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; also a member of the Manson family.
- 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
- 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 Montalvo 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
- X-Raided, aka Anarae Brown, Sacramento-based rapper convicted of murdering a woman during a home invasion robbery
