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Most Notorious Criminals

  • 18-12-2021 5:46pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,233 ✭✭✭


    Ladies/gentlemen I was wondering if you could help? I’m currently writing a book on famous criminals and was wondering if you could think of one and why they entered your head….everyone will be acknowledged in the book. Hope all is well…would love to have another night/weekend soon. Regards to all families and friends! ❤️❤️❤️



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 122 ✭✭cafflingwunts


    boards is so **** now

    (i did have something typed but yeah **** you boards)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭thefallingman


    Bonnie and Clyde



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,152 ✭✭✭Allinall


    I’ll give you three.

    Alias, Smith and Jones.



  • Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jarry



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,922 ✭✭✭GM228


    Jack the Ripper, don't know why, but when I hear the likes of "notorious criminals", always first to pop into my head, followed by Pablo Escobar and Jeffrey Dahmer.

    Or to stay closer to home - the Black Widow, or Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭sgthighway


    Michael Martin or Leo. Ripping off the Irish Public for a few years now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,437 ✭✭✭✭billyhead


    Ted Bundy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 61,272 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Fagin



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,140 ✭✭✭Gregor Samsa


    Barabbas.

    The successful popular campaign to release this convicted criminal, who is described in Matthew 27:16 as a “notorious prisoner”, had a significant impact on the course of Western and indeed world history.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 506 ✭✭✭Freddie Mcinerney


    Richardsons



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,426 ✭✭✭corner of hells




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,327 ✭✭✭Be right back


    The general, Martin Cahill.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 302 ✭✭Piollaire


    Robin Hood, prince of thieves by all accounts



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,510 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    Nidge!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭CGI_Livia_Soprano
    Holding tyrants to the fire


    Connor McGregor



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,296 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Vasily Mikhailovich Blokhin



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,503 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Ned Kelly



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,393 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    Gary Leon Ridgway, also known as the Green River Killer, is an American serial killer. He was initially convicted of 48 separate murders.

    Dennis Lynn Rader is an American serial killer known as BTK, the BTK Strangler or the BTK Killer. Between 1974 and 1991, Rader killed ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, and sent taunting letters to police and newspapers describing the details of his crimes.

    The Zodiac Killer is the pseudonym of a serial killer who operated in Northern California in the late 1960s. The case has been described as the most famous unsolved murder case in American history, becoming a fixture of popular culture and inspiring amateur detectives to attempt to resolve it.

    Big list here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_in_the_United_States.

    In Ireland

    Malcolm Daniel Edward McArthur, now 56, has served 20 years of a life sentence for the murder of Nurse Bridie Gargan, who was bludgeoned to death as she sunned herself in Dublin's Phoenix Park during a work break. Three days later he murdered a farmer, Mr Donal Dunne, in Co Westmeath.

    And

    The Shankill Butchers were an Ulster loyalist gang—many of whom were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)—that was active between 1975 and 1982 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was based in the Shankill area and was responsible for the deaths of at least 23 people, most of whom were killed in sectarian attacks. The gang was notorious for kidnapping, torturing and murdering random or suspected Catholic civilians; each was beaten ferociously and had their throat hacked with a butcher's knife. Some were also tortured and attacked with a hatchet. The gang also killed six Ulster Protestants over personal disputes, and two other Protestants mistaken for Catholics.

    Most of the gang were eventually caught and, in February 1979, received the longest combined prison sentences in United Kingdom legal history. However, gang leader Lenny Murphy and his two chief "lieutenants" escaped prosecution. Murphy was murdered in November 1982 by the Provisional IRA, likely acting with loyalist paramilitaries who perceived him as a threat.[1] The Butchers brought a new level of paramilitary violence to a country already hardened by death and destruction.[2] The judge who oversaw the 1979 trial described their crimes as "a lasting monument to blind sectarian bigotry".

    Also

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_crimes_in_Ireland#1980s

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 196 ✭✭SamStonesArm


    Carl Ponzram , he was a fecking lunatic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Paul Le Roux.

    He was a computer programmer accused of stealing source code from his employer and releasing it as the open source program, now discontinued, E4M (Encryption for the masses).

    He then diversified into some other fields. Interesting character by all accounts.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,655 ✭✭✭Trekker09


    In Ireland, it has to be the man who stole billions and is directly responsible for numerous deaths around the country.


    Sean Fitzpatrick



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,233 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Thanks so much for everyone’s contributions. I really appreciate it. Do people differentiate good and bad criminals to determine notoriety?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    McArthur is closer to seventy six than fifty six , those murders happened circa 1981



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,171 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Collier the robber - legend!



  • Posts: 18,962 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Bertie "Testicles" Ahern and his devious accomplice "Paddy The Plasterer"



  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Robin jackson and billy wright,must be up there surely for notarity


    Christy kinihan......built up from nothing,one of biggest drug organisations in europe.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,224 ✭✭✭trashcan




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭HorseSea


    Shan Nohangi - The Green Tureen.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭HorseSea


    Can't edit posts anymore. ARGH. Misspelling.

    Shan Mohangi - The Green Tureen.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,327 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump



    There are three dots on the top right of your post. You can edit away to your heart's content



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,296 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Define good and bad ?

    How about empathy and narcissism, there are people out there who don't care and don't have the same sort of conscience that normal folk have. Donald Trump is likely responsible for half of the US's Covid deaths by behaving in ways that Obama didn't or wouldn't Or how about Zuckerberg, how many people were murdered for terrorist propaganda because Facebook was more concerned with ad views than policing content ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,542 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    The proper notorious criminals can hide away all their wealth so what's in their name is accountable to the nearest €1, you won't see them driving around in a Lambo while on jobseekers like some idiots, they will gladly wear St Bernard instead of North Face.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Jequ0n


    ”Do people differentiate good and bad criminals to determine notoriety?”

    Could you explain what you mean by that?



  • Posts: 6,192 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Theres certain crimes ya think fair fcuks to em for undertaking it and pulling it off.....while others spread utter revulsion such as robbing/attacking old people living alone



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,412 ✭✭✭Jequ0n


    But that’s always a question of perspective defined by the person who is asking or evaluating.

    I couldn’t care less if the victim of a crime is elderly, but it has a different value for you. So I wonder what angle the OP has.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 922 ✭✭✭Dramatik


    "The Barefoot Bandit"

    Colton Harris Moore is an American former fugitive. He was charged with the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in property, including several small aircraft, boats, and multiple cars, all committed while still a teenager.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,084 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Oliver Cromwell the dirty murdering scumbag.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 56 ✭✭Gammyeye




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,310 ✭✭✭chicorytip


    The Provisional IRA.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,061 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Father Brendan Smyth. Even by the paedo standards of the Catholic mafia, utter vermin.



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