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30 Law-Abiding Bits of Trivia About Criminals and the Crimes They’ve Committed

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30 Law-Abiding Bits of Trivia About Criminals and the Crimes They’ve Committed

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These naughty little devils probably don’t want any more attention brought to them and their naughtiness, but we’re not here to protect the bad guys, now are we? They thrive in the shadows, so since we’re not Batman (a depressing thought), all we can do is shine a light and watch the little cockroaches scurry back under the fridge.

Here are a bunch of baddies — not in the Gen Z use of the term — who got caught doing some downright dastardly deeds…

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Quincy Green

QUINCY GREEN WORE AN ANKLE MONITOR. AIRNESS IT PUT HIM AT HOME AT THE TIME OF A MURDER. But he was the murderer. How'd he get there? Не just took off his prosthetic leg and replaced it with a backup. That's right, the police had attached the bracelet to a prosthetic, removable leg instead of his real one. CRACKED.COM

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The Mad Pooper

HOLMEDEL HIGH SCHOOL HAD A MAD POOPER. THEY KEPT POOPING ON THE TRACK FIELD. Cops finally caught the culprit right before 6 AM, trousers down. It wasn't a student, but the superintendent of the school district. His choice to do this truly defies logic, especially since it cost him a $150,000 annual salary. CRACKED.COM

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Ethiopian Kidnappers

ETHIOPIAN KIDNAPPERS TOOK A 12-YEAR-OLD. THEN THEY RAN INTO A PRIDE OF LIONS. They fled. For half an hour, the lions just kinda ... hung out with the kid, lounging about with seemingly no intention of devouring her. A police sergeant said it seemed as if the lions had left the child unharmed as a gift. CRACKED.COM

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The Police Station Vandal

NEW TONIGHT MAN ARRESTED FOR VANDALIZING POLICE STATION Arrested for drugs, and told to report to court the next day, Jason Rodriguez made known his feelings toward the police. Не carved graffiti into the window of the very station that had released him. Police stations are covered in surveillance cameras.

26

Comcast

Comcast charged customers a $5/month service protection plan that did nothing. CRACKED.COM They were ordered to re- fund nearly 50,000 cus- tomers and pay a $9.1 mil- lion fine when a judge ruled that it violated Washington state consum- er protection law hundreds of thousands of times. — Source

25

Clement Vallandigham

A lawyer shot himself demonstrating how the victim might have accidentally shot himself. GRACKED.COM Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and Ohio politician defending a man accused of murder, had his client cleared in 1871 by his first-hand demonstration. Vallandigham died 12 hours later. — Source

24

Target

Target lets law enforcement agencies use its forensics lab (for free). Their lab is so advanced, it's one of only two dozen or so private labs accredited by the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM — Source

23

Jam Master Jay

CRACKED JAM MASTER JAY'S MURDER WENT UNSOLVED FOR ALMOST 20 YEARS. The Run-DMC DJ was murdered in 2002 during a recording session, and the case remained cold until Karl Jordan and Ronald Washington were charged in 2021. Their trial is set to take place in 2024. — ABC / Rollingstone

22

Alex Jones

Alex Jones insisted on chewing gum At Jones' trial, the judge told him he couldn't chew gum in court. Jones said he had a tooth taken out and was chewing on gauze. Не kept asking if she wanted to see the gauze, but she said, I don't want to see THE the inside of your mouth. HC CELEBRITY COURTROOM ANTICS CRACKED — Vic Hinterlang/Shutterstock,
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The Hollywood Reporter

21

The Cadbury Egg Bandit

CRACKED 200,000 CADBURY CREME EGGS STOLEN-AN 'EGGS-TRAVAGANT' CRIME. In February 2023, a man was arrested for stealing a huge amount of Cadbury Creme Eggs - nearly 200,000 - worth over £31,000, or about $37,000. The police called it an 'eggs-travagant theft' and the man is likely to be sent to prison for about two years. Cadbury of creme C egg moung 39 creme 1 crem egg 5020 be 66 assic EPOR 1600 6 5020 Bery RION — The Guardian

20

Spaulding Decon

CRACKED CRIME SCENE CLEANUP. In the early 2000s, Laura Spaulding founded Spaulding Decon, a service that cleans up the remnants of murders, meth labs, and other crime scenes. Sources estimate $6 million in revenue but she declined to give an exact figure. — The Story Exchange

19

Its Burglars Advertise Themselves Via Cardboard Signs

TWO BURGLARS WERE CAUGHT BECAUSE THEY HAD A CARDBOARD SIGN INSTEAD OF A LICENSE PLATE. E. CUNCUINE STATE Two men were arrested in Florida after cops saw a pickup with a stolen tag sign instead of a license plate. Inside, police found jewelry worth thousands and a gun. The men had prior convictions for grand theft and attempted burglary. CRACKED — Dickelbers/Wiki Commons
ClickOrlando

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Identical Twins Make for the Perfect Crime

Having a twin can let you get away with crimes. In Malaysia, identical twins were arrested for drug trafficking. Even though large amounts of opium and marijuana were found in a house one of the brothers had the key to, the judge ruled that police could not prove which man committed the crime. CRACKED — Alessandro de Leo/Shutterstock
NBC News

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Mohammed Anwar

A lawyer argued his polygamist client needed his driver's license to see both of his wives. Mohammed Anwar pleaded guilty to speeding. His lawyer argued that, having two wives under Islamic law, Anwar needs his license to be able to regularly see both of them. The sheriff allowed him to keep it. CRACKED — Vershinin89/Shutterstock
The Scotsman

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Edward Ates

2 3 4 5 9 7 8 9 DE 10 127 128 11 129 130 12 131 13 132 133 14 134 5 135 16 136 17 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 24 145 25 146 26 147 too fat to be guilty. The defendant is 27 A jury in New Jersey found Edward Ates guilty of killing his former son-in-law Paul Duncsak in 2006, despite the defense's claim that Ates was too overweight to have committed the crime. CRACKED — Fuss Sergey/Shutterstock
ABC News

15

Ted Bundy

PRISON ESCAPES TED BUNDY LAWYERED HIS WAY TO FREEDOM. In 1977, Bundy waived his right to an attorney and decided to represent himself. In what otherwise sounds like a wacky Adam Sandler comedy, however, he used the freedom to move around the courtroom (you know, being his own lawyer) to brush up on his law in the library - where he simply escaped through a window. CRACKED.COM — Florida Memory Project/Wiki Commons
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14

A Lego Crime Ring

Arizona police broke up a Lego crime ring in 2014. CRACKED.COM Police arrested four people in connection with at least $40,000 worth of Legos stolen from several Toys R Us stores. They also discovered an additional 18 pallets' worth ($200,000) in their home. — Vocativ

13

The Mayor of Winnipeg

Minutes after promising to reduce bike theft, a Winnipeg mayor had his bike stolen. CRACKED COM Rick Shone had his bicycle stolen from the bed of his truck less than 90 minutes after announcing a су- cling-infrastructure plan that included plans to re- duce bike theft. — CBC

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DNA Evidence

Since 1989, 365 convicted prisoners have been exonerated by DNA evidence. 28% had confessed. 20 were on death row. CRACKED COM — Source: 25 Unsettling Stats That'll Shake Your Foundations

11

Maximum Security Prisons in Massachusetts

One of two Massachusetts maximum security prisons is closing. This is a milestone reflecting falling crime rates and sentencing reform, with the state's inmate population at a 35-year low. CRACKED.COM — Boston Globe

10

Dr. Schneeberger

DR. SCHNEEBERGER ASSAULTED PATIENTS. BUT HIS DNA WASN'T A MATCH. Then police finally tested his hair instead and got a match. It turned out the doctor had inserted a tube of someone else's blood into his own arm, and he'd used this each time to fool the police with someone else's DNA. CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 True Crimes That Seem Impossible

9

The Last Place You Should Park a Stolen Car

WEIRD WORLD A guy driving a stolen car parked it at a space reserved for police cars in Tulsa. 712 6030-D2 Unsurprisingly for everyone involved, except the driver, he (along with a passenger) got arrested very quickly. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

Unblurring Pixelated Porn

WEIRD WORLD In Japan, they arrested a guy for unblurring pixelated porn videos with AI e In Japan, you can't clearly show genitalia due to an obscenity law- so unblurring censorship is a crime that you'll definitely get arrested for. CRACKED.COM — Source

7

Tigger’s Day in Court

A lawyer dressed up as Tigger in court to prove a point. In 2004, a Walt Disney World guest accused a performer of groping her and her daughter. The guy's attorney said that the Tigger costume was too unwieldy for that, and put it on himself to prove it. The courtroom shenanigans worked, and the performer was acquitted. — More: 5 Insane Ways People Defended Themselves In Court (And Won)

6

Charles Harrelson

Woody Harrelson's dad was a murderer, stakes gambler, and womanizer. POLICE HOUSTON DEPT. TEXAS 1:0 Charles Harrelson was arrested for assassinating a judge in 1979, and got two life sentences. He went to prison and ultimately died there, in 2007. CRACKED.COM — Source: Entertainment Weekly

5

The Night Stalker

Serial killer Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, was once pulled over by a police Officer when he was speeding away from a crime scene in a stolen

4

Martin Bryant

Martin Bryant's clothes were literally on fire when he was arrested by police for killing 35 people in Australia's Port Arthur massacre. CRACKED.COM

3

Vincent Brothers

Dead bugs ruined the perfect crime. 2B U In 2003, human garbage Vincent Brothers flew to Ohio to visit his brother, then immediately rented a car

2

Van ‘Apples’ Patterson

In 1995, a teenage girl reported a rape, but police didn't believe her story and the man was never charged with the crime. 20 years later, after backl

1

Khloe Kardashian

CRACKEDCON In 2007. Khloe Kardashian was arrested for a DUI. The judge gave her 30 days in jail for getting kicked out of alcohol education class and

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