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Michael Bruce Ross
Michael Bruce Ross (1959–2005) was an American serial killer convicted of raping and murdering four women in eastern Connecticut, executed in 2005 after waiving his appeals.
Michael Corleone
Michael Corleone is the fictional protagonist of Mario Puzo's The Godfather novel and Coppola's film trilogy, portrayed by Al Pacino, tracing his rise from World War II Marine to ruthless Don of the Corleone crime family.
Michael Dewayne Smith
Michael Dewayne Smith was an American man from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, convicted in 2003 of murdering Janet Moore and Sarath Pulluru and executed by Oklahoma on April 4, 2024.
Michael Duane Zack III
Michael Duane Zack III (born 1968) was a Florida death-row inmate convicted of the 1996 murders of Ravonne Smith and Laura Rosillo; executed by lethal injection October 3, 2023.
Michael Durocher
Michael Alan Durocher (born 1960) was a Florida serial killer who murdered five people, 1983-1988, including his girlfriend Grace Reed and her two children; he waived appeals and was executed by electric chair on August 25, 1993.
Michael Franzese
Michael Franzese, born 1951, former Colombo crime family caporegime and son of underboss Sonny Franzese; ran a gasoline-tax scheme, pleaded guilty to RICO in 1986, later became a Christian motivational speaker and YouTuber.
Michael Gargiulo
Michael Thomas Gargiulo, the "Hollywood Ripper" or "Boy Next Door Killer," is an American serial killer born 1976, sentenced to death in California in 2021 for the 2001 murder of Ashley Ellerin and 2005 murder of Maria Bruno, and charged in Illinois for the 1993 murder of Tricia Pacaccio.
Michael J. Devlin
Michael J. Devlin is the Kirkwood, Missouri, pizzeria manager who kidnapped Ben Ownby and Shawn Hornbeck, pleaded guilty in 2007 to 71 counts, and received 70 life terms.
Michael Madison
Michael Madison (born 1977) is an American death row inmate convicted of the 2012-2013 murders of Shirellda Terry, Shetisha Sheeley, and Angela Deskins in East Cleveland, Ohio; sentenced to death 2016, affirmed 2020.
Michael Malloy
Michael Malloy, Mike the Durable or Durable Mike, was a homeless Irish alcoholic in Prohibition-era New York whom five acquaintances, the Murder Trust, repeatedly tried to kill for life insurance money before killing him with coal gas in February 1933.
Michael Mancuso
Michael "the Nose" Mancuso, Bonanno crime family acting boss from November 2004; convicted of ordering the 2004 Randolph Pizzolo murder, sentenced to 15 years in 2008, released 2019, and resentenced to 11 months in 2023 for supervised-release violations.
Michael Peterson trial
The Michael Peterson trial (State v. Peterson) was the 2003 Durham, North Carolina first-degree murder prosecution of novelist Michael Peterson for the 2001 staircase death of his wife Kathleen; the conviction was vacated over SBI analyst Duane Deaver's misrepresentations and ended in a 2017 Alford plea.
Michael Stone (criminal)
Michael Stone is an English man serving three life sentences for the 1996 hammer murders of Lin and Megan Russell near Chillenden, Kent, convictions he has always contested.
Michael Swango
Michael Swango, American former physician and serial killer nicknamed Dr Poison and Double-O Swango, convicted of four poisonings and suspected of up to 60, serving life at ADX Florence.
Michel Fourniret
Michel Fourniret, the 'Ogre of the Ardennes' (l'Ogre des Ardennes), French serial killer (1942–2021) who with wife Monique Olivier kidnapped, raped and murdered girls in France and Belgium 1987–2003; life sentences in 2008 and 2018.
Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander is an American civil rights attorney, legal scholar, and author of the 2010 New York Times bestseller The New Jim Crow, which argues mass incarceration is a new racial caste system; not the Canadian artist or other namesakes.
Michelle Knotek
Michelle "Shelly" Knotek, Raymond, Washington woman who pleaded guilty via Alford plea in 2004 to second-degree murder and manslaughter in the abuse deaths of Kathy Loreno and Ron Woodworth; her husband David killed Shane Watson; sentenced to 266 months.
Michelle McNamara
Michelle McNamara, American true crime writer, founder of the True Crime Diary blog, coined the name Golden State Killer; author of the posthumous bestseller I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2018).
Mick Gatto
Dominic "Mick" Gatto: Melbourne underworld figure, former heavyweight boxer, and construction mediator; acquitted of the 2004 murder of Andrew Veniamin, linked to the Carlton Crew, and named in Geoffrey Watson's CFMEU corruption report, which he denies.
Mick Philpott
Mick Philpott, Derby father of 17, jailed for life in 2013 for the manslaughter of six of his children killed in a petrol fire at 18 Victory Road set to frame ex-partner Lisa Willis.
Mickey Cobras
The Mickey Cobras, historically the Egyptian Cobras and Cobra Stones, are a Chicago street gang allied with the Black P. Stones and named for Henry "Mickey" Cogwell.
Mickey Cohen
Mickey Cohen (Meyer Harris Cohen, 1913–1976) was a Brooklyn-born Los Angeles mobster, featherweight boxer, and West Coast crime boss who took over Bugsy Siegel's rackets in 1947, feuded with Jack Dragna, and was twice convicted of tax evasion.
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo
Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, "El Padrino" or "El Jefe de Jefes" (born 1946, Culiacán, Sinaloa), founded the Guadalajara Cartel, allied with Pablo Escobar, and was arrested in 1989 for the Camarena murder; his organization later split into the Sinaloa and Tijuana cartels.
Miguel Caro Quintero
Miguel Ángel Caro Quintero is a Mexican drug trafficker who led the Sonora Cartel, brother of Rafael Caro Quintero, and was extradited to the United States in 2009.
Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela
Miguel Rodríguez Orejuela, Colombian co-leader of the Cali Cartel with brother Gilberto; extradited to the US in 2005, pleaded guilty in 2006 to cocaine importation, sentenced to 30 years and $2.1 billion forfeiture, imprisoned at Big Spring, Texas.
Miguel Treviño Morales
Miguel Treviño Morales, alias Z-40, Mexican cartel boss born in Nuevo Laredo who led Los Zetas after Lazcano's 2012 death, founded successor CDN, was captured in 2013 and sent to US custody in 2025.
Mikal Mahdi
Mikal Deen Mahdi was an American spree killer executed by firing squad in South Carolina on April 11, 2025, for the 2004 murder of Captain James Myers.
Mikhail Popkov (Михаил Викторович Попков)
Mikhail Popkov (Михаил Попков), the "Angarsk Maniac" and "Werewolf", is a Russian ex-policeman convicted of at least 91 murders of women in Irkutsk Oblast, 1992–2011, caught by DNA in 2012 and serving two life sentences plus added terms.
Military prison
Military prison: armed-forces confinement facility for service members under the UCMJ, in brigs, stockades, and disciplinary barracks such as the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, established 1874, with rehabilitation and restoration to duty as goals.
Millhaven Institution
Millhaven Institution is a maximum-security CSC penitentiary in Bath, Ontario, opened 1971 after the Kingston riot, capacity 496, housing an Assessment Unit, SIU, and Regional Treatment Centre.