- Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (The Nazi party). He was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and became FAhrer (leader) [2] in 1934, remaining in power until his suicide in 1945.
- O. J. Simpson
Orenthal James "O. J." Simpson (born July 9, 1947) (also known by his nickname, The Juice) is a retired American football player who achieved stardom at the collegiate and professional levels, and was the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season. He later worked as an actor, spokesperson and broadcaster. Simpson is infamous for having been tried for the murder of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman in 1994.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jim Jones
James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 - November 18, 1978) was the American founder of the Peoples Temple group, which became synonymous with group suicide after the November 18, 1978 mass murder - suicide by poison in their isolated agricultural intentional community called Jonestown, located in the country of Guyana. Nine-hundred-and-nine (909) people drank cyanide after Jim Jones ordered his men to kill visiting Congressman Leo Ryan and numerous members of his entourage
- John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and men, 27 of whom he buried in a crawl space under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers, between 1972 and his arrest in 1978. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, …
- Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley was an English mass murderer, most notably involved in the "Moors murders".
- Ed Gein
Edward Theodore Gein (August 27, 1906 - July 26, 1984), was an American serial killer. Though only two murders on his part were proved, he gained great infamy due to necrophiliac behavior (which involved the skinning of his murder victims and exhumed corpses, the decoration of his home with parts of corpses, and the creation of articles of clothing and furniture from the skin of corpses). Besides the death of his brother in 1944 under mysterious circumstances, …
- Ian Brady
Ian Brady (born Ian Duncan Stewart on January 2, 1938 in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland) is a notorious Scottish serial killer. Brady is known primarily for his role in a series of murders that took place in Greater Manchester between 1963 and 1965. These were dubbed the Moors murders, as several victims were buried along the Saddleworth Moor near Oldham in Lancashire.
- 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.
- Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) was, according to two United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was arrested later that day on suspicion of killing the president and Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald denied any responsibility for the murders.
- Susan Atkins
Susan Denise Atkins (born May 7, 1948) is an American murderer who has been imprisoned in the State of California in punishment for her conviction along with Charles Manson and several others for a series of murders often called the "Manson murders", among which the most notorious are the "Tate/LaBianca" murders. In the space of five weeks in the summer of 1969, nine people were murdered at four locations. She was convicted of involvement in eight of these killings.
- Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes (born 1965) is a convicted child murderer.
- 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.
- Chris Benoit
Christopher Michael Benoit (May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian professional wrestler who wrestled for Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and World Wrestling Entertainment. A two-time World Heavyweight Champion, he was widely regarded as one of the best technical professional wrestlers of his generation. Chris Benoit, his wife Nancy, and their 7-year-old son Daniel were found dead in their Fayetteville, Georgia home on June 25, 2007.
- David Brooks
David Brooks (born 1955) was the first of two known teenage accomplices of serial murderer Dean Corll. Brooks was born in 1955 in Beaumont, Texas. His parents were divorced when he was five. Afterwards, his time was divided between the home of his father in Houston and that of his mother in Beaumont. In elementary school, Brooks was noted as an excellent student, but in junior high school his performance plummeted. In 1970, Brooks met Dean Corll.
- Albert Hamilton Fish
He was born in Washington, District of Columbia as Hamilton Fish , to Randall Fish (1795-1875) of Kennebec, Maine and his wife, Ellen (1838-?) , of Ireland. His father was 43 years older than his mother. Albert Fish later stated that his family had an extensive history of mental illness. He was the youngest of four, accompanying siblings Walter, Annie and Edwin.
- Ian Huntley
Ian Kevin Huntley (born 31 January 1974 in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England) is a convicted murderer, who in 2003 was convicted of murdering two 10-year-old girls - Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman - in the case known as the Soham murders. He committed the crimes in August 2002 and is now serving life imprisonment; he is expected to remain in prison until at least 2042.
- 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".
- Ned Kelly
Edward "Ned" Kelly (c. January 1855 - 11 November 1880) is Australia's most famous bushranger, and, to many, a folk hero for his defiance of the colonial authorities. Born near Melbourne to an Irish convict father, as a young man he clashed with the police. After an incident at his home, police parties went in search of him. After killing three policemen, he and his gang were proclaimed outlaws. A final violent confrontation with police at Glenrowan, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Peter Sutcliffe
Peter William Sutcliffe (born June 2, 1946), commonly referred to as the "Yorkshire Ripper", was convicted in 1981 of the murders of thirteen women in the north of England and attacks on seven more from 1975 to 1980.
- Karla Faye Tucker
Karla Faye Tucker (November 18, 1959-February 3, 1998) was convicted of murder in 1984 and sentenced to death. The case entered the U.S. and international news because she had become a born-again Christian while in prison and George W. Bush, then governor of Texas, had to decide on her request for clemency, which he ultimately denied. Tucker became the first woman to be executed in Texas since the American Civil War.
- Marc Dutroux
Marc Dutroux (born 6 November 1956 in Brussels) is a Belgian criminal, convicted of having, in 1995 and 1996, kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered. He was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein. He was arrested in 1996 and has been in prison since then. His widely publicised trial took place in 2004.
- 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.
- Mary Bell
Mary Flora Bell (born on May 26 1957 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England) was convicted in December 1968 of the murders of two boys, Martin Brown (four years old) and Brian Howe (three years old). Bell was eleven years old at the time of the murders.
- Robert Black
Robert Black (born April 21, 1947) is a serial killer and child molester from Scotland. He kidnapped, raped and murdered three girls during the 1980s, kidnapped a fourth girl who survived, attempted to kidnap a fifth, and is suspected of a number of unsolved child murders dating back to the 1970s throughout Europe.
- 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.
- Sirhan Sirhan
Sirhan Sirhan was a Muslim Palestinian responsible for a November 10, 2002 attack on the Israeli Kibbutz Metzer in which he killed five Israeli civilians. He was reportedly a member of Tanzim, which is the armed wing of al-Fatah. A year after the event, Sirhan was killed by YAMAM during a house demolition.
- Perry Smith
Perry Edward Smith was one of two ex-convicts who murdered four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, on November 15, 1959, a crime made infamous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel "In Cold Blood".
- 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.
- Carl Williams
Carl Anthony Williams (b. October 13, 1970) is an Australian convicted murderer, drug dealer and manufacturer from Melbourne, Victoria. He married Roberta Kane on January 14, 2001; their divorce was finalised in March 2007. He is currently in the maximum security Acacia unit of HM Prison Barwon.
- Bible John
Bible John is the nickname of an unidentified serial killer who is thought to have operated in Glasgow, Scotland, in the late 1960s. Three murders were attributed to him, but it is not clear that they were the work of the same person and officially the police still have an open mind on this.
- Anne Perry
Anne Perry (born October 28 1938), born Juliet Hulme in England, is a British historical novelist and convicted murderess (see also Parker-Hulme murder).
- 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.
- George Chapman
George Chapman was the English name taken by serial killer Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski. He was originally from Poland but later relocated to England, where he committed his crimes. He was convicted and executed after poisoning three women, but is remembered today mostly because some authorities suspected him of having been the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper.
- Nevada-Tan
is the name commonly used to describe the 11-year-old Japanese schoolgirl who was charged with murdering her classmate Satomi Mitarai. The murder occurred on June 1, 2004 at an elementary school in Sasebo, Nagasaki, and involved the slitting of Mitarai's throat and arms with a retractable knife. It has come to be known as the "Sasebo Slashing". The un-named killer has since become an Internet meme cartoon character.
- Anthony Anderson
Anthony Anderson is a British murderer. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988 after being found guilty of murdering two men during burglaries. The trial judge recommended that Anderson should remain in prison for a minimum of 15 years, which would have kept him in prison until at least 2003. Anderson was later told by Home Secretary Michael Howard that he should serve a minimum of 20 years, which meant that he would not be paroled before 2008.