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Grant Amato
Grant Amato, American former nurse convicted in 2019 of murdering his parents and brother in Chuluota, Florida after spending about $200,000 on a Bulgarian cam model; sentenced to life without parole, appeal affirmed 2021.
Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist: 2011-2012 theft of ~3,000 tonnes ($18.7M CAD) of maple syrup from Quebec's FPAQ strategic reserve, ringleader Richard Vallières, C$9M fine upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2022.
Great Train Robbery (1963)
Great Train Robbery (1963): Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train stopped with a false signal at Sears Crossing, Buckinghamshire; a 15-to-17-man gang stole about £2.6 million; twelve convictions, 307 years of sentences, fingerprints on a Monopoly board.
Greek mafia (Ελληνική μαφία)
Greek mafia (Ελληνική μαφία) is the media term for Greece's domestic organized crime groups: drug trafficking, extortion, fuel and tobacco smuggling, and over 20 contract killings since 2017, including the 2025 murder of Giorgos Moschouris.
Grey hat
Grey hat: a hacker who breaks into systems without permission but without malicious intent, often disclosing flaws. Between white hat (authorized) and black hat (criminal); still illegal, folk term from Western films.
Grievous bodily harm
Grievous bodily harm (GBH) is really serious injury under sections 18 and 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 in England and Wales, with maximum penalties of life and five years respectively.
Grok sexual deepfake scandal
Grok sexual deepfake scandal: late December 2025 outbreak of nonconsensual sexualized AI images, including of minors, made with Elon Musk's xAI Grok on X; over 6,000 per hour at peak, followed by bans, investigations, and a Canadian PIPEDA violation finding.
Grooming gangs scandal
The UK grooming gangs scandal: group-based child sexual exploitation in towns such as Rotherham, Rochdale and Oldham, the 2014 Jay report, the 2025 Casey audit, and the national inquiry chaired by Baroness Anne Longfield from 2026.
Groping
Groping is non-consensual sexual touching of intimate body areas. Not a formal legal term; charged as sexual battery, forcible touching, indecent assault, or abusive sexual contact (18 USC 2244), usually a misdemeanor in the US.
Guadalajara Cartel
Guadalajara Cartel (Cártel de Guadalajara), a Mexican drug trafficking organization of the early 1980s founded by Félix Gallardo, Caro Quintero, and Fonseca Carrillo; precursor of the Sinaloa, Tijuana, and Juárez cartels; linked to DEA agent Camarena's 1985 murder.
Gulf Cartel
Gulf Cartel (Cártel del Golfo, CDG), a Tamaulipas-based Mexican drug trafficking organization dating to 1930s alcohol smuggler Juan Nepomuceno Guerra; once dominant nationally, it spawned Los Zetas and has since fractured into warring factions and was designated a foreign terrorist organization in 2025.
Hamza Bendelladj
Hamza Bendelladj, aka Bx1, is an Algerian hacker co-developer and marketer of the SpyEye banking trojan; arrested in Bangkok in 2013, extradited to the US, and sentenced in 2016 to 15 years in prison.
Happy Land fire
The Happy Land fire was a 1990 arson attack at the unlicensed Happy Land Social Club in the Bronx, New York, that killed 87 people trapped inside.
Hart family murders
Hart family murders: 2018 murder-suicide in which Jennifer and Sarah Hart drove their SUV off a California cliff with six adopted children, after years of abuse reports across three states.
Hate crime
Hate crime: a criminal offense motivated in whole or in part by bias against protected characteristics such as race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity; distinct from non-criminal hate incidents, and significantly undercounted in official statistics.
Hate crime laws in the United States
Hate crime laws in the United States: federal statutes from the 1968 civil rights laws to the 2009 Shepard-Byrd Act, plus state penalty-enhancement and data-collection laws covering bias-motivated crimes against race, religion, gender identity, and other protected characteristics.
Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary
The Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary, April 2015: a gang drilled through a London vault wall over Easter and emptied 73 boxes, stealing valuables valued at £14m to £25m; ringleaders got seven-year sentences.
Hawley Harvey Crippen
Hawley Harvey Crippen (1862-1910), American-born London practitioner convicted of murdering his wife Cora (Belle Elmore) at Hilldrop Crescent; first criminal caught by wireless telegraphy; 2011 DNA study disputes the identification of the remains.
Hebephilia
Hebephilia is sexual interest in pubescent children (about ages 11-14), between pedophilia and ephebophilia. Proposed for DSM-5 as pedohebephilia but rejected; absent from DSM-5 and ICD-11.
Hello Kitty murder case
The Hello Kitty murder case, also called the Hello Kitty藏屍案, was the 1999 Hong Kong torture killing of hostess Fan Man-yee, whose skull was found sewn inside a Hello Kitty doll; three men received life sentences for manslaughter.
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents: prosecutions of the outlaw motorcycle club under RICO and VICAR, including the 2002 Laughlin melee, the 2013 South Carolina convictions, the Danish biker war, and the Mallorca trial.
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents in British Columbia
Hells Angels MC in British Columbia: entered 1983 via the Satan's Angels patch-over; Operation E-Pandora convictions, R. v. Punko (2012 SCC 39), and the 2023 forfeiture of the Nanaimo, East Vancouver, and Kelowna clubhouses.
Hi-Fi murders
Hi-Fi murders: April 22, 1974 torture-murders during a robbery at the Hi-Fi Shop, Ogden, Utah; airmen Dale Pierre Selby and William Andrews executed (1987, 1992) after Utah's longest death-row appeals; Keith Roberts convicted of robbery only.
Highwayman
A highwayman was a mounted robber who held up travelers on public roads, peaking in 18th-century Britain; the word dates to 1617, the crime declined with better roads and policing, and the last mounted robbery came in 1831.
Hinterkaifeck murders
Hinterkaifeck murders, six killings of the Gruber-Gabriel household and maid Maria Baumgartner on an Upper Bavarian farm on 31 March 1922; over 100 suspects investigated, never solved.
History of rape
History of rape: how law and society defined nonconsensual sex from Roman status-based offenses and medieval canon law through Hale's marital exemption, Brownmiller's 1975 reframing, ICTY/ICC wartime prosecutions, and modern consent-based reforms.
History of zoophilia
History of zoophilia, also called bestiality, traces human-animal sexual contact from Hittite and biblical death-penalty laws, through medieval Christian criminalization, to DSM-III (1980) paraphilia classification and modern animal-welfare-based statutes in most US states and Europe.
Home invasion
Home invasion: forcible or unlawful entry into an occupied residence with intent to rob or harm occupants; distinct from burglary, measured through NCVS household burglary data, and criminalized by statute in Florida, Nevada, and Illinois.
Homer Van Meter
Homer Van Meter (1905/1906–1934), Fort Wayne-born bank robber and Dillinger gang lieutenant, also linked to Baby Face Nelson; killed by St. Paul police on August 23, 1934.
Homicide
Homicide is the killing of one person by another, whether criminal (murder, manslaughter, felony murder) or lawful (self-defense). Covers common law malice aforethought, murder degrees, the Model Penal Code, and 2025 US rates of about 4.1-4.3 per 100,000.