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Classification:  Murderer Characteristics:  Altercation Number of victims:  1 Date of murder:  July 17, 2013 Date of arrest:  Same day Date of birth:  1 993 Victim profile:  Gary Bell Edens, 51 Method of murder:  Shooting Location:  Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, USA Status:  Pleaded guilty. Sentenced to 155 months, or nearly 13 years, in prison on February 27, 2014 Topeka woman sentenced to 13 years for July 2013 murder of 51-year-old Lawrence man By Stephen Montemayor - Ljworld.com February 28, 2014 Seven months after seeing his father shot dead during an altercation at his Lawrence home, Jeremy Edens stood in Douglas County District Court and directed his gaze at the woman who pleaded guilty to the shooting. “You took a good man’s life,” said Edens, 29, who appeared while in custody and serving an unrelated sentence in Henry County in Missouri. He addressed 20-year-old Brittny Marie Adams, of Topeka, who was sentenced Friday to 155...

Classification:  Murderer Characteristics:  Erotically asphyxiating her lover and then cutting off his penis and testicles Number of victims:  1 Date of murder:  May 18, 1936 Date of arrest:  3 days after Date of birth:  May 28, 1905 Victim profile:  Kichizo Ishida, 42  (her lover) Method of murder:  Strangulation Location:  Tokyo, Japan Status:  Convicted of murder in the second degree and mutilation of a corpse on December 21, 1936. Sentenced to 6 years in prison. Sentence commuted on November 10, 1940. Released on May 17, 1941. Died after 1970 Sada Abe  ( 阿部 定   Abe Sada , May 28, 1905 – after 1970) was a Japanese woman who is remembered for erotically asphyxiating her lover,  Kichizo Ishida  ( 石田 吉蔵   Ishida Kichizō ), on May 18, 1936, and then cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them around with her in her handbag. The story became a national sensation in Japan, acquiring mythic overto...