Crime
- Axeman of New Orleans, mysterious mass murderer
- Sylvestro Carolla, mafia boss
- Antoinette Frank, former New Orleans Police Officer, convicted murderer
- Francis Grevemberg, crime-busting superintendent of the Louisiana state police, 1952–1955
- Ivory Harris, drug trafficker and weapons trafficker
- Jean Lafitte, pirate
- Pierre Lafitte, pirate and brother of Jean Lafitte
- Delphine LaLaurie, socialite and sadist
- Captain Bill McDonald, legendary Texas Ranger, attended Soule Commercial College in New Orleans in the early 1870s.
- Carlos Marcello, businessman and mafia boss
- Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged presidential assassin
- Ronald A. Williams II, murdered New Orleans Police Officer
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Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
“It does make a big difference, it is why Robin Hood lives,
crime if you know the reason if you know the motive
if you can understand the character if it is not a
normal one is not interesting a crime in itself is
not interesting it is only there and when it is there
everybody has to take notice of it. It is important
in that way but in every other way it is not
important.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that specieas alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)