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, Joseph Kony 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, Randy Stair, 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, Bailey O'Neill's Murderers, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, Daniel Petry, Matias Oyarzo and Laurie Tackett.

For organizations, you must have the following requirements:

• Organizations that are still active and in an invulnerable position. Examples include People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Communist Party of China, Antifa, Fidesz or The Islamic State.
• Organizations that dissolved, but that most or all of its members did not suffer any punishment, or merged with another organization. Examples include Việt Cộng, Fatherland and Liberty Nationalist Front, KGB or Aitarak.

In the case of events, you need the following requirement:

• Events in which the vast majority or all of the perpetrators were not tried. Examples include Armenian Genocide, Expulsion of the Chagossians or The Holodomor.

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