Curated playlist
American people convicted of theft
- L. Ron HubbardL. Ron Hubbard, the American writer who founded Scientology, once told his wife exactly what he wanted from life. In a letter, he declared: "I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form…
- Lindsay LohanLindsay Lohan posed for the October 2010 cover of Vanity Fair and then made a blunt request. "I want my career back," she told the magazine. She added, "I know that I'm a damn good actress." The plea carried weight because Lohan, an…
- Marshall ApplewhiteMarshall Applewhite was one of 39 people found dead in a rented mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California, on the 26th of March 1997. An anonymous tip had sent the San Diego County Sheriff's Department to the house. Applewhite had founded and…
- Winona RyderWinona Ryder once believed that a hit film would rescue her from the school playground. In 2017 she recalled her thinking when Beetlejuice topped the box office: "Ooh, it's like the number one movie. This is going to make things great at…
- Lawrence SingletonLawrence Singleton, born in Tampa, Florida, in 1927, once told a judge that he was "a confused, muddleheaded old man." His record said otherwise. Singleton committed one crime so brutal that California rewrote its sentencing law because of…
- Leonard LakeLeonard Thomas Lake was born on the 29th of October 1945 and died on the 6th of June 1985, four days after police arrested him. He had swallowed cyanide pills that he sewed into his own clothing. Because of that, no jury ever weighed a…
- Bernie MadoffBernie Madoff told his own sons in December 2008 that the fund he ran was "just one big lie." Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financier, born in 1938, who had once served as chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. He admitted to…
- Robert HansenBehind the headboard of a bed in an Anchorage home, investigators found an aeronautical chart marked with thirty-seven handwritten x symbols. The home belonged to Robert Hansen, a baker nicknamed the Butcher Baker. Between 1971 and 1983 he…
- Whitey BulgerOn the 22nd of June 2011, agents in Santa Monica, California, used a ruse to lure an 81-year-old man out of his apartment. They arrested him without incident. He was James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr., who had once led the Winter Hill Gang,…
- DMXDMX was the first artist to open five straight studio albums at number one on the Billboard 200.
- Samuel LittleSamuel Little, born Samuel McDowell, told investigators that he had committed 93 murders between 1970 and 2005. Courts convicted him of eight. The FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program has confirmed his involvement in at least 60 of…
- Carl PanzramCarl Panzram told investigators that he had murdered twenty-one boys and men, yet only five of those killings could ever be confirmed. Authorities suspect the real toll in the United States alone passes one hundred, with more victims in…