Infamous Crimes In Your Area

[Ptarmigan]

What are infamous crimes that have happened in your area?

[Dionne]

Bernie Ebbers, CEO WorldCom. He arrived in this area playing basketball for Mississippi College. He was a Sunday school teacher. He frequently took friends out on his yacht.....including my mother in law. He gave generous contributions to numerous charities. He urged all his friends to buy WorldCom. Most of us bought in at a low numbers and steadily became paper millionaires with lopsided financial investments. To much in one place. It was like a feeding frenzy fueled by fast paper profits and greed. Then came the dreadful day we discovered they had been cooking the books. A white collar crime. Millions were lost. Convicted of fraud and conspiracy.....Ebbers now resides at the Oakdale Federal Correctional facility. Ebbers attempted a presidential pardon from outgoing Bush and was denied as a result of a massive email campaign.

[Cryomaniac]

For a fairly average sized town in England we've had at least 2 infamous crimes in this area:

Michael Sams

Michael Sams (born 11 August 1941) is an English rapist, kidnapper, extortionist and murderer who kidnapped Julie Dart on 9 July 1991 and Stephanie Slater on 22 January 1992.[1]

Posing as a potential buyer, Sams abducted estate agent Stephanie Slater from a house she was selling, in Great Barr, Birmingham before holding her for eight days in a makeshift coffin at a workshop in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire in January 1992. Following receipt of £175,000 ransom paid by her employers, Sams released Slater outside her parents' house. He then spent three weeks on the run before police finally arrested him after his ex-wife recognised his voice when it was played on the BBC Crimewatch TV programme.

In July 1993, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an 18-year-old Leeds girl, Julie Dart. and the abduction of Ms Slater. Sams had originally denied murdering Ms Dart but later confessed.

Sams has continued to offend since he was first imprisoned, attacking a female probation officer with a metal spike. He received an addition of eight years to his term for this act.

And also:

Brendon Fearon

Brendon Fearon of Newark, Nottinghamshire, is a career criminal. He was convicted for conspiring to burgle the home of farmer Tony Martin in a notorious raid on 20 August 1999. His accomplice, 16-year-old Fred Barras, was fatally shot by Martin near his remote farmhouse in Emneth Hungate, Norfolk. Fearon, aged 29 at the time, was hospitalised with gunshot wounds to his legs.

[vbhoutex]

Dean Corll http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/dean_corll.htm I'll never forget when this all came to light. For a while it seemed like the discoveries would never end.

[RL3AO]

Had a guy make AMW for robbing a bank about a 1/4 mile from me.

http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=25551

Its a pretty small town so no serial killers or Wall Street executives stealing billions.

[vbhoutex]

Had a guy make AMW for robbing a bank about a 1/4 mile from me.

http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=25551

Its a pretty small town so no serial killers or Wall Street executives stealing billions.

There is something nice about that!! However, it still doesn't stop that type of thing. Not an infamous crime but one that hit very close to home while I lived in Gulf breeze, FL. I went on a date with a young lady. I dropped her off at her apartment around midnight because I had to be to work at 7 am. When I got to work someone pulled me aside and told me she had been killed. Turns out that she and her stepfather and mother were in a "love triangle"!

[Stephanie]

Howard Unruh - gunned down 13 people in Camden, NJ in 12 minutes:

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/art/his ... crime.html

"Boy in the box" - boy found dead and killer has never been found:

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/art/his ... crime.html

Ira Einhorn - killed Holly Maddox and stuffed her in a trunk. He was finally transported back from France and jailed. http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/art/his ... crime.html

William Bradfield and Jay Smith - convicted of killing Susan Reinert and her two children:

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/art/his ... crime.html

Angelo Bruno - Philly's mob boss "whacked"

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/art/his ... crime.html

Gary Heidnik - remember him? House of Horrors man - http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/art/his ... crime.html

Those and so much more - a very colorful history (if you like red) in the Philadelphia area.