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 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
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