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.
