Crimes and Criminals Chapters

It is easy to avoid the alcohol ban because people can make their own using moonshine stills or buy from bootleggers.

Links to resources from the trial, and information on both Leopold and Loeb.

Slave trading continues in British Colonies and in the American South, even after Parliament abolishes the slave trade.

While arguing over money, Dr. John Webster strikes and kills George Parkman.

Realizing he is powerless to stop the unrest happening in his country, Nicholas abdicates the throne for both himself and his ill son.

Lincoln dies at Petersen's boarding house, across the street from the Ford Theater, less than twelve hours after being shot.

Michael Cassius McDonald creates the first organized crime syndicate in Chicago.

Oswiecim, Poland is the location of Auschwitz because the Polish army is already there.

To his family and Colombia's downtrodden people, Pablo Escobar is a much-loved man. To the government, he is a highly wanted criminal drug-lord.

Pablo Escobar has one major reason for becoming involved in Colombian politics: To make sure his country does not sign an extradition treaty with the...

In his efforts to protect his illegal enterprise from crumbling into legal problems, Pablo Escobar pays-off security guards.

Initially working for Alvaro Prieto, a contraband smuggler, Pablo Escobar becomes a drug smuggler and is a millionaire, from the illegal trade, by the...