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Robert Ben Rhoades
Robert Ben Rhoades, also known as "The Truck Stop Killer," is an American serial killer and former long-haul truck driver who built a torture chamber into his truck's sleeper cab.
Robert Berdella
Robert Berdella (1949–1992), the Kansas City Butcher, was an American serial killer who tortured and murdered at least six men, 1984–1987, at his Charlotte Street home; caught April 1988 after a victim escaped, he received two life sentences and died in prison.
Robert Black (serial killer)
Robert Black (1947–2016), Scottish serial child killer and paedophile, a delivery driver who murdered Susan Maxwell, Caroline Hogg, Sarah Harper, and Jennifer Cardy, caught in 1990 at Stow, died in Maghaberry Prison.
Robert Chambers (criminal)
Robert Chambers, the "Preppy Killer," an American convicted of strangling Jennifer Levin, 18, in Central Park in August 1986; pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 1988, served 15 years, later 19 years for cocaine sales, released July 2023.
Robert Durst
Robert Durst (1943-2022), New York Durst Organization heir, linked to Kathie McCormack's 1982 disappearance, Susan Berman's 2000 murder, and Morris Black's 2001 killing; acquitted in Texas, convicted in Los Angeles, died in prison.
Robert Ford (outlaw)
Robert Ford, also known as Robert Newton Ford, was an American outlaw who shot Jesse James in the back of the head in Missouri on April 3, 1882.
Robert Fry (murderer)
Robert Ray Fry is an American serial killer from San Juan County, New Mexico, who murdered four people between 1996 and 2000 and was sentenced to death.
Robert Graysmith
Robert Graysmith, born Robert Gray Smith in 1942, is an American true crime author and retired San Francisco Chronicle cartoonist best known for his 1986 book Zodiac.
Robert Hadden
Robert Hadden, former Columbia University and NewYork-Presbyterian OB-GYN, sexually abused patients from about 1993 to 2012; convicted federally in 2023, sentenced to 20 years, with over $1 billion in civil settlements.
Robert Hansen
Robert Hansen (Robert Christian Hansen, the "Butcher Baker") was an Alaskan serial killer, not FBI spy Robert Hanssen, who murdered at least 17 women near Anchorage 1980-1983 and was sentenced in 1984 to life plus 461 years.
Robert Hendy-Freegard
Robert Hendy-Freegard, aka David Hendy, British con man born 1971 who posed as an MI5 agent, convicted of kidnapping, theft and deception in 2005, freed on appeal in 2009, later jailed in France in 2025.
Robert John Bardo
Robert John Bardo (born 1970), Tucson man serving life without parole for the 1989 murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer; his DMV-enabled stalking spurred the 1994 Driver's Privacy Protection Act and anti-stalking laws.
Robert Latimer
Robert Latimer, Saskatchewan farmer convicted twice of second-degree murder for the 1993 carbon monoxide killing of his 12-year-old disabled daughter Tracy; Supreme Court of Canada 2001 upheld mandatory life sentence, necessity defence rejected.
Robert Lee Yates
Robert Lee Yates Jr. is an American serial killer who murdered victims in Washington from 1975 to 1998, pleading guilty to 13 murders in 2000.
Robert Leroy Anderson
Robert Leroy Anderson, the Duct Tape Killer (born 1970), was a South Dakota serial killer who kidnapped and murdered Larisa Dumansky (1994) and Piper Streyle (1996), was sentenced to death in 1999, and died by suicide in prison on March 30, 2003.
Robert Maudsley
Robert Maudsley (born 1953), nicknamed "Hannibal the Cannibal", is an English quadruple killer and Britain's longest-serving prisoner, held in continuous solitary confinement since 1978, mostly in a special glass cell, surpassing Albert Woodfox's 43-year record.
Robert Napper
Robert Napper (born 1966) is a British serial rapist and triple killer who murdered Rachel Nickell (1992) and Samantha and Jazmine Bissett (1993), was held at Broadmoor, and admitted Nickell's manslaughter by diminished responsibility in 2008 after a DNA match.
Robert Pickton
Robert William "Willie" Pickton, Canadian serial killer and Port Coquitlam pig farmer, convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder, charged with 26 murders, died May 31, 2024 after a prison assault at Port-Cartier Institution.
Robert Roberson case
Robert Roberson case: Texas death row inmate Robert Leslie Roberson III, convicted of capital murder in 2003 for his daughter Nikki's death based on shaken baby syndrome, whose execution has been stayed three times amid disputed science.
Robert Sandifer
Robert 'Yummy' Sandifer (1982-1994) was an 11-year-old Black Disciples gang member in Chicago's Roseland who killed 14-year-old Shavon Dean on August 28, 1994, and was executed by his own gang three days later.
Robert Stroud
Robert Stroud (1890–1963), the "Birdman of Alcatraz," was a federal prisoner and self-taught ornithologist who raised canaries and wrote Diseases of Canaries at Leavenworth; he kept no birds at Alcatraz, where he arrived December 19, 1942.
Robert William Fisher
Robert William Fisher (born 1961) is an American FBI fugitive wanted for allegedly murdering his wife Mary and children Brittney and Bobby in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 10, 2001, then blowing up the house. Added to Ten Most Wanted in 2002 (#475), removed in 2021, never found.
Roberto Escobar
Roberto Escobar Gaviria, El Osito, Colombian accountant of the Medellín Cartel and older brother of Pablo Escobar; surrendered 1991, blinded by a letter bomb in prison, wrote The Accountant's Story, founded Escobar Inc., and demanded $1 billion from Netflix over Narcos.
Roch Thériault
Roch Thériault (Moïse, 1947–2011) was a Canadian cult leader who founded the Ant Hill Kids in Quebec and Ontario, was convicted of assault and of the second-degree murder of Solange Boilard, and was killed by an inmate at Dorchester Penitentiary in 2011.
Rochdale child sex abuse ring
Nine men were convicted in the Rochdale child sexual exploitation case in 2012. Later prosecutions and an independent review exposed wider abuse and repeated failures by police and public agencies.
Rock Machine Motorcycle Club
The Rock Machine Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club founded in Montreal, best known for fighting the Hells Angels in the Quebec Biker War.
Rockford crime family
The Rockford crime family, also known as the Zammuto crime family or the Rockford Mafia, was a small Italian American Mafia family based in Rockford, Illinois, led by Sicilian-born bosses.
RocknRolla
RocknRolla is a 2008 British crime comedy film written and directed by Guy Ritchie, in which a crooked land deal by a Russian mobster draws every layer of London's criminal underworld into a scramble for millions.
Rod Ferrell
Rod Ferrell (Roderrick Justin Ferrell, born 1980, Murray, Kentucky) led the teenage "Vampire Clan" and murdered Richard and Naoma Wendorf in Eustis, Florida, in 1996 at age 16; death sentence commuted 2000 to life without parole.
Rodney Alcala
Rodney James Alcala, the "Dating Game Killer," was an American serial killer sentenced to death in California in 2010 for five 1977-1979 murders, given 25 years to life for two New York murders, and suspected in up to 130 deaths; he died on death row in 2021.