Crimes and Criminals Story Briefs

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.

Africa had its own system of slavery, before the European slave trade, but it involved a system of justice.

Image of a drawing depicting a scene at the trial of Louis XVI when the charges against him were read to the court.

This image depicts the exterior of a typical money box which people, like Victor Lustig, used to con others out of their money.

This is the Deringer John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.

This aerial view depicts Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. It once had an electric chair.

Japanese officials, who feared an Allied invasion of Palawan Island (in the Philippines) ordered a massacre of American servicemen during December of ...

A DEA agent guards 5,137 pounds of cocaine seized from a Panamanian ship docked in Miami, Florida.

President Nixon always said he didn't know about a massive cover-up, but then a ''smoking gun'' tape was released. It led to the President's resignati...

President McKinley was shot by an anarchist. Why did he shoot the President?

When William Wallace arrived in London, soon-after his capture near Glasgow, he was put on trial. It would not go well for him.

M.N. ("Nick") McDonald, one of the Dallas police officers who arrested Oswald, says of this book: As I read "With Malice," I found myself once again c...

Yakov Mikhaylovich Yurovsky (18781938) was responsible for executing Tsar Nicholas, his family and their closest helpers (including Doctor Botkin).

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