Carmen Sandiego
Criminal mastermind Carmen Sandiego has been on the run since 1983, when she came to the attention of authorities for stealing all the tea in China. This was followed by a string of equally brazen thefts, including the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Mount Fuji, and even the Suez Canal.
After Carmen and her gang stole the Amazonian Rain Forest in 1985, Interpol decided to try a radical new method to put an end to her crime spree: Crowdsourcing. Reasoning that a million heads were better than one, Interpol teamed with Broderbund Software to produce an interface through which the clues to the crimes were fed directly people's home computers, a remarkable feat in those pre-Internet days.
The investment paid off when the raven-haired Sandiego was captured in a Tex-Mex restaurant in Lisbon, after making a phone call to her bookie to place a bet on the Final Four.
Unfortunately, Carmen Sandiego escaped from custody after sentencing, when the prison she was supposed to be locked up in was stolen by VILE Henchmen, leading to her accidental release, following a series of bureaucratic missteps.
After this, she and her gang engaged in criminal acts across the USA and Europe. Sandiego used her wealth from these heists toward time travel research and is even rumored to have discovered faster-than-light space travel.
In a rare admission of defeat, Interpol uncermoniously removed Ms. Sandiego from their "Top Ten Most Wanted" list in 2004. An anonymous top official said at the time, "Honestly, we're taking her off the list because she's making us look foolish. We'd rather have this list full of criminals that we can catch, so people think we're doing something here."
Carmen Sandiego
Criminal mastermind Carmen Sandiego has been on the run since 1983, when she came to the attention of authorities for stealing all the tea in China. This was followed by a string of equally brazen thefts, including the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Mount Fuji, and even the Suez Canal.
After Carmen and her gang stole the Amazonian Rain Forest in 1985, Interpol decided to try a radical new method to put an end to her crime spree: Crowdsourcing. Reasoning that a million heads were better than one, Interpol teamed with Broderbund Software to produce an interface through which the clues to the crimes were fed directly people's home computers, a remarkable feat in those pre-Internet days.
The investment paid off when the raven-haired Sandiego was captured in a Tex-Mex restaurant in Lisbon, after making a phone call to her bookie to place a bet on the Final Four.
Unfortunately, Carmen Sandiego escaped from custody after sentencing, when the prison she was supposed to be locked up in was stolen by VILE Henchmen, leading to her accidental release, following a series of bureaucratic missteps.
After this, she and her gang engaged in criminal acts across the USA and Europe. Sandiego used her wealth from these heists toward time travel research and is even rumored to have discovered faster-than-light space travel.
In a rare admission of defeat, Interpol uncermoniously removed Ms. Sandiego from their "Top Ten Most Wanted" list in 2004. An anonymous top official said at the time, "Honestly, we're taking her off the list because she's making us look foolish. We'd rather have this list full of criminals that we can catch, so people think we're doing something here."