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unusual facts about career criminal



Stuart: A Life Backwards

Stuart: A Life Backwards is a biography by Alexander Masters of his friend Stuart Shorter, formerly, at various times, a prisoner and a career criminal.


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Dietrich v The Queen

On 17 December 1986, the accused, a career criminal named Olaf Dietrich (born 1952), flew from Bangkok, Thailand, to Melbourne Airport.

Gunsite Training Center

Actor James Caan is sometimes included in the foregoing list, but when he told Cooper than he wanted to learn the Modern Technique for his role in the Michael Mann production, Thief (1981), Cooper declined, reasoning that Caan's character, an ex-con and career criminal, would not have been exposed to such training.

Jimmy Hope

A pioneering career criminal and safe-cracker, he planned and took part in many of the major robberies of the post-American Civil War era including those of the Kensington Savings Bank and, in partnership with Ned Lyons, the Ocean Bank and Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Keith Faure

Keith George Faure (born June, 1951), from Norlane, Victoria, is an Australian career criminal, convicted of multiple murders and manslaughters.

Robert Van Lewing

A long time career criminal, Lewing's criminal record included prior arrests and convictions on a number of armed robbery charges before being officially added as the 226th fugitive to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list on January 12, 1966.

Squizzy Taylor

Joseph Leslie Theodore "Squizzy" Taylor (29 June 1888 – 27 October 1927) was a Melbourne, Australia-based career criminal and gangster who died violently before his 40th birthday.