Power, Privilege, and Justice

The 1997 slaying of fashion designer Gianni Versace by Andrew Cunanan in Miami Beach.

In one of the cabins in the Sequoia National Forest, the body of Bonnie Hood, owner of a California mountain resort is found in 1990.Her husband, Jim Hood, a real estate developer, wants revenge for his wife's murder. Bruce Beauchamps, the alleged murderer of Bonnie Hood, is himself found murdered several years later.

Ricky Kyle is tried for the murder of his father, millionaire Henry Harrison Kyle.

The death of Werner Hartmann, known locally as the "Stereo King of Chicago", is a suicide staunchly maintains. This story would seem to be at odds with the 10 gunshots in his body. Interestingly, all of them were above the waist.

The arrest and trial of Claudine Longet, accused of shooting her lover, skier Spider Sabitch, becomes one of the first big media-driven celebrity events.

Roxanne Gailiunas is murdered in 1983.

James Sullivan's 1976 marriage to Atlantan socialite Lta McClinton proved to be a hindrance to Sulivan's obsession with climbing up the ranks of the social elite and the marriage floundered. Answering the door to a hit man posing as a flower delivery man, Lita was shot dead at point-blank range. It took 13 years for the police to locate and arrest the hit man who accused the husband, James, to be behind the murder plot. When Sullivan vanished, it took years and an international manhunt to bring Sullivan in.