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Underwater Forensics:
Investigation of deaths by and near water requires special techniques to distinguish tragic accidents from murder most foul.
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THE CRIMINAL MIND |
Andrei Chikatilo:
April 14, 1992, marked the beginning of the trial of the "Rostov Ripper" for the brutal cannibalistic murders of three young people. After his capture Chikatilo confessed to more than 50 other such murders.
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SERIAL KILLERS |
Martin Appel:
A psychopathic cab driver's bloody bank robbery scheme leads to a nearly two-decades long legal game of cat and mouse with prosecutors seeking the death penalty.
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GANGSTERS & OUTLAWS |
David Parker Ray:
A woman's escape from a sadomasochistic dungeon uncovers the activities of one of the most extreme sexual sadists.
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SERIAL KILLERS |
Anatoly Onoprienko:
"The Beast of Ukraine" was arrested 12 years ago today during a routine police follow-up of a domestic complaint, ending the manhunt for one of the bloodiest serial killers in modern history.
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SERIAL KILLERS |
Robert and Stephen Spahalski:
An upstate New York serial killer and his antisocial identical twin fuel debate over the heritable components of violent crime.
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SERIAL KILLERS |
Joel Sandler:
A self-made millionaire's grim determination to avoid alimony entangles him in a self-destructive murder-for-hire scheme.
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THE CRIMINAL MIND |
John List:
Died in prison March 21, 2008. Read all about the man who killed his whole family to save their souls and then went on the lam for 18 years.
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NOTORIOUS MURDERS |
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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NOTORIOUS MURDERS |
D.B.Cooper:
FBI now examining new parachute evidence in this 36-year-old mystery.
The particulars of legendary D.B. Cooper's clever airborne crime and daredevil getaway have been pondered, picked over and recapitulated for over three decades now.
He hijacked and threatened to blow up an airliner, extorted $200,000 from Northwest Orient, then leaped from the airborne 727 with 21 pounds of $20 bills strapped to his torso and vanished. The crime was perfect if he lived, perfectly crazy if he didn't.
Either case, D.B. Cooper's nom de crime, no one knows his real name, may be the most recognized alias among western felons since Jack the Ripper.
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THE CRIMINAL MIND |
Paige Birgfeld:
A Colorado woman's unsolved disappearance uncovers an escort's double life.
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THE CRIMINAL MIND |
Hearst, Soliah and the S.L.A.:
Sara Jane Olson aka. Kathleen Soliah, erroneously released and quickly rearrested last week. Read the whole story about Soliah, Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
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TERRORISTS, SPIES & ASSASSINS |
Mary Ann Cotton:
On March 24, 1873 this female serial killer was led to the gallows and executed for killing as many as 21 of her relatives with arsenic.
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SERIAL KILLERS |
The C.S.I. Effect:
What jurors bring to a trial is as decisive to the outcome as the evidence presented. Some experts are concerned that criminal procedural dramas like C.S.I. are affecting not only the behavior of criminals, but the jurors who determine guilt or innocence.
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THE CRIMINAL MIND |
Automatism: The Sleepwalker's Defense:
Questions of consciousness and criminal intent divide jurors in high profile cases featuring the automatism defense.
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THE CRIMINAL MIND |
Charles Manson :
Investigators follow new leads in the Manson case. Read the whole story of the charismatic cult leader who was willing to resort to murder to see his prophecy of doom fulfilled.
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SERIAL KILLERS |
John Wayne Gacy:
The jury in the case of one of the most notorious serial killers, responsible for a total of 33 murders, returned a guilty verdict 28 years ago last week.
A "respectable" Chicago-area businessman, he hired young men to work in his contracting company, then raped and murdered scores of them, burying their bodies on his properties. In prison, he became the focus of researching the psychopathic mind.
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SERIAL KILLERS |
Eva Schoen:
Member of U-Haul dynasty's Schoen family murdered. Police investigation reveals family divisions and years of infighting over the business. A surprise confession to police fails to bring closure to some family members.
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NOTORIOUS MURDERS |
Bruce and Darlene Rouse:
Shotgun Slaying of Millionaire Couple Solved 15 Years Later.
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NOTORIOUS MURDERS |
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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SERIAL KILLERS |
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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NOTORIOUS MURDERS |