August age George W Bush July age From Left President Obama with former Presidents George W Bush Bill Clinton George H W Bush and Jimmy Carter at the dedication of the George W Bush Presidential Center at Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas in April January End of presidency n a Career average July Retrospective As a sitting president Reagan did not have the highest approval ratings but his popularity has increased since Gallup polls in and ranked him number one or number two when correspondents were asked for the greatest president in history Reagan ranked third of post–World War II presidents in a Rasmussen Reports poll fifth in an ABC poll ninth in another Rasmussen poll and eighth in a late poll by United Kingdom newspaper The Times In a Siena College survey of over historians however Reagan ranked sixteenth out of While the debate about Reagan s legacy is ongoing the Annual C SPAN Survey of Presidential Leaders ranked Reagan the th greatest president The survey of leading historians rated Reagan number in Ronald Reagan s approval ratings Gallup – In the Institute for the Study of the Americas released the first ever UK academic survey to rate U S presidents This poll of UK specialists in U S history and politics placed Reagan as the th greatest U S president Reagan s ability to connect with Americans earned him the laudatory moniker "The Great Communicator" Of it Reagan said "I won the nickname the great communicator But I never thought it was my style that made a difference—it was the content I wasn t a great communicator but I communicated great things " His age and soft spoken speech gave him a warm grandfatherly image Reagan also earned the nickname "the Teflon President" in that public perceptions of him were not tarnished by the controversies that arose during his administration According to Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder who coined the phrase and reporter Howard Kurtz the epithet referred to Reagan s ability to "do almost anything wrong and not get blamed for it" Public reaction to Reagan was always mixed the oldest president was supported by young voters and began an alliance that shifted many of them to the Republican party Reagan did not fare well with minority groups especially African Americans This was largely due to his opposition to affirmative action policies However his support of Israel throughout his presidency earned him support from many Jews He emphasized family values in his campaigns and during his presidency although he was the first president to have been divorced The combination of Reagan s speaking style unabashed patriotism negotiation skills as well as his savvy use of the media played an important role in defining the s and his future legacy

Barack Obama won the nomination running against Hillary Clinton He later became President and she became Secretary of State in his administration edit Main article Democratic Party presidential primaries Democratic incumbent President Barack Obama ran for re election and faced no major opposition in the primaries The minor opposition was forbidden to have the delegates they had won attend the convention O Malley Webb Chafee The first debate began on October at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas at p m and ended at p m Eastern time It aired on CNN and was broadcast on radio by Westwood One Anderson Cooper was the moderator of the debate with Dana Bash and Juan Carlos Lopez asking additional questions and Don Lemon presenting questions submitted by voters via Facebook To be invited to the debate a candidate had to achieve an average of at least in three recognized national polls released between August and October In addition a candidate had to either file a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission or declare that one would be filed by October the day after the debate The latter criterion would have accommodated Vice President Joe Biden had he decided to enter the presidential race as late as the day of the debate CNN had an extra lectern available to install for Biden but he took no action to enter the campaign before the debate Analysis on the debate was largely mixed regarding who between the top two candidates won Some analysts from CNN and BBC viewed Clinton as the winner while other publications such as The Washington Post The Chicago Tribune and the Fox News Channel claimed that Sanders was the winner Conversely Chafee O Malley and Webb were all widely regarded as the "losers" One of the most memorable moments from the debate which drew an average of million viewers a record for a Democratic debate came when Sanders replied to a question about Clinton s email controversy that the American people were "sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails" which drew cheers and applause from the audience and a smile and handshake between the two candidates With regard to social media Sanders had the biggest gains of the night on Twitter and Facebook with an increase of new followers and new likes respectively over the course of the night he was also the most searched candidate on Google Conversely Clinton had the biggest gains on Instagram with likes for her photograph of her podium just before the debate started It was noted that Republican frontrunner Donald Trump who was live Tweeting during the entire debate and mocking the candidates gained more Twitter followers over the course of the night than all of the five candidates combined with over new followers With the focus primarily being on Clinton and Sanders a majority of subsequent fact checking in the aftermath of the debate was regarding comments made by the two of them Fact checking by the Associated Press and USA Today pointed out mistakes in both of their presentations Specifically Clinton was considered inconsistent in many of her policy stances particularly with regard to the Obama administration s handling of the Syrian Civil War as well as the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement that Clinton supported as Secretary of State but changed to opposing while a candidate In contrast Sanders was pointed out as making economic claims based on outdated information particularly with regard to how much of America s GDP actually goes to the wealthiest in the country November – Rock Hill South Carolina edit Rachel Maddow was selected to moderate the First in the South Candidates Forum with Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders and Martin O Malley which was held at Winthrop University in Rock Hill South Carolina on November co sponsored by the Democratic Parties of southern states The forum wasn t in debate format instead each candidates was interviewed individually and sequentially Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb were also invited but their campaigns never responded to the invitations and both have since withdrawn from the race November – Des Moines Iowa edit The second debate is scheduled for November at Drake University in Des Moines Iowa It will air on CBS News and will also be broadcast by KCCI and The Des Moines Register This will be the first debate to be broadcast over nationwide network television all previous debates having gone over cable CBS News Political Director John Dickerson will be the principal moderator with participation by Cynthia Fodor and Alyx Sacks of KCCI Mid November – MoveOn org edit On October MoveOn announced that it would host a candidate forum to be recorded and aired online in mid November Lincoln Chafee Hillary Clinton Lawrence Lessig Martin O Malley and Bernie Sanders were invited with Sanders the first to confirm his participation The announcement came amid ongoing unrest within the Democratic party over the unusually low number of Democratic debates allowed by the DNC Although this was the first forum between the candidates that invited Lessig he dropped out of the race before the forum was to be held December – Manchester New Hampshire edit The third debate—the final one in —is scheduled for December in Manchester New Hampshire It will air on ABC News and will also be broadcast by WMUR TV January – Charleston South Carolina edit The fourth debate—the first debate of —is scheduled for January in Charleston South Carolina and will air on NBC News It will also be broadcast by the Congressional Black Caucus February – Milwaukee Wisconsin edit The fifth debate is scheduled to be held on February in Milwaukee Wisconsin and will air on PBS March – Miami Florida edit The sixth and final debate is scheduled to be held on March at Miami Dade College in Miami Florida and will air on Univision It will also be broadcast by The Washington Post Criticism and controversy edit Number of debates edit Bernie Sanders and Martin O Malley have criticized the DNC s debate schedule for being particularly sparse compared to six debates versus Nor are other debates likely Democratic Party candidates are not allowed to participate in non sanctioned debates if they want to participate in the official DNC debates Criticism over the limited number of debates reached a peak at the DNC s national meeting in Minneapolis on August State Senator Martha Fuller Clark vice chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party reportedly had an "intense discussion" about the number of debates with DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz During the national meeting candidate Martin O Malley criticized DNC officials for the lack of debates Cecil Benjamin chair of the Democratic Party of the US Virgin Islands interrupted the meeting to offer a motion to increase the number of debates the motion received applause and cheers from the audience In early September DNC vice chairs Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and former Mayor of Minneapolis RT Rybak released a statement calling for more debates and for releasing the restrictions imposed to keep candidates from participating in non DNC debates Gabbard claimed that she had been disinvited from the first debate for her protestations which Schultz and the DNC have denied occurred Former DNC chair Howard Dean expressed his disappointment in the rule barring candidates from non DNC debates saying "It s not right " A small protest took place outside the DNC headquarters in Washington DC on September calling for more debates On September House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi echoed calls for more debates in an interview with The Los Angeles Times On September during her speech at the New Hampshire Democratic Party convention DNC chair Wasserman Schultz was heckled with shouts for more debates On September the Vermont Democratic Party sent a letter to the DNC calling for more debates Black Lives Matter debate edit A week after the first debate was held in Las Vegas the organization Black Lives Matter not to be confused with the larger movement organized around the same name launched a petition targeted at the DNC and chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz demanding more debates and "specifically for a BlackLivesMatter themed Presidential debate " The petition received over signatures within hours of being launched and has over signatures as of October The DNC said that it would permit presidential candidates to attend a presidential town hall organized by activists but that it would not add another debate to its official schedule In response the organization released a press statement on its Facebook page stating that " i n consultation with our chapters our communities allies and supporters we remain unequivocal that a Presidential Town Hall with support from the DNC does not sufficiently respond to the concerns raised by our members" continuing to demand a full additional debate Candidates invited to debate edit Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig who announced his campaign on September criticized the requirement that Democratic candidates must earn at least in three major national polls in the six weeks before the debate His criticism was centered on the fact that he was excluded from most polls because the Democratic National Committee DNC did not officially welcome him to the campaign as it had done for all five other candidates In the two weeks following his announcement Lessig was only included in one national poll in which he met the requirement other national polls have included Vice President Biden who had yet to announce whether he was running The day before the CNN debate the Bloomberg Editorial Board published an editorial entitled "Let All the Candidates Debate Democrats " calling for the DNC to include Lessig in the debate but this demand went unheeded Lessig upon his withdrawal from the campaign was quoted as saying that "from the start it was clear that getting into the Democratic debates was the essential step in this campaign I may be known in tiny corners of the tubes of the internets but I am not well known to the American public generally " Lessig acknowledged that in order to raise the discussion of campaign finance reform in the election getting into debates was key "But last week we learned that the Democratic party has changed its rules for inclusion in the debate " he said The DNC debate qualifying rule originally required a candidate to poll at least in three national polls during the six weeks prior to a debate Under the new rule which Lessig stated was the reason for his campaign suspension a candidate is required to poll at least in three national polls at least six weeks before a debate Lessig said that "unless we can time travel there is no way that I can qualify " He then announced the suspension of his campaign United States third party and independent presidential candidates Primaries Democratic Party presidential primaries Republican Party presidential primaries General election polling Nationwide opinion polling for the United States presidential election Statewide opinion polling for the United States presidential election Democratic primary polling Statewide opinion polling for the Democratic Party presidential primaries Nationwide opinion polling for the Democratic Party presidential primaries Republican primary polling Statewide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries Nationwide opinion polling for the Republican Party presidential primaries Republican primary debates Republican Party presidential debates During an April interview with ABC News Fiorina stated "I think it s really too bad honestly that CEOs are being pressured What this law basically says is that a person can push back against either federal government mandate or state government mandate to exert their religious liberties In June as a response to the U S Supreme Court s decision in Obergefell v Hodges which held that there is a fundamental right to same sex marriage under the Fourteenth Amendment Fiorina said the decision was "only the latest example of an activist Court I do not agree that the Court can or should redefine marriage I believe that responsibility should have remained with states and voters where this conversation has continued in churches town halls and living rooms around the country "

Maternity leave edit Fiorina believes employers should decide whether they should provide paid maternity leave to their employees and it should not be mandated by the government noting that some companies in the private sector such as Netflix are already doing so to attract talent She also pointed out that HP while she was CEO offered paid maternity leave voluntarily Minimum wage edit Fiorina believes that the federal minimum wage "is a classic example of a policy that is best carried out in the states" saying a national minimum wage does not make sense because economic conditions in New Hampshire vary significantly from more expensive economic conditions in Los Angeles or New York She also believes that raising the federal minimum wage would "hurt those who are looking for entry level jobs " Net neutrality edit Fiorina opposes net neutrality rules adopted by the Federal Communications Commission and has said she would "roll back" that policy because "Regulation over innovation is a really bad role for government " Fiorina has repeatadly criticized the rules arguing that "the FCC just issued—without anyone commenting on it or anyone voting on it— pages of new regulations over the Internet It s not good it s not helpful " The text contains a large number of footnotes which often address comments made by the general public and includes pages of comments by the FCC commissioners Government regulation edit Fiorina "generally believes that reducing government regulations helps to spur the economy " Fiorina has condemned the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act saying in April that "We should get rid of Dodd Frank and start again " Fiorina has inaccurately stated that not "a single regulation has ever been repealed " Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post "Fact Checker" column gave this statement three out of four Pinocchios finding that "Important parts of the economy have been deregulated in recent decades While the repeal of a specific rule is relatively rare there are certainly examples " Susan E Dudley director of the Regulatory Studies Center at George Washington University said that Fiorina is "generally right that regulations once issued are rarely revisited and even more rarely actually repealed" Taxes and spending edit On the subject of taxes Fiorina is a proponent of reducing total federal spending saying that "the government needs to take in less tax money not more " Fiorina has said she would cut the pay of federal workers and base their compensation on performance She also advocates zero based budgeting for the federal budget which would start the annual budgeting process for each department from a baseline of zero During her Senate campaign Fiorina "called for eliminating the estate tax and capital gains taxes for investments in small businesses and lowering marginal tax rates " Fiorina opposes proposals to increase the federal gas tax or state gas taxes in order to fund the Highway Trust Fund asserting in a February Wall Street Journal op ed that "Any gas tax hike big or small will harm American families and hurt economic growth " She favors lowering tax rates simplifying the tax code and closing loopholes that she says mostly benefit wealthy taxpayers Fiorina opposed the federal stimulus package of intended to create short term job growth and invest in infrastructure education health and renewable energy calling it a waste of taxpayer money Technology employees edit Fiorina favors expanding the H B visa program Writing in opposition to proposals she considered protectionist in a Wall Street Journal op ed Fiorina said that while "America is the most innovative country " it would not remain so if the country were to "run away from the reality of the global economy " Fiorina said to Congress in "There is no job that is America s God given right anymore We have to compete for jobs as a nation " While Fiorina argued that the only way to "protect U S high tech jobs over the long haul was to become more competitive in the United States " her comments prompted "strong reactions" from some technology workers who argued that lower wages outside the United States encouraged the offshoring of American jobs Personal life edit Fiorina then Cara Carleton Sneed married Todd Bartlem a Stanford classmate in June They divorced in In she was introduced to AT T executive Frank Fiorina who told her on their third date that she would one day be running the company She married him in it was the second marriage for both Fiorina has said that they wanted to have children together but "that wasn t God s plan" Frank Fiorina took early retirement from AT T in at age to travel with and support his wife in her career Frank Fiorina had two daughters Traci and Lori Ann from his first marriage Their mother Patricia was awarded custody of both children following the divorce Fiorina helped her husband with raising his daughters Lori Ann struggled with alcoholism substance abuse and bulimia She died in at age In February Fiorina was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer She underwent a double mastectomy at Stanford Hospital in March followed by chemotherapy which caused her to temporarily lose her hair and later radiation therapy She was given "an excellent prognosis for a full recovery " In late during her campaign for the United States Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer Fiorina humorously told a group of supporters "I have to say that after chemotherapy Barbara Boxer just isn t that scary anymore " According to the financial disclosures filed by Fiorina s campaign in June she and her husband have a combined net worth of million Fiorina has released the income tax returns that she and her husband jointly filed in and in those years the Fiorinas reported income of almost million and million respectively Fiorina and her husband live in a home in the Washington D C suburb of Mason Neck Virginia overlooking the Potomac River The house and grounds were valued at million in At the time of the Senate election Fiorina and her husband lived in Los Altos Hills California a San Francisco Bay area suburb Between and Fiorina and her husband also owned a condominium in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington where they lived for roughly half the year they sold the condo for million Angela Merkel Chancellor of Germany Condoleezza Rice United States Secretary of State Wu Yi Vice Premier of China Indra Nooyi CEO of PepsiCo Anne Mulcahy CEO of Xerox Sallie Krawcheck President of the Global Wealth Investment Management division of Bank of America Patricia Woertz Executive Vice president of Chevron Anne Lauvergeon CEO of Areva Brenda Barnes CEO of Sara Lee Zoe Cruz Co president of Morgan Stanley top selection edit Individual Office Position Condoleezza Rice United States Secretary of State Wu Yi Vice Premier of China Yulia Tymoshenko Prime Minister of Ukraine Gloria Macapagal Arroyo President of the Philippines Meg Whitman CEO of eBay Anne Mulcahy CEO of Xerox Sallie Krawcheck President of the Global Wealth Investment Management division of Bank of America Brenda Barnes CEO of Sara Lee Oprah Winfrey Television personality Melinda Gates Co founder of the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation top selection edit Individual Office Position Condoleezza Rice United States National Security Advisor Wu Yi Vice Premier of China Sonia Gandhi Chairperson of the National Advisory Council Laura Bush First Lady of the United States Hillary Clinton United States Senator Sandra Day O Connor Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Ruth Bader Ginsburg Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Megawati Sukarnoputri President of Indonesia Gloria Macapagal Arroyo President of the Philippines Carly Fiorina Chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard Alberto Sileoni Dec – Jul Jul – incumbent Ministry of Science Technology and Productive Innovation Lino Barañao Dec – incumbent Ministry of Industry Débora Giorgi Nov – incumbent Ministry of Agriculture Julián Domínguez Norberto Yahuar Carlos Casamiquela Oct – Dec Dec – Nov Nov – incumbent Ministry of Tourism Carlos Enrique Meyer Jun – incumbent Ministry of Culture Teresa Parodi May – incumbent Public image edit Main article Public image of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner The media aligned with the government is used to promote a cult of personality over the figures of both Cristina and Néstor Kirchner who are described as the leaders of a popular left wing revolution waged against foreign enemies This advocacy is usually called the "Relato K" Spanish K Narrative Politicians public people and institutions are treated as "good" or "evil" according to the political needs of the moment The demonstrations against the government and the criticisms of other political parties are usually described as attempts to make a coup d état against Cristina Kirchner as well as the actions of the Vulture funds The "Relato K" is based on the premise that there are no facts or absolute truths and that any assertion would be true or false according to the political stance of the speaker towards the government The magazine Forbes ranked her as thirteenth in the list of the most powerful women in the world in at the start of her presidency She gradually lowered her positions and as of she is listed as the th Cristina Kirchner used widow clothings since the death of Néstor Kirchner in As this style benefited her personal image among the society she kept using it for over three years Personal life edit In during her studies at the National University of La Plata she met her future spouse Néstor Kirchner They were married on May and had two children Máximo and Florencia Néstor Kirchner died on October after suffering a heart attack Health edit On December presidential spokesman Alfredo Scoccimarro announced that Fernández had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer on December and that she would undergo surgery on January However it was later released that she had been misdiagnosed and did not have cancer On October doctors ordered Fernández to rest for a month after they found blood on her brain due to a head injury she received on August Fernández was re admitted to hospital and had successful surgery on October to remove blood covering her brain Increasingly long periods without public appearances have led to media speculation regarding her health In December she was hospitalised after she broke her ankle Stoneman Kolkata India Bowraville Murders Bowraville New South Wales Australia – Lisbon Ripper Lisbon Portugal – Claremont serial murders Claremont Western Australia – – edit The Smiley face murder theory West Mesa murders Albuquerque New Mexico USA – B Butcher B road Namibia Daytona Beach killer Daytona Beach Florida USA – Edgecombe County serial killer USA – Eastbound Strangler Atlantic City USA Beer Man Mumbai India – Feb Killer USA – Paturis Park murders Carapicuíba Brazil – –present edit The Long Island serial killer dumped the bodies of sex workers in and around Gilgo Beach New York USA over the last years Suspected serial killers edit John Bodkin Adams a physician suspected of being a serial killer England One alleged victim Gertrude Hullett was found to have committed suicide at the inquest in but Dr Adams was indicted for her murder the following year The case was then dropped by the prosecution via a nolle prosequi an action described by the judge as an "abuse of process" Other unsolved deaths edit Before edit Alexander the Great died in BC Cause of death is unknown King William II of England killed by an arrow while hunting Regiomontanus aka Johannes Müller German mathematician and astronomer died mysteriously in Rome Some say of plague others by assassination – edit Death of Rudolf Diesel the place is unknown and many theories are given about Diesel s death He disappeared in the English Channel and was found dead at sea ten days later – edit Ottavio Bottecchia Italian cyclist was found by the side of a road covered with bruises and with a serious skull fracture His bicycle was undamaged propped against a nearby tree He was brought to a hospital but died soon afterwards An official inquiry concluded accidental death but many suspected that he had run afoul of the powerful and growing fascist movement in Italy at the time King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand Died of gunshot wounds suicide accident or assassination Jan Masaryk son of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Czech diplomat politician and Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia was found dead in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry below his bathroom window The initial investigation concluded that he committed suicide by jumping out of the window although many are convinced that he was pushed Sadanori Shimoyama first director of Japanese National Railways was last definitely seen leaving his official car to go into a department store on his way to work the morning of July of that year Others reported seeing him at various train stations and walking along one line that afternoon His dismembered body was found at noon the next day on the Joban Line It had indisputably gotten that way as a result of being struck by a train but the autopsy suggested he had died before being struck That conclusion has been disputed and whether his death was a suicide or murder remains undetermined – edit The Dyatlov Pass incident was the death of nine hikers on the Kholat Syakhl mountain in the northern Ural Mountains range on February all the bodies were not recovered until that May While most of the victims were found to have died of hypothermia after apparently abandoning their tent high on an exposed mountainside two had fractured skulls two had broken ribs and one was missing her tongue After testing the clothing of some of the victims was found to be highly radioactive There were no witnesses or survivors to provide any testimony and the cause of death was listed as a "compelling natural force" most likely an avalanche by Soviet investigators Dr Gilbert Stanley Bogle and Margaret Olive Chandler were found dead both partially undressed near the banks of the Lane Cove River in Sydney Australia on January Their bluish pallor and the presence of vomit and excrement led to a finding that they had been poisoned but the coroner was unable to determine at the time what the toxin was and it was suspected they had been murdered possibly by Chandler s husband although no suspects have ever been identified A TV documentary however has suggested their deaths were not due to foul play but natural the result of hydrogen sulfide leaking from the river bed and reaching dangerously high concentrations in the air of the low lying depressions near the river where their bodies were found Lead Masks Case in Niterói Rio de Janeiro Brazil Joan Robinson Hill Texas socialite At first ruled to have died of influenza following a brief hospitalization on March suspicions were aroused when her body was released to the funeral home and embalmed before a legally required autopsy could be carried out Despite the compromised evidence three autopsies all with their own irregularities were performed and her husband John eventually became the only person indicted by a Texas grand jury for murder by omission or failing to take proper action in the face of a life threatening situation The first attempt to prosecute him ended in a mistrial in he was murdered before he could be retried and the gunman who was suspected of his murder died in a police shootout Two other alleged accomplices were later convicted Ronald Hughes an American attorney who disappeared while on a camping trip n November His body was found in March but his cause of death could not be determined Isdal Woman a partially charred corpse found on November hidden off a hiking trail near Bergen Norway She has never been identified despite extensive investigation The official conclusion that her death was a suicide has not been widely accepted Nuclear power whistleblower Karen Silkwood died in a car accident on November while driving to a meeting with a New York Times reporter in Oklahoma City Whether that accident involved another vehicle which may even have deliberately run her off the road or resulted from her own fatigue has always been a matter of debate – edit On November actress Natalie Wood who had been boating with her husband Robert Wagner and fellow actor Christopher Walken was found drowned near Santa Catalina Island California While that has always been accepted as the direct cause of her death the circumstances under which she went into the water have never been clear and after reopening the investigation in the coroner changed the cause of death from "accident" to "undetermined" based on cuts and bruises on her body that may or may not have been suffered before her death Eduardo Frei Montalva president of Chile from to As of his death is being investigated because of allegations that he was poisoned Uwe Barschel minister president of Schleswig Holstein was found dead in his hotel bathroom fully dressed in a full tub of water on October The cause of death has never been conclusively established Zviad Gamsakhurdia former president of Georgia died in circumstances that were and still are very unclear It is known that he died in the village of Khibula in the Samegrelo region of western Georgia Yves Godard and family A French doctor who disappeared on board a sailing boat with his two children Several years later bones belonging to Dr Godard and his young daughter were discovered in the English Channel No trace of his son or his wife the latter did not go on the sailing trip has ever been found nor has any trace of the boat Prosecutors believe Dr Godard probably murdered his family before committing suicide at sea but they also acknowledge that they cannot be certain of this – edit Abu Nidal Palestinian terrorist leader behind the Rome and Vienna airport attacks already suffering from leukemia was reported to have died of a gunshot wound in Baghdad on August Iraq s government at the time claimed his death was a suicide the Palestinians believe he was assassinated on Saddam Hussein s orders to prevent his possible capture during the American invasion of Iraq that began six months later On October the skeletonized remains of Frauke Liebs a student nurse were found off a road near Lichtenau Germany She had last been seen leaving a bar on June and called her roommate several times in the days afterwards indicating she would come home but being vague about when or how Police now believe she was being held against her will and might have been murdered although the body was too decomposed to establish a cause of death Barbara Precht s body was found on November in Cincinnati Ohio She remained unidentified until November Her husband was located later on and is considered a person of interest in her death which has unknown circumstances Joyce Carol Vincent was found dead in her London flat in December three years after she had died by which time the body had decomposed so much as to make identifying a cause of death impossible her story was profiled in the documentary Dreams of a Life Two year old Caylee Anthony of Orlando Florida was reported missing by her grandmother in the summer of when she learned that her daughter Casey hadn t seen her in over a month Casey claimed the girl had been kidnapped by someone no one else but she had ever met and circumstantial evidence led to her arrest on murder charges that fall A tip that could have led to the body s discovery in August was not fully acted upon until December by then the body was so decomposed that it was impossible to establish how Caylee had died although the coroner ruled it homicide Casey Anthony despite public sentiment strongly against her was acquitted of the murder and child abuse charges but convicted of the lesser charges of lying to the police after a heavily covered trial in where her lawyer claimed that Caylee had accidentally drowned in the family pool and Casey s domineering father had led a coverup Bob Woolmer Pakistan s coach found dead in his hotel room after losing in the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies Investigators at first ruled the death a suicide but the jury that heard the inquest was not so sure and returned an open verdict s edit Skeletal remains found in a dry creek bed in California s Malibu Canyon on August turned out to be those of Mitrice Richardson who had last been seen on the night of the previous September in the backyard of