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.
A con man who twice sold the Eiffel Tower, for scrap, Victor Lustig (also known as "Tricky Vic") spent a career hoodwinking people for money.
The CIA studies photographs showing the position of rail spurs, camp buildings, and vehicles.
When the lawmakers are the lawbreakers, and a crime is not legally a crime, how can we trust the law?
This chapter describes the climate of the country under dictatorship.
Bram Stoker creates Dracula the vampire, based on the real life cruelty of Vlad the Impaler.
Beulahs looks, a good story, publicity for her and Belva, and a young, male jury all play parts in her acquittal.
The judge in Dr. John Webster's murder trial allows the use of body parts as evidence, even though that is not a common practice in the 1850s.
Description of cocaine's effect on the human body and brain.
Clarence Darrow is hired to represent the defendants, and he quickly withdraws the "Not Guilty" plea.
Questions remain about the Allied lack of action toward the death camps, but all the clues are not available until after the war.
Bodyguards are not protecting President Lincoln when John Wilkes Booth shoots him.
Whitechapel, where the "Ripper murders" occur, is a very poor part of 19th-century London.
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