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FBI History

Famous Cases

John Dillinger. Al Capone. The KKK. John Gotti. Patty Hearst. The Unabomber. Bonnie and Clyde.

The FBI has investigated them all… and many more spies, terrorists, and criminals besides. Listed below, grouped according to our top investigative priorities and related categories, are many of our famous and most significant cases over the past century.

The monographs and write-ups below have been made available for your use. You may download them for any non-commercial use without obtaining permission from the FBI. For more case overviews, see our history story index.

Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone, Patty Hearst and John Dillinger

Terrorism

- 9/11 Investigation
- Anthrax/Amerithrax
- Beltway Snipers: Part 1| Part 2
- East African Embassy bombings 1998
- Eric Rudolph: Part 1 | Part 2
- Oklahoma City bombing
- Palmer Raids
- Pan Am 103 bombing
- Unabomber
- Wall Street bombing 1920
- Weather Underground bombings
- World Trade Center bombing 1993
- Fawaz Younis

Counterintelligence/Espionage

- Aldrich Ames
- Atom Spy Case/Rosenbergs
- Black Tom 1916 bombing
- Duquesne Spy Ring
- Espionage in the Defense Industry
- Hollow Nickel/Rudolph Abel
- Iva Toguri d’Aquino and “Tokyo Rose”
- Maksim Martynov
- Nazi Saboteurs and George Dasch
- ND-98: Case of the Long Island Double Agent
- Pearl Harbor Spy
- Robert Hanssen
- Thwarted Sabotage in Zambia
- Vasilli Zubilin
- Velvalee Dickinson, the “Doll Woman”
- Vonsiatsky Espionage
- Year of the Spy (1985)

Cyber Crime

- Operation Innocent Images

Public Corruption

- ABSCAM
- Operation Greylord
- Tennessee Waltz

Civil Rights

- Baptist Street Church bombing
- Edward Young Clarke and the KKK
- Emmett Till
- Mississippi Burning

Organized Crime/Gangsters

- Al Capone
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Joe Pistone, Undercover Agent
- John Dillinger
- John Gotti
- Kansas City Massacre/Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd
- Lester Gillis (“Baby Face” Nelson)
- “Machine Gun” Kelly
- Roger “The Terrible” Touhy
- The Brady Gang
- The Fur Dressers case

White Collar Crime

- Enron

Violent Crime/Major Thefts/Bank Robberies

- Brinks Robbery
- D.B. Cooper Hijacking
- John Elgin Johnson
- Jonestown
- Joseph Edward Earlywine
- Judge Vance murder
- Krupp Diamond Theft
- Nussbaum and Wilcoxson
- Patty Hearst
- Murder and Mayhem in the Osage Hills
- The Black Dahlia

Historical Ten Most Wanted

- Billie Austin Bryant
- Gerhard Arthur Puff
- Willie Sutton