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Brother Paul's Children's Mission
Brother Paul's Children's Mission, also called Brother Paul's Nature Camp, was a 1975 Michigan charity front for a child pornography ring on North Fox Island run by Francis Shelden, Gerald Richards, Dyer Grossman, and Adam Starchild; exposed in 1976.
Bruce Johnston (criminal)
Bruce Alfred Johnston Sr. (1939–2002), Pennsylvania crime boss, led the Johnston Gang burglary ring in Chester County and was convicted in 1980 of six first-degree murders, inspiring the film At Close Range.
Bruce M. Davis
Bruce M. Davis (1942–2026) was an American murderer and Manson Family lieutenant convicted in 1972 of the 1969 killings of Gary Hinman and Donald Shea.
Bruce Reynolds
Bruce Richard Reynolds (1931-2013), nicknamed "Napoleon", was the English career criminal who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery, stealing £2,631,684 from a Glasgow-London mail train, then spent years on the run before a 25-year sentence.
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary (Brushy) was Tennessee's first maximum-security prison, built in 1896 at Petros, Morgan County, after the Coal Creek War; convict-mined coal, James Earl Ray's 1977 escape, closure June 11, 2009, and 2018 reopening as a distillery and tourist site.
Bryan Patrick Miller
Bryan Patrick Miller, the "Zombie Hunter," is an Arizona death row inmate convicted in 2023 of the 1992 and 1993 Phoenix canal murders of Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas, identified via forensic genealogy.
Buck Barrow
Buck Barrow (Marvin Ivan Barrow, 1903-1933), Clyde Barrow's older brother, joined the Barrow Gang with wife Blanche after a March 1933 pardon; wounded near Dexter, Iowa, he died July 29, 1933.
Bufalino crime family
The Bufalino crime family, also called the Scranton Mafia, was a small Italian American Mafia organization based in northeastern Pennsylvania, named after boss Russell Bufalino.
Buffalo crime family
Buffalo crime family, also called the Magaddino family or "The Arm," is a La Cosa Nostra organization based in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York, led by Stefano Magaddino from 1922 to 1969, active in labor racketeering, gambling, and southern Ontario, and the subject of renewed federal prosecutions since 2024.
Bugs Moran
Bugs Moran (Adelard Cunin) led Chicago's North Side Gang during Prohibition as Al Capone's chief rival; his gang suffered the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and he died in prison in 1957.
Bugsy Siegel
Bugsy Siegel (Benjamin Siegelbaum, 1906–1947), Brooklyn-born Jewish-American gangster, Murder, Inc. founder, Los Angeles syndicate boss, and builder of the Flamingo Hotel, murdered in Beverly Hills in 1947.
Bum Farto
Bum Farto (Joseph Anthony Farto, 1919–disappeared 1976) was Key West, Florida's fire chief, convicted in Operation Conch of selling cocaine and marijuana, who vanished before sentencing; his fate inspired "Where Is Bum Farto?" t-shirts and a 2022 musical.
Bumpy Johnson
Bumpy Johnson (Ellsworth Raymond Johnson, 1905-1968), Harlem crime boss and "Godfather of Harlem" subject, enforcer for Stephanie St. Clair, Dutch Schultz rival, Genovese ally, Alcatraz inmate, mentor of Frank Lucas.
Burden of proof (law)
Burden of proof (law): the obligation to prove facts in a case, comprising the burden of production (producing evidence) and burden of persuasion (degree of belief); civil preponderance versus criminal beyond reasonable doubt.
Bureau of Corrections (Philippines)
Bureau of Corrections (BuCor), formerly the Bureau of Prisons, is the Philippine Department of Justice agency holding PDLs sentenced to over three years in seven prisons and penal farms, including New Bilibid Prison, planned for closure by 2028.
Burger Chef murders
The Burger Chef murders: the unsolved November 17, 1978 robbery-abduction and murder of four young employees, Friedt, Shelton, Flemmonds, and Davis, at a Speedway, Indiana Burger Chef; bodies found November 19 in Johnson County.
Burglary
Burglary: the crime of unlawfully entering or remaining in a building with intent to commit a crime inside; also called breaking and entering or housebreaking. Covers common law elements, modern statutes, sentencing, prevalence, and prevention.
Burke and Hare murders
The Burke and Hare murders, or West Port murders, were at least sixteen killings in Edinburgh in 1827–1828 by William Burke and William Hare, who sold victims' bodies to anatomist Robert Knox; Burke was hanged in 1829 and the case led to the Anatomy Act 1832.
Burl Cain
Burl Cain (Nathan Burl Cain) is an American corrections administrator, warden of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola 1995-2015 and Mississippi corrections commissioner from 2020, known for faith-based prison seminary programs and for criticism over religious establishment and medical care.
Burning Sun scandal
Burning Sun scandal: 2019 South Korean scandal around the Gangnam nightclub co-run by BIGBANG's Seungri, involving drugs, prostitution, illegal spycam chatrooms, police bribery and collusion; Jung Joon-young received 6 years, Choi Jong-hoon 5 years.
Bushranger
Bushrangers were outlaws who lived by robbery in the Australian bush, from escaped convict John 'Black' Caesar (1788) through the gold-rush gangs to Ned Kelly's gang, captured at Glenrowan in 1880 in improvised plough-steel armour.
Buster Edwards
Buster Edwards (Ronald Christopher Edwards, 1931–1994) was a Great Train Robbery gang member who fled to Mexico, served nine years, and later ran a famous flower stall at Waterloo station, played by Phil Collins in the 1988 film Buster.
Butch Cassidy
Butch Cassidy, alias of Robert LeRoy Parker (born 1866), American outlaw who led the Wild Bunch gang robbing banks and trains, fled to Argentina, and reportedly died in San Vicente, Bolivia, in 1908, a death that remains disputed.
Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch
Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, also called the Hole in the Wall Gang, was a loose band of Old West outlaws led by Cassidy and Kid Curry, robbing banks and trains from the late 1880s to about 1903 before fleeing to South America.
Byron De La Beckwith
Byron De La Beckwith (1920-2001), white supremacist, Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Council member, assassinated NAACP leader Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, June 12, 1963; two 1964 all-white juries hung; convicted 1994, died in prison.
Caffey family murders
Caffey family murders: 2008 triple homicide near Alba, Rains County, Texas, planned by 16-year-old Erin Caffey with Charlie Wilkinson, Charles Waid, and Bobbi Johnson; Penny Caffey and sons Matthew and Tyler were killed, father Terry survived, and all four defendants pleaded guilty.
Cal Brown
Cal Coburn Brown (born 1958) was a Washington State murderer executed by lethal injection on September 10, 2010, for the 1991 rape, torture, and murder of Holly Washa near SeaTac; the last person executed in Washington before its 2018 death penalty abolition.
Cali Cartel
Cali Cartel (Cartel de Cali), Colombian cocaine trafficking organization founded by Gilberto and Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela; less violent and more politically embedded than Medellín, supplied about 80% of US cocaine, collapsed after 1995 arrests and 2006 guilty pleas.
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), created July 1, 2005 from the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency, runs California's state adult prisons, parole supervision, and rehabilitation programs, under federal court population and health care oversight.
California Medical Facility
California Medical Facility (CMF) is CDCR's prison hospital in Vacaville, California, activated in 1955 as the nation's first prison hospital, with psychiatric inpatient programs, hospice care, and specialized medical services for male inmates.