Crimes and Criminals Chapters

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.

Pablo Escobar's family views him, and his death, very differently from most people.

In hiding, after he escapes from confinement, Pablo Escobar is separated from the people he loves the most - his family.

Accumulating enormous sums of money, from illegal drug-trading, Pablo Escobar shares the wealth with poor people, making him a local hero.

When Colombia's Minister of Justice, Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, is murdered, Pablo Escobar gets the blame.

When Colombian presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galán was murdered, the police suspected he was killed by (or on the orders of) Pablo Escobar.

At first Colombian authorities allow Pablo Escobar to have an easy life, at La Catedral (his place of "confinement"), but when Pablo hears rumors of a...

While earning his living from the illegal drug trade, Pablo Escobar was becoming a leader of Colombia's poor and downtrodden people.

The Colombians find Pablo Escobar in 1993, then kill him.

As he does with the characters of the Michael Sullivan family, Max Allan Collins invents the town of Perdition, Michigan.

The press and police cooperate to gain information, using fingerprints and a nickname, "Black Dahlia".

When John Dillinger begins his 13-month crime spree, placing him at the top of America's "most wanted" list, the Great Depression is ongoing.

Many people believe that the police cover-up the identity of the Ripper because he is someone of importance in London.

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