- Charles Milles Manson
Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American convict and career criminal, most known for his participation in the Tate-LaBianca murders of the late 1960s. Manson had spent most of his adult life in prison, initially for offenses such as car theft, forgery and credit card fraud. He also worked some time as a pimp.
- Jonathan Pollard
Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7 1954 in South Bend, Indiana) is a convicted Israeli spy and a former United States Naval civilian intelligence analyst. Pollard waived the right to trial in return for restrictions on sentencing, pleaded guilty and was convicted on one count of spying for Israel, receiving a life sentence in 1986 with a recommendation against parole. Israel publicly denied that Pollard was an Israeli spy until 1998, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Mohammed Bouyeri
Mohammed Bouyeri (born March 8 1978 in Amsterdam), is serving a life sentence without parole for the murder of Dutch film director Theo van Gogh. He holds both Dutch and Moroccan citizenship.
- Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is the convicted assassin of United States Senator Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy. He is currently serving a life sentence at the state penitentiary in Corcoran, California.
- Yigal Amir
Yigal Amir (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of the late Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin. The assassination took place November 4, 1995 at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv. Amir is currently serving a life sentence for murder plus 14 years for conspiracy to murder Yitzhak Rabin on different occasions and for injuring Rabin's bodyguard, Yoram Rubin.
- Pamela Smart
Pamela Ann Smart (née Wojas, is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and witness tampering in New Hampshire. Smart was convicted for conspiring with her 16-year-old lover and his three friends to kill her 24-year-old husband, Gregory Smart, in Derry, New Hampshire. She was convicted in March 1991, largely as a result of the testimony of her conspirators and secretly-taped conversations with them.
- Robert Charles Browne
Robert Charles Browne (born October 31, 1952) is a murderer and possible serial killer currently serving a life sentence in Colorado. Browne was born in Coushatta, Louisiana. He was a high school dropout who joined the Army and served from 1969 to 1976, when he was dishonorably discharged for drug abuse. In confession, authorities say Browne admitted to murdering up to 49 people in a period spanning from 1970 until he was arrested and put in prison in 1995.
- 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, …
- Ivan Milat
Ivan Robert Marko Milat (born December 27, 1944 in Guildford) is a Croatian-Australian serial killer who murdered several tourists and hitchhikers in the 1980s and 1990s. The killings were dubbed the backpacker murders by the press at the time. Ivan Milat is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of seven hitchhikers, several of whom were international backpackers. Ivan Milat had been acquitted on rape charges in 1971.
- Eric Robert Rudolph
Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as the Olympic Park Bomber, is an American anti-abortion and anti-gay extremist and domestic terrorist who committed a series of bombings across the southern United States, which killed three people and injured at least 150 others. He declared that his bombings were part of a guerrilla campaign against abortion, …
- Reena Virk
Reena Virk was a resident of Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. Her bullying and murder attracted substantial media attention in Canada. Virk was first swarmed by seven females and one male. Moments later the single male and one of the females administered an additional beating and murdered her. The "Globe and Mail" commented at the time that her case had been "elevated into a national tragedy".
- Kip Kinkel
Kipland Philip Kinkel (born August 30, 1982) is an American spree killer who became the youngest person in Oregon history to receive a "de facto" life sentence without parole. He killed his parents, and afterwards two of his classmates while wounding 25 at Thurston High School in Springfield, where he was a student. Kinkel was 15 years old at the time of the incident, and had a history of clinical depression. He is currently serving a 111-year custodial order, …
- Allan Legere
Allan Legere (1948 -) is a Canadian serial killer, also known as the Monster of the Miramichi (not "of Miramichi": at the time this nickname was first applied to him, the City of Miramichi proper did not exist, and so it referred to the region along the Miramichi River). He escaped custody in April of 1989 (while serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of a shopkeeper, John Glendenning) and remained free for seven months.
- Charles Harrelson
Charles Voyde Harrelson (July 23, 1938 - March 15, 2007) was an American freelance hitman connected with organized crime and a member of the Red Squad, who was convicted of assassinating a federal judge. He was the father of actor Woody Harrelson.
- Larry Fisher
Larry Fisher (born August 21, 1949) is a Canadian man who was convicted in 1999 of a murder he committed in 1969. On January 31, 1969, Gail Miller was raped and murdered in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. David Milgaard was first wrongfully convicted of the crime and served 23 years in prison before being released in 1992, and exonerated by DNA evidence in 1997. Fisher was arrested, July 25, 1997 in Calgary. He was convicted November 22, 1999, and sentenced on January 4, 2000, …
- Martin Bryant
Martin John Bryant (born 7 May 1967) murdered 35 people and injured 37 others in the Port Arthur massacre, a killing spree in Tasmania in 1996. He is currently serving 35 life sentences in Hobart's Risdon Prison.
- Jeremy Bamber
Jeremy Bamber (born in England in 1961) was convicted in 1986 of murdering several members of his family in a highly-publicized case. He has always denied carrying out the killings and his conviction remains controversial.
- 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.
- Kenneth Noye
Kenneth Noye (born 24 May 1947) is an English criminal who was convicted of the 1996 road rage murder of Stephen Cameron. Noye was involved in laundering the proceeds of the Brinks Mat robbery in 1983. While he was being investigated for his part in the robbery, he stabbed to death a police officer (John Fordham) who was observing Noye from the grounds of his home. Noye was acquitted of murder on the grounds of self-defence, …
- Aaron McKinney
Along with Russell Henderson, Aaron McKinney was one of the two attackers and murderers of Matthew Shepard on the night of October 6-7, 1998. Faced with the possibility of death by lethal injection, a deal was reached with the state in which McKinney would serve two consecutive life sentences. McKinney contends that he did not kill Matthew Shepard because of his homosexuality, but instead picked him out because he thought he would be an easy target due to his small build.
- George Rivas
George Rivas (born May 6, 1970) was the ringleader of the infamous Texas 7 criminal group. Rivas, a career criminal, is on Texas' death row. He was born in El Paso, Texas and raised by his grandparents from age six, after his parents divorced. In high school, Rivas dreamed of being a police officer, but his interest in money and guns helped shape him into a criminal. He named his dogs Ruger and Beretta, after two gun brands.
- Patrick Magee
Patrick Joseph Magee is a former member (volunteer) of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), best known for planting a bomb in the Brighton's Grand Hotel, targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet, which killed 2 men and 3 women. He is sometimes referred to as the Brighton bomber. Magee was born in Belfast but moved with his family to Norwich when he was two years old. He returned to Belfast at the age of 18 in 1969, …
- Robin Lovitt
Robin McKennel Lovitt (born November 6, 1963) is a convicted murderer in the U.S. state of Virginia. He is serving a life sentence after being convicted of the November 18, 1998 stabbing murder of Clayton Dicks in Arlington County, Virginia. He was granted clemency by Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner on November 29, 2005, the day before he was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center.
- 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.
- Katherine Knight
Katherine Mary Knight (born 1956) is the first Australian woman to be jailed for the term of her natural life. She was convicted in October 2001 of the murder of her "de facto" husband, John Charles Thomas Price (born 1956), and is currently detained in Mulawa Correctional Centre. Price and Knight lived together in Aberdeen, in the New South Wales Hunter Valley. Price was the father of two grown-up children when Knight, a former abattoir worker, …
- Peter Dupas
Peter Norris Dupas (b. 6 July 1953) is an Australian serial killer, currently serving two life sentences for murder. His violent criminal history spans more than three decades, and with every release from prison has been known to commit further crimes against women with increasing levels of violence. His signature or stamp is to remove the breasts of his female victims.
- 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.
- Warren Leblanc
Warren Leblanc (b. 1987-) was the murderer and former friend of 14 year old Stefan Pakeerah in Leicester, England. The murder took place in February 2004. It was said that he had killed Stefan by stabbing him with a claw hammer, a method of execution identical to that shown in the video game "Manhunt". Stefan's mother Giselle Pakeerah claimed that Leblanc had been 'obsessed' with the game, after Leblanc pleaded guilty in court.
- Holly Jones
Holly Jones (September 14, 1992 - May 12, 2003) was a Canadian girl who was kidnapped from her Toronto neighbourhood on May 12, 2003. On the next day, May 13, her body was found in parts inside bags off the shores of Toronto Island. The case was changed from a kidnapping to a murder case. DNA evidence led the police to arrest Michael Briere, a software developer who lived in the neighbourhood and had no previous criminal history.
- Kenny Kimes
Kenny Kimes (born March 31, 1975) is an American con artist serving a life sentence for murder. Born Kennedy Kimes, Jr., the son of an alcoholic motel tycoon and Sante Kimes, who from childhood had a long history of shoplifting, petty theft, forgery, embezzlement, arson, and insurance fraud, Kimes was groomed for a life of crime by his mother when her son from an earlier marriage, Kent Walker, refused to continue to cooperate with her illegal schemes.
- Donald Harvey
Donald Harvey (born in Butler County, Ohio on April 15, 1952) is known as one of the most prolific serial killers of all time, claiming to have murdered 87 people, while the official death toll has ranged anywhere from 36 to 57 deaths. He is a self-professed "Angel of Death". Harvey is currently serving four consecutive life sentences at the Warren Correctional Institution in Ohio.
- Tommaso Buscetta
Tommaso Buscetta was a Sicilian mafioso. Although he was not the first pentito (informant) in the Italian witness protection program, he is widely recognized as the the first important one breaking omertà. Many mafiosi would follow his example. He was the youngest of 17 children raised in a poverty-stricken area of Palermo, which he escaped by getting involved with crime at a young age.
- Steady B
Warren McGlone (born January 5, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), known by the stage name Steady B, is an American rapper who, along with Schoolly D and the Fresh Prince, was one of the first wave of Philadelphia-area rappers to gain notoriety in the mid to late 1980s. Sadly, Steady B's musical career was relatively short-lived, …
- 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.
- Angelo Buono Jr.
Angelo Buono, Jr. (October 5, 1934 - September 21, 2002) was, along with cousin Kenneth Bianchi, one of the Hillside Stranglers. Born in Rochester, New York. Buono was found dead on September 21 2002 at Calipatria State Prison while serving a life sentence. Buono, who was alone in his cell at the time of his death, died of a heart attack. Buono had a long criminal history, ranging from failure to pay child support to assault and rape, …
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- Shawn Bentler
Shawn Bentler (b. 1983 or 1984) is a convicted murderer from Bonaparte, Iowa. Shawn was convicted of murdering his parents and 3 teenage sisters with a shotgun, allegedly to inherit the family fortune immediately all to himself. On June 19, 2007, Shawn Bentler was sentenced to five consecutive life sentences (four for the murders of his father and sisters, one for the murder of his mother) to be served in an Iowa State Prison.
- Michael Briere
Michael Briere is a Canadian convicted of rape and murder. Originally from Montreal, in 2003 Briere lived in downtown Toronto, where he worked as a software developer. On May 12, 2003 he kidnapped Holly Jones, a 10-year old girl who happened to be walking outside his house. He then sexually assaulted and killed her. After dismembering her body, he attempted to discard the remains by sinking them in Toronto Harbour; however, they were found the next day.