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Charles Ingram
Charles Ingram, British Army major convicted in 2003 of defrauding Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? via the 'coughing' signal scheme with Diana Ingram and Tecwen Whittock; £1m prize stopped, convictions upheld on appeal.
Check kiting
Check kiting: bank fraud cycling insufficient-funds checks between two or more accounts to exploit the float; prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. §1344, up to 30 years and $1,000,000 fine.
Cheque fraud
Cheque fraud (check fraud) is the unauthorized use of cheques via forgery, counterfeiting, washing, alteration, or kiting. Also called bad-cheque schemes; remains a top fraud category despite declining cheque use.
Cheryl Araujo
Cheryl Ann Araujo, New Bedford gang rape victim (Big Dan's Tavern case, 1983), whose televised 1984 trial aired her identity; four men convicted, she died in Miami in 1986; inspired The Accused.
Chicago Outfit
Chicago Outfit: Chicago's single La Cosa Nostra family, also called the Chicago Syndicate or Chicago Mob. Founded via Colosimo, Torrio, and Al Capone during Prohibition; crew-based structure; known for street tax, juice loans, gambling, labor racketeering; weakened by Operation Family Secrets.
Chicken Ranch (Texas)
The Chicken Ranch was a brothel near La Grange, Texas, run from 1905 by madams Jessie Williams and Edna Milton until its 1973 closure after Marvin Zindler's KTRK-TV exposé and Governor Briscoe's order, inspiring The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top's La Grange.
Child abduction
Child abduction is the unauthorized removal or retention of a child in breach of parental or custodial rights. Covers parental and stranger abduction, the 1980 Hague Convention return mechanism, and criminal laws such as the U.S. IPKCA.
Child erotica
Child erotica is non-pornographic material relating to children used for sexual purposes; it is broader than child pornography and is defined by use rather than content.
Child murder
Child murder, or child homicide, is the intentional killing of a child (infanticide in the first year of life). Parents are the most common perpetrators; rates are highest in infancy, and legal treatment ranges from distinct infanticide statutes to ordinary murder law.
Child pornography
Child pornography, now termed child sexual abuse material (CSAM), is visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving minors. Covers terminology, global legislation, AI-generated imagery, detection, and prevention.
Child prostitution
Child prostitution, now termed exploitation of children in/for prostitution, is the use of a child in sexual activities for remuneration; a crime under the CRC Optional Protocol and ILO Convention 182, increasingly technology-facilitated.
Child sex tourism
Child sex tourism, also called sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), is travel by domestic or international offenders to sexually exploit children; ECPAT, founded 1990 in Chiang Mai, leads the response.
Child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse: involvement of a child in sexual activity without informed consent, by someone in trust or power. Also CSA. Types, global prevalence (1 in 5 women, 1 in 7 men self-report), measurement tools, consequences, and prevention.
Child-on-child sexual abuse
Child-on-child sexual abuse (COCSA), also called peer-on-peer abuse, is sexual abuse in which one minor abuses another, typically where an imbalance of age, development, or power prevents informed consent.
Childs Play (website)
Childs Play (also Child's Play) was a darknet child sexual abuse forum on Tor, active April 2016 to September 2017, founded by Canadian Benjamin Faulkner and covertly run by Australia's Task Force Argos for 11 months before shutdown.
China P. Arnold
China P. Arnold, also known as China Arnold, is an American woman from Dayton, Ohio, convicted of killing her newborn daughter in a microwave oven in 2005.
Chiong murder case
Chiong murder case: 1997 kidnapping, rape, and murder of sisters Marijoy and Jacqueline Chiong in Cebu City, Philippines; seven men including Paco Larrañaga convicted, sentenced to death, case disputed.
Cho Doo-soon case
Cho Doo-soon case (조두순 사건): 2008 Ansan kidnapping and rape of an 8-year-old girl; 12-year sentence citing intoxication sparked outrage and the Cho Doo-soon Prevention Act; release in 2020 and later ankle-monitor violations.
Christian Longo
Christian Michael Longo is an American murderer who killed his wife and three children on the Oregon coast in December 2001 and was sentenced to death.
Christine and Léa Papin
Christine and Léa Papin, French maids who murdered their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans on 2 February 1933; tried September 1933; the case inspired Genet's The Maids and Lacan's analysis.
Christopher Paul Neil
Christopher Paul Neil, known as Mr Swirl, is a Canadian former English teacher identified through INTERPOL's first global public appeal and arrested in Thailand in 2007.
Clan del Golfo
Clan del Golfo (Gulf Clan), also AGC/Urabeños and since 2024 Ejército Gaitanista de Colombia, is Colombia's largest illegal armed drug-trafficking group, founded in 2006 from AUC paramilitary remnants, active in hundreds of municipalities.
Clerkenwell crime syndicate
The Clerkenwell crime syndicate, also called the Adams Family or A-Team, is an alleged London organised crime group based in Islington and Clerkenwell, led by brothers Terry, Patsy and Tommy Adams, active from the 1980s in extortion, armed robbery, drug trafficking, and money laundering.
Cleveland crime family
The Cleveland crime family, also called the Porrello crime family or Cleveland mafia, is an American Mafia organization based in Cleveland, Ohio, arising from the Mayfield Road Mob.
Click fraud
Click fraud, also called click spam, is the deceptive clicking of pay-per-click ads, either to inflate a publisher's ad revenue or to exhaust a competitor's advertising budget.
Clutter family murders
Clutter family murders: November 15, 1959 quadruple homicide of Herbert Clutter's family in Holcomb, Kansas, by ex-convicts Richard Hickock and Perry Smith, basis of Capote's In Cold Blood.
Colin Howell
Colin Howell, Northern Irish dentist from Castlerock, murdered his wife Lesley Howell and RUC constable Trevor Buchanan in May 1991, staging a suicide pact; confessed 2009, pleaded guilty 2010, minimum 20-year term.
Colombo crime family
The Colombo crime family, originally the Profaci family, is one of New York's five Mafia families, founded by Joseph Profaci, renamed under boss Joe Colombo in 1963, marked by three internal wars, and led for decades by imprisoned Carmine Persico.
Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting
Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting: Robert Lewis Dear Jr.'s November 27, 2015 attack on a Colorado Springs abortion clinic killed three and wounded nine; he was never tried and died in federal custody in 2025.
Colton Harris Moore
Colton Harris Moore, the Barefoot Bandit, American fugitive from Camano Island, Washington; escaped juvenile custody April 2008, suspected of nearly 100 thefts including stolen planes he flew without training, captured in the Bahamas July 2010, sentenced 2012.