List of Robberies, Heists and Capers Entries

List based in the entries covered in Michael Newton’s The Encyclopedia of Robberies, Heists, and Capers.

A

Edward J. Adams
Gordon Alcorn (see Verne Sankey)
Alvord-Stiles Gang
George “Dutch”Anderson
Nola Anderson and Frank Ryan
Richard Paul Anderson
Argentine Liberation Front
Art Theft
John Ashley
Earl Edwin Austin

B

Baader-Meinhof Gang (see Red Army Faction)
Harvey John Bailey
Basil “The Owl”Banghart
Bank Robbery
Barker Gang
Clyde Chestnut Barrow and Bonnie Parker
Richard H. “Rattlesnake Dick”Barter
Sam Bass
Albert Bates
Donald Beach and Lonnie Link
Tom Bell (see Thomas J. Hodges)
Bender Family
Edward Wilheim Bentz
Joe Bergl
Everett Leroy Biggs
George Birdwell
Miguel Blanco
Anne Bonney
Fred William Bowerman
George Martin Bradley, Jr.
Ford Bradshaw
Jim Brady and Sam Browning
Robert “Big Bob”Brady
Brady Gang
Anthony Brancato
Brinks Robbery: Boston, Mass. (1950)
Brinks Robbery: Syracuse, N.Y. (1965) (see Joel Singer)
Brinks Robbery: Nyack, N.Y. (1981) (see May 19th Communist Organization)
Joseph C. Brown and Charles B. Dunbar
Brown’s Hole: Western outlaw refuge
Harry Brunette
Fred “Killer”Burke
Rube Burrows
Bushrangers
Donald Richard Bussmeyer

C

John Callahan
Will Carlisle
Tommy Carroll
Butch Cassidy
Cave-In-Rock: Early American oulaw refuge
Gerald Chapman
John Paul Chase
Vivian Chase
Marshall Frank Chrisman
Kenneth Malcolm Christiansen
James “Oaklahoma Jack”Clark
Jim Clark
Russell “Boobie”Clark
Daniel “Dynamite Dick”Clifton
Carl Close
William Hutton Coble
Michael Collearn and Walker Hammonds
Terry Lee Conner and Joseph William Dougherty
Cookson Hills, Oklahoma: Historic outlaw santuary
D.B. Cooper
Samuel P. Cowley
Cretzer-Kyle Gang
Francis “Two Gun”Crowley
James “Killer”Cunniffe
Fleet Robert Current

D

Dalton Brothers
Francisco “Pancho”Daniel
Roy “Arkansas Tom”Daugherty
A.J. “Gentleman Jack”Davis
Ed Davis
Volney “Curley” Davis
DeAutremont Brothers
Meyer Dembin
Denver Mint Robbery
Edmund James Devlin
Lawrence De Vol
Thomas Everett Dickerson
Benny and Stella Dickson
John Herbert Dillinger
Fred J. Dodge
Harry Donaldson (see Henry Loftus)
William M. Doolin
Frederick Grant Dunn
Martin James Durkin

E

Aussie Elliott
Frank P. Ellis “Frank E. Smith”
Ollie Gene Embry
Chris Evans and John Sontag
Gilbert James Everett

F

Herbert Allen “Deafy” Farmer
Hillary and Levi Farrington
FBI
Claudio Feliz
Fiction and Film Portrayals of Robbery
Julius Finney (see Edward Adams)
Fleagle Gang
Juan Flores
Charles Authur “Pretty Boy” Floyd
David S. Fotheringham and Fred Wittrock
Ralph Fults

G

Anastasio Garcia
Roy Gardner
Russell “Slim Gray” Gibson
Jesse James Gilbert
Lester M. Gillis (see George “Baby Face”Nelson)
Andrew Evan Gipson
Fred “Shotgun”George Ziegler Goetz
Tanoa Goodpaster
Eddie Green
Bill Gristy

H

Francis Augustus Hamer
Floyd Garland Hamilton
John “Red”Hamilton
Raymond Hamilton
Thomas George Harrelson
George Authur Heroux and Gerhard Authur Puff
Highwaymen and Hijacking
Thomas J. Hodges
Holden-Keating Gang
Hole-in-the-Wall
Richard Dean Holtan
John Edgar Hoover
Millard Oscar Hubbard
Hunt-Gant Gang
Patrick James Huston

I

Elmer H. Inman
Irish Republican Army

J

David Stanley Jacubanis
Alexander Franklin James and Jesse Woodson James
Jerry Ray James
Eleanor “The Blonde Tigress”Jarman
James Francis Jenkins
Jewel Theft
Charles E. Johnson
Morris Lynn Johnson
Phillip Morris Jones
William Daniel Jones
Anthony Michael Juliano

K

Kansas City Massacre
Alvin “Old Creepy” Karpis
Edward “Ned”Kelly
George “Machine Gun”Kelly
John Allen Kendrick
Emmett Bernard Kervan
Kimes-Terrill Gang
Thomas Kling
Thomas Otis Knight

L

Jean LaBanta
Hermann K. “Baron”Lamm
Matthew Leach
Hyman S. Lehman
Clarence Lieder
Pio Linares
Robert Allen Litchfield
Wilhelm Loeser
Henry Loftus and Harry Donaldson
Harry “Sundance Kid”Longabaugh
Lufthansa Airport Robbery

M

Kwan Fia Mak (see Wah Mee Club Massacre)
Charles Makley
Emil Dechebal Matasareanu and Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr.
Robert Jay Mathews (see The Order)
William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt
May 19th Communist Organization
Lohman Ray Mays, Jr.
McCarty Gang
Ben Golden McCollum
Henry Methvin
Vernon C. Miller
William “Billy the Killer”Miller
Henry Randolph Mitchell
Ramon Molina
Montoneros
Nick George Montos
Joseph P. Moran
Daniel South “Mad Dan”Morgan; “Mad Dog”
Palmer Julius Morset
Mother of Outlaws: State of Missouri
Edna “Rabbits”Murray; “The Kissing Bandit”
Joaquin Murrieta

N

Frank “Jelly” Nash
Nazi Looting of Europe
George “Baby Face”Nelson
William Raymond Nesbit
Eugene Francis Newman
Adolf “Big Dolf”Newton
Benjamin Ng (see Wah Mee Club Massacre)
Wai-Chu Ng (see Wah Mee Club Massacre)
Randall Nuss (see James Jenkins)
Albert Nussbaum (see Bobby Randell Wilcoxson)

O

The Order
Organized Crime: Robberies
Ted Jeffrey Otsuki

P

Harry “Pete”Pierpont
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Pirates and Piracy
Norbert Hans Poehlke
Duane Earl Pope
Harry Raymond Pope
Katherine Ann Power and Susan Edith Saxe
Melvin Horace Purvis, Jr.

Q

William Clarke Quantrill; “Charley Hart”

R

Donald Dean Rainey
Charles Edward Ranels
Mary Read
Red Army Faction
Edward Reiley
Reno Gang
Adam “Eddie”Richetti
Wilbert Rideau
Ted Jacob Rinehart
Robbers’ Roost
Jesse James Roberts
Robin Hood
Jerry Clarence Rush

S

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
St. Paul, Minnesota: Midwestern gangster refuge
Verne Sankey
James Franklin Sawyer
Jack Daniel Sayadoff
Daniel Schwarzberg
Richard Joseph Scutari
Willie Foster Sellers
John Wesley Shannon, Jr.
Henry Harland Shelton
John William Sherman
Joel Singer
Skinner Brothers
Edward Smith
Social Bandits
William Francis Sutton
Symbionese Liberation Army

T

Henry J. “Cherokee Bob”Talbot
Ray Delano Tate
Terrorist Robberies
Joseph Loyd Thomas
Henry Clay Tollett
Train Robbery
Andrew Evan Gipson
Tupamaros

U

Wilbur “Mad Dog”Underhill, Jr.; “Tri-State Terror”

V

Robert Van Lewing
Homer “Wayne”Van Meter
Vikings: Early North Atlantic Pirates

W

Wah Mee Club Massacre
Levi Washington
Jim Webster
Danny Michael Weeks
George Edward Wells
Wells Fargo
Bobby Randell Wilcoxson and Albert Frederick Nussbaum
Alfred James White
Billy Ray White
Whittemore Gang
The Wild Bunch
Donald Keith Williams
George Benjamin Williams
Woman Bandits

Y

Jerry Lynn Young
Younger Brothers

See Also

List of International Organized Crime Entries
List of Criminal Law Online Journals
International criminal law: Organized Crime and Narcotics
International Criminal Law
List of Criminal Biographies (Gangs) Entries
List of International Organized Crime Entries
List of Legal Encyclopedias
List of international public law topics

Further Reading

Encyclopedia of Gangs, by Louis Kontos and David Brotherton
Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters, by Bill O’Neal
The Encyclopedia of International Organized Crime, by Carlo Devito
The Encyclopedia of Robberies, Heists, and Capers, by Michael Newton