Crimes and Criminals Story Briefs

Known as Dostoevsky's most-violent novel, "Demons" is based on a real-life murder which took place in 1869.

Charlie Ford is a member of Jesse James' gang, but he is enticed by a large reward to double-cross his friend.

Did Bates, Lord Grantham's valet, push Green, Lord Gillingham's valet, into the path of a bus at Piccadilly? Did he have a motive?

Star of "Boardwalk Empire," Nucky Thompson becomes "the virtual dictator" of Atlantic City by protecting people engaged in the business of Prohibition...

Unafraid to speak his mind against the drug cartels, and to take action against Pablo Escobar, Luis Carlos Galán becomes an assassination target.

Believing that presidential candidate César Gaviria Trujillo would be aboard Avianca Flight 203, on November 27, 1989, Pablo Escobar ordered that a b...

Hacktivism - using digital technology to further political objectives for or against a topic - is a growing 21st-century phenomenon. What are its roo...

During the days when the Federal Court had jurisdiction over Indian Territory, many people hanged on Ft. Smith's gallows. The National Park Service te...

In October of 1983, when Ronald Reagan was America's President, a disastrous event involving U.S. Marines occurred in Lebanon when a suicide bomber vi...

While he was head of Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky used Fanny Kaplan's attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin to justify the use of terror against perce...

WARNING: THIS CLIP EXPLAINS HOW HITLER AND HIS REGIME DEVELOPED "THE FINAL SOLUTION" AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE. Proceed with caution.

One year later, we remember ... As 298 people aboard Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 are flying at 33,000 feet above a disputed area in Ukraine, a surfac...