100 Most Infamous Criminals: Murder, Mayhem and Madness

by Jo Durden Smith

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. Here you will find the stories of some of history's most notorious criminals, the lives they led, the crimes they committed and the destruction and sorrow they left in their wake. This collection includes such notorious villains as:

• Jack the Ripper, the man who terrorized Victorian London.
• Charles Manson, the infamous 60s cult leader.
• Ted Bundy, the serial killer beloved by his neighbors.
• Al Capone, the king of gangsters.
• Harold Shipman, Britain's angel of death.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The True Criminals series provides gripping exposés on some of the most twisted criminals the world has ever seen. Augmented by chilling photographs, this series provides snapshots into the minds of these villains and their deadly acts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781398809246
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing Limited
Publication date:	10/01/2021
Series:	True Criminals , #2
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	1,075,977
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jo Durden Smith was a reporter, researcher, then producer-director at Granada TV and an executive-producer at Alan King Associates in London. He then left for North America to take up a career as a freelance writer, contributing to well-established journals such as The Village Voice in the United States and Macleans in Canada. Jo has continued to write for magazines and newspapers in Canada, the United States, Britain and Russia. He is also the author of a number of books (Sex and the Brain with Diane de Simone, A Long-Shot Romance, The Essence of Buddhism, Mafia: The Complete History of a Criminal World) and a maker of documentaries for TV.

Table of Contents

Contents


International
Sada Abe 10
Idi Amin 11
Countess Elizabeth Bathory 13
Jean Bedel Bokassa 15
Cesare Borgia17
Andrei Chikatilo 19
Josef Fritzl 21
Fritz Haarmann 23
Ivan the Terrible 25
Bela Kiss 28
Ilse Koch 29
Joachim Kroll 30
Peter Kürten 32
Henri Landru 34
'Lucky' Luciano 36
'Count' Victor Lustig 39
Chizuo Matsumoto (aka Shoko Asahara) 40
Jacques Mesrine 43
Robert Pickton 46
Anders Behring Breivik 51


United States of America
Alberto Anastasia 58
Joe Ball 59
Ma Barker 60
David Berkowitz 62

Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono 65
Billy The Kid 67
Lizzie Borden 69
Jerry Brudos 70
Ted Bundy 72
Al Capone 74
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 76
David Chapman 78
Caryl Chessman 79
D. B. Cooper 81
Dean Corll 82
Juan Corona 84
Jeffrey Dahmer 86
Geza de Kaplany 88
Albert DeSalvo 89
John Dillinger 92
Albert Fish 95
John Wayne Gacy 96
Carmine Galante 98
Ed Gein 100
Belle Gunness102
Gary Heidnik 103
William Heirens 106
Jesse James 107
Robert James109
Reverend Jim Jones 110
Ted Kaczynski113
Ed Kemper 115
Meyer Lansky118
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb 119
Louis Lepke 121
Timothy McVeigh 122
Charles Manson 125
Walter Leroy Moody 128
Herman Mudgett, aka H.H. Holmes 130
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow 132
Richard Ramirez 134

Gary Ridgway136
Charles Schmid 137
'Dutch' Schultz 139
'Bugsy' Siegel141
Richard Speck142
Brenda Spencer 144
Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate145
Robert Stroud147
Dr John White Webster 148
Phillip Garrido148
Wayne Williams 151
Aileen Wuornos 153


United Kingdom
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley 158
William Burke and William Hare 160
John Christie 161
Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen 163
Claude Duval 165
Ruth Ellis 166
John Haigh 169
Neville Heath 171
Jack the Ripper 172
The Kray Twins 175
Lord Lucan 177
Dennis Nilsen 179
William Palmer 180
Michael Ryan 182
Jack Sheppard 183
Dr Harold Shipman 184
George Joseph Smith185
Peter Sutcliffe188
Dick Turpin 190
Fred and Rosemary West 192
Stephen Griffiths 196

Australia
Jack Donohoe200
Ned Kelly 201
Katherine Knight 203
William Macdonald 204
'Chopper' Read 206


Picture Credits 208