 |
 Marie
Besnard was accused of poisoning 11
people, including her husband, with arsenic.
Arrested on July 21, 1949, she went through three
trials before finally being acquitted on December
12, 1961. |
 Al
Capone spent his teenage
years running with street gangs in his Brooklyn
neighborhood. He moved to Chicago in 1919, and
quickly built a criminal empire worth tens of
millions of dollars. Although he was implicated
in dozens of murders, it was a conviction for tax
evasion that ended his career. |
 John Herbert
Dillinger was never successful at
holding a regular job, but gained a nationwide
reputation as a bank robber. Named America's
first Public Enemy One in 1934, he was killed by
the FBI that same year. |
 Charles
Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd
began his criminal career in 1922, with a botched
robbery that netted him $3.50. By 1934 he had
racked up a long list of successful robberies and
was #1 on the FBI's Most Wanted List. He was
killed by law enforcement in 1935. |
 The Dalton Gang
robbed banks and trains throughout the Midwest in
the late 1800's. The gang's success came to an
end when it tried to rob three Coffeyville,
Kansas, banks at the same time. |
 Clutter Family Murders
On November 16, 1959,
Garden City (Kansas) Police were called to a farm
house in Holcomb, where they discovered four
members of the Clutter Family had been murdered.
The case received national attention, and
subsequently became the plot of Truman Capote's
novel In Cold Blood. |
