Crime: Major Crimes and True Crime

Deadliest Serial Killers of All Time

Uncover the true and horrific stories of 11 of the deadliest serial killers of all time, in this episode of History Countdown.

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WW2 Resistance Doctor Was Really a Serial Killer

A respected doctor got away with murder for years. But when word finally got out about his heinous crimes, it earned him the moniker “Dr. Satan”.

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Why Prisoners Preferred Alcatraz

Alcatraz is one of the most notorious prisons in American history, but did it really live up to its feared reputation?

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The Lynching of Leo Frank

The Murder of Mary Phagan Mary Phagan was on her way to Atlanta’s Confederate Memorial Day parade on April 26, 1913 when she stopped in at the National Pencil Company to collect her paycheck–$1.20 for her 10-cents-an-hour work. The next day, the girl’s body was discovered in the factory’s basement. As Steve Oney writes in […]

Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski)

Ted Kaczynski, nicknamed the Unabomber, conducted a 17-year series of attacks, using mail bombs to target academics, business executives and others. The Unabomber bombing campaign—which killed three people and injured 23—started in the late 1970s and continued until Kaczynski was caught in 1996.

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How Did Cannabis Become the Most Controversial Plant?

Find out how, as marijuana became ingrained in youth culture, a political campaign pushed back to designate the drug a danger to public health in this clip from The Marijuana Revolution.

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Flashback: The Dangers of Marijuana Addiction (in 1951)

In the midst of post-war suburban life, one green plant threatens this pristine utopia: marijuana. This film warns of the drug’s danger—how it can transform an all-American boy like “Marty” into a dope fiend.

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Timeline of the Jonestown Massacre

Explore the timeline of the weeks leading up to the Jonestown massacre on November 18, 1978.

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Kitty Genovese

KITTY GENOVESE MURDER Kitty Genovese was returning from work home at around 2:30 a.m. on March 13, 1964, when she was approached by a man with a knife. Genovese ran toward her apartment building front door, and the man grabbed her and stabbed her while she screamed. A neighbor, Robert Mozer, yelled out his window, […]

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Lizzie Borden – Meek or Murderess?

In August 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were found murdered in their Massachusetts home. Andrew’s daughter Lizzie would be tried for their murders and was acquitted of all charges.

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Murder Castle

Who Was H. H. Holmes? H. H. Holmes was born Herman Webster Mudgett in New Hampshire in 1861. As an adult, he abandoned his young wife and child in 1885 to move to Illinois. Once there, he changed his name to Holmes, reportedly as an homage to the fictional English detective Sherlock Holmes, the literary […]

3:03 minTV-14

History’s Most Terrifying Serial Killers

Revisit the deadly sprees of some of history’s scariest serial killers – including one who was never captured – and catch “American Ripper” Tuesdays at 10/9C.

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