DVD Titles & Descriptions

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Acquaintance Rape: The Perpetrators

There is no single profile for the acquaintance rapist. Most do not feel like criminals. In fact, many cannot even admit they have done something wrong. This program presents the true nature of acquaintance rape by profiling several convicted rapists. It explores the motivations behind rape and it breaks down the rationalizations used to justify it. Social factors are also explored, including peer pressure to sexually conquer women.

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Aileen Wuornos

This program profiles Aileen Wuornos, stripping away the hyperbole to examining the truth about Wuornos’s life and criminal career

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Amendments to the Constitution, The

The U.S. Constitution is the world’s oldest written charter of government in continuous effect. Much of its success can be attributed to the way the Constitution has changed to meet the needs of the American people. The framers of the Constitution wisely anticipated the need to make changes to the Constitution as the world itself changed. Between 1787, when the Constitution was written, and the present time, thousands of proposed amendments have been introduced in Congress. But in that time, only 27 of those proposed amendments have been ratified. These 27 amendments tell some of the most important stories in American political, social and cultural history.  They tell the story of the founding principles of the American nation, and how that nation has changed. This comprehensive series explores each amendment, its origins, its real-world applications, its history of interpretation in the nation’s courts, and its implications for the future. Combining computer graphics, original live-action video, historical artwork, and archival footage with narration and interviews, each program reveals an important chapter in the ongoing history of the U.S. Constitution.

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Bill of Rights: The Living Document, The

Brief animations introduce key issues as this video looks at the Bill of Rights. Civics experts explore the complexity of individual rights versus the “common good” in discussions about hate speech, school newspapers, random drug testing, gun control, and terrorism. Historical segments explain Colonial Militias, the Intolerable Acts, Freedom of Worship, the Rights of Accused Persons, and the origins of the idea of individual rights. The end result is a persuasive argument that the Bill of Rights is a vital, living document and that all citizens share the responsibility to understand, protect, and uphold it.

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BioAttack

One of the most dreaded weapons in the terrorist’s arsenal can be delivered in a paper envelope. Vividly exploring situations that public officials, health care workers, and law enforcement personnel would have to confront in the event of a biological attack, a panel of experts wrestles with questions that have gone largely unanswered in the public record: Who among American’s leadership is in charge of the response? Who gets medical treatment, and who decides? Must the affected city be quarantined? Will people be prohibited from leaving? Moderated by ABC News Chief Legal Correspondent Cynthia McFadden, this Fred Friendly Seminar lays bare the central issues of homeland security and the possibility that a biological attack would turn America into a much different place overnight.

(58 minutes)

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Bloodstain Pattern Analysis in Crimes of Violence

This DVD explains techniques that use bloodstain evidence to determine the chain of events and the positions of persons involved in crime scenes. It considers the use of stringing to locate points of origin and discusses the relationship between points of convergence and points of origin in bloodstain patterns.

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Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: Bloodstain Exercises 1

This program visits the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science and offers practical exercises in bloodstain analysis. It demonstrates the intricacies of high velocity back spatter, shows how to determine angle of impact and point of origin, details the effects of surface tension, and explains how to distinguish impact from cast-off stains.

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Bloodstain Pattern Interpretation

Advances in technology have opened up the forensic specialty of bloodstain pattern analysis to on-scene investigators. This video examines the ways in which officers perform bloodstain pattern analysis at crime scenes and explains that the work was previously limited to forensic laboratories.

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Capital Punishment: An Evolving Standard

This program explores issues surrounding capital punishment in the U.S. It discusses the Supreme Court’s decision to end capital punishment for juvenile offenders, considers executions since 1976, and examines the application of international standards to U.S. law. The program also considers Eighth Amendment issues.

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Capital Punishment: Justice or Cruelty

This program explores due process and equal protection in capital cases and questions whether the death penalty should be considered cruel and unusual punishment.

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Careers in Criminal Justice

This program examines a variety of criminal justice occupations that demand varying levels of experience and education. Featuring experts and professionals in urban and rural areas, it describes the jobs of local and state police officers, detectives, correctional officers, bodyguards, FBI agents, probation and parole officers, private investigators and special government agents.

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Charred Remains: Medical Detectives, Part 2

A lengthy and convoluted police investigation links a charred female body found in a dumpster to her murderer, a male exotic dancer. An autopsy confirms the gender, indicates a dental condition called mesidens, and reveals bullet fragments in the skill; a ballistics analysis traces the bullet to the gun of the chief suspect; and blood, hair, fibers and body tissue found in the trunk of the car match the corpse. (24 minute, color)

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Child Sex Trade, The

Bill Kurtis reports on how “pimp” organizations operate and why they are able to reach into middle class America for their victims. (50 minutes)

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Columbine: Understanding Why

This program features the work of a threat assessment group lead by forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz. The group investigates why Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a shooting spree at Columbine High School in 1999. It looks for warning signs and identifies lessons that could prevent future tragedies.

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Constitutional Law: The USA Patriot Act

In this DVD, a panel of legal experts debates whether the Patriot Act is a necessity or a dangerous violation of civil liberties. The program also discusses whether the Patriot Act II restores or further diminishes individual rights.

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Courtroom Testimony

This program teaches law enforcement officers proper courtroom etiquette and offers advice for increasing effectiveness when testifying.

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Crime of Passion: The Pamela Smart Story

This revealing program asks the question who is ultimately responsible for the tragic affair that ended up destroying three lives, the triggerman, or the woman who goaded him into committing murder. (50 minutes)

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Crime Scene Prevention

In this program ALERT covers the comprehensive aspects of managing and securing a crime scene. From preserving evidence to carefully documenting and logging all presumed evidence. This program uniquely blends a role-playing scenario of a crime scene, with an actual case that was solved using DNA identification. Major case squad members train first responders in maintaining the integrity of a crime scene. Actual crime scenes are visited and officers share their procedures and results.

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Crime Scene Processing

This interactive, multimedia eBook contains 23 lessons of information about every aspect of crime scene investigations to include legal issues; courtroom readiness; searching for, documenting, and collecting evidence; crime scene photography; diagramming; developing latent fingerprints; obtaining DNA evidence; reconstructing crime scene events; and, much, much more. These lessons were prepared by authors with over 42 years combined law enforcement experience. They have processed more than 14,000 crime scenes including over 1,200 death investigations.

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Crime Scene: Photography I

The technician gets no second chance, so tech results have to be right the first time. Basics of accurate, effective, and professional photographic processing of different kinds of crime scenes are covered.

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Criminal Justice

This DVD examines the responsibility of the criminal justice system to protect society while attempting to rehabilitate those who are incarcerated. It also considers the reasons and motivations of people who commit crimes.

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CSI Forensics: Bloodstain Evidence Documentation

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CSI Forensics: Enhancement of Partial Impressions in Blood

Although impressions in blood can be identifies, the enhancement of partial impressions can mean the difference between an unsolved case and breaking it wide open. This course explores a few techniques for enhancing partial impressions in blood. A number of well-established and cutting-edge techniques are explained and demonstrated. Real-world cases are discussed where these techniques were responsible in providing investigators the vital evidence they needed to ultimately solve the case.

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Dark Side of Parole, The

Explores how the parole system has failed in the past and what certain states have done to correct or control these errors in paroling. Investigative Reports talks with law enforcement professionals, legal experts and prison officials who approve or disapprove of the current parole system.

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Date Rape: A Violation of Trust

This video firmly reinforces the concepts that rape has its roots in hate crime; date rape is just as wrong as rape by a stranger; a victim is never “asking for it”; and no one ever “deserves it”. Interviews with rape survivors and mental health professionals shed additional light on the trauma caused by rape, the process of post-rape emotional recovery, and the importance of post-rape support by family and friends.

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Deadly Force

The purpose of this information-packed video is to keep officers and subjects alive. Hosted by the well-known law enforcement trainer and use-of-force expert Ed Nowicki, this video was developed through extensive research and practical strategies suggested by experienced officers nationwide. The program addresses deadly force from a practical perspective. Staying alive is always the most important information concern, but the decision of using deadly force on another person is also stressed. “Live” footage from patrol car dash cameras graphically demonstrates how quickly a deadly force decision can be made. Dramatic reenactments add to the training points of the deadly force decision. Valuable viewing fro experienced officers and new recruits, Deadly Force should be “must” viewing for any officer who carries a firearm.

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Domestic Violence

This program teaches police officers how to deal with issues of domestic violence and work toward decreasing the number of domestic violence incidents. It features veteran street cope Anne Odell

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Ed Gein

This video presents the story of the deranged killer who inspired characters in the films: Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It examines media frenzy, psychoanalysis, and criminal profiling in the context of his crimes.

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Effective Courtroom Testimony: Principles and Performance

This course will provide officers with a comprehensive view of the components of criminal trials and will focus on the knowledge, skills and attitudes that contribute to an officer’s credibility as a witness.

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E-Terror

This video looks at cyber terrorism, showing how computer criminals can ruin businesses, steal identities and finances, and sabotage power companies and nuclear power plants; It features hackers who identify weaknesses in the Web’s system of protecting information and profiles the FBI’s National Infrastructure Protection Center.

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Forensic Death Investigation (Training)

Training topics: Initial Response, The Medical Examiner, Identification of Human Remains, Postmortem Change, Blunt Force Trauma, Motor Vehicle-Pedestrian Impact, Incised Wounds, Stab Wounds, Gunshot Wounds, Death by Asphyxia, Burns, Electrocution, and Railway Trauma.

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Framework for Democracy

Framework for Democracy probes concepts that are basic to an introductory course in American Government. Compelling interviews and case studies on a range of issues, both historic and contemporary, encourage learners to think about and debate the many questions and challenges confronting our democracy.

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Girls in Gangs

Girl gang members speak out about life on the street and the security they get from belonging to a gang; they want jobs, they say, and a place to hang out. By contrast, their mothers are frustrated because they feel unable to keep their kids out of trouble. This specially adapted Phil Donahue program focuses on how these girls can be kept off the streets

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Green River Killer, The

He was a mild-mannered, church-going, bible-reading, ex-Navy man. But behind the strait-laced persona was one of the most prolific killers in history. Between 1982 and 2001, Gary Ridgway killed at least 48 women. The case had authorities so stumped that they even enlisted the help of Ted Bundy for insight into the killer's motivations. But the real break came in 2001, when DNA evidence tied the mild-mannered Ridgway to seven of the slayings.

BIOGRAPHY® probes his past and details the controversial events that followed his arrest, which ultimately led Ridgway to plead guilty to nearly 50 murders (revealing several that the authorities did not know about) in exchange for a sentence of life imprisonment. But as legal authorities detail, he may still be killed for his crimes, since at least two occurred in Oregon, which did not take part in the plea agreement.

From ''dutiful son'' to monster, follow the dark journey of Gary Ridgway.

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Inside the Killers Mind

Dorothy Lewis has conducted pioneering psychiatric research into the causes of violent behavior. This video follows Lewis as she participates in two murder trials. It features trial testimony and footage of psychiatric examinations.

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Inside the Mind of a Suicide Bomber

This DVD provides a chilling examination of the psychology of suicide bombers, from kamikaze pilots in World War II to bombings in Israel. It features interviews with an Israeli Army senior intelligence analyst, an attorney who defends suicide bombers, a failed kamikaze pilot, two failed suicide bombers from the Middle East, a military commander of Hamas, bomb makers, and a doctor who treats bombing victims

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International Criminal Law

This program examines international criminal law. It discusses the bases of jurisdiction, crimes under customary laws, humanitarian law, international criminal courts, and transnational courts. 30 minutes.

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It’s the Law

The laws of the criminal justice system are framed first and foremost by the United States Constitution, the document that gives out government its powers, limits those powers, and ensures our rights to life, liberty, and property. While the system is designed to bring criminals to justice, it must also meet the standards of due process set forth in the Constitution. The criminal justice system, then, has two functions: protec6t the public safety and maintain the public confidence. In this program, lawyers, prosecutors, and judges explain the differences between misdemeanors, felonies, the various degrees of crimes, and the elements of a crime. Investigation procedures in the gathering of evidence and statements are discussed. Legal experts and police officers clearly illustrate such concepts as 5^th Amendment rights, Miranda warning, the stop and frisk rule, search warrants, and the knock and announce rule. Probable cause and arrest procedures are also demonstrated. 30-minute video.

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Jeffrey Dahmer: The Monster Within

Leading psychologists explore the forces that may have motivated him, and police detail the extraordinary and sickening details of the case as they were discovered. Shocking photos from the crime scenes reveal the depths of Dahmer’s depravity. In an exclusive interview, Dahmer’s parents talk of the child they raised, and their shock and horror at the discovery of his crimes. Join Biography for a disturbing look at the life and crimes of the cannibal-killer, Jeffery Dahmer.

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Juvenile Correction Facilities

No one yearns to experience the inside of a prison – but to understand the American criminal justice system and those who enter it at an early age, spending a couple of nights behind bars yields powerful results. This ABC News program is the product of unprecedented access to Arizona’s juvenile correction facilities, documenting six months in the lives of inmates between 12 and 17 years old. Although the settings can be violent, the young interviewees display remarkable honesty, resilience, and hope for the future, reminding viewers that even in “juvie”, opportunities for learning and self-discovery are still available.

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Juvenile Justice

This program examines how the US juvenile justice system works; considers its failures; and presents possible improvements. The program features a hypothetical case involving four teens and a sequence of violent crimes. PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award.

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Life After Prison: Success on the Outside

This information-packed program illustrates the specific steps needed to transition from incarceration to a rewarding life, and examines the many pitfalls that must be avoided along the way. Parolees discuss their success and failures, while parole officers provide insights into why not all ex-offenders succeed. Also examined are where to look for employment and how to make the most of the work experience and skills learned in prison.

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Miranda Considerations

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Modern Mobs

This video examines the decline of New Your City’s legendary crime families, discussing the new generation of mobsters and the competition provided by the Russian mob, Asian crime gangs, and Mexican drug cartels.

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New Detectives: Camera Clues, The

This program examines the various types and pieces of information captured by forensic photographers that cannot be seen first-hand. It features officers and technicians who analyze photographic evidence.

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New Detectives: In the Camera’s Eye, The

This DVD considers the use of photography in homicide investigations. It explains that photographic images can provide enough information to identify a suspect and help preserve important clues.

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New Detectives: Written in Blood, The

This program examines the use of blood spatter evidence to link murderers to their crimes. It looks at the case of a woman whose husband blamed her death on an accidental fall and shows how investigators determined that she was actually the victim of physical assault. The DVD also follows the case of a man convicted of killing his wife after an investigation of blood spatter evidence.

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Order in the Court

Once a person is arrested for a crime, it is up to our court system to determine whether the individual is guilty or innocent. In this program, a variety of legal experts take us through pretrial and trial procedures, pointing out along the way the differences between adult and juvenile proceedings. Judges and lawyers navigate us through the pretrial process, beginning with the establishment of probable cause and formal changing by grand jury or preliminary hearing. Indictment, pretrial release, bail and arraignment are also discussed. The entire courtroom process is explored from plea bargaining and trial by jury to the adversary system of direct examination, cross-examination, and rebuttal. Such concepts as an alibi, burden of proof, and reasonable doubt are clearly explained. Finally, our panel of experts comments on a sentencing hearing and punishment, along with the defendants’ constitutional right to appeal.

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Osama Bin Laden: In the Name of Allah

For years, Osama Bin Laden was a shadowy figure to most of the world. But the tragic events of September 11 thrust him into the spotlight as the most wanted fugitive on Earth. Using careful analysis and interviews with people who have met him, this program traces his transformation from a wealthy youth to the leader of a global terror network.

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Patriot Act Under Fire, The

In this ABC News Program, Ted Koppel discusses the USA Patriot Act with representatives of the US Department of Justice and members of the ACLU. The program explains why legislation is under fire from both liberal and conservative opponents.

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Pedophiles

This program reports on child abusers who, despite repeated convictions and extensive therapy, continue their abusive behavior throughout their lives. It also stresses the apparent evidence that there is no known effective rehabilitation and no effective way to keep pedophiles out of the neighborhood, or even out of the classroom.

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Photography and Casting Impression Evidence

Footwear and tire tread evidence are often ignored at crime scenes. Correctly photographing and casting impression evidence are vital to effectively conduct laboratory comparisons. This course takes the investigator through actual cases outlining the steps to properly photograph and cast impression evidence found at crime scenes.

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Plea Bargains: Dealing for Justice

The vast majority of criminal cases end in plea bargains. No one argues that this is the most just way- only the most efficent. This program examines what happens when the deal is struck: who gets out of jail, who doesn't, and who decides what kind of deal to make. Filmed behind the scenes, deep inside the nation's criminal justice system, it presents an ugly picture that has little to do with justice.

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Police

Bill Kurtis and his team tell a story that, incredibly, hasn’t ever been told: how, over more than two hundred years of nation-building, our contemporary form of local and national law enforcement came into being. This two-hour documentary special starts from colonial militias and ends up in modern cities across the country chronicling the full evolution of American policing.

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Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion 2

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Prostitution: Sex and the Law

From red-light districts to high-end “escort services”, this is an up-to-the-minute look at the age old battle against prostitution. (50 minutes)

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Psychology of Criminal Behavior, The

Featuring leading criminal psychologists and criminologists, this program examines criminal behavior and traces societal views on crime. It addresses biological theories; environmental and sociological factors; and such psychological considerations as maladjustment, psychosis and developmental trauma.

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Punishing the Pedophiles

Examine the heated debate over the chemical castration of sex offenders. (50 minutes)

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Punishing Parents: Who is Responsible for Deliquent Kids?

In the eyes of the law, how wide are the parameters of parental responsibility? And how aware are parents and teachers of what goes on when they are not around? In this program, opinions are gatheres in the heated debate over accountability for a child's deliquent actions by talking with parents, children, surviors, and the judges who are handing rulings ion where exactly to place the blame. Suits against parents for alleged criminal negligence in cases of school shootings, underage drinking and drug use, DWI-related deaths involving minors, and acts of vandalism are addressed. Indecent behavior on and off school grounds is also discussed.

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Racial Profiling and Law Enforcement: America in Black and White

In this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel and Michel McQueen investigate racial profiling from the victims’ points of view and through the eyes of the police. The program features Christopher Darden. For mature audiences.

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Roots of Prejudice and Intolerance, The

Elucidating the psychology behind prejudicial thinking, this video examines the roots of prejudice, discusses its different forms, and distinguishes between prejudice and intolerance. It considers such issues as bigotry, stereotyping, bias, discrimination and hate crimes.

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Serial Killers: Profiling the Criminal Mind

You’ll take an electrifying journey into the unexplored territory of our culture’s dark side, and get an up-close and powerfully personal perspective on some of the most savage serial killers in the history of law enforcement. Includes: The Criminal Profiler, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Charles Manson.

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Serial Rapist: A Criminal Profile

This program explains how James Perry, the man known as the “mall rapist” was finally caught and how his massive collection of digitized images and video provides chilling insight into the mind of a psychopath. Features interviews with Perry’s former wife and with crime expert Maureen Wall.

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Serial Wife

A woman, who had been married 10 times, sometimes committing bigamy, goes on trial for murdering her last husband. In court, the prosecution produces a surprise witness who says he saw the victim alive at the time the prosecution said he was dead. Will the jury buy his story?

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Sniper in the Tower, A

It was the worst simultaneous mass-killing in American history. For an hour and a half on August 1, 1966, 25-year-old Charles Whitman laid siege to the University of Texas at Austin, killing 14 and wounding 31 from his perch on the university tower, 231 feet above his terrified victims. The horror finally ended when police stormed his stronghold and killed Whitman. Author Gary M. Lavergne was just 10 years old when Whitman went on his rampage, and three decades later he published the definitive examination of that fateful day, A Sniper in the Tower. Here, Lavergne reveals what he discovered about the enigmatic shooter in his research, shattering the “all-American boy gone mad” view that was prevalent for so long. It is a portrait of a man tormented by secrets, unable to handle his failings and incapable of adjusting to changing circumstances, driven to seek refuge in violence and death.

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Stalkers

This program presents the case of Jodie Foster, targeted by John Hinckley, Jr.; a pair of 10-year-old girls who became the objects of obsession of two men almost three times their age; a college coed and her unwelcome suitor; a divorcee and her violent ex-husband; and the notorious “Vito” who terrorized women and men via the internet.

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Stalkers: Deadly Obsession

This video profiles such celebrity stalkers as Mark David Chapman (John Lennon) and Arthur Jackson (Theresa Saldana), details the case that led to the first anti-stalking law and addresses online stalking.

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Suicide Bombers: Inside the Minds of Failed Martyrs

This documentary examines the motives of Palestinian suicide bombers. A recruiter, a bomb builder, and three failed suicide bombers captured by Israeli security forces speak openly of their training, motivation, operational methodology and profound belief in the idea of entering paradise as a “shahid” – a martyr for Islam.

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Talking Skull: Forensic Anthropology, The

Demonstrating the use of such forensic techniques as facial reconstruction, this program shows how a forensic anthropologist and a medical examiner were able to identify bones, clothing and hair found in the woods as the remains of Bun Chee Nyhuis and explains how they determined the source of her fatal skull fracture.

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Ted Bundy

During a four-year reign of terror, he brutally raped and murdered dozens of women across the country, becoming one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history.

Featuring revelatory interviews with prosecutors, detectives, psychiatrists, forensic scientists, and those who knew him personally, this profile uncovers the hidden truths behind this infamous figure.

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The Mafia – An Expose (La Cosa Nostra): 5 DVD Set

At last, the events surrounding America’s most famous murder-mystery, the Kennedy assassination, are revealed in objective detail. Candid, revealing interviews and gripping eyewitness accounts of mob hits, combined with archival film footage, tell a sordid tale of bloodletting and intrigue. Enter the heart of Vegas and the Cosa Nostra’s hidden world of crime. Witness Mafia bombings aimed at law enforcement in Italy. An in-depth examination of the extent of Mafia corruption of law enforcement and other agencies. See how the Witness Protection Program works, including a real-life interview with an ex-mobster living in seclusion.

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Understanding Murder

Why do people kill? Are murderers a product of heredity or circumstances? As this program shows, criminologists and researchers are close to definitively answering these questions. Case study comparisons illustrate the differences between serial killers, such as Ed Kemper and Ted Bundy, and rampage killers, such as Charles Whitman and the Columbine teens. Along with news footage, dramatic reenactments, and archived interviews with convicted murderers, the video offers commentary from leading experts, including FBI criminal profiler Robert Ressler; Dr. Eric W. Hickey, criminologist at California State University at Fresno; and Dr. James McGee, author of The Classroom Avenger. Viewer discretion is advised. A Discovery Channel Production.

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Ways of the Law: Sources of Law

This episode takes a historical look at our legal system, tracing the roots of law from the Code of Hammurabi to the American Bill of Rights.

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Who is the Lipstick Killer

The controversial case of William Heirens, the "Lipstick Killer" convicted of murdering two women and a 6-year-old girl in Chicago in the late 1940s. He's been jailed ever since, but insists that he's innocent. We'll explore the troubling case, from the near-hysteria of the media coverage to the inconsistencies in the physical evidence used to wring a confession from Heirens

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