https://peopleandmind.com/tags/crime/Recent content in Crime on PeopleAndMindHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usMon, 30 Mar 2026 15:10:21 +0000https://peopleandmind.com/2026/03/historian-receives-letter-from-carlos-the-jackal-in-prison/Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:10:21 +0000https://peopleandmind.com/2026/03/historian-receives-letter-from-carlos-the-jackal-in-prison/What Happened While researching his book “The Revolutionists,” a narrative history of 1970s terrorism, historian [author name] successfully made contact with Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal. The Venezuelan terrorist, now 74, responded from Fresnes prison, a high-security facility about 20 miles south of Paris where he has been held since his conviction. The letter, which opened with “revolutionary greetings,” provided previously unknown details about Ramírez Sánchez’s decade-long campaign of violence that terrorized Western Europe between 1973 and 1983.