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    Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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    Bank robber John Dillinger played professional baseball.
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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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    Eighty percent of Americans will be the victim of violent crime at least once in their lifetime.
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    It takes five minutes to execute someone in a gas chamber.
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    Man Robbed a Bank to Receive Prison Healthcare
    In 2013, a homeless man from Oregon robbed a bank for $1, then casually sat down and waited for police to arrest him so he could receive healthcare in prison.
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    About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!
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    Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.
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