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The figures born on this date represent several distinct and largely unconnected strains of human harm. Erwin Ding-Schuler conducted medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners at Buchenwald, operating under the institutional machinery of the SS. At the other end of the century, Kenneth McGriff built the Supreme Team into one of South Jamaica, Queens' most formidable and violent drug organizations. Abdul Latif Sharif remains the central figure in the unsolved Juárez femicide cases of the 1990s, a series of murders that drew international attention to the borderlands of northern Mexico. Goel Ratzon controlled dozens of women and children in Tel Aviv through psychological manipulation, financial dependency, and physical abuse spanning decades. Their contexts differ — war, organized crime, serial violence, cult coercion — but each left a measurable record of damage to those around them.

September 19, 1960 - Kenneth McGriff

At its height, the Supreme Team moved over $200,000 worth of crack cocaine daily through a single South Jamaica housing project — a scale that drew sustained federal attention and eventually brought McGriff down twice over. His story spans three distinct periods of criminality: the crack era of the 1980s, a post-release expansion into heroin and cocaine trafficking across multiple states, and a final chapter involving murder-for-hire convictions tied to the deaths of two men in 2001. The reach of his organization also intersected with the music industry, drawing FBI scrutiny toward Murder Inc. Records and allegations connecting McGriff to the unsolved killing of Jam Master Jay.

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September 19, 1947 - Abdul Latif Sharif

His pattern of serial assault across multiple U.S. states, sustained over more than a decade and repeatedly shielded by employers who funded his legal defense, preceded his move to Ciudad Juárez — where he became the central suspect in one of Latin America's most prolonged and unresolved murder cases. The Juárez killings, which claimed hundreds of women's lives through the 1990s, exposed deep failures in cross-border law enforcement and raised lasting questions about how long a documented predator can move through institutional systems unimpeded.

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September 19, 1912 - Erwin Ding-Schuler

A trained physician and SS officer, Ding-Schuler used his medical credentials and institutional position to conduct systematic experiments on concentration camp prisoners under the guise of wartime disease research. Roughly a thousand Buchenwald inmates passed through Experimental Station Block 46, where they were exposed to typhus, cholera, smallpox, and various poisons — conditions designed not for their benefit but to generate data for the SS Hygiene Institute. His case illustrates how professional legitimacy and bureaucratic structure could be enlisted in the service of lethal experimentation.

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September 19, 1950 - Goel Ratzon

Ratzon built a highly controlled domestic cult in Tel Aviv over several decades, accumulating dozens of dependent women and children through psychological manipulation and enforced isolation. The sheer scale of the arrangement — 21 wives and 49 children confined within a single neighborhood enclave — reflects the degree of control he exercised over those closest to him.

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