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Albert B. Fall
Albert B. Fall (1861–1944) was a New Mexico politician who became the first US cabinet member imprisoned for a felony, convicted of bribery in the Teapot Dome scandal.
Albert DeSalvo
Albert Henry DeSalvo (1931–1973), American rapist who confessed to being the Boston Strangler, killer of 13 women (1962–1964); convicted only of Green Man rapes, recanted, and confirmed by 2013 DNA for Mary Sullivan's murder.
Albert Diaz (judge)
Albert Diaz (born 1960) is an American jurist serving as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit since 2010, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Albert Fish
Albert Fish (Hamilton Howard Fish, 1870–1936), American serial killer, cannibal, and child murderer active in New York 1924–1928; convicted of Grace Budd's murder via a traced 1934 letter; executed at Sing Sing.
Albert Johnson (criminal)
Albert Johnson (criminal) was the unidentified fugitive called the "Mad Trapper of Rat River", killed by the RCMP in February 1932 after a 48-day Arctic manhunt. Distinct from fraudster Albert Johnson Walker and DNA-exonerated Albert Johnson of California; "Albert Johnson" is believed to be an alias.
Albert Johnson Walker
Albert Johnson Walker (born 1946) is a Canadian fraudster and murderer, also known by aliases David Davis and Ronald Platt, who embezzled about CA$3.2 million, fled to England, murdered identity-theft victim Ronald Platt in 1996, and was convicted at Exeter in 1998.
Albert Levitt
Albert Levitt (1887–1968), American lawyer, law professor, and judge of the U.S. District Court of the Virgin Islands; ruled women could vote there in 1936 and brought Ex parte Levitt, the 1937 standing case against Justice Hugo Black's appointment.
Albert Pierrepoint
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was an English hangman who served as Britain's Chief Executioner from 1941 to 1956, executing 435 people, the most of any Briton.
Albert Wass
Albert Wass (Wass Albert, 1908–1998), Transylvanian Hungarian forestry engineer and writer, author of Farkasverem and A funtineli boszorkány; sentenced to death in absentia by Romania's Cluj People's Tribunal in 1946; emigre in the USA from 1952; a politically contested figure.
Alberto Gonzales
Alberto Gonzales (born 1955), American lawyer, 80th U.S. Attorney General (2005–2007) and first Hispanic in that office; earlier White House Counsel and Texas Supreme Court justice; resigned over the 2006 U.S. Attorneys removals; later dean of Belmont University College of Law.
Albie Sachs
Albie Sachs, born Albert Louis Sachs in 1935, is a South African anti-apartheid activist and Constitutional Court judge from 1994 to 2009 who survived a 1988 bombing in Maputo.
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (USP Alcatraz, "The Rock") was a maximum-security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay, open 1934-1963, holding about 1,500 inmates including Al Capone, famous for the 1962 Morris-Anglin escape, now a National Park Service landmark.
Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz Island, Spanish "de los alcatraces," is a 22-acre San Francisco Bay island that was a Pacific Coast fortress and Army prison, the federal penitentiary from 1934 to 1963, site of the 1969–1971 Indian occupation, and since 1973 a National Park Service landmark.
Alcee Hastings
Alcee Hastings (1936-2021), Florida civil rights lawyer, first Black federal judge in Florida, impeached as a federal judge in 1989, then served 15 terms as Democratic U.S. congressman until his death.
Alcohol in Saudi Arabia
Alcohol in Saudi Arabia: total prohibition since the early 1950s under Sharia-based law, per capita consumption of 0.2 litres, and a single Riyadh store opened in 2024 for non-Muslim diplomats, later Premium Residency holders.
Alday family murders
Alday family murders: May 14, 1973 killings of six members of a Seminole County, Georgia farming family by escaped Maryland prisoners led by Carl Isaacs, whose conviction, 1985 venue-based reversal, 1988 retrial, and 2003 execution made the case a landmark in pretrial publicity and victims' rights.
Alejandro Álvarez
Alejandro Álvarez (1868–1960) was a Chilean jurist who argued for a distinct American international law and sat on the International Court of Justice from 1946 to 1955.
Alejandro Castillo (criminal)
Alejandro Rosales Castillo (born 1998, Arizona), also Alex Castillo, is an American fugitive charged in the 2016 murder of co-worker Sandy Ly Le in Charlotte, North Carolina; FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive #516 (2017), captured in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico on January 16, 2026.
Alejandro Sosa
Alejandro Sosa, also known as Alex Sosa, is the fictional Bolivian cocaine kingpin in the 1983 film Scarface, portrayed by Paul Shenar and inspired by Roberto Suárez Gómez.
Alert: Missing Persons Unit
Alert: Missing Persons Unit is an American Fox procedural crime drama (2023-2025) created by John Eisendrath and Jamie Foxx, starring Scott Caan and Dania Ramirez as divorced Philadelphia MPU detectives searching for the missing while hunting the truth about their own vanished son Keith.
Aleta A. Trauger
Aleta A. Trauger, born Aleta Arthur Trauger in 1945, is a United States district judge for the Middle District of Tennessee, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Alex Chalk
Alex Chalk KC is a British barrister, Conservative MP for Cheltenham 2015-2024, Solicitor General 2021-2022, and Lord Chancellor 2023-2024; lost Cheltenham in 2024, later Jones Day partner.
Alex Kozinski
Alex Kozinski (born 1950), Romanian-born American judge; Ninth Circuit judge 1985–2017 under Reagan, chief judge 2007–2014; known for Mattel v. MCA (Barbie Girl), "Criminal Law 2.0", and his December 2017 resignation over sexual misconduct allegations by 15 women.
Alexander Acosta
R. Alexander Acosta, American lawyer, 27th U.S. Secretary of Labor (2017-2019) under Trump and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; known for the 2007 Jeffrey Epstein non-prosecution agreement, found poor judgment by DOJ OPR.
Alexander brothers (sex offenders)
Alexander brothers: Alon, Oren, and Tal Alexander, luxury real estate brokers convicted March 2026 in Manhattan federal court of sex trafficking for drugging and raping dozens of women; prosecutors seek life sentences.
Alexander C. V. Hook
Alexander Coker Van Hook (born 1970) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Louisiana since 2026, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Alexander family murders
Alexander family murders: August 31, 1984 execution-style shootings of four relatives of Kermit Alexander in South-Central Los Angeles, a mistaken-identity gang attack; Horace Burns convicted in 1985, codefendants Cox and Williams also charged.
Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee
Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee (1747–1813), Scottish advocate, Edinburgh professor of universal history, and Court of Session judge; author of Elements of General History and Essay on the Principles of Translation; father of historian Patrick Fraser Tytler.
Alexander Pearce
Alexander Pearce (c. 1790–1824), Irish convict transported for stealing six pairs of shoes, twice escaped Macquarie Harbour penal settlement in Van Diemen's Land; sole survivor of the 1822 escape party and executed in 1824 for murdering fellow escapee Thomas Cox after confessed cannibalism.
Alexander Pichushkin (Александр Юрьевич Пичушкин)
Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin, the Chessboard Killer or Bitsevsky Maniac, is a Russian serial killer convicted in 2007 of 48 murders and three attempted murders near Moscow's Bitsevsky Park, sentenced to life imprisonment.