
Episodes List

Ep.1 Mass Murder: An American Tragedy
Air Date: 1994-01-05
Charles Whitman kills his mother and wife, then fires from a University of Texas tower.

Ep.2 The Hostage Takers
Air Date: 1994-01-12
Prominent cases show how police deal with hostage situations.

Ep.3 The Wrong Man
Air Date: 1994-01-19
Profiles of people who have been falsely accused and imprisoned.

Ep.4 Great Heists
Air Date: 1994-01-26
In 1950 the Brinks robbery nets $2.8

Ep.5 Fugitives
Air Date: 1994-02-02
How the American legal system deals with fugitives, focusing on John List, a killer who eluded the FBI for more than a decade.

Ep.6 Death Penalty
Air Date: 1994-02-09
Capital punishment; Caryl Chessman; Gary Gilmore; Sister Helen Prejean ministers to death-row inmates.

Ep.7 Juvenile Justice
Air Date: 1994-02-23
Youthful offenders; teens shoot British tourist.

Ep.8 Mob Rats
Air Date: 1994-03-02
Joseph Valachi and Peter Maas are featured in this look at mobsters who turn against fellow criminals and help law enforcement agencies convict them.

Ep.10 War Crimes
Air Date: 1994-03-30
Nuremberg, My Lai and other war-crime trials.

Ep.11 Satan, Rituals and Abuse
Air Date: 1994-04-06
Cases of psychological manipulation.

Ep.12 Lorena Bobbitt: Women and Violence
Air Date: 1994-04-13
Increasing violence in society; battered women.

Ep.13 Prison Justice
Air Date: 1994-04-20
Violence and behavior codes in America's prisons.

Ep.14 Pleading Insane
Air Date: 1994-05-04
John Hinckley Jr.; Daniel Sickles kills Francis Scott Key's son; the McNaughton rule; Kimberly Martin.

Ep.15 Cops on Trial
Air Date: 1994-05-18
Frank Serpico and Robert Leuci uncover corruption in the New York Police Department.

Ep.16 Fighting Words: The First Amendment
Air Date: 1994-06-01
The Supreme Court broadly defines free speech; Nazis march in Skokie, Ill.

Ep.17 Jim Bakker: Crime in the Name of God
Air Date: 1994-06-15
Con artists who use religion for gain.

Ep.18 The Great Brink's Heist
Air Date: 1994-07-06
In one of the most daring robberies in history, the 1950 Brink's robbery netted thieves more than $2.7 million.

Ep.19 Reginald Denny: Jury Under Siege
Air Date: 1994-07-13
Media pressure, fear and prejudice may affect jury decisions.

Ep.20 Attack at Waco
Air Date: 1994-08-03
How the authorities may have misjudged David Koresh and the situation at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

Ep.21 Sex, Lies and Harassment
Air Date: 1994-08-17
The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas case brings sexual-harassment issues under scrutiny.

Ep.22 Gangbusters
Air Date: 1994-09-07
New York gang moves into Boston; Iowa street gang is implicated in a murder.

Ep.23 The Attica Riot: Chaos Behind Bars
Air Date: 1994-09-14
Prison uprisings; 1971 Attica riot; New Mexico State Penitentiary.

Ep.24 Private Eyes
Air Date: 1994-09-21
Private investigators are the cowboys of law enforcement.

Ep.25 Prostitution: Sex and the Law
Air Date: 1994-10-19
Profiling the lives of street-corner hookers and high-class Hollywood call girls and examining how they are brought to justice.

Ep.26 The Sting
Air Date: 1994-11-23
Sting operations; Marion Barry; John DeLorean.

Ep.27 Riot: The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Air Date: 1994-11-30
Events leading up to Chicago's 1968 anti-war riots; the "conspiracy to commit riot" trials.

Ep.28 Divorce Wars
Air Date: 1994-12-14
An examination of the evolution of divorce in the United States.