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.

Webster's familyreceives help from a most unlikely source after his trip to the gallows - Dr. Parkman's widow.

Nathan Leopold is truly sorry for his part in the crimes and is released on March 13, 1958.

Jesse's close friend, Robert Ford, shoots him in the head in his own house while his family is there.

Former Tsar Nicholas, his wife, his son, his four daughters, and four of their assistants are shot in a cellar in their exiled home.

One theory suggests that Sir William Gull, Queen Victoria's physician, is Jack the Ripper.

Port Royal, a center of activity for pirates of the Caribbean, includes the famousHenry Morgan who spends time there.

One theory, about the Whitechapel-area muders, suggests that Prince Albert Victor is Jack the Ripper.

Sometimes when the Earth's tectonic plates move, earthquakes occur or volcanoes erupt.

Calling for Americans to "bind up the nation's wounds," Lincoln has hopes for a reunited America. Soon after his second inaugural, however, Lincoln di...

Mary Kelly supposedly tries to blackmail the royal family with her information about Prince Eddy's illegitimate child.

An envelope emblem is Albert Fish's downfall, for it leads police to his boarding house for his arrest.

Leopold and Loeb lure Bobby Franks into a rental car where Loeb allegedly kills the young boy with a chisel.

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