The fruits of karma ripen only from lifetime to lifetime and often many lifetimes ahead: good (charity work) and bad (crime) effects will have their consequences manifesting sometimes along the spiritual continuum (birth-death-rebirth/transformation).
For example, while meditating during this last full moon, I had a very revealing vision involving Sharon Tate and her former life as a Mayan priest:
Why a female Aquarius, Water Horse, hypersensitive, famous, extremely attractive suffered such a horrific death while pregnant?
She was begging for the life of her child but still she was slaughtered without mercy. However the law of moral order was broken when she committed a similar crime nearly 1,000 years earlier:
The woman she offered in sacrifice to the Mayan Gods was also pregnant and she also begged for her life.
You will reap what you sow.
Have a nice day!