Natural Born Outlaws

Charlie Richardson was the head of the notorious Richardson gang who built up a lucrative empire by extortion, fraud, and torture. Enter Gerald MacArthur, who began a painstaking investigation at a time when corruption was rife in the Metropolitan Police.

Bruce Reynolds was a career criminal who planned a daring train robbery in London in 1963. Reynolds organized a gang of 15 men to bring down a Royal Mail train carrying more than $2 million pounds in cash.

Twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray were English gangsters and the foremost perpetrators of organized crime in the East End of London during the 1950s and 60s.

John Dillinger was the most brazen of the infamous criminals of the Great Depression and probably the most brutal. In 1933, he rampaged through the state of Indiana, stealing thousands from banks and murdering a dozen people.

Notorious criminal Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was involved in more than 30 bank robberies and perhaps as many as 20 murders. A folkloric hero to some, he became "Public Enemy Number 1" after John Dillinger was shot.

Lester Gillis, better known as Baby Face Nelson, began his criminal career at an early age in a street gang in the Chicago slums. He was given his nickname by his fellow gang members because he looked so young.

The Barker-Karpis gang was one of the longest-lived criminal gangs during the Depression Era, spanning from 1931 to 1935. Founded by Fred Barker and Alvin “Creepy” Karpis, it was later joined by Fred's brother Arthur "Doc" Barker.

Al Capone is America's best-known gangster and perhaps the single greatest symbol of the collapse of law and order in the United States during the Prohibition era of the 1920s.

George Kelly Barnes, better known as "Machine Gun Kelly," was an Irish-American gangster during the Prohibition era. His nickname came from his favorite weapon, a Thompson submachine gun.

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are among the most famous outlaws in history. Murderers and holdup artists, the pair robbed numerous banks, gas stations and stores in rural areas and killed at least nine people during their spree.