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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.
Chester Turner
Chester Dewayne Turner, the Southside Slayer-era Los Angeles serial killer, raped and strangled at least 14 women and one unborn child, 1987-1998; identified by DNA cold hit in 2003, sentenced to death in 2007 and 2014, on San Quentin death row.
Chevie Kehoe
Chevie Kehoe (born 1973) is an American white supremacist who founded the Aryan Peoples' Republic and was convicted in 1999 of RICO and three § 1959 murders of the Mueller family, receiving life without release.
Chhota Rajan (राजेंद्र सदाशिव निकाळजे)
Chhota Rajan (Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje, राजेंद्र सदाशिव निकाळजे), Mumbai underworld figure, ex-Dawood Ibrahim lieutenant, 'Hindu Don'; arrested in Bali 2015, serving life sentences for the Jyotirmoy Dey and Jaya Shetty murders.
Chhota Shakeel (چھوٹا شکیل)
Chhota Shakeel (چھوٹا شکیل), Shaikh Shakeel, born 1960, is Dawood Ibrahim's chief lieutenant in D-Company, based in Karachi, a 1993 Mumbai blasts accused, UAPA-listed terrorist with about 104 cases, known for the 2000 Bangkok attack on Chhota Rajan and Bollywood extortion tapes.
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.
Chicago Seven
The Chicago Seven were anti-Vietnam War activists who faced a controversial federal trial after the 1968 Chicago Convention protests, which became a national symbol of the decade's conflict.
Chicago Tylenol murders
Chicago Tylenol murders: unsolved September 1982 cyanide poisonings of seven Chicago-area people via tampered Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules; prompted a 31-million-bottle recall, FDA tamper-resistant packaging rules, and the 1983 Federal Anti-Tampering Act.
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 pornography laws in Japan
Child pornography laws in Japan rest on the 1999 Child Prostitution and Pornography Prohibition Act (児童買春・児童ポルノ禁止法), amended 2014 to criminalize simple possession, up to 1 year or 1 million yen, and voyeuristic production; fictional manga and anime depictions remain unregulated.
Child pornography laws in the United States
U.S. federal child pornography law: statutes 18 U.S.C. 2251-2260 define and punish visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct involving minors; Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002) limits virtual-image bans; penalties and reporting duties.
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.
Chinatown (1974 film)
Chinatown (1974) is a Paramount neo-noir directed by Roman Polanski, written by Robert Towne, starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, and John Huston in a 1937 Los Angeles water-corruption mystery; it won one of 11 Oscar nominations.
Chinese water torture
Chinese water torture: a legendary method of dripping water on a restrained victim's forehead; not Chinese in origin, known mainly through Houdini's 1912 Water Torture Cell escape and the 1884 story The Compromiser.
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.
Chohan family murders
Chohan family murders: the February 2003 killing of Amarjit Chohan, his wife Nancy, two infant sons, and Charanjit Kaur in west London by Kenneth Regan, William Horncy, and Peter Rees, who seized Ciba Freight for drug smuggling; whole life orders in 2005.
Chris Rosenberg
Chris Rosenberg, also known as Harvey Rosenberg, was a Gambino crime family associate. He was killed in Brooklyn in 1979 after stealing from a Cuban drug cartel.
Christa Pike
Christa Gail Pike, Tennessee's only female death row inmate, was sentenced to death in 1996 for the 1995 Job Corps murder of Colleen Slemmer at age 18; she survived a failed September 30, 2026 lethal injection.
Christian Gerhartsreiter
Christian Gerhartsreiter, also known as Clark Rockefeller, Christopher Chichester, and Christopher Crowe, is a German-born impostor and murderer who posed for decades as an American blueblood, kidnapped his daughter in 2008, and was convicted in 2013 of the 1985 murder of John Sohus.