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Cyril Harrison Wecht (March 20, 1931 – May 13, 2024) was an American forensic pathologist. He was president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine, and headed the board of trustees of the American Board of Legal Medicine. [10] Wecht served as County Commissioner and Allegheny County ...
The Pittsburgh crime family, [ 4 ] also known as the LaRocca crime family[ 5 ] or the Pittsburgh Mafia, was an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ][ 6 ] The LaRocca family is one of the original twenty-six Mafia families in the United States. [ 7 ] The boss and last known " made " member of the family ...
Nicholas Peter Papadakos[1] (January 24, 1925, in Hoboken, New Jersey – September 11, 2017 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania) [2] was a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice who served eleven years on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, retiring in 1995, and eight years as an Allegheny County judge before that. Papadakos is most recognized for his ...
Christine Donohue. Christine L. Donohue (born December 25, 1952) [1] is a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. [2][3] Prior to her election to that court in 2015, [4] she was an elected member of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, a seat she had held since 2008. She had also performed nearly three decades of service as a trial lawyer ...
Robert Ward Duggan (January 27, 1926 – March 5, 1974) [1] served as Allegheny County District Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for a decade, from January 1964 until his shooting death under mysterious circumstances in March 1974. He had been under investigation by then- United States District Attorney Richard Thornburgh for corruption. [2][3]
Lamb is the grandfather of Conor Lamb (b. 1984), an attorney, former federal prosecutor, Captain in the United States Marine Corps, and the U.S. representative from Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district. Lamb died in Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, on May 7, 2015. He was buried with a Catholic funeral. References
Killed. 5. Injured. 1. Weapons. .357 Smith & Wesson revolver. Richard Scott Baumhammers (born May 17, 1965) [1] is an American former immigration attorney and spree killer who began a racially motivated crime spree on April 28, 2000, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which left five individuals dead and one paralyzed.
David Leo Lawrence (June 18, 1889 – November 21, 1966) was an American politician who served as the 37th governor of Pennsylvania from 1959 to 1963. The first Catholic elected as Pennsylvania's governor, Lawrence is the only mayor of Pittsburgh to have also been elected as Governor of Pennsylvania. He served four terms as mayor, from 1946 ...