Bestgore.com received media attention in 2012 for hosting a video of the murder of an international student of what nationality?
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Bestgore.com Bestgore.com is a Canadian shock site owned by Mark Marek, which provides highly violent real-life news, photos and videos, with authored opinion and user comments. The site received media attention in 2012, following the hosting of a video which showed a real-life murder being committed by Luka Magnotta. As a result, Marek was arrested and charged under Canada's obscenity law with corrupting public morals.
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Luka Magnotta Luka Rocco Magnotta (born Eric Clinton Kirk Newman; July 24, 1982) is a Canadian murderer, convicted of killing and dismembering Lin Jun, a Chinese international student, before mailing Jun's hands and feet to elementary schools and federal political party offices. This act gained international notoriety. After a video depicting the murder was posted online in May 2012, Magnotta fled Canada, becoming the subject of an Interpol Red Notice and prompting an international manhunt. He was apprehended at an Internet café in Berlin while reading news about himself in June 2012. After eight days of deliberations, a jury convicted him of first-degree murder on December 23, 2014. He was previously sought by animal rights groups for allegedly uploading videos of himself killing kittens.
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Dawson College shooting The Dawson College shooting occurred on September 13, 2006 at Dawson College, a CEGEP located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The perpetrator, Kimveer Gill, began shooting outside the de Maisonneuve Boulevard entrance to the school, and moved towards the atrium by the cafeteria on the main floor. One victim died at the scene, while another 19 were injured, eight of whom were listed in critical condition, with six requiring surgery. The shooter later committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, after being shot in the arm by a police officer. It was the third fatal school shooting in Montreal, after the École Polytechnique massacre in 1989 and the shooting spree at Concordia University in 1992.
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Elshad Abdullayev Elshad Islam oglu Abdullayev (Azerbaijani: "Elşad Abdullayev" ; born 25 September 1961, Kurdamir) is an Azerbaijani lawyer and former university rector who gained wide popularity in 2012 after producing and publishing hidden camera videos, raising public and international awareness of corruption in the Azerbaijani government. The controversy that arose as a result came to be known as the Gulargate scandal, after former MP Gular Ahmadova of the ruling New Azerbaijan Party, who featured in the first video.
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Haile Thomas Haile Thomas (born December 23, 2000) is a Jamaican-American motivational speaker, youth health advocate, and vegan chef.
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Murder of Taylor Behl Taylor Marie Behl ( ; October 13, 1987 – September 6, 2005) was a 17-year-old college freshman from Vienna, Virginia. She moved to Richmond, Virginia, in August 2005 to attend Virginia Commonwealth University. About two weeks later on Labor Day, September 5, 2005, Behl disappeared. Acting on a tip one month later, VCU police located her remains at a rural area in Mathews County, Virginia. Behl's disappearance and death were the subject of a major police investigation and became an Internet cause célèbre. "Love You More: The Taylor Behl Story", a book written by her mother, was released on November 7, 2006.
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Karla Homolka Karla Leanne Homolka (born 4 May 1970), also known as Karla Leanne Teale and Leanne Bordelais, is a Canadian serial killer who, with her first husband Paul Bernardo, raped and murdered at least three minors. She attracted worldwide media attention when she was convicted of manslaughter following a plea bargain in the 1991 and 1992 rape-murders of two Ontario teenage girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, as well as the rape and death of her sister Tammy.
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Murder of Shanda Sharer Shanda Renee Sharer (June 6, 1979 – January 11, 1992) was an American girl who was tortured and burned to death in Madison, Indiana, by four teenage girls. She was 12 years old at the time of her death. The incident attracted international attention due to both the brutality of the murder and the young age of the perpetrators, who were aged between 15 and 17 years old. The case was covered on national programs such as "Dr. Phil" and has inspired a number of episodes on fictional crime shows.
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Murder of Dru Sjodin Dru Katrina Sjodin (September 26, 1981 – November 22, 2003) was a murder victim who was abducted from the Columbia Mall parking lot in Grand Forks, North Dakota, by Alfonso Rodriguez Jr., on November 22, 2003. Her disappearance garnered great media coverage throughout the United States and prompted the creation of the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry.
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Taras Kulakov Taras Kulakov (Russian: Тара́с Кулако́в ; ] ), better known as CrazyRussianHacker, is a Russian YouTuber best known for his "life hacks", scientific experiments (or in other terms: science experiment demonstration, science demonstrations), testing videos and his motto "Safety is number one priority." His YouTube channel, "CrazyRussianHacker", created on May 18, 2012, has over 2.7 billion views and 10 million subscribers (as of August 2017) and is one of the medium's top 200 channels. He has an estimated net worth of around $5 million. He owns two huskies, Hugo and Luke, and is an avid beekeeper. Recently (Mid-2017), Taras has acquired a white bird, which he has named 'Gamma.' He also has a second YouTube channel "Taras Kul" with over 2.8 million subscribers.
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Murder of Jason Spencer Jason Spencer (3 June 1989 – 6 March 2007) was an English teenager murdered on 6 March 2007 in Sherwood, Nottingham. Reuben Valentine later pleaded guilty to murder in a trial at the Nottingham Crown Court in October 2007. Valentine initially escaped but was later arrested.
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Rutube Rutube is a web video streaming service targeted at Russian speakers. The web site includes videos created by private individuals and licensed programming from entertainment companies that are hosted directly on Rutube, and videos that have been viewed on Facebook. As of April 2012, just under 14.5 million unique users per month viewed video clips hosted on Rutube (from a subset of Russian users aged 12–54). Rutube's overall monthly global traffic, as reported by representatives from Rutube, consists of 30 million unique visitors who viewed over 168 million video clips.
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Ralph Sepe Jr. Ralph Sepe Jr. (known online through his pseudonym ralphthemoviemaker) is an American filmmaker, actor and Internet personality. He is known for his online reviews of films, satirical content and his short films such as "The High" and "King Candy", which are known for their mature content.
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Jamie Lynn Corkish Jamie Lynn Corkish (formerly Gray, née Beyerle, born May 26, 1984) is an American sport shooter who won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Death of Malik Oussekine Malik Oussekine (1964 – 6 December 1986) was a French-Algerian student.
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Génesis Carmona Génesis Carmona (20 September 1991 – 19 February 2014) was a Venezuelan fashion model, beauty queen, and college student who was killed while protesting against the Government of Venezuela during the 2014 Venezuelan protests. She later became a symbol of protest against the Nicolás Maduro government during the time of demonstrations in the country.
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Girish Mistry Girish Mistry (born in Mumbai on September 5, 1960) is an Indian Photographer. Also an instructor who helped some of his students to win awards over best single picture under the category of college/university single images and College/University Digitally Constructed Single Image in 2011 contest by Photo Imaging Education Association.
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Karmein Chan Karmein Chan was a 13-year-old Australian girl who was abducted from her home at night in the Melbourne suburb of Templestowe on 13 April 1991 and was subsequently murdered.
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Murder of Maria Ladenburger Maria Ladenburger (6 December 1996 – 16 October 2016), a 19-year-old medical student from Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, was found raped and drowned on 16 October 2016 in the river Dreisam. On 3 December 2016, Freiburg police arrested a suspect who was identified by a hair found at the crime scene and a CCTV recording from inside a tram. DNA evidence linked him to the crime scene.
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Murder of Oksana Makar The murder of Oksana Makar took place in March 2012 in Ukraine, garnering extensive media coverage both at home and abroad and leading to mass protests. Oksana Makar, aged 18, was attacked by three men in the city of Mykolaiv on 8 March 2012: she was raped, strangled, set alight and left to die, though she survived another three weeks after being taken to hospital. Her case became a cause célèbre in Ukraine when only one of the attackers was charged by the police. The other two, whose parents were reported to be former government officials, were released on police bail, allegedly because of personal connections of their parents They were later rearrested after a public outcry and mass protests on 13 March. Protests demanding justice, to gather funds and encourage blood donations continued after the arrest as well.
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Murder of Michael Causer Michael Causer (9 October 1989 – 2 August 2008) was a gay teenager living in Liverpool, England, who came to national attention in the United Kingdom when he was seriously assaulted because of his sexual orientation in the early hours on the morning of 25 July 2008 after a small house party.
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Murder of Stacey Mitchell Stacey Mitchell (1990–18 December 2006) was a British-born girl living in Australia, who was murdered at the age of 16, on 18 December 2006, by lesbian couple Jessica Stasinowsky and Valerie Parashumti. She was bludgeoned with a concrete block and strangled with a chain. Her corpse was found in a wheelie bin shortly afterwards. Stasinowsky and Parashumti had known Mitchell for three days, and claimed they murdered her because they found her irritating.