In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively instituted a moratorium on Kansas’ death penalty along with that of three dozen other states in Furman v. Georgia. That moratorium was lifted in 1976. And in 1994, Kansas statute re-established the death penalty, this time by lethal injection. C...
On June 12, 1962, a headcount at Alcatraz—the most secure, remote prison in America—revealed that three inmates were missing. In their beds were dummies fashioned out of plaster and human hair, which fooled the guards the night before—all part of an ingenious and elabora...
Det. Bill Clark: They have a look around and they see some…what looks like blood. And Mark Twitchell's explaining, "Oh, no, that's my movie prop. We did a film about … killin' a guy in here and I filmed it all. And I've been cleaning it up over the last couple weeks …"...