Episode 1
Mass Murder: An American Tragedy
1994-01-05 • 43 min
Charles Whitman kills his mother and wife, then fires from a University of Texas tower.
TV season
1994-01-05
Episode 1
1994-01-05 • 43 min
Charles Whitman kills his mother and wife, then fires from a University of Texas tower.
Episode 2
1994-01-12 • 43 min
Prominent cases show how police deal with hostage situations.
Episode 3
1994-01-19 • 43 min
Profiles of people who have been falsely accused and imprisoned.
Episode 4
1994-01-26 • 43 min
In 1950 the Brinks robbery nets $2.8
Episode 5
1994-02-02 • 43 min
How the American legal system deals with fugitives, focusing on John List, a killer who eluded the FBI for more than a decade.
Episode 6
1994-02-09 • 43 min
Capital punishment; Caryl Chessman; Gary Gilmore; Sister Helen Prejean ministers to death-row inmates.
Episode 7
1994-02-23 • 43 min
Youthful offenders; teens shoot British tourist.
Episode 8
1994-03-02 • 43 min
Joseph Valachi and Peter Maas are featured in this look at mobsters who turn against fellow criminals and help law enforcement agencies convict them.
Episode 10
1994-03-30 • 43 min
Nuremberg, My Lai and other war-crime trials.
Episode 11
1994-04-06 • 43 min
Cases of psychological manipulation.
Episode 12
1994-04-13 • 43 min
Increasing violence in society; battered women.
Episode 13
1994-04-20 • 43 min
Violence and behavior codes in America's prisons.
Episode 14
1994-05-04 • 43 min
John Hinckley Jr.; Daniel Sickles kills Francis Scott Key's son; the McNaughton rule; Kimberly Martin.
Episode 15
1994-05-18 • 43 min
Frank Serpico and Robert Leuci uncover corruption in the New York Police Department.
Episode 16
1994-06-01 • 43 min
The Supreme Court broadly defines free speech; Nazis march in Skokie, Ill.
Episode 17
1994-06-15 • 43 min
Con artists who use religion for gain.
Episode 18
1994-07-06 • 43 min
In one of the most daring robberies in history, the 1950 Brink's robbery netted thieves more than $2.7 million.
Episode 19
1994-07-13 • 43 min
Media pressure, fear and prejudice may affect jury decisions.
Episode 20
1994-08-03 • 43 min
How the authorities may have misjudged David Koresh and the situation at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.
Episode 21
1994-08-17 • 43 min
The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas case brings sexual-harassment issues under scrutiny.
Episode 22
1994-09-07 • 43 min
New York gang moves into Boston; Iowa street gang is implicated in a murder.
Episode 23
1994-09-14 • 43 min
Prison uprisings; 1971 Attica riot; New Mexico State Penitentiary.
Episode 24
1994-09-21 • 43 min
Private investigators are the cowboys of law enforcement.
Episode 25
1994-10-19 • 43 min
Profiling the lives of street-corner hookers and high-class Hollywood call girls and examining how they are brought to justice.
Episode 26
1994-11-23 • 43 min
Sting operations; Marion Barry; John DeLorean.
Episode 27
1994-11-30 • 43 min
Events leading up to Chicago's 1968 anti-war riots; the "conspiracy to commit riot" trials.
Episode 28
1994-12-14 • 43 min
An examination of the evolution of divorce in the United States.