The amateur criminologist may know what these seven infamous murderers had in common -- the biographical detail shared by all. Do you know the answer to the riddle? (Hint: # 6 may well be a giveaway.)
1. Dr. Harvey Crippen, who murdered his wife in London, then fled the country with his mistress. He was executed for the crime. (Clews has the story of how Dr. Crippen was caught.)
2. Herman Mudgett, M.D., a/k/a Dr. H.H. Holmes, Chicago's “torture doctor,” America’s “first” serial killer, who was also executed.
3. Richard Loeb, of Leopold and Loeb, the pair who tried to commit the perfect murder; they were defended by Clarence Darrow in a highly publicized trial.
4. John List, the mousy accountant who murdered his wife, three children, and his mother, left their bodies in the house, and walked away only to be arrested nearly two decades later.
5. Dr. John Buettner-Janusch, the respected anthropologist who did federal time for making LSD and then tried to poison the judge’s family. (He was not, strictly speaking, a murderer, but that was a whim of fate. Clews has the full story).
6. Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber, author of a manifesto which, when printed in several newspapers, led to his capture.
7. Carolyn Warmus – Remember the “Fatal Attraction case”? The headlines should have said, CRAZY WOMAN KILLS LOVER’S WIFE.
So, do you know what they all had in common?
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They're all graduates of the University of Michigan (as was Clarence Darrow). Each of them journeyed from Ann Arbor to an alumni reunion… in Hell.
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