Law and Crime Facts

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    A Missouri family sued the previous owners of a house that they had just bought after Brown Recluse Spiders "started bleeding out of the walls." An expert came in and estimated that the house was infested with 4,000 – 5,000 of the spiders.
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    Native Americans do not have to pay tax on their land.
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    A man gets robbed in London every 4.5 minutes! (and he is getting fed up of it)
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    Richard Klinkhamer
    Richard Klinkhamer
    A year after his wife's disappearance, a Dutch crime writer named Richard Klinkhamer wrote a suspicious book about seven ways to kill your spouse. He became famous and spent the next decade hinting in print and on TV that he had murdered her. Finally, it turned out that he really had.
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    Only 1 out of 700 identity thieves gets caught!
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    In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
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    Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
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    The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war.
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