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The Harpes:
These killing cousins raped, thieved and their way around frontier-era Tennessee and Kentucky with astonishing cruelty, cutting the throats of babies, bashing in the heads of children, killing more for pleasure than plunder.
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Grace O'Malley:
The Queen of the Irish Seas was a legendary woman warrior and respected rebel leader who finally made an alliance with Queen Elizabeth I. The writers of Les Miserables have turned her legend into a Broadway musical.
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| Mid-West Crime Wave |
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Bonnie & Clyde:
Romeo & Juliet in a getaway car
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John Dillinger:
Folk hero and bank robber meets the Lady in Red. Now with 10 additional chapters
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Charles Arthur Floyd:
The "Pretty Boy" from Cookson Hills
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Alvin Karpis and the Barker Gang:
The FBI's pursuit of the last Public Enemy Number One. The true story of Ma Barker and her sons and the capture of this dangerous group of outlaws and kidnappers.
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George "Machine Gun" Kelly:
Bank-robbing and kidnapping desperado
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Baby Face Nelson:
Childlike mug with a psychopathic soul
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| The Wild West |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid:
The real story of these glamorous American outlaws who were immortalized in the Hollywood film with Newman and Redford
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Wyatt Earp:
Knight with a six-shooter
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Jesse James:
The man and the legend
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Ned Kelly:
His gun blazing as he struggles against a rain of police bullets is one of the most powerful and enduring images of Australia. After scores of books and movies this legendary outlaw is still a very controversial figure.
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Henry McCarty:
The Wild West's "Billy the Kid"
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| Kidnappings & Sensational Heists |
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Chowchilla Kidnappers:
Affluent trio takes a school bus hostage for $5 million ransom
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The Cudahy Kidnapping:
16-year-old son of Omaha meat-packing baron is kidnapped. Incredibly, the kidnappers, who have pocketed $25,000, are caught but acquitted by 2 different juries.
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The Greenlease Kidnapping:
Alcoholic couple tricks school into releasing Bobby Greenlease into their custody. A classic murder/kidnap case.
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Brooke Hart:
The Lindbergh-vintage kidnap/murder of this popular & attractive young man drove the people of San Jose to lynch the suspects.
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Gary Krist:
The "Einstein of Crime" kidnapped daughter of President Nixon's friend and buried her alive in underground capsule.
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Sensational Heists:
A look at the world's most daring and outrageous thefts -- diamonds, cash, and personal identity -- in recent history
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Sensational Art Heists:
Daring, Hollywood-style thefts of the world's great masterpieces.
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Lindbergh Kidnapping:
Son of an American hero kidnapped and murdered.
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Leopold & Loeb:
It was called the "Crime of the Century." Two incredibly wealthy and brilliant young Chicago men with IQs almost off the chart decided to execute "the perfect crime." Their arrogance convinced them that they were so superior intellectually superior to the that they would never be discovered. Their kidnap victim would be random, the first boy they found walking home from the prep school they had gone to. As it happened, the first boy they saw was a cousin of Dickie Loeb's named Bobby Franks. Bobby willing jumped into the car with his cousin and his friend and took the last ride of his life.
The next day, a ransom note was sent to his terrified parents telling them that to ensure Bobby's safe return, $10,000 a very large sum in 1924 must be produced by noon. "George Johnson" called to give the Franks family instructions on where to leave the ransom money, but in the meantime, Bobby's body had been found in a culvert.
As the investigation of Bobby's brutal murder went into high gear, suspicion increasingly focused on the two young college men. Amazingly, despite their intelligence a few stupid mistakes handed prosecutors a powerful case. Public sentiment in Chicago, exacerbated by anti-Semitism in the heartland, was to hang them.
But then the legendary Clarence Darrow took on their defense, but even so there were very serious doubts that even the great lawyer could save them from the hangman's noose.
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Charles Peace:
Famous cat burglar was a master of disguise who embarrassed Scotland Yard with his almost supernatural ability to escape as they closed in on him. Not just a master thief, he was also a virtuoso violinist, now immortalized in a Sherlock Holmes story. His lust for a married woman led him to the gallows.
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Sidney Reso:
Exxon executive is kidnapped and suffers a lonely and excruciating death at the hands of a former company security consultant.
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Kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr.:
It was a half-baked, amateur plot that, incredibly enough, succeeded. It was only when one of the accomplices couldn't hold his tongue that the gig was up.
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Adam Worth:
The story of a world-class master thief.
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