Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
Katie Beers, Rayya Elias
May 22 . 2013
Katie Beers was abducted by a family friend, held captive in an underground cell for 17 days and sexually abused. Buried Memories is her story of survival and recovery. Later, Rayya Elias and her family fled the political conflict in their native Syria, settling in Detroit. Harley Loco charts 4 decades of a life lived in the moment, a path from harrowing loss and darkness to a place of peace and redemption.
Sabine Heinlein
April 22 . 2013
What is it like for a convicted murderer who has spent decades behind bars to suddenly find himself released into a world he barely recognizes? Sabine Heinlein followed the everyday lives and emotional struggles of three men convicted of some of the most heinous crimes–as they return to the free world in Among Murderers.
Becca Stevens
April 16 . 2013
In Snake Oil, Becca Stevens tells how the women she began helping fifteen years ago have been the biggest source of her own healing from sexual abuse and her father’s death as a child.
John Barylick, Linda Fisher
February 11 . 2013
Killer Show is John Barylick‘s comprehensive exploration of the chain of events leading up to the Warwick, R.I. fire, and the painstaking search for evidence to hold the guilty to account and obtain justice for the victims.Linda Fisher was at the club the night of the fire and tells us her story of survival.
Craig R. Whitney
January 3 . 2013
In Living With Guns, veteran New York Times editor Craig Whitney carefully reexamines America’s relationship with guns, showing how guns are an important part of American culture.
Errol Morris
September 7 . 2012
Academy Award-winning filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case in A Wilderness of Error.
Brandon Garrett
September 4 . 2012
DNA exonerations have shattered confidence in the criminal justice system by exposing how often we have convicted the innocent and let the guilty walk free. Brandon Garrett examines what went wrong in the cases of the first 250 wrongfully convicted people to be freed in Convicting the Innocent.
Jacqueline Salit, Pat Brown
August 20 . 2012
Independents Rising is a revealing look at how independent voters have been upending the political establishment for thirty years – and how they’ll decide the future of American politics (independentvoting.org). Later, criminal profiler, Pat Brown tells you How To Save Your Daughter’s Life.
Josh Horwitz, Nina Chanpreet Kaur
August 8 . 2012
Is it time to take common sense measures to make it harder for some people to obtain weapons? Josh Horwitz with the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence on the mass shooting in a Sikh temple near Milwaukee and then Nina Chanpreet Kaur talks about her faith and what she’s doing to help reduce violence worldwide. Peace First.
Robert Zorn, George W. Grayson
July 18 . 2012
Using personal possessions and documents, never-before seen photographs, and new forensic evidence, Robert Zorn has written a shocking and captivating account of the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby in Cemetery John. Then, George Grayson takes you into the world of Los Zetas, and how it became Mexico’s most diabolical criminal organization in The Executioner’s Men.
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