Crimes and Criminals Chapters

Sometimes the law makes criminals out of innocent people; other times guilty people go free. Then again ... sometimes the punishment fits the crime. Meet some of history's alleged and actual criminals and learn about their crimes.Sometimes the law makes criminals out of innocent people; other times guilty people go free. Then again ... sometimes the punishment fits the crime. Meet some of history's alleged and actual criminals and learn about their crimes.

Dillinger is shot and killed after attending the film "Manhattan Melodrama" at the Biograph Theater in Chicago.

Life is hard in Los Angeles for Elizabeth Short and other young women seeking the "Hollywood Life".

Russia's Tsar orders a firing-squad charade to show Dostoevsky and his colleagues what happens to lawbreakers.

After his parole from prison, Leopold spends the remainder of his life teaching and helping others in Puerto Rico.

Loeb's cellmate kills him and is later acquitted at trial.

In 1933, Dillinger meets and starts a relationship with 25-year-old Billie Frechette.

Curious to see "Public Enemy Number One," people go to view Dillinger's body while at the morgue.

Anna Sage, a Romanian immigrant, offers information on Dillinger to the FBI in exchange for their help in preventing her deportation.

Depression-era Americans are against banks, so many regard Dillinger as a hero until he starts killing people.

Three people die at the Little Bohemia resort when the FBI fails to capture Dillinger and his gang.

After prison, Dostoevsky has failed love relationships and becomes addicted to gambling.

Dr. Henry Jekyll has written a full account of his experiments, which caused him to turn into Edward Hyde, but no one reads his statement until after ...

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