Notorious People
Medieval Romanian impaler Vlad the Impaler
Fall River, MA woman accused of ax murders, 1892 Lizzie Borden
Sheriff Pat Garrett killed him Billy the Kid (William Bonny)
Missouri gang shot up in Northfield, Minnesota James Gang
He shot Jesse James Bob Ford
Brothers who were cohorts of the James Gang The Youngers
Gang shot up in Coffeyville, Kansas Dalton Gang
The Wild Bunch leaders Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
The Wild Bunch’s hideout Hole in the wall
Jack McCall shot this man Wild Bill Hickok
Hickok was holding this poker hand Aces and eights (Dead man’s hand)
Wild Bill Hickok's lover Calamity Jane
London killer of seven prostitutes, 1888 Jack the Ripper
Matriarch killed by G-men, 1935 Ma Barker
Meyer Lansky’s group Murder, Inc.
First public enemy #1 John Dillinger
Mobster nicknamed “Machine gun” George Kelly
Mobster who built the Flamingo Hilton Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel
“Lucky” crime boss “Lucky” Luciano
Chicago mobster jailed for tax evasion, a.k.a. “Scarface” Al Capone
Day “Bugs” Moran’s gang was killed St. Valentine’s Day, 1929
Mobster who testified before the Senate, 1951 Frank Costello
Couple gunned down by Louisiana police, 1934 Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow
Man executed in 1936 for kidnapping Lindbergh baby Bruno Hauptman
1950 robbery from a Boston garage ($2,775,000 stolen) Brink’s robbery
Pair imprisoned for kidnapping Bobby Franks Leopold and Loeb
Italian immigrants executed for murder in 1927 Sacco and Vanzetti
Couple executed for selling A-bomb secrets, 1951 Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
Nebraska garbage man and mass murderer Carl Starkweather
He shot JFK Lee Harvey Oswald
He shot Lee Harvey Oswald Jack Ruby
He shot Robert Kennedy Sirhan Sirhan
He shot Martin Luther King, Jr James Earl Ray
Killer and cannibalizer of 17 men in Milwaukee Jeffrey Dahmer
Killer of 30 young women executed in Florida, 1989 Ted Bundy
He was court-martialed for the My Lai massacre Lt. William Calley
American executed in 1977 by Utah firing squad Gary Gilmore
Nickname for .44 Caliber Killer David Berkowitz Son of Sam (after his dog)
Nickname of Ilich Ramirez Sanchez Carlos the Jackal
The Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo
The Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi
The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez
The Unabomber Theodore Kaezynski
The Bird Man of Alcatraz Robert Stroud
The Long Island Lolita Amy Fischer
Skyjacker who parachuted from a 727 in 1971 D.B. Cooper
Fake Howard Hughes biographer Clifford Irving
Mustachioed Chinese arch-fiend Fu Manchu
Head of the Gambino crime family, “The Teflon Don” John Gotti
The People’s Temple suicide leader, 1978 Jim Jones
Branch Davidian leader in Waco, TX, 1993 David Koresh
Navy spy family caught in 1985 The Walkers
Man convicted in Oklahoma City bombing Timothy McVeigh
Exxon Valdez captain Capt. Joseph Hazelwood
He shot Ronald Reagan and James Brady John Hinkley, Jr.
He shot John Lennon Mark David Chapman
Cult leader and killer of nine in Los Angeles, 1969 Charles Manson
Terrorist executed by Navy Seals, 2011 Osama bin Laden
He had millions put to death in Cambodia Pol Pot
Financier indited in saving and loan scandal, 1989 Charles Keating
Company responsible for 2010 Gulf oil spill BP
Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling led this company to bankruptcy, 2001 Enron
Man sent to prison for life for running ponzi scheme, 2009 Bernie Madoff
She shot J. R. Ewing on TV’s Dallas Kristin Shepard
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