Collection of Strange-but-True Crime Tales

Featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects...

The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers’ Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we’ve ever done, plus a rogues’ gallery of new offenders. You’ll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and crooked Wall Street types. Find out about...

• New York City’s “Mad Bomber”
• The Biddle Brothers and the Queen of the Jail
• Law and Order: Special Pants Unit
• Dopes who hide their dope in the strangest places
• America’s first private eye
• NASCAR’s bootlegging beginnings
• The real pirates of the Caribbean
• Why CSI makes the cops’ job even harder
• Billy the Kid and other outlaws who died with their boots on
• George Luger, Samuel Colt, and other fathers of guns
• The greatest train robberies
• Arrested for farting
• And much more!