Partners in Crime Trivia

1. Ronnie and Reggie Kray were identical twins. But which one was born first?

From Quiz The Charismatic Kray Twins

Answer: Reggie

Reginald and Ronald Kray were born on 24 October 1933, with Reggie being the elder by about 10 minutes. An elder sister, Violet, born in 1929, had previously died while still an infant, although an older brother, Charles, was to become an associate in their future criminal activities.

From Quiz The Great Train Robbery

Answer: Bruce Reynolds

Reynolds was well known in criminal circles as a jewel thief, as well as being an accomplished housebreaker. Like his more high profile accomplice Ronnie Biggs, Reynolds became something of a fugitive following the robbery, living under a variety of aliases overseas.

From Quiz The Infamous Leopold-Loeb Murder

Answer: Chicago, Illinois

The abduction took place outside the prestigious Harvard School. The body was dumped at a culvert near Wolf Lake, not far from a very well-to-do area of Illinois in which both murderers and the victim lived.

From Quiz Partners in Crime

Answer: Burke and Hare & Hare and Burke

William Burke and William Hare have gone down in history as The Bodysnatchers who sold fresh corpses to Dr. Robert Knox for use in his anatomy classes at the Edinburgh Medical College. Popular lore has them digging up bodies from fresh graves, but that's just one more urban legend. With the exception of the first body (a lodger had died owing Burke rent, so they stole his body from its coffin prior to burial and sold it to Dr. Knox), Burke and Hare murdered the rest of the people whose bodies graced Dr. Knox's dissecting table. Burke and Hare would lure their victims to the tenement house where they lived with Burke's common-law wife Helen MacDougal, and Hare's wife Margaret, and dispose of them there. Another tenant of the tenement house discovered the body of their last victim and called in the police. By the time the police arrived, Burke and Hare had already sold the body, but it was not long before their crimes were pinned to them, and they were charged with 16 counts of murder. Hare turned state's evidence, and was imprisoned for his part in the murders. After his release he left Edinburgh and moved to England and nothing more was heard of him, although he was rumoured to have become a beggar. Burke was hanged. Helen MacDougal had a verdict of Not Proven returned against her and she was released. Margaret Hare escaped lynching and fled back to Ireland. Dr. Knox was not charged, but his career was on the rocks. He moved to London where he died in 1862. The case resulted in the passing of the Anatomy Act of 1832, which gave schools of medicine honest access to bodies for the purposes of teaching anatomy.

From Quiz Bonnie & Clyde

Answer: January, 1930

Bonnie and Clyde first met in Dallas Texas. They met in the month of January, 1930. At the time they met, Bonnie was 19 years old and Clyde was 21.

From Quiz Erik and Lyle Menendez: Brothers in Crime

Answer: Kitty and Jose

Kitty was born Kitty Anderson in Oak Lawn, a suburb south of Chicago. Kitty's family was middle class and she had two older brothers, Milt and Brian, and an older sister, Joan. Jose was born Jose Menendez in Havana, Cuba. He was from an upper-middle class family and he had two older sisters, Teresita, known as "Terry", and Marta. Jose's parents sent him to the United States in 1960 after Castro came to power. Kitty and Jose met while at Southern Illinois University, she was in her senior year and he was in his freshman year, the year was 1962. They eloped in 1963 and were secretly wed. Information found at www.crimelibrary.com and www.rotten.com.

From Quiz The Kray Twins

Answer: October 24, 1933

On Tuesday, October 24, 1933, Reggie, the eldest, was born at 8:00 AM, and his identical twin brother, Ronnie, was born at 8:10 AM.

From Quiz Bonnie and Clyde

Answer: October 1, 1910

Bonnie was born on October 1, 1910, in Rowena, Texas. After her father died, her mother moved the family to Cement City in Dallas, Texas.

From Quiz Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka

Answer: the 'Ken and Barbie' killers

She was only 17 and he was 23 when they met. By the time they were married, less than 4 years later (June 29, 1991), they had already killed 2 young girls and raped many others.

From Quiz The Kray Twins

Answer: 24th October 1933

They were born in Stene street, Hoxton, London. Later the family moved to their permanent residence at 178 Vallance Road, Bethnal Green about two miles (three km's) away.

From Quiz Sante and Kenny Kimes

Answer: Independence Day

They killed and disposed of the body of Irene Silverman in order for them to get the ownership of her 'bed and breakfast' by forging the documents.

From Quiz The Case of Leopold and Loeb

Answer: Kenwood

Nathan Leopold was the youngest son of a shipping magnate. Richard Loeb's father was the vice-president of Sears Roebuck. The Kenwood area was home to the wealthiest families in Chicago. It was from this very neighborhood that the two killers chose their victim. They planned to kidnap him, kill him, then demand a ransom from his parents. Although neither Leopold nor Loeb needed the money, they hoped to remove suspicion from themselves by insinuating that the crime was committed by someone seeking ransom.

From Quiz Bonnie and Clyde, Not the Movie!

Answer: Rowena, TX

Bonnie Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas, a small town near Old Dodge City.

From Quiz The Infamous Leopold-Loeb Murder

Answer: 210

A certified genius, Nathan Leopold reportedly began speaking at the age of four months. At the time of the murder he was 19 years old and already fluent in fifteen languages, and was a nationally recognized ornithologist. He had also gained entry to the University of Chicago at the age of 16. His accomplice, Richard Loeb, had an I.Q. between 160 and 168.

From Quiz Partners in Crime

Answer: Sawney Bean

The legend of Alexander 'Sawney' Bean and his murderous clan was first circulated in the 18th century, although the events are supposed to have taken place in the early to mid-fifteenth century in the Scottish lowlands. There is some speculation that the legend of Sawney Bean was circulated by agents of the Hanoverian rulers, Georges I and II, to discredit the Jacobites who had taken part in the rebellions of 1715 and 1745. The rebellions were intended to restore the Stuart monarchy - James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, and Charles Edward Stuart (aka Bonnie Prince Charlie), the Young Pretender, were the son and grandson of the deposed James II/VII. The stories claim that Sawney Bean and his wife terrorized the countryside in Galloway for 25 years, murdering the travellers they ambushed on the roads, and then dragging the bodies away to their cave to dine on their victims. According to the legend, when the authorities caught up with them the cannibalistic Bean clan numbered some 48 children, grandchildren and great-gandchildren - all born of incestuous relationships - living in a honeycomb of caves festooned with the pickled arms, legs, torsos and other choice bits of the murdered travellers. The band of fearless citizens who finally tracked them down was headed by none other than King James V himself. Historians doubt the legitimacy of the tale because there's no official record of James V having done any such thing, and you'd think there would be. There are, however, records of instances of cannibalism during the great famines that occurred in the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries in Scotland, and that's probably where the Hanoverians got the idea for the Sawney Bean legend.

From Quiz Erik and Lyle Menendez: Brothers in Crime

Answer: 722 Elm Drive, Beverly Hills

The Menendez Family lived at 722 Elm Drive, Beverly Hills. Their home was a $4 million, Mediterranean-style mansion with 23 rooms. The mansion was set back from the street, surrounded by a high iron fence with an iron gate, and was protected by a fancy security system. Information found at www.crimelibrary.com.

From Quiz Bonnie and Clyde

Answer: Oswego Bank

Fed up with store holdups, Clyde decided to try robbing banks. Bonnie went into the bank the day before, pretending to be interested in opening a bank account. The real reason was to give Clyde a layout of the bank. Bonnie waited outside in the car while Clyde went into the bank to rob it. Clyde demanded money from the teller, but an alert guard spotted his gun and fired a shot at him but missed. Clyde panicked, and grabbed only $80.00 that was laying on the desk and ran out. Their first bank job was a failure.

From Quiz The Kray Twins

Answer: Royal Fusiliers

The Royal Fusiliers were based at the Tower of London, just a short bus ride away from Bethnal Green. The Krays army career was shortlived and after serving time in a military prison, both were dishonourably discharged.

From Quiz Sante and Kenny Kimes

Answer: 58

Sante was found guilty of 58 different crimes and was sentenced to 120 years of imprisonment. Kenny was found guilty of 60 crimes and got a sentence of 125 years of imprisonment. They committed many crimes together working as a team.

From Quiz The Case of Leopold and Loeb

Answer: Bobby Franks

Fourteen year-old Bobby Franks was chosen at random by the killers as he walked home from the exclusive Harvard Prep School. An acquaintence of the Loeb family, Bobby had played tennis with Richard Loeb on occasion. Loeb lured him into a rented car to discuss a new tennis racket. Once inside, Bobby was stabbed in the head with a chisel and a rag was shoved into his mouth.

From Quiz Bonnie and Clyde, Not the Movie!

Answer: his brother

Clyde Barrow's brother Buck was sentenced to five years in prison for burglary. As a teen, Clyde was also a criminal, charged with stealing cars, animal abuse, and torturing children.

From Quiz The Charismatic Kray Twins

Answer: The Firm

The nickname shows that the brothers considered their criminal activities to be as much of a mainstream career as any legitimate business, and a large number of criminal associates soon joined their "payroll".

From Quiz The Infamous Leopold-Loeb Murder

Answer: Boredom. They wanted to see if they could commit the perfect crime.

Both Leopold and Loeb were from already very wealthy families and they did not need money. It is true that in the plan they devised there would be a ransom, but they also initially did intend to kill the victim because they decided to choose someone they knew personally, and did not want the victim to identify them.

From Quiz Partners in Crime

Answer: Leopold and Loeb & Loeb and Leopold

In 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, both aged 19, murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks for no other reason than Loeb had a fantasy about committing the perfect crime and Leopold would do anything for Loeb. Both killers had genius IQs (Loeb's in the 160 range, Leopold's was pegged at 215+) but that doesn't seem to have helped them to be smarter at covering their tracks than any other murderer, and they were quickly apprehended, offered guilty pleas, and sentenced on September 19, 1924 to spend the rest of their natural lives in prison. Their lawyer, the famed Clarence Darrow, is credited with saving them from the death penalty. On January 28, 1936 Loeb's cellmate attacked him with a straight razor, claiming that Loeb had made unwanted homosexual advances. Despite the efforts of a team of surgeons, Loeb died. He was 32. Leopold was paroled and released in March 1958. He moved to Puerto Rico, earned a Master's Degree at the University of Puerto Rico, wrote a book called "The Birds of Puerto Rico" and married the widow of a local doctor. He died in 1971, aged 66.

From Quiz Bonnie & Clyde

Answer: Parker

Bonnie's last name was Parker and Clyde's last name was Barrow and his middle name was Chestnut. Bonnie Parker was born on October 1, 1910.

From Quiz The Kray Twins

Answer: Robert Browning Youth Club

The twins' father brought them for boxing lessons three times a week at the Robert Browning Youth Club. Charlie Simms, a boxer, saw them training, recognized they had some talent and became their trainer. By the time they were 15 years old, Ronnie won the Hackney schoolboys' London Junior Championship and a London ATC title. Reggie won the London Schoolboys' Championship, and was also a Great Britain Schoolboys' Championship finalist, a London ATC Champion, and a South East Divisional Youth Club Champion.

From Quiz Bonnie and Clyde

Answer: Got a fellow prisoner to cut off his toes.

Clyde managed to persuade a fellow prisoner to 'accidentally' cut off two off his toes while they were on work detail. The ruse worked, and Clyde was paroled on February 8, 1932, and was released one week later. However, Clyde was unaware that his mother had been successful in appealing to members of the judicial system to get parole for her son to be released within two years.

From Quiz The Clutter Family Murders

Answer: Holcomb

Set in the waving wheat fields of western Kansas, Holcomb was a tiny town located some ten miles from Garden City, the county seat of Finney County. What could not be found in Holcomb, from banking to bowling, could be found in Garden City, which had a population of about 11,000. Everybody knew everybody else in Holcomb, and nobody locked their doors, until that tragic November weekend in 1959.

From Quiz The Kray Twins

Answer: The Regal

The hall was bought for the princely sum of five pounds.

From Quiz Sante and Kenny Kimes

Answer: She was his mother

Sante was his mother; however, it was discovered that she became his sexual partner as well.

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