- Melanie McGuire
Melanie Lyn McGuire (née Slate is an American convicted murderer. McGuire was convicted of the murder of her husband William T. McGuire among other charges. - Scott Peterson
Scott Lee Peterson (born 24 October, 1972) is a former fertilizer salesman convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and unborn son Conner Peterson. Laci was eight months pregnant at the time of the murder. Peterson's case dominated the American media for many months. On March 16, 2005, Peterson was sentenced to death and currently resides on death row in San Quentin State Prison. Scott Peterson has not admitted any guilt. - Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal (born Wesley Cook April 24, 1954) is an African-American journalist, political activist, and former militant leader from Philadelphia. An early member of the Black Panther Party, Abu-Jamal was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner. Originally sentenced to death, Abu-Jamal's sentence, but not his conviction, was overturned in December 2001 by Judge William H. Yohn, Jr. - Jesse James
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 - April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw and the most famous member of the James-Younger gang. He became a figure of folklore after his death. He is sometimes labeled a gunfighter, mostly inaccurately. - Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier is a Native American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. In 1977 he was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for murdering two FBI Agents who died during a 1975 shoot-out on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. There has been considerable debate over Peltier’s guilt and the fairness of his trial. Some supporters and organizations, including Amnesty International, consider him to be a political prisoner. - John Gotti
John Joseph Gotti, Jr. (October 27, 1940 - June 10, 2002), also known as The Dapper Don and The Teflon Don, was an American mobster and boss of the Gambino Crime Family, one of the Five Families in New York City. He became widely known for his outspoken personality and flamboyant style that made him the poster child for mobsters, an image that persists even today. - Lionel Tate
Lionel Alexander Tate (born January 30, 1987) was convicted of first-degree murder for battering a 6-year-old playmate, Tiffany Eunick, to death on July 28, 1999, a crime for which he was sentenced to life imprisonment without chance of parole on March 9, 2001. - Billy The Kid
Henry McCarty (November 23, 1859 - July 14, 1881) was better known as Billy the Kid, but also known by the aliases Henry Antrim and William Harrison Bonney. He was a 19th century American frontier outlaw and gunman who was a participant in the Lincoln County War. He was reputed to have killed 21 men, one for each year of his life. McCarty was 5'8" with blue eyes, smooth cheeks, and prominent front teeth. - Cody Posey
Cody Posey (born October 9, 1989) is a New Mexico teenager who confessed to killing his father, stepmother, and stepsister on July 5, 2004, when he was 14 years old. Posey was found guilty of various degrees of homicide. He was subsequently sentenced as a juvenile to be detained until he was 21 years old with the possibility of parole after 40 days. - Stanley Williams
Stanley Tookie Williams III (December 29, 1953 - December 13, 2005), born in Monroe, Louisiana, was a convicted murderer and an early leader of the Crips, a notorious American street gang which had its roots in South Central Los Angeles in 1971. In December 2005 he was executed for the 1979 murders of Albert Owens, Yen-Yi Yang, Tsai-Shai Lin, and Yee-Chen Lin. Williams refused to aid police investigations with any information against his gang, … - William Smith
On March 8, 2005 William H. Smith was executed by the State of Ohio for the rape and murder of 47-year-old Mary Bradford of Cincinnati, Ohio that occurred on September 26, 1987. Smith and Bradford were seen talking and dancing together at a local bar where they were both regulars. They left the bar at different times on the night of September 26. On the following day, Bradford's boyfriend became concerned because he had not seen her that day. - Gary Gilmore
Gary Mark Gilmore (December 4, 1940 - January 17, 1977) was an American criminal who gained international notoriety as the first person executed in the United States after the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 after "Gregg v. Georgia" lifted the four-year moratorium instated by "Furman v. Georgia". - Willie Horton
William R. Horton (born August 12, 1951 in Chesterfield, South Carolina) is a convicted felon who was the subject of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program that released him while serving a life sentence for murder, without the possibility of parole, providing him the opportunity to commit a rape and armed robbery against a woman. - Nathaniel Abraham
Nathaniel Jamal Abraham (born in 1986) is one of the youngest people in the United States of America to be tried for murder (he was 11 when the shooting took place, and 13 at the time of conviction). Abraham was found guilty of shooting and killing "Ronnie Greene, Jr." of his hometown of Pontiac, Michigan on October 27, 1997. He was released from a juvenile detention facility on January 18, 2007, one day before his 21<sup>st</sup> birthday. - Jack Ruby
Jacob Rubenstein, who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was a Dallas businessman and nightclub owner. He was convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, two days after Oswald's arrest for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He successfully appealed his conviction and sentence of death. As a date for his new trial was being set, he took ill and died. - Edgar Ray Killen
Edgar Ray (Preacher) Killen (born 17 January 1925) is an American former Ku Klux Klan organizer who conspired to kill several civil rights activists in 1964. He was found guilty of three counts of manslaughter on June 21, 2005, the forty-first anniversary of the crime. He appealed the verdict, but his punishment of 3 times 20 years in prison was upheld on the 12 January 2007 in a hearing by the Mississippi Supreme Court - Gerald Robinson
Reverend Gerald Robinson (born 1938) is an American murderer and Roman Catholic priest. On May 11, 2006 he was convicted of the murder of nun Margaret Ann Pahl, which occurred on April 5, 1980. He is currently appealing against his conviction. - Mary Winkler
Mary Carol Winkler, (born December 10,1973) was charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of her husband, Matthew Winkler, the pulpit minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in the small town of Selmer, Tennessee. On April 19th 2007, she was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter .She was arrested and remanded on March 23, 2006. On August 15, 2006 she was released on bond. Mary graduated in 1992 from South-Doyle High School, … - John Wilkes Booth
John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 - April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. Lincoln died the next day from a single gunshot wound to the head - the first American president to be assassinated. Booth was a successful professional stage actor of his day and a member of the prominent Booth family of actors. - John Miller
John Miller (1850? - November 7, 1937) was said to have claimed to be the famous Western outlaw Billy The Kid. Due to the fact that Miller never obtained the fame of Brushy Bill Roberts, another claimant, he has not been as deeply researched, and therefore his life is even more mysterious and cloudy than Brushy's. Another thing that makes Miller unique as a claimaint is that he never told his story publicly. - Ted Kaczynski
Dr. Theodore John Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber, is an American infamous for his campaign of mail bombings that killed three and wounded 23. He sent bombs to several universities and airlines from the late 1970s through early 1990s. - Bugsy Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 - June 20, 1947) was an American gangster, popularly thought to be the impetus behind large-scale development of Las Vegas. - Gary Tyler
Gary Tyler, (born July 1958) has been a prisoner since 1975 and was the true-life subject of an important early song by British reggae band UB40. - Christopher Pittman
Christopher Pittman (born April 9, 1989 in Huntsville, Alabama) was convicted in 2005 of murdering his grandparents at age 12. The case drew national attention in part because of his age at the time of the crime and in part because his defense that the prescription drug Zoloft caused him to act. At age twelve Pittman was put on Paxil for mild depression. This depression escalated when he threatened suicide in front of his sister. - Charles Whitman
Charles Joseph Whitman was a student at the University of Texas at Austin who shot and killed 14 people (including those who survived the initial shooting but later died as a result of their injuries) and wounded 31 others from the observation deck of the University's Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin on August 1, 1966, after murdering his wife and mother, and before being shot by Austin police. - David Westerfield
David Alan Westerfield (born February 25, 1952), of San Diego, California was convicted, in 2002, and sentenced to death for the murder and kidnapping of seven-year-old Danielle Van Dam. He was a successful, self-employed engineer who owned a luxury motor home and lived two houses away from Van Dam. A divorced father of two college students, he is currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison. - Clarence Ray Allen
Clarence Ray Allen (January 16, 1930 - January 17, 2006) was an American prison inmate who was executed by lethal injection on January 17, 2006 at San Quentin State Prison in California for the murders of three people. He became the second oldest inmate to be executed in the United States since 1976 (John Nixon of Mississippi was executed in December 2005 at age 77). While in prison, Allen claimed Choctaw heritage. He was born in Blair, Oklahoma. - Susan Polk
Susan Polk (born Susan Mae Bolling in 1958) was a housewife and mother of three who ultimately admitted to, and was convicted of murdering her husband, Dr. Frank "Felix" Polk. Dr. Polk was a prominent Berkeley psychologist, who was found with numerous stab wounds in the pool house at the couple's upscale Orinda, California home in 2002. Susan Polk, a self-proclaimed "psychic" and believer of fairy tales, … - Andrew Golden
Andrew Golden (born May 25, 1986) was, at age 11, a gunman in the March 24, 1998 Jonesboro, Arkansas school shooting. Golden and his co-defendant Mitchell Johnson took more lives than any other except Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold who committed the Columbine High School massacre the following year, and Seung-Hui Cho of the Virginia Tech massacre. Ironically those who knew the two youths before do not remember them as being very close. - Devin Moore
Devin Moore (born 1985) is a criminal from Alabama who sparked a large controversy over the video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" when he committed three acts of first-degree murder against three people in the Fayette, Alabama police station in 2003. Moore killed two policemen (Arnold Strickland and James Crump) and a dispatcher (Leslie Mealer) after being booked on suspicion of stealing a car. He then fled in a patrol car. - Barbara Graham
Barbara Graham, "née" Barbara Elaine Wood (June 26, 1923 in Oakland, California - June 3, 1955 at San Quentin) was an American criminal and convicted murderer who was executed in the gas chamber along with two accomplices. Graham, a prostitute and drug addict nicknamed "Bloody Babs" by the press, was convicted of beating elderly widow Mabel Monahan to death during a botched robbery in March 1953 in Burbank, California. - Charles Stuart
Charles "Chuck" Stuart (ca. 1960-January 4, 1990) was a Boston man who murdered his pregnant wife and inflamed racial tension by blaming a non-existent black suspect. On October 23, 1989, Charles Stuart, a furrier, and his pregnant wife Carol (born Carol DiMaiti, March 26, 1959), a lawyer, got into their car after attending childbirth classes at Brigham and Women's Hospital. - Diane Zamora
Diane Michelle Zamora (born January 21, 1978), is a former US Navy midshipman who is serving a life sentence for her role in the December 3, 1995 murder of Adrianne Jones, a woman Zamora believed was a romantic rival to her boyfriend, David Graham. - Rae Carruth
Rae Lamar Carruth (born January 20, 1974) is a former American football wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers. In 2001, he was found guilty of conspiring to murder his girlfriend and is currently serving a prison sentence. - Mark David Chapman
Mark David Chapman (born May 10, 1955) is the American man who shot and killed musician John Lennon on December 8, 1980. He remained at the scene until arrested and claimed the book "The Catcher in the Rye" would explain his perspective and motivation. Chapman was allowed to plead guilty to second degree murder before his trial began and, despite being assessed as delusional and possibly psychotic, was sentenced to 20 years to life. - Eric Smith
Eric M. Smith (born January 22, 1980) is an American murderer, incarcerated for the murder, sexual abuse and mutilation of four-year-old Derrick Robie on August 2 1993, in Savona, New York. According to court documents, Smith, a loner, was often tormented by bullies for his large, protruding ears, thick glasses, and freckles. The murder case made national headlines, largely due to the young age of the killer and victim. - Philip Workman
Philip Ray Workman (1953 - 9 May, 2007) was a death row inmate executed in Tennessee on May 9, 2007. He was convicted in 1982 for the murder of a police officer following a botched robbery of a Wendy's restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee, and sentenced to death by lethal injection. - Betty Lou Beets
Betty Lou Beets was a murderer executed in the U.S. state of Texas. She had been convicted of shooting her fifth husband Jimmy Don Beets on August 6, 1983. - Frances Newton
Frances Elaine Newton was an African-American woman who was executed by lethal injection in the state of Texas for the April 7, 1987 murder of her husband, Adrian, 23, her son, Alton, 7, and daughter, Farrah, 21 months. All three victims were shot with a .25 caliber pistol which belonged to a man Newton was alleged to have been seeing. The prosecution suggested that the motive for the killings was to collect the US $100,000 life insurance policy. - Baby Face Nelson
Lester Joseph Gillis, aka George Nelson but better known as Baby Face Nelson, due to his youthful appearance, was a diminutive (5' 4" tall) bank robber in the 1930s. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Lester Gillis began his criminal career stealing cars and spending time with future members of the gang of Roger "Terrible" Touhy. Nelson also worked for a time as an enforcer for Chicago gangster Al Capone, …
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