Crime
- Nick Berg (undergrad 1996–98, transferred) – Businessman beheaded by Islamic militants on May 7, 2004 during the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq
- Leo Frank (B.S. 1906 Engineering) – Factory owner whose 1915 lynching for rape and murder sparked the reforming of the Ku Klux Klan; subject of the musical Parade
- Mark Gerard, (D.V.M., 1962) Perpetuated horse racing fraud, switching horses identities
- Katrina Leung (B.S. 1976) – Accused spy, case dismissed then later sentenced to terms of plea agreement
- Robert Tappan Morris (graduate study 1988–89, suspended) – Author of the Morris Worm, which crippled the Internet in 1988
- Michael Ross (B.S. 1981 Agricultural Economics) – Convicted serial killer executed in Connecticut on May 13, 2005
- Michael Schwerner (B.A. 1961 Sociology) – Murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1964 Mississippi civil rights worker murders
- Mark Whitacre (Ph.D. 1983 Nutritional Biochemistry) – Highest ranked executive in U.S. history of a Fortune 500 company to turn whistleblower and FBI informant; he pled guilty to fraud
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Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I wish so much of crime didn’t take place after dark. It’s most unnerving.”
—Ketti Frings (1915–1981)
“Has anyone ever told you that you overplay your various roles rather severely, Mr. Kaplan? First you’re the outraged Madison Avenue man who claims he’s been mistaken for someone else. Then you play the fugitive from justice, supposedly trying to clear his name of a crime he knows he didn’t commit. And now you play the peevish lover stung by jealously and betrayal. It seems to me you fellows could stand a little less training from the FBI and a little more from the Actors Studio.”
—Ernest Lehman (b.1920)