Top 8 Geekiest Crimes ever

1 " I have killed them all! "... ups... sorry... Wrong Number!



A call mistakenly made by a victorious video gamer led to his arrest on an outstanding warrant.
Authorities arrested Thomas Ballard, 29, of Delhi,after a woman reported receiving a late-night call from someone saying, "I have killed them all."
Ballard's number showed up on the woman's caller ID; he'd called by mistake, meaning instead to get a buddy to talk-up his success in an Xbox game, said Sgt. Julie Lewis, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana State Police.
Authorities following up at the address, to investigate whether there had been any foul play, found no evidence of wrongdoing, she said. But they did find, in the process of identifying Ballard, that he had a 5-year-old warrant out of Baton Rouge, charging him with failure to appear on a possession of cocaine charge.
Ballard was booked into the Richland Parish Detention Center for extradition to Baton Rouge.
"It was weird the way this all came down," Lewis said. "This isn't something you could just make up."

2 Student transferred for making counter strike map based on school



A senior at Clements High School in Sugar Land, Texas was transferred to an alternative education center after it was learned that the student had created a map of his school in the online game Counter-Strike
The student wasn't arrested or charged with any crimes, but police were called in to search his home, where they found five swords. Police also ordered the student to erase the game and maps from his computer.Source



3 Gamers Arrested By SWAT Team After Playing Playstation Too Loudly



Two gamers in Denmark had a SWAT team knock down their door and arrest them after they were playing a video game too loudly. The pair were playing Rainbow Six on their PlayStation 3 when neighbors called the police to report that they heard loud gunshots coming from their apartment.
Police quickly cordoned off the area and stormed the house using a megaphone to command the pair to surrender. The two gamers were handcuffed until officers realized that they posed no threat.
A spokesman for the Copenhagen police said that they are obliged to investigate any reports of gunshots, which leads to occasional false alarms. Source



4 Try to sell "World of Warcraft gold"



Here in the US, you can't really arrest someone for selling gold in-game -- it's against Blizzard's Terms of Service, so they can ban you from the game or even file suit against you, but it's not actually illegal. But in China, under communism, things are apparently a little different. Two gold farmers have actually been arrested by the government for "unfair revenue distribution" -- apparently the two had a disagreement about how to distribute the over $200,000 they had made from selling gold in World of Warcraft.



5 Arrested for a virtual murder



A 43-year-old Japanese woman, angry over a sudden divorce in the virtual online game Maple Story, has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the game where she killed her once-virtual husband, authorities said.
Authorities said the Miyazaki woman illegally accessed the game with a password she hijacked from a colleague. That made it appear as if her coworker committed the online murder.
According to The Associated Press, the woman told police: "I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry."
The two had never met in real life.



6 Watching the sci-fi show Battlestar Galactica while driving



A truck driver watched episodes of the cult sci-fi show Battlestar Galactica as he drove a 38-ton lorry along a motorway, a court heard.
Benjamin Trotsman, 37, was spotted driving erratically in the early hours of the morning by another trucker who called police.
A Cumbria Police spokesman said: "The driver was seen to be watching a film on a laptop computer that was situated on the dashboard in his cab.
"He appeared oblivious to other motorists and continued to drive in an erratic manner, speeding up and slowing down, and crossing on occasions on to the hard shoulder."
Police stopped the lorry and when they examined his laptop it appeared that Trotsman had been watching Battlestar Galactica.



7 Arrested for carrying his replica laser blaster



"Kim", 32, dressed in the outfit of an Imperial Death Star guard, was pinned to the ground and handcuffed by the other Force – the Victorian police force - after he was spotting marching through the city with a replica laser blaster poking out of his backpack.
Kim was on his way to a photo shoot with the MX newspaper, but concerned patrons at the Southgate retail complex on the Yarra River alerted security guards when they spotted the Sci Fi foot soldier eating breakfast in the foodcourt in his Evil Empire regalia.
"I will be requesting the safe return of my trooper's replica movie prop and asking for all charges to be dropped", 501st Legion Commanding Officer Bruce Harrison said.
He said his trooper's weapon replica was worth up to $500, and he was hoping to negotiate it's safe return this afternoon.



8 The Gunman with water guns


On May 12, 2009, an incident involving the 'Assassin' game happened behind a North Hampton, New Hampshire restaurant, where an employee spotted a man in dark clothing with a gun. He called the police and the student in question did not resist but simply walked to his car and explained the game to the police. The student did not run away from the police, he cooperated fully, and was not arrested. The man turned out to be a high school senior from Exeter, New Hampshire waiting for another high school student to come out of her job at the restaurant with a squirt gun in hand.

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Top 10 Most Evil Men

Attila The Hun



Attila was Khan of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the Danube River to the Baltic Sea. In much of Western Europe, he is remembered as the epitome of cruelty and rapacity. An unsuccessful campaign in Persia was followed in 441 by an invasion of the Eastern Roman Empire, the success of which emboldened Attila to invade the West. He passed unhindered through Austria and Germany, across the Rhine into Gaul, plundering and devastating all in his path with a ferocity unparalleled in the records of barbarian invasions and compelling those he overcame to augment his mighty army. Attila drowned in his own blood on his wedding night.


Maximilien Robespierre



Maximilien Robespierre was a leader of the French revolution and it was his arguments that caused the revolutionary government to murder the king without a trial. In addition, Robespierre was one of the main driving forces behind the reign of terror, a 10 month post-revolutionary period in which mass executions were carried out. The Terror took the lives of between 18,500 to 40,000 people, with 1,900 being killed in the last month. Among people who were condemned by the revolutionary tribunals, about 8 percent were aristocrats, 6 percent clergy, 14 percent middle class, and 70 percent were workers or peasants accused of hoarding, evading the draft, desertion, rebellion, and other purported crimes.

In an act of coincidental justice, Robespierre was guillotined without a trial in 1794.


Ruhollah Khomeini



Ayatollah Khomeini was the religious leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989. In that time he implemented Sharia Law (Islamic religious law) with the Islamic dress code enforced for both men and women by Islamic Revolutionary Guards and other Islamic groups. Opposition to the religious rule of the clergy or Islam in general was often met with harsh punishments. In a talk at the Fayzieah School in Qom, August 30, 1979, Khomeini said:

“Those who are trying to bring corruption and destruction to our country in the name of democracy will be oppressed. They are worse than Bani-Ghorizeh Jews, and they must be hanged. We will oppress them by God’s order and God’s call to prayer.”

In the 1988 massacre of Iranian prisoners, following the People’s Mujahedin of Iran operation Forough-e Javidan against the Islamic Republic, Khomeini issued an order to judicial officials to judge every Iranian political prisoner and kill those who would not repent anti-regime activities. Many say that thousands were swiftly put to death inside the prisons. The suppressed memoirs of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri reportedly detail the execution of 30,000 political activists.

After eleven days in a hospital for an operation to stop internal bleeding, Khomeini died of cancer on Saturday, June 04, 1989, at the age of 86.


Idi Amin Dada



Idi Amin was an army officer and president of Uganda. He took power in a military coup in January 1971, deposing Milton Obote. His rule was characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extra judicial killings and the expulsion of Indians from Uganda. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is unknown; estimates range from 80,000 to 500,000. On August 4, 1972, Amin issued a decree ordering the expulsion of the 60,000 Asians who were not Ugandan citizens (most of them held British passports). This was later amended to include all 80,000 Asians, with the exception of professionals, such as doctors, lawyers and teachers. Amin was eventually overthrown, but until his death, he held that Uganda needed him and he never expressed remorse for the abuses of his regime.


Leopold II of Belgium



Leopold II was King of Belgium from 1865-1909. With financial support from the government, Leopold created the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken to extract rubber and ivory in the Congo region of central Africa, which relied on forced labour and resulted in the deaths of approximately 3 million Congolese. The regime of the Congo Free State became one of the more infamous international scandals of the turn of the century. The area of land privately owned by the King was an area 76 times larger than Belgium, which he was free to rule as a personal domain through his private army, the Force Publique. Leopold’s rubber gatherers tortured, maimed and slaughtered until at the turn of the century, the conscience of the Western world forced Brussels to call a halt.

Just paying the bills…


Pol Pot



Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976 to 1979, having been de facto leader since mid-1975. During his time in power Pol Pot imposed an extreme version of agrarian communism where all city dwellers were relocated to the countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects. The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care and executions is estimated to have killed around 2 million Cambodians (approximately one third of the population). His regime achieved special notoriety for singling out all intellectuals and other “bourgeois enemies” for murder. The Khmer Rouge committed mass executions in sites known as the Killing Fields. The executed were buried in mass graves. In order to save ammunition, executions were often carried out using hammers, axe handles, spades or sharpened bamboo sticks.


Vlad Tepes



Vlad III of Romania (also known as Vlad the Impaler) was Prince of Wallachia three times between 1448 and 1476. Vlad is best known for the legends of the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed during his reign and for serving as the primary inspiration for the vampire main character in Bram Stoker’s popular Dracula novel. In Romania he is viewed by many as a prince with a deep sense of justice. His method of torture was a horse attached to each of the victim’s legs as a sharpened stake was gradually forced into the body. The end of the stake was usually oiled, and care was taken that the stake not be too sharp; else the victim might die too rapidly from shock. Wikipedia has an article that describes, in great details, the methods of Vlad’s cruelty. The list of tortures he is alleged to have employed is extensive: nails in heads, cutting off of limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off of noses and ears, mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to animals, and boiling alive. There are claims that on some occasions ten thousand people were impaled in 1460 alone.



. Ivan IV of Russia



Ivan IV of Russia, also know as Ivan the Terrible, was the Grand Duke of Muscovy from 1533 to 1547 and was the first ruler of Russia to assume the title of Tsar. In 1570, Ivan was under the belief that the elite of the city of Novgorod planned to defect to Poland, and led an army to stop them on January 2. Ivan’s soldiers built walls around the perimeter of the city in order to prevent the people of the city escaping. Between 500 and 1000 people were gathered every day by the troops, then tortured and killed in front of Ivan and his son. In 1581, Ivan beat his pregnant daughter-in-law for wearing immodest clothing, causing a miscarriage. His son, also named Ivan, upon learning of this, engaged in a heated argument with his father, which resulted in Ivan striking his son in the head with his pointed staff, causing his son’s (accidental) death.


Adolf Hitler



Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, becoming “Führer” in 1934 until his suicide in 1945. By the end of the second world war, Hitler’s policies of territorial conquest and racial subjugation had brought death and destruction to tens of millions of people, including the genocide of some six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. On 30 April 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were spotted within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule.


Josef Stalin



Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. Under Stalin’s leadership, the Ukraine suffered from a famine (Holodomor) so great it is considered by many to be an act of genocide on the part of Stalin’s government. Estimates of the number of deaths range from 2.5 million to 10 million. The famine was caused by direct political and administrative decisions. In addition to the famine, Stalin ordered purges within the Soviet Union of any person deemed to be an enemy of the state. In total, estimates of the total number murdered under Stalins reign, range from 10 million to 60 million.

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Drug murders and gold machine guns in Mexico

Mexican police acting on a tip have found nine bodies partially buried in the desert on the outskirts of the city of Ciudad Juarez. Investigators are searching the desert site south of the city to see whether there are any more bodies
An official with the state prosecutor's office who declined to be named in line with department policy says a police officer's badge was found at the site. Authorities were working to identify the nine bodies, seven male and two female, all of which had been tortured, that have been found so far
Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million people across the border from El Paso, Texas, has been hit by a wave of drug-fueled violence, prompting federal authorities to dispatch thousands of soldiers
Farther east, in the border city of Reynosa, federal police announced Saturday that they had arrested a man who allegedly led operations there for the feared Zetas, a group of hit men for the Gulf drug cartel. Sergio Pena Mendoza, 39, is also suspected of participating in an unsuccessful plot to free an imprisoned Zetas leader from jail in neighboring Guatemala, as well as killing a police official and a businessman in southern Mexico, authorities told a news conference in Mexico City
Alleged members of a drug traffickers gang, under heavy custody, are shown with seized military armaments at a press conference at the hangar of the Mexican Federal Police in Mexico City

Mexico's most wanted man Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman Loera, who is also on America's most wanted list with a $5 million dollar reward on his head and is listed in the Forbes Magazine list of the world's richest people with an estimated $1 billion fortune, is blamed for thousands of deaths in the increasingly bloody Mexican drug conflict

Mexico's cartels are increasingly desperate due to a cross-border crackdown and a shift in the cocaine market from the US to Europe. A record 85 extraditions from Mexico to the US in 2008 has contributed to a power vacuum that sparked an all-out war among the cartels as they battle for routes to the US and control of Mexico's growing domestic drug market with twice as many deaths in Mexico last year and more than 1,000 people killed in the first eight weeks of this year
Today, 90 percent of all cocaine that ends up in the US moves through Mexico, according to the US State Department, and the gangs make an estimated $10 billion in annual profits, which some are more than ready to kill over. The Mexican defence ministry now has a 10 room museum dedicated to telling the story of its war with the cartels. Exhibits include guns decorated with gold and jewellery...
...including one decorated with the golden image of San Judas Tadeo, the patron saint of desperate cases and lost causes...
....and a gold plated AK-47 assault rifle

So much money was being made by Mexican drug cartels that nothing was beyond coating in gold

While less flashy, other drug dealers used guns that were equally efficient at dealing death....
....some of the examples of confiscated weaponry taken from drug traffickers include military arms such as A Barrett M82A1 .50 calibre sniper rifle, a hand missile launcher, heavy calibre machine guns....
....and the M16 assault rifle of the drug lord Héctor Luis "El Güero" Palma Salazar, former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel alongside Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, whose supposed replacement was feared Zeta hitman Sergio Pena Mendoza

The drug museum includes containers of samples of the vast variety of drugs being produced and transported through Mexico....

....as well as a display showing the length the cartels will go to to protect their drug crops....

....such as leaving US currency and messages with their crops to bribe searching police officers....
....before they tackle the task of smuggling their product across the border by a variety of means

And while he may not be officially recognised as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, Mexican drug traffickers have their very own patron saint, in the form of the Saint Jesus Malverde whose outlaw image caused him to be adopted as the "narco-saint"

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8 Popular Pirates Who Were Actually Huge Losers

Pop culture positions pirates as daring swashbucklers who fight injustice while seeking fame and fortune. But, characters like Captain Jack Sparrow and Long John Silver don’t really present the truth about piracy. Most pirates lived short, dirty, and unpleasant lives. They rarely–if ever!–captured a ship or uncovered treasure, and most ended life at the end of the hangman’s noose, a great publicity stunt for an unpopular governor or mayor. The following is a list of eight popular pirates who were actually huge losers.


Stede Bonnet



Stede Bonnet lived as a wealthy landowner and gentleman until the summer of 1717, when he bought a ship, hired a crew, and took to piracy. Bonnet wasn’t trying to escape prosecution or rebelling against the crown; instead, his reasons for becoming a pirate stemmed from “discomforts he found in a married state.” In other words, he became a pirate to escape a nagging wife. His complete lack of sailing experience led to serious wounds he sustained in a battle with a Spanish man-of-war. Bonnet then allowed Blackbeard to help out while he was incapacitated. Blackbeard stole all of Bonnet’s goods, recruited most of his crew, and left Bonnet with a stripped ship and a handful of marooned pirates. Bonnet swore revenge, but since he still couldn’t sail, he never did find Blackbeard. Still on the lam, Bonnet changed his name and the name of his ship to avoid capture. It didn’t work. After running aground during a battle with the Royal Navy, his ship was quickly boarded. Soon thereafter, Bonnet was imprisoned, berated by a long-winded judge, and hanged. At least he got away from his wife.


Edward “Blackbeard” Thatch



Blackbeard built a bloodthirsty reputation, plundering many vessels, and receiving equally as many pardons. Born as Edward Thatch, he abandoned pivateering to create the infamous Blackbeard pirate persona. But, despite the tall tales of a snarling tyrant, brandishing pistols and lighting cannon fuses with a smouldering beard, there is no evidence that he ever killed anyone. There is more evidence that he was a syphilitic drunk that made disastrously bad decisions. Despite having numerous hostages during his famous blockade of Charleston, his only demand was for a chest of medicines. This probably stemmed from his habit of sharing his wives with his crew, ensuring that everyone suffered from one STD or another. He was offered a pardon, in hopes that it would make him go away, but instead he got shit-faced, ran his ship aground, and engaged Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the Royal Navy while hungover. Blackbeard lost after twenty stab wounds, five bullet holes, and good-old decapitation. Suddenly, your drinking stories don’t feel as awesome.


First Century Cilician pirates



Cilician pirates were extremely clever sailors who raided a large number of ships on the Mediterranean and made a fortune from the slave trade. They went so far as to plunder Ostia. But, they were not prepared to meet Julius Caesar. Early in his career, Caesar was captured while travelling to Rhodes to study rhetoric. Knowing they had a prize in their hands, the pirates requested a ransom of twenty talents. Caesar, in a move that demonstrated the size of his brass balls, laughed at the size of the ransom, promised to have them crucified, and told the pirates to ask for fifty talents instead. He had the money raised, paid the pirates, and was set free. As soon as he got back, he raised a fleet, captured the pirates, and then beat them to death with his bare hands in a cage match. No, I’m kidding. He kept his promise and had them ruthlessly crucified.


Unknown Somali Pirates



Somalia’s pirates have become some of the most wealthy men in the area. A captured oil tanker or cargo ship in the Gulf of Eden brings in an average ransom of $2 million. But, before you pack your bags to become a new age pirate, remember this little tidbit from late 2005: A group of Somali pirates in speedboats–armed with riles and rocket-propelled grenades–attacked a cruise liner off the coast of Somalia. The pirates fired several times, panicking the passengers and lightly injuring one of the crew members. They were eventually driven off by “an on-board acoustic bang” which convinced the gunmen they were under fire. That’s right. These pirates were driven off by a loud noise. More recently, a group of Somali pirates were given a $3 million ransom to return an oil tanker but managed to capsize their boat, losing both the money and their lives by drowning in the process.


Henry Every



Henry Every managed to capture a trading ship bursting with swag on his first, and only, voyage. Believed to be the single largest haul in the history of piracy, the loot made Every and his crew extremely wealthy. Unfortunately, the ship belonged to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, and this fact made it impossible for Every to settle down and spend his loot. After being turned away from the Bahamas and New England, Every managed to officially disappear in Ireland. According to Charles Johnson, one of the first piracy historians, Every attempted to sell some precious jewels to a group of merchants in Bristol. This was the only treasure he kept, presumably, because it was easier to carry around a handful of diamonds than several chests of gold. The merchants took his jewels, promised him large sums of cash, but stonewalled him indefinitely. Unable to ever get the full sum of money the merchants owed him, Every died a penniless vagabond. Meanwhile, several members of his crew had crowned themselves kings in Madagascar.


John “Calico Jack” Rackham



John Rackham, also known as Calico Jack because of his clothing, enjoyed a few small successes until he hooked up with Anne Bonny and Mary Read. After meeting them his life became interesting: ménage a trios, famous raids, and actual success as a pirate. But, he was an abysmally bad captain who was riding the coattails of Bonny and Read. This became clear when his ship was surprised in the night by a vessel of the Royal Navy. Bonny and Read had to defend the ship by themselves because Rackham and his men were drunk in the hold and slept through the entire ordeal. Rackham recieved the death sentence, but Read and Bonny avoided it because they were pregnant. Bonny visited him before his execution, staying long enough to say: “Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hang’d like a dog.” Rackham was eventually hanged and gibbeted as a warning to other pirates, Read died in childbirth, but Bonny managed to disappear – presumably living long enough to emasculate several other men before dying of old age.


Edward England



Edward England was a fairly average pirate that scored a few lucky prizes that gave him some notoriety. It wasn’t his inadequacy as a pirate that did him in, but rather his compassion. England positioned himself as a merciful–even ethical–pirate who refused to kill a captive. His crew wasn’t as understanding when they faced off against Captain Mackra and his men. Mackra and his men caused heavy casualties for England’s crew, and England’s crew was ready to murder Mackra by the time he gave up. But England, in a show of true pirate nature, shook Mackra’s hand and vouched for him in front of the pirate crew. Instead of commending him for his virtuous act, England’s crew marooned him with several others on Mauritius and sailed off to commit more dastardly deeds. England eventually escaped by building a raft, but even then he died a beggar. No good deed…



William “Captain” Kidd



William Kidd is a pretty big name in the world of piracy. He started out as a legitimate privateer who was funded by wealthy 17th century New Englanders – including Richard Coote, the 1st Earl of Bellomont. Much to the embarrassment of Coote and the other investors, Kidd found pirate hunting tedious and became a full-fledged pirate himself. He targeted the Indian Ocean, possibly because he never expected word of his indiscretions to make it back home from there, and achieved moderate success. Upon returning to New England, Kidd figured out that he would not be received graciously, so he buried some treasure as leverage and went to Coote seeking a pardon. But Coote and the other investors ignored Kidd’s pleas, tried him on charges of piracy and murder, and denied him representation. He was hanged and his body was placed in a gibbet for twenty years. Oh, and the buried treasure? Coote dug it up and used it as evidence against Kidd.

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World's Worst Nannies

08/12/2008: A 24-year-old babysitter was charged with two counts of felony assault and reckless endangerment for intentionally burning the feet of 2-year-old Christian Cail with scalding bathwater, causing second- and third-degree burns. Chasity Pasinello, pregnant at the time, was watching the child in her Waterford, N.Y., apartment when the October, 2007, incident occurred. Pasinello, who had watched Christian before, pleaded guilty to recklessly causing injury to a child under 11 and was sentenced to one to three years in prison. The 2-year-old recovered after being treated at a hospital specializing in burns.


06/24/2005: Jimena Barreto, a nanny who cared for the children of wealthy families, was convicted on two counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to 30-years-to-life in state prison for the hit-and-run deaths of 10-year-old Troy Pack and his sister Alana, 7, in Danville, California. According to prosecutors, Barreto, 46, who had three drunken-driving convictions prior to the October 26, 2003 incident, was under the influence of alcohol, Vicodin, and muscle relaxants when she ran off the road and struck the children with her Mercedes Benz. After the crash, Barreto fled, but was arrested in San Jose two days later. On an emotionally charged day for parents Bob and Carmen Pack, the jury found Barreto guilty of leaving the scene of a fatality and DUI in addition to the second-degree murder counts.


04/29/2009: Daniella Ruiz, 27, maintained her innocence throughout her murder trial for the 2006 shaking death of 5-month-old Brandon Zamora, a child she was babysitting in Provo, Utah. The mother of four claimed that the baby was asleep when he was brought to her, and later became pale and unresponsive. After deliberating for 11 hours, the jury found Ruiz guilty of child abuse homicide, a second-degree felony, which carries a maximum sentence of 15 years. Despite pleas from Ruiz, Judge David Mortensen ruled that the case warranted a penalty harsher than probation and sentenced her to one to 15 years in prison. Defense attorney Shelden Carter is attempting to get a new trial for Ruiz.


05/06/2009: In Lower Paxton Township, PA, a Brazilian nanny faces a minimum of 10 to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to the third-degree murder of her own son. On August 7, 2008, while living with a host family, Ana Amelia Santos Cuoco gave birth in her basement bedroom. According to police, the 24-year-old wrapped the baby in a blanket and a plastic bag, suffocating him. The host family found the body the following day. In exchange for her guilty plea, which also included abuse of a corpse and concealing the death of a child, prosecutors agree to not seek a first-degree murder conviction against Cuoco.


04/08/2009: Before hiring 61-year-old Cheryl Ann White to baby-sit his 5-month-old daughter Caroline, father Wesley Locklair installed a nanny cam in his Murrells Inlet, S.C., home. After White's first day of babysitting the child, Locklair watched the VHS tape and saw White shaking Caroline repeatedly, placing her hand over the crying baby's mouth, jerking her around by her feet and arms, and then spanking the child. Locklair immediately turned the six-hour tape over to Horry County police, who charged White with aggravated assault and battery and child neglect. White pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 10 years in prison on each charge, which was later reduced to five years probation and an order to register with the South Carolina Department of Social Services’ child abuser registry.


03/13/2009: A Broussard, Louisiana, babysitter was found guilty of negligent homicide for the 2005 death of 11-month-old Lane Leger, who died of a head injury while in her care. Jurors heard the testimony of medical experts, who said the fatal injury resulted from adult force. After being denied an appeal, 26-year-old Katie Savoy began serving her five year sentence.


10/30/1997: 19-year-old English au pair Louise Woodward was hired by Sunil and Deborah Eappen to care for their eight-month-old son Matthew at their Newton, Mass., home. While watching Matthew on February 4, 1997, Woodward became irritated with his crying, and, according to prosecutors, shook him and hit his head on a hard surface. Matthew died four days later at a Boston hospital. X-Rays revealed a fractured skull, subdural hematoma, bleeding behind the eyes, and a partially-healed fractured wrist from a month prior. At trial, the prosecution presented Woodward as an irresponsible nanny, citing incidents in which she used a fake ID to enter nightclubs. After 26 hours of deliberation, the jury found Woodward guilty of second-degree murder. After the verdict, Woodward's lawyer filed motions which led to the murder conviction being reduced to involuntary manslaughter. Woodward's sentence of 15 years to life was reduced to time served, and she was released after spending 279 days in jail. Following her ordeal, Woodward returned to her native UK where she studied law and later became a dance teacher.


05/27/2003: In Edinburgh, Scotland, a city-council-registered child-minder stood trial, accused of murdering one-year-old Alexander Graham by shaking him and hitting his head against a hard surface in July 2001. Tina McLeod, 40, vehemently denied the charges, saying she found the baby on the living room floor while she was watching him in her own home. After the jury heard testimony from a Neuropathologist who said that shaking a one-year-old to death would be very difficult and that a fall may have caused the infant's death, they returned a verdict of "not proven," an option in Scotland's criminal justice system.


07/30/2008: A Las Cruces, N.M., babysitter was arrested and charged with criminal sexual penetration of a minor for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old boy she was caring for. When questioned by police, Annette Martinez, 25, said that she was in love with the boy and had had sex with him 40 times. Martinez also reportedly told detectives that she thought the boy was 16 and that she may be pregnant with his child. The teen, whose two siblings Martinez also babysat, claims the sex only occurred 10 times. In February 2009, Martinez pleaded no contest to 20 counts of the fourth-degree felony and was sentenced to nine years in prison


05/08/2009: Nanny Jonathan Then was charged with raping and molesting three boys, aged eight to ten, according to prosecutors, who say Then took advantage of boys he was watching on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Then, 20, reportedly advertised his services on the Internet as a "live-in nanny, babysitter or an after-school parental assistant." The Early Childhood Education major was escorted out of his Hunter College classroom by police and brought to the station for questioning. Then, who has worked at the Dalton (pictured) and Trevor Day schools in Manhattan, and a New Hampshire summer camp, was released on $10,000 bail.

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Criminal Diaries Caught on Paper

Serial killer Jason Massey filled four journals—The Slayer's Books of Death—with writings and sketches imagining how he would fulfill his ambition to become the world's most prolific serial killer. His journals were hidden in a scuffed and rusty red cooler (pictured above right) which was found by a hiker who was walking through the woods. Opening it, the man was shocked to find the skulls of several dozen animals — 31 in all. With them, bagged in plastic, were four red and yellow spiral notebooks filled with a crooked, ominous script labeled The Slayer's Book of Death: The thoughts of Jason Massey, with each volume labeled one through four. The hiker knew enough about Massey, then on trial for two murders, to realize that this was an important piece of evidence, so he called the police.

The journal entries began in 1989 and ended in 1993, the month in which Massey had begun the realization of his fantasies with the double murder of two teenagers in Texas. In the journals, among other things, Massey described killing the dog of a seventh-grade girl, smearing the blood on her car. He also stalked the girl and wrote her threatening letters. More tellingly, Massey's recorded fantasies directly reflected the precise acts committed against the female murder victim in the case for which Massey was on trial. It was like finding the blueprints of an architect.

After reading them, there was no doubt among prosecutors how thoroughly obsessed Massey had been for years with murder and torture. He had wanted to become a "murder machine." During the trial, prosecutors relied on Massey's own words from his journal to prove the aggravating circumstances showing a depraved mind. His greatest ambition, he wrote, was to become America's most famous serial killer. "My goal is 700 people in twenty years."


Folbigg was being investigated in the case of the suspicious crib deaths of her four children when, in a surprising twist, her ex-husband Craig found some of her diaries which he read and gave to police. Apparently Kathleen had kept diaries most of her life, but had thrown most of them away. The ones her ex found obviously had been overlooked when she moved out.

Though some of the entries were merely suspicious, others were undeniably sinister. She wrote about how stress made her do terrible things and spoke of flashes of rage, resentment and hatred toward her children. She wrote of her feelings of remorse: "My guilt of how responsible I feel for them all, haunts me, my fear of it happening again, haunts me...When I think I'm going to lose control like last time I'll just hand baby over to someone else ... This time I'm prepared and know what signals to watch out for in myself. Changes in mood etc."

But one in particular was her undoing. On October 14, 1996, with three of her children already dead, Kathleen made a disturbing diary entry that indicated how the tumultuous events of her childhood had affected her: "Obviously I am my fathers daughter." Her father was a convicted murderer. And soon so was Kathleen.


An inmate tipped off authorities about the jailhouse diary of Jim Holden, who stood trial in Las Vegas for the murder of 19-year-old Michael Panek. In the bizarre 31-page journal, the 25-year-old forklift operator claimed to be a hit man and bragged that Panek's shooting death was a murder-for-hire, not self-defense, as his attorney claimed. Holden was found guilty of murder on August 10, 2005, and faces life in prison without parole.


"The demons have taken over." Convicted sex offender Joseph Duncan wrote the chilling self-diagnosis on his Web blog just days before Dylan and Shasta Groene were kidnapped from their Idaho home. In another entry, Duncan resolved to "harm society as much as I can, then die." Shasta, 8, was rescued six weeks later, but the body of Dylan, 9, was found in a Montana forest. Duncan has been charged with murdering Dylan, Dylan's 13-year-old brother Slade, his mother and his mother's boyfriend, whose bodies were found bound and beaten to death in their home.


Authorities worked hard to separate fact from fiction while investigating the case of alleged child molester Dean Schwartzmiller. The 63-year-old San Jose handyman allegedly documented his crimes and fantasies in a typed memoir and notebooks containing some 36,700 handwritten entries of boys' names, descriptions of their anatomy and code words for suspected sex acts. Schwartzmiller has been charged with two felony counts of child molestation.


When investigators searched the Vancouver home of child killer Westley
Allan Dodd, they discovered a briefcase under his bed containing the folded "Ghostbusters" underwear of Dodd's third victim, four-year-old Lee Iseli. Also inside were Dodd's horrific diaries describing the torture, molestation and brutal murder of three boys. A juror nearly passed out as passages were read aloud in court. Dodd was executed by hanging in Washington on January 5, 1993.


Columbine High School senior Eric Harris (left), 18, kept a diary where he and Dylan Klebold (right), 17, wrote about killing 500 people by invading the school cafeteria, blowing up the school, and then hijacking a plane to New York. Investigators found the diary after the pair killed 12 students and a teacher in April 1999 before killing themselves. Days later, a newspaper received a letter Harris wrote before the killings, blaming the parents, teachers, and students of Columbine for their actions. The teens' journal indicated they had planned the massacre for over a year.


Heartache and jealous rage led Tennessee honor student Jacob Davis to kill his girlfriend's secret lover days before their high school graduation. "I bleed, and for that he should bleed as well," Davis wrote to Tonya Bishop before shooting classmate Nick Creson to death in a parking lot near campus with a .22-caliber rifle. His letters helped convince a jury to convict him of first-degree murder in 1998. He will be 70 years old before he is eligible for parole.


When Margaret Rudin began to suspect that her husband, millionaire Ron Rudin, was having an affair, she secretly recorded his phone conversations and took notes. She also sent anonymous letters to the children of her husband's lover telling them about the affair. Her notes and letters became evidence in her murder trial, convincing a jury that she shot and killed her husband in his sleep and then burned his body. In 2001, Rudin was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.


When police searched the home of hippie guru Ira Einhorn after his girlfriend's body was found decomposing in his closet, they also found a written history of his violence against women. During Einhorn's 2002 trial, jurors heard a poem from a journal describing how Einhorn had beaten and choked another ex-lover. The closing line read "In such violence, there may be freedom." The jury deliberated for less than a day before reaching a guilty verdict.


While retired engineer Donald Moringiello sat in a Florida prison awaiting trial for the 2002 murder of his wife, he corresponded with another inmate. Calling his pen pal "Son" and himself "Dad," Moringiello made cryptic references to his wife's murder and bloodstains: "The ice cream that your mother thought was all over the house turned out to be two drops and we don't know when they were dropped." His first trial ended in a hung jury, but at his retrial, jurors found him guilty of murder.


In a crusade against technology, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski sent wooden boxes packed with nails, shrapnel and razor blades to professors, researchers and airlines. For 18 years, Kaczynski killed and maimed unsuspecting victims with the parcels. Kaczynski later proposed a bargain to two newspapers: Print his 65-page "manifesto" or the bombings would continue. The manuscript eventually led David Kaczynski to conclude that his brother was the Unabomber.


Convicted serial killer Dennis Rader — whose nickname "BTK" stood for his gruesome "Bind, Torture, Kill" method — taunted police and media during his 14-year killing spree. In his letters, he claimed credit for recent murders and wrote poems about some of his victims. Rader's desire for the spotlight was apparent. One letter to a TV station read, "How many do I have to kill before I get my name in the paper or some national attention?" On June 27, 2005, Rader pleaded guilty to 10 counts of first-degree murder.



"I AM NOT SICK. I AM INSANE. BUT THAT WILL NOT STOP THE GAME." In 1966, police and newspapers received the first of more than 20 letters from the self-proclaimed "Zodiac Killer," who claimed responsibility for a rash of murders in California. After one murder, the killer sent a letter to three newspapers, enclosed a cryptogram and ordered that it be printed on the front page. After the murder of a San Francisco cab driver, the editor of the local newspaper received a letter containing swatches of the victim's bloodstained shirt. The killer's identity was never solved.


Police in New York City were terrified when a string of shootings targeted attractive women. David Berkowitz, who called himself the "Son of Sam," began writing letters to police and media claiming demons were forcing him to kill. "To stop me, you must kill me," he wrote, taunting authorities with promises to continue the bloodshed. When investigators finally pinned the shootings on Berkowitz, a former security guard and taxi driver in Yonkers, he immediately confessed and was later sentenced to 365 years in prison.

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Top 10 Female Evil-Doers

Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley was an English serial killer involved in the “Moors murders” with her partner Ian Brady. Together, Brady and Hindley took part in the abduction, sexual abuse, torture, and murder of three children, aged 10-12, and two adolescents, aged 16 and 17, from the Manchester area.

Queen Mary I
Mary (first child of Henry VIII), the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, after the uncrowned Jane Grey and before Elizabeth I, is remembered for briefly returning England to Roman Catholicism. To this end, she had numerous religious dissenters executed; as a consequence, she is often known as Bloody Mary. Numerous Protestant leaders were executed in the so-called Marian Persecutions.

Belle Gunness
Belle Gunness was one of America’s most profligate known female serial killers. At 6 ft (1.83 m) tall and over 200 lb (91 kg), she was a powerful Norwegian-American woman. She may have killed both of her husbands and all of her children (on different occasions), but she is known to have killed most of her suitors, boyfriends, and her two daughters Myrtle and Lucy.

Beverly Allitt
Beverley Gail Allitt, dubbed the ‘Angel of Death’, was an English paediatric nurse who was convicted of killing four children and injuring five others, in 1991, on the children’s ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire where she worked.

Elizabeth Bathory
Bathory was a Hungarian countess. She is considered the most infamous serial killer in Hungarian and Slovak history and is remembered as the Bloody Lady of Čachtice (Csejte), after the castle near Trenčín (Trencsén), in Royal Hungary, in present-day Slovakia, where she spent most of her life. After her husband’s death, she and her four alleged collaborators were accused of torturing and killing dozens of girls and young women.

Ilse Koch
Koch was the wife of Karl Koch, the commandant of the concentration camps Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941 and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943. Ilse is infamous for taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos. She was variously known as “the Witch of Buchenwald” (”Die Hexe von Buchenwald”) and “the Bitch of Buchenwald” (”Buchenwälder Schlampe”) by the inmates because of her sadistic cruelty and lasciviousness toward prisoners. In 1937 she came to Buchenwald not as a guard, but as the wife of the commandant.

Irma Grese
Geese “worked” at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Dubbed the “Bitch of Belsen” by camp inmates for her cruel and perverse behaviour, she is one of the most notorious of the female Nazi war criminals. In March 1943, Grese was transferred as a female guard to Auschwitz, and by the end of that year she was Senior Supervisor, the second highest ranking woman at the camp, in charge of around 30,000 Jewish female prisoners.

Isabella of Castile
Isabella I of Spain and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, laid the foundation for the political unification of Spain under their grandson, Carlos I of Spain (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor). She is well known as the patron of Christopher Columbus. At her request, Tomás de Torquemada became the first Inquisitor General of the Spanish Inquisition and began a policy of religious cleansing.

Katherine Knight
Katherine Knight is the first Australian woman to be jailed for the term of her natural life. She was convicted in October 2001 of the murder of her de facto husband, John Charles Thomas Price. According to the Apprehended Violence Order that Price had filed against Knight, she had a previous history of violence in relationships; she had smashed the dentures of one of her ex-husbands, and slashed the throat of another husband’s eight-week-old puppy before his eyes.

Mary Ann Cotton
Mary Ann Cotton was an English serial killer believed to have murdered up to 20 people, mainly by arsenic poisoning. Mary Ann, aged 20, married William Mowbray and they moved to Plymouth, Devon. The couple had five children, four of whom died from gastric fever or stomach pains.

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Funny Mugshots

These people seem like they are trying to make the best of their time behind bars.

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Top 10 Female Evil-Doers

Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley was an English serial killer involved in the “Moors murders” with her partner Ian Brady. Together, Brady and Hindley took part in the abduction, sexual abuse, torture, and murder of three children, aged 10-12, and two adolescents, aged 16 and 17, from the Manchester area.

Queen Mary I
Mary (first child of Henry VIII), the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, after the uncrowned Jane Grey and before Elizabeth I, is remembered for briefly returning England to Roman Catholicism. To this end, she had numerous religious dissenters executed; as a consequence, she is often known as Bloody Mary. Numerous Protestant leaders were executed in the so-called Marian Persecutions.

Belle Gunness
Belle Gunness was one of America’s most profligate known female serial killers. At 6 ft (1.83 m) tall and over 200 lb (91 kg), she was a powerful Norwegian-American woman. She may have killed both of her husbands and all of her children (on different occasions), but she is known to have killed most of her suitors, boyfriends, and her two daughters Myrtle and Lucy.

Beverly Allitt
Beverley Gail Allitt, dubbed the ‘Angel of Death’, was an English paediatric nurse who was convicted of killing four children and injuring five others, in 1991, on the children’s ward of Grantham and Kesteven Hospital, Lincolnshire where she worked.

Elizabeth Bathory
Bathory was a Hungarian countess. She is considered the most infamous serial killer in Hungarian and Slovak history and is remembered as the Bloody Lady of Čachtice (Csejte), after the castle near Trenčín (Trencsén), in Royal Hungary, in present-day Slovakia, where she spent most of her life. After her husband’s death, she and her four alleged collaborators were accused of torturing and killing dozens of girls and young women.

Ilse Koch
Koch was the wife of Karl Koch, the commandant of the concentration camps Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941 and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943. Ilse is infamous for taking souvenirs from the skin of murdered inmates with distinctive tattoos. She was variously known as “the Witch of Buchenwald” (”Die Hexe von Buchenwald”) and “the Bitch of Buchenwald” (”Buchenwälder Schlampe”) by the inmates because of her sadistic cruelty and lasciviousness toward prisoners. In 1937 she came to Buchenwald not as a guard, but as the wife of the commandant.

Irma Grese
Geese “worked” at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Dubbed the “Bitch of Belsen” by camp inmates for her cruel and perverse behaviour, she is one of the most notorious of the female Nazi war criminals. In March 1943, Grese was transferred as a female guard to Auschwitz, and by the end of that year she was Senior Supervisor, the second highest ranking woman at the camp, in charge of around 30,000 Jewish female prisoners.

Isabella of Castile
Isabella I of Spain and her husband, Ferdinand II of Aragon, laid the foundation for the political unification of Spain under their grandson, Carlos I of Spain (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor). She is well known as the patron of Christopher Columbus. At her request, Tomás de Torquemada became the first Inquisitor General of the Spanish Inquisition and began a policy of religious cleansing.

Katherine Knight
Katherine Knight is the first Australian woman to be jailed for the term of her natural life. She was convicted in October 2001 of the murder of her de facto husband, John Charles Thomas Price. According to the Apprehended Violence Order that Price had filed against Knight, she had a previous history of violence in relationships; she had smashed the dentures of one of her ex-husbands, and slashed the throat of another husband’s eight-week-old puppy before his eyes.

Mary Ann Cotton
Mary Ann Cotton was an English serial killer believed to have murdered up to 20 people, mainly by arsenic poisoning. Mary Ann, aged 20, married William Mowbray and they moved to Plymouth, Devon. The couple had five children, four of whom died from gastric fever or stomach pains.

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Russian Criminal Tattoos

Like in other countries there is a mania for tattoos among criminals, but in Russia they give much more sense for those signs on their bodies. Each even smallest detail can be interpreted as a biography verse from the life of tattoo owner, both police and criminals can just look at the body of the tattooed person and tell all his deeds.

Russian criminal tattoos have a complex system of symbols which can give quite detailed information about the wearer. Not only do the symbols carry meaning but the area of the body on which they are placed may be meaningful too.
The initiation tattoo of a new gang member is usually placed on the chest and may incorporate a rose. A rose on the chest is also used within the Russian Mafia. Wearing false or unearned tattoos is punishable by death in the criminal underworld.

Tattoos done in a Russian prison have a distinct blueish color and usually appear somewhat blurred because of the lack of instruments to draw fine lines. The ink is often created from burning the heel of a shoe and mixing the soot with urine.
In addition to voluntary tattooing, tattoos are used to stigmatize and punish individuals within the criminal society. They may be placed on an individual who fails to pay debts in card games, or otherwise breaks the criminal code, and often have very blatant sexual images, embarrassing the wearer. The victim of a forcibly applied tattoo is nevertheless required to pay the tattoo artist for his work.

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