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Crime and Punishment in the 20th Century

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Introduction:
"Famous crimes of the last 100 years. I have avoided asking any O.J. Simpson questions. :)"


1. Who was executed for the kidnap and murder of the Lindbergh baby?
    Isidor Fisch
    Bruno Richard Hauptmann
    Alvin Karpis
    No one. The killer was never found.


2. Charles Manson was sentenced to death for his crimes. Why was this sentence not carried out?
    It was carried out. He was executed in 1977.
    The California Supreme Court abolished the death penalty in 1972.
    He was murdered in prison before he could be executed.
    A prison psychiatrist declared him insane in 1972, making him ineligible for execution.


3. What was the name of the teenage girl who accompanied (or, according to the girl, was forced to accompany) Charlie Starkweather on his 1958 killing spree?
    Betty Jean Bartlett
    Lillian Fencl
    Clara Ward
    Caril Ann Fugate


4. Why were Virgilio R. Gonzales, Eugenio R. Martinez and three other men arrested in the summer of 1972?
    For a foiled attempt to assassinate Daniel M. Braddock, American emmisary to Cuba
    For their involvement in the Lufthansa heist depicted in "Goodfellas"
    For burglarizing the Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, DC
    For killing innocent Vietnamese civilians at My Lai


5. According to the true crime classic "Blood and Money", Dr. John Hill of Houston, TX was murdered as revenge for his suspected murder of someone else. Whom did he supposedly murder?
    Richard "Racehorse" Haynes, a Texas lawyer who was allegedly having an affair with Hill's wife
    Ash Robinson, his father in law
    Joan Robinson Hill, his first wife
    Ann Kurth, his second wife


6. What two men were convicted and executed for the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, KS in 1959?
    Richard Hickock and Perry Smith
    Perry Smith and Charles Whitman
    Alvin Dewey and Richard Hickock
    Alvin Dewey and Charles Whitman


7. Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her apartment, where she lived with her boyfriend, in February of 1974. What was her boyfriend's name?
    Steven Root
    Steven Weed
    Steven Waters
    Steven Rose


8. The play and film "The Laramie Project" tell the story of the brutal beating of a young homosexual man. His attackers tied him to a fence and beat him unmercifully. The young man died several days later in the hospital and his attackers are now serving life sentences. What was this young victim's name?
    Mitchell Shriver
    Martin Shafer
    Matthew Shepard
    Michael Sharp


9. On March 30, 1908, Chester Gillette was electrocuted for the 1906 murder of his pregnant girlfriend, Grace Brown. Author Theodore Dreiser researched the case extensively to write a novel about the case. What was the title of this literary classic?
    Loon Lake
    A Place in the Sun
    An American Tragedy
    Sister Grace


10. December 8, 1980. John Lennon is shot dead outside the Dakota apartment building in New York City. Who's the scum of the earth who shot him?
    John Thomas Sweeney
    Philip Barton Key
    Mark David Chapman
    Robert John Bardo


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