- Zacarias Moussaoui
Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen of Moroccan descent who was convicted of conspiring to kill Americans as part of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. As a result of his conviction, he is serving a life sentence at the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. - 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. - Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon (October 25, 1913 - September 25, 1991) was a German soldier and Gestapo member. - Manu Sharma
Manu Sharma (b. 1977) or Siddharth Vashisht is the son of the India politician Venod Sharma. He was convicted on 18th December 2006 for the murder of Jessica Lall (a model) in 1999, during a retrial of the controversial case which had transfixed the Indian nation. On 20th December 2006, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Delhi High court. The son of a powerful politician and heir to a sugar mill fortune, … - Ramzi Yousef
Ramzi Ahmed Yousef or Ramzi Mohammed Yousef, birth name possibly Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim and also known by dozens of aliases, is a Kuwaiti of Pakistani descent who was one of the planners of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He was arrested at an al-Qaeda safe house in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1995 and was extradited to the United States. - Terry Nichols
Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is a U.S. Army veteran who was convicted of being an accomplice of Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of murder in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, April 19, 1995), which claimed 168 lives. Nichols was convicted of eight counts of manslaughter in a United States District Court and was sentenced to life imprisonment in ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. - Harold Shipman
Harold Frederick Shipman (January 14, 1946-January 13, 2004) was an English general practitioner who was one of the most prolific known serial killers in modern history. He was better known, before his arrest, as Fred Shipman. He was convicted on 15 sample charges in 2000 and sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. He committed suicide in 2004 at HMP Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, without admitting or explaining his crimes. - Charles Sobhraj
Charles Sobhraj (born April 6, 1944 in Saigon, Vietnam) is a serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese origin, who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s. Nicknamed "the Serpent" and "the Bikini killer" for his skills at deception and evasion, he allegedly committed at least 12 murders and was jailed in India from 1976 to 1997, but managed to live a life of leisure in prison. - Scott Rush
Scott Anthony Rush (born December 3, 1985) is a former Australian labourer from Chelmer, Queensland, a western suburb of Brisbane, arrested on April 17, 2005 at Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali, Indonesia with heroin weighing 1.3 kg taped to his legs under his clothing. It was Rush's first trip to Bali. Rush was 19 at the time of his arrest. He is currently studying the Indonesian language. - Lee Boyd Malvo
Lee Boyd Malvo (alias John Lee Malvo or Malik Malvo) (born February 18, 1985), is an American serial killer. He, along with John Allen Muhammed, was arrested on October 24, 2002 in connection with the Beltway sniper attacks. A jury in Virginia convicted Malvo of capital murder on December 18, 2003, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on March 10, 2004. He has since pleaded guilty to six additional murders in Maryland, … - John Walsh
John E. Walsh (born December 26, 1945 in Auburn, New York) is the host of the TV show "America's Most Wanted". Walsh is known for his anti-crime activism, which includes ride-alongs with law enforcement and, at times, taunting and harrasing criminals who were arrested as he watched, particularly those who target children, following the murder of his son, Adam, in 1981. He usually appears wearing a black leather coat, which has become part of his visual signature. - Matthew Shepard
Matthew Wayne Shepard was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was fatally attacked near Laramie, Wyoming, on the night of October 6 – October 7, 1998 in what was widely reported by international news media as a savage beating due to his homosexuality. Shepard died from severe head injuries at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12. - George Speight
George Speight, occasionally known as Ilikimi Naitini (born 1957), was the principal instigator of the Fiji coup of 2000, in which he kidnapped thirty-six government officials and held them from May 19, 2000 to July 13, 2000. He is currently serving a term of life imprisonment for his role in the overthrow of the constitutional government. - Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi (born April 1, 1952) is a former Libyan intelligence officer, head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines, and director of the Center for Strategic Studies in Tripoli. On January 31, 2001, he was convicted, by a panel of Scottish Judges sitting in a special court at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, of 270 counts of murder for his part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988. - Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
Lithang Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpoche (born 1950, in Lithang Thil, Tibet) is a Buddhist leader from eastern Tibet. He was convicted of carrying out bomb attacks by the Chinese authorities and sentenced to death in December 2002 along with Lobsang Dhondup, a relative of his. Lobsang was executed almost immediately, marking the first execution of a Tibetan for political crimes in 20 years. The Rinpoche was granted a two year reprieve. - Alfred Musema
Alfred Musema (22 August, 1949-) is a Rwandan businessperson. On 27 January, 2000, he was found guilty of three counts of genocide and crimes against humanity for his role in the Rwandan genocide, where he committed acts of rape and murder. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. - 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. - Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born 6 December 1952) is the adopted name of Michael Peterson, a British criminal. Bronson was born in Aberystwyth, before moving to Merseyside, and later Luton, which is often referred to as his home town. Bronson states on his website that contrary to reports frequently made in the press, his name was changed by his fight promoter in 1987 and was not a choice he made in relation to the actor, Charles Bronson. - Lesley Whittle
Lesley Whittle was a 17-year-old girl who became the youngest and most famous victim of Donald Neilson, the notorious British murderer known as the Black Panther. In January 1975, Neilson kidnapped Lesley from the bedroom of her home in Shropshire, England, in order to acquire a £50,000 ransom from her family. Neilson had read that Lesley had been left a considerable sum of money by her late father George, who ran a successful coach company. - Miguel Etchecolatz
Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz (b. 1929) was a senior Argentine police officer, who worked in the Buenos Aires Provincial Police during the first years of the military dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2006, on charges of homicide, illegal deprivation of freedom (kidnapping), and torture. - Percy Yutar
Dr. Percy Yutar was South Africa’s first Jewish attorney-general. Yutar was the child Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally had the surname of "Yuter" before arriving in South Africa. Yutar began his career as a lawyer in Johannesburg and later became a junior law clerk in Pretoria’s Palace of Justice. In 1940, he was appointed a junior state prosecutor and eventually become the Deputy Attorney General for the Transvaal. - Bradley John Murdoch
Bradley John Murdoch (born 1958) is serving life imprisonment for the July 2001 murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio in Australia. He will be 74 when eligible for parole. Murdoch is being held in Berrimah Prison in Darwin. He has lodged two appeals against his conviction; both were unsuccessful. The High Court refused special leave to appeal on 21 June 2007. - Mohammad Shahabuddin
Mohammad Shahabuddin (born 10 May, 1967), one of India's most notorious criminal-politicians, is the Member of Parliament from Siwan, Bihar, with the Rashtriya Janata Dal party of Lalu Prasad Yadav. He is currently serving a life sentence for kidnapping with intent to murder, and is facing trial in more than thirty criminal cases including eight of murder, twenty of attempted murder, as well as kidnapping, extortion, etc.. - Mark Hobson
Mark Hobson, born 2 September 1969, in Wakefield, is a British murderer who killed his girlfriend and her twin sister in 2004 before killing an elderly couple who lived nearby. He later admitted four charges of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he should never be released. He is serving his term in Wakefield Prison and is unlikely ever to be released. Hobson, who was 34 at the time of the murders, was a former binman from Selby, … - Lucie Blackman
Lucie Blackman (1 September 1978 - 1 July 2000) was an English woman who worked as a hostess in Roppongi, Tokyo. She disappeared mysteriously in July 2000. Her dismembered body was found a year later, buried in a shallow grave at a beach in Miura, Kanagawa. She was 21 years old at the time of her body's recovery. Property developer Joji Obara was charged with the drugging, raping, and killing of Blackman, … - Klaus-Peter Sabotta
Klaus-Peter Sabotta was an extortionist who sabotaged German railways in December 1998, only six months after the Eschede disaster. He claimed to represent former employees of the German railway operator Deutsche Bahn who had been made redundant, and demanded a ransom of DM10 million. His motive for the crime was a need to pay off heavy debts he had incurred in his business activities. - Krishna Maharaj
Krishna Maharaj (born January 26, 1939) is a Trinidad and Tobago-born British businessman and brother of Ramesh Maharaj, former Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago. In 1987 he was convicted by a Florida court for the murder of two men, and was sentenced to death. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 2002. In 2001, 300 British politicians, from various different parties, wrote a letter to the Gov. - David Bain
David Bain (born March 27 1972 in Dunedin, New Zealand) was convicted in May 1995 for the murder of his parents and siblings on 20 June the previous year. He served 12 years of a life sentence before his final appeal to the Privy Council was successful in May 2007. Finding there had been a substantial miscarriage of justice, the Privy Council quashed his convictions and ordered a retrial. He has now been released on bail and awaiting a retrial that was announced 21 June. - David Copeland
David John Copeland (born May 15, 1976) is a former member of the British neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement, who became known as the "London nailbomber" after a 13-day bombing campaign in April 1999 aimed at London's black, Asian, and gay communities. Over three successive weekends, Copeland placed homemade nail bombs, each containing up to 1,500 four-inch nails, outside a supermarket in Electric Avenue, Brixton, … - Kenneth Allen
Kenneth Allen (born October 17, 1942) is the convicted murderer of Chicago police officers William Bosak and Roger van Schaik. He is currently serving a life sentence in Illinois. - Christian Klar
Christian Klar was a leading member of the "second generation" of the German terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF). A warrant of arrest was issued in 1979 and he was arrested close to Hamburg on 16 November 1982 where he maintained an illegal arms depot. In the following trials he was convicted for his involvement in the murders of Siegfried Buback, Jürgen Ponto and Hanns-Martin Schleyer together with fellow RAF member Brigitte Mohnhaupt. - Brenda Ann Spencer
Brenda Ann Spencer (born April 3 1962 in San Diego, California, United States) wounded eight children and one police officer and killed principal Burton Wragg, and custodian Mike Suchar, in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, on Monday, January 29, 1979. The school was across the street from her house. She used the rifle she had recently been given for Christmas from her father. - Emilio Eduardo Massera
Emilio Eduardo Massera is a former Argentine military officer, and part of the 1976 coup d'état. In 1981, he was found to be a member of P2 (also known as "Propaganda Due", a freemasonry lodge involved in Italy's strategy of tension). Massera entered Argentina's Naval Military School in 1942, obtaining his commission as a midshipman in 1946. During his career he occupied different positions within the Navy, … - Zein Isa
Zein Isa was a Palestinian immigrant living in St. Louis, who was responsible for the honor killing of his 16-year old daughter Palestina (aka Tina) in 1989. His wife Maria Isa was Brazilian. After learning that Palestina had taken a part-time job without her parents' permission, and dated an African American boyfriend, Maria held down Palestina, who was then repeatedly stabbed by Zein. Zein Isa was a member of the Abu Nidal Organization, … - Jimmy Boyle
Jimmy Boyle (born 1944 in Gorbals, Glasgow) is a Scottish murderer turned sculptor and novelist. Once reputed to be the most violent man in Scotland, in 1967 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of another gangland figure, William "Babs" Rooney, although Boyle denies that he committed this killing. Whilst incarcerated in the special unit of Barlinnie Prison, he turned to art, and wrote an autobiography, "A Sense of Freedom" (1977), … - Peter Moore
Peter Moore (born 1940) is a Welsh serial killer who murdered four men in Wales in 1995. He was infuriated when his bank manager turned down his request for a business loan in mid-1995, and between September and December that year he stabbed four men to death at random. When Moore was arrested, he claimed his next intended victim was going to be his bank manager. He was also responsible for torturing over 50 men. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996. - William Leonard Pickard
William Leonard Pickard (b. 1945) is a Harvard graduate from Mill Valley, California and a former deputy director of a University of California program that tracks illegal drugs. He is currently appealing a 2000 conviction in which he was sentenced to 2 concurrent life sentences without the possibility of parole for conspiracy to manufacture LSD at a converted Atlas-E nuclear missile launch facility in Kansas. - Stanislav Galić
Stanislav Galić, Serb commander of certain Serb troops in Bosnia (Romanija Corps). He was sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia to 20 years for the shelling and sniping of Sarajevo. He appealed and the Court found that his sentance should be changed to life imprisonment. - John Childs
John Childs is a British murderer who burned the bodies of his six victims. He was jailed for life in 1980. - Alan Webster
Alan Webster, aged 41 (as of June 2007) from Hatfield, England is a high profile British prisoner who plead guilty to several counts of rape against a 12-week-old baby girl, and making indecent images in January 2006. The girl was being babysat by his girlfriend Tanya French, who also pled guilty to charges related to the attack. Webster also pled guilty to the rape of a 14-year-old girl and possession of child pornography.
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