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Federal Bureau of Investigation

(Encyclopedia) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice charged with investigating all violations of federal laws except those assigned to some other federal…

Chauncey Judd: Pursuit from Bethany

Longmeadow Brook Alarm in Judd's Meadow Pursuit from Bethany Wearily the leaden hours of night dragged themselves onward, while Mrs. Dayton and her frightened children sat, where the…

Russell Henderson, 1999 News

22, high-school dropout and drug dealer, was convicted of murder, robbery, and kidnapping in the 1998 beating death of gay college student Matthew Shepard. He was sentenced in a Wyoming…

Kathy Boudin, 2003 News

former radical who had been in prison for her role in a 1981 armed robbery in Rockland County, N.Y., that resulted in the shooting deaths of a security guard and two police officers, was…

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, 2000 News

(H. Rap Brown), black activist, was arrested in March and charged with murder and aggravated assault. He allegedly shot two Atlanta sheriff's deputies when they attempted to arrest him for…

Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi is one of the earliest known examples of human laws being defined and written down in an orderly way. Little is known about Hammurabi himself; he ruled Babylon nearly four…

Jesse James

Jesse James was one of the most famous outlaws of the American West. Young Jesse learned a lot about guerrilla activities during the U.S. Civil War, fighting and sabotaging the Union army in the…

Chauncey Judd: Search for the Fugitives

Wooster's Well Dayton's Den Search for the Fugitives Let us return briefly, and trace the progress of the pursuit. The party that were in search of the missing boy, being joined…

Chauncey Judd: The Robbers

Ebenezer Dayton The Robbery The Robbers Upon the high bluff of land a little east of the present village of Seymour stood, in 1780, a tavern of some celebrity, kept by a man named…

Jack Henry Abbott 2002 Deaths

Jack Henry AbbottAge: 58 convicted murderer and writer whose prison letters to Norman Mailer were published as the best-selling In the Belly of the Beast (1981). Mailer helped Abbott, who was…