Jury duty happens to everyone. When the call came to Graham Burnett, a young historian, he had a shock in store. A Trial by Jury is his startling account of how performing this familiar civic duty challenged him in ways he never thought possible and turned into one of the most consuming experiences of his life....[more]

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A nightmare from a thousand B-movies: A horrible crime is committed in your neighborhood, and the police knock on your door. A witness swears you are the perpetrator; you have no alibi, and no one believes your protestations of innocence....[more]

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They were allegedly under the influence of Charles Manson, a scruffy, would-be pop singer with questionable talent. They were young women from comfortable middle-class families committing murder....[more]

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A highly acclaimed journalistic masterpiece and true crime classic, Homicide illustrates a year in the life of the detectives of the Homicide Unit in the city of Baltimore....[more]

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On July 22, 1992, Colombian druglord Pablo Escobar walked out of the luxurious prison he built for himself and disappeared into the Colombian jungle. His audacious escape destroyed the nation's tenuous cease-fire with its infamous narcos, and pushed it into open war with the Medellin drug cartel....[more]

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Retired L.A. police detective and witness in the O.J. Simpson trial Mark Fuhrman investigates the murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley. Martha was bludgeoned and stabbed with a golf club on the grounds of her family's Greenwich, CT, estate on the night of October 30, 1975....[more]

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In the summer of 1996, reporter Susan Walsh disappeared while writing a story on downtown Manhattan's mysterious "vampire underground." Suspicion immediately fell on the bizarre cultists who wore black, painted their faces white, and drank (or claimed to drink) human blood....[more]

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For twenty years, Candice DeLong was on the front lines of some of the FBI's most memorable and griping cases. Some have called her a real life Clarice Starling and a female Donnie Brasco....[more]

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A diary found in Liverpool may be the key to identifying history's first and most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. For decades the mystery of his identity has confounded experts, but this recent finding may finally bring them some answers....[more]

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Cosa Nostra - the Mafia's true name - requires a blood oath of silence from those who join the brotherhood. In 1992, Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano broke his oath and testified against his boss, John Gotti....[more]

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After Jack the Ripper and before Son of Sam there was only one name their equal in terror: the deadly, elusive, and mysterious Zodiac. Beginning in 1968 the hooded mass murderer terrified the city of San Francisco and the Bay Area with a string of brutal killings....[more]

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