The real world is full of villains who can easily compete with any Hollywood villain. Some of them are thieves, others are gangsters, and others are murderers, but they are all incredibly crazy supervillains.
10. Napoleon of the underworld
Life was quite normal for Adam Worth until he joined the Union army and was killed in the Battle of Bull Run. But this is only according to the documents. In fact, Worth was just injured, but he used the mistake as an opportunity to start life over as a criminal. His first scheme was to join random squads, collect money, and then disappear.
When the war ended, Worth went to New York, where he organized a band of pickpockets. After being caught and served time in Sing Sing Prison, Worth was promoted to the Major Leagues. In 1869, he and his gang rented a store near Boston National Bank Boylston. Under the guise of selling Gray's Oriental Tonic, Worth was actually digging a tunnel from the store's basement into the bank's vault. In November of that year, the gang broke through the wall and took away all the cash they could.
Simultaneously with detective William Pinkerton, Worth moved to London, where he disguised himself as an English gentleman, bought a yacht and several racehorses, and became a central figure in a criminal organization that spread throughout the world. Worth planned robberies from the safety of his apartment and dispatched subordinates to follow his orders.
Worth also made a big splash in 1876 by stealing the Georgiana Cavendish Devonshire portrait of Thomas Gainsborough from a London gallery. Worth kept the painting at the muzzle of his gun, but was so obsessed with Georgiana that he sometimes put the portrait under the mattress to sleep on it at night. But the fine thief was eventually arrested for robbery, and after five years behind bars, he became a sick and unnecessary member of the criminal community.
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It seemed that he was doomed to a life of poverty until he was supported by the famous detective William Pinkerton. He helped Worth sell Georgina's portrait to the very gallery from which he had stolen it earlier.
9. The person who created "Killdozer"
Marvin Himeyer started out as a victim. A Colorado man owned a repair shop and everything went fine until Mountain Park Concrete, Inc. did not try to buy out his business. When Hemeyer refused to sell his business, the larger company played a dirty game. They planned to block the road to his store and asked the city council to rezone Marvin's property. Not only did the city agree, the authorities also fined Chimeyer and vetoed his plan to create an alternate route to his store.
Hemeyer sold his property and started building a tank.
He reinforced the bulldozer's cab with 30 tons of concrete and 1-inch steel plates. He equipped his Killdozer with cameras and monitors, weapons and ammunition. He recorded an ominous rant, warning that "Sometimes prudent people should do unreasonable things."
In 2004, Hemeyer drew up a to-do list, climbed into his Killdozer and smashed through the wall of his own store. He moved along Mountain Park, sweeping away everything in his path. But then he turned into the city.
The cops tried their best to stop Marvin's car. They repeatedly shot at him, tried to detonate and even challenged Chimeier with industrial equipment. It was all useless. People fled to escape, and a crazy mechanic ran over a patrol car, demolished the mayor's house and even damaged the city hall.
Ultimately, the lucky bullet hit the Killdozer's radiator. Hemeyer desperately tried to get to the local hardware store, but fell through the floor into the basement. Killdozer could not continue, and when Hemeyer looked at the monitors, he saw SWAT agents approaching him from all directions. Before the authorities detained Marvin, he put a bullet in his forehead.
The Killdozer attack lasted over two hours and caused $ 7 million in losses. Nobody died, but not because of a lack of attempts. If the bullet hadn't hit the radiator, the damage the Killdozer did would have been much greater.
For American officials, he is a villain, but for ordinary people he is the prototype of a common man driven to despair by the bureaucratic system and the dirty game of the US megacorporations.
8. Undercover criminal leader of Canada
Gerald Blanchard was visiting Schönbrunn Palace in Austria in 1997 when he saw the Koechert Diamond Pearl, a $ 2 million 19th century jewel. When no one was seeing, he used a wrench to loosen the screws on the windows so that they could be easily opened when the opportunity presented itself.
The next night, Blanchard went to the castle grounds, or rather, parachuted down onto its roof. He climbed through the open window, crawled past the motion sensors, replaced the jewelry with a replica from the gift shop, and then down the rope to the ground. The next morning, he returned to the crime scene and grinned as guests gazed at the jewels on display.
Blanchard also successfully robbed banks, but his last job was commissioned by a mysterious man named "The Boss". This mysterious figure hired Blanchard to travel to Egypt with fake credit cards, where Blanchard stole $ 2 million. Then the police grabbed him.
During one of the bank robberies, the criminal lit his car. After tracking down his vehicle, Winnipeg detectives tapped his phone and learned all about his conspiracies. But after being arrested in Egypt in 2007, a Canadian criminal asked police to help improve the security of their banks. For his collaboration, Blanchard received only eight years in prison. In 2010 he became a free man and started working as a security consultant.
As for the Koechert Diamond Pearl, the jewelry was found hidden in his grandmother's basement.
7. The crook who ran his own torture prison
Jonathan Idema loved to write stories, especially loved stories about himself. He claimed to have saved Bill Clinton from assassination, uncovered a conspiracy to steal a nuclear suitcase from Lithuania and that he was the prototype of George Clooney's hero in Peacemaker. But his life is no less interesting.
As a boy, Jonathan dreamed of joining the SWAT ranks after he saw John Wayne in The Green Berets. After being fired in 1984, the fanatical warrior worked with security forces in Haiti and Thailand before returning home to open a hotel for dogs. When the Twin Towers collapsed, Idema decided that his personal mission of a lifetime was to hunt down terrorists and that he saw Osama bin Laden as his main goal.
He came to Afghanistan and opened a shop at Kabul's Mustafa Hotel, capturing the hearts of journalists with outlandish tales of working for the American government. He was interviewed by NPR and FOX and even sold videos from alleged CBS terrorist training camps.
Idema didn't actually work for the government. He was a fraudster who served this time. But in Afghanistan he was king with his own private army. Rogue team Task Force Saber 7 kidnapped anyone Idem suspected of terrorism. The unfortunate victims were thrown into the private prison of Idema, where they were isolated, beaten, hung upside down and drowned.
High-ranking officials secretly approved of Idema's work and turned a blind eye to his actions. Other officials believed he was a government agent and helped him to deceive NATO during his abductions. However, he went too far when he arrested a member of the Afghan Supreme Court. Realizing the potential deterioration of the image and possible problems, the officials finally decided to handcuff the fraudster.
Idemu was thrown into an Afghan prison, in a cell for VIPs, the walls of which were hung with expensive carpets, which also had satellite TV. Three years later, Afghan President Hamid Karzai forgave him.
6. Fake CIA agent who robbed a bank
Henson Torres, 21, was minding his own business when he received a text from an old friend Carolina Villegas. Villegas promised that she could give him a job with an instant income of $ 25,000. All he had to do was rob several banks.
Torres thought it was a joke until Villegas introduced him to the mysterious Theo. Over the phone, Theo explained that it was the CIA Operation Downstrike, a special mission to check the security of a local bank. If Torres manages to carry out the robbery, then he will make good money. If he gets arrested, the feds will release him.
Believing, Torres and Villegas went to work. Theo said that Torres must demand a ransom from the manager in order to save his kidnapped family. But things didn't go according to plan and no one forked out for cash.
Nevertheless, Torres was recruited. The day after another promise from Theo, Torres was back in business. He even convinced his relatives to join the scheme by showing them an official-looking document from Theo, which was supposedly a cooperation agreement.
After several unsuccessful robberies, the police arrested Torres. They thought his story was fiction until they got a message from Theo. "You cannot make people disappear, only we can." Using fiery speeches, Theo convinced the police that he was a CIA officer and Torres was recruited for the operation. He even hired lawyers to defend Torres on behalf of the government.
However, Theo never paid an attorney or met with the police. The suspected police officers tracked him to Matoaka, Virginia, where they found the mentally unstable 26-year-old Joshua Brady. Brady lived with his mom, read books about the CIA and played the roles of imaginary people.
Under threat of a serious jail sentence, Brady confessed to deception and struck a deal with prosecutors. Today this so-called spy still lives at home and must remain there for three years under the supervision of his mother.
5. The lighthouse keeper who made himself king
Clipperton Island in the Pacific Ocean was a coveted property for many in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. England, France, Mexico and America all wanted to own it because of the large reserves of guano, as a result Italy was allowed to dispose of this place. The Italians did not particularly strive for the island and Mexico carefully guarded it.
In the early 1910s, settlers led by Ramon Arno guarded the atoll. The islanders were dependent on supplies from the mainland, and when the government was puzzled by the suppression of the revolution and forgot about the inhabitants of the island, the supply of food stopped. The settlers began to suffer from scurvy, and soon only Arno, a few soldiers, about 12 women and children remained. The lighthouse keeper, Victoriano Alvarez, also survived, but only cared for himself.
Arno and the remaining soldiers soon drowned in a rowboat, and after a while a hurricane destroyed almost all buildings on the island. Just at a time when it seemed that it simply could not be worse, Alvarez climbed out of his lighthouse, grabbed all the weapons and threw them into the water, except for one rifle, which he kept with him. He has declared himself king of the island, and women and children must do as he says.
For two years, King Clipperton regularly beat and raped women. One of his victims was only 13 years old. If someone resisted, he loaded his rifle and killed.
His psychopathic dictatorship lasted until July 1917, when Tyrza Randon, armed with hammer and knife, attacked the lighthouse king and did not calm down until he stopped showing signs of life. The American ship arrived the next day. The sailors took the survivors to the mainland and issued an official announcement of the destruction of the lighthouse dictator, so the woman was not in danger of being prosecuted.
4. Tyrant Mayor of Davao City
Rodrigo Duterte rides a motorcycle to work, carries a pistol and drinks like a sailor. He is also the mayor of Davao City, one of the largest cities in the Philippines, although he acts more like a cowboy from the Wild West, posing for journalists with a gun in his hand. This guy put a tough order in the city. He is also called "Dirty Harry" or "Punisher" because Duterte is the mayor, judge, jury and executioner at the same time.
When Duterte was first elected as mayor in the 1980s, Davao City was not so peaceful. This Philippine island city was home to smugglers, pirates and jihadists. Deciding to clear the streets of criminals and terrorists, Duterte did such a good job that people kept choosing him.
Duterte doesn't like investigation. As he puts it: “I want to create terror and fear. If you are carrying out illegal activities in my city … you are a legitimate target for murder. Working with a group of vigilantes known as the Davao Death Battalion, Durethre made nearly 900 people disappear.
The police tell the criminals they'll end up on Dutert's list if they don't get out of town. If the perpetrator does not obey, two men on a motorcycle overtake him and stab him with knives to butcher the carcasses.
Death squads attack assassins and kidnappers. Duterte wants his team to clean up all the rubbish of "society", including juvenile hooligans and children living on the streets. Under Dirty Harry's iron rule, vigilantes killed 12-year-olds. Meanwhile, high-ranking politicians praise his tactics, business is developing, and tourism has reached incredible heights.
3. The man who created the vampire
When a conspiracy theorist has nightmares, they’re dreaming of Edward Lansdale. This U. S. Air Force officer has starred in countless conspiracies, some imaginary, some real. In the 1950s, he rigged elections in southern Vietnam and proposed overthrowing the French government in order to preserve America's interests in Southeast Asia. Later, he was in charge of Operation Mongoose, a covert mission to assassinate Fidel Castro using wacky devices such as poisonous pens and exploding seashells.
When it came to killing enemies and instilling fear in people, Lansdale was creative. Perhaps the best example of his brutal creativity took place in the Philippines in the 1950s. When communist rebels rose up against the Philippine government, Lansdale was ordered to take control of the situation. An expert on psychological warfare, Lansdale played on the superstitious beliefs of the rebels, namely their fear of the Aswong.
Aswong is a vampire witch who feeds on human embryos and drinks blood.
Lansdale spread stories that one of these bloodsuckers was roaming around the main rebel camp. Lansdale and his team sneaked into the jungle one night and waited for a band of rebels patrolling the camp. In the darkness, Lasdale's men grabbed the last guy in the line, made two tiny holes in his neck, and drained all the blood from his body.
Having done their job, they placed the corpse so that the patrol would surely stumble upon it. The next day, the frightened rebels left their mountain hideout.
2. The most violent drug lord in Mexico
Miguel Angel Trevinho Morales spent his teenage years with the Texas gang before joining Los Zetas, a gang made up of Mexican special forces deserters. Thanks to hard work, the habit of shooting straight away, never asking questions, Trevinho Morales quickly became the number one man in Los Zetas. The gang smuggled cocaine, invested millions in horse breeding, and controlled 11 of Mexico's 31 states.
They also killed a huge number of people. According to rumors, Trevino Morales could not sleep at night unless he killed someone during the day. In addition to routine beatings, killings, and beheadings, the man known as Z-40 enjoyed tying victims to barrels, dousing them with gasoline, and setting them on fire. He called this method "guiso", which is the traditional way of stewing meat.
Trevino Morales also loved to beat people with wooden planks, rip out hearts, and carve the letter Z on their bellies. But this madman also loved other fun. He ran an assassin training camp where he forced recruits to kill victims with a sledgehammer or machete. He also hired 12 and 13 year olds to do his dirty work for him.
But the most horrific crime was a game he invented, which he called "Who Will Be the Next Hitman?" In 2011, Setas was stopped by buses full of immigrants bound for the United States. They gave weapons to passengers and forced them to fight to the death. After the bloodshed, there was only one person who was offered to join the gang.
This killing spree ended in 2013 when he left his hideout and was captured by the military. The man, whose head was worth $ 7.3 million, allegedly killed 2,000 people, surrendered without firing a shot.
1. Doctor death from South Africa
If people call you "Doctor Death," you are definitely an evil person. Water Basson (Wouter Basson) was one of the worst people in the world. This South African scientist ran the Chemical and Biological Warfare (CBW) program and spent nearly his entire life devising creative ways to inflict death on black people.
Basson came to power in the 1980s, the hottest period in South African history. Peter Willem Botha was president, and during the reign of Big Crocodile, thousands of people became unwitting prisoners, terrorist attacks also took place everywhere, and despite protests, Nelson Mandela remained behind bars. Government officials were desperately looking for ways to keep the African American community in check. Luckily for them, Basson was full of creepy ideas.
A subdivision of the CBW, codenamed Project Coast, attempted to invent an infertility toxin to sterilize the black population. They planned to use a ton of ecstasy for military purposes and tried to create grenades filled with LSD and sedatives. Basson planned to kill Nelson Mandela with carcinogenic agents and even contemplated using snake venom to remove opposition leaders.
But all psychotic schemes came to an end when the apartheid government was overthrown and the doctor was charged with crimes against humanity. But he escaped prosecution using the old Nazi tactics: "I just followed orders." Although he was convicted of unethical behavior by the South African Medical Board, he was never jailed. Today this monstrous scientist works as a cardiologist in Cape Town.
Material prepared by GusenaLapchataya