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.
Tone is taken prisoner with his French colleagues and is charged as a traitor to Britain.
Frank Nitti is Al Capone's second-in-command of the Chicago outfit and leads the group while Capone is in prison.
Mary is tried and sentenced to hang.
Seeing the potential for bootlegging when the alcohol ban takes effect, rival gangs kill each other to claim their share of the business.
George Jung and Carlos Lehder import most of the cocaine in the US during the late 70s and 80s.
The police catch George again, and he makes deals against Lehder and Manuel Noreiga. Pablo Escobar walks away.
In prison, George learns about cocaine from Carlos, then makes a lot of money selling it, and becomes an addict.
Pablo Escobar heads the Medellin Cartel. George describes Pablo's influence in the cocaine industry.
George marries into the cartel, but then the police catch him importing cocaine. The police take his daughter and his family disowns him.
Heinrich Himmler plans to hide the "evacuation" of the Jews from the world, assuring the Nazis that this is a noble cause.
Hoover leaves the work of capturing bank robbers to local police until Dillinger commits a federal offense across state lines.
President McKinley lies dying, due to many medical mistakes and lack of knowledge about near-by new technology.
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