Crime
- Al Capone, mobster
- John Dillinger, bank robber
- John Wayne Gacy, serial killer
- Jeff Fort, gang leader and convicted terrorist
- Robert Hannsen, FBI agent; convicted spy for Russia
- H.H. Holmes, early serial killer
- Larry Hoover, gangster
- Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber
- Bugs Moran, mobster
- Baby Face Nelson, mobster
- Jose Padilla, aka Abdullah al-Muhajir, alleged terrorist
- Jack Ruby, killed Lee Harvey Oswald
- Richard Speck, mass murderer
- Captain George Streeter, riverboat captain and squatter
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Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
—George Farquhar (1678–1707)
“The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“After all, crime is only a lefthanded form of human endeavor.”
—John Huston (1906–1987)