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former Beetle John Lennon is dead he was
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shot a short time ago outside his
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Manhattan apartment building welcome to
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watch Mojo and today we're discussing
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the most famous crimes in history a lot
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of people ask me if the black daddy of
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murder still holds me for this video
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we're discussing the most infamous
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well-known or covered crimes that
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spawned media frenzies will be omitting
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mass killings and terrorist attacks what
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are your thoughts on these crimes today
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let us know in the comments
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the Martin Luther King Jr assassination
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Dr Martin Luther King the Apostle of
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non-violence in the civil rights
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movement has been shot to death in
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Memphis Tennessee History unfortunately
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has seen the senseless deaths of many a
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good and just man Martin Luther King Jr
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was one such individual and he paid the
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ultimate price for his dream on April
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4th 1968. the shot apparently came from
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an apartment building directly across
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the street King's Legacy needs no
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introduction but the gravity behind the
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civil rights leaders assassination is
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that the world will never know what else
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King could have achieved had he lived a
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full life the assassination may never be
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fully explained either since King's
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family maintains to this day that his
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death was part of a government
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conspiracy and cover-up and that the man
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arrested for the killing James Earl Ray
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was a patsy set up by larger figures at
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Play
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the most very involved the kidnapping of
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Patty Hearst what happened to Patty
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Hearst was something out of a movie
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several in fact as this granddaughter of
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William Randolph Hearst actually had her
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story dramatized several times Hearst
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was kidnapped in 1974 by a far-left
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terrorist group known as The symbionese
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Liberation Army accounts differ as to
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what happened after this with some
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maintaining that Hearst was a
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brainwashed prisoner suffering from
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Stockholm syndrome Hearst was captured
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in September 1975 more than a year after
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six members of the SLA were killed in a
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gun battle with police in Los Angeles
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still others claimed that Hearst ended
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up a willing participant in the group's
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illegal acts Hearst was ultimately
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convicted of bank robbery and did serve
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jail time she was released early from
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prison and had her case pardoned by
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former President Bill Clinton in 2001.
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her sentence was first commuted by
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President Carter and she was later
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pardoned by President Clinton the Tate
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labianca killings
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the crimes of the Manson family go far
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beyond the world of headline news they
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captured the Zeitgeist of the era a
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wannabe musician Manson thought the
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Beatles song Helter Skelter was an
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Anthem to Armageddon this was the come
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down period of a post-free love America
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a time when Rising pessimism an
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unpopular war in Vietnam and an overall
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mistrust of institution created an
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unfortunate backdrop for the Tate
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labianca murders Charles Manson himself
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may not have directly involved himself
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with these brutal slangs Manson ordered
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his longtime Lieutenant Tex Watson and
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two of his lovers Susan Atkins and
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Patricia krenwinkle to break into the
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Tate Polanski home and kill whoever they
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found however his Specter loomed large
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over those that did commit these crimes
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Spellbound under Manson's Cult of
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Personality The Summer of Love felt
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decades away and the hippies would not
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inherit the earth these were dark times
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the body of Sharon taters make believe
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that's make that's make believe me the
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art
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theft where is all the art this is what
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authorities want to know oh and who
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exactly committed the heist of the
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century the Isabella Stewart Gardner
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Museum was the site of America's biggest
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art Heist back in 1990 when the thieves
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made their way into this boston-based
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Museum disguised as police officers the
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value of the pieces stolen from the
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museum is worth a pretty penny too how
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much you may ask hundreds of millions of
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dollars when it was over the thieves
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made off with 13 objects estimated worth
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200 to 300 million dollars the museum is
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so desperate for information in fact
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that they've offered a cool 10 million
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dollar reward for any information
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leading to the Arts discovery
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and unprecedented some four times higher
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than any reward ever offered the mystery
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of JonBenet Ramsay who could possibly
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kill a child this question came up again
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and again within the media frenzy that
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followed the death of JonBenet Ramsey in
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1996. the note demands one hundred
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eighteen thousand dollars and threatens
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the immediate execution of their
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daughter attention was laid at the feet
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of Ramsay's parents due to theories that
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the murder was staged to look as if it
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came from the outside when in fact it
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was alleged that the killer was someone
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close to JonBenet and lo and behold when
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John Ramsey finds the body you now have
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John Ramsey at the crime scene the
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Ramses never escape the shadow of these
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accusations nor have there been any
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arrests for the killing it's a
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tragically depressing example of how
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Justice isn't always done and that
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Killers sometimes get away with their
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crimes will whoever killed JonBenet
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Ramsey get away with murder the
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Watergate break-in it was one of the
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most infamous political scandals in the
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world a time of Reckoning for an
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American president the word Watergate
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actually refers to the Watergate complex
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where a group was arrested after
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botching a break-in of the Democratic
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National Committee headquarters on June
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17
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1972. the subsequent arrests trials and
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news coverage dominated American
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television sets and it served to
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underline what we mentioned earlier
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about Rising pessimism and mistrust
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surrounding nearly every aspect of
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American life we were witnessing the
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implosion of an American presidency
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president Richard Nixon resigned in
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disgrace in the face of impending
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impeachment as it came to light just how
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involved he was with the break-in and so
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we leave
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with high hopes
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in Good Spirit the Lindbergh kidnapping
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you may be familiar with the term trial
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of the century since it's often used to
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describe high-profile court cases the
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Press was quick to dub it the crime of
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the century but the one following the
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Lindbergh kidnapping in 1932 and the
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subsequent media circus fit the
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description the details are gruesome a
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young toddler is abducted from the
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prestigious Lindbergh couple and a
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ransom note is found and a ransom note
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demanding fifty thousand dollars later
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the boy's body is also found and a man
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is charged and executed the specifics
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are not as simple however as haphazard
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police work and a chaotic public
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response led to everything from
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destroyed evidence and a potential
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suspect's self-destruction to the theory
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that the executed man may have been
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innocent houtman is found guilty and
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sentenced to death the deaths of Nicole
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Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman
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speaking of Trials of the century the
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O.J Simpson trial is much more recent
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than the Lindbergh case but no less
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troubling or dramatic they were a very
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Dynamic couple here what might have been
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an ordinary murder case for any other
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defendant turned into sensationalized
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media complete with larger-than-life
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personalities never mind the fact that
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the defendant was former football
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Megastar O.J Simpson accused of
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murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown
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Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman if it
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doesn't fit you must acquit nearly
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everyone involved in this trial became
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sensationalized to the point of parity
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from Judge Lance Ito to Hollywood
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Witnesses like Kato Kalin to lawyers
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Marcia Clark Johnny Cochran and Robert
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Kardashian orenthal James Simpson not
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guilty of a crime of murder in violation
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of penal Colt section 187 Jack the
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Ripper
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our next entry may be the oldest on this
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list but its lasting influence is no
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less Infamous the crimes of Jack the
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Ripper remain one of History's best
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known cold cases a gruesome collection
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of killings that continue to obsess True
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Crime Buffs to this day she had been
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disemboweled Jack the Ripper's reign of
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terror had begun it's the Ripper's
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methods that possibly
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crime so influential to the media that
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loved to cover his every move the
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brutality and surgical Precision of the
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Killer's knife made life in Victorian
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England perilous particularly for those
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working the sex trade and the fact that
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his victims were prostitutes meant they
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would take him to the very places where
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they knew that they were safe at this
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point the identity of the Ripper will
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probably never be uncovered with any
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certainty but his legacy as one of
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history's most violent serial killers
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remain secure even with a corpse an
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approximate time of death and knowledge
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of the weapon the police had little to
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work with before we continue be sure to
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that we bookend this list with young men
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cut down in their prime before the true
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scope of what they could have done came
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to light President Kennedy and Governor
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John Colony have been cut down by
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assassins bullets in Downtown Dallas
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still just as Martin Luther King's
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Legacy remains with us so too does John
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F Kennedy's as one of America's most
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unique and well-known presidents
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he would never grow older than this
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image Forever Frozen on this Dallas day
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Kennedy's time in office was not without
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scrutiny but the manner of his death has
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arguably been poured over with more
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detail than perhaps any crime in history
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conjecture and theories persist to this
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day as to whether or not Lee Harvey
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Oswald acted alone we will likely never
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know the whole truth there are lots of
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theories it was Castro the Mafia the
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Soviets the CIA you name it
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