1. Elizabeth Bathory (1560)

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Hungarian countess who used her family's position to escape criminal charges and punishment after supposedly becoming the most prolific female serial killer in history. Her depraved actions garnered her the...

2. William Brodie (1741)

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18th century English criminal who famously used his job as a cabinet maker to create copies of keys and rob his clients. Due to his status as an Edinburgh City...

3. John C. Colt (1810)

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American clerk who was convicted of the 1842 murder of printer Samuel Adams and whose trial became the center of a New York media firestorm.

4. Mary Ann Cotton (1832)

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British criminal who was hanged for murdering her children and who may have poisoned as many as twenty-one people in total.

5. John Wilkes Booth (1838)

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Actor who infamously assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.

6. Frank McLaury (1848)

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Cowboy and outlaw of the American Wild West. He participated in the famous 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, losing his life in the process.

7. Lewis Powell (1844)

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Confederate solider who was hanged for his role in the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy.

8. Tom McLaury (1853)

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Famous criminal who was killed at the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

9. John Wesley Hardin (1853)

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American old West outlaw who served sixteen years in prison for a series of shooting murders which began when he was fifteen years old.

10. Ned Kelly (1854)

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Irish Australian outlaw who became a folk hero while fighting against the corrupt government and the police. He became known as the Australian Robin Hood.

11. Gratton Dalton (1861)

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American outlaw best known as the leader of the infamous Dalton Gang.

12. Butch Cassidy (1866)

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Wild West outlaw and accomplice of the "Sundance Kid" (Harry Alonzo Longabaugh). He robbed banks and trains and led the infamous Wild Bunch Gang.

13. Ma Barker (1873)

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A 1930s criminal figure who mothered the leaders of the Barker-Karpis Gang.

14. Leon Czolgosz (1873)

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Aspiring anarchist who assassinated President William McKinley for the good of the people, according to his last words.

15. Vincenzo Peruggia (1881)

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Italian criminal who committed one of the most notorious art thefts ever when he stole the world-famous painting the Mona Lisa from The Louvre in August 1911. He was sentenced...

16. Jake Guzik (1886)

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Criminal who specialized in political bribes in early 20th-century Chicago.

17. Joe Ball (1892)

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Serial killer known as The Alligator Man for disposing of victims' bodies by feeding them to his pet alligators.

18. Bugs Moran (1891)

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Chicago Prohibition-era gangster who was incarcerated three times before turning 21 years old and who popularized the act of driving by a rival's hangout and spraying it with bullets, which...

19. George Machine Gun Kelly (1895)

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Murderous gangster of the Prohibition era. He became infamous for his kidnapping of wealthy oil executive Charles F. Urschel.

20. Charles Lucky Luciano (1897)

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Drug lord, mob boss, and the father of American organized crime.

21. Vito Genovese (1897)

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Infamous Italian-American mobster and head of the notorious Genovese crime family. He was involved in the famous Castellammarese Mafia War of the early 1930s.

22. Tommy Lucchese (1899)

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Sicilian-born American gangster who was a founding member of the Mafia in the United States, which branched off of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily. He was the boss of the...

23. John Christie (1899)

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Serial killer who killed a minimum of eight women, including his wife, in the U.K. in the 40's and 50's. He was hanged to death in March 1953.

24. Lena Baker (1900)

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African American, Georgia-born housemaid who was charged with capital murder and executed for shooting her white boss, Ernest Knight.

25. Dutch Schultz (1901)

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New York-based mobster who made a fortune in the alcohol bootlegging and numbers racket businesses during the prohibition era. He was killed by the Mafia Commission, who disapproved of his...

26. Carlo Gambino (1902)

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Patriarch of the Gambino crime family who became the Boss of Bosses in organized crime.

27. Buck Barrow (1903)

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American criminal and member of the Barrow Gang best known for teaming up with infamous American crime couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

28. Mary Bell (1957)

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British woman who, as a child, strangled two young boys to death. She served 12 years in prison before being released in 1980, at which she point she began living under...

29. Clyde Barrow (1909)

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1930s bank robber and murderer who went on a spree with his girlfriend Bonnie Parker.

30. John George Haigh (1909)

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British killer convicted of killing six people and disposing of their bodies by dissolving them in sulfuric acid. He has been commonly referred to as the Acid Bath Murderer.

31. Angelo Bruno (1910)

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Mobster who specialized in bribery and was a member of the Philadelphia crime family.

32. Frank Caruso (1911)

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Criminal most recognized as one of the most fearless Chicago mobsters of the 1950s.

33. Francis Crowley (1912)

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New York criminal who became famous for his two-hour 1931 shootout with police, which followed a three-month crime spree.

34. Jimmy Fratianno (1913)

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Former mafia hitman with the Los Angeles crime family turned state's evidence - one of the highest placed mafia members to do so, ever.

35. Raymond Fernandez (1914)

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Serial killer who was one half of The Lonely Hearts Killers with his wife, Martha Jule Beck, and who was executed in the electric chair. He and his wife were...

36. Mickey Cohen (1914)

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Gangster who rose from Prohibition-era enforcer to West Coast kingpin.

37. Paul Castellano (1915)

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Nicknamed 'The Howard Hughes of the Mob,' who led the largest mob crime family in the country.

38. John Franzese (1917)

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Crime boss known as a member of the Italian Colombo family. He was sentenced to fifty years in prison for various bank robberies in 1970 but was released in 1978.

39. Patrick Kearney (1939)

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Known as The Freeway Killer, targeted young men and claimed anywhere from 21 to 43 victims.

40. Mutsuhiro Watanabe (1918)

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Accused of war crimes by General Douglas MacArthur and the United States government, but never prosecuted, this World War II-era Imperial Japanese Army soldier was stationed at three Japanese Prisoner-of-War...

41. Erik Menendez (1970)

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Widely known for the 1996 conviction of him and his older brother Lyle for the 1989 murder of his parents Jose and Mary. His 1993 trial was broadcast on Court TV, and...

42. Sharon Carr (1979)

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Known as the Devil's Daughter, she was convicted for the murder of 18-year-old hairdresser Katie Ratcliffe in 1997. She was featured on the Britain's Killer Kids murder documentary. She was known...

43. Rick Singer (1960)

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Former college coach and counselor, primarily known for his role in the 2021 Netflix documentary titled Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal. He was paid between $200,000 to $6.5...

44. Luka Magnotta (1982)

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Canadian former adult film star who became the subject of an international manhunt when a video surfaced online of him killing Chinese international student Lin Jun. After fleeing Canada, he...

45. Joseph Kony (1964)

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Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army guerrilla group; became the target of a popular worldwide campaign in 2012.

46. Caryl Chessman (1921)

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The Red Light Bandit was convicted in a controversial case, and executed while vigorously claiming his innocence.

47. Joseph Colombo (1923)

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Criminal who was the boss of the Colombo crime family which came to be known as one of the "Five Families" of the Cosa Nostra in New York.

48. Perry Edward Smith (1928)

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Made infamous by his inclusion in author Truman Capote's nonfiction work In Cold Blood, this convicted murderer was sentenced to death for robbing and subsequently killing Herbert, Kenyon, Bonnie, and...

49. William Heirens (1928)

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Known as The Lipstick Killer for leaving a message in lipstick at one of his crime scenes.

50. Charles Ray Hatcher (1929)

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Serial killer who sexually assaulted and murdered children and teenagers, eventually hanging himself in his prison cell when he was denied the death penalty he requested.