Pop Culture
Frank Abagnale Jr. once conned himself into a high paying law firm job without a law degree. He was portrayed in a hollywood film about his life story by this actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio
These two Los Angeles street gangs engaged in a bloody highly publicized turf war in the 1980s:
Bloods and Crips
This undercover ATF operation funneled weapons to Mexican Cartels which were later connected to murders in many US states
Operation Fast and Furious
Which serial killer was known as “The Killer Clown” due to his public performances as a clown prior to the discovery of his crimes?
John Wayne Gacy
This drug lord was responsible for the murder of 12 Colombian supreme court justices:
Pablo Escobar
This fictional lawyer once lugged a briefcase filled with $7 million dollars all the way across the desert just to bail his client out of jail?
Saul Goodman
Who was the notorious leader of the Chicago Outfit during the Prohibition era?
Al Capone
What was the pseudonym of the unidentified man that made off with the equivalent of $1.5 Million in the only successful case of air piracy recorded in the US?
D. B. Cooper
Which famous Seattle serial killer, responsible for the murders of over 70 people, was known as The Green River Killer?
Gary Ridgway
This US President declared drug abuse as "public enemy number one":
100 Bonus - what year?
President Richard Nixon, 1971
What was the name of the woman whose unsolved 1947 murder in Los Angeles resulted in her becoming immortalized through the film "The Black Dahlia"?
Elizabeth Short
What was the name of the Teamsters labor union head who dissappeared under mysterious circumstances related to the Italian Mafia in 1975?
Jimmy Hoffa
What was the name of the criminal mastermind sentenced to 150 years in prison who had to forfeit 17.9 Billion dollars for perpetrating what many consider the largest financial crime in history?
Bernie Madoff
This student dropped out of his rocky mountain law school when he was charged with multiple Florida murders in 1978
Ted Bundy
Which South American city, an epicenter of the roaring cocaine trade, was the murder capital of the world in the late 1980s?
Medellin, Colombia
Which major Hollywood actor played William K. Hale, an Oklahoma crime boss responsible for organizing the Osage County Murders as depicted in the Martin Scorsese film “Killers of the Flower Moon?”
Robert De Niro
What Italian term is used to refer to the Sicilian Mafia?
La Cosa Nostra
In what year did O.J. Simpson’s highly publicized murder trial take place?
1995
Which serial killer’s taunting letters to police, revealing his need for recognition, ultimately helped the FBI develop its modern criminal profiling methods?
David Berkowitz, the “Son of Sam”
The storyline of the show Breaking Bad includes a powerful 2000s cartel based in what mexican city?
Ciudad Juarez
Which famous actor portrayed "The Merchant of Death," Victor Bout, in the 2005 film "Lord of War"?
Nicholas Cage
What was the name of Jeffrey Epstein's private jet?
The Lolita Express
Which tech entrepreneur, sentenced in 2020, ran a dark web drug marketplace that became one of the largest illegal online marketplaces before being shut down by the FBI?
Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Silk Road
The serial killer antagonist “Buffalo Bill” of the classic 1991 film “The Silence of the Lambs”, Leatherface from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”, and Norman Bates from “Psycho”, are all based on which real life skin wearing serial killer?
The Butcher of Plainfield - Ed Gein
This man, Mexico’s former top law enforcement officer, was recently sentenced to 38 years in US prison on bribery and corruption charges for his conduct during the Calderon administration?
Genaro García Luna