An odd fact about crooks — they don’t want to be caught. Even the dumbest criminal will employ a decoy name to avoid detection. From a criminology standpoint, it is a fairly new phenomenon. Criminals from the past century and in the present like nicknames and pseudonyms. They have two purposes. To inflate their own egos and to throw law enforcement off their trail. When organized crime started to flourish in the 20th century, even the low-level mafia soldiers had aliases and nicknames. Read More