We uncover a roster of individuals whose notoriety and actions have earned them a place on the list of the 10 most dangerous prisoners in the world.
Joaquin Guzman (El Chapo)
Joaquin Guzman, popularly known as El Chapo, was a former drug lord and the Sinaloa cartel leader since the 1970s. El Chapo was regarded as fierce and powerful with his influence and record of multiple capture and escapes. His first successful prison escape was in 2001, which led to his 13 years of a manhunt by the government, only to be captured and escape again in 2015. Upon his capture in 2016, El Chapo was extradited to the United States to seek out the rest of his prison sentence in a super-maximum prison in Colorado. El Chapo oversaw series of nefarious activities such as human trafficking, money laundering, assassination and collusion with corrupt government officials.
Dennis Radder
You might have heard about BTK Killer. Dennis Radder’s reign of terror lasted for 17 years period between 1974 to 1991, which he boasted of having killed ten people. Much like what the Son of David did, Radder sent letters and poems to the police, boasting of his killing haul. After several investigations into this person, things went cold in 1991. In 2004, Dennis Radder reappeared when he sent some packages to the media. Following this, the police intensified their investigation until he was arrested and sentenced to ten consecutive life sentences in 2005.
Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson is known for being a violent prisoner that subjected other inmates to torture and other violent acts in prison. His path to prison started in childhood when he joined a gang of petty robbers at 13. He has been in and out of jail since that time before being finally sentenced. Bronson has been transferred several times due to his violent nature of inflicting injury on other inmates.
David Berkowitz
David Berkowitz, also known as the Son of Sam, started his reign of terror in 1975 when he stabbed two unarmed women in New York. Due to his various dark art tricks, local authorities could not mount a criminal prosecution on David back then. Two years later, in 1977, it was found that Berkowitz had killed more than six people and wounded dozens of others. He sent a series of letters to the New York Police Department, where he regarded himself as the Son of David and was hellbent on wreaking havoc on the city. Despite his elusive tendency, he was later arrested in 1977 after he was sentenced to six consecutive life sentences.
James Barnum
Popularly called the eyeballs. Barnum is a serial burglar and murderer that became elusive to the police. He was finally arrested in 2012 at a hotel when he opened fire on two police officers. James was charged with attempted murder, burglary, and theft, among others and sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Robert Maudsley
The famous British serial killer, Rober Maudsley, was charged with one count of manslaughter and the counts of murder that he committed between 1974 to 1978, ni one believed this claim, but this was the only established case that could be mustered against Robert Maudsley. During the trial, it was found that all four of his victims were incarcerated; While in prison, Maudsley was said to be too tough to handle for other inmates that found him intimidating and a subtle threat, so it was decided that he could not reside with the general prison population and was transferred to a solitary prison cell, which has been his home since.
Charles Cullen
Charles Cullen was a medical professional that graduated from nursing college in 1986. He was a serial killer and was part of the cohort of those tagged angel of death or mercy. Cullen worked at the Pennsylvania State Hospital and some others in New Jersey, during which Cullen injected lethal injections into his patients throughout his years of practice, until his arrest in 2003. Charles Cullen confessed that he had caused irreversible health damage to more than a hundred patients and killed 29 other patients with his devilish behaviour. He was sentenced to a life sentence without parole.
Joanna Dennehy
Joanna was one of the most deadly and psychotic people ever known when she single-handedly stabbed three men to death in the Cambridge area and still went to other locations to stab two men walking their dog. She did this for no identified reasons other than she allegedly planned to commit nine murders in few days. Upon her arrest and detention, Joanna was said to have written an exit plan from the prison, which included a series of crazy activities such as cutting the fingers of one correctional officer to open the biometric doors and also causing mass riots in jail. This led to her eventual transfer from the prison to an unknown destination.
Surinder Koli
In what was a tumultuous period for the city of Noida in India between 2005 and 2006 when they faced the sequence of missing children that was overlooked by the police authorities. The widespread outcry led to an investigation into this series of missing children before the eventual arrest of Surinder Koli and topmost Noida Businessman Singh Pander, who were allegedly charged with the murder of a sex worker. But in a twist of the event, Surinder Koli confessed to being the perpetrator of all the missing children that have bedevilled the town where he claimed to have kidnapped and murdered 19 children, which at that time was one of the most ever perpetrated in the world by one person. He was sentenced to death, a sentence that’s still pending. No one would want to have someone like this as a cellmate.
James DeAngelo
Joseph James DeAngelo, popularly called the golden state killer, s the kingpin of various illicit crimes you can ever imagine ranging from burglary to homicide and others. He was regarded as the most notorious unidentified criminal during his reign between 1974 to 1985. Joseph James DeAngelo killed 13 people, committed more than 123 burglaries and assaulted over fifty women. DeAngelo went off the radar after all these heinous crimes in 1986 before a series of genetic genealogy and DNA analyses unravelled his last deeds leading to his eventual arrest in 2008 at 72. He was taken to prison after being found guilty of 13 counts of kidnapping and murder, to which he pled guilty.
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