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.
Tony Minke, on his way to get his watch repaired, finds Bobby's body.
Chicago reporter Maurine Watkins, who covers the courts, turns two real murders into a play for a college class.
Meet Chicago's early crime bosses including Big Jim Colosimo, Johnny Torrio, and Al Capone.
Maureen Watkinss play Chicago appears on Broadway in 1926 and later is the basis for the Bob Fosse musical.
Albert Nieman discovers how to separate the alkaloid base of the coca plant. Thereafter, many products now contain small amounts of cocaine.
Cocaine and chocolate are from different plants; cocaine is from the coca plant, chocolate is from the cacao plant.
In France, some wine contains cocaine. Because of Atlanta's early experiment with prohibition, however, John S. Pemberton uses fruit oils instead of c...
Taking part in the Civil War at such a young age is what creates Jesse's brutal outlaw status.
A military commission holds the trial of Mary Surratt and other conspirators.
Born Robert Miller, in what is now the Czech Republic, Tricky Vic was a very good student who learned several European languages.
As Jack the Ripper's second victim, Annie Chapman's murder is similar to Nichol's.
Nicholas' daughters survive the first hail of gunfire because the gems sewn into their clothing provide some protection from the bullets.
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