100 Most Infamous Criminals

by Smith, Jo Durden

• ISBN13: 9781848377493
• ISBN10: 1848377495
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-09
• Publisher: Atlasbooks Dist Serv

Summary

100 Most Infamous Criminals is an astounding compendium of crimes and their perpetrators. The range of misdeeds is extraordinary, from the bizarre to the horrific, and from the heartbreaking to the ridiculous. The book includes some of history's most notorious criminals and tells in vivid detail the story of the lives they led, the crimes they committed, and the destruction and sorrow they left in their wake. 100 Most Infamous Criminals is a gripping and compelling portrait of the darker side of life and reveals the strange and grisly stories behind the world's most shocking murderers, swindlers, and crooks.

Table of Contents

International
Sada Abe	p. 10
Idi Amin	p. 11
Countess Elizabeth Bathory	p. 13
Jean Bedel Bokassa	p. 15
Cesare Borgia	p. 18
Andrei Chikatilo	p. 19
Josef Fritzl	p. 21
Fritz Haarmann	p. 23
Ivan the Terrible	p. 25
Bela Kiss	p. 27
Ilse Koch	p. 28
Joachim Kroll	p. 31
Peter Kürten	p. 32
Henri Landru	p. 35
'Lucky' Luciano	p. 37
'Count' Victor Lustig	p. 39
Chizuo Matsumoto, aka Shoko Asahara	p. 40
Jacques Mesrine	p. 42
Dr. Marcel Pétiot	p. 45
Issei Sagawa	p. 47
The Utoya Island Spree Killer: Anders Behring Breivik	p. 48
United States
Alberto Anastasia	p. 53
Joe Ball	p. 54
Ma Barker	p. 55
David Berkowitz	p. 56
Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono	p. 59
Billy The Kid	p. 60
Lizzie Borden	p. 62
Jerry Brudos	p. 64
Ted Bundy	p. 65
Al Capone	p. 68
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	p. 72
Mark Chapman	p. 73
Caryl Chessman	p. 74
D. B. Cooper	p. 75
Dean Corll	p. 76
Juan Corona	p. 77
Jeffrey Dahmer	p. 80
Geza de Kaplany	p. 82
Albert DeSalvo	p. 83
John Dillinger	p. 85
Albert Fish	p. 89
John Wayne Gacy	p. 91
Carmine Galante	p. 93
Ed Gein	p. 95
Belle Gunness	p. 97
Gary Heidnik	p. 98
William Heirens	p. 101
Jesse James	p. 102
Robert James	p. 105
Reverend Jim Jones	p. 106
Ted Kaczynski	p. 108
Ed Kemper	p. 109
Meyer Lansky	p. 111
Leopold and Loeb	p. 114
Louis Lepke	p. 116
Timothy McVeigh	p. 118
Charles Manson	p. 120
Walter Leroy Moody	p. 123
Herman Mudgett, aka HH Holmes	p. 125
Bonny Parker and Clyde Barrow	p. 126
Richard Ramirez	p. 128
Gary Ridgway	p. 130
Charles Schmid	p. 131
'Dutch' Schulz	p. 132
'Bugsy' Siegel	p. 133
Richard Speck	p. 135
Brenda Spencer	p. 138
Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate	p. 138
Robert Stroud	p. 141
Dr. John White Webster	p. 142
The Walnut Avenue Abductor: Phillip Garrido	p. 142
Wayne Williams	p. 144
Aileen Wuornos	p. 147
Britain
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley	p. 152
William Burke and William Hare	p. 154
John Christie	p. 155
Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen	p. 158
Claude Duval	p. 162
Ruth Ellis	p. 162
John Haigh	p. 166
Neville Heath	p. 169
Jack the Ripper	p. 172
The Kray Twins	p. 176
Lord Lucan	p. 179
Dennis Nilsen	p. 180
William Palmer	p. 182
Michael Ryan	p. 185
Jack Sheppard	p. 185
Dr. Harold Shipman	p. 186
George Joseph Smith	p. 188
Peter Sutcliffe	p. 189
Dick Turpin	p. 193
Fred and Rosemary West	p. 194
The West Yorkshire Murders: Stephen Griffiths	p. 199
Australia
Jack Donahoe	p. 202
Ned Kelly	p. 203
Katherine Knight	p. 205
William Macdonald	p. 206
'Chopper' Read	p. 207
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