CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1
ASSASSINATIONS

Awful Event: President Lincoln Shot by an Assassin

Heir to Austria’s Throne Is Slain with His Wife by a Bosnian Youth to Avenge Seizure of His Country

Gandhi Is Killed by a Hindu; India Shaken, World Mourns; 15 Die in Rioting in Bombay Robert Trumbull

Kennedy Is Killed by Sniper as He Rides in Car in Dallas; Johnson Sworn in on Plane Tom Wicker

Malcolm X Shot to Death at Rally Here Peter Kihss

Martin Luther King Is Slain in Memphis; A White Is Suspected; Johnson Urges Calm Earl Caldwell

Kennedy Is Dead, Victim of Assassin; Suspect, Arab Immigrant, Arraigned; Johnson Appoints Panel on Violence Gladwin Hill

Sadat Assassinated at Army Parade as Men Amid Ranks Fire into Stands; Vice President Affirms “All Treaties” William E. Farrell

Bhutto Is Killed at Rally, and Pakistan Faces Outrage and New Turmoil Salman Masood and Carlotta Gall

CHAPTER 2
HEISTS

Masked Men Rob a Train: The Bold Exploit of a Gang of Missouri Outlaws

Dillinger Defied Capture for Year

Bandits Rob Mail Train Outside London; Record Loss May Exceed $5,000,000 James Feron

Star of India and 8 Other Stolen Gems Returned to City From Miami Locker Jack Roth

The Big Lufthansa Robbery and Its Trail of Murder Leslie Maitland

Boston Thieves Loot a Museum of Masterpieces Fox Butterfield

Willie Sutton, Urbane Scoundrel Peter Duffy

FBI Brings a Fresh Set of Eyes to a ’71 Plane Hijacking Mystery Susan Saulny

Graying Thieves and a Record Heist Undone in London Dan Bilefsky

CHAPTER 3
KIDNAPPINGS

Franks Slayers Get Life Imprisonment; Youth Averts Noose

Lindbergh Baby Kidnapped from Home of Parents on Farm Near Princeton; Taken from His Crib; Wide Search On

Bronfman’s Son Rescued in City After a Payment of $2.3 Million; Money Recovered, 2 Suspects Held Peter Kihss

Miss Hearst Is Convicted on Bank Robbery Charges Wallace Turner

Agony Lingers, 20 Years After the Moro Killing Alessandra Stanley

Captive’s Own Account of 18 Years as a Hostage Jesse McKinley

CHAPTER 4
MASS MURDER

School Dynamiter First Slew Wife

Suspect Seized in Chicago in Slaying of Eight Nurses Austin C. Wehrwein

Terror in Littleton: The Overview; 2 Students in Colorado School Said to Gun Down as Many as 23 and Kill Themselves in a Siege James Brooke

Massacre in Virginia; Drumbeat of Shots, Broken by Pauses to Reload Shaila Dewan

Gunman Kills 12 at Colorado Theater; Scores Are Wounded, Reviving Debate Dan Frosch and Kirk Johnson

Norwegian Mass Killer Gets Maximum Sentence: 21 Years Mark Lewis and Sarah Lyall

Sandy Hook Pupils Were All Shot Multiple Times with a Semiautomatic, Officials Say James Barron

A Hectic Day at Church, and Then a Hellish Visitor Richard Fausset, John Eligon, Jason Horowitz and Frances Robles

Praising Isis, Gunman Attacks Gay Nightclub, Leaving 50 Dead in Worst Shooting on U.S. Soil Lizette Alavarez and Richard Pérez-Peña

CHAPTER 5
THE MOB

7 Chicago Gangsters Slain by Firing Squad of Rivals, Some in Police Uniforms

The Crime Hearings: Television Provides Both a Lively Show and a Notable Public Service Jack Gould

65 Hoodlums Seized in a Raid and Run Out of Upstate Village

Valachi Names 5 as Crime Chiefs in New York Area Emanuel Perlmutter

Galante and 2 Shot to Death in a Brooklyn Restaurant Robert D. McFadden

The Mafia of the 1980s: Divided and Under Siege Robert D. McFadden

John Gotti Dies in Prison at 61; Mafia Boss Relished the Spotlight Selwyn Raab

A Mafia Boss Breaks a Code in Telling All William K. Rashbaum

Long Elusive, Irish Mob Legend Ended Up a California Recluse Adam Nagourney and Abby Goodnough

CHAPTER 6
MURDER

Thaw Murders Stanford White; Shoots Him on the Madison Square Garden Roof

Trial Under Way in Youth’s Killing John N. Popham

Manson, 3 Women Guilty; Prosecution to Ask Death Earl Caldwell

John Lennon of Beatles Is Killed; Suspect Held in Shooting at Dakota Les Ledbetter

Mrs. Harris Found Guilty of Murder and She Is Quickly Removed to Jail James Feron

Not Guilty: The Overview; Jury Clears Simpson in Double Murder; Spellbound Nation Divides on Verdict David Margolick

Colorado Murder Mystery Lingers as Police Press On James Brooke

Kitty, 40 Years Later Jim Rasenberger

Freed by DNA, Now Charged in New Crime Monica Davey

Grisly Murder Case Intrigues Italian University City Ian Fisher

A Trial Ends, but for South Africans, the Debate May Be Just Beginning Sarah Lyall and Alan Cowell

Straight From TV to Jail: Durst Is Charged in Killing Charles V. Bagli and Vivian Yee

CHAPTER 7
PRISON

Showering and Yoking

9 Hostages and 28 Prisoners Die as 1,000 Storm Prison in Attica—“Like a War Zone” Fred Ferretti

No Way Out: Dashed Hopes—Serving Life, with No Chance of Redemption Adam Liptak

Tale of 3 Inmates Who Vanished from Alcatraz Maintains Intrigue 50 Years Later Robert D. McFadden

How El Chapo Was Finally Captured, Again Azam Ahmed

Prison Rate Was Rising Years Before 1994 Law Erik Eckholm

CHAPTER 8
SERIAL KILLERS

Dismay in Whitechapel: Two More Murdered Women Found

Holmes Cool to the End

DeSalvo, Confessed “Boston Strangler,” Found Stabbed to Death in Prison Cell John Kifner

.44 Killer Wounds 12th and 13th Victims Robert D. McFadden

The Suspect Is Quoted on Killings: “It Was a Command … I Had a Sign” Howard Blum

Suspect in Mass Deaths Is Puzzle to All Douglas E. Kneeland

Bundy Is Put to Death in Florida After Admitting Trail of Killings Jon Nordheimer

Jeffrey Dahmer, Multiple Killer, Is Bludgeoned to Death in Prison Don Terry

Retracing a Trail: The Sniper Suspects; Serial Killing’s Squarest Pegs: Not Solo, White, Psychosexual or Picky N. R. Kleinfield and Erica Goode

CHAPTER 9
SEX CRIMES

Polanski Guilty Plea Accepted in Sex Case Grace Lichtenstein

Crimmins Found Guilty of Murder as the Jury Accepts His Confession E. R. Shipp

Darkness Beneath the Glitter: Life of Suspect in Park Slaying Samuel G. Freedman

Lorena Bobbitt Acquitted in Mutilation of Husband David Margolick

A Crime Revisited: The Decision; 13 Years Later, Official Reversal in Jogger Attack Robert D. McFadden and Susan Saulny

Boston Church Papers Released; A Pattern of Negligence Is Cited Pam Belluck

Sandusky Guilty of Sexual Abuse of 10 Young Boys Joe Drape

CHAPTER 10
VICE

Marijuana Smoking Is Reported Safe

Speakeasy Census Shows Brisk Trade C. G. Poore

Kingpin of Crime Syndicate Robert D. McFadden

Head of Medellín Cocaine Cartel Is Killed by Troops in Colombia Robert D. McFadden

Spitzer, Linked to a Sex Ring as a Client, Gives an Apology Danny Hakim and William K. Rashbaum

CHAPTER 11
WHITE COLLAR

Exchange “Wizard” Is Paying Claims

Van Doren Pleads Guilty; Is Freed Alfred E. Clark

Milken Gets 10 Years for Wall St. Crimes Kurt Eichenwald

2 Enron Chiefs Are Convicted in Fraud and Conspiracy Trial Alexei Barrionuevo

Madoff Goes to Jail After Guilty Pleas Diana B. Henriques and Jack Healy