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.