List of Sacramento criminals
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Below is a list of notorious lawbreakers who are associated in one way or another with the city of Sacramento, California and its environs:
- Rae Carruth, former NFL wide receiver who in 2001 was found guilty of conspiring to murder his girlfriend.
- Richard Chase, serial killer known as "The Vampire of Sacramento," who killed six people (four of them in one day) in the span of a month in Sacramento
- Lynette Fromme, aka Squeaky Fromme, attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford in Sacramento
- Charlene Gallego, serial killer
- Patricia Hearst, kidnapped heiress aided SLA members in robberies, including fatal stick-up in Carmichael, California, a suburb of Sacramento
- Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber, murdered Gilbert B. Murray in Sacramento. After his arrest, Kaczynski was returned to Sacramento and held in Sacramento County Jail
- Adrian Lamo, journalist and former hacker who in 2003 surrendered to US Marshals in Sacramento to face charges of criminal unauthorized access to computers at The New York Times and Microsoft. Lamo was sentenced to probation in Carmichael, California until 2007
- Charles Ng, serial torture-murderer operated between San Francisco Bay Area and Calaveras County. After extradition from Canada, was held for trial in Folsom Prison
- Dorothea Puente, serial murderer, Sacramento rooming house operator buried victims in her F Street yard
- Kathleen Soliah, aka Sara Jane Olson, SLA member confessed to murder committed in course of bank robbery in Carmichael
- Wendy Yoshimura, getaway driver in fatal bank robbery in Carmichael