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A young man and his sister were en route to Las Vegas after killing their mother and grandparents in Indianapolis. Traveling over the speed limit in Missouri, they were stopped by a deputy. His alert questioning produced indicator after indicator that something was wrong. Roadside cooperation with Indiana officers and professional questioning soon brought a confession and arrests.

Texas female officer Michelle Jeter was nearly beaten to death during a traffic stop. This first-ever in-depth interview with Officer Jeter provides an invaluable training.

An escaped federal prisoner is stopped by a Louisiana officer, but the subject is allowed to leave despite many signs pointing to him as the escapee. With top-to-bottom footage captured by the police cruiser's dash-cam video, this program imparts vital analysis and lessons learned.

On the eve of the sentencing of Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik, Kirsty Young goes behind the headlines to meet survivors of some of the most shocking crimes in living memory. From the Cumbrian shootings of 2010 to the Real IRA ambush of unarmed soldiers collecting pizza outside their barracks in Northern Ireland three years ago, the Crimewatch team reconstructs these remarkable stories of survival. The mother of James Bulger speaks about the...

Paradis draws back the curtain on the fascinating world of forensic psychology and revisits the most notorious and puzzling cases she has handled in her multifaceted career.--Introduction.

Like any predatory animal, a serial criminal defines a territory through the predatory logic that guides his hunting. In this program, Professor David Canter illustrates the complexities of running a human predator to ground through three cases. The first, which occurred in Las Vegas, focuses on a teenager who was arrested for committing a crime spree that combined murderous assault, rape, and robbery; the second, which occurred in Canada, focuses...

Get a cop out here, I'm hurt," pleads an elderly voice to the 911 dispatcher. "There's a maniac in the house." Although the distress call is muffled and chaotic, the facts of the case soon become horrifically clear: 96-year-old Miss Mary has suffered a brutal sexual assault at the hands of her grandson, Billy. As Mary later shares on camera and in the presence of victim advocates, Billy's attack was the culmination of years of systematic abuse, including...

Describes the struggle Mexican law enforcement has faced to control the drug traffic epidemic in Juárez, reflecting upon the lives of four people at the heart of the drug war--a drug lord's mistress, a human rights activist, a photojournalist, and Juárez's mayor.

This book examines different aspects of the ongoing debate on youth violence, including the seriousness of the phenomenon, root causes of violent behavior, methods of prevention, types of intervention programs, and modes of punishment.

In the 21st century, "we are all becoming visible ... in that other, parallel world of electronic records, databases, video films, and computer memories," says Professor David Canter. "Criminals who would've been hidden in the past are also becoming visible in this virtual world-provided we know how to look for them." In this program, Canter addresses the use of data mining to track the virtual and real-world movements of criminals. Case studies include...