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Trials

Crime History

Welcome to the Monkey House

In 1906, Enrico Caruso was arrested for molesting a young woman inside the Monkey House of Central Park Zoo, paving the way for the first celebrity trial of the 20th century.

David Suisman The Believer Jun 2004 15min Permalink

Crime

The Trials of "Dr. Sam"

A Wikipedia-style dissection of the case that inspired The Fugitive. The accused, Dr. Sam Sheppard, claimed to have struggled with an intruder before being knocked out and dumped on a beach, his wife’s left corpse in their house.

Denise Noe Crime Magazine Jun 2010 Permalink

Best Article Crime

Innocence Lost

In 1992, Anthony Graves was arrested for brutally murdering a family in the middle of night. He had no motive. There was no physical evidence. The only witness recanted. And yet Graves remains behind bars.

Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly Apr 2011 55min Permalink

Crime

Getting Off

Inside the competitive, lucrative, swashbuckling world of DWI attorneys in Houston.

Mike Giglio Houston Press Nov 2009 20min Permalink

Crime

No Angel, No Devil (Part II)

The second installment of the Gaile Owens story. A former churchgoing mother of two from suburban Memphis, Owens is the first woman to be given the death penalty in Tennessee in nearly 200 years.

Brantley Hargrove Nashville Scene Apr 2010 40min Permalink

Crime

No Angel, No Devil

Gaile Owens was a churchgoing mother of two boys in suburban Memphis. Now she’s the first woman sentenced to die in Tennessee in nearly 200 years. The jury never heard her whole story; this is it.

Brantley Hargrove Nashville Scene Apr 2010 30min Permalink

Crime

Too Weird for The Wire

When the Feds sought the death penalty for four African-American drug dealers in Baltimore, the accused found a defense in the unlikeliest of places: the legal theories of white supremacists.

Kevin Carey Washington Monthly May 2008 25min Permalink

Crime

A Troubled Rape Case

A rape case against a Deputy D.A. brought by a co-worker opens a window into a shockingly kinky and dysfunctional District Attorney’s office, brimming with conflict of interest.

John Geluardi East Bay Express Oct 2009 25min Permalink

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