Life The Most Notorious Crimes In American History

We travel deep down under and revisit the case of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly. We roam the alleyways of Victorian London in search of Jack the Ripper. We recount the awful and centuries long career of the Indian bandits who gave the world the term 'thugs'. We look at small crimes and the very largest: The murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by the Serbian organisation the Black Hand which lead to a chain of events that triggered World War I, causing the deaths of millions. We chart the rise of the Sicilian Mafia, which heavily influenced crime in America during the 20th century. Crime is not fun, but on the pages and in the hands of LIFE, it is fascinating.