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May 2011. In 1991 Ray and Faye Copeland become, at the ages of 76 and 69, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the USA. They are convicted of killing five drifters on their farm in Missouri as part of bad cheque scam. To this day their son, Al Copeland professes his mother's innocence in the crimes. Rate.
At last, for the first time here is a major new series of the most extraordinary stories behind the greatest crimes and trials of this century. True stories carefully researched and reconstructed with actual archive footage. Cases which have become almost legendary in the annals of crime and detection.
Great Crimes and Trials: With Alisdair Simpson, Holly Dunn, Ron Kuby, Marilyn Hutchinson. This true-crime series examines some of the world's most horrifying and sensational cases to be brought to trial.
Nov 20, 2021 · On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, shocking the Western world that had though the Soviets would not be able to build one f...
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S2.E14 ∙ The A6 Murder. Wed, May 29, 1996. On 4th April 1962 James Hanratty was hanged for an apparently motiveless shooting of two lovers on the A6 main road near London. But much of the evidence had been circumstantial, and pointed equally well towards another name, Peter Alphon. When he confessed during an interview that he had carried out ...
Great Crimes and Trials is an early 1990s BBC documentary television series. The program consists of archival material combined with never before seen interviews to reconstruct a renowned crime, examining the felon's motives, details of the crime, the investigations and the trial. Each episode is narrated by actor Robert Powell.
S2 E17 - The Boston Brinks Robbery. January 1, 1994. 26min. 7+. One of North America's largest security companies, Brinks, has always been a target for robbers. One of the most spectacular attempts was made on 17th January 1950 when a gang broke into the company's Boston headquarters and escaped with $2,775,395.
