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Fritzl case
Fritzl case: Amstetten, Austria, 2008 discovery that Josef Fritzl held daughter Elisabeth captive 24 years in a windowless cellar, fathering seven children; 2009 life sentence.
Frog Boys (개구리소년)
Frog Boys (개구리소년): five Daegu elementary school boys, ages 9 to 13, who vanished on Mount Waryong on March 26, 1991 while hunting salamander eggs; about 320,000 personnel searched, remains were found in 2002 showing signs of murder, and the case remains unsolved.
From Hell letter
The From Hell letter, or Lusk letter, received 16 October 1888 by George Lusk of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee with half a human kidney, is the most debated Jack the Ripper letter; unlike Dear Boss and Saucy Jacky it avoids the Ripper name and shows no linguistic link to them.
Frotteurism
Frotteurism, also called frotteuristic disorder (ICD-11 6D34), is a paraphilic disorder involving sexual arousal from rubbing against non-consenting people in crowded public places; classified since DSM-III-R 1987, prevalence roughly 8-10% of males.
Fruit of the poisonous tree
Fruit of the poisonous tree is a US criminal procedure doctrine barring evidence derived from illegally obtained evidence, established in 1920 and named by Justice Frankfurter in 1939.
Fugitive
A fugitive is a person evading arrest, prosecution, or custody. Also called fugitive from justice (18 U.S.C. 921). Distinguished from ordinary travelers by intent to avoid legal process; subject to extradition, disentitlement, and benefit bars.
Fuhrman tapes
The Fuhrman tapes are 1985-1994 recordings of LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman by screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny, whose racial slurs and boasts of police misconduct contradicted his O.J. Simpson trial testimony.
Futoshi Matsunaga (松永太)
Futoshi Matsunaga (松永太), with common-law wife Junko Ogata, committed the Kitakyushu confinement murders: seven family members killed 1996–1998 under psychological control; death sentence finalized 2011, unexecuted as of 2024.
G. Gordon Liddy
G. Gordon Liddy (1930–2021), American FBI agent turned Nixon operative, masterminded the 1972 Watergate break-in, served the longest prison term of the conspirators, and later hosted a syndicated radio show.
Gaetano Badalamenti
Gaetano "Don Tano" Badalamenti (1923–2004), Sicilian Mafia boss of Cinisi and head of the Sicilian Commission 1973–1978, chief defendant of the FBI's Pizza Connection heroin case, sentenced to 45 years in the US and life in Italy for Peppino Impastato's murder.
Gagnon v. Scarpelli
Gagnon v. Scarpelli, 411 U.S. 778 (1973), Supreme Court case extending Morrissey v. Brewer's two-hearing due process framework to probation revocation and adopting a case-by-case right to appointed counsel for indigent probationers and parolees.
Gale Benson
Gale Ann Benson (née Plugge, 1944-1972), British model and daughter of MP Leonard Plugge, murdered at Michael X's Trinidad commune; Stanley Abbott and Edward Chadee were convicted of her killing.
Galley slave
Galley slave: a person forced to row an oar-powered warship, mainly in the early modern Mediterranean. Also called forzati, galeotti, kürek servitude. Mixed slaves, convicts, and free rowers; ended with the shift to sail.
Gallows
Gallows: raised frames with a crossbeam and noose used for execution by hanging, the most common method in Britain and over half of US executions; Tyburn, long drop, 1868 abolition.
Gambino crime family
The Gambino crime family is one of New York's five La Cosa Nostra families, formed in 1931 from the Mangano family, named for boss Carlo Gambino, and led later by John Gotti; known for gambling, loansharking, labor racketeering, and construction extortion.
Gambling in China
Gambling in China: banned on the mainland under Article 303 of the Criminal Law except the state Welfare and Sports lotteries, while casino gambling is legal only in Macau, the world's largest gaming hub under one country, two systems.
Gang
Gang: a durable association of three or more people with shared identity, symbols, and elevated criminal activity, usually meaning US street gangs; loosely structured, distinct from organized crime, historically tied to immigration and migration waves.
Gang rape
Gang rape is rape of a person by two or more perpetrators, also called multiple perpetrator rape. Key facts: paired offenders commit about half of group offences; South Africa mandates life imprisonment; ICTY Foča convictions defined rape as torture.
Gangs in Australia
Gangs in Australia covers outlaw motorcycle gangs (bikies), other organised crime groups, and youth gangs; roughly 5,669 known OMCG members in 39 gangs, with anti-association laws and police strategies shaping state responses.
Gangs in Canada
Gangs in Canada cover street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and mafia groups; no single definition exists. About 4% of firearm-related violent crime was gang-related in 2024, and gang homicides fell to 119 in 2025.
Gangs in Chicago
Gangs in Chicago: street groups from antebellum fire-company gangs to Irish outfits like the Dukies, mid-century Blackstone Rangers, Vice Lords, Latin Kings, and Gangster Disciples, then post-1990s cliques, with policing, gang database scrutiny, and prevention programs.
Gangs in New Zealand
Gangs in New Zealand, notably the Mongrel Mob, Black Power, King Cobras and Hell's Angels, are post-war organised groups, largely Māori and Pacific, now regulated under the 2024 gang insignia ban.
Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Deputy gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, also called deputy cliques or subgroups (Vikings, Banditos, Executioners), are secretive tattooed deputy groups documented since 1973, linked to misconduct, $55 million in settlements, and 2023 oversight recommendations.
Gangs in the United Kingdom
Gangs in the United Kingdom: legally loosely defined criminal groups (three or more identifiable people under the Policing and Crime Act 2009), studied cautiously by British criminology and policed mainly through county lines drug-dealing enforcement and gang injunctions.
Gangs in the United States
Gangs in the United States: durable, street-oriented, criminally active youth groups with no single accepted definition; traced to about 1783 on the East Coast, measured at 1.4 million members in 33,000 gangs (2011), countered by the OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model and focused deterrence.
Gangster
A gangster (also mobster) is a member of an organized group of violent criminals. Distinguished from ordinary gang members by membership in continuing criminal enterprises such as mafias, triads, and yakuza.
Gangster Disciples
The Gangster Disciples, also called the Black Gangster Disciples, are an African-American street gang founded in Chicago in the mid-1960s by Larry Hoover and David Barksdale.
Gary Alan Walker
Gary Alan Walker (born 1953) was an Oklahoma killer who murdered five people, one man and four women, in a 1984 spree and was executed by lethal injection on January 13, 2000.
Gary Gilmore
Gary Mark Gilmore (1940–1977), American convicted murderer in Utah who refused to appeal his 1976 death sentence, chose firing squad, and was executed January 17, 1977, the first U.S. execution after the Furman moratorium; subject of Mailer's The Executioner's Song.
Gary Hilton
Gary Michael Hilton, the National Forest Serial Killer, murdered four people in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina in 2007-2008; he is on Florida death row for Cheryl Dunlap's murder and serves four consecutive federal life sentences for the Bryant killings.