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Joachim Kroll
Joachim Kroll, the "Menschenfresser von Duisburg" or Ruhr Cannibal, was a German serial killer active 1955–1976, convicted in 1982 of eight murders and one attempted murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Joanne Lees
Joanne Lees is the British survivor of the 2001 Stuart Highway attack in which Peter Falconio was murdered by Bradley John Murdoch; she escaped, was the key trial witness, and wrote No Turning Back (2006).
João Teixeira de Faria
João Teixeira de Faria, João de Deus or John of God, Brazilian psychic surgeon of Casa Dom Inácio, Abadiânia; hundreds of 2018 sexual-abuse accusations, arrest, and reduced sentence of 214 years plus R$20 million civil damages.
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán
Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera), Sinaloa Cartel leader, twice escaped Mexican prisons, was convicted on all 10 counts in Brooklyn in 2019, sentenced to life plus 30 years with $12.6 billion forfeiture.
Joaquín Guzmán López
Joaquín Guzmán López (El Güero, El Moreno), born 1987, son of El Chapo and member of Los Chapitos; arrested with El Mayo Zambada in El Paso in 2024, pleaded guilty in Chicago in 2025.
Jodi Hildebrandt
Jodi Nan Hildebrandt, Utah mental health counselor and ConneXions Classroom founder, pleaded guilty in 2023 to aggravated child abuse of Ruby Franke's children and was sentenced to four to 30 years.
Joe "Pegleg" Morgan
Joe "Pegleg" Morgan, born Joseph Megjugorac (1929-1993), Croatian-American career criminal and first non-Hispanic member and reputed godfather of the Mexican Mafia prison gang, inspiration for American Me.
Joe Adonis
Joe Adonis (Giuseppe Antonio Doto, 1902-1971) was an Italian-American mobster of the Genovese/Luciano circles in New York, a Masseria killer, Kefauver figure, and deportee to Italy in 1956; not the actor or the Chippendales troupe.
Joe Arridy
Joe Arridy (1915-1939), intellectually disabled Pueblo, Colorado man wrongfully executed for the 1936 murder of Dorothy Drain after a coerced confession; posthumously pardoned by Governor Bill Ritter on January 7, 2011.
Joe Gallo
Joe "Crazy Joe" Gallo (1929-1972), Brooklyn-born Profaci/Colombo family mobster who kidnapped his own bosses in the 1961 Gallo-Profaci war, served about a decade for extortion, became a celebrity gangster, and was shot dead at Umberto's Clam House on his 43rd birthday.
Joe Metheny
Joe Roy Metheny (1955–2017), Baltimore serial murderer, convicted of two killings; death sentence vacated in 2000; unverified roadside barbecue cannibalism claims; died in prison 2017.
Joël Le Scouarnec
Joël Le Scouarnec, French former digestive surgeon born 1950, convicted May 2025 by the Vannes cour criminelle of raping or assaulting 299 child patients (1989–2014) and sentenced to 20 years, after a 2005 suspended conviction.
Joel Rifkin
Joel Rifkin, called Joel the Ripper, is an American serial killer born 1959 who murdered 17 women around New York, 1989 to 1993, caught at a license-plate traffic stop, serving 203 years at Clinton Correctional Facility.
Joey Buttafuoco
Joey Buttafuoco, Long Island auto body shop owner, became a 1992 tabloid figure when teenage lover Amy Fisher shot his wife Mary Jo; he later pleaded guilty to statutory rape.
Joey Merlino
Joey "Skinny Joey" Merlino, reputed former boss of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra family, 1990s mob war rival of John Stanfa, 2001 racketeering conviction, 2016 East Coast LCN case, now a podcaster and cheesesteak shop owner.
John A. Gotti
John A. "Junior" Gotti, eldest son of Gambino boss John Gotti Sr., served as acting boss, pleaded guilty to racketeering in 1999, and beat four later trials including the 2005 Sliwa-kidnapping RICO case.
John Albert Gardner
John Albert Gardner III is a California murderer and registered sex offender who pleaded guilty in 2010 to raping and killing Amber Dubois and Chelsea King after serving five years for child molestation; his case prompted Chelsea's Law.
John Alite
John Alite, former Gambino crime family enforcer nicknamed "the Calculator," cooperating witness against John Gotti Jr. at the 2009 deadlocked trial, later Englishtown, New Jersey councilman arrested in 2026 on extortion and loansharking charges.
John Allen Muhammad
John Allen Muhammad, born John Allen Williams, was a Gulf War veteran who with Lee Boyd Malvo carried out the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, killing ten; convicted in Virginia and Maryland, executed in 2009.
John and Lorena Bobbitt
John and Lorena Bobbitt: married couple at the center of the 1993 Manassas, Virginia case in which Lorena severed John's penis; he was acquitted of marital sexual assault, she of malicious wounding by insanity.
John Battaglia
John David Battaglia (1955-2018), Dallas man executed by Texas on February 1, 2018 for the May 2001 shooting deaths of his daughters Mary Faith, 9, and Liberty, 6; case centered on competency-to-be-executed litigation.
John Bennett Ramsey
John Bennett Ramsey, American computer executive and father of JonBenét Ramsey, found her body in their Boulder home in 1996, was a main investigation target, then exonerated by DNA in 2008.
John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (Lord Lucan, Lucky Lucan), British aristocrat and gambler who vanished in 1974 after nanny Sandra Rivett's murder; named killer at the 1975 inquest, declared dead 1999, death certificate 2016, body never found.
John Bittrolff
John Bittrolff, Manorville carpenter convicted 2017 of the 1993-1994 murders of Rita Tangredi and Colleen McNamee, identified via familial DNA; appeals cite new DNA excluding him at the McNamee scene.
John Bodkin Adams
John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983), Eastbourne general practitioner, tried and acquitted of murder at the 1957 Old Bailey trial over elderly patients' deaths; case established the double effect doctrine in English law.
John C. Woods
John Clarence Woods (1911-1950) was the US Army master sergeant from Wichita, Kansas, who hanged ten Nazi leaders at Nuremberg on October 16, 1946, and seven Japanese war criminals in Tokyo in 1948; his claimed 347-execution career and the botched short-drop hangings remain disputed.
John Cannan
John David Guise Cannan (1954–2024), British murderer and rapist jailed in 1989 for killing Shirley Banks; officially named by Scotland Yard in 2002 as the only prime suspect in the 1986 Suzy Lamplugh disappearance, never charged, died at HMP Full Sutton.
John Christie (serial killer)
John Reginald Halliday Christie, English serial killer of at least six women at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, 1943–1953; his testimony helped hang Timothy Evans, later pardoned.
John Connolly (FBI)
John J. Connolly Jr., retired FBI special agent of the Boston field office, handler of informants Whitey Bulger and Stephen Flemmi; convicted 2002 of racketeering and obstruction and 2008 in Florida of second-degree murder; compassionate release 2021.
John Cooper (serial killer)
John William Cooper (born 1944, Milford Haven) is the Welsh serial killer convicted in 2011 of the 1985 Thomas and 1989 Dixon double murders, caught via Operation Ottawa, Bullseye footage, and DNA and fibre evidence; his convictions remain under CCRC review.