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Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix
Francisco Rafael Arellano Félix (El Pelón), eldest Arellano Félix brother and co-founder of the Tijuana Cartel; imprisoned in Mexico from 1993, extradited to the US in 2006, pleaded guilty in 2007, assassinated by a clown-costumed gunman in Los Cabos in 2013.
Frank Abagnale
Frank William Abagnale Jr. (born 1948, Bronx), American security consultant and subject of Catch Me If You Can (1980 memoir with Stan Redding; 2002 Spielberg film). Court, bank, and prison records contradict most claimed exploits, including the $2.5 million check fraud and FBI employment.
Frank Cali
Francesco "Franky Boy" Cali (1965–2019), Sicilian-linked Gambino crime family underboss and reputed boss from 2015, shot dead outside his Staten Island home on March 13, 2019 by QAnon follower Anthony Comello, the first New York mob boss murdered since Castellano in 1985.
Frank Capone
Frank Capone (Salvatore Capone, 1895–April 1, 1924), brother of Al and Ralph Capone, was a Chicago Outfit gangster who fronted the gang's takeover of Cicero, Illinois, and was killed by police during the 1924 Cicero election violence.
Frank Cullotta
Frank Cullotta (1938–2020), Chicago Outfit associate and Tony Spilotro's street lieutenant in Las Vegas, led the Hole in the Wall Gang burglary ring until its July 4, 1981 capture at Bertha's; later a federal witness and Casino consultant.
Frank DeCicco
Frank DeCicco, known as "Cheech", was an American mobster and underboss of the Gambino crime family under John Gotti, killed by a car bomb in Brooklyn in 1986.
Frank Gioia Jr.
Frank Gioia Jr., aka Frank Capri, is a former Lucchese crime family made man who cooperated with the FBI in the 1990s, helped win 70+ convictions, entered witness protection in 1999, and was later convicted in a $65 million Arizona restaurant fraud.
Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas (1930–2019) was an American drug trafficker who ran a major heroin operation in Harlem in the 1960s and 1970s, inspiring the film American Gangster.
Frank Matthews (drug trafficker)
Frank Matthews, aka Black Caesar (born 1944), American heroin and cocaine kingpin of the late 1960s and early 1970s who ran a 21-state network, jumped $325,000 bail in 1973 with an estimated $20 million and girlfriend Cheryl Brown, and has never been found.
Frank Nitti
Frank Nitti (Francesco Raffaele Nitto), "The Enforcer," led the Chicago Outfit after Al Capone's 1931 imprisonment, diversifying into gambling and labor racketeering, and died by suicide in March 1943 under Hollywood extortion indictment.
Frank Pentangeli
Frank Pentangeli, aka Frankie Five-Angels, is the fictional Corleone caporegime played by Michael V. Gazzo in The Godfather Part II (1974); created to replace Clemenza, he testifies before a Senate committee, retracts, and dies by suicide.
Frank Sheeran
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran (1920–2003) was an Irish-American Teamsters union official and Bufalino crime family associate who claimed in I Heard You Paint Houses that he killed Jimmy Hoffa, a claim never corroborated.
Frankie Fraser
Frankie Fraser (Francis Davidson Fraser, "Mad" Frankie Fraser, 1923-2014), English gangland enforcer for the Richardson gang, nicknamed The Dentist; served 42 years in prison, later a celebrity author and gangland tour guide.
Frankie Yale
Frankie Yale (Francesco Ioele, also Uale), Calabrian-born Brooklyn mob boss, ran the Harvard Inn, employed Al Capone, was linked to Big Jim Colosimo's 1920 murder, and was shot dead in Brooklyn on July 1, 1928.
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations: claims from 1988 Omaha, Nebraska that credit union manager Lawrence King Jr. ran a child sex trafficking ring; two 1990 grand juries called them a hoax, King was convicted of $39 million fraud.
Franklin Delano Floyd
Franklin Delano Floyd, also known as Clarence Hughes and Brandon C. Williams, is an American death-row inmate convicted of murdering Cheryl Commesso; he kidnapped his stepdaughter Suzanne Sevakis as a child, married her, and killed 6-year-old Michael Hughes in 1994.
Franz Schmidt (executioner)
Franz Schmidt, or Meister Frantz (1554/1555–1634), executioner of Nuremberg 1578–1617, kept a unique diary recording 361 executions and 345 minor punishments, later edited by Keller and translated by Harrington.
Fratricide
Fratricide (Latin fratricida, killer of a brother) is the killing of one's brother or sister, also called siblicide or sororicide; it spans myth (Cain and Abel), Ottoman dynastic law, and modern forensic criminology.
Fraud
Fraud: deliberate deception for gain, prosecuted as crime and civil wrong. Covers legal definitions, securities fraud under Rule 10b-5, imposter scams ($3.5B US reported losses 2025), and AI-enabled fraud trends.
Fred the Head
Fred the Head is an unidentified white male murder victim found bound and buried kneeling in a shallow grave on a River Trent island at Burton upon Trent in March 1971, wearing pink socks and a gold wedding band; DNA suggests Hungarian or Danish descent, and he remains unidentified.
Fred West
Fred West (Frederick Walter Stephen West, 1941–1995), English builder and serial killer who with wife Rosemary murdered 12 known victims, mostly at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester; he hanged himself at Winson Green prison on 1 January 1995 before trial.
Freddie Eugene Owens
Freddie Eugene Owens, also Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, a South Carolina inmate executed September 20, 2024 by lethal injection, the state's first execution since 2011, for the 1997 murder of clerk Irene Graves.
Freddie Foreman
Freddie Foreman (1932-2026), English gangster and Kray twins enforcer known as Brown Bread Fred and the Undertaker, admitted killing Ginger Marks and Frank Mitchell, was jailed for disposing of Jack McVitie's body and for handling the Security Express robbery proceeds.
Freddie Glenn
Freddie Lee Glenn is an American murderer serving a life sentence for a 1975 Colorado Springs killing spree that killed at least three people, including Karen Grammer.
Frédéric Bourdin
Frédéric Bourdin (Le Caméléon), French serial impostor born 1974, posed as missing Texas teen Nicholas Barclay in 1997 at age 23, served six years in US prison, and repeated impersonations in France.
Fredo Corleone
Fredo Corleone (Frederico Corleone) is the weak second son of Don Vito Corleone in Puzo's The Godfather, played by John Cazale; he betrays Michael in Part II and is killed on Michael's order.
Freeway Ricky Ross
Freeway Ricky Ross is the nickname of Ricky Donnell Ross, an American drug trafficker whose Los Angeles crack network claimed up to $2 million a day in the 1980s.
French Connection
The French Connection, also called La French, was a Corsican-run heroin trafficking network based in Marseille that supplied the United States until the early 1970s.
Fritz Haarmann
Fritz Haarmann (Friedrich Heinrich Karl Haarmann, 1879–1925), the "Butcher of Hanover" and "Werwolf von Hannover", murdered at least 24 young men in Hannover 1918–1924, was sentenced to death in December 1924, and beheaded 15 April 1925.
Fritz Honka
Fritz Honka (Friedrich Paul Honka, 1935–1998) was a German serial killer, the "Frauenmörder von St. Pauli," who murdered four women in Hamburg between 1970 and 1975, hid dismembered remains in his Zeißstraße attic, and inspired Strunk's novel and Akin's film The Golden Glove.