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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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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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Mobster Named Machine Gun

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George Kelly

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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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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)
Brink's Robbery
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Pair Imprisoned for Kidnapping Bobby Franks
Leopold and Loeb (Clarence Darrow was Defense Lawyer)
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Italian Immigrants executed for Murder 1927
Sacco and Vanzetti
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Couple Executed for Selling A-Bomb Secrets, 1951
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
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He Shot JFK
Lee Harvey Oswald
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He Shot Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
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He shot Robert Kennedy
Sirhan Sirhan
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He shot MLK
James Earl Ray
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Killer and Cannibalizer of 17 men in milwaukee
Jeffry Dahmer
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Killer of 30 Young Women, Executed in Florida, 1989
Ted Bundy
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He was Court-Marialed for the Mai Lai Massacre
LT. Milliam Calley
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American Executed in 177 By Utah Firing Squad
Gary Gilmore
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Nickname for .44 Caliber Killer David Berkowitz
Son of Sam (After his Dog0
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Boston Strangler
Albert DeSalvo
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Unabomber
Theodore Kaezynski
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Bird man of ALcatraz
Robert Stroud uring his time at Leavenworth Penitentiary he reared and sold birds and became a respected ornithologist,
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Long Island Lolita
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
DB Cooper
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Fake Howard Hughes Biographer
Clifford Irving
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Mustachioed Chinese Arch-Fiend
Fu Manchu
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Head of the Gambino Crime Family, the Teflon Don
John Gotti
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The People's TEmple Suicide Leader, 1978
Jim Jones
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Branch Davidian Leader in Waco TX 1993
David Koresh
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Navy Spy Family Caught in 1985
The Walkers
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Man Convicted in Oklahoma City Bombing
Timothy McVeigh
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Exxon Valdez Captain
Capt. Joseph Hazelood
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He Shot Ronald Reagan and James Brady
John Hinkley, Jr
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He Shot John Lennon
Mark David Chapman
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Cult Leader and Killer of 9 in LA, 1969
Charles Mason
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Terrorist Executed by Navy Seals, 2011
Osama Bin Laden
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He Had Millions Put to Death in Cambodia
Pol Pot
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Financial Indicted in Saving and Loan Scandal, 1989
Charles Keating
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Compnay Responsible for 2010 Gulf Oil Spill
BP
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Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling led this company to Bankruptchy, 2001
Enron
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Man Sent to Prison for Life for Running Ponzi Scheme, 2009
Bernie Madoff
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She Shot JR Ewing on TV's
Kristin Shepard
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He Released NSA Secrets o Wikileaks in 2013
Edward Snowden

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