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Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt:
A pair of elderly women seemingly pulled from the script of Arsenic and Old Lace stand accused of the insurance-motivated murder of two Los Angeles vagrants.
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Leopold and Loeb:
50 years ago this month, Nathan Leopold was paroled, more than 30 years after he and his lover Richard Loeb, gifted, wealthy and megalomaniacal university students, attempted to commit the perfect murder, inspiring the Alfred Hitchcock classic Rope.
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Dean Milo:
The execution-style shooting of the head of a rapidly growing, family-owned beauty products discounter leads police into a tangled web of sibling rivalry, greed and bargain-basement hitmen.
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Deadly Delivery:
A proud day for Donald and Marsha Levine is brutally ended by a hired gunman.
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Lita McClinton Sullivan:
The beautiful and accomplished daughter of a well-to-do Atlanta family, Lita McClinton shot and murdered in cold blood just hours before the divorce settlement would have been final. It will take authorities 19 years to bring the man responsible for her death to justice.
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Dominick Dunne's: "Maternal Instinct":
A Murdered Prostitute Found in a Sleazy Las Vegas Motel Leads Investigators to the East Coast and into the Heart of one of America's Richest Families.
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Jessica Lunsford:
Charming Florida child is abducted from her home by drugged out repeat sex offender John Couey who stashes her in his sister's nearby trailer and rapes her repeatedly. When investigators come looking, he panics and buries her alive.
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Amber Hagerman:
She was the abducted and murder child whose tragic story prompted the establishment of the Amber Alert system. She was riding her bike in broad daylight when a man stopped and threw her screaming into his truck.
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Natural Born Killers:
Movie by Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone pits him in court against best selling novelist John Grisham when two drug-addicted young adults are inspired by the movie to go on a killing spree that leaves a man dead and a mother permanently disabled.
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Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols:
The men responsible for one of the most shocking terrorist attacks within America — the Oklahoma City bombing. Update of the Nichols' trial.
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Dr. Harold Shipman:
The pleasant British family doctor who is believe to have murdered up to 260 of his patients, making him perhaps the most prolific serial killer in history. Shipman mocked his victims and used derogatory codes for them, such as WOW - Whining Old Woman---and FTPBI - Failed To Put Brain In. He also viewed himself as the "star" of his trial.
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Genene Jones:
Texas pediatric nurse takes over the care of babies and murders them by injecting one after another. Almost as criminal is how the hospitals and staff ignored the problem until Genene's shift became known as the Death Shift.
The mother of the first victim saw Jones kneeling at the foot of her daughters grave, sobbing and wailing the child's name over and over. She rocked back and forth, apparently in deep anguish, as if Chelsea had been her own daughter.
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Shanda Sharer:
A 12-year-old is charred and tortured to death. One of her killers is released early. Three new chapters update you on this story.
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David Ludwig:
Home-schooled youth from Lancaster, PA religious community murders Michael and Cathryn Borden, parents of underage girlfriend Kara Beth Borden and takes off with her. Once captured, new discoveries show a manipulative and violent David Ludwig behind a mask of "faith."
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Beverley
Allitt:
Attentive pediatric nurse, suffering from bizarre Munchausen by Proxy syndrome, maims and murders many babies before the hospital understands the problem.
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Velma
Barfield:
This adoring mother and pious Christian grandmother had a secret habit -- she poisoned her husbands, boyfriends, elderly people in her care and even her mother. The amazing thing is how long this Black Widow serial poisoner got away with it.
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The Bizarre Murder of Robert Schwartz:
On Monday, December 10, 2001, 57-year-old Robert Schwartz, a nationally reknown scientist in biometics and DNA research, did not show up for work. His coworkers phoned a neighbor to check on him. He had lived alone since his wife had died and was usually quite punctual, so they were worried. They had good reason to be. His corpse was found face down in his log-and-slate farmhouse, some forty miles west of Washington, D.C. He had been stabbed repeatedly with a sharp knife-like implement two days earlier and left to die. Investigators who arrived at the scene could clearly see an 'X' carved into the skin on the back of Schwartz's neck, which seemed to indicate that the murder was ritualistic.
Police had seized several knives, swords, and documents about human sacrifice in the Wiccan tradition. The "X" was thus surmised to be an occult symbol. Also, they had seized a computer and two black cloaks from a home in Haymarket. Finally they pieced together a strange and deadly web of relationships. The actual killer had a fascination with medieval wizardry and weaponry and was deeply involved in roleplaying games that involved vampire imagery. His confession shocked the country.
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Fathers Who Kill:
What kinds of pressures drive fathers to murder their children? Dr. Katherine Ramsland provides some answers and looks at some high-profile cases.
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Hollywood's Superman:
Initially actor George Reeves' fatal gunshot wound was ruled a suicide. His very popular Superman series had been cancelled and he was naturally despondent, but forensic evidence suggests that it wasn't a suicide at all, but a very clever murder.
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Anthony Pellicano:
Quite by accident, federal agents learned of his terabytes of electronic files was Pellicano's work as Hollywood's wiretapper to the stars, illegally intercepted telephone conversations of the rich and famous. Some of these wiretaps were ordered by powerful attorneys and executives seeking an unfair advantage in legal disputes. Some of the intercepted conversations concerned personal matters, like divorce and child custody disputes. Much of it was business as usual, Hollywood-style. All of it was obtained illegally.
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The Black Dahlia:
Hollywood's most famous murder case took place in post-war Los Angeles. Elizabeth Short, an engagingly attractive young woman was found brutally murdered and dumped in a vacant lot. She was called the "Black Dahlia" because she always dressed in black. This unsolved case became an obsession and will continue to be legendary when the Black Dahlia movie comes out this fall with an all-star cast.
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Dru Sjodin:
Vivacious and beautiful North Dakota college student is abducted, tortured, raped and murdered. Level 3 sex offender Alfonso Rodriquez goes to trial and could become first person executed in ND in over 100 years. Dru's Law, if enacted, would create a national sex offender registry.
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Clarence Darrow:
Legendary lawyer defends distinguished black doctor who bought a home in a white Detroit neighborhood. Mob threatens the house, shots ring out and a white man dies. The doctor and his defenders face murder conspiracy charges.
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O.J. Simpson:
10 years after the murder of his ex-wife and her friend, the former football star continues to stir controversy. Analysis of the murder and road rage trials, forensics.
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