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Charles Sobhraj

French serial killer

Bugsy Siegel

American gangster

Jack Sheppard

English criminal

Marcel Petiot

French serial killer

Robert-François Damiens

French regicide

Marie-Madeleine-Marguérite d’Aubray, marquise de Brinvilliers

French noblewoman

Charlotte Corday

French noble

Giuseppe Maria Fieschi

French conspirator

Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte

French prince

William Burke

Irish criminal

Gu Kailai

Chinese lawyer

William Hare

Irish criminal

Lyle Menendez

American convicted killer

Erik Menendez

American convicted killer

Aristogeiton

Greek tyrannicide

Richard A. Loeb

American murderer

Nathan F. Leopold, Jr.

American murderer

Richard III

king of England

Aaron Hernandez

American football player and convicted murderer

Charles Manson

American criminal and cult leader