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   happy-go-lucky
   happy-go-lucky · Sep 22, 2008

   Ok, so nobodies written on here in a while so I might as well start a new thread
   
   Who, in your opinion, is the most famous criminal in history?
   
   I'd say Jack the Ripper for definate
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   Bookmarker
   Bookmarker · Oct 12, 2008

   You mean Spring-heeled Jack? That's what we call him in America. He was pretty famous.
   
   I think Robin Hood was a really famous criminal too.
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   vixeyt
   vixeyt · Oct 13, 2008

   Robin Hood wasn't really much of a crimianl though.
   
   No, criminal wise. Hitler.
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   Bookmarker
   Bookmarker · Oct 13, 2008

   Robin Hood wasn't evil like Hitler but he still broke laws, thus making him a criminal.
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   ArcticMonkey
   ArcticMonkey · Feb 6, 2010

   I think Al Capone, he was a mad criminal.
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   Rubric
   Rubric · Feb 7, 2010

   Heh that's kind of ironic because assuming Robin Hood existed, which he didn't, he was much more of a criminal that Hitler (seeing as Hitler was in control of the legislature for pretty much the entire 1933-1945 period). I guess legality doesn't always correspond to morality, makes you think.
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   fhwdf
   fhwdf · Apr 10, 2010

   My favourite is Sweeney Todd, though he didn't actually exist (nor did Robin Hood, though - or certainly not the way we think of him). You don't get much cooler than slitting your customers' throats and making them into pies. Jack the Ripper is definitely a contender for most famous, and very cool with it.
   
   I suppose Hitler was a criminal on an international level, but since he made the laws in Germany he wasn't breaking any of his own country's laws. He was a war criminal, though.
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   Hydey
   Hydey · Apr 23, 2010

   Mussolini was pretty notorious, as well as Adolf Hitler. However, my [i]favorite[i] criminal would have to be Billy the Kid.
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   Forestqueen808
   Forestqueen808 · Jun 28, 2010

   I think Jack the Ripper. I don't know, I know Hitler was super evil and so horrible in every possible way, but he wasn't really a criminal right? He obeyed HIS laws, but I don't think of him as a criminal persay. I just think he was a horrible, awful, stupid, powerful, ignorant man who freakin thinks that just because people are different that they should die and that- *rants on and on*
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    polinkacreations
    polinkacreations · Oct 26, 2011

    Zodiac Killer. Period.
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    Fishr
    Fishr · Oct 26, 2011

    Vladd the Impaler.
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    polinkacreations
    polinkacreations · Oct 26, 2011

    Oh, and Dexter

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