34 Psychotic Facts Notorious Criminals & Their Crimes

Due to a Gypsy crime wave, city officials in Milan authorized police to set up an undercover operation that used hidden cameras and telephone taps to make arrests. The investigation found that some children involved with these gangs were generating up to $15,000 to $20,000 a month from their criminal activities.

27. A burglar stole a Super 8 camera and videotapes from a youth soccer coach. He then turned over the tapes and coach’s address to police upon finding on tape sexual abuse of the boys in the soccer team by the coach. Police found more child porn of the players in the coach's home and arrested him.

28. In 1971, burglars broke into an FBI office by writing a note that said “Please don’t lock this door tonight” and plastering it onto the front door. It worked and they stole several files.

29. William Burke was a Scottish murderer who would sell corpses for a profit to medical researchers. After he was hanged for his crimes, scientists dissected him, wrote with his blood, and bound a book with his skin.

30. Hans Schmidt is the only Catholic priest to have ever been executed in the US. He killed his pregnant mistress, drank her blood, and dismembered her. He was found guilty for the crime and executed via electric chair in February 1916.

A man named Edward Briney booby-trapped his farmhouse which resulted in a burglar's legs (Marvin Katko) being shot with a shotgun. The burglar sued him and won. Later, when asked if he would do anything different, the Edward Briney stated “I’d have aimed that gun a few feet higher.”

32. A group of burglars actually admitted to using social media updates where people claimed to be “away from home” to decide whom to steal from.

33. In 2007, while in the midst of a home invasion, a burglar lost a testicle after he was struck in the groin by a handicapped man's cane. When the homeowner tried to call 911, they hung upon him.

34. A cartoonist named William Ellis Green confronted a burglar running through his house. He called the police and took pen to paper to produce a caricature of the burglar. The police immediately recognized the burglar from the drawing and he was soon apprehended.