A young Sicilian man stepped off a ship in New York harbor in 1909, dreaming of a fresh start. Lorenzo Cali was running from justice back home.
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Coerced False Confessions During Police Interrogations
Eddie Joe Lloyd thought he was helping police catch a killer when he confessed to a murder he didn't commit. The cops convinced him it would smoke out...
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Dr. Ossian Sweet bought a house in white Detroit in 1925. When a mob showed up throwing rocks, someone fired back from the windows. Clarence Darrow to...
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On a cold night at Ayers Rock in 1980, Lindy Chamberlain returned to her tent to find her baby gone and a dingo running away. She'd scream those famou...
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Most people don't know a dentist campaigned for the electric chair in New York. Two big industrialists battled over which electrical system would exec...
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The Career Girls Murders
Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert were killed in their Upper East Side apartment in 1963. The case stumped detectives and later inspired Kojak.
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Anna Mae Lambert went to visit her daughter on New Year's Eve and found three dead bodies instead. One was Brandon Teena, who'd been raped a week befo...
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Richard Herrin smashed his ex-girlfriend's skull with a hammer while she slept. But after he confessed, Yale and the Catholic Church rallied around hi...
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