360degrees.org
Perspectives on the American Criminal System
http://www.360degrees.org/
Web Documentary Slams Home Reality of Prisons. The title "360degrees" reflects both the structure and theme of this Web documentary, which was designed to offer multiple perspectives on criminal justice. Just as the camera appears to pan around each room, so the commentary also shows every side—criminal, victim, prosecutor, defense attorney, families, scholars, and criminal historians. The idea, say Alison Cornyn and Sue Johnson of Picture Projects, is to inspire dialogue—and to instigate change. Be sure to check out the timeline (601 to present) exploring the creation of prisons as know them today and suggestions for integrating this site into academic curriculums.
Also listed under Criminal Justice Resources : Corrections
(Last checked 06/01/07)

About.Com's Notorious Crimes and Criminals in History
http://crime.about.com/od/history/
Includes links to web pages related to crime and criminal justice events, such as Lindbergh Kidnapping, Sacco and Vanzetti, Rosenberg Trail, Martin Luther King's Murder, John F. Kennedy's assasination, Sam Sheppard Case, and Jeffrey MacDonald Case.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Al Capone Museum
http://www.alcaponemuseum.com
Courtesy of Diane Tremblay.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Al Capone: the History Files
http://www.chicagohistory.org/history/capone.html
Courtesy of the chicago Historical Society.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Awesome Stories: Famous Trials
http://awesomestories.com/famous_trials/index2.htm
Provides links to the primary source material on stories behind famous trials. Links are provided by the Library of Congress, the Australian National Archives, the British Museum, the BNF in Paris, and hundreds of universities, libraries, historical societies and museums world-wide. Full access requires free registration.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Baby Face Nelson Journal
http://www.geocities.com/durobin2000/babyfacenelson.html
Web page by Jim Adams.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

BBC - Crime - Case Closed
http://web.archive.org/web/20060315222116/http://www.bbc.co.uk/crime/caseclosed/
This site gathers profiles of infamous crimes and criminals and shows how forensic science helped to solve the crimes. Some of the criminals profiled include Jeffrey Dalmer, John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, and Son of Sam. Cases from the past include the Great Train Robbery, Watergate, and the Millennium Dome Heist. Still available thanks to the Internet Archive.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Bootlegger's Paradise (Detroit)
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/gang/purple/1.html?sect=25
During Prohibition, rumrunners and bootleggers used the frozen river as an easy way to get booze from Canada into the United States. From Detroit liquor went to Chicago (where Capone sold it under his "Log Cabin" label), St. Louis, and points west. It was a well-known fact that if you were bringing a load of hooch across the Detroit River that you had better show up armed to the teeth. Because in the 1920s, Detroit belonged to the Purple Gang, a group of killers and thugs as vicious and bloodthirsty as any racketeer in New York or Chicago. From the Crime Library.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Casebook: Jack the Ripper
http://www.casebook.org/
An extensive collection of information on the infamous Jack the Ripper cases can be found at this searchable site, including victim, suspect, and police biographies; contemporary documents and news reports; scanned copies of the Ripper's letters; background on the Victorian era; a timeline; a witness chart; and much more.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Charles Manson
http://www.crimelibrary.com/manson/mansonmain.htm
Contains biographical information on the cult leader, an overview of the 1969 California "Helter Skelter" murders and profiles of the victims, information on the subsequent investigation and trial, updates on members of "the family" (including Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, "convicted of attempting to assassinate President Gerald L. Ford in 1975"), and bibliography. From The Crime Library.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Chicago Black Sox Scandal and Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/blacksox/blacksox.html
http://www.chicagohs.org/history/blacksox.html
The story of the "eight men out" The second web page is available courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Cleaners and Dyers War (Detroit, MI, 1920)
http://markgribben.com/?page_id=31
While the bootleggers and gamblers on the East Coast were grabbing all of the headlines, a little known but very deadly gang war was going on in Detroit that had nothing to do with booze or dice. It was a beef between union and non-union dry cleaners and clothes dyers which, because it involved huge sums of money and required muscle on both sides, attracted organized criminals like roaches to spilled sugar. Source: The Malefactor's Registrar.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Crime and Punishment in America, Vol. 1 :
http://law.jrank.org/collection/1/Crime-Punishment-in-America-Reference-Library.html
Includes sections on : Colonial Period -- European Settlement Of North America, Factors Influencing Early Colonial Law, Differences From The English Criminal Justice System;
The Early Years of American Law -- Colonial Freedom, Britain's Push For Greater Control, A New Start, A New Criminal Court System;
Modern Criminal Justice -- Criminal Justice Prior To The 1930s, Modernizing Criminal Justice, Further Expansion Of Federal Criminal Justice.
Online equivalent of the Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, 2002.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Crime Library
http://www.crimelibrary.com/
Provides hundreds of in-depth stories about the most notorious crimes of all times; worldwide crime news; fascinating reports on the criminal mind, criminal profiling, and forensics; and crime fiction by leading authors.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Criminal Justice History Resources
http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/~dreveskr/cjhr.html-ssi
Extensive list of resources from Northeastern State University.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Curious Punishments of Bygone Days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curious_Punishments_of_Bygone_Days
http://books.google.com/books?id=4SnJTvXjMrkC
http://web.archive.org/web/20040929132705/http://www.getchwood.com/punishments/curious/
Alice Morse Earle, 1896, reflects on punishment practices in colonial America.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Davidian Massacre: Disturbing Questions about Waco
http://www.carolmoore.net/waco/TDM-index.html
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Doug Linder's Famous American and World Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
Prof. Doug Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School has put together information about famous trials in history from the trial of Socrates in 399 B.C. to the Moussaoui (9/11) Trial in 2006. Also included are the Nuremburg Trials, the trial of Charles Manson, the McMartin Preschool Trial, and the trial of LAPD Officers for the beating of Rodney King. Linder has included exerpts from transcripts, background information on the individuals involved and supplementary materials.
Also listed under Law : Reference Works and Directories, Selected Court Cases.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Emmett Till Murder (PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/
The brutal killing that mobilized the Civil Rights Movement.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice in America, Vol. 1
http://law.jrank.org/collection/6/Encyclopedia-Crime-Justice.html
Includes sections on :
Criminology: Intellectual History - Early Thinking About Crime And Punishment, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, Classical Criminology, Positivist Criminology
Criminology: Modern Controversies - Models Of Criminology And Ideology, Sociology Of Law And Crime Control, Explanations Of Crime, social Distribution And Causation
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment in America, Vol. 1
http://law.jrank.org/collection/1/Crime-Punishment-in-America-Reference-Library.html
Contents include: Colonial Period : European Settlement Of North America, Factors Influencing Early Colonial Law, Differences From The English Criminal Justice System;
The Early Years of American Law -- Colonial Freedom, Britain's Push For Greater Control, A New Start, A New Criminal Court System;
Modern Criminal Justice -- Criminal Justice Prior To The 1930s, Modernizing Criminal Justice, Further Expansion Of Federal Criminal Justice.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Famous Case Files from the FBI
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/famcases.htm
Since its founding in 1908, the FBI has been involved in many famous cases. Inasmuch as inquiries often are received about them, the Office of Public and Congressional Affairs (OPCA) has prepared monographs on some of the most frequently requested, closed investigations. The monographs should be considered to be overviews rather than exhaustive treatments. Although additional details on these cases or copies of photographs and illustrations are not available from OPCA, further information on them may be found in libraries.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

FBI Newspaper Archive Now Available Free of Charge
http://www.fbiarchive.com/
The FBI has a long history of bringing criminals to justice, and their cases are often pulled straight from the headlines. Their work is evident in almost every stage in the last 100 years of American history. NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest newspaper database online, has provided a free archive on the history of the FBI. The FBI archive includes stories about some of America's most notorious criminals such as John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, "Machine Gun" Kelly and "Pretty Boy" Floyd. You will also find thrilling accounts of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames. Click on the timeline to view newspapers in chronological order or begin searching the newspaper pages with your own key words.
(Last checked 04/10/06)

FBI's FOIA Collections from Gangster Era
http://foia.fbi.gov/gangster.htm
Master page with links to the following collections:

• Baby Face Nelson 6/3/98
• Barker-Karpis Gang (Summary) 7/30/99
• Barnes, George "Machine Gun" Kelly (Summary) 8/2/01
• Bonnie and Clyde (Summary) 6/3/98
• Capone, Al 2/25/00
• Dalitz, Morris "Moe" 8/17/00
• Dillinger, John (Summary) 1/12/98
• Pretty Boy Floyd and Kansas City Massacre (Summary) 8/31/99
• St. Valentine's Day Massacre 1/12/98
• Siegel, Benjamin "Bugsy" 1/28/00

FBI's FOIA Collection on Bonnie and Clyde
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/bonclyd.htm
Summary of the crime spree of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in the early 1930's which ended when they were killed by police officers on May 23, 1934.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

FBI's FOIA Collections on John Dillinger
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/dillnger.htm
Summary of events leading up to the death of John Dillinger on July 22, 1934, when he grabbed for his gun and was shot by FBI Special Agents as he left the Biograph Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Frank R. Ballinger's Bonnie and Clyde's Hideout
http://texashideout.tripod.com/bc.htm
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Gallery of Crime
http://www.crimeboss.com/gallery.html
As lawmakers continue to maintain that violent video games make for violent children, it's sobering to sample the ultra-violent (yet strangely appealing) crime comic books many of them grew up with. An impressive collection crime comic covers from the 1940s and 1950s created by Richard Wolfe.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

The Harps, Big and Little: America’s First Known Serial Killers
http://www.crimemagazine.com/harps.htm
During the Revolutionary War, two cousins became the first known serial killers in American history. The Harp cousins killed anything that got in their path, including their own children. Source : Crime Magazine : An encyclopedia of crime.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

A Historical Investigation into the Past: Lizzie Borden/ Fall River Case Study
http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/lizzie/
Contains "late nineteenth century primary source materials from the Lizzie Borden axe murder trial and from Fall River, Massachusetts." Includes photographs, illustrations, census data, maps, newspaper clippings, Borden family documents (land purchases and sales, wills, credit ratings, a family tree), and transcriptions of Edmund Pearson's Trial of Lizzie Borden (1937) and Edwin H. Porter's The Fall River Tragedy: A History of the Borden Murders (1893). From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Homicidal Heroes
http://web.archive.org/web/20010410004449/
http://www.apollo12.demon.co.uk/homicide.htm
The name is misleading. This page provides links to details of some of the worst murders in history courtesy of the A-Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. Includes: Joe Ball, Fritz Haarman, Andrei Chikatito, Albert DeSalvo, Jack The Ripper, Carl Panzram, The Moors Murderers, Dennis Nilsen, Albert Fish, Gary Heidnik, Edmund Kemper, Edward Gein, Harrison Graham, Clinton Bankston, Howard Arther Allen, Richard Ramirez, Joseph Vacher, Harvey Murray Glatman, Jane Toppan, Aileen Wuornos, Henry Heepe, Alton Coleman, John Norman Collins, Michael Ross, Herman Drenth, Jerome Henry Brudos, Wayne Boden, Frank Davis, Juan Corona, and Earle Leonard Nelson. Web page courtesy of Mark Thompson.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930
http://www.homicide.northwestern.edu/
This rich site provides primary source access to a database with information on 11,000 homicides maintained by the Chicago Police Dept. Users can search the database by name, type of crime, date, etc. or browse descriptions of 25 of the more sensational homicides in Chicago, complete with links to newspaper articles, photographs, and court records. Courtesy of Leigh Bienen, Northwestern University School of Law.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

John Dillinger File
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/4172/
Courtesy of Bob Fischer, Outlaw Archives.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

John Dillinger Scrapbook
http://www.geocities.com/hydey6/dillingerpage.html
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Johnnie Dillinger Web Site
http://www.johnniedillinger.freeservers.com/
Courtesy of Tony Stewart.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Leo Frank
http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics/frank/
It was the first sensational trial of the 20th century. In 1913, Leo Frank, the Brooklyn-reared, Cornell-educated, Jewish superintendent of the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, was arrested for the brutal murder of a 13-year-old factory girl named Mary Phagan. After an investigation in which key evidence tended to be more overlooked than carefully culled, Frank, 29, was convicted with the help of the Jim Crow-era prosecution's highly unusual star witness: a black man. Over the next two years, as Frank's lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court, tensions surrounding the case only grew. A local passion against "outsiders," inflamed by the writings of Georgia-based populist firebrand Tom Watson, was inadvertently fanned by a group of northern newspapermen who tried to convince the nation of Frank's innocence. At the last minute, the governor commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. But less than three months later, the most famous inmate of the day was kidnapped from the state penitentiary and hanged from an oak tree in Marietta, Ga., not far from Phagan's grave. The events led to the formation of the Anti-Defamation League -- and the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan. Note: the only Jew lynched in U.S. history? Web page courtesy of the Crime Library.
More on the Leo Frank Case from the New Georgia Encylopedia.
Crime Magazine entry
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Lindbergh Case: The Trial of the Century
http://www.lindberghtrial.com/
http://www.fbi.gov/libref/historic/famcases/lindber/lindbernew.htm
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/lindbergh/index_1.html
This site describes a sensational American crime, the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby in 1932 and the subsequent trial of Bruno Hauptmann, the accused kidnapper. Presented by the Hunterdon County Democrat, a weekly New Jersey newspaper, the site draws material from the Democrat's own 1935 trial coverage, as well as a wide range of police, legal and other sources. Includes links to historical, aviation and crime sites of interest. Content is well organized.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Mark Gribben's Malefactors' Registrar
http://markgribben.com/
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Martha Stewart Indictment
http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/steawart_bacano_indictment.pdf
Martha Stewart was convicted of unloading stock after receiving illegal inside information from a stock broker.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Michigan's Only Pirate
http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/pirate.htm
Aargh! "Roaring" Dan Seavey -- Michigan's only pirate -- was a poor substitute for Captain Jack of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Mob Magazine
http://www.mobmagazine.com/frontpage.asp
Provides mob stories and links to breaking crime information from various web news feeds.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674 to 1834
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/
A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

The Purple Gang's Bloody Legacy (Detroit)
http://info.detnews.com/history/story/index.cfm?id=8&category=life
In the annals of crime, Detroit’s Purple Gang didn’t have a long ride, but it was colorful enough to inspire books, get them name-checked in an Elvis song (“Jailhouse Rock”) and even prompt a Hollywood movie in 1960 starring actor Robert Blake. The fact that the Gang dominated the flow of liquor in Detroit for most of the 1920s, were judged responsible for some 500 murders by the Detroit police and were largely Jewish has helped hone their mystique some 70-plus years later. Susan Whitall, Detroit News.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Sacco-Vanzetti Controversy
http://www.msu.edu/course/mc/112/1920s/Sacco-Vanzetti/
On April 15, 1920, two men robbed and murdered a paymaster and his guard as they transferred $15,776 from the Slater and Morrill Shoe factory. Three weeks later, Italian immigrants and known anarchists, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were accused and arrested for the crime, despite the little evidence against them. Following, a seven-week trial, Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted, on circumstancial evidence, of murder and sentenced to death. Seven years later, after numerous appeals, and immense public outcry, both men were executed for their "crimes." Prejudice at work?
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Sam Sheppard Trials
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/sheppard/Sheppard.htm
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/sheppard/index_1.html
Inspired the Fugitive TV series and movie as well as established a landmark Supreme Court decision.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Sapiro v. Ford (Time Magazine)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,730171,00.html
Outraged with antisemitic remarks made by Henry Ford in his book The International Jew, Sapiro sued Ford in April 2004. News reports at the time quoted Sapiro as being shocked by the content in particular the section "Jewish Exploitation of the American Farmer's Organizations: Monopoly Traps Operate Under the Guise of Marketing Associations," which attacked the band of Jewish-bankers, lawyers, advertising agencies, fruit farmers, market buyers, and office professionals which, according to Ford, contributed to the domination of Jewish people in the American cooperative marketing system.[6] Many prominent Jewish professionals were cited including Bernard Baruch, Albert Lasker, Eugene Meyer, Otto Kahn and Julius Rosenwald but the chapter was primarily directed at the influence of Sapiro. Sapiro's lawsuit publicly exposed Ford's antisemitism in the federal courts and put the substance of his allegations on national display. As the trial unfolded and combatants of antisemitism in California participated in court proceedings, Ford secretly commissioned the constitutional lawyer and Jewish activist Louis Marshall, to write his apology for his remarks. In doing so, Marshall ended the public controversy and foreclosed further legal action in the case in December 1927. The result of the case is seen historically as an act of repentance and a monumental event in Jewish history in the United States.
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Scotland Yard's Jack the Ripper Page
http://www.met.police.uk/history/ripper.htm
(Last checked 06/01/07)

Tony Stewart Presents Dillinger : the Hidden Truth
http://www.geocities.com/dillinger72234/dillinger_thehiddentruth.html
(Last checked 06/01/07)

True Spy Stories
http://rf-web.tamu.edu/security/secguide/Spystory/Intro.htm#True%20Spy%20Stories
Espionage is said to be the second oldest profession. Like the oldest profession, the basics of espionage really haven't changed much over the past two thousand years. But there are a number of newer developments in the kinds of people involved, what they are after and how they accomplish the dirty deed. Experience is the best teacher, so past cases have been selected and described to illustrate important points. Contents: