Great Crimes and Trials

Great Crimes and Trials

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Great Crimes and Trials is a British television series on The History Channel. The program consists of archival material combined with never before seen interviews to reconstruct a renowned crime, examining the felon's motives, details of the crime, the investigations and the trial.

In the United Kingdom the program is on weekdays at 12:00pm and repeated at 7:00pm. It is also available on The History Channel +1 and is narrated by actor Robert Powell. The program is also available on The Biography Channel and the Crime and Investigation Network. The first series was released on DVD in 2005.

Episodes

*Adolf Eichmann
*Al Capone
*Bonnie and Clyde
*Brown and Kennedy and other Police Killings
*Buck Ruxton
*Caryl Chessman
*Charles Starkweather
*Charles Whitman
*Dr. Crippen
*Dan White
*DeFeo and Benson
*Dennis Nilsen
*Donald Hume
*Dr. Sam Sheppard
*Gaston Dominici
*Gary Gilmore
*Graham Young
*Haigh the Acid Bath Murderer
*Heidnik and Dahmer
*Henry Lee Lucas
*Hitler and the Nuremberg Trials
*Howard Hughes Biography Hoax
*Jim Jones
*Jean Harris
*Jeremy Bamber
*John Christie of Rillington Place
*John Dillinger - Public Enemy No 1
*John Duffy
*John Wayne Gacy
*Judge Joe Peel
*Leonard Lake and Charles Ng
*Leopold and Loeb
*Lord Haw-Haw
*Lucky Luciano and the Mob
*Ma Barker and Other Public Enemies
*Mark Chapman and the Killing of John Lennon
*Murph the Surf
*Neville Heath
*New York Mafia Wars
*Pol Pot and the Killing fields of Cambodia
*The Night Stalker
*Richard Speck
*Roberts, Duddy and Witney
*Roy Fontaine
*Sacco and Vanzetti
*Sir Harry Oakes
*Son of Sam
*Stalin and the Massacre at Katyn Wood
*Ted Bundy
*The A6 Murder
*The Assassination of Gandhi
*The Kennedy Assassination
*The Assassination of Martin Luther King
*The Assassination of R F K
*The Black Panther
*US Brinks Robbery
*The Boston Strangler
*Jimmy Hoffa
*Alcatraz
*The Great Train Robbery
*The Green Beret Killings
*The Hammersmith Murders
*The Hillside Stranglers
*The Jonestown Massacre
*The Ku Klux Klan
*The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping
*The Malmedy Massacre
*The Massacre of the Tsar and the Imperial family
*The Mckay Kidnapping
*The Rosenbergs
*The Kidnap of Patty Hearst
*The Siege of Sidney Street
*The Trunk Murders
*The Zodiac Killer
*Wayne Williams
*Yorkshire Ripper


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