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U.S. cases, plus the Bernardo–Homolka case in Canada.
1999
Sixteen-year-olds Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible disappeared after a fire at the Freeman family’s Oklahoma home in 1999. Ashley’s parents, Danny and Kathy, had been killed, and the girls were missing from the scene. The investigation became a prolonged search for the teenagers alongside efforts to establish who carried out the killings.
1974–1984
Nuclear worker and union activist Karen Silkwood raised concerns about safety at a Kerr-McGee facility and experienced plutonium contamination. She died in a car crash while pursuing those concerns. Litigation over contamination reached the Supreme Court; the circumstances of her death remain separate from that civil case.
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