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Leopold and Loeb’s Criminal Minds
In defense of murderers Leopold and Loeb, attorney Clarence Darrow thwarted a nation’s call for vengeance
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On the Job: Courtroom Sketch Artist
Decades of depicting defendants, witnesses and judges have given Andy Austin a unique perspective on Chicago
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Ten of the most incredible art heists of the modern era
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How a Civil War buff’s chance discovery led to a sting, a raid and a victory against traffickers in stolen historical documents
A librarian’s sleuthing turns up a crime with at least 100 victims
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A Brief History of Scotland Yard
Investigating London’s famous police force and some of its most infamous cases
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The Pinkerton Detective Agency chased down some of America’s most notorious criminals
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A former guard’s inside look at America’s most famous prison
The chief of the FBI’s organized crime unit on the history of La Cosa Nostra
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The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is an epic chronicle of crime and vice in early London. Now anyone can search all 52 million words
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John Wilkes Booth, cornered in a Virginia barn, wanted to go down fighting: “I have too great a soul to die like a criminal”
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The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872
How a Kentucky grifter and his partner pulled off one of the era’s most spectacular scams — until a dedicated man of science exposed their scheme
19,000 cargo containers flowing into the US each day pose a needle-in-the-haystack challenge to security officials worried about hidden terrorist weapons
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An all-Indian Customs unit possibly the world’s best trackers uses techniques to pursue smugglers along a remote stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border
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Cybercops Take a Byte Out of Computer Crime
A detective working the computer crime beat still needs street smarts, but there’s a lot of uncharted legal territory out there
If His Life Were a Short Story, Who’d Ever Believe It?
Being locked up for embezzlement freed him to write, launching William Sydney Porter on a brilliant but boozy career as O. Henry
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In the war-shattered city of Nuremberg, in November 1945, an Allied tribunal convened to seek justice in the face of the Third Reich’s monstrous war crimes
There Was Never a Harder Place Than ‘the Rock’
Used for 29 years to house the nation’s worst criminals, the penitentiary on Alcatraz earned its reputation as ‘Uncle Sam’s Devil’s Island’
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