100 Most Infamous Criminals: Murder, mayhem and madness

100 Most Infamous Criminals: Murder, mayhem and madness

by Jo Durden Smith
100 Most Infamous Criminals: Murder, mayhem and madness

100 Most Infamous Criminals: Murder, mayhem and madness

by Jo Durden Smith

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Overview

An indispensable introduction to the darker side of life, revealing the often strange and grisly stories behind the world's most infamous murderers, swindlers and crooks.

100 Most Infamous Criminals is an astounding compendium of crimes and their perpetrators. The range of crimes is extraordinary, from the bizarre to horrific, and from the heart-breaking to the ridiculous.
The book tells in vivid detail the story of the history's most infamous criminals; lives they led, the crimes they committed, and the destruction and sorrow left in their wake.

• Jack the Ripper, the man who terrorized Victorian London.
• Ted Bundy, the serial killer beloved by his neighbours.
• Jeffrey Dahmer, the creator of real-life zombies.
• Al Capone, the king of gangsters.
• Harold Shipman, Britain's angel of death.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782127505
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Publication date: 07/17/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Jo Durden Smith has long held a fascination with the world of crime, and what motivates the actions of the most infamous criminals in history. He has written several books on the subject including 100 Most Infamous Criminals and The Mafia.

Table of Contents

International

Sada Abe 10

Idi Amin 11

Countess Elizabeth Bathory 13

Jean Bedel Bokassa 15

Cesare Borgia 18

Andrei Chikatilo 19

Josef Fritzl 21

Fritz Haarmann 23

Ivan the Terrible 25

Bela Kiss 27

Ilse Koch 28

Joachim Kroll 31

Peter Kürten 32

Henri Landru 35

'Lucky' Luciano 37

'Count' Victor Lustig 39

Chizuo Matsumoto, aka Shoko Asahara 40

Jacques Mesrine 42

Dr. Marcel Pétiot 45

Issei Sagawa 47

The Utoya Island Spree Killer: Anders Behring Breivik 48

United States

Alberto Anastasia 53

Joe Ball 54

Ma Barker 55

David Berkowitz 56

Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono 59

Billy The Kid 60

Lizzie Borden 62

Jerry Brudos 64

Ted Bundy 65

Al Capone 68

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 72

Mark Chapman 73

Caryl Chessman 74

D. B. Cooper 75

Dean Corll 76

Juan Corona 77

Jeffrey Dahmer 80

Geza de Kaplany 82

Albert DeSalvo 83

John Dillinger 85

Albert Fish 89

John Wayne Gacy 91

Carmine Galante 93

Ed Gein 95

Belle Gunness 97

Gary Heidnik 98

William Heirens 101

Jesse James 102

Robert James 105

Reverend Jim Jones 106

Ted Kaczynski 108

Ed Kemper 109

Meyer Lansky 111

Leopold and Loeb 114

Louis Lepke 116

Timothy McVeigh 118

Charles Manson 120

Walter Leroy Moody 123

Herman Mudgett, aka HH Holmes 125

Bonny Parker and Clyde Barrow 126

Richard Ramirez 128

Gary Ridgway 130

Charles Schmid 131

'Dutch' Schulz 132

'Bugsy' Siegel 133

Richard Speck 135

Brenda Spencer 138

Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate 138

Robert Stroud 141

Dr. John White Webster 142

The Walnut Avenue Abductor: Phillip Garrido 142

Wayne Williams 144

Aileen Wuornos 147

Britain

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley 152

William Burke and William Hare 154

John Christie 155

Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen 158

Claude Duval 162

Ruth Ellis 162

John Haigh 166

Neville Heath 169

Jack the Ripper 172

The Kray Twins 176

Lord Lucan 179

Dennis Nilsen 180

William Palmer 182

Michael Ryan 185

Jack Sheppard 185

Dr. Harold Shipman 186

George Joseph Smith 188

Peter Sutcliffe 189

Dick Turpin 193

Fred and Rosemary West 194

The West Yorkshire Murders: Stephen Griffiths 199

Australia

Jack Donahoe 202

Ned Kelly 203

Katherine Knight 205

William Macdonald 206

'Chopper' Read 207

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