an overdose four months later while out on bail.)

The 1990 NBA Hoops card of WHAT NEW YORK KNICKS GUARD (and future Golden State Warriors head coach) cannot be sold on eBay because of the site's prohibition against "selling anything affiliated with murders or serial killers"? In this case, it's not the player that's at issue, but rather seeing Lyle and Eric Menendez in the background, sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden.