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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Leader of the Islamic State from 2013 to 2019

German Nazi official and war criminal (1906–1962)

American hacker and threat analyst

Italian painter (c.1580-1644)

American serial killer

American gangster and businessman

Albert Anastasia

Italian-American mob boss

American serial killer and cannibal

CIA analyst and Soviet spy (born 1941)

Amado Carrillo Fuentes

Mexican drug lord (1956–1997)

British serial killer

Nazi German military officer and war criminal

Anders Behring Breivik

Norwegian far-right domestic terrorist

German left-wing terrorist

Andrei Chikatilo

Soviet serial killer (1936–1994)

American serial killer

American mass murderer

American rapist

Romanov impostor

Serbian paramilitary commander and career criminal

Arnold Rothstein

American crime boss who operated primarily in NYC

Unidentified internet pirate

Baby Face Nelson

American bank robber

Drug smugglers convicted in Indonesia in 2005

Balthasar Gérard

Murderer of Dutch independence leader William the Silent in 1584

Baruch Goldstein

20th-century Israeli mass murderer

Roman noblewoman

Norwegian-American serial killer

Bernardine Dohrn

American radical activist, law professor

British criminal and supergrass

Lebanese Australian serial gang rapist (born 1981)

American outlaw and gunfighter (1859–1881)

Billy Wright (loyalist)

Ulster Loyalist Force Brigadier (1960-1997)

American murder victim

Bonnie and Clyde

American bank robbers

American murder victim (1972–1993)

Australian bank robber

American criminal (1893–1957)

American mobster

African-American mobster (1905–1968)

American gangster

Calogero Vizzini

Sicilian Mafia boss

American mobster (1902–1976)

Charles J. Guiteau

American assassin (1841–1882)

American criminal and cult leader

English burglar and murderer

Italian businessman and con artist (1882–1949)

Charles Starkweather

American spree killer

Charles Whitman

American mass murderer (1941–1966)

Christopher Coke

Jamaican drug lord

Christopher Paul Neil

Canadian convicted serial child molester (born 1975)

Unidentified airplane hijacker in 1971

David Berkowitz

American serial killer (born 1953)

Indian criminal and terrorist (born 1955)

American serial killer (1939–1973)

Donald Eugene Chambers

American Marine and outlaw biker (1930–1999)

American mobster (1901–1935)

American mass murderer

American serial killer (1897–1928)

American murderer and human trophy collector (1906–1984)

Elizabeth Báthory

Hungarian countess

Hungarian painter and art forger

14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

American mass murderers (1981–1999)

Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

German politician and SS general

Russian-American-Jewish mobster (1932-1985)

Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy

French army officer (1847-1923)

François Ravaillac

French Catholic zealot who assassinated King Henry IV of France in 1610

American security consultant and former fraudster (born 1948)

Italian-American mobster

American drug lord (1930–2019)

Austrian war criminal (1908–1971)

Fredericka Mandelbaum

American fence and gang boss of German origin

Freeway Ricky Ross

American former drug trafficker

Italian anarchist and assassin (1869–1901)

Gameel Al-Batouti

Egyptian aviator

British suspected hacker

American serial killer (born 1949)

Gavrilo Princip

Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1894–1918)

George Barrington

Irish-born pickpocket

American police murder victim (1973–2020)

George Freeman (bookmaker)

Australian turf accountant/bookmaker (1935-1990)

Giuseppe Genco Russo

Italian mafioso and politician (1893–1976)

Giuseppe Morello

Italian-American crime boss

Griselda Blanco

Colombian drug lord (1943–2012)

British-born radio producer, intelligence and Foreign Office officer and double agent

American con artist and serial killer (1861–1896)

Han van Meegeren

Dutch painter and art forger (1889–1947)

English doctor and serial killer

Heinrich Himmler

High Nazi Germany official, head of the SS

American mobster-turned-state's-witness

Henry Lee Lucas

American serial killer

German-American bank robber

Ancient Greek arsonist

Welsh author and drug smuggler

American spree killer

American revenge porn hacker (born 1986)

German war criminal

German Holocaust perpetrator and war criminal (1923–1945)

Australian serial killer who murdered seven hitch-hiking backpackers between 1989-1993, convicted in 1996

Murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald (1911–1967)

English thief and prison escapee

Jack the Ripper

Unidentified serial killer

Jacques Mesrine

French criminal

American assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.

American serial killer

Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy

French adventuress

American serial killer (1960–1994)

Jeffrey Epstein

American sex offender and financier (1953–2019)

American outlaw, confederate guerrilla, and train robber

Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán

Mexican drug lord incarcerated in a US federal prison (born 1957)

Italian-American Mafia boss (1886–1931)

John Bellingham

English merchant who assassinated Prime Minister Spencer Percival in 1812

American bank robber (1903–1934)

American computer programmer and former phone phreak

American mobster (1940–2002)

John Hinckley Jr.

Man who attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan

American mobster

John Wayne Gacy

American serial killer (1942–1994)

John Wilkes Booth

19th-century American stage actor and assassin of Abraham Lincoln

American bank robber

Italian-American mob boss

American former stockbroker (born 1962)

German SS officer

American organized crime boss

Former boss of the Colombo Crime Family

Joseph James DeAngelo

American serial killer and serial rapist (born 1945)

Italian-American mobster

American phone phreak

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

American couple executed for spying for the Soviet Union

German SS officer (1897–1945)

Japanese mob boss

Japanese general

American computer security consultant, author, convicted criminal, and hacker

American computer hacker

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Pakistani militant (born 1965)

Burmese warlord

South Korean military officer (1926-1980)

British intelligence officer and KGB double agent for the Soviet Union

Klaas Bruinsma (drug lord)

Dutch drug lord

SS-Hauptsturmführer, soldier and Gestapo member

German illustrator and forger (1938-2000)

British criminal duo during 1950s and 1960s

American gang leader (born 1950)

Lee Harvey Oswald

Assassin of John F. Kennedy (1939–1963)

Jewish-American lynching victim (1884–1915)

American steel worker and assassin of U.S. President William McKinley

Leon Klinghoffer

American businessman

American businesswoman

Leopold and Loeb

American kidnapper-murderer duo

Lepke Buchalter

20th-century American mobster

American murder suspect (1860–1927)

Italian criminal with murder conviction

Italian-American mobster

Colombian serial killer and rapist

American mother of several criminals who ran the Barker gang

Machine Gun Kelly (gangster)

American gangster (1895–1954)

Canadian mass murderer (1964–1989)

Marinus van der Lubbe

Dutch communist and alleged arsonist (1909–1934)

Mark "Chopper" Read

Australian criminal

Mark David Chapman

American murderer (born 1955)

Australian mass shooter

American businessman and convicted felon

English pickpocket and fence

Mary Kay Letourneau

American sex offender (1962–2020)

Matteo Messina Denaro

Italian mafia boss

Matthew Shepard

Gay American murder victim (1976–1998)

Russian-American gangster (1902–1983)

Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo

Mexican drug trafficker

Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel

Tunisian terrorist

American mobster

Monster of Florence

Unidentified serial killer

Natascha Kampusch

Austrian kidnapping survivor (born 1988)

Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (1910–1949)

Indian con man and forger

American convicted drug trafficker

Odilo Globocnik

Oleg Nikolaenko

Russian national (born 1987)

American mass murderer (died 2016)

Osama bin Laden

Militant leader (1957–2011)

Osiel Cárdenas Guillén

Mexican drug lord incarcerated in a US federal prison

Oskar Dirlewanger

German military officer (1895–1945)

German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1907–1951)

American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea

Colombian drug lord (1949–1993)

Paul Castellano

American mobster

Perry Edward Smith

Executed American mass murderer

Peter Scott (thief)

British burglar and thief

Peter Sutcliffe

English serial killer (1946–2020)

Pretty Boy Floyd

American bank robber

Chinese doctor and secret agent

Ramón Mercader

NKVD agent, murderer of Leon Trotsky

Bosnian Serb war criminal (born 1942)

Raymond Washington

American gang member

Reinhard Heydrich

Nazi high official, deputy head of the SS

Richard Hauptmann

German-American executed for kidnapping and murder (1899–1936)

Richard Hickock

American mass murderer

British convicted sex offender (1986–2019)

Richard Kuklinski

American criminal

Richard Ramirez

American serial criminal (1960–2013)

Soviet spy in Germany and Japan (1895－1944)

FBI agent who spied for the USSR and Russia

Robert Tappan Morris

American computer scientist; creator of Morris Worm; associate professor at MIT

American restaurant waiter

English thief - Great Train Robber

American founder of the Silk Road (born 1984)

Nazi commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp

Ruth Ann Steinhagen

American criminal

20th-century Japanese murderer

Salvatore Riina

Italian crime boss and member of the Sicilian Mafia

American mobster

Samantha Lewthwaite

Terrorism suspect

American former mobster

American serial killer

Semion Mogilevich

Russian organized crime boss (born 1946)

South Korean mass murderer; perpetrator of the Virginia Tech massacre

Palestinian convicted of the assassination of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy

Slobodan Praljak

Bosnian Croat war criminal (1945–2017)

American outlaw biker (1938–2022)

Sonya Golden Hand

Russian legendary thief

Stanley Williams

Founder of the Crips (1953–2005)

Stéphane Breitwieser

French art thief

Stephanie St. Clair

Caribbean-French mobster and community activist

Stephen Paddock

American terrorist

American serial killer (1946–1989)

American domestic terrorist (1942–2023)

Théoneste Bagosora

Rwandan convicted of Genocide

Thomas Silverstein

American murderer (1952–2019)

Thuggee cult leader

Timothy McVeigh

American domestic anti-government terrorist

Tommaso Buscetta

Sicilian Mafia boss and government informant

Italian-American crime boss

American teenager killed in 2012 shooting

German hacker and phreaker

German left-wing militant

Czech fraudster

Víctor Manuel Gerena

American bank robber and fugitive

Vincent Gigante

American boxer and mobster

Vincenzo Peruggia

Vincenzo Pipino

American mobster

Italian-born American mobster

American gangster and crime boss

William Leonard Pickard

American convicted felon

Ugandan mass murderer (1929-1957)

American bank robber

Woo Bum-kon incident

South Korean policeman and perpetrator of a 1982 mass shooting

Zacarias Moussaoui

French citizen and convicted criminal associated with the September 11 attacks; Al-Qaeda operative

Serial killer in California in the 1960s