Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, the Glossary
Henry Lee McCollum (born March 26, 1964) and Leon Brown (born November 24, 1967) are two African American men who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for a murder they did not commit.[1]
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89 relations: African Americans, Alibi, American Psychiatric Association, Amusement arcade, Ancestry.com, Antipsychotic, Antonin Scalia, Asphyxia, Block letters, Capital punishment, Chief of police, Christian ministry, Combined DNA Index System, Cumberland County, North Carolina, Death Penalty Information Center, Detective, Deutsche Welle, District attorney, Engagement, Exoneration, False confession, False evidence, Fayetteville, North Carolina, Forced confession, Fraud, Gang rape, Gas chamber, Gaston County, North Carolina, Genetic testing, Governor of North Carolina, Group home, Guinness World Records, Harry Blackmun, Intellectual disability, Intelligence quotient, Interrogation, Jersey City, New Jersey, Joe Freeman Britt, Law and order (politics), Lethal injection, Life imprisonment, Life imprisonment in the United States, List of ethnic slurs, List of wrongful convictions in the United States, Literacy, Miranda warning, Miscarriage of justice, Mug shot, Murder in United States law, National Registry of Exonerations, ... Expand index (39 more) »
- People convicted of murder by North Carolina
- People with intellectual disability
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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Alibi
An alibi (from the Latin, alibī, meaning "somewhere else") is a statement by a person under suspicion in a crime that they were in a different place when the offence was committed.
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American Psychiatric Association
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychiatrists and trainee psychiatrists in the United States, and the largest psychiatric organization in the world.
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Amusement arcade
An amusement arcade, also known as a video arcade, amusements, arcade, or penny arcade (an older term), is a venue where people play arcade games, including arcade video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, merchandisers (such as claw cranes), or coin-operated billiards or air hockey tables.
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Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.
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Antipsychotic
Antipsychotics, previously known as neuroleptics and major tranquilizers, are a class of psychotropic medication primarily used to manage psychosis (including delusions, hallucinations, paranoia or disordered thought), principally in schizophrenia but also in a range of other psychotic disorders.
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Antonin Scalia
Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016.
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Asphyxia
Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body which arises from abnormal breathing.
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Block letters
Block letters (known as printscript, manuscript, print writing or ball and stick in academics) are a sans-serif (or "gothic") style of writing Latin script in which the letters are individual glyphs, with no joining.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.
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Chief of police
A chief of police (COP) is the title given to an appointed official or an elected one in the chain of command of a police department, particularly in North America.
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Christian ministry
In Christianity, ministry is an activity carried out by Christians to express or spread their faith, the prototype being the Great Commission.
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Combined DNA Index System
The Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) is the United States national DNA database created and maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Cumberland County, North Carolina
Cumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Death Penalty Information Center
The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on disseminating studies and reports related to the death penalty.
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Detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency.
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Deutsche Welle
("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
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District attorney
In the United States, a district attorney (DA), county attorney, county prosecutor, state's attorney, prosecuting attorney, commonwealth's attorney, state attorney or solicitor is the chief prosecutor or chief law enforcement officer representing a U.S. state in a local government area, typically a county or a group of counties.
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Engagement
An engagement or betrothal is the period of time between the declaration of acceptance of a marriage proposal and the marriage itself (which is typically but not always commenced with a wedding).
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Exoneration
Exoneration occurs when the conviction for a crime is reversed, either through demonstration of innocence, a flaw in the conviction, or otherwise.
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False confession
A false confession is an admission of guilt for a crime which the individual did not commit.
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False evidence
False evidence, fabricated evidence, forged evidence, fake evidence or tainted evidence is information created or obtained illegally in order to sway the verdict in a court case.
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Fayetteville, North Carolina
Fayetteville is a city in and the county seat of Cumberland County, North Carolina, United States.
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Forced confession
A forced confession is a confession obtained from a suspect or a prisoner by means of torture (including enhanced interrogation techniques) or other forms of duress.
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Fraud
In law, fraud is intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.
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Gang rape
In scholarly literature and criminology, gang rape, also called serial gang rape, party rape, group rape, or multiple perpetrator rape,Ullman, S. E. (2013).
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Gas chamber
A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced.
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Gaston County, North Carolina
Gaston County is a county in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Genetic testing
Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, is used to identify changes in DNA sequence or chromosome structure.
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Governor of North Carolina
The governor of North Carolina is the head of government of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Group home
A group home, congregate living facility, care home (the latter especially in British English and Australian English), adult family home, etc., is a structured and supervised residence model that provides assisted living and medical care for those with complex health needs.
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Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Harry Blackmun
Harry Andrew Blackmun (November 12, 1908 – March 4, 1999) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 to 1994.
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Intellectual disability
Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom) and formerly mental retardation (in the United States),Rosa's Law, Pub.
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Intelligence quotient
An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardised tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence.
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Interrogation
Interrogation (also called questioning) is interviewing as commonly employed by law enforcement officers, military personnel, intelligence agencies, organized crime syndicates, and terrorist organizations with the goal of eliciting useful information, particularly information related to suspected crime.
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Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City is the second-most populous, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
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Joe Freeman Britt
Joe Freeman Britt (July 23, 1935 – April 6, 2016) was an American attorney and judge who developed a national reputation as a tough prosecutor, and for successfully pursuing a large number of death penalty convictions.
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Law and order (politics)
In modern politics, "law and order" is an ideological approach focusing on harsher enforcement and penalties as ways to reduce crime.
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Lethal injection
Lethal injection is the practice of injecting one or more drugs into a person (typically a barbiturate, paralytic, and potassium solution) for the express purpose of causing rapid death.
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Life imprisonment
Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term).
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Life imprisonment in the United States
In the United States, life imprisonment is the most severe punishment provided by law in states with no valid capital punishment statute, and second-most in those with a valid statute.
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List of ethnic slurs
The following is a list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnic, national, or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner.
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List of wrongful convictions in the United States
This list of wrongful convictions in the United States includes people who have been legally exonerated, including people whose convictions have been overturned or vacated, and who have not been retried because the charges were dismissed by the states. Henry McCollum and Leon Brown and list of wrongful convictions in the United States are overturned convictions in the United States.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
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Miranda warning
In the United States, the Miranda warning is a type of notification customarily given by police to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial interrogation) advising them of their right to silence and, in effect, protection from self-incrimination; that is, their right to refuse to answer questions or provide information to law enforcement or other officials.
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Miscarriage of justice
A miscarriage of justice occurs when an unfair outcome occurs in a criminal or civil proceeding, such as the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit.
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Mug shot
A mug shot or mugshot (an informal term for police photograph or booking photograph) is a photographic portrait of a person from the shoulders up, typically taken after a person is placed under arrest.
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Murder in United States law
In the United States, the law for murder varies by jurisdiction.
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National Registry of Exonerations
The National Registry of Exonerations is a project of the University of Michigan Law School, Michigan State University College of Law and the University of California Irvine Newkirk Center for Science and Society. Henry McCollum and Leon Brown and National Registry of Exonerations are overturned convictions in the United States.
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Neuropsychology
Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology concerned with how a person's cognition and behavior are related to the brain and the rest of the nervous system.
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North Carolina Democratic Party
The North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) is the North Carolina affiliate of the Democratic Party.
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North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
The North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (DJJDP) was a state agency of North Carolina, headquartered in Raleigh.
North Carolina Republican Party
The North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) is the affiliate of the Republican Party in North Carolina.
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North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) is a state-level law enforcement agency in North Carolina.
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North Carolina Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of the State of North Carolina is the state of North Carolina's highest appellate court.
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Objection (United States law)
In the law of the United States of America, an objection is a formal protest to evidence, argument, or questions that are in violation of the rules of evidence or other procedural law.
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Overturned convictions in the United States
This is a list of notable overturned convictions in the United States.
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Pat McCrory
Patrick Lloyd McCrory (born October 17, 1956) is an American politician, businessman, and radio host who served as the 74th governor of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017.
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People (magazine)
People is an American weekly magazine that specializes in celebrity news and human-interest stories.
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Personal injury
Personal injury is a legal term for an injury to the body, mind, or emotions, as opposed to an injury to property.
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Procuring (prostitution)
Procuring, pimping, or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or other sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer.
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Psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental health hospitals, or behavioral health hospitals are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of severe mental disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, major depressive disorder, and others.
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Psychosis
Psychosis is a condition of the mind or psyche that results in difficulties determining what is real and what is not real.
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Public housing
Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local.
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Racial Justice Act
The North Carolina Racial Justice Act of 2009 prohibited seeking or imposing the death penalty on the basis of race.
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Readability
Readability is the ease with which a reader can understand a written text.
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Red Springs, North Carolina
Red Springs is a town in Robeson County in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Robeson County, North Carolina
Robeson County, from the North Carolina Collection website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Scotland County, North Carolina
Scotland County is a county located in the southern part of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Serial killer
A serial killer (also called a serial murderer) is a person who murders two or more people,An offender can be anyone.
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Serial rapist
A serial rapist is someone who commits multiple rapes, whether with multiple victims or a single victim repeatedly over a period of time.
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Sex offender
A sex offender (sexual offender, sex abuser, or sexual abuser) is a person who has committed a sex crime.
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Stephen Breyer
Stephen Gerald Breyer (born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1994 until his retirement in 2022.
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Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Terrence Boyle
Terrence William Boyle (born December 22, 1945) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
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The Charlotte Observer
The Charlotte Observer is an American newspaper serving Charlotte, North Carolina, and its metro area.
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The Fayetteville Observer
The Fayetteville Observer is an American English-language daily newspaper published in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
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The Herald-Sun (Durham, North Carolina)
The Herald-Sun is an American, English language daily newspaper in Durham, North Carolina, published by the McClatchy Company.
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The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project is a nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about inequities within the U.S. criminal justice system.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The News & Observer
The News & Observer is an American regional daily newspaper that serves the greater Triangle area based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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The Robesonian
The Robesonian is a newspaper published in Lumberton, North Carolina, Tuesday through Friday afternoon and Saturday and Sunday morning.
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United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts.
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United States district court
The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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University of Michigan
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
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See also
People convicted of murder by North Carolina
- Asbury Respus
- Barbara Stager
- Blanche Taylor Moore
- Crystal Mangum
- David Marshall Williams
- Desmond Keith Carter
- Earl Richmond (serial killer)
- Edward Hartman
- Elias Syriani
- Frankie Stewart Silver
- Gary Hilton
- Henry Louis Wallace
- Henry McCollum and Leon Brown
- Herman Allen
- James Opelton Bradley
- James W. Hutchins
- Kermit Smith Jr.
- Lesley Eugene Warren
- Linwood Forte
- Marcus Robinson (prisoner)
- Michael Peterson trial
- Nicholas Todd Sutton
- Peter Lundin
- Phillip Ingle
- Quincy Allen
- Rae Carruth
- Raymond Dayle Rowsey
- Robbie Lyons
- Robert Sylvester Alston
- Ronald Gray
- Samuel Cooper (serial killer)
- Samuel Flippen
- Scott Williams (serial killer)
- Sean Patrick Goble
- Steven Van McHone
- Terry Hyatt
- Tom Dula
- Velma Barfield
People with intellectual disability
- Alonzo Clemons
- Anne McDonald
- Anthony Torrone
- Archduchess Marie Anne of Austria
- Benoni Buck
- Bobby Wayne Woods
- Brooke Greenberg
- Doyle Hamm
- Earl Washington Jr.
- Emperor An of Jin
- Ernest Lee Johnson
- Hannah Ocuish
- Henry McCollum and Leon Brown
- Henry, Duke of Parma
- Hikari Ōe
- Infante Philip, Duke of Calabria
- James "Radio" Kennedy
- Joe Arridy
- Johnny Avalos
- Johnny Paul Penry
- Joseph, Duke of Parma
- Ledell Lee
- Leslie Lemke
- María Fernanda Castro Maya
- Martin Bryant
- Morris Mason
- Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon
- Nikko Jenkins
- Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät
- Princess Maria Karoline of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Rosemary Kennedy
- Tan Ping Koon
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_McCollum_and_Leon_Brown
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