True Crime
At the start of his crimes, this notorious serial killer was known as the Whitechapel Murderer
Jack the Ripper
Emily Deschanel plays a forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute in D.C. on this [TV] series
Bones
It's the legendary hairy humanlike creature of the Pacific Northwest also known as sasquatch
Bigfoot
A presidential assassin: JWB
John Wilkes Booth
Also a word for "zero", it's a method spies use to disguise messages by shuffling letters around
cipher
After this criminal duo was killed on May 23, 1934, 20-plus bullets were dug out of both him & her
Bonnie and Clyde
TV's Special Agent Gibbs works for this agency that investigates threats to the Navy & Marine Corps
NCIS
Some investigators believe that this coy lassie might be a plesiosaur
The Loch Ness Monster
San Francisco police detective David Toschi said he interviewed 5,000 people in his search for this letter-writing killer
The Zodiac Killer
It's the acronym for the "prove you're not a robot" tests encountered when accessing some websites
CAPTCHA
Elizabeth Short, known by this flowery name, was the victim in an L.A. murder case officially unsolved after [78] years
The Black Dahlia
From 2006 to 2013 Showtime killed it with this show about a crime lab worker with a very different night job
Dexter
Thought by some to be in Cornwall, it's the legendary site of King Arthur's palace & court
Camelot
After much internal debate over the wisdom of giving in to terrorists, in 1995, the FBI allowed publication of this criminal's long rambling manifesto. The move paid off when the man's brother recognized his writing and alerted authorities
Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber
This dash-&-dot dialect debuted in 1838
morse code
The 1788 Doctors' Riot in New York occurred when physicians were suspected of this crime due to their dissection needs
grave robbing
Spun off from "Sons of Anarchy", this show focuses on an outlaw motorcycle gang operating on the California/ Mexico border
Mayans
This mythic animal of the West is usually depicted as a rabbit with antelope horns
jackalope
Scarface, a 1920s gangster, this Chicago man's operation had $100 million in annual revenue; in 2020s instead of 1920s dollars, that's about $1.8 billion
Al Capone
Ancient "eye for an eye" text
Hammurabi's Code
"The Skies Belong to Us" narrates one 1972 instance of this crime that was unfortunately big in that era
skyjacking
The FBI behavioral analysis unit on this show took its last case on CBS in 2020
Criminal Minds
Also called an O.B.E., it's the sensation that one's self is in a different location from one's physical form
an out-of-body experience
This woman worked as a cook in New York, spreading deadly disease to more than 50 people between 1900 & 1915
"Typhoid Mary" Mary Mallon
During World War II the Germans used this machine whose very name is a puzzle, to send & receive secret messages
Enigma