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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.
John D. Bates
John D. Bates, born 1946, is an American jurist and senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001.
John D. Rainey
John D. Rainey, born 1945, is a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of Texas, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
John D. Russell
John D. Russell, also known as John David Russell, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma since 2024.
John Darwin disappearance case
The John Darwin disappearance case was a British fraud in which John Darwin faked his death canoeing in 2002, collected about £228,000, and was exposed in 2007.
John Dean
John Dean (born 1938) was White House Counsel to Richard Nixon, 1970-1973, and the star witness of the 1973 Senate Watergate hearings, later corroborated by Nixon's tapes; he pleaded guilty to obstruction and became an author.
John DiFronzo
John "No Nose" DiFronzo (c. 1929–2018), also called Johnny Bananas, was the reputed boss of the Chicago Outfit from the mid-1990s until his death, never charged despite Spilotro-murder testimony in the 2007 Family Secrets trial.
John Dillinger
John Dillinger (1903-1934), American Depression-era bank robber and head of the Dillinger gang; robbed 11 banks for over $300,000, escaped Crown Point jail with a wooden gun, and was shot by FBI agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934.
John du Pont
John Eleuthère du Pont (1938–2010), du Pont chemical-fortune heir, ornithologist and founder of the Delaware Museum of Natural History, sponsored wrestling at Foxcatcher Farm, killed Dave Schultz in 1996, and died in prison.
John Duffy and David Mulcahy
John Francis Duffy (born 1958) and David Mulcahy (born 1959), the Railway Rapists or Railway Killers, were childhood friends from north London who raped and murdered women near railway stations in southern England, 1982-1986; Duffy was convicted in 1988, Mulcahy only in 2001 after Duffy's prison confession and DNA evidence.
John E. Dowdell
John E. Dowdell, born John Edward Dowdell in 1955, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
John Eastman
John Charles Eastman, American conservative lawyer and former Chapman University law school dean, advised Trump's 2020 election challenge; disbarred by California in 2026 after State Bar Court found 10 of 11 disciplinary charges.
John Edward Robinson
John Edward Robinson Sr. (born 1943), the 'Slavemaster,' is an American serial killer who used online sadomasochistic chat rooms to lure women; convicted in Kansas in 2002 of three murders and sentenced to death, with Missouri life sentences for five more.
John F. Boyle Jr.
John F. Boyle Jr., also called Jack Boyle (1943-2026), was a Mansfield, Ohio osteopathic physician convicted in 1990 of murdering his wife Noreen and abusing her corpse; her body was buried under the basement of his Erie, Pennsylvania house.
John F. Davis (lawyer)
John F. Davis was an American lawyer who served as Clerk of the Supreme Court from 1961 to 1970 and argued the DuPont antitrust case.
John F. Heil III
John F. Heil III (born 1968) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma since 2020, appointed by President Donald Trump.
John F. Kness
John F. Kness, born 1969 in Chicago, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, nominated by President Trump and confirmed in 2020.
John F. Murphy (American judge)
John F. Murphy, also known as John Frank Murphy, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2022.
John Finnis
John Finnis, Australian legal philosopher and Hart student at Oxford and Notre Dame, author of Natural Law and Natural Rights (1980), founder of New Natural Law Theory built on basic goods and practical reasonableness.
John Formella
John Formella is an American attorney and Republican who has served as Attorney General of New Hampshire since 2021 and was President of the National Association of Attorneys General in 2025.
John Forrest Dillon
John Forrest Dillon (1831-1914), Iowa Supreme Court chief justice and Eighth Circuit federal judge, wrote the 1872 treatise on municipal corporations and originated Dillon's rule of strict construction of local government power.
John Fortescue (judge)
John Fortescue, an English jurist and Chief Justice of the King's Bench, wrote influential works like The Governance of England. He explored the difference between absolute and limited monarchy.
John G. E. Marck
John G. E. Marck, born 1982, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas, nominated by President Trump and confirmed in June 2026.
John G. Koeltl
John G. Koeltl, born in 1945 in New York, is a United States district judge of the Southern District of New York, appointed by President Clinton in 1994.
John G. Murtha
John G. Murtha, also known as John Garvan Murtha, is an inactive senior US district judge for Vermont, appointed by President Clinton in 1995 and chief judge until 2002.
John Gambino
John (Giovanni) Gambino, 1940-2017, Sicilian-born captain of the Gambino crime family's 'Cherry Hill Gambinos' faction, relative of Carlo Gambino, key Sicilian-American heroin trafficking link, arrested in Operation Iron Tower.
John Gotti
John Gotti, the Dapper Don and Teflon Don, boss of New York's Gambino crime family from 1985 after the Castellano murder, convicted on all 13 RICO counts in 1992, died in prison in 2002.
John H. Chun
John Hyungseung Chun, born 1970 in Portland, Oregon, is a US district judge for the Western District of Washington, confirmed in 2022 after serving on Washington state courts.
John Haigh
John George Haigh (1909–1949), the English "Acid Bath Murderer", dissolves six victims' bodies in sulphuric acid; convicted despite no body and hanged in 1949. Distinguished from the Sussex mathematician John Haigh.