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 Ep1: The Cleveland Torso Murders

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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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S1 Ep42: The Osage Nation Murders

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S1 Ep41: Richard Biegenwald: The Jersey Shore Thrill Killer

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27 Sep 202137min

S1 Ep40: Danny Rolling: The Gainesville Ripper

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When five college students in Florida were brutally slain in a four-day span in 1990, it sent shockwaves across the nation as newscasters made comparisons to serial killer Ted Bundy. Police franticall...

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S1 Ep39: The Theft of the Mona Lisa

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As soon as Leonardo da Vinci unveiled the Mona Lisa in the early 1500s, the art world recognized it as a masterpiece. But it wasn't until centuries later that her face became one of the most famous in...

13 Sep 202136min

S1: The Death of Kendrick Johnson (from "Strange and Unexplained")

S1: The Death of Kendrick Johnson (from "Strange and Unexplained")

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6 Sep 202135min

S1 Ep38: Susan Smith: More than a Monster

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