Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America's history are
reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime
Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth's broken ankle, but was he
actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham
Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden brutally murder her own parents in
Massachusetts? Was admitted jihadist Zacarias Moussaoui really involved
in the terrorist plot to destroy the World Trade Center on September 11,
2001? In a series of provocative and eye-opening true crime
investigations, author Fred Rosen revisits some of the most shocking and
notorious crimes in America over the past two centuries to determine
once and for all . . . did they really do it?
Applying logic and techniques of modern criminology while reexamining
the crime scenes, official police records, and the original courtroom
testimonies of witnesses and the accused, Rosen explores nine infamous
crimes that rocked the nation and the verdicts that were ultimately
handed down. From Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's execution for treason to
the kidnapping and killing of the Lindbergh baby to the Ku Klux Klan
slayings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi to 9/11, the
alleged perpetrators get another day in court as Rosen calls into
question the circumstantial evidence and cultural context that may have
determined guilt or innocence in each case.
