John Dillinger, an infamous criminal who mastered the art of looking suave whilst also looking unspeakably evil. Perhaps it was those excessively bushy eyebrows… Dillinger’s childhood was simultaneously troubled and troublesome. After a harsh sentence and a stint in prison for a failed grocery robbery, John Dillinger’s high profile career as a serial bank robber took off. His gang robbed as many as twenty-four banks and four police stations. In 1934, he met his match and was shot and killed when

Genghis Kahn was born in 1162 and died in 1227. At the age of 20, he began building a vast army with the intent to destroy all individual tribes across North East Asia and to unite everybody under his own rule. In this respect, he was successful, as until the British Empire, the Mongol Empire was the world’s largest empire and remained in existence long after his death. His campaign for his ideal empire resulted in widespread massacre of innocent civilian communities.

From 1973, Pinochet was an army general and later a dictator over the Chilean people, until in 1990 power was transferred to a democratically elected president. In 1998 he was arrested in London when the Spanish government ordered for him to stand trial for crimes of both genocide and terrorism. Eventually, after 25 years in power, Pinochet was put under address for violations to human rights; however he died in 2006 before he could be tried.

Born in England in 1946, he studied at the Leeds School of Medicine and began working as a physician in 1970. In the twenty eight years between the beginning of his career and his arrest in 1998, it is believed that Shipman killed at least 215 people, possibly as many as a staggering and horrifying 260. As a direct result of this cold hearted killer’s actions, a great deal of laws were modified and reassessed, as Shipman administered his victims with lethal injections.

Dawood Ibrahim is the leader of an criminal organisation in India known as D-company. The syndicate was founded in Mumbai and it is generally believed that it’s members reside in Pakistan. After the Mumbai bombings in 1993, Ibrahim became India’s most wanted man. According to the United States, Ibrahim consistently maintained close links with Al-Quaeda’s Osama Bin Laden, which led to them labelling him as a global terrorist in 2003. Currently, Dawood Ibrahim’s exact location is unknown.

The first American criminal in the FBI’s Top Ten Most Wanted to be imprisoned as a result of the internet, Leslie Isben Rogge is due to be released from prison in 2048. He is considered one of the United States’ most elusive criminals. Born in Seattle in 1940, before he was eventually imprisoned for good, Leslie Isben Rogge stole over two million dollars and robbed over thirty banks across America.

As the leader of the Nazi party in Germany, his aim was to establish a new order of absolute Nazi hegemony in continental Europe, and no doubt he hoped to achieve this order worldwide. His ideologies were doubtless the primary instigator for World War II and resulted in the cruel and violent murder of over five and a half million Jewish people, as well as millions of people that he and his followers deemed racially inferior. In 1945, he committed suicide in a final attempt to avoid capture.

There is a film, 2000’s ‘Chopper’ that is based on the life of this notorious Australian criminal, and surprisingly, author. His life of crime began with an affinity for robbing drug dealers and soon escalated into armed robbery, kidnapping, arson and a multitude of other crimes. Between the ages of 20 and 38, Read spent only thirteen days outside of prison. Whilst imprisoned he started a prison war gang, and even resorted to ordering one of his gang members to cut off both of his ears off.

Otherwise known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to a whopping fifteen life imprisonments back in 1992. He was a serial killer and sex offender, who committed a plethora of horrifying crimes. Between 1978 and 1991 he murdered, raped and dismembered 17 men and boys. His crimes grew ever more horrific as he continued on his destructive and evil path through life, his later murders also involved necrophilia, cannibalism and the preservation of his victim’s body parts.

Like Hitler, Stalin was one of the most powerful and murderous dictators in the history of the world. Whilst his terrorist regime resulted in the death of millions of people, it was also his manufactured war machine that ultimately played a key role in the defeat of Nazism

Muammar Gaddafi, known as Colonel Gaddafi, was a highly controversial Libyan politician and revolutionary and the ruler of Libya for 42 years. Prior to his death in October 2011, he governed the country under his own ideology, known as the Third International Theory. During Gaddafi’s rule his leadership instigated the Libyan Civil War. He was recognised internationally as a dictatorial autocrat whose administration devastated the human rights of his people and supported terrorist regimes.

Born in 1958, Cooper has spent much of his time in prison fighting for the American judicial establishment to be seen as racist and also fighting against the death penalty. Cooper was imprisoned for the brutal murder of two adults and two children at a home in Chino Hills. The jury convicted Cooper for four counts of first degree murder, as well as one count of attempted murder with the intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm.

Notorious Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar was born in 1949 and was killed in 1993. His ambition and ruthlessness made him into one of the most powerful and most violent criminals in history, not to mention his penchant for the exportation of cocaine made him one of the world’s wealthiest criminals too. Together with other criminal minds, he formed the Medellin Cartel which at its peak was in control of over 80% of the cocaine that left Colombia to be shipped to the United States.

Risk of capture grew so extreme for Amado Carillo-Fuentes that his untimely death came in 1997 whilst he was undergoing extensive plastic surgery with the intent of completely changing his appearance. A serial drug trafficker, it has been reported that for each major operation Carillo-Fuentes carried out, he forwarded between twenty and thirty million dollars back to Colombia. He had his own fleet of aircraft and was a pioneer in the drug trafficking world for the use of large aircraft to export

Robert Black is a medically diagnosed psychopath who has been charged on a count of four murders, though it is thought that his total number of victims could be significantly higher. He was caught in 1990 whilst trying to smuggle a six year old girl into his van. In 2011 Black was informed that he will be at least 89 years of age before he is considered for release. Currently prosecutors claim there is insufficient evidence to accuse Black of further murders.

Peruggia is most famous for perpetrating one of the most successful art thefts in recorded history. It was he who successfully stole Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ from the Louvre in August 1911. The painting was hidden in a trunk in his apartment in Paris for over two years, until he moved it to his home in Florence and was later caught when he attempted to ‘return’ the painting to its rightful home via gallery owner Alfredo Geri. Peruggia spent a short time in prison and died in 1925.

American serial killer Ed Gein’s torture of the bodies of his victims both before and after death were so gruesome that he was found not guilty due to insanity and spent the remainder of his life post arrest in a mental illness hospital. Since the discovery of the details of Ed Gein’s psychotic mutilation of his victims, he has been the inspiration for a number of fictional murderers, including Norman Bates of ‘Psycho’ and Leatherface of ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’.

Between 2002 and 2004, three women went missing from Cleveland, Ohio. It wasn’t until May 2013 that they were rescued from their imprisonment by kidnapping. The very same day that the women escaped to freedom, Ariel Castro was arrested as a primary suspect. Just forty-eight hours later, he was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. Shockingly a couple of months later in July, Castro pled guilty to 937 counts of rape as well as aggravated murder and the kidnappings.

was a schizophrenic and a serial killer who drank the blood of his victims and cannibalised their remains. He killed six people within the space of a year over the period of 1977 to 1978. Chase was diagnosed with mental issues from a young age, and was first institutionalised in 1975 after it was discovered he had injected rabbits’ blood into his veins. Once imprisoned for six counts of murder, Chase was feared by his inmates and used to attempt to convince him to commit suicide.

Bronson has been widely labelled by the British media as the nation’s most violent prisoner. Starting out as a circus strongman, Charles Bronson was first imprisoned in 1974 for armed robbery and has since spent very little time outside from behind bars. In more recent years, Bronson has turned his (very strong) hands to writing and animation. He also holds six world records for feats of strength and fitness.

Ned Kelly was an Irish Australian bushranger who lived from 1855 to 1880. In November 1880 he was executed by hanging after being convicted for three counts of murder. He is an iconic figure in Australian history, though popular opinion is extremely varied. Some consider him somewhat of a folk hero, a resistor against the ruling class. Others associate him with murder and refuse to herald him whatsoever; he was, after all, feared across the Victoria area for violence and theft.

After his arrest in 1935, Albert Fish admitted to molesting over four hundred children as well as torturing and killing several others; the exact toll of his victims remains unknown. He claimed to have voices inside his head insisting that he murder innocent children, however his plea for insanity was dismissed by the jury who found him sane.. It is said that whilst describing in fine detail the horrific nature of his many, many crimes, Albert Fish would do so with a smile on his face.

He gained this frightening nickname as a result of his philanthropic involvement in fundraising events as well as taking part in children’s parties and parades dressed up as ‘Pogo the Clown’. Convicted of the sexual assault and murder of a devastating minimum of thirty three young men and boys, Gacy was executed by lethal injection in 1994 aged 52. He committed all of the murders within his home in Chicago, Illinois, and twenty six of his victims were buried on his property.

Hussein was the fifth president of Iraq who served from 1979 until 2003. He was a leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, which functioned as a combination of nationalism and socialism. A former Iraqi diplomat once described Hussein as a dictator who was willing to sacrifice his country as long as he was able to remain on his throne.