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Gilligan family murders
Gilligan family murders: January 14, 1980 killings of Patrick, Teresa, Lisa, and Gregory Gilligan in Vandenburgh County, Indiana, by Donald Ray Wallace Jr. during a burglary; he was sentenced to death in 1982 and executed in 2005.
Giovanni Brusca
Giovanni Brusca, nicknamed u verru and lo scannacristiani, is a Sicilian Cosa Nostra boss born 1957 in San Giuseppe Jato who detonated the 1992 Capaci bomb killing Falcone, confessed to over 150 murders, became a justice collaborator, and was fully released in 2025.
Giulia Tofana
Giulia Tofana, actually Giulia Mangiardi, was the legendary 17th-century Sicilian-born poisoner associated with Aqua Tofana, an arsenic poison; archival research shows she died in Rome in 1651 and was never prosecuted.
Glen Edward Rogers
Glen Edward Rogers, the Cross Country Killer or Casanova Killer, was an American suspected serial killer from Hamilton, Ohio, executed by Florida on May 15, 2025, for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, with a separate California death sentence for Sandra Gallagher.
Glen Ward (criminal)
Glen Ward, nicknamed "Mr Flashy", is an Irish organised crime figure from Finglas, Dublin, named in the High Court as leader of the "Gucci Gang" with Kinahan links; jailed in 2025 for firing an AR-15 rifle.
Glico Morinaga case
Glico Morinaga case (グリコ・森永事件): unsolved 1984–85 Japanese corporate extortion series by the 'Monster with 21 Faces', including the Glico president kidnapping, cyanide-laced candy on shelves, and NPA wide-area case No. 114, time-barred in 2000.
Global Organized Crime Index
The Global Organized Crime Index, also called the OC Index, is a GI-TOC expert assessment scoring all 193 UN member states on criminality and resilience (1–10) across criminal markets, criminal actors and 12 resilience indicators, published in 2021, 2023 and 2025 editions.
Global Peace Index
Global Peace Index (GPI): annual ranking of 163 countries' peacefulness by the Institute for Economics and Peace since 2007, using 23 indicators across safety, conflict, and militarisation domains; Iceland has led since 2008.
Global Terrorism Index
The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) is the Institute for Economics & Peace's annual ranking of 163 countries by terrorism impact, scoring incidents, fatalities, injuries, and hostages over five-year weighted averages; the 2026 edition reported 5,582 deaths, a 28 percent fall, with Pakistan ranked most impacted.
Glynn Simmons
Glynn Ray Simmons, Oklahoma man wrongfully convicted in 1975 of the 1974 murder of Carolyn Sue Rogers, sentenced to death, freed in 2023 after 48 years, the longest US imprisonment before exoneration, declared innocent and awarded $7.15 million.
Goa Inquisition
Goa Inquisition (Inquisição de Goa): Portuguese Holy Office tribunal established at Goa in 1560, the only Portuguese inquisitorial court in a colonial territory; targeted New Christians and converts, suspended 1774–1778, abolished 1812.
Goat's tongue
Goat's tongue is a described European torture in which a bound victim's salt-water-coated soles are licked by a goat until the skin wears away. First mentioned in Franciscus Brunus de San Severino's 1502 treatise; actual historical use is unproven.
Godard family disappearance
Godard family disappearance (affaire Godard): 1999 French cold case in which Caen doctor Yves Godard sailed from Saint-Malo with children Camille and Marius aboard Le Nick; wife Marie-France's blood was found at home; partial remains recovered; case closed in 2012 without charges.
Gold Dagger
Gold Dagger: annual Crime Writers' Association award, also KAA Gold Dagger, for the best crime novel of the year, originally written in English and first published in the UK; created 1955 as the Crossed Red Herrings Award, renamed 1960.
Gone (TV series)
Gone (2026) is a six-part ITV psychological crime drama by George Kay, starring David Morrissey as headmaster Michael Polly and Eve Myles as DS Annie Cassidy, inspired by the book To Hunt a Killer.
Goombah
Goombah: Italian-American slang from Neapolitan cumpà (compare, "godfather"), meaning a close friend, mentor, or godfather; also an ethnic slur implying Mafia ties; distinct from goomah (mistress).
Gordon Stewart Northcott
Gordon Stewart Northcott, Canadian-born chicken rancher behind the 1928 Wineville Chicken Coop murders in California; convicted of three first-degree murders, executed at San Quentin in 1930; case dramatized in Changeling.
Gordon Todd Skinner
Gordon Todd Skinner (born 1964) is an Oklahoma felon convicted of the 2003 kidnapping and assault of Brandon Green in Tulsa, sentenced to life plus 90 years, and a key federal witness in the Pickard LSD case.
Goulburn Correctional Centre
Goulburn Correctional Centre, also called Goulburn Gaol, is a maximum/minimum security male prison in Goulburn, NSW, operating since 1884 and sharing the Goulburn Correctional Complex with the High Risk Management Correctional Centre, Australia's first supermax (2001).
Grace Marks
Grace Marks (July 1827 – after 1872), Irish-born Canadian servant convicted in 1843 of the Kinnear–Montgomery murders at Richmond Hill; sentenced to death, commuted to life; pardoned 1872; basis of Atwood's Alias Grace.
Graham Young
Graham Young (1947–1990), the English "Teacup Poisoner", killed three people with thallium and poisoned about 13, was detained in Broadmoor at 14, released in 1971, and convicted at St Albans in 1972.
Grand juries in the United States
Grand juries in the United States are citizen bodies, 16 to 23 members federally, that decide probable cause for criminal charges by indictment under the Fifth Amendment; secret proceedings, not incorporated against the states.
Grant Amato
Grant Amato, American former nurse convicted in 2019 of murdering his parents and brother in Chuluota, Florida after spending about $200,000 on a Bulgarian cam model; sentenced to life without parole, appeal affirmed 2021.
Grant Hardin
Grant Hardin, former Gateway, Arkansas police chief, convicted of 2017 murder and 1997 rape, escaped Calico Rock prison May 25, 2025 disguised as a guard and was recaptured June 6 after a 13-day Ozark manhunt.
Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist
The Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist: 2011-2012 theft of ~3,000 tonnes ($18.7M CAD) of maple syrup from Quebec's FPAQ strategic reserve, ringleader Richard Vallières, C$9M fine upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada in 2022.
Great Train Robbery (1963)
Great Train Robbery (1963): Glasgow-to-London Royal Mail train stopped with a false signal at Sears Crossing, Buckinghamshire; a 15-to-17-man gang stole about £2.6 million; twelve convictions, 307 years of sentences, fingerprints on a Monopoly board.
Greek mafia (Ελληνική μαφία)
Greek mafia (Ελληνική μαφία) is the media term for Greece's domestic organized crime groups: drug trafficking, extortion, fuel and tobacco smuggling, and over 20 contract killings since 2017, including the 2025 murder of Giorgos Moschouris.
Gregory Powell (murderer)
Gregory Ulas Powell, Onion Field murderer, kidnapped and killed LAPD officer Ian Campbell with Jimmy Lee Smith on March 9-10, 1963; twice sentenced to death, commuted to life, died in prison in 2012.
Gregory Scarpa
Gregory Scarpa Sr. (1928–1994), "the Grim Reaper," Colombo crime family capo and FBI informant from 1962, linked to the 1964 Mississippi civil-rights case, the 1991–93 Colombo war, and the Devecchio trial.
Grendon crime family
The 'Grendon crime family' is a mislabel for the Grendon Organised Crime Group, an Irish drug-trafficking gang called 'The Family', based in Clondalkin and Ballyfermot, west Dublin, led by brothers Brian and Philip Grendon.