S5 Ep7: Jack Kevorkian: Dr. Death or Champion of Choice?

S5 Ep7: Jack Kevorkian: Dr. Death or Champion of Choice?

In the 1990s, Dr. Jack Kevorkian ignited a firestorm when he began helping to end the lives of people who said they were terminally ill. Over the years, he claimed to have assisted in the deaths of more than 130 people, all while challenging police and prosecutors who vowed to stop him. His first four trials ended in three acquittals and a mistrial, but as his antics grew more daring, so, too, did the legal system's fervor to put him behind bars. His legacy is divisive, but few can argue that he single-handedly forced America to confront its stance on physician-assisted suicide.

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S2 Ep8: The Mobster and the Movie Star: The Murder of Johnny Stompanato

S2 Ep8: The Mobster and the Movie Star: The Murder of Johnny Stompanato

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S2 Ep7: The Peyton Place Murder

S2 Ep7: The Peyton Place Murder

When the groundbreaking book "Peyton Place" hit bookshelves in 1956, the murder tale at its center was so scandalous that many stores banned it outright. But the truth is that author Grace Metallious ...

21 Helmi 202237min

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S2 Ep6: Carl Panzram: Forgotten Monster

Carl Panzram had a rough life growing up, so he decided to make life hell for everyone around him -- especially innocent young boys. When Panzram finally owned up to his crimes, his confession was so ...

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S2 Ep5: The Bludgeoning of Edwin Burdick

S2 Ep5: The Bludgeoning of Edwin Burdick

The most popular motives for murder are money and sex. That's as true today as it was in 1903 when Edwin Burdick was found brutally bludgeoned in the den of his home. Soon, the nation would learn that...

7 Helmi 202234min

S2 Ep4: Too Scandalous for the Papers: The Hix-Snook Case

S2 Ep4: Too Scandalous for the Papers: The Hix-Snook Case

Theora Hix was an enigma to those who knew her. She was witty, intelligent, and ambitious, but fiercely secretive. So when she turned up dead in the summer of 1926, investigators at first had no idea ...

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S2 Ep3: Murder at Road Hill House

S2 Ep3: Murder at Road Hill House

When a beloved 3-year-old boy went missing, only to be discovered soon after in an outhouse with his throat slit, suspicion at first settled on the child's nursemaid in a London-area town in 1860. Aft...

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S2 Ep2: The Galvanizing Murder of Emmett Till

S2 Ep2: The Galvanizing Murder of Emmett Till

A fun-loving Chicago teenager convinced his mom to let him visit relatives in Mississippi over the summer of 1955. Three days after his arrival, 14-year-old Emmett Till was viciously murdered. Because...

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S2 Ep1: The Cleveland Torso Murders

S2 Ep1: The Cleveland Torso Murders

On a crisp fall morning in 1935, two young boys made a grisly discovery in Kingsbury Run, an area in southeast Cleveland, Ohio. The boys, ages 16 and 12, had been playing catch but lost control of the...

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