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Martha Moxley: Age of Innocence
It was unusual for Martha Moxley to leave home for a long period of time. The 15-year old Greenwich, CT resident was a good girl - happy, fun-loving, and popular. She had many friends in the neighborhood, as well as at school, and had just developed a romantic relationship with a boy from the other side of town. When she left home on Mischief Night (October 30) 1975 to visit her new boyfriend and help him cook dinner, she was never seen again . . . until her body was found the next day - raped and pillaged, and deposited under a tree in her backyard. The case remained unsolved for 30 years. That is, until 2005 when Dr. Henry Lee became involved.
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Laci Peterson: The Un-Expecting Mother
It was Christmas Eve 2002 when Laci Peterson and her unborn son, Conner, were reported missing. Suspicions arose when her husband, Scott, told authorities that he had been out on a fishing trip for the entire day. Authorities searched his home, vehicle, workplace, and boat. For months, no evidence was found - not even Laci's body. How would law enforcement be able to prove that Scott Peterson had murdered his wife? Read more about the astonishing turn of events in this case in "Dr. Henry Lee's Forensic Files".
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Elizabeth Smart
On June 5, 2002, fourteen year old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah. A man broke into the Smart home in the middle of the night and snatched the blond-haired, blue-eyed child from her very own bed. Her sister, Mary Katherine, was right next to her. After hearing the intruder's voice threaten to kill Elizabeth and her family if she wasn't quiet, Mary Katherine was frightened into silence for more than an hour after the abduction. Eventually she notified her parents and authorities were contacted. The search for Elizabeth lasted more than nine months. How did this case end? Read "Dr. Henry Lee's Forensic Files" for the full story.
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Is O.J. Simpson Guilty?
On June 12, 1994, Simpson's former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, 35, and her friend,
Ronald Goldman, 25, were savagely killed near the front gate of her Bundy Drive condominium
in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Simpson became an early suspect, but it wasn't until
five days later that the possibility of his complicity became evident when a white Ford Bronco
led police cars and a fleet of TV news helicopters in a slow, 60-mile chase across the southern
California 405 freeway. O.J. was in the car which was driven by his boyhood friend and ex-football
teammate, A.C. Cowlings. Simpson rode in the back seat pointing a gun at his head. The improbable
drama was viewed by a national TV audience of an estimated 95 million people.
Earlier that day, O.J. had failed to appear for arraignment on charges of double homicide.
When the Bronco eventually pulled into his Rockingham Avenue estate, he was taken into custody,
and the much-admired face of a confident, smiling O.J. Simpson had been transformed into a somber
television image of confusion and darkness. He had been stripped of his superstar mantle and
cloaked beneath the weight of a new and unseemly role: murder defendant. Is he guilty of this double homicide? You will find the answer by reading Dr. Lee's recent books.
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Jon Benet Ramsey: What Is Wrong with the Case?
The bizarre story began with a frantic 911 call which was received by the Boulder Police Department
at 5:52, the morning after Christmas 1996. The caller was Patsy Ramsey who shrieked that her daughter
had been abducted from their home during the night. An attractive couple, Patsy and John Ramsey were
members of Boulder's socially elite. Their home was a sprawling Tudor-style structure.
Police arrived at 6:10 a.m. and from that point forward, the case was to drag on for years as a
stormy mixture of tragedy, investigative ineptness, controversy, accusations of incompetence and alleged cover-up.
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Sacco-Vanzetti
Most younger people have never heard of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. They were Italian anarchists
charged with the 1920 killing of a shoe factory paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
Their controversial trial is universally included among America's most famous not only because of issues of
ethnicity, draft evasion, radicalism and an arguably bigoted judicial system, but also because of the passion
of the times. In the eyes of many, never in American legal history has public apprehension so shaped the
outcome of a trial; never has one been conducted under such a shadow of ethnic hatred and political panic.
And thrust in the middle of this landscape were two admitted radicals who embodied the twin threats of an
unwelcome foreign element preaching a foreign political view.
At home in America, an ailing Woodrow Wilson
was president but would soon be succeeded by Warren Harding. Prohibition was in full force, sparking the
boom of speakeasies, and F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "The uncertainties of 1919 were over. America was
going on the greatest, gaudiest spree in history." Outwardly, there was little doubt that the country's
mood and its aspirations were changing. The start of the decade found its youth turning into social
desperadoes: daring, hard drinking and cynical. Men mocked authority and flaunted their recklessness.
Women's skirts were shorter while silk stockings and bobbed hair replaced hobble skirts and flowing tresses.
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Vincent Foster: Suicide or Murder in Washington?
On July 20, 1993, White House deputy counsel, Vincent W. Foster, was found dead in Fort Marcy Park in
Arlington, Virginia, seven miles from the Capitol. He was a longtime friend and classmate of President
Clinton, a confidant of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and an important player in the handling of
the Whitewater scandal. Foster had also been a partner with Hillary Clinton in the Rose Law Firm in
Arkansas.
The death was summarily pronounced a suicide because some evidence pointed to a
man who was depressed, frustrated and unable to continue his pressure packed position. But many
researchers who believed it was a murder suggested that Foster's death was part of a larger
Whitewater cover-up.
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Lindbergh:The Murder of an American Hero's Baby
Tuesday night of March 1, 1932, their 20-month-old son was kidnapped from his nursery. Within hours, an unorganized horde of
police and press personnel swarmed over the grounds and by morning scores of curious onlookers had joined them.
The child's disappearance was detected at 10 pm, the police were called at 10:25 p.m. and at midnight, H. Norman Schwartzkopf,
chief of the New Jersey State Police, arrived to take command. (He was the father of the 1991 Desert Storm commander.) Much
of Schwartzkopf's authority was usurped by Lindbergh, since the hero in effect took charge of the investigation.
In the wet ground directly below a second-story window to the nursery, the police discovered shallow footprints but neglected
to measure them, photograph their sole pattern or cast them with plaster. Sadly lacking also were measurements and photographs
of apparent footprints found inside the nursery. An item the police did obtain was an envelope containing a single sheet of
paper upon which the following message was written in blue ink:
(actual text of message)
Dear Sir!
Have 50.000$ redy 25.000$ in 20$ bills 15.000 in 10$ bills and 10.000$ in 5$ bills. After 2-4 days we will inform you were to deliver the Mony.
We warn you for making anyding public or for notify the polise the child is in gute care.
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Sam Shepard
The Sam Sheppard murder case which began in the mid-'50s has been described as the case that will
not die, the story with nine lives. It spawned a popular television series, The Fugitive, and
a motion picture of the same name which became a box office smash.
In the Bay Village section of Cleveland, Ohio, 31-year-old Marilyn Sheppard, four months pregnant,
was found bludgeoned to death sometime during the early morning hours of July 4, 1954. An attractive
suburban housewife, she was discovered in her bed in the second-story bedroom by her husband, Sam,
a neurosurgeon who, even at age 30, was already prominent.
Dr. Sam's story remained consistent throughout the years. The couple had entertained dinner
guests at their lakefront home and after their departure, Sam fell asleep on the couch in the
first floor den while watching a TV movie. He awoke, believing he heard his wife calling his name
and dashed up the stairs and into the bedroom where he saw a figure in a light garment and then
grappled with something or someone. He heard moaning before he was struck from behind and blacked
out. When he regained consciousness, he was lying on the floor and, pulling himself up, saw his
wife covered with blood. He felt for but could not obtain her pulse, then ran into the next room
to check on their seven-year-old son, Chip. The boy slept soundly. Hearing a noise below, he ran
to the first floor and saw a man running out the back door toward the lake. Dr. Sam stated that
the man was about 6 feet three inches, middle-aged, with dark bushy hair and wearing a white shirt.
He reportedly chased him across the lawn and down the wooden steps leading to the beach. He caught
up to him and grasped him from the back. They struggled before he felt himself choking and again
lost consciousness. After an unspecified period of time, he returned to the blood-spattered bedroom
and paced. He believed he was disoriented and the victim of a nightmare, yet may have reexamined
his wife and accepted that she was dead. His next move, he said, was to call a neighbor, Bay Village
Mayor Spencer Houk. The mayor and his wife Esther arrived quickly. It was 6 am on the Fourth of July.
Following a brief hospital stay for shock and neck injures Sheppard was interrogated repeatedly by
Bay Village authorities and by the Cleveland police who formally assumed responsibility for the investigation
three weeks later. That interval was filled with massive media scrutiny and included a three-day inquest
conducted by the coroner, Dr. Sam Gerber. Newspapers were emblazoned with challenging headlines:
"Why Don't Police Quiz Top Suspect?"
"Police Captain Urges Sheppard's Arrest."
"Why Isn't Sam Sheppard In Jail?"
Finally, the doctor was arrested on July 30, indicted on August 17 and brought back to trial a month later.
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John F. Kennedy: Who Killed Our President?
The Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot Kennedy from the sixth
floor of the TSBD and that Jack Ruby acted alone in killing Oswald in the Dallas jail basement.
It posited that three shots were fired; two hits, one miss. The first hit pierced the President's
neck and continued on to strike Governor Connally. The second hit struck Kennedy in the head,
killing him. The Commission was unable to determine where the three shots went. It added
that it had found no evidence of a conspiracy between Oswald and Ruby.
Critics disputed the findings and, in 1978, a special committee of the U.S. House of Representatives,
the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) released a statement accepting the testimony of
witnesses and acoustical experts who claimed that shots were fired from two locations along the
motorcade route at the same time, one point from the rear and one from the right front.
The committee concluded that the President, "was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy."
But four years later, yet another group, the National Research Council, disagreed with the House
committee findings. Thus, the lone gunman versus the conspiracy theories evolved, and they continue to be debated today. These and other questions will soon be addressed:
1. How many shots were fired?
2. What were their trajectories?
3. What did witnesses see and hear?
4. What can be said about the crime scene, fingerprint evidence and the alleged murder rifle?
5. What did the doctors really find at the autopsy?
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