Washington DC, Day 13, Nov 1, 2011

On our next to last day in DC, we visited the Crime and Punishment Museum.  If you like CSI or NCIS or watch America’s Most Wanted, you will love this place.  This is the lobby, with handcuffs for chain and the Ted Bundy 1968 VW.  Bundy used the car to commit at least eleven kidnappings and homicides.

The vehicle Bonnie and Clyde were in when they were ambushed and killed.

Above is a portion of the list of bills that were part of the Lindberg ransom money.

Authorities had traced $14,000 of the $50,000 ransom to Hauptmann who was executed four years later.

 

 

 

This fellow did not want a mug shot taken, somehow that did not matter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actual mug shot of Bill Gates,

This is what he did.

These are Leg Manacles.  These were used at Andersonville during the Civil War. They are known as “dead man irons” because they were riveted on the legs and only removed by pulling them off the wasted limbs of a prisoner that had died or removed by a blacksmith. This pair still had it rivets in place.

America’s Most Wanted is filmed in this location and this is also where the show’s call center is located during the show.

Displays also addressed the origin of “Code Adam” and the “Amber Alert”, so sad these two children had to die for these two alerts to come into effect.