The tragic murder of Scott Amedure by his friend Jonathan Schmitz, sparked by a notorious segment on *The Jenny Jones Show*, thrust the program’s fate under intense scrutiny when Amedure’s family initiated a civil lawsuit against its produc…

On December 22, 1984, Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrell Cabey, and James Ramseur were all wounded by gunfire from Bernhard Goetz. While returning home, Goetz shot the four black men on a New York City subway car. Though he asserted it was an…

In the early hours of February 4, 1999, Amadou Diallo, a twenty-two-year-old immigrant from Guinea (born September 2, 1975), died after being shot by four plainclothes officers of the New York City Police Department: Sean Carroll, Richard M…

In 2004, Richard Scrushy, the man who founded HealthSouth Corporation, faced charges involving 36 of the 85 counts brought against him for alleged accounting fraud.

The story of Cheryl Araujo became a national spectacle when, following a rape occurring on a bar’s pool table, her trial was broadcast live across CNN. The unprecedented coverage exposed both the victim’s identity and the relentlessly harsh…

As Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich confronted a looming corruption trial, he sought to cultivate public attention, famously appearing on “Celebrity Apprentice.”