Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege, and Justice

Before Hurricane Katrina, the gangland-style murder of Vincent and Margaret Sherry - a state judge and his politician wife - was the biggest news to hit Biloxi, MS and the Gulf Coast.

On a May evening in 1998, the seemingly idyllic marriage of a wealthy Lake Tahoe couple, Peter and Rinette Bergna, ended in a tangled crush of metal when their truck crashed through a guardrail and plunged down a mountainside.

It looks like a simple robbery gone horribly wrong when Donald and Marsha Levine are found dead inside their Munster, Indiana Mansion.

When Bruce and Darlene Rouse are murdered in their sprawling estate, they leave their entire fortune to their three children - three children who quickly become three suspects.

When Sunny VonBulow was found comatose in her luxurious Rhode Island summer home, everyone had a pet theory on what happened - including police, who fingered her husband Claus for attempted murder.

Robert Durst is the stunningly wealthy heir to a vast real New York real-estate fortune. What could he possibly have to do with the murder of Morris Black, an elderly Galveston man of modest means?

Among California's wealthy technocrat, Hans Reiser is one of the most prominent and most brilliant. But when Reiser's ex-wife, Nina disappears, investigators are forced to wonder.

It's a Hollywood thriller no screenwriter could dream up when Robert Blake, the star of questions surface about Blake's sordid history, what seems like an open and shut case becomes a lot more complicated.

When Kathy Augustine, one of the most powerful and cunning political operators in all of Nevada, is murdered in her home, detective wonder if it's her no holds barred style of politics or her unusual personal life?

It's a classic Hollywood thriller when Lana Clarkson is found shot to death in the mansion of pop-impresario, Phil Spector.