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• [Crime fact 1] Dennis Rader, a Kansas serial killer, a.k.a. the BTK Killer, installed alarms as a part of his job, and many of his clients had booked the company to stop BTK from ever entering their homes, unaware that BTK himself was installing them. He was finally caught after sending a 1.44MB diskette to the police - which they told him was untraceable - containing metadata from a deleted MS Word file.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 2] Cayetano Santos Godino a.k.a “El Petiso Orejudo” (The Big-Eared Midget), was an Argentinian serial killer who terrorized Buenos Aires at the age of 16. In the early 20th century, he was responsible for the murder of four children, the attempted murder of another seven children, and seven counts of arson. At the age of 7, he was caught by police for beating small children, but he was released and sent home due to his age. However, at age 10, his parents reported him to the police for masturbation, and he was jailed for 2 months for masturbating.

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• [Crime fact 3] A man named Cody Slaughter was so honest during his job interview with the Border Patrol in 2012 that he admitted to molesting a toddler and having sex with various types of animals, offenses which the police were previously unaware of.

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• [Crime fact 4] A one-legged clown was convicted of murdering an heiress in Chicago in 1912 and was sentenced to life in prison, but he escaped and was never found.

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• [Crime fact 5] The last man (James W. Rodgers ) to be executed by firing squad in the USA asked for a bulletproof vest as his last wish.

  Crime, Peoplesource

• [Crime fact 6] A man named Timothy Evans was wrongfully convicted and hanged for murdering his wife and infant. Evans asserted that his downstairs neighbor, John Christie, was the real culprit. Three years later, Christie was discovered to be a serial killer, having killed at least 8 people and he later admitted to killing his neighbor’s family.

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• [Crime fact 7] In 1978, Home Improvement star Tim Allen was caught trying to smuggle a pound of cocaine through a Michigan Airport. He pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges and face life imprisonment, but served only two years for providing the names of other dealers. In 1997, he was also arrested for DUI and was sentenced to one-year probation.

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• [Crime fact 8] Dan White, the killer of Harvey Milk and the mayor of San Francisco, was charged with Voluntary Manslaughter rather than murder. The Defense had argued that White's mental state was impaired by depression, as proven by him recently eating sugary foods. This became known as the "Twinkie Defense."

  Crime, Politicssource

• [Crime fact 9] In December 1969, a Korean Airlines plane was hijacked by a North Korean agent soon after taking off from Gangneung. The pilot was forced to fly to and land in North Korea. The crew, aircraft, and seven of the passengers have still not returned.

  Crime, Transportsource

• [Crime fact 10] Will Purvis, who was convicted of murder in 1894 and had always maintained his innocence, told the jury he would "live longer than the lot of them." He survived a hanging, was re-incarcerated, and eventually pardoned and released. He died in 1938, three days after the last juror had died.

  Crime, People, Prisonsource

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