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Notorious People Flashcards

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Medieval Romanian Impaler

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Vlad the Impaler

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Fall River MA Woman accused of Ax Murder, 1892

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Lizzie Borden

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Sheriff Pat Garett Killed HIm

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Billy the Kid (William Bonny)

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Missouri Gang Shot up in Northfield MN

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James Gang

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He Shot Jesse James

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Bob Ford

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Brothers who were cohorts of the James Gang

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The Youngers

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Gang Shot Up in Coffeyville, Kansas

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Dalton Gang

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The Wild Bunch Leaders

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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The Wild Bunch Hideout

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Hole in the Wall

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Jack McCall Shot this Man

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Wild Bill Hickok

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Hickok Was holding this poker Hnad

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Aces and Eights (Dead Man’s Hand)

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Wild Bill Hickok’s Lover

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Calamity Jane

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London Killer of Seven Prostitutes, 1888

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Jack the Ripper

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Matriarch Killed by G-Men, 1935

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Ma Barker

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15
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Meyer Lansky’s Group

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Murder, Inc

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First Public Enemy #1

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John Dillinger

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17
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Mobster Named Machine Gun

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George Kelly

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18
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Mobster who built Flamingo Hilton

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Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel”

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Lucky Crime Boss

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Lucky Luciano

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Chicago Mobster Jailed for Tax evasion, AKA “Scarface”

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Al Capone

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Day “Bugs” moran’s gang was killed

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St. valentine’s Day 1929

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Mobster Who Testified Before Senate, 1951

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Frank Costello

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23
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Couple Gunned Down by Louisiana Police, 1934

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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow

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Man Executed in 1936 for Kidnapping Lindbergh Baby

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Bruno Hauptman

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1950 Robbery from a Boston Garage ($2,775,000 Stolen)

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Brink’s Robbery

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Pair Imprisoned for Kidnapping Bobby Franks

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Leopold and Loeb (Clarence Darrow was Defense Lawyer)

27
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Italian Immigrants executed for Murder 1927

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Sacco and Vanzetti

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Couple Executed for Selling A-Bomb Secrets, 1951

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Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

29
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He Shot JFK

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Lee Harvey Oswald

30
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He Shot Lee Harvey Oswald

31
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He shot Robert Kennedy

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Sirhan Sirhan

32
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He shot MLK

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James Earl Ray

33
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Killer and Cannibalizer of 17 men in milwaukee

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Jeffry Dahmer

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Killer of 30 Young Women, Executed in Florida, 1989

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He was Court-Marialed for the Mai Lai Massacre

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LT. Milliam Calley

36
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American Executed in 177 By Utah Firing Squad

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Gary Gilmore

37
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Nickname for .44 Caliber Killer David Berkowitz

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Son of Sam (After his Dog0

38
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Boston Strangler

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Albert DeSalvo

39
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Unabomber

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Theodore Kaezynski

40
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Bird man of ALcatraz

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Robert Stroud

uring his time at Leavenworth Penitentiary he reared and sold birds and became a respected ornithologist,

41
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Long Island Lolita

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Amy Fischer

she shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover Joey Buttafuoco

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Skyjacker who parachuted from 727 in 1971

43
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Fake Howard Hughes Biographer

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Clifford Irving

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Mustachioed Chinese Arch-Fiend

45
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Head of the Gambino Crime Family, the Teflon Don

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John Gotti

46
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The People’s TEmple Suicide Leader, 1978

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Branch Davidian Leader in Waco TX 1993

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David Koresh

48
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Navy Spy Family Caught in 1985

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The Walkers

49
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Man Convicted in Oklahoma City Bombing

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Timothy McVeigh

50
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Exxon Valdez Captain

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Capt. Joseph Hazelood

51
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He Shot Ronald Reagan and James Brady

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John Hinkley, Jr

52
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He Shot John Lennon

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Mark David Chapman

53
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Cult Leader and Killer of 9 in LA, 1969

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Charles Mason

54
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Terrorist Executed by Navy Seals, 2011

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Osama Bin Laden

55
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He Had Millions Put to Death in Cambodia

56
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Financial Indicted in Saving and Loan Scandal, 1989

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Charles Keating

57
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Compnay Responsible for 2010 Gulf Oil Spill

58
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Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling led this company to Bankruptchy, 2001

59
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Man Sent to Prison for Life for Running Ponzi Scheme, 2009

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Bernie Madoff

60
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She Shot JR Ewing on TV’s

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Kristin Shepard

61
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He Released NSA Secrets o Wikileaks in 2013

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Edward Snowden

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