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Chamoy Thipyaso, a Thai woman known as the queen of underground investing, and seven of her associates were each jailed for 141,078 years by the Bangkok Criminal Court, Thailand on 27 July 1989 for swindling the public through a multimillion dollar deposit-taking business.
For failing to deliver 42,768 letters, a sentence of 384,912 years or 9 years per letter, was demanded at the prosecution of mailman Gabriel Mar Grandos, 22, at Palma de Mallorca, Spain on 11 March 1972.
Source: Guinness World Records
A record for arrests was set by Tommy Johns (1922-88) in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia on 9 September 1982 when he faced his 2,000th conviction for drunkenness since 1957. his total at the time of his last drink on 30 April 1988 was “nearly 3,000”.
Source: Guinness World Records
Murder! (1930): directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Herbert Marshall. Plot Outline: A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
Source: IMDb
A total of 68 countries retain capital punishment. Among these countries, seven use capital punishment on juveniles (under 18). The People's Republic of China performed more than 3400 executions in 2004, amounting to more than 90% of executions worldwide. In China, some inmates are executed by firing squad, but it has been decided that all executions will be by lethal injection in the future. Iran performed 159 executions in 2004. The United States performed 60 executions in 2005. Texas conducts more executions than any of the other U.S. states that still permit capital punishment, with 370 executions between 1976 and 2006. Singapore has the highest execution rate per capita, with 70 hangings for a population of about 4 million.
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The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde by Merle Haggard
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The Beagle Boys are a group of fictional characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe loosely based on the popular image of Ma Barker and the Barker-Karpis Gang. They are a gang of criminals who constantly try to rob Scrooge McDuck and were created by Carl Barks. Their introduction and first appearance was in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories Issue number 134. In the comics, the individual Beagle Boys are referred to by their prison numbers, indicated on the tags seen on the chests of their distinctive red shirts (which appeared as orange in the comics). The three most common numbers are 176-167, 176-671, and 176-761. In fact, no digits other than one, six, or seven appeared on their prison ID tags. Carl Barks used to include the words "Beagle Boys Inc" on their shirts under their numbers, which was later deleted. In later years, they appeared in the comics as a trio: 176-671, 671-176 and 716-617, with cousins and other relatives of various talents as spin-off characters. They live in a small tumbledown hide-out in Duckburg with their pet cat Ratty.
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"Texas death row" fried chicken
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The following are all crime-related (an amusing use of a word or phrase which has several meanings or which sounds like another word):
Prison walls are never built to scale.
A criminal's best asset is his lie ability.
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
What do you call a arrogant fugitive falling from a building? Condescending.
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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devised by British author and doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his prowess at using logic and astute observation to solve cases. He is perhaps the most famous fictional detective, and indeed one of the best known and most universally recognisable literary characters.
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All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Behind every fortune there is a crime. (Honore de Balzac)
Bigamy: Only crime where two rites make a wrong. (Bob Hope)
Petty laws breed great crimes. (Ouida)
The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair. (J. Edgar Hoover)
Source: Creative Quotations
Largest object stolen by a single man. On a moonless night at dead calm high water on 5 June 1966, at Wolfe’s Cove, St Lawrence Seaway, Canada, N. William Kennedy, armed with only a sharp axe, slashed free the mooring lines of the 10,639 ton SS Orient Trader owned by Steel Factors Ltd of Ontario. The vessel drifted to a waiting blacked-out tug, thus escaping a ban on any shipping movements during a violent wildcat waterfront strike. She then sailed for Spain.
Source: Guinness World Records
To violate the law is the same crime in the emperor as in the subject. (Chinese)
Crime is cunning; it puts an angel in front of every devil. (German)
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime. (Jewish)
Crime leaves a trail like a water beetle; like a snail, it leaves its silver track; like a horse-mango, it leaves its smell. (Malawian)
It's a crime if you get caught. (Russian)
In times of trouble leniency becomes crime. (Traditional)
Source: Creative Proverbs
Cluedo (Clue in North America) is a crime fiction board game originally published by Waddingtons in the United Kingdom in 1948. It was devised by Anthony E. Pratt, a solicitor's clerk from Birmingham, England. The game is set in a mansion, with the board divided into different rooms. The players each represent a character who is a guest staying at this house, whose owner, Dr. Black (Mr. Boddy in the North American version), has been found murdered. Players take on the role of suspects and attempt to solve the murder. The solution to the murder requires the three components of Suspect, Weapon, and Room.
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