POLICE DEPARTMENT 93457392375 Nr....................................
Frank William Abagnale, Jr. ........................................................ Alias .......................................................... Croock Crime ......................................................... 27/04/1948 Born .......................................................... 1’ 74”” Height .........................................................
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74kg Weight . ......................................................... Death .........................................................
Criminal record/Observations is an American security consultant best known for his history as ................................................................................................. a former confidence trickster, check forger, skilled impostor and ................................................................................................. escape artist. He became notorious in the 1960s for successfully ................................................................................................. passing US$4 million worth of meticulously forged checks across ................................................................................................. 26 countries over the course of five years, starting when he was ................................................................................................. only 17 years old. In the process, he claimed to have assumed no ................................................................................................. fewer than eight separate identities, successfully impersonated ................................................................................................. an airline pilot, a doctor, a prison inspector and a lawyer. He ................................................................................................. escaped from police custody twice (once from a taxiing airliner
................................................................................................. and once from a US federal penitentiary), all before he was 21. .................................................................................................
PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE Abagnale was born the third of four children and spent the first sixteen years of his life in New York’s Bronxville. His French Algerian mother, Paulete, and father, Frank Abagnale Sr., divorced when he was 16, and afterwards he would be the only child of whom
his father would gain custody. According to Abagnale, his father did not necessarily want him, but to reunite his family, he would attempt to win his mother back until his father’s death in 1974. His father was also an affluent local who was very keen on politics, and was a major role model for Abagnale Jr.
Pan American Airlines estimated that between the ages of 16 and 18, Frank Abagnale flew over 1,000,000 miles on over 250 flights and flew to 26 countries, at Pan Am’s expense, by deadheading. He was also able to stay at hotels for free during this time. Everything from food to lodging was billed to the airline. Abagnale stated that although he was often invited by actual pilots to take the controls in-flight, he never actually accepted their offers, instead using the “8 hours between the bottle and the throttle” rule as a convenient alibi.
His first victim was his father. As Frank Jr. grew interested in women, he found that he could not stop spending money on them. To fund his exploits with the opposite sex, since he was always short on cash, he asked his father for a credit card on which to charge gas for the 1952 Ford truck his father gave him. He began to make deals with gas station employees all around the New York area to falsely charge items to his card, then give him a portion of the money; in return the employee got to keep the item and “resell” it for the full price. Over the course of two months, Frank Jr “bought” 14 sets of tires, 22 batteries, and large quantities of gasoline.
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POLICE DEPARTMENT 298484502850 Nr....................................
Alphonse Gabriel Capone Name ........................................................ Al Capone Alias .......................................................... Money laundrying Crime ......................................................... 17/01/1889 Brooklyn, New York Born .......................................................... 1’ 62”” Height ......................................................... 80kg Weight . ......................................................... 25/01/1947 Miami Death .........................................................
Criminal record/Observations was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime ................................................................................................. syndicate, known then as the "Capones," dedicated to smuggling ................................................................................................. and bootlegging liquor and other illegal activities, in Chicago, ................................................................................................. from the early 1920s to 1931, when he was sentenced to federal ................................................................................................. prison, including a stay at the infamous Alcatraz federal prison, ................................................................................................. for tax evasion. His business card reportedly described him as a ................................................................................................. used-furniture dealer.. .................................................................................................
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PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE Severely injured in a 1925 assassination attempt by the North Side Gang, the shaken Torrio turned over his business to Capone and returned to Italy. Capone was notorious during the Prohibition Era for his control of large portions of the Chicago underworld, which provided the Outfit with an estimated US $100 million per year in revenue. This wealth was generated through all manner of illegal enterprises, such as gambling and prostitution, although the largest moneymaker was the sale of liquor. In those days Capone had the habit of “interviewing” new prostitutes for his club himself.
The violence that led to Capone’s unprecedented level of criminal success drew the ire of Capone’s rivals, and spurred their retaliation, particularly by bitter rivals, North Side gangsters Hymie Weiss and Bugs Moran. More than once, Capone’s car was riddled with bullets.Demand was met by a transportation network that moved smuggled liquor from the rum-runners of the East Coast and The Purple Gang in Detroit and local production in the form of Midwestern moonshine operations and illegal breweries. With the funds generated by his bootlegging operation, Capone’s grip on the political and law-enforcement establishments in Chicago grew stronger.
With the funds generated by his bootlegging operation, Capone’s grip on the political and law-enforcement establishments in Chicago grew stronger. He soon established a headquarters at Chicago’s Lexington Hotel. This was soon nicknamed “Capone’s Castle” after the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.
He soon established a headquarters at Chicago’s Lexington Hotel. This was soon nicknamed “Capone’s Castle” after the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.Demand was met by a transportation network that moved smuggled liquor from the rum-runners of the East Coast and The Purple Gang in Detroit and local production in the form of Midwestern moonshine operations and illegal breweries.
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POLICE DEPARTMENT 084769873560 Nr.....................................
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker & Clyde Champion Barrow Name ............................................................................... Bonnie & Clyde Alias ............................................................................... Robbers Crime ............................................................................... Bonnie 01/10/1910 Clyde 24/03/1909 Born ............................................................................... Bonnie 1’50” Clyde 1”69” Height ............................................................................... Bonnie 41kg Clyde 70 kg Weight ............................................................................... Bonnie & Clyde 23/05/1934 Louisiana Death ...............................................................................
Criminal record/Observations were well known outlaws, robbers and criminals who, with their ................................................................................................. gang, traveled the Central United States during the Great Depres................................................................................................. sion. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public ................................................................................................. during what is sometimes referred to as the "public enemy era" ................................................................................................. between 1931 and 1934. Though known today for his dozen-or-so ................................................................................................. bank robberies, Barrow in fact preferred to rob small stores or ................................................................................................. rural gas stations. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine ................................................................................................. police officers and committed several civilian murders. They ................................................................................................. were eventually ambushed and killed in Louisiana by law officers. .................................................................................................
PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE Believed at the time to be a full participant in the gang’s crimes, Parker’s role has since been a source of controversy. While gang members W. D. Jones and Ralph Fults said they never saw her fire a gun and described her role as logistical, Jones also told investigators that she had fired a pistol at officers “two or three times” when he was deposed under arrest in 1933. By 1968, his recollection was that “during the five big gun battles I was with them, she never fired a gun. But I’ll say she was a hell of a loader.” Youngest Barrow sister Marie made the same claim: “Bonnie never fired a shot. She just followed my brother no matter where he went.”
Parker’s reputation as a cigar-smoking gun moll grew out of a gag snapshot found by police abandoned at a hideout, released to the press, and published in newspapers, magazines and newsreels nationwide; while she did chain-smoke Camel cigarettes, she was not a cigar smoker.
“John Dillinger had matinee-idol good looks and Pretty Boy Floyd had the best possible nickname, but the Joplin photos introduced new criminal superstars with the most titillating trademark of all—illicit sex. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were young and unmarried. They undoubtedly slept together—after all, the girl smoked cigars.... Without Bonnie, the media outside Texas might have dismissed Clyde as a guntoting punk, if it ever considered him at all. With her sassy photographs, Bonnie supplied the sex-appeal, the oomph, that allowed the two of them to transcend the small-scale thefts and needless killings that actually comprised their criminal careers.”
Author Jeff Guinn, in his 2009 book Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, explains that it was these very photos that put the outlaws on the media map and launched their legend:
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POLICE DEPARTMENT 0987453628 Nr....................................
John Herbert Dillinger ........................................................ John Dillinger Alias .......................................................... bank robbery Crime ......................................................... 22/06/1903 Born .......................................................... 1’ 70”” Height .........................................................
Name
70kg Weight . ......................................................... 22/07/1934 Death .........................................................
Criminal record/Observations was an American bank robber in the Midwest during the early .................................................................................................
1930s. He was considered to be a dangerous criminal who was .................................................................................................
involved in the deaths of several police officers, robbed at least ................................................................................................. two dozen banks and four police stations, escaped from jail twice ................................................................................................. and was idolized by some as a modern-day Robin Hood. domina................................................................................................. ted the attention of the American press and its readers during ................................................................................................. what is sometimes referred to as the public enemy era (1931–1935) .................................................................................................
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PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE
After spending nearly a year running from police, and hiding out in Florida, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin, Dillinger was wounded in one escape from police and returned to his father’s home to heal. He soon returned to Chicago in July 1934, the site of several of his highest profile crimes. He was discovered there by police, who were informed of his whereabouts by a prostitute.
Dillinger’s crimes were sensationalized across the nation, and his numerous escapes and robberies fed many urban legends in the United States. Several movies have been made about his life and death; the latest, Public Enemies, stars Johnny Depp as Dillinger and Christian Bale as Bureau of Investigation agent Purvis.
Dillinger attended the film Manhattan Melodrama at the Biograph Theater in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. Dillinger was with his girlfriend, Polly Hamilton, and Ana Cumpănaş. Once they determined that Dillinger was in the theater, the lead agent (Samuel A. Cowley) contacted J.Edgar Hoover for instructions, who recommended that they wait outside rather than risk a gun battle in a crowded theater.
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POLICE DEPARTMENT 638235845728 Nr....................................
Victor Lustig Name ........................................................ Alias ......................................................... Con man Crime ......................................................... 04/01/1890 Hostinne, Czech Republic Born .......................................................... 1’ 80� Height ......................................................... 67kg Weight . ......................................................... 11/03/1947 Springfield, Missouri Death .........................................................
Criminal record/Observations One of Lustig's trademark cons involved a "money-printing ................................................................................................. machine". He would demonstrate the capability of the small box .................................................................................................
to clients, all the while lamenting that it took the device six hours ................................................................................................. to copy a $100 bill. The client, sensing huge profits, would buy ................................................................................................. the machines for a high price, usually over $30,000. Over the .................................................................................................
next twelve hours, the machine would produce two more $100 ................................................................................................. bills. After that, it produced only blank paper, as its supply of ................................................................................................. $100 bills became exhausted. .................................................................................................
PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE In 1925, France had recovered from World War I, and Paris was booming, an excellent environment for a con artist. Lustig’s master con came to him one spring day when he was reading a newspaper.
An article discussed the problems the city was having maintaining the Eiffel Tower. Even keeping it painted was an expensive chore, and the tower was becoming somewhat run down. Lustig saw the possibilities behind this article and developed a remarkable scheme.
So Lustig not only received the funds for the Eiffel Tower, he also collected a large bribe. Lustig and his personal secretary, a Franco American con man Robert Arthur Tourbillon also known as Dan Collins, hastily took a train for Vienna with a suitcase full of cash. Surprisingly, nothing happened. Poisson was too humiliated to complain to the police. A month later, Lustig returned to Paris, selected six more scrap dealers, and tried to sell the Tower once more. This time, the chosen victim went to the police before Lustig could close the deal, but Lustig and Collins managed to evade arrest.
Lustig had a forger produce fake government stationery for him and invited six scrap metal dealers to a confidential meeting at the Hotel de Crillon, one of the most prestigious of the old Paris hotels, to discuss a possible business deal. All six attended the meeting. There, Lustig introduced himself as the deputy directorgeneral of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs. He explained that they had been selected on the basis of their good reputations as honest businessmen, and then dropped his bombshell.
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POLICE DEPARTMENT 092843465667 Nr....................................
Jesse Woodson James Name ........................................................ Jesse James Alias .......................................................... robbery Crime ......................................................... 05/08/1847 Clay, Misuri Born .......................................................... 1’ 62”” Height ......................................................... 59kg Weight . ......................................................... 03/04/1882 Death ........................................................
Criminal record/Observations was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank and train robber, and .................................................................................................
murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous .................................................................................................
member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he .................................................................................................
was alive, he became a legendary figure of the Wild West after his ................................................................................................. death. Some recent scholars place him in the context of regional .................................................................................................
insurgencies of ex-Confederates following the American Civil War ................................................................................................. rather than a manifestation of frontier lawlessness or economic .................................................................................................
justice. .................................................................................................
PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE Jesse and his brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War. They were accused of participating in atrocities committed against Union soldiers.
After the war, as members of one gang or another, they robbed banks. They also robbed stagecoaches and trains. Despite popular portrayals of James as a kind of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, there is no evidence that he and his gang used their robbery gains for anyone but themselves.
They continued in crime for several years, recruiting new members, but were under increasing pressure from law enforcement. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James was killed by Robert Ford, who was a member of the gang living in the James house and who was hoping to collect a state reward on James’ head.
The James brothers were most active with their gang from about 1866 until 1876, when their attempted robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, resulted in the capture or deaths of several members.
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POLICE DEPARTMENT 9835336839 Nr....................................
Christophe Thierry Rocancourt Name ........................................................ Christopher Rocancourt Alias .......................................................... Impostor Crime ......................................................... 16/07/1967 France Born .......................................................... 1’ 74”” Height ......................................................... 80kg Weight . ......................................................... Death .........................................................
Criminal record/Observations is an impostor and con artist who scammed affluent people by ................................................................................................. masquerading as a French member of the Rockefeller family. ................................................................................................. He told Dateline NBC in a 2006 broadcast that his mother someti................................................................................................. mes worked as a prostitute and his father was an alcoholic who ................................................................................................. took Christopher to an orphanage when the boy was 5. He ran ................................................................................................. away and made his way to Paris where he pulled his first big con: ................................................................................................. faking the deed to a property he didn't own, then "selling" the ................................................................................................. property for USD $1.4 million. .................................................................................................
PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE Making his way to the United States, Rocancourt used at least a dozen aliases. He got the rich and powerful to invest in his schemes, he told Dateline, by tapping into their greed. He convinced them that he, too, was rich by paying for their lavish dinners in cash. In Los
Angeles, he pretended to be a movie producer, ex-boxing champion or venture capitalist. He dropped names like “his mother” Sophia Loren or “his uncles” Oscar de la Renta and Dino De Laurentiis and was associated with various celebrities. He married Playboy model Pia Reyes; they had a son, Zeus. He lived for a time with Mickey Rourke and apparently convinced actor Jean-Claude Van Damme to produce his next movie.
In 1997 police raided Rocancourt’s hotel suite. In 1998 he was arrested for an involvement in a shootout and jumped bail. In 1999 he was freed of charges of forging passports after he had bribed State Department employees to get a passport. He was arrested in 2000 in the Hamptons for an unpaid hotel bill, then jumped bail. In April 27, 2001 he and Reyes were arrested in Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada, and charged with defrauding an elderly couple. Reyes was released after convincing authorities that she had no part in the scam, much less any idea of her husband’s criminal activities.
Beside being married to Pia Reyes, according to the press, he lived with playboy model Rhonda Rydell for six months. She did not know Rocancourt was married, and said he had told her he was French nobility, the son of a countess.
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