Sometimes the law makes criminals out of innocent people; other times guilty people go free. Then again ... sometimes the punishment fits the crime. Meet some of history's alleged and actual criminals and learn about their crimes.Sometimes the law makes criminals out of innocent people; other times guilty people go free. Then again ... sometimes the punishment fits the crime. Meet some of history's alleged and actual criminals and learn about their crimes.
Police suspect people with a medical background and look at 192 suspects before the case goes to the Grand Jury.
Attacks attributed to the Ripper typically involve female prostitutes who live and work in the Whitechapel-area slums of London.
Although the prosecution declares Fish sane, there is little doubt that he is crazy and the jury still finds him guilty.
Although he initially denies it, Albert Fish, the real-life model for Hannibal Lecter, admits to being a cannibal.
John Wilkes Booth, an actor, enters the Ford's Theater Presidential box welding his derringer and a knife.
Before John Wilkes Booth plans an assassination, he plans to kidnap the President and "carry him off" to Richmond, Virginia..
Even as he lies wounded, the president tries to protect his assassin.
Evidence is too much for both Loeb and Leopold who both confess to the crime.
Czolgosz may be insane, but his justice is swift, and he dies in the electric chair after confessing why he killed McKinley.
Even after he was arrested in New York City, during 1935, Victor Lustig was not-yet finished with his lifetime as a con man.
By the time people knew Robert Miller as Count Victor Lustig, the con man was a master at deceiving people with his money-box schemes.
Forced to flee France, because he "sold" the Eiffel Tower to unsuspecting Parisian scrap-metal dealers, Victor Lustig returns to Prohibition-Era Ameri...
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