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Famous Criminals Project
Famous Criminals Project

Some Suggestions

Thomas Beer, Billy the Kid, Black Bart, John Wilkes Booth, Ted Bundy, Al Capone, Frankie Carbo, Butch Cassidy, Mickey Cohen, Joseph Anthony Colombo Sr., Frank Costello, Leon Czolgosz, Bob Dalton, John F. Deitz, John Dillinger, William Doolin, Charles Arthur Floyd, Carlo Gambino, Edward Gein, Vito Genovese, Charles Julius Guiteau, John Wesley Hardin, Tom Horn, Jesse James, Machine Gun Kelly, Meyer Lansky, Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr and Richard Albert Loeb, Lucky Luciano, Ebenezer Mackintosh, Owen Victor Madden, Samuel Mason, Gaston Bullock Means, John Andrews Murrell, Philip Mariano Fausto Musica, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Chesnut Barrow, William Clarke Quantrill, Railroad Bill, Stephen S. Renfroe, Arnold Rothstein, Dutch Schulz, Bugsy Siegel, Joseph Alfred Slade, Belle Starr, Willie Sutton, Harry Kendall Thaw, Joesph Valachi, Tiburcio Vasquez, John White Webster, Seth Wyman, Cole Younger, Ted Bundy, Ted Kaczynski, Son of Sam (Berkowitz), John Wayne Gacy, The Zodiac Killer, Ed Gein, Albert Fish, Timothy McVeigh, Lizzie Borden, The Green River Killer, Arthur Shawcross (more difficult to find info, great for a strong researcher!)


Databases to Use:

 
Gale eBooks: Reference titles in electronic format.


Student Resource Center -- Great for biographical and historical information.


Good Websites to Use:

TruTV Crime Library
The Crime Library is a collection of more than 1000 nonfiction feature stories and photo galleries relating to crimes, criminals, trials, forensics and criminal profiling by prominent writers. The stories focus mostly on recent crimes, but also includes historically notorious characters dating back to the 1400s and spanning the globe.

FBI Famous Crimes
John Dillinger. Al Capone. The KKK. John Gotti. Patty Hearst. The Unabomber. Bonnie and Clyde.
The FBI has investigated them all… and many more spies, terrorists, and criminals besides. Listed below, grouped according to our top investigative priorities and related categories, are many of our famous and most significant cases over the past century






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