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Chandra Ann Levy
Chandra Ann Levy was an intern who worked at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C. and made national headlines when she disappeared after having an affair with U.S. Representative Gary Condit.

The 'Mississippi Burning' Case
A civil rights movement in 1964, named Freedom Summer, was a campaign launched to get African Americans in the southern United States registered to vote. Thousands of students and civil rights activists, both white and black, joined the organization, Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and traveled to southern states to register voters. In was in this atmosphere that three civil rights workers were killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Murders and Trial - Mississippi Burning Part 2
The FBI pieced together events of the night the three civil rights workers were murdered in June 1964 in what became known as the Mississippi Burning case.

Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel
In the late 1960s, Patricia "Katie" Krenwinkel became a member of the infamous Manson family and participated in Tate-LaBianca murders in 1969.

Jeffrey MacDonald's Version
Jeffrey MacDonald's version of what happened the night his family was murdered.

Jeffrey MacDonald's Legal Maze
On February 17, 1970 a horrific crime took place outside of Fort Bragg in North Carolina. An army doctor's wife and two children were savagely killed and the doctor wounded. The facts of this crime deviated with each legal hearing and opinions have been drawn like a dual at sunrise.

Jeffrey MacDonald
On February 17, 1970 a horrific crime took place outside of Fort Bragg in North Carolina. An army doctor's wife and two children were savagely killed and the doctor wounded. The facts of this crime deviated with each legal hearing and opinions have been drawn like a dual at sunrise.

The Sam Sheppard Murder Case
In this highly publicized murder case, Dr. Sheppard was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife, Marilyn. He was eventually freed from prison but the scars of the injustices he had to endure were permanent.

Mary Kay Letourneau
Mary Kay Letourneau: A profile of the grade school teacher convicted of child rape, after having sex with her 12-year-old student.

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