Born September 5, 1847 in Clay County, Missouri, was probably the most famous criminal in all of America. Jesse James. Jesse was the pinnacle of criminology and his name still pops up and everyone can tell you who he is in America. His life of crime began not at a young age, but later, during his campaign in the Civil War as a Confederate soldier. Jesse and what he later started as his gang would capture unarmed Union soldiers and subject them to cruel torture sessions, but they usually captured and killed them without orders from their commanders and scalped them like game. . However, it didn't help that Jesse and his brother tried to do this to what they thought were Union soldiers who were unarmed, but Jesse found out that they weren't disarmed. He was shot in the chest near Lexington, Missouri. It wasn't all bad for Jesse, this event led him to marry his wife; his cousin Zerelda Mimms (1874-1882). Later in Jesse's life, he came to him to start a gang called the James-Younger gang. It was named so because it consisted...