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From serial killers to drug smugglers, the world is full of nasty criminals who don't give a whit about the concept of empathy. Do you really know much about the world's most famous criminals?In 1969, Manson and his cult followers murdered seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. Mason languished in prison and died there in 2017.
Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski executed more than a dozen bomb attacks, killing three people and injuring 23 others. He was the Unabomber, and once he was caught, he was sentenced to life in prison.
Gacy was the stuff of nightmares. He often worked charity events dressed up as Pogo the Clown. Then, in his spare time, he murdered dozens of young men and boys.
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During the days of Prohibition, Al "Scarface" Capone ruled the Chicago underworld, making a fortune on booze and other illegal activities. He made no effort to stay in the shadows, walking the streets like a celebrity.
Bundy was a manipulative psychopath who often pretended to be hurt in order to ask for help from females. Then, he'd capture them in a secluded location and kill them.
In 1995, McVeigh detonated a truck filled with explosives in front of a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. He was executed in 2001.
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Escobar was a Colombian drug lord. He smuggled countless tons of cocaine around the world, making billions and billions of dollars in the process.
Ted Kaczynski targeted numerous UNiversities and Airlines, thus the "UNA" portion of his nickname. He supposedly wanted to halt the mindless industrialization of the world.
Shipman was a doctor who killed patients under his care. His position allowed him to kill many patients without attracting too much suspicion.
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No one knows for sure, but researchers estimate that Shipman probably killed at least 250 of his patients, making him one of the most prolific serial killers in modern times.
Kony is the leader of an African guerilla group called the Lord's Resistance Army, which is accused of capturing tens of thousands of children for use as child soldiers and sex slaves. His forces have dwindled, but he's still on the run.
Just before he was executed, Bundy finally confessed to 30 murders. Officials suspect that the real count may be much higher ... but no one will ever know for sure.
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Bonnie and Clyde were America's most notorious killer couple. They traveled the country by car, committing robberies and killing people who got in the way.
Bonnie and Clyde were cornered by the cop several times, but the couple merely shot their way out of trouble. They killed probably 9 police officers and several civilians, too.
Whitey Bulger had a hand in 19 murders but also served as an informant to the FBI ... so, conveniently, many of Bulger's crimes went overlooked. When the Feds finally decided to arrest him, he vanished and remained on the run for 16 years.
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Escobar's immense criminal enterprise made him a prime target for the police. It took years, but they eventually hunted him down and shot him in his own hometown.
Bundy escaped not once, but twice. While on the lam, he committed at least three more murders before finally being imprisoned for good.
Osama bin Laden masterminded the 9/11 attacks on America. He escaped justice for years but was finally cornered and killed in Pakistan.
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Tired of watching rival gangsters cause problems for your henchmen? Just set them up and then blast them with machine guns, as Al Capone almost certainly instructed his men to do during the famous St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in which seven gangsters were murdered.
In 1865, as the Civil War drew to a close, Booth shot and killed Abraham Lincoln at a theater. Booth was a die-hard Confederate who didn't want the South to lose the war.
Jones moved his cult to South America to avoid the authorities, and when a congressman dropped by to check on reports of disturbing behavior, Jones had him killed. Then he ordered more than 900 people to kill themselves -- 300 were children.
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By some estimates, Mexican kingpin El Chapo is the most successful drug lord in world history. He escaped multiple times but was finally recaptured in 2016.
Drug lord El Chapo is not a tall man -- the former kingpin is about 5'6" tall. El Chapo means "Shorty."
In the 1870s and 1880s, Billy the Kid was a feared outlaw in the Old West. He took part in many criminal activities, but is best known for killing at least 8 people.
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In 1968, Ray broke out of prison and murdered Martin Luther King, Jr., who was the leader of the Civil Rights movement. King reportedly had a premonition about his own killing.
Lanza burst into Sandy Hook Elementary School and began shooting everyone he could see. He killed 20 small children and six educators before committing suicide.
Horn isn't as famous as some Old West figures, but he was as nasty as they came. He worked for the law, tracking down cattle rustlers, but instead of arresting them he'd simply kill them.
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Horn was a prolific killer who probably murdered at least 20 people. He was finally arrested and then hanged in Wyoming.
In 1927, a farmer named Andrew Kehoe blew up his farm, killed his wife, and then blew up a local school, killing 43 people. Then he detonated his own truck ... while he was in it.
Gacy buried the bodies in a crawl space underneath his own home. Once the police checked that crawl space, Gacy's fate was sealed.
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