Notorious Criminals & Outlaws
51 entries in the Notorious Criminals & Outlaws compendium.
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Adolf EichmannSenior Nazi SS officer who organized the logistics of the Final Solution.Aileen WuornosAmerican serial killer who murdered seven men in Florida.Albert AnastasiaThe Mad Hatter of Murder, Inc.Albert FishThe Gray Man who terrorized childrenAmado Carrillo FuentesThe Lord of the Skies who built a multibillion-dollar drug empire and died under the knife.Amelia DyerThe Ogress of Reading: Victorian baby farmer and serial killer of infants.Amon GöthAustrian SS commandant of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp.Anders Behring BreivikNorwegian neo-Nazi who killed 77 in the 2011 Norway attacks.Andrei ChikatiloSoviet serial killer who murdered at least 52 women and children.Andrew CunananAmerican spree killer of five, including Gianni Versace.ArkanSerbian warlord, mobster, and head of the Serb Volunteer Guard.
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Baby Face NelsonBank robber who killed more FBI agents than any other criminal.Bali NineNine Australians convicted for heroin smuggling from Indonesia.Black DahliaThe Black Dahlia: America's most famous unsolved murder.Bonnie and ClydeOutlaw couple of the Great Depression's public enemy era.Bugs MoranChicago Prohibition-era gangster and North Side Gang leader.Bugsy SiegelMobster who drove development of the Las Vegas Strip.Bumpy JohnsonHarlem crime boss who built his own organization after the Mafia war.Butch CassidyAmerican outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch.
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Carlo GambinoSicilian crime boss who led the Gambino family and the Commission.Charles MansonBefore orchestrating the series of murders that made him infamous, Charles Manson had already spent the…Charles PonziItalian con artist whose name became synonymous with a fraudulent investment scheme.Charles StarkweatherCharles Raymond Starkweather, born in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1938, was the fourth of seven children in a…Charles WhitmanPerpetrator of the 1966 University of Texas tower shooting.Christopher CokeJamaican drug lord and Shower Posse leader.
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D. B. CooperUnidentified hijacker who vanished after a 1971 parachute escape.David BerkowitzAmerican serial killer who terrorized New York City in the 1970s.
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Gaetano BresciItalian anarchist who assassinated King Umberto I.Gary RidgwayThe Green River Killer: America's most prolific serial killer at the time of his arrest.Gavrilo PrincipBosnian Serb student whose assassination sparked World War I.Gilles de RaisFrench knight and marshal executed for child murders.Giuseppe MorelloFirst boss of the Morello crime family and consigliere to Joe the Boss Masseria.Griselda BlancoDrug lord known as the 'Godmother of Cocaine' who operated between Miami and Colombia.
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H. H. HolmesAmerican con artist and murderer active 1891–1894.Harold ShipmanEnglish doctor and serial killer convicted of murdering 15 patients.Henry Lee LucasConvicted murderer who falsely confessed to hundreds of killings.HerostratusArsonist who destroyed a Wonder for notoriety.
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Ilse KochGerman war criminal infamous for alleged atrocities at Buchenwald.Irma GreseNazi guard convicted of war crimes; executed at age 22.Ivan MilatAustralian-Croatian serial killer convicted of seven backpacker murders.
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Jack SheppardNotorious 18th-century London criminal and member of a large gang.James Earl RayAmerican criminal convicted of assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.Jeffrey DahmerAmerican serial killer who murdered seventeen men and boys.Jeffrey EpsteinFinancier and convicted sex offender who died awaiting trial.Jihadi JohnBritish militant who executed captives in Islamic State videos.Joaquin MurrietaMexican outlaw of disputed historicity, legend of the Gold Rush.Joe MasseriaMafia boss who led the Genovese family and died in the Castellammarese War.John DillingerAmerican gangster whose exploits helped shape the FBI.John GottiGambino crime boss who ordered Castellano's murder and evaded conviction until 1992.John RackhamEnglish pirate known for his female crew and fictional flag.John RoselliMobster, CIA asset, and Las Vegas fixer.
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