List of Famous Dead People: Category - Criminals
In the early morning of September 1, 1986 Cooey and a friend was throwing chunks of concrete off the Stoner Street Bridge onto U.S. Interstate 77 in Akron, Ohio. One of the chunks hit an oncoming car, which was driven by University of Akron student Wendy Offredo (age 20), also in the car was another [...]
Ignatow was a resident of Louisville, Kentucky who is famous for murdering his fiancée, Brenda Sue Schaefer in 1988. What makes him famous is that he was initially acquitted of the murder charges… but later evidence proved his guilt, but under the legal principle of double jeopardy, he couldn’t be tried a second time for [...]
Chase was a serial killer who killed six people in California over the span of one month. He was given the nickname “The Vampire of Sacramento” because he would cannibalize and drink the blood of his victims. Early in his life he moved out of his mothers’ house, he thought she was trying to poison him. [...]
Edward Theodore Gein, commonly known as the Plainfield Ghoul, was one of the most famous (or infamous more appropriately) serial killers in American history. He did not have the numbers of many of his peers, but his actions inspired more elements of pop culture than probably any other killer. He inspired horror movie villains Leatherface, Norman Bates [...]
Vlad III the Impaler also known as Vlad Vlad Ţepeş, Vlad Dracula, and Dracula was the Prince of Wallachia reigning in 1448, from 1456-1462, and 1476. His reign was a reign of terror according to many legends. He is said to have tortured and impaled thousands of men, women, and children on stakes. Many of his atrocities [...]
Christopher Michael Benoit was a Canadian wrestler whose career was greatly celebrated by wresting fans, but whose reputation took a sharp u-turn over the course of a weekend once he murdered his family and killed himself. He wrestled from 1985 to 2007 in the WCW, the WWF/WWE, and ECW sometimes using names like The Rabid Wolverine, [...]
Sid Vicious (real name - John Simon Ritchie) was the bass player for punk rock band the Sex Pistols. He was a drug addict and so was his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, who he was arrested for murdering. It is not certain whether or not Vicious actually killed Spungen, because he had no recollection of doing so. [...]
DeShaun Dupree Holton (aka Proof) was a member of the rap group D-12 (Dirty Dozen), which was made famous by rapper Eminem. He also had some solo work, but he is best-known for his D-12 membership, whose greatest hit was the song Purple Pill (retitled Purple Hills for the radio). He also appeared in movies like 8 [...]
Countess Elizabeth Báthory (Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian) was a member of the Royal Family of Hungary, and is credited as the most prolific serial killer in history. She is often called “The Blood Countess” due to legends that she used to bathe in the blood of virgins as a means of preserving her youth, although the [...]
Albert Fish is widely considered one of America’s most perverse and notorious serial killers, perhaps even more vile than Jeffrey Dahmer, being how Fish focused primarily on young children. He was a sexual predator, a sado-masochist, a torturer, and a cannibal who killed at least five children, though he claimed to either have molested or ate [...]
Bruce Edwards Ivins graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a PHD in microbiology and is known for his extensive research with Anthrax. He aided the FBI after the Anthrax attacks of 2001 in analyzing the substance. Eventually, authorities came to suspect his as a culprit of the attacks. According to ABC News, “FBI officials had [...]
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer was one of America\’s most notorious serial killers who is well known for picking up gay men at bars and taking them back to his apartment where he tortured, performed experiments on, murdered and ate his victims. He took the lives of seventeen known victims in Wisconsin and Ohio from 1978 to 1991. Police [...]
Known as “the Spam King”, Davidson conducted his business with the name “Power Promoters” sending out hundreds of thousands of spam emails between 2002 - 2006. Davidson was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 5, 2007. Almost a year later he would be sentenced to serve 21 months in federal prison, and pay $714,139 [...]
A.K.A “The German”, Schweihs was a hitman who had been linked to “The Outfit”, the organized crime family in Chicago.
Outlaw and robber. His partner was Bonnie Parker. Both are popularly known as Bonnie and Clyde.
A gangster based in Chicago. During the prohibition era in the 1920’s and 30’s he contraband and sold bootleg liquor, making a fortune in the process. Although credited with various crimes including murders he was never convicted of any. Finally the FBI was able to convict him of tax evasion, sentencing him to eleven [...]
One of the most famous gangsters and criminals in the US. Born in Italy. His real name was Salvatore Lucania.
He became president of the Teamsters Union, (truckers) in 1957 and served until 1964, when he was convicted of jury tampering and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. He was released in 1971 thanks to a presidential pardon by Richard Nixon, apparently in exchange for illegal campaign contributions. Upon release he attempted to [...]