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.
In a fit of rage, the Tsar strikes his oldest son in the head with his iron-tipped staff and kills him.
After the war, Jesse and his gang rob banks, stages and trains that belong to Northern interests.
Police and news put evidence together to determine the kidnapping victim, Bobby, and the unidentified body in Indiana are the same.
Darrow is able to win over the judge who shows mercy to both Loeb and Leopold.
Someone interrupts Jack the Ripper while he is killing his third victim, Liz Stride.
Information and clips about the beginnings of "The City of Angels", Los Angeles.
Twenty-five-year-old Mary Kelly is Jack the Ripper's final victim.
Mary continues to protest and is hanged, but her death leads to reforms in the religious laws.
Through one of her sons, Mary meets the actor John Wilkes Booth at her boardinghouse In Washington.
Wilberforce works to end the slave trade after trying to improve conditions for Britain's working poor.
By 1932, Melvin Purvis is Special-Agent-in-Charge of the FBI in Chicago with the primary job of catching Dillinger.
When the Civil Warbegins in April of 1861, Jesse is too young to fight so he works the farm with the family's slaves.
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