Curated playlist
People extradited within the United States
- Harvey WeinsteinHarvey Weinstein was thanked by name in 34 Academy Award acceptance speeches. That is as many times as God was thanked, and only Steven Spielberg, with 43 mentions, was thanked more often. The tally comes from an analysis of speeches made…
- Warren JeffsWarren Jeffs was in the red 2007 Cadillac Escalade that highway trooper Eddie Dutchover stopped on Interstate 15 in Clark County, Nevada. It was around 9 p.m. on the 28th of August 2006. The reason for the stop was minor. The temporary…
- John Allen MuhammadJohn Allen Muhammad was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m. on the 10th of November 2009. The place was the Greensville Correctional Center, near Jarratt, Virginia. Seven years earlier, in 2002, shootings attributed to him and a young partner…
- Jeffrey DahmerJeffrey Dahmer killed seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991. He became known as the Milwaukee Cannibal and the Milwaukee Monster. On the night of the 22nd of July 1991, police officers in a Milwaukee apartment pinned him to the…
- 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…
- Keith Hunter JespersonKeith Hunter Jesperson was born on the 6th of April 1955 and spent his working life behind the wheel of a truck. At some point he stood in a truck stop bathroom and wrote a confession to murder on the wall. He signed it with a smiley face.…
- Lee Boyd MalvoLee Boyd Malvo was 17 years old when he took part in the D.C. sniper attacks, a run of murders that terrorized the Washington metropolitan area for three weeks in October 2002. He was a Jamaican teenager, and his partner in the killings…
- Rodney AlcalaRodney Alcala walked onto the set of the television game show The Dating Game in 1978, and host Jim Lange introduced him as a successful photographer. Lange promised that between takes he might be found skydiving or motorcycling. The…
- Dylann RoofDylann Storm Roof, born on the 3rd of April 1994, is an American white supremacist and neo-Nazi who carried out the Charleston church shooting. On the evening of the 17th of June 2015, a routine Bible study was under way at Emanuel African…
- 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,…
- John List (murderer)John Emil List left behind a mansion in Westfield, New Jersey, that blazed with light in the autumn of 1971. Every room was lit, day and night, and yet nobody seemed to be living there. Neighbors waited and watched. Then the light bulbs…
- Joseph Edward DuncanJoseph Edward Duncan III was recognized by strangers in a Denny's restaurant in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, in the early morning of the 2nd of July 2005. A waitress, a manager and two customers noticed a girl sitting with a man none of them…