A senior figure within Los Zetas during one of the cartel's most violent periods of expansion, Méndez Santiago operated at a level that drew formal U.S. government designation under the Kingpin Act alongside dozens of other international trafficking figures. The sanction — freezing his U.S. assets and severing him from American financial and commercial networks — reflected the cross-border reach of his operations before his capture in Oaxaca in early 2011.

Operating on the margins of a community that trusted him, Rand preyed on children in a borough where he was a familiar if transient presence — a former school aide who later lived rough near the grounds of the infamous Willowbrook State School. Two convictions for kidnapping anchor his documented crimes, but investigators have long suspected his involvement in additional disappearances spanning the 1970s and 1980s. The cases drew renewed public attention decades after the fact, underscoring how long such harm can remain unresolved.

Operating from Canada while directing criminal activity across India, Goldy Brar became one of the most wanted figures in Indian law enforcement through his alleged coordination of targeted killings — most notably the 2022 murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala. His case reflects a broader pattern of transnational organized crime in which geographic distance from the scene of violence has done little to limit operational reach. "Satinderjeet Singh (born 11 March 1994), also known as Goldy Brar, is a Canada-based Indian gangster. Born in Punjab's Muktsar district, he is wanted by Indian authorities in connection with murder, attempted murder, and drug trafficking." — Wikipedia

Her case is striking not only for the violence itself but for what it exposed about the legal vulnerability of serfs in mid-eighteenth-century Russia — people who had no recourse against an owner and no standing to bring a complaint. Saltykova killed dozens of those bound to her estate over roughly a decade before two serfs managed to reach Catherine the Great directly with a petition, bypassing the local authorities she had long suppressed. Her eventual conviction and imprisonment were unusual enough to be historically significant, representing one of the rare instances in imperial Russia where a noble was held criminally accountable for the deaths of serfs.