Bandits, robbers, and arsonists. Father of all treasons : Thomas Blood -- A civil, obliging robber : John Nevison -- Damnation seize my soul if I give you quarters : Edward "Blackbeard" Teach -- Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief, Knox the boy that buys the beef : Burke and Hare -- They were brave fellows, they were true men : the James-Younger Gang -- It's for the love of a man that I'm gonna have to die : Bonnie and Clyde -- You'll never believe it, they've stolen the train : the Great Train Robbery -- Addicted to the thrill : Bill Mason -- To me it is only so much scrap gold : the theft of the World Cup -- Miss, you'd better look at that note : D.B. Cooper -- I stole from the wealthy so I could live their lifestyle : John MacLean -- Sing of my deeds, tell of my combats, forgive my failings : Phoolan Devi -- The fire becomes a mistress, a lover : John Leonard Orr -- It was the perfect crime : the Antwerp Diamond Heist -- He was an expert in alarm systems : the theft of the Cellini Salt Cellar -- Weird and unbelievable, but it's a very real criminal case : the Russia-Estonia vodka pipeline -- Old-school London criminal gents : the Hatton Garden heist --
Con artists. Under the influence of bad counsels, I fell a martyr : the affair of the diamond necklace -- People took their hats off to such a sum : the Crawford inheritance -- The smoothest con man that ever lived : the sale of the Eiffel Tower -- Domela's story rings with the high lunacy of great farce : Harry Domela -- If my work hangs in a museum long enough, it becomes real : Elmyr de Hory -- It's not stealing because I'm only taking what they give me : Doris Payne -- They inflated the raft and left the island. After that nobody seems to know what happened : escape from Alcatraz -- At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues : Frank Abagnale -- I was on a train of lies. I couldn't jump off : Clifford Irving -- Originally I copied Hitler's life out of books, but later I began to feel I was Hitler : Konrad Kujau -- If this is not a ring-in I'm not here : the Fine Cotton scandal --
White collar crimes. Money has often been a cause of the delusion of multitudes : the Mississippi scheme -- Nothing is lost save honor : the Black Friday gold scandal -- The old game of robbing Peter to pay Paul : Charles Ponzi -- You can't convict a million dollars : the Teapot Dome scandal -- Citizens were dying right, left, and center : the Bhopal disaster -- The world's biggest mugging : the City of London bonds theft -- It's all just one big lie : Bernie Madoff -- I know in my mind that I did nothing criminal : the Enron scandal -- He put in peril the existence of the bank : Jerome Kerviel -- Bribery was tolerated and rewarded : the Siemens scandal -- Not just nerdy kids up to mischief in their parents' basement : the Spyeye malware data theft -- The irregularities go against everything Volkswagen stands for : the Volkswagen emissions scandal --
Organized crime. The most hazardous of all trades, that of the smuggler : the Hawkhurst Gang -- In Sicily there is a sect of thieves : the Sicilian Mafia -- They dare do anything : the Triads -- No more villainous, ruffianly band was ever organized : the Wild Bunch -- Prohibition has made nothing but trouble : the beer wars -- If the boss says a passing crow is white, you must agree : the Yakuza -- When we do right, nobody remembers. When we do wrong, nobody forgets : Hells Angels -- The were the best years of our lives : the Krays and the Richardsons -- All empires were created of blood and fire : the Medellin Cartel -- It was always about business,never about gangs : "Freeway" Rick Ross --
Kidnapping and extortion. He valued her less than old swords : the abduction of Pocahontas -- Marvelous real-life romance : the Tichborne claimant -- Anne, they've stolen our baby! : the Lindbergh baby kidnapping -- Since Monday I have fallen into the hands of kidnappers : the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III -- I'm a coward. I didn't want to die " the kidnapping of Patty Hearst -- I still sleep with a night light. I can't ride a subway : the Chowchilla kidnapping -- I always felt like a poor chicken in a henhouse : the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch --
Murder cases. An unusually clear case, like a "smoking gun" : the Neanderthal murder -- Perpetrated with the sword of justice : Jean Calas -- Not guilty by reason of insanity : Daniel M'Naghten -- Gave Katherine warning to leave : the Dripping Killer -- Lizzie Borden took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks : Lizzie Borden -- Fingerprinting alone has proved to be both infallible and feasible : the Stratton Brothers -- Thank God it's over. The suspense has been too great : Dr. Crippen -- I was driven by a will that had taken the place of my own : Madam Caillaux -- She was very good looking with beautiful dark hair : the Black Dahlia murder -- The artist was so well-informed in chemicals, it was frightening : Sadamichi Hirasawa -- I have been a victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts : the Texas Tower massacre -- Now is the time for Helter Skelter : the Manson family -- A dingo's got my baby! : the death of Azaria Chamberlain -- I was Mr. Nobody until I killed the biggest somebody on Earth : the murder of John Lennon -- Who has sent you against me? Who has told you to do this thing? : the murder of Roberto Calvi -- I was on Death Row and I was innocent : Kirk Bloodsworth -- An act of unparalleled evil : the murder of James Bulger -- I'm afraid this man will kill me some day : O.J. Simpson -- Foul play while in the Spy Craft store : Craig Jacobsen -- People are afraid and don't want to talk to us : the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls --
Serial killers. Murdering people for sheer sport / Liu Pengli -- The said Dame Alice had a certain demon : Alice Kyteler -- The blood of maidens will keep her young : Elizabeth Bathory -- I will send you another bit of innards : Jack the Ripper -- They'd rather be dead than be with me : Harvey Glatman -- I just like to kill : Ted Bundy -- Calculated, cruel, cold-blooded murders : Ian Brady and Myra Hindley -- More terrible than words can express : Fred and Rosemary West -- This is the Zodiac speaking : the Zodiac Killer -- In his own eyes, he was some sort of medical god : Harold Shipman -- A mistake of nature : Andrei Chikatilo -- I was sick or evil, or both : Jeffrey Dahmer -- A danger to young women : Colin Pitchfork -- Read your ad. Let's talk about the possibilities : John Edward Robinson --
Assassinations and political plots. Insatiable and disgraceful lust for money : the assassination of Pertinax
Murdering someone by craft : the Hashashin
Sic semper tyrannis! : the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it, my honor! : the Dreyfus Affair
If they shed my blood, their hands will remain soiled : the assassination of Rasputin
There has to be more to it : the assassination of John F. Kennedy
I kiss you for the last time : the abduction of Aldo Moro
Babarity was alla round us : the kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt
Barbaric and ruthless : the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
