Justice Delayed, Part 1
 The Career Girl Murders
There are few stories in the annals of true crime like that of the career girl murder case of 1963. On one level, it was a classical whodunit tale that had Manhattan detectives stumped for many months while public pressure to solve the killings built to a boiling point. The savage sex-murders of two girls on Manhattans Upper East Side in 1963 instilled genuine fear into thousands of young women and shocked even the most hardened investigators. On another level, it exposed an ugly and secret side of police work, which forced the Supreme Court of the United States to address the constitutional issues at stake. The case served as the blueprint for a popular television show of the 1970s called Kojak, starring Telly Savalas. But the series, which ran for many years, never put the actual story on TV. Maybe it was too controversial or too bizarre or maybe the truth was just too much for some people.
 Azaria Chamberlain Case
"A Dingo Took My Baby!"
They were the words that Lindy Chamberlain had screamed out into the blackness of the cold night in a camping ground close to Ayers Rock, Central Australia, on the night of August 17, when the minister's wife discovered that her nearly ten-week-old baby, Azaria had been taken by a dingo.
There were dingo tracks going in and out of the tent and fellow campers were eye witnesses to the events, but somehow the media got ahold of the story and twisted it beyond recognition. Despite the all the forensic evidence to the contrary, Lindy was convicted of murder and spent years in prison until this horrible miscarriage of justice was exposed. This is the real story behind Meryl Streep's classic movie "A Cry in the Dark."
 Alice Crimmins
In this classic murder mystery, Alice Crimmins' two children are murdered. As a very attractive and sexually adventuresome woman in the 1960s, she is railroaded into a conviction not based upon the evidence, but upon the scandal of her sex life. "A tramp like her is capable of anything," the prosecutor sneered.
The twists and turns, surprise witnesses and tabloid events of her two trials almost defy belief. Not surprisingly, this extraordinary case has been the subject of books, movies and plays.
Past Specials
Don Juan Killers, Part 1
Human Predators, Part 3
Pure Evil, Part 1
Mad or Bad? Part 1
Most Controversial Cases, Part 2
Sleeping With The Enemy, Part 1
Cult Murders, Part 2
Halloween, Part 1
Mothers Who Kill, Part 2
Spies, Part 1
Beauties & the Beast
Monsters, Part 3
Truly Weird, Part 2
Sleeping with the Enemy, Part 6
Sleeping with the Enemy, Part 2
Femmes Fatales, Part 1
Children of Thunder, Part 1
Truly Weird, Part 1
Killer Kids, Part 3
Monsters, Part 5
Celebrity Crimes, Part 1
The Dark Side - British, Part 1
Pure Evil-European Style, Part 2
Partners in Crime, Part 1
Monsters, Part 4
Sleeping with the Enemy, Part 4
Beauties and the Beasts, Part 3
Murder Most Extraordinary, Part 1
Crimes Below the Belt, Part 1
School Massacres, Part 2
Sex Slaves, Part 1
Monsters, Part 1
Spree Murders, Part 2
Crimes of Passion, Part 2
Making Crime Pay, Part 1
Killing for Profit, Part 1
Unhappy Moments in American Justice, Part 1
The Zodiac Killer
The Greatest Scams and Forgeries, Part 1
Beauties and the Beasts, Part 4
Lights, Camera, Murder! Part 1
Sleeping with the Enemy, Part 5
Beauties and the Beasts, Part 5
Human Predators, Part 1
Killer Dads, Part 1
Gay Serial Killers, Part 1
Most Popular Stories, Part 2
Human Predators, Part 4
Murder on Main Street, Part 1
Young Killers, Part 1
Child Killers, Part 1
Spree Murders, Part 1
Human Predators, Part 3
What Makes Serial Killers Tick, Part 2
What Makes Serial Killers Tick, Part 1
Mothers Who Kill, Part 2
Monsters, Part 2
Justice Delayed, Part 1
Sex Slaves, Part 3
Sleeping with the Enemy, Part 3
Human Predators, part 2
Beauties and the Beasts, Part 3
Celebrity Crimes, Part 2
Most Popular Stories, Part 1
Vampire Killers, Part 1
Great Unsolved Mysteries, Part 2
Dangerous Nuts, Part 1
Anything For Money, Part 1
Beauties and the Beasts, Part 2
Truly Weird, Part 3
The Death Shift
Married to the Mob
Killer Dads, Part 1
Killer Kids, Part 2
Poisoners, Part 1
Woman Scorned, Part 1
Satanists, Part 1
Killer Kids, Part 1
Sex Slaves, Part 2
Pure Evil - Asian Style, Part 1
Prostitute Killers, Part 1
Pure Evil - European Style, Part 1
Crimes of Passion, Part 1
Serial Rapists, Part 1
Cult Murders, Part 1
Pedophiles and Child Killers, Part 1
Flamboyant Criminals, Part 1
Controversial Cases, Part 1
School Massacres, Part 1
Cannibal Killers, Part 1
Great Unsolved Mysteries, Part 1
Deadly Doctors, Part 1
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