What my ex-wife did to me.
Crystalguy
I’d say that Lizzie Borden isn’t that significant. Murders of family members happen all of the time. Same with the OJ trial. It wins the award for Most Racist Defense Tactics in Recent Memory, though.
I’d have to give the award for Crime With Biggest Unintended Consequences to the assasination of Archduke Ferdinad.
As for our treatment of Native Americans, tragic though it may be, I’d have to say that the original post disqualifies that sort of activity. Remember, we’re talking crime. Not war. Not invasions.
As for THE CRIME OF THE MILLENIUM, I’d say the Jack the Ripper killings, for inspiring every serial killer ever since, and for being the first killer to actually dare the police to catch him.
“I had a feeling that in Hell there would be mushrooms.” -The Secret of Monkey Island
How about that Whitman kid in Texas, who inspired all the gun-crazed spree killers since?
Wayne Williams, John Wayne Gayce, Peter Kurten.
Amazing how “evil” can have such a friendly face.
I’d say that the persecution of the innocents in the Salem witch trials ranks right up there.
My neighbor ran over my dog…and didn’t tell me…I found out about it after I moved out of the neighborhood…another neighbor told me…I looked for that dog for months…
“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda
Some of these crimes are memorable, but you certainly would have to stand in awe of the holocaust. When 6 million jews were systematically eniliated, before any top german war criminals were brought to justice, that has truly got to be the crime of the millenium.
It wasn’t just 6 million Jews, goofball. There were also several milliion gypsies, gays and non-Jews who were caught harboring Jews that were murdered as well. That has to get my vote for the most heinous crime of the millennium, too.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
Remember, the OP says war crimes and atrocities like the Holocaust and Communist crimes are out. I think the top crime of the century has to be the heisting of the Reichsbank gold. The Guinness Book says that it was the biggest robbery haul in history and whoever did it didn’t get caught.
Leaving aside (as the OP said) political evils I go with the actions of Gilles de Rais as the worst individual crime of the millennnium.
Crime of the Century: European invasion of the Americas, with the accompanying genocide of the indigenous peoples.
The Canadians. They walk among us. William Shatner. Michael J. Fox. Monty Hall. Mike Meyers. Alex Trebek. All of them Canadians. All of them here.
Oops, make that Crime of the Milliennium.
The Canadians. They walk among us. William Shatner. Michael J. Fox. Monty Hall. Mike Meyers. Alex Trebek. All of them Canadians. All of them here.
Artificial Turf.