Crimes of the Century

For three weeks in October, 2002, a seemingly invisible, deadly accurate sniper terrorizes the residents of Washington D.C. and the surrounding suburbs of Maryland and Northern Virginia by randomly targeting ordinary citizens

On the night of December 8, 1980, the entire world was stunned by the murder of former Beatle John Lennon, whose popularity and influence transcended music. The killer was Mark Chapman, a 25-year-old fan and drifter from Hawaii.

On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her 5 small children in the bathtub of their suburban Houston home. The nation was outraged, first and foremost, by the crime itself.

Monday, March 30, 1981. A routine presidential speaking engagement becomes a national nightmare when a gunman fires six shots at Ronald Reagan on the streets of Washington DC. The President is hit as he's shoved into his limo.

On the morning of April 19, 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City was torn apart by a powerful truck bomb. The blast killed 168 people, including 19 children under the age of 6, and injured more than 680.

It is November 2007. Amanda Knox an American exchange student living in Perugia, Italy is arrested and tried for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kercher, a British student living in the same cottage.

It began with a routine ATF investigation, and ended with one of the worst debacles in American law enforcement history, a blazing inferno at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, killing 80 people

From 1978 to 1995, Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski, a former mathematician with a PhD from the University of Michigan, engaged in a nationwide bombing campaign against modern technology, planting or mailing 16 home-made bombs to unsuspecting victims.