If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman
I think it was the cover up the JFK assasination.
Puts on his flame proof suit…
If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman
The assasination of Archduke Ferdinand (sp?) which led to WWI.
Jack the Ripper’s murder spree … not only for the luridity and mystery of the crimes, but the way it completely transfixed society at the time and continues to resurface in popular culture worldwide.
OJ and JFK are up there . . . but I have to agree. Jack the Ripper is the most talked about murder mystery of the millennium.
Let us not forget to give our props to:
Lizzy Borden
The Lincoln Assassination
My Lai Massacre
Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
Death of Pope Paul in 1978 (some speculate foul play)
Possible poisoning death of President Harding
Son of Sam
Boston Strangler
Assassination of Marat
Jeremy…
Nobody ever calls me after they’ve done something smart.
I understand many descendants of New World aboriginal peoples, which descendants average around 50% European, think the worst crime of the millennium was Columbus’ discovery of the New World. As a result, Columbus Day is Indigenous Peoples’ Day in Berkeley, CA.US. The wrost crime is probably that they never gave me the day off, whatever they called it.
Ray (El razón para la Raza)
Democracy.
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Nobody offered up the Crucifixion ? Oh well… My vote: the murder of Thomas Becket, sealing the fate of weaselly, manipulative Western governments… but if that’s not individual enough… the Scopes trial. No blood, but the first modern era use of the courts ,and the court of public opinion, to tamper with science (or other activities) in the name of “belief”.
O le mea a tamaali’i fa’asala, a o le mea a tufanua fa’alumaina.
Most scholars have serious doubts that anyone poisoned Warren Harding. The man had incredibly high blood pressure (I believe his BP was something like 180/140) and was a walking time bomb. The doubts about his death occurred because his wife wouldn’t allow an autopsy.
Anyway, Harding was an inept president and the country probably didn’t lose out on much from his early demise.
Nah, I was kidding about the Democracy thing. 
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The kidnapping and ransom of an Incan king by the Spanish explorer Pizarro in 1533. The Incans paid something like 3 rooms filled to the ceilings with gold for their king’s return. Pizarro had the king burned at the stake and made off with the gold.
The Incans? What the hell was I thinking when I wrote that? Incas, Incas, Incas!
To me, the assassination of Sergei Kirov in December 1934 is the crime of the millenium.
His assassination - almost certainly the result of a direct order by Stalin and carried out by NKVD head Yagoda - paved the way for the Great Terror of the 1930s in the Soviet Union.
Although responsible for the murder, Stalin blamed it on “Trotskyites” or “Zinovievites” and used the crime as a pretense for arresting and eventually liquidating his political enemies as well as millions of ordinary Soviet citizens.
“I never lie, but I don’t always say what I’m thinking.”
ENC Heel
I’ll nominate the continuing criminal enterprises of Vlad the Impaler and of Elizabeth Bathory. See, viz., http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_131.html.
Hmmm.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_131.html - this one works.
A period at the end doesn’t help when posting links.
I think it was when people started spelling millennium wrong. You wouldn’t believe how many people get it wrong.
“People must think it must be fun to be a super genuis,
But they don’t realize how hard it is
to put up with all the idiots in the world.”
– Calvin and Hobbes
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Jorge wrote
That was in the previous millennium.
Jorge didn’t specify which Crucifixion. (Although the big “C” makes it a little tough to backpedal.)