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.
When he was arrested for illegal gambling, Meyer Lansky did not want to testify against his friends.
A particularly sensational moment occurred during the trial of Lizzie Borden.
It was during the Nuremberg Trials when the world first realized the shocking extent of atrocities committed at concentration camps, in Europe, during...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novel about life as a prisoner in a Stalinist forced-labor camp, in Siberia's GULAG, is based onhis own experience.
The Warren Report summarizes testimony on what happened the day President Kennedy was fatally shot.
Looking more like an estate than a prison, La Catedral is Pablo Escobar's self-designed and self-chosen place of confinement after he surrenders to th...
Pablo Escobar ordered a car-bombing of El Espectador’s newspaper offices in 1989. This image depicts the resulting damage.
Count Victor Lustig, also known as Tricky Vic, used the Hotel de Crillon as a place to run his most-famous con: Selling the Eiffel Tower to a scrap de...
George Parkman had problems with his teeth.
Leopold and Loeb together with the prosecutors (who would soon seek the death penalty against them) at the time of their confession to the crimes of k...
At the really old Michelham Priory, which people say is haunted by ghosts, we also find an old pillory.
Although doctors searched for the derringer ball that killed Abraham Lincoln, they could not locate it with their probe. Something else had to happen ...
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