Category:Karma Houdini

A "Karma Houdini" is someone who isn't adequately punished for their villainous actions, and escapes justice by "pulling a Houdini" (disappearing) from karma. Many scapegoats have eventually become karma houdinis, due to how much they suffer which eventually covers up their actions in the future.

A Karma Houdini, in this context, can have one of the following scenarios to qualify:

• the person simply died; in a ruler's case, while still in power. Examples include Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, Francisco Franco, Leopold II of Belgium, Emperor Hirohito, Vladimir Lenin,François Duvalier and Josip Broz Tito.
• the person was deposed or put in a vulnerable position, but he/she escaped prosecution. Examples include Idi Amin, Josef Mengele,Fidel Castro, Augusto Pinochet, Mobutu Sese Seko, Robert Mugabe, Richard Nixon, Suharto, Alfredo Stroessner, Pol Pot, Semion Mogilevich and Dawood Ibrahim.
• the person never got caught and simply vanished. Examples include Jack the Ripper, Pedro López, Augustin Bizimana,Bradford Bishop, the Zodiac Killer, Robert William Fisher, Alexis Flores, D. B. Cooper, Delphine LaLaurie, Masanobu Tsuji, Yaser Abdel Said, and Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah.
• the person is still alive today, and is either in an invulnerable position or on the run. Examples include Ayman al-Zawahiri, Joseph Kony, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Henry Kissinger, David Duke, Issei Sagawa, Brock Turner,Dawood Ibrahim and Tom Metzger.
• the person committed suicide before he/she could be punished for his/her crimes. Examples include Adolf Hitler,Joseph Goebbels ,Mohammed Atta ,Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Leonard Lake, Andrew Cunanan, Adam Lanza, Seung-Hui Cho, Jim Jones, Chris Benoit, Kevin Loibl, Stephen Paddock and Abu Bakr al-Baghadi.
• protected by juvenile laws such as Junko Furuta's Murderers, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, Daniel Petry, and Laurie Tackett.

NOTE: People who died in prison, were executed for their crimes or are currently in jail cannot count as karma houdinis.