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The 90s weren't just about grunge music and baggy jeans - they were marked by some truly horrifying crimes. Join us as we examine the decade's most notorious criminal cases, from serial killers to terrorism, shocking murders to infamous trials that captivated the world.
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00:00Look ahead to tonight's 2020 on the murder of top fashion designer Johnny Versace outside his
00:05Miami home. Welcome to WatchMojo and today we're looking at 50 awful crimes that occurred throughout
00:10the world in the 1990s. And the lead story is the FBI is investigating Tanya Harding's husband
00:15in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan. Oh my god. Pablo Escobar escapes.
00:30By the early 1990s, Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's reign of terror was unraveling.
00:37As head of the Medellin cartel, he built a multi-billion dollar cocaine empire,
00:41flooding the American market with drugs and orchestrating assassinations,
00:45bombings, and kidnappings. Escobar's ruthless tactics brought Colombia to its knees,
00:50with judges, politicians, and police among his victims. In 1991, he surrendered to authorities
00:56but manipulated the system to his advantage, living in a self-designed prison-slash-personal
01:02mansion called La Catedral. He escaped just one year later, sparking a nationwide manhunt.
01:08He remained free for over a year, until he was finally tracked down and killed in December of 1993.
01:14His death marked the end of a bloody era, but his legend still looms large.
01:19For years I've been building this son of a bitch up in my head. What a monster he'd be.
01:26But here's the thing. When you lay eyes on him, the devils are real let down.
01:32The Sister Abeya murder case.
01:3427th, March 1992, same day, Father Kotur overpowers Sister Abeya, covers her mouth as she tries to scream.
01:42Sister Sephi takes a hand axe and hits Abeya on the head with it, and she lies there motionless on the ground.
01:49On March 27th, 1992, Sister Abeya from Kerala, India was found dead in the well of the St. Pius X Convent.
01:57Unfortunately, investigations were plagued by tampering, cover-ups, and years of frustrating delays,
02:03turning the case into one of India's most infamous mysteries.
02:06Regardless, activists pushed for justice, arguing that powerful religious figures were being protected.
02:12The Central Bureau of Investigation worked the case further and revealed that Sister Abeya had walked in on two priests and a nun in a compromising situation.
02:20She was then killed to ensure her silence.
02:23In 2020, nearly three decades after her murder, convictions were finally secured,
02:28closing a mystery that had long shook the Catholic church system in India.
02:3228-year wait for justice has ended for Kerala's sister Abeya.
02:38A special CBI court has sentenced a Catholic priest and a nun to life in prison for murdering Sister Abeya back in 1992.
02:47Mark Dutroux.
02:48Some of them starved to death, others were buried alive.
02:51These are some of the most horrendous crimes that any criminologist will ever come across.
02:57Belgian serial killer Mark Dutroux horrified Europe in the mid-1990s when his crimes were finally exposed.
03:03In 1996, police discovered that he had kidnapped at least six girls and kept them imprisoned in a makeshift dungeon hidden beneath his Marcenel home.
03:11Four of these six ultimately died, either by starving to death or being outright murdered.
03:16As if that wasn't bad enough, the case sparked further outrage when it was revealed that police had repeatedly overlooked some obvious leads that could have saved multiple lives.
03:25Public confidence in Belgium's justice system completely collapsed, culminating in a mass protest on October 20th, 1996, known as the White March.
03:34Dutroux's case remains one of Europe's darkest failures in protecting vulnerable children.
03:39Two days after his arrest, Dutroux confessed and took the police to the basement where Sabine and Letitia were found alive.
03:52Suzanne Jovan.
03:53In December 1998, Yale student Suzanne Jovan was brutally stabbed and killed, and ever since, New Haven police have been looking for her killer.
04:01Yale student Suzanne Jovan was brutally murdered near campus in New Haven, Connecticut on December 4th, 1998.
04:07The 21-year-old senior was found stabbed a gruesome 17 times after leaving a university event, and her killing shocked the Ivy League community and drew intense media attention.
04:17Investigators initially focused on a Yale lecturer who supervised Jovan's thesis, but no physical evidence ever tied him to the crime.
04:24The lack of progress frustrated both her family and the public, turning the unsolved case into one of the decade's most haunting mysteries.
04:32The identity of Jovan's killer remains officially and frustratingly unresolved, leaving her case an enduring enigma in American true crime.
04:40In 1998, Jovan was found stabbed in New Haven's East Rock neighborhood.
04:45She was last seen leaving the Yale campus about 30 minutes before no one was ever arrested in that case.
04:52Tracy Andrews.
04:53He was stabbed in throat, back, front, repeatedly, viciously, and continuously.
05:00In December of 1996, Englishwoman Tracy Andrews tearfully told the press how her fiancé, Lee Harvey, had been killed in a brutal road rage attack.
05:09Her story described a violent confrontation with another driver, and it quickly captured the nation's attention.
05:15But as investigators dug deeper, suspicious cracks in her tale soon emerged, and forensic evidence pointed back to Andrews herself.
05:21It was soon revealed that Andrews had stabbed Harvey more than 40 times, then staged the scene as an act of unbridled road rage committed by a stranger.
05:30Her elaborate performance of grief backfired, and in 1997, she was convicted of murder.
05:36She served 14 years in prison and was released in 2011, going on to change her name and even marry.
05:42I think it is absolutely possible for Tracy Andrews to live a normal life.
05:47I think if she's come to terms with her offense, if she's addressed those underlying behavioral traits and characteristics,
05:55if she's prepared to just keep her head down and get on with her life, then yes, very much she can do that.
06:01Darlie Routier.
06:02911, what is your margin, please?
06:03Don't you do this?
06:04Ma'am?
06:06Did you stop me and my cousin?
06:08On the morning of June 6, 1996, a 911 call from Darlie Routier shocked the state of Texas.
06:14She claimed that an intruder had broken into her home and stabbed both her and her two young sons, Devin and Damon.
06:21Unfortunately, her sons did not survive.
06:24However, suspicion quickly turned on Routier when the crime scene failed to support her story.
06:29Investigators uncovered a number of inconsistencies, including staged evidence and Routier's unusual behavior during police questioning,
06:36and she was charged with her son's murders.
06:39Prosecutors laid into Routier, and their story was enough to convince the jury.
06:43She was convicted and sentenced to death.
06:45Those supporters, including her ex-husband, still insist that she's innocent.
06:50Oh, God.
06:54I miss him so much.
06:57The happy face murders.
06:58What about Laurieann Pentland?
07:00Yes, I did kill her, yeah.
07:02Her attitude was like her wife was all hell, and she didn't want to be around, and she wanted me to feel sorry for her.
07:09And I just, well, you know, I could kill you if you put you out of your misery.
07:11And she said, go for it.
07:14So I did.
07:15The 1990s saw the rise of serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, perhaps better known as the Happy Face Killer.
07:21A Canadian truck driver, Jesperson roamed the U.S., preying on vulnerable women he encountered during his long-haul routes.
07:28He ultimately murdered at least eight women between 1990 and 1995, often leaving their bodies in ditches near highways.
07:35Frustrated when others were wrongfully getting blamed for his crimes, Jesperson began sending anonymous confessions to the media and authorities, always signing them with his signature smiley face, hence his nickname.
07:46His cold, matter-of-fact letters revealed his compulsion for recognition, and he eventually got it.
07:52Arrested in 1995, Jesperson was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
07:57So back on the road, in a rest stop bathroom, he scribbles on the wall.
08:02January 21, 1990.
08:04Killed Tanya Bennett in Portland.
08:06Two people got the blame, so I can kill again.
08:10And he did.
08:11Dunblane was a tragedy for everyone who was involved.
08:18Some people in the media called it an incident, which was hardly appropriate.
08:24Tragedy struck Scotland on March 13, 1996, when Thomas Hamilton entered Dunblane Primary School armed with a number of handguns.
08:32In just minutes, he killed 17 people and injured a further 15 before taking his own life.
08:37The massacre remains the deadliest mass shooting in British history.
08:41Transcending the small town and devastating the nation at large.
08:45It also had enormous repercussions.
08:47The horror of the shooting sparked a huge legal movement that led to some of the world's strictest gun control laws.
08:53Effectively banning private handgun ownership in Great Britain.
08:56Dunblane's unbelievable grief transformed into sweeping policy change.
09:00Reshaping the very structure of the island forever.
09:03It's part of UK history now, unfortunately, as well.
09:06And it's something that needs to be remembered.
09:07And so that everyone's aware that we are still here.
09:12We are still getting on with our lives.
09:14And we didn't just fade into the background either.
09:17We still had to power on and push on with our lives.
09:20And it's important that everybody knows we're doing it.
09:23They're doing it well.
09:24The mystery is being fueled by reported sightings of Amy years after she disappeared.
09:32She has supposedly been seen in Curaçao and in Barbados, giving rise to speculation that she may have been kidnapped by a ring of human traffickers.
09:41Cruise ships are a huge source of disappearance stories.
09:44And Amy Lynn Bradley's is one of the most famous.
09:46The 23-year-old vanished from a cruise ship in March 1998 while it was stationed near Curaçao.
09:52Bradley's father saw her sleeping on the balcony around 5.30 a.m.
09:56But when he checked again at 6, she was gone.
09:58Despite exhaustive searches of the ship and surrounding waters, no trace of the missing woman was ever found.
10:04Over the years, multiple witnesses reported seeing Bradley in the Caribbean, with some suggesting that she had been trafficked.
10:10A photograph resembling her even surfaced in a later investigation, further intensifying speculation.
10:16To this day, Bradley's unknown fate remains one of the most chilling mysteries of the 90s.
10:21Yes, we received some photographs of a lady called Jazz.
10:25And after having forensic studies done of these pictures, it has been determined by individuals in the forensic arena that these are actually Amy.
10:38Pamela Smart.
10:39Before Jody, before Casey, before OJ and the Menendez brothers, there was Pam.
10:4723-year-old high school media coordinator Pamela Smart became the center of one of America's most sensational trials in March of 1991.
10:54She was accused of seducing a 15-year-old student named William Flynn and persuading him to murder her husband, Greg Smart.
11:01The plan went off, with Flynn shooting and murdering Greg in the couple's home.
11:05Unfortunately for the scheming duo, the police investigation quickly pinned them as suspects, and the whole scheme unraveled.
11:12The trial was heavily covered by the media, thanks in large part to the captivating blend of salacious personal detail and thrilling courtroom drama.
11:19Smart was ultimately convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to life without parole.
11:24Flynn served over 20 years in prison, but was paroled in 2015.
11:28Mr. Flynn seems sincere that he wants to succeed in the community, and I guess the parole board's belief is that he will succeed.
11:36Lyons says these transitions can be difficult, but the parole board wouldn't have granted Flynn his freedom if they didn't think he was prepared.
11:44Susan Smith.
11:45I am a Christian, and God is a big part of my life, and I know he has forgiven me.
11:52In October 1994, Susan Smith of South Carolina made national headlines when she reported that a black man had carjacked her vehicle with her two young sons inside.
12:02A nationwide search for the mystery man followed, and Smith appeared on television tearfully begging for the safe return of her children.
12:09But just nine days later, her story collapsed and a new horror emerged.
12:13Investigators discovered that she had strapped her children to their car seats and had intentionally rolled the vehicle into a lake.
12:19Smith confessed in the face of overwhelming evidence, claiming that depression and a failed relationship drove her horrific actions.
12:26Needless to say, sympathy evaporated and turned to hatred, and Smith was sentenced to life in prison.
12:32I would give anything if I could go back and change it.
12:36And I love Michael and Alice with all my work.
12:40The Gainesville Ripper.
12:41His capacity for violence and his appetite for violence was more than anyone I had ever encountered.
12:50The small college town of Gainesville, Florida, was gripped by terror in the summer of 1990 as five students were found murdered in their apartments.
12:58The killer broke in, brutally attacked the inhabitants, and then posed their bodies in various disturbing ways.
13:04The murder sparked a campus lockdown, with thousands throughout the town living in abject fear.
13:08A man named Danny Rowling was later arrested in an unrelated robbery, and his DNA linked him to the Gainesville crimes.
13:15Rowling later confessed not only to the Gainesville murders, but also to three further killings in Louisiana.
13:21Rowling's story influenced Kevin Williamson to write Scream, and he was ultimately executed in 2006.
13:27When I looked into his eyes, it was vacant.
13:30There was just, just darkness.
13:33And I'd never seen that before with anybody, and I've never seen it with anybody since.
13:37And Danny Rowling is, in my opinion, the most evil person I've ever met.
13:42The Long Island Railroad shooting.
13:44Guy just went berserk.
13:46His body's all over.
13:47Guy's a shot in the head.
13:48The shots just kept going off.
13:49He wouldn't stop shooting.
13:50He just wouldn't stop shooting.
13:51Commuters on a Long Island Railroad train were caught in a nightmare on the evening of December 7th, 1993.
13:58A man named Colin Ferguson opened fire on unsuspecting passengers during rush hour, killing six and wounding 19 others.
14:05Further tragedy may have occurred, but Ferguson was wrestled to the ground by passengers when he paused to reload.
14:11The shooting shocked New York City and the nation at large.
14:14His trial was equally infamous.
14:16Rejecting lawyers, he insisted on representing himself, often delivering bizarre and paranoid statements and even questioning the validity of his own victims in court.
14:26Unsurprisingly, he was found guilty and received multiple life sentences.
14:30He is currently eligible for parole in 2309.
14:34I wouldn't want to be in his shoes because 315 years is small to eternity.
14:44Jack Unterweger.
14:45The Austrians wanted to prosecute Unterweger in their court for all 11 murders.
14:53But they knew that would be difficult.
14:55The Austrian public perceived Jack as a celebrity.
14:59Austrian writer and convicted serial killer Jack Unterweger became notorious in the 1990s for leading a double life.
15:05Unterweger was jailed for murdering a woman back in 1974,
15:09but he was released in 1990 after seemingly reinventing himself as a celebrated author and journalist.
15:14His writings, supposedly about rehabilitation, convinced intellectuals and artists that he had been reformed, and he was released.
15:22But soon after, sex workers across Europe and the United States began turning up dead.
15:27Turns out the newly released Unterweger was not rehabilitated, and he had strangled at least 11 women with their own bras.
15:33He was convicted of murder in 1994, but he took his own life before he could serve his sentence.
15:39More psychopathic offenders like Jack do it to exert control, and it's the last great defiant act that he exercised to wrest control of this situation away from the government, away from the authorities.
15:53He would not allow himself to be imprisoned for the rest of his life.
15:56Louise's father worked for the Liverpool Echo in the print room.
16:02They were, you know, an ordinary couple with two daughters.
16:06Before they knew it, they were suddenly thrust into the world's spotlight.
16:09In February of 1997, British au pair Louise Woodward was charged with the murder of 8-month-old Matthew Eepin while working for a Massachusetts family.
16:17The baby had died from a fractured skull and brain injuries, and it was also found that he had an unnoticed broken wrist.
16:24Prosecutors argued that Woodward had violently shaken him to death, while the defense claimed that the injuries may have occurred previously.
16:31The jury sided with the prosecution and convicted Woodward of second-degree murder, but the judge controversially reduced the conviction to involuntary manslaughter, enraging many.
16:41She was sentenced to time served and released.
16:43The case fiercely divided public opinion.
16:45Some viewed her as a scapegoat, others as a cold-blooded murderer.
16:49It was stunning.
16:50It was beyond anything that people thought was a possibility.
16:58The judge released her with time served, 279 days.
17:02Megan Kanka.
17:03When Maureen and Rich Kanka learned the man who murdered Megan was a convicted sex offender who had served prison time, they said they had to do something.
17:11Today, registered sex offenders must disclose their address.
17:15That wasn't the case in 1994, when seven-year-old Megan Kanka was lured into her neighbor's house in New Jersey and murdered.
17:22The perpetrator was one Jesse Temendequas, a convicted sex offender.
17:26The crime shocked the country, especially when it was revealed that Temendequas had prior offenses against children but still lived anonymously in a residential neighborhood.
17:34Public outrage led to the swift creation of Megan's law, which mandated community notification of registered sex offenders.
17:41It is still in effect to this day.
17:44Megan's death was unbearably tragic, but it also became a catalyst for sweeping legal reforms across the United States.
17:51I promised my baby today that until my dying death, we would get the legislation so that this would never, ever happen to anybody's child again.
18:01Polly Class.
18:02Halloween is around the corner, and the girls have been trying on different costumes in preparation for the upcoming holiday.
18:10Within seconds, their lives will change forever.
18:16If there's one place that should be considered safe, it's your own house.
18:20But on October 1st, 1993, 12-year-old Polly Class was kidnapped from her California home while she was having a slumber party with friends.
18:28Armed intruder Richard Allen Davis tied up the girls and abducted Class.
18:32Sparking a massive nationwide search.
18:34Celebrities and politicians joined in, and her case dominated media coverage for weeks on end.
18:40Tragically, Polly's body was eventually found in a shallow grave.
18:43Davis, a repeat offender, was convicted of her murder and sentenced to death.
18:47Like Megan's law, the case led to sweeping reforms and fueled the passage of California's three strikes sentencing policy.
18:54Which states that three serious convictions will result in a mandatory life sentence.
18:58Missing persons bulletins are now sent out over all police channels.
19:03At routine pullovers and traffic stops, officers can access not only driving histories, but criminal records as well.
19:12Implementation of the three strikes you're out legislation was a direct result of the case.
19:16The Luby's shooting.
19:17All you hear is gunshots. Not one or two. It's like random shooting. People went to screaming and crying and running everywhere.
19:24George Hennard drove his truck into a Luby's cafeteria in Killeen, Texas on October 16th, 1991, and promptly opened fire on the unsuspecting diners, killing 23 and injuring a further 27.
19:37Hennard then engaged in a brief shootout with the police before turning the gun on himself, denying everyone a sense of justice.
19:44At the time, the Luby's incident was the deadliest mass shooting in American history, and that macabre record stood until 2007, when it was surpassed by the Virginia Tech shooting.
19:53No one knows exactly what prompted Hennard to commit the atrocity, although many suspect that it was rooted in misogyny, as Hennard reportedly hated women, shouted sexist remarks, and primarily targeted women during the shooting.
20:05He came out the window with a 9mm, and he shot the cashier. And that's when I realized...
20:13Amber Hagerman. Jimmy Kevel was in his backyard when he heard her scream when a black pickup pulled up next to her.
20:19And he'd run up behind her and grabbed her. He turned around and come right back to here, where his truck was, where the door was open, and put her in the truck.
20:26Everyone knows that feeling of looking down at their vibrating phones and seeing a new Amber Alert.
20:31On January 13, 1996, 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted while riding her bike in Arlington, Texas.
20:38Witnesses saw a man forcing her into a pickup truck, sparking a frantic search of the nearby area.
20:43But just four days later, the search ended in tragedy when Amber's body was found in a creek.
20:48Her killer has never been identified, but her case inspired one of the most important child protection tools of the modern era.
20:55Named after the late Hagerman, the Amber Alert program uses broadcasts and technology to rapidly alert the public of a nearby child abduction, and hopefully save their lives.
21:05The Amber Alert, I'm very, very proud of it, because it is help saving our children's lives.
21:10It's help bringing our children back to mommy and daddy.
21:13The Tokyo Sarin attack.
21:15By the time of the Tokyo subway attack in 1995, the cult had 10,000 followers in Japan and some 30,000 in Russia.
21:23One of the worst crimes in Japanese history occurred on March 20, 1995, when the Aum Shinrikyo cult released sarin gas on multiple subway lines during rush hour in Tokyo.
21:33Cult members punctured plastic bags filled with the deadly nerve agent, unleashing toxic fumes into crowded train cars and poisoning thousands.
21:40The attack killed 13 people and injured over 5,000.
21:45Completely overwhelming local hospitals with victims suffering from blindness, seizures, and respiratory distress.
21:51The cult, led by a man named Shoko Asahara, believed the world was nearing apocalypse and sought to trigger chaos.
21:57The attack remains one of the worst acts of domestic terrorism in Japan's history, and sparked global concerns about both chemical weapons and cult extremism.
22:06Asahara predicted that Armageddon would occur in the 1990s, and told his followers that they would create a new world.
22:13The North Hollywood shootout.
22:14He saw a police car in the intersection at Laurel Canyon and Archwood.
22:18It was Sergeant Dean Haynes and a few civilians.
22:20February 28, 1997.
22:23Gunfire erupts across the streets of Los Angeles, sending people fleeing into homes, cars, anywhere protected they can find.
22:30It's not the famous scene from Heat.
22:32It's the North Hollywood shootout, when bank robbers Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mataseranu fled a Bank of America and engaged in battle with the responding police officers.
22:42The two had the weaponry of a small army, and were even outfitted in homemade body armor, making incapacitation virtually impossible.
22:50But the police and SWAT found a way, with some even going to a local gun shop to purchase high-powered rifles.
22:55After 45 minutes of shooting, both robbers were killed.
22:5920 people were injured, and nearly 2,000 rounds of ammo littered the streets of L.A.
23:05The killing of James Byrd Jr.
23:07We learned that there was a great deal of prejudice in our community that we kind of swept under the rug.
23:12Referred to by many as a modern-day lynching, the murder of James Byrd Jr. shocked the nation in the summer of 1998.
23:19Byrd, a black accounting executive, accepted a ride from three white men in a pickup truck.
23:24John King, Lawrence Brewer, and Sean Barry.
23:27The three men took Byrd to a remote area, assaulted him, and chained him to the truck.
23:32They then dragged Byrd for three miles, resulting in his horrific death.
23:37Aside from nationwide outrage, the crime resulted in the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act,
23:44which was put into law by Barack Obama in 2009.
23:47Barry was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Byrd, and both King and Brewer were executed by the state of Texas.
23:53All three were convicted. One received life in prison, Sean Barry, but the other two received death sentences,
23:59and Russell Brewer has already been executed, but tonight the convicted ringleader, John William King, is set to die by lethal injection.
24:07Mary Kay Letourneau.
24:08Even now, some two decades later, you can't help but ask, what was she thinking?
24:13By the mid-1990s, Mary Kay Letourneau was teaching at Washington's Shorewood Elementary School.
24:19It's here that she met a Samoan student named Vili Fulao.
24:22Letourneau was drawn to Fulao, taking a particular interest in the child's artistic abilities.
24:27Before long, he was going over to Letourneau's house to study, and the two began a relationship.
24:33However, it was around this time that Letourneau's husband found love letters written to Fulao,
24:37and the police were contacted, resulting in Letourneau's arrest.
24:41She spent six years in prison, but she went on to marry Fulao after her release,
24:46and the two stayed together until 2019.
24:49Letourneau died of cancer the following year,
24:51and left much of her estate to her ex-partner and ex-student.
24:55So, I ended up taking the bet and pursued Mary.
25:00Isn't it incredible?
25:02It's just incredible to think that what started as a bit of showing off,
25:05and following through on a dare or a bet,
25:08has led to, you know, where we are now.
25:12The Port Arthur Massacre.
25:13Good evening.
25:14A siege is underway in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur,
25:17where at least 25 people have been shot dead in Australia's worst massacre.
25:21Martin Bryant snapped on the morning of April 28th, 1996.
25:26Some years earlier, Bryant's father attempted to purchase a bed and breakfast
25:30called Seascape in Port Arthur, Tasmania,
25:32but he was beaten to the deal by couple David and Sally Martin.
25:36Around noon on April 28th, Bryant murdered both of the Martins at Seascape,
25:40and proceeded to embark on an enormous massacre across the greater Port Arthur site.
25:45Equipped with two semi-automatic rifles,
25:47Bryant shot over 50 people,
25:49killing 35 of them and leaving the rest horribly injured.
25:53Following a standoff with the police that lasted over 18 hours,
25:57Bryant was arrested and given 35 life sentences,
26:00one for each victim.
26:02The man believed responsible for Australia's worst mass murder this century
26:05is sedated and under police guard in a hospital.
26:09Police say they expect to talk to him later this morning when charges can be laid.
26:13The murder of Brandon Tina.
26:14Do you think that you will be executed?
26:16Well, there was a time I'd say no, but, you know, I mean, I don't know.
26:21You may know the story of Brandon Tina from the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry,
26:26for which Hilary Swank won the Academy Award.
26:29Tina was a transgender man in 1990s Nebraska,
26:32and he faced hostility from some members of his conservative community.
26:36He earned the particular ire of ex-convicts John Lotter and Tom Neeson.
26:39On the morning of December 31st, 1993,
26:43Lotter and Neeson broke into the home of Lisa Lambert,
26:45with whom Tina had been staying.
26:47Here, they murdered Tina, Lambert, and a mutual friend, Philip Devine.
26:51The case attracted widespread outrage
26:54and underscored the lack of legal protections for transgender individuals at the time,
26:58which in turn helped lead to legal and cultural reform.
27:01When 48th Street opens in full, thousands of people will see this mural every single day.
27:07It's the first of its kind honoring Brandon Tina,
27:10and it's loud and proud at a time when trans issues are increasingly in the national and state spotlight.
27:17Gary Ray Bowles.
27:18To say of it, it's not hard to kill somebody.
27:22You can kill somebody pretty easy if you have the mind set for it.
27:27Perhaps better known as the I-95 killer,
27:30Gary Ray Bowles was active throughout much of 1994.
27:33His first known murder occurred on March 15th,
27:36when he strangled a man named John Roberts in Daytona Beach.
27:39Over the next eight months, Bowles would travel the country selling his body,
27:43strangling the men who picked him up, and stealing their credit cards.
27:46By the end of November, he had murdered at least six people,
27:50and had even found himself on the FBI's most wanted list.
27:53In court, it was ruled that Bowles was motivated by a need for money
27:57and homophobia, reportedly hating gay men and wishing for them to die.
28:01He was sentenced to death and executed on August 22nd, 2019.
28:06Scheduled today at 6 p.m. in accordance with Florida law,
28:10the department will carry out the sentence of the court
28:12in the state of Florida versus Gary Ray Bowles.
28:16The city bonds robbery.
28:17Is this your first time being around?
28:20You're doing great.
28:21Just smile, Loretta, so you don't look like you're being held up.
28:24One of the largest bank robberies in history occurred on May 2nd, 1990.
28:28But this wasn't just a simple bank robbery.
28:31Instead, it was an enormous undertaking orchestrated by the combined efforts of the IRA,
28:36Colombian drug lords, and the New York mafia.
28:39A courier named John Goddard was mugged at knife point in London's Nicholas Lane
28:43while carrying 301 certificates of deposit and various treasury bills.
28:47The stolen bonds were laundered through various criminal channels
28:51and totaled an astounding 292 million pounds, about 850 million pounds today.
28:57However, the heist turned out to be a monumental failure.
29:01All but two of the certificates were recovered,
29:04countless criminals were arrested, and some were even murdered,
29:07including Patrick Thomas, the man who carried out the mugging.
29:10You sit there with a mass murderer, a mass murderer.
29:16Your heart rate is jacked.
29:20Your hand, steady.
29:25Thurston.
29:26Stacey Compton knows just how real it was.
29:29Flying on the floor, there was blood all over the floor, everything.
29:33It was like a pool of blood I was standing in it.
29:35The late 1990s saw a spat of school shootings, including Thurston in 1998.
29:40Perpetrator Kipland Kinkle was losing his grip on reality,
29:44hearing voices and developing an obsession with death.
29:47He later admitted to keeping a handgun in his locker,
29:49resulting in an immediate suspension.
29:52Following a lecture by his father,
29:53Kinkle shot and murdered both of his parents with a semi-automatic rifle.
29:57The following day, he went to the high school and opened fire in the cafeteria,
30:01killing two students and injuring 25 others.
30:04Several students, including the injured Jacob Riker,
30:07heroically captured and subdued Kinkle until police arrived,
30:11and he was sentenced to 111 years in prison.
30:14Kinkle was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia,
30:17but his sentence remains unchanged.
30:19Here now in Springfield, traffic is very heavy tonight.
30:22Traffic both of cars driving back and forth on the road in front of the school,
30:26trying to figure out exactly why this happened here,
30:29and traffic of students, friends, and family
30:31who are slowly building an impromptu memorial.
30:34Carla Homolka and Paul Bernardo.
30:36So for the first time, you actually saw Homolka and heard her,
30:43heard her in that voice, that little girl voice,
30:47and she, I think, completely exposed who she was.
30:51What is arguably the most notorious crime in modern Canadian history
30:55occurred between December 1990 and April 1992.
30:58Married couple Carla Homolka and Paul Bernardo murdered three girls in that time span,
31:03beginning with Carla's younger sister Tammy on Christmas Eve 1990.
31:08Homolka drugged her sister with sedatives,
31:10and she then died after aspirating on her own vomit.
31:13Homolka later claimed that she was coerced by Bernardo,
31:15but evidence suggests that she was a willing participant.
31:19The two then proceeded to kidnap and murder both Leslie Mahaffey and Kristen French.
31:23Following their arrest, Homolka struck a very controversial plea deal with prosecutors,
31:27agreeing to testify against Bernardo in exchange for a reduced sentence.
31:32Homolka was sentenced to 12 years, and Bernardo to life.
31:36She was released from prison in 2005.
31:39Since then, she's kept a low profile, going by the name Leanne Teal.
31:43And for the past two years, she has reportedly lived in this suburb
31:46south of Montreal with her husband and their three children.
31:49Eileen Wuornos.
31:50Those men were shot just, just shot.
31:53And so she said, boom, boom, boom, you know.
31:54They weren't cut up, they weren't sliced up, no OJ jazz, you know.
31:58And he said, I did the most horrendous crime in the whole wide world.
32:03Not true?
32:05I guess not.
32:06All they were was shot and left.
32:08One of the most famous serial killers in American history,
32:11Eileen Wuornos murdered seven men in Florida while engaging in sex work.
32:15Six of those seven murders were committed between the months of May and November of 1990.
32:20Wuornos claimed that she shot the men in self-defense after they attacked her,
32:24but this argument did not hold up to scrutiny,
32:26and most believe that she killed the men in order to rob them.
32:29Wuornos was later arrested following a tip
32:32and became increasingly unstable during her time in prison,
32:35often blaming others for her crime and engaging in nonsensical rants.
32:39She was ultimately executed on October 9, 2002, at the age of 46.
32:44It was hoped Eileen would confess all to a priest before execution,
32:48but she remained angry and defiant to the very end.
32:51Eileen sent the priest packing and then knelt down and prayed for her victims,
32:56believing they might be too evil to be accepted by God.
32:59Kidnapping of J.C. Lee Dugard.
33:01In the summer of 1991, the young J.C. Lee Dugard disappeared in Myers, California,
33:06on her way to the school bus stop.
33:08She reaches the road, a gray car pulls up, a stranger rolls down the window.
33:12And his hand shoots out, and I just feel numb.
33:17Witnesses, including Dugard's stepfather, Carl Proben,
33:20saw a man and woman force her into a gray vehicle,
33:23and the perpetrators were later identified as Philip Garrido and his wife, Nancy.
33:27For 18 years, Dugard was held in a shack behind their home in Antioch,
33:32where she gave birth to two girls.
33:34The story was featured on America's Most Wanted within days of the abduction.
33:37Dugard and her daughters were finally found in 2009,
33:41after Philip was ordered to attend a parole meeting.
33:44It wasn't until two suspicious campus police officers uncovered the truth
33:48that J.C. was reunited with her mother after 18 torturous years.
33:54They're like, you can see your mom.
33:55And I'm like, I can see my mom?
33:57In 2011, he received a 431-year-to-life prison sentence,
34:02while Nancy was sentenced to 36 to life.
34:04The Murder of Phil Hartman
34:07Actor-comedian Phil Hartman was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1994,
34:13earning an Emmy in 1989 for writing.
34:16Fine, but please, don't tell Mrs. Clinton.
34:19Jim, let me tell you something.
34:22There's gonna be a whole bunch of things we don't tell Mrs. Clinton.
34:26Fast food is the least of our worries, okay, buddy?
34:30Hartman married his third wife, Bryn Omdahl, in 1987, and the couple had two children together.
34:35Omdahl struggled with multiple substance use disorders for years, which put a strain on their marriage.
34:41She also reportedly had anger issues, leading to many fights between the couple,
34:45including one on the night of May 27, 1998.
34:49In the early hours of May 28, she shot Hartman multiple times in his sleep,
34:53then confessed to two friends before taking her own life.
34:56Distraught neighbors and friends of the couple say they had marital problems.
35:00One woman said she had feared that this would happen.
35:03Hartman's murder shocked the entertainment industry at large.
35:07Family, friends, and fans continue paying tribute to the comedian.
35:11John and Lorena Bobbitt
35:12Less than a week after their four-year anniversary,
35:15John and Lorena Bobbitt made headlines for a shocking reason.
35:19According to Lorena, her husband assaulted her the night of June 23, 1993,
35:23in their Manassas, Virginia home.
35:25When he was asleep, she took a knife from the kitchen and removed his manhood, so to speak.
35:30She went into the kitchen to get a glass of water.
35:34She saw the knife.
35:36It was, uh, so many things coming into my mind.
35:40I don't know how to describe.
35:42Lorena alleged that John was emotionally and physically abusive.
35:46She was found not guilty due to insanity and irresistible impulse.
35:50In years since, John has been arrested and charged for several alleged instances of battery involving wives and girlfriends.
35:58He and Lorena continued to talk to the media about the incident.
36:01How quickly did you know that what happened that night was going to be a very big story?
36:08No, I knew it was big because, uh, they were trying to, you know, keep the reporters from coming out to the hospital.
36:14The shooting of Mary Jo Badafucco.
36:17In 1991, 35-year-old auto body shop owner Joey Badafucco allegedly began an affair with teenager Amy Fisher.
36:24When she approached his wife Mary Jo on May 19, 1992, a heated confrontation led to Fisher shooting her in the face and fleeing the scene.
36:32She is accused of an affair with a married man more than twice her age.
36:36She is in jail on charges of trying to kill his wife.
36:39But who is Amy Fisher?
36:40Mary Jo survived and was able to help officials identify the young woman who shot her.
36:46Fisher, whom the press dubbed the Long Island Lolita, was arrested and charged.
36:50Meanwhile, Mary Jo suffered partial face paralysis and lost hearing in one ear.
36:55In December 1992, Fisher was sentenced to 5 to 15 years, serving 7 before being paroled in 1999.
37:03It's not about me anymore.
37:04It's not about the person who got shot and assassinated on the front of her own home.
37:09It becomes about Joey and Amy.
37:12And it did.
37:13It took on a life of its own.
37:14Because that's what the public was seeing.
37:16That's what they wanted.
37:17The West Memphis Three
37:18In May of 1993, three young boys from West Memphis, Arkansas were found murdered in Robin Hood Hills.
37:25Due to the shocking nature, officials speculated there was evidence of an occult ritual.
37:3018-year-old Damien Eccles, known for his interest in Wicca,
37:33was later arrested along with his friend Jason Baldwin and acquaintance Jesse Miskelley Jr.
37:37Despite a lack of evidence, Baldwin and Miskelley got life sentences, while Eccles was sentenced to death.
37:43They argue that the boys' predilections, along with the strange and brutal nature of the crime scene,
37:48are proof that the murders were committed as a satanic ritual.
37:52Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sanofsky directed three HBO documentaries beginning with trial coverage.
37:58The case gained attention when Metallica allowed their music to be used in the first film,
38:02and high-profile celebrities like Johnny Depp publicly supported the boys' innocence.
38:06In 2011, the West Memphis Three were released after agreeing to an Alford plea.
38:11Today, the West Memphis Three walked free.
38:15It's been an absolute living hell.
38:17The attack on Nancy Kerrigan
38:18On January 6, 1994, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was practicing for the United States Figure Skating Championships in Detroit, Michigan,
38:26when she was suddenly struck in her right leg with a baton.
38:29Kerrigan was clubbed on the right knee with a baton by an unidentified man.
38:34Why?
38:36The whack heard round the world as it came to be known.
38:39Rival skater Tanya Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Galluli were suspected of orchestrating the attack
38:44to eliminate Harding's competition.
38:46The attacker was later identified as Shane Stant, an associate of Sean Eckert,
38:51who acted as Harding's bodyguard and Galluli's friend.
38:54Stant and his getaway driver Derek Smith accepted plea deals and were both convicted of conspiracy,
38:59while Eckert and Galluli pled guilty to racketeering.
39:02Just three weeks after the attack, her ex-husband, Jeff Galluli, pleads guilty,
39:07but accuses Tanya of being the mastermind.
39:10Tanya categorically denies those allegations.
39:13You know, I haven't done anything wrong.
39:14Harding was banned from the USFSA and didn't skate professionally again.
39:19In 2017, interest in the infamous attack was renewed with the release of the film I, Tanya.
39:26The murder of Matthew Shepard
39:27In October of 1998, 21-year-old University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was robbed
39:33and brutally attacked by two men, Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson, who left him for dead.
39:39Shepard succumbed to his severe head injuries six days later in the hospital.
39:42The tragedy would become one of the most notorious anti-gay hate crimes in American history.
39:48Matt's funeral and the murder trials, which led to multiple life sentences, dominated the media.
39:56In December, Shepard's parents founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
40:00In 1999, Henderson received two life sentences after pleading guilty to murder and kidnapping charges
40:06and testifying against McKinney, who got the same sentences.
40:09While McKinney and Henderson maintained that they didn't target Shepard because he was gay,
40:13the case sparked discussions surrounding hate crimes against the LGBTQ plus community.
40:18You know, I just saw this very bright, intellectual, worldly, young person.
40:23It's one of the mysteries that keeps you going.
40:25I can't ever really know what he might have been able to accomplish,
40:29but I have a pretty good idea of what we can accomplish in his name if we keep doing it.
40:34And so we do.
40:35In October 2009, then-President Barack Obama signed
40:38the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law.
40:43The Assassination of Gianni Versace
40:45After Giovanni Gianni Versace opened his first boutique in 1978,
40:49the Italian fashion designer quickly made a name for himself in the industry.
40:53I have a beautiful house. I have a beautiful life.
40:56But that is the media. What I desire is more.
40:58His life was cut short at 50 years old when Andrew Cunanan shot him in front of his Miami Beach home
41:04on July 15, 1997.
41:06Eight days later, Cunanan took his own life.
41:09The cross-country spree killer had previously killed four other men before Versace,
41:13including his friend Jeffrey Trail in Minneapolis and well-known real estate developer Lee Miglin in Chicago.
41:19Andrew Cunanan makes the top 10 FBI list.
41:23You had people in all parts of the country wondering whether Andrew Cunanan was going to show up at their house.
41:30Authorities admit that by now Cunanan could be anywhere.
41:33While his exact motivations are ultimately unknown, experts speculate Cunanan was jealous of Versace's fame and fortune.
41:40In 2018, the second season of American Crime Story revisited the crime and the aftermath.
41:46The death of James Bulger
41:47One of the most shocking criminal cases in British history took place on February 12, 1993,
41:53when two of the country's youngest offenders took the life of the even younger James Bulger.
41:57After all this time, 17 years, there's no doubt in your mind that it wasn't just a prank gone wrong, it was evil.
42:05Yes, there's no doubt in my mind at all, it was complete evil intent.
42:09The now widely viewed CCTV footage shows Robert Thompson and John Venables leading Bulger out of the Newstrand shopping center.
42:16Days after the boys' unspeakable acts, Bulger's body was found in Walton, Liverpool.
42:21Professionals determined Thompson and Venables knew right from wrong despite their young ages.
42:25In November that year, they were found guilty of first-degree murder and kidnapping.
42:31In 2001, both were released from youth detention centers at the age of 18 and given new identities.
42:36They got no punishment whatsoever, they got rewarded for murdering James, that's why I've never let it go and I won't let it go.
42:43You think they were rewarded?
42:45Of course it was a reward because they never spent no time in a prison.
42:48Venables returned to prison on several occasions for possession of explicit material involving minors.
42:53The Rodney King beating
42:54While driving home with friends on the morning of March 3rd, 1991,
42:59Rodney King was allegedly speeding on the highway and refused to stop for police, and a high-speed chase ensued.
43:05They were eventually pulled over by five officers from the Los Angeles Police Department.
43:09George Holliday, a nearby witness, filmed the officers tasing King,
43:13repeatedly striking him with batons and kicking him.
43:16Rodney King struggled in many ways for the rest of his life.
43:19He would have nightmares.
43:21I mean, you could hear him, like, you know, yelling in his sleep, like, crying, like, kind of, like, moaning, like he was literally having a nightmare.
43:28According to officers, he resisted arrest, though King and witnesses denied this.
43:33The footage was sent to a local news station and ignited widespread criticism of the LAPD and law enforcement's excessive force.
43:40After the four officers avoided conviction in 1992, public outrage in the African-American community led to the six-day Los Angeles riots.
43:49Well, my reaction is shock first and then disappointment.
43:53Obviously, we feel the evidence warranted a conviction on the defendants, and the jury disagreed with us, and we must abide by their decision.
44:04The death of JonBenet Ramsey.
44:06On December 26, 1996, the young JonBenet Ramsey went missing from her home in Boulder, Colorado.
44:13Her parents, Jon and Patsy, allegedly found a ransom note demanding a suspiciously specific amount of money.
44:19The note demands $118,000 and threatens the immediate execution of their daughter.
44:26Just hours after she was reported missing, Jon found his daughter's lifeless body in the basement.
44:32Her death was ruled a homicide.
44:34And lo and behold, when Jon Ramsey finds the body, you now have Jon Ramsey at the crime scene.
44:41Documentaries and TV programs still revisit the case, analyzing the evidence, going over statements, and uncovering secrets surrounding the family members.
44:50The persisting mystery of her death will seemingly always captivate the nation.
44:54Despite many ongoing theories and suspects, the case remains unsolved to this day.
44:59I believe there is some evidence to suggest strongly that he may have come in through a basement window.
45:05The Centennial Olympic Park Tragedy.
45:07In 1996, Atlanta, Georgia hosted the Summer Olympics.
45:12Security guard Richard Jewell discovered what appeared to be a pipe bomb under a bench in the park.
45:17He immediately called the police and helped lead people to safety before the blast.
45:22The bombing resulted in one death and 100 injuries.
45:25He was hailed a hero.
45:26And I just hope that we catch the people that did it.
45:29Jewell was labeled a hero, but then quickly became the FBI's main suspect.
45:34For almost three months, the FBI investigation and the media attention ruined his life.
45:40Some of the coverage, while acknowledging that Jewell was only under investigation, still cast him in the worst possible light.
45:47His name was eventually cleared, but the real bomber, Eric Rudolph, wasn't caught until 2013.
45:53Jewell was the subject of a Clint Eastwood film, as well as Season 2 of Discovery Channel's anthology series, Manhunt.
46:02Until the day I die, there will be people who believe that I'm a murderer.
46:05The murders of Tupac and Biggie Smalls.
46:08In the late 90s, two of hip-hop's most influential artists were killed within six months of each other.
46:13The back seat of the Cadillac unrolled the window, arm came out, opened fire, and just went rat-a-tat-tat.
46:21There were 13 shots fired.
46:23On September 7, 1996, Tupac Shakur was gunned down, dying six days later.
46:30Then, on March 9, 1997, Biggie Smalls, also known as the Notorious B.I.G., a suspect in Tupac's murder, was shot and killed.
46:38The two started off as friends, but quickly became enemies in the East Coast-West Coast war.
46:50Suspects ranged from former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight to corrupt officers in the LAPD.
46:57New theories still arise today from lifelong fans hoping to solve the murders of two young rappers at the height of their careers.
47:05You know, you don't know who's with who, how it's going to go down.
47:10The World Trade Center bombing.
47:12Eight years before the September 11 attacks, the World Trade Center was hit with a bomb.
47:17On the afternoon of February 26, 1993, a bomb went off inside a rental van, killing six people and injuring over a thousand.
47:27The van was located in the underground parking garage.
47:29At 12.18 p.m., World Trade Center Tower No. 1 became a tower of smoke.
47:36Shockingly, one of the men who planted the bomb actually went to the rental agency to get his security deposit back.
47:42Not so shockingly, he was brought in by the FBI.
47:46Mohamed Salama and his three accomplices were arrested and later convicted.
47:50Yesterday, federal agents raided Salama's apartment, where they found the evidence that led to his arrest.
47:55The granite memorial fountain built to honor the victims was destroyed in 2001.
48:00But the names of the victims are included in the north pool of the 9-11 memorial.
48:0593 bombing was the powder keg.
48:08It was the start of America being vulnerable.
48:11The murder of Selena Quintanilla Perez.
48:14Selena Quintanilla Perez was just 23 years old when she was killed by her fan club president and friend Yolanda Saldíbar on March 31, 1995.
48:23Selena has been shot dead at a Corpus Christi motel.
48:27Yolanda was caught embezzling the singer's money, and Selena confronted her at a motel to collect tax papers.
48:34Rather than face the consequences of her crimes, Yolanda fatally shot her supposedly best friend.
48:39It's not like we thought that this person was possible of the act that she committed.
48:45Given Selena's bright and bubbly presence that touched so many, her sudden death is still a shocking reality.
48:51It's impossible to listen to Dreaming of You and not cry thinking of the heartbreaking ending of the 1997 film.
48:58Love for the iconic singer was revitalized with Netflix's Selena the series.
49:04The crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer.
49:12He's sometimes called the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster.
49:17But everyone knows the name Dahmer.
49:20From 1978 to 1991, he killed 17 young men, doing unspeakable things to their remains.
49:26Jeffrey Dahmer was responsible for killing more than a dozen people.
49:30The killer was finally caught on July 22, 1991, after an intended victim escaped and flagged down police.
49:37A lot of media attention has focused on his upbringing, attempting to explain why anyone would commit such horrific crimes.
49:44Milwaukee newspaper is reporting the man has confessed to killing at least 11 people.
49:49What makes him enduringly fascinating is just how normal he looked.
49:52Ryan Murphy's Netflix original series starring Evan Peters is based on Dahmer's life, but told through the eyes of his victims.
49:58The Waco siege.
50:01Beginning February 28, 1993, the FBI led a siege against David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidians and his cult followers.
50:10Suspecting that the group was stockpiling illegal weapons, ATF agents had arrived at Mount Carmel Center outside Waco, Texas to serve a warrant.
50:19Instead, a deadly gunfight ensued, resulting in the deaths of four agents and six Branch Davidians.
50:25Even when the agents all left, we felt that they would be back that night and kill us.
50:32The siege continued for 51 days, finally ending April 19, when the FBI flooded the building with tear gas, attempting to force everyone out.
50:41This is not an assault. We are not entering the building.
50:44A fire consumed the building, and by the end, 76 Branch Davidians were dead.
50:50Official reports alleged that cult members lit the fires, while surviving cult members blamed the FBI.
50:56The huge numbers of Americans watched this play out on their television sets, and the ending was incredibly horrifying.
51:06Two years to the day after the Waco siege, a bomb went off under the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
51:13A massive car bomb exploded outside of a large federal building in downtown Oklahoma City, shattering that building.
51:20The bombing killed at least 168 people, including 19 children, wounding over 680 others.
51:28The nine-story building contained offices of 14 federal agencies.
51:32Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, two soldiers turned anti-government extremists,
51:37targeted this location because it housed the DEA and ATF, two of the three agencies they sought to attack.
51:45McVeigh was sentenced to death for this act of domestic terrorism, one of the worst in U.S. history.
51:50It was an act of cowardice, and it was evil.
51:55The Columbine High School Massacre
51:57When you say Columbine, everyone knows what you're referring to.
52:01Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado became front-page news on April 20, 1999,
52:06after two heavily armed students killed 13 and wounded over 20 others before taking their own lives.
52:13Just can assure yourself that you have an emergency?
52:15Yes, I am a teacher at Columbine High School. There is a student here with a gun.
52:19This wasn't the first school shooting in the U.S.
52:22There had been a string of others around the country, but at the time, it was the deadliest in U.S. history.
52:29This infamous attack forever changed how security and safety protocols are handled in schools.
52:33Victims of the shooting suffer lasting trauma, some continuing to speak about their experience
52:39in the hopes of preventing more tragedies.
52:42It's good that school shootings are still shocking because it shows that they're really rare.
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53:01The murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman
53:06On June 13, 1994, the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman
53:12were found in front of her Brentwood home, having been stabbed to death the night before.
53:17She was absolutely terrified for her life.
53:19Nicole's ex-husband, former football star O.J. Simpson, became the number one suspect.
53:24The trial, dubbed the trial of the century, began seven months after the murders on January 24, 1995
53:31and would last 134 days, with the shocking verdict being announced on October 3rd.
53:37We the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant, Orenthal James Simpson,
53:43not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code section 187.
53:47In the media, it's often forgotten that it isn't all about Simpson.
53:51The families of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman lost their loved ones.
53:55The infamous Bronco Chase, trying on the gloves, the theatrics in and out of court,
54:01all distract from the reality of the case.
54:03Two people were brutally killed.
54:05A mostly white jury found Simpson liable,
54:08ordering him to pay $33.5 million to the families of the murder victims in 1997.
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