Crime & Punishment

Compiled by Moyra Turkington

The following are lists of serial killers, titles of law enforcement authorities, crime scene locations, murder weapons, poisons, prisons and forensic techniques. The titles may be combined with any country’s modern lists (E.g. Modern American or Psuedo-English) to generate police names, FBI Agents, Mounties or Bobbies - whatever is required.

Serial Killers

  1. The Cadillac Killer
  2. Bloodthirsty Bill
  3. The Accountant
  4. The Night Stabber
  5. The Lady of Night
  6. The Butcher of Barstow
  7. The Pigman
  8. The Spinster Strangler
  9. The Die and Dasher
  10. Redhand Ricky
  11. The Alphabet Killer
  12. The Southside Slasher
  13. The Phantom Whisper
  14. Steel Tooth
  15. The Shopping-cart Strangler
  16. The Dawn Slayer
  17. The Blue Bombshell
  18. The Preying Mantis
  19. Crocodile Sam
  20. Vampire Casanova

Authority Titles

  1. Detective
  2. Special Agent
  3. Constable
  4. Inspector
  5. Corporal
  6. Sergeant
  7. Trooper
  8. Lieutenant
  9. Bureau Chief
  10. Superintendent
  11. Inspector General
  12. Commander
  13. Captain
  14. Commissioner
  15. Deputy Chief Constable
  16. Staff Sergeant
  17. Battalion Chief
  18. Federal Agent
  19. Brevet Sergeant
  20. Gendarmes

Crime Scene Locations

  1. Hotel Room
  2. Restaurant Walk-in Freezer
  3. Dumpster
  4. Bomb Shelter
  5. Church Confessional
  6. High School Boiler Room
  7. Storage Locker
  8. Bathhouse
  9. Swimming Pool
  10. Construction Site
  11. Barn Loft
  12. Factory Vat
  13. Farmer’s Field
  14. Parking Lot
  15. Garden Shed
  16. Meat Locker
  17. Warehouse
  18. Country Club
  19. Boardroom
  20. Playground

Murder Weapons

  1. Telephone Cord
  2. Baseball bat
  3. Car
  4. Chef’s Knife
  5. Pillow (Asphyxiation)
  6. Boxcutter
  7. Ice Pick
  8. Axe
  9. Piano Wire
  10. Beer Stein
  11. Broken Bottle
  12. Television Set
  13. Rebar
  14. Plumber’s Wrench
  15. Screwdriver
  16. Chainsaw
  17. Handgun
  18. Machete
  19. Sledgehammer
  20. Brick/Rock

Poisons

  1. Ricin, ingest
  2. Potassium Cyanide (KCN), ingest
  3. Hyosine, ingest
  4. Tubocurarine, inject
  5. Fentanyl, inject
  6. Dushuqiang, ingest
  7. Ethylene glycol, ingest
  8. Methanol, ingest, absorb
  9. Antimony, ingest
  10. Thallium, ingest
  11. Selenium, ingest
  12. Tellurium, ingest
  13. Copper Acetoarsenite (Paris Green), ingest, inhale
  14. Taxine, ingest
  15. Nicotine, ingest
  16. Prussic Acid, inhale
  17. Adrenalin, inject
  18. Strophanthin, inject
  19. Solanine, ingest
  20. Aconitine, ingest

Prisons

  1. ADX Florence (USA, Colorado)
  2. Marion (USA, Illinois)
  3. Rikers Island (USA, New York)
  4. Sing Sing (USA, New York)
  5. Angola Farm (USA, Louisiana)
  6. Attica (USA, New York)
  7. San Quentin (USA, California)
  8. Devil’s Island (French Guyana)
  9. Fresnes (France, Paris)
  10. Abu Ghraib (Iraq)
  11. Werl (Germany, Werl)
  12. Mountjoy (Ireland, Dublin)
  13. Kingston Penitentiary (Canada, Ontario)
  14. Presidente Venceslau (Brazil, Sao Paulo)
  15. Fuchu (Japan, Tokyo)
  16. Qincheng (China, Beijing)
  17. Lubyanka (Russia, Moscow)
  18. Manchester “Strangeways” (England, Manchester)
  19. Goulburn (Australia, New South Wales)
  20. Puente Grande (Mexico, Mexico City)

Forensic Techniques

  1. Computer Facial Reconstruction (identification of skeletal remains using software)
  2. Polymerase Chain Reaction (DNA replication using a catalyst to produce a sample sufficient for testing)
  3. Electrophoresis (the process of sorting DNA fragments according to size so that they can be charged and compared)
  4. Forensic Odontology (dental matching to identify human remains)
  5. Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) (A computerized digital imaging system that captures and compares digital photographs of fingerprints on file)
  6. Refractive Index Analysis (examination of the light-bending ability of glass samples)
  7. Integrated Ballistics Identification System (IBIS) (A computerized digital imaging system that captures and compares digital photographs of fired bullets and cartridge cases)
  8. Cyanoacrylate Fuming (developing fingerprints for preservation)
  9. Voiceprint Identification
  10. Voice Spectrography (examination of the amplitude of the voice in relation to background noise to locate or identify a suspect)
  11. Gas Chromatography (differentiation of different kinds of liquids based on the speed at which they move in gas as an essential processes in identifying poisons and toxins)
  12. Specialized Digital Media Analysis and Recovery (used to recover encrypted evidence stored on a computer)
  13. Handwriting Analysis (differentiation of handwriting samples to identify fraudulent documents)
  14. Mass Spectrometry (exposes ionized solvents to a magnetic field to differentiate the kind of fuel used in explosive devices)
  15. Microspectrophotometry (electronically differentiating paint samples by analysis of their energy wavelengths)
  16. P300 Monitoring via Electroencephalograph Analysis (monitors the activity of the P300 brain wave which becomes active when the subject recognizes something familiar)
  17. Infrared Spectroscopy (identifies if ink samples that appear similar originated from the same source)
  18. Forensic Phonetics (used to determine race, age, sex of a recorded, disguised or digitally altered voice)
  19. Forensic Entomology (used in assessing the time of death by examining the extent of insect infestation in a corpse)
  20. Thin-layer Chromatography (used to identify specific solvents used as fuel in explosives)