Criminal celebrities
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Robert Ewing “Bob” Younger (October 29, 1853 – September 16, 1889) was an American criminal and outlaw, the younger brother of Cole, Jim and John Younger. He was a member of the James–Younger Gang.
Cary Anthony Stayner (August 13, 1961) is an American serial killer convicted of the grisly premeditated murders of four women between February and July 1999—Carole Sund, her teenaged daughter Juli Sund and their teenaged traveling companion Silvin
Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 – April 14, 1965) was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 no
Margaret Mary “Peggy” Ray (1952 – October 5, 1998) was an American woman who suffered from schizophrenia and erotomania. She received numerous media attention for stalking American television late night television talk show host David Letterman and
William Scott Ritter Jr. (born July 15, 1961) was a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and later a critic of United States foreign policy in the Middle East. Prior to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Ritter stated that Ira
Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945) is an American serial killer and one time mass murderer who murdered ten people in Sedgwick County (in and around Wichita, Kansas), between 1974 and 1991.He was known as the BTK killer (or the BTK strangler). “B
Peter Clarence Foster (born 26 September 1962) is an Australian who has been convicted and jailed on three continents for offences involving weight loss products and property transactions.
Abdulaziz al-Omari (Arabic: عبد العزيز العمري, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿUmarī, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari; May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001) was a Saudi airport security guard and Imam, best known for being one of f
Bernhard Hugo Goetz (born November 7, 1947) is a New York City man known for shooting four young men when they tried to mug him on a New York City Subway train in Manhattan on December 22, 1984. He fired five shots, seriously wounding all four men. N
Bill Walker A ruffian who bullies everyone in the Salvation Army Shelter; when he tries to “buy” forgiveness and atonement, his contribution of only a sovereign (about five dollars then) is rejected. This contrasts with the fact that while the Army r
Clifford Michael Irving (born November 5, 1930) is an American investigative reporter and novelist. Although he has written and published twenty books under his own name, he is best known for a fictional “autobiography” of Howard Hughes in the early