2003
Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective.
2003
Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective.
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2003
Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. Mobster Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal was a prominent figure in the casino business and one of his fellow Chicago natives, Tony Spilotro, became the most feared hit man in Vegas. Their rise and eventual fall was captured in the book and movie "Casino".
2003
Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective.From master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh comes the extraordinary true story of a firefighter who may have been, according to U.S. government profilers, "the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century." Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr would watch in awe as firefighters scrambled to put out blazes with seeming disregard for their own lives. One day he would become a fireman himself, and a good one. As a member of the Glendale Fire Department, he rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a fire captain and one of southern California's best-known and most-respected arson investigators, as well as a writer of firefighting articles and finally of a fact-based novel. But there was another, unseen life, one that included many women, a need for risk, and a hunger for recognition.
2003
Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. Few crimes in American history are as notorious as the killings masterminded by Charles Manson during an August weekend in 1969. Vincent Bugliosi, the former Los Angeles district attorney who put Manson and his accomplices behind bars and wrote a best-selling account of the murders and the 41-week trial, presents his first-person account of one of the most shocking murder stories of the 20th century.
2003
Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. On a cold October night in 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley is bludgeoned to death with a golf club in her own backyard. Nearly a quarter of a century later, former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman came across a top-secret private report he knew could blow the lid off the case. He began his own investigation and discovered evidence that he believed clearly implicated Michael Skakel in the murder. In 1998 he published Murder in Greenwich, his moment by moment analysis of just what happened the night of Martha Moxley's savage murder. A month later, Michael Skakel was indicted for the crime. Found guilty in June of 2002.
2003
Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. February 3, 1971 - New York City cop Frank Serpico was shot in the face at a Brooklyn tenement. It was the bitter, brutal end of a career spent battling the forces of corruption within the NYPD. After joining the police department, Serpico soon discovered that his biggest enemy was not murderers, drug dealers, or armed robbers, but the NYPD itself. Features interviews with Frank Serpico and Peter Maas, legendary author of the true-crime classic in his last on-camera interview before his death.
2003
Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. A true crime classic, Gary M. Lavergne's book gives the most complete analysis of the man who climbed the tower at the University of Texas in 1966 and shot 45 people, besides killing his wife and mother the night before. Also revealed is the shocking information about Whitman's family life; he was not the all-American young man gone suddenly insane as he was depicted in the media. Instead, the dark secrets of his relationship with his father and his father's own violence is woven into this account of calculated evil. This book has been hailed by experts as an excellent depiction of a case that defined mass murder, the largest mass murder in US history at that time.
Wed, Apr 9, 2003
Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs, James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell's Kitchen, a decaying tenderloin slice of New York City's West Side. They became the most notorious gang in the history of organized crime, excelling in extortion, numbers running, loansharking, and drug peddling. Upping the ante on depravity, their specialty was execution by dismemberment. Though never numbering more than a dozen members, their reign lasted for almost twenty years-until their own violent natures got the best of them, precipitating a downfall that would become as infamous as their notorious ascension into the annals of crime. Author TJ English covered their trial.