Crimes and Criminals Story Briefs

Riding a very fast roan mare, which he'd rented earlier in the day, John Wilkes Booth escapes from Ford's Theatre, is on the run for 12 days and final...

After members of his crew report that Captain Kimber has murdered a slave girl, he is found "not guilty" by an all-male jury.

Klaus Barbie, who headed the Gestapo in Lyon, France (between 1942-1944), is also known as the "Butcher of Lyon.

The youngest of three boys, Lee Harvey Oswald never knew his father and rarely saw his mother since she had to work long hours to support the family.

Lewis Thornton Powell was born in Alabama, lived in Florida and served as a Confederate soldier. He became a "Lincoln Conspiracy" Defendant.

This is a sketch of the unguarded door through which John Wilkes Booth entered just before he shot President Lincoln.

Elizabeth Stride, also known as "Long Liz," was born in Sweden (on a farm called Stora Tumlehed) in November of 1843. Her life ended when she became a...

This clip recreates the trial of Major Henry Wirz who was the superintendent of a prisoner-of-war camp - located in Andersonville, Georgia - at which ...

This image depicts the book-cover of Man is Wolf to Man, an important work on surviving the GULAG by Janus Bardach.

Mary Kelley lived at 13 Miller's Court on Dorset Street.

Lafayette Baker, whose investigation led to the arrest of the conspiracy defendants - and to the capture of Booth - provides details about the last da...

According to Sarah Farmer, in her 1999 book "Martyred Village - Commemorating the 1944 Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane," tragic events took place as the...