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Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary
The Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary, April 2015: a gang drilled through a London vault wall over Easter and emptied 73 boxes, stealing valuables valued at £14m to £25m; ringleaders got seven-year sentences.
Hawley Harvey Crippen
Hawley Harvey Crippen (1862-1910), American-born London practitioner convicted of murdering his wife Cora (Belle Elmore) at Hilldrop Crescent; first criminal caught by wireless telegraphy; 2011 DNA study disputes the identification of the remains.
Hearsay
Hearsay is an out-of-court statement offered to prove the truth of the matter asserted, presumptively excluded at common law and under FRE 801-802, subject to exceptions and the Crawford confrontation limits.
Heather Pressdee
Heather Pressdee is a former Pennsylvania registered nurse who in 2024 pleaded guilty to murdering three nursing home patients with insulin and attempting to murder 19 others.
Hebephilia
Hebephilia is sexual interest in pubescent children (about ages 11-14), between pedophilia and ephebophilia. Proposed for DSM-5 as pedohebephilia but rejected; absent from DSM-5 and ICD-11.
Héctor Beltrán Leyva
Héctor Beltrán Leyva, alias "El H", led the Beltrán Leyva Organization after his brother Arturo's 2009 death, was arrested in San Miguel de Allende in October 2014, and died in Altiplano prison in 2018.
Héctor Luis Palma Salazar
Héctor Luis "El Güero" Palma Salazar, Mexican drug trafficker and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel with El Chapo Guzmán; arrested 1995, extradited 2007, released 2016, recaptured, acquitted 2021, still imprisoned at Altiplano.
Heidi Fleiss
Heidi Fleiss, also known as Heidi Lynne Fleiss, is an American former madam who ran a high-priced call-girl ring serving wealthy clients in Los Angeles in the early 1990s.
Heist film
Heist film, also called caper film: a crime-film subgenre about planning and executing a spectacular theft by a specialist crew. Defined by Rififi (1955); grew from film noir, peaked in 1960s capers and 2000s remakes.
Helen Prejean
Helen Prejean, also Sister Helen Prejean, is an American Catholic nun (Sisters of St. Joseph) and death penalty abolitionist; author of Dead Man Walking (1993), spiritual advisor to Louisiana death row inmates, and advocate behind Catholic Catechism changes.
Hell-Cat Maggie
Hell-Cat Maggie, a legendary Five Points gang fighter with filed teeth and brass fingernails allied with the Dead Rabbits; described by Herbert Asbury in The Gangs of New York (1927) and now considered likely his fabrication.
Hellbanianz (gang)
Hellbanianz is an Albanian street gang based on the Gascoigne Estate in Barking, east London, the retail and enforcement arm of the Mafia Shqiptare cocaine networks, known for viral rap videos, Tristen Asllani's 2016 conviction, and a reported 2023 move to Dubai.
Hello Kitty murder case
The Hello Kitty murder case, also called the Hello Kitty藏屍案, was the 1999 Hong Kong torture killing of hostess Fan Man-yee, whose skull was found sewn inside a Hello Kitty doll; three men received life sentences for manslaughter.
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents: prosecutions of the outlaw motorcycle club under RICO and VICAR, including the 2002 Laughlin melee, the 2013 South Carolina convictions, the Danish biker war, and the Mallorca trial.
Hells Angels MC criminal allegations and incidents in British Columbia
Hells Angels MC in British Columbia: entered 1983 via the Satan's Angels patch-over; Operation E-Pandora convictions, R. v. Punko (2012 SCC 39), and the 2023 forfeiture of the Nanaimo, East Vancouver, and Kelowna clubhouses.
Hélmer Herrera
Hélmer 'Pacho' Herrera (Hélmer Francisco Herrera Buitrago, 1951–1998), Colombian trafficker, charter member and New York operations chief of the Cali Cartel; surrendered 1996, killed in Palmira prison, estate seized 2021.
Helter Skelter (book)
Helter Skelter (1974, Norton) by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry is the best-selling true crime account of the Manson murders and trial, Edgar winner, its race-war motive later challenged by O'Neill's Chaos.
Henri Désiré Landru
Henri Désiré Landru, the Bluebeard of Gambais (1869–1922), French fraudster and multiple murderer who killed ten women and a boy met through matrimonial ads; convicted 1921, guillotined 1922, bodies never found.
Henri Young
Henri Young (Henri Theodore Young), Alcatraz inmate 244-AZ, a bank robber convicted in 1941 of involuntary manslaughter for stabbing fellow inmate Rufus McCain after a failed 1939 escape; basis for the largely fictional film Murder in the First.
Henry Eugene Hodges
Henry Eugene Hodges (born 1966) is a Tennessee death row inmate convicted of the 1990 strangling of Ronald Bassett in Nashville; his case is known for death-row self-harm, a civil rights lawsuit, and the severe mental illness execution debate.
Henry Garnet
Henry Garnet (1555–1606), Jesuit superior of the English mission, executed for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot after learning of it in confession; author of the Treatise of Equivocation, alluded to in Macbeth.
Henry Hill
Henry Hill (1943–2012), Lucchese crime family associate and FBI informant whose life inspired Wiseguy and Goodfellas; testified in about 50 mob convictions, later lived publicly.
Henry Lee Lucas
Henry Lee Lucas (1936-2001), the "Confession Killer," was an American murderer who falsely confessed to about 600 murders in the 1980s; only three victims are confirmed, and a 1986 Texas attorney general report called his 360-plus confessions a fraud.
Henry Lee Moore
Henry Lee Moore: American suspected serial killer (1911–1912), convicted in Missouri in 1913 of ax-murdering his mother and grandmother; investigated for the 1912 Villisca axe murders and a series of linked Midwestern ax killings.
Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy
The Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy: the July 16, 2009 disorderly conduct arrest of the Harvard scholar at his Cambridge home by Sgt. James Crowley, Obama's "acted stupidly" remark, the beer summit, and the Cambridge Review Committee report.
Henry Louis Wallace
Henry Louis Wallace, the Taco Bell Strangler, is an American serial killer who raped and murdered 11 Black women in Charlotte, NC and Barnwell, SC, 1990-1994; convicted 1997, nine death sentences, on death row in Raleigh.
Herb Baumeister
Herb Baumeister, also suspected as the I-70 Strangler, was an Indiana businessman linked to about 10,000 charred remains at Fox Hollow Farm, Westfield; he died by suicide in Canada in 1996, and DNA work since 2022 has identified over a dozen victims.
Herbert Mullin
Herbert William Mullin (1947–2022), American serial killer who murdered 13 people in Northern California, October 1972 to February 1973, claiming human sacrifice to prevent earthquakes; convicted of 10 murders, denied parole, died in prison.
Hercules (gangster)
Hercules (Rosario de Marçal, also Marcal/Marshal) is an Indonesian preman gangster and political broker from East Timor who ran Jakarta's Tanah Abang protection rackets in the 1990s and later founded GRIB Jaya, closely tied to President Prabowo Subianto.
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano
Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, alias El Lazca, El Verdugo, or Z-3, born 1975, was leader of Los Zetas and Gulf Cartel security chief; he built the cartel's independence and was killed by Mexican marines in Progreso, Coahuila, on 7 October 2012, his body later stolen from a funeral home.