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She is identified in available records as having held the role of second lady of Virginia.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/04/Cerina_Fairfax.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerina_Fairfax", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Murder", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-murder" } }, { "name": "Murder of Danny Parrish American convicted murderer dead at age 53", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/murder-of-danny-parrish", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 53, "death_date": "2026-03-03", "reported_date": "2026-03-03", "published_at": "2026-03-03T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "criminals" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Billy Leon Kearse, an American convicted murderer, died on March 3, 2026, at Florida State Prison in Florida, according to records provided. Kearse was found guilty of murdering Fort Pierce police sergeant Danny Thomas Parrish, who was shot and killed on January 18, 1991, after stopping Kearse for driving the wrong way down a one-way street. During the encounter, Kearse struggled with Parrish, grabbed his gun, and fired 13 shots, resulting in the officer’s death. Kearse was sentenced to death on November 8, 1991, and was executed 35 years after the killing.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Billy_Leon_Kearse.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Leon_Kearse", "cause_of_death": { "label": "Execution", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-execution" } }, { "name": "Sidney Dorsey American sheriff and convicted murderer dead at age 86", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/sidney-dorsey", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 86, "death_date": "2026-03-02", "reported_date": "2026-03-02", "published_at": "2026-03-02T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "criminals" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Sidney Dorsey, an American sheriff and convicted murderer, died on March 2, 2026, at age 86. He served as the first African American sheriff of DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1996 to 2000. After losing a 2000 runoff election to challenger Derwin Brown, Dorsey arranged to have Brown murdered. He was later sentenced to life in prison for the killing.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Dorsey", "cause_of_death": { "label": "murder", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-murder" } }, { "name": "Murder of Samuel Paty", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/murder-of-samuel-paty", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 18, "death_date": "2020-10-18", "reported_date": "2020-10-18", "published_at": "2020-10-18T18:45:02+01:00", "nationality": [ "Russia" ], "description": "Russian Islamic militant (Murder of Samuel Paty)", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Samuel_Paty" }, { "name": "Murder of Leiby Kletzky American convicted killer dead at age 49", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/murder-of-leiby-kletzky", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 49, "death_date": "2011-07-12", "reported_date": "2011-07-12", "published_at": "2011-07-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "criminals" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Leiby Kletzky, an American convicted killer, died on July 12, 2011. Kletzky was the 8-year-old Hasidic Jewish boy whose kidnapping on July 11, 2011, in Borough Park, Brooklyn, prompted an extensive search by New York City police and thousands of Orthodox Jewish volunteers. His disappearance led to a block-by-block effort coordinated by the Brooklyn South Shomrim volunteer civilian patrol. His dismembered body was later found in Brooklyn, with police ultimately arresting Levi Aron in connection with the case.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2011/07/Levi_Aron.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Aron" }, { "name": "Soham murders School caretaker dead at age 52", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/soham-murders", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 52, "death_date": "2002-08-04", "reported_date": "2002-08-04", "published_at": "2002-08-04T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "victims of child murder", "criminals" ], "nationality": [ "Britain" ], "description": "Soham murders, identified in the record as a British murderer and school caretaker, died on August 4, 2002. On that date, two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Amiee Chapman, were lured into the home of a local resident and school caretaker in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England. Both children were murdered, most likely by asphyxiation, and their bodies were later found in an irrigation ditch near RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk on August 17, 2002.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2002/08/Ian_Huntley.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Huntley", "cause_of_death": { "label": "murder", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-murder" } } ], "page": 1, "per_page": 100, "total": 7, "total_pages": 1, "count": 7 }