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Professor Eliason’s legal expertise in the area of white-collar criminal law, combined with his background as an assistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia, transforms what would be, in lesser hands, dry legal lectures into eye-opening investigations into some of the greatest crimes in US history, involving infamous figures such as financial fraudster Bernie Madoff and former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling.

Professor Angela Gallop has been at the forefront of forensics for more than 45 years. During her remarkable career, she has established and run forensic science laboratories and has worked on thousands of cases in the UK and across the world. In How to Solve a Crime, she describes some of her own and her colleagues most intriguing cases and the wide range of skills and techniques used to solve them.

In the sweltering summer of 1929, the people of Columbus, Ohio, were enthralled by the story of Dr. James Howard Snook—an Ohio State University veterinary professor and Olympic gold medal-winning pistol shooter who was put on trial for the murder of his twenty-four-year-old lover, a medical student. This riveting account reveals how Snook was captured and interrogated, including his gory confession of Theora Hix's death. This is the first full account of this astonishing story, from scandalous beginning to tragic end.

Examine crimes from throughout history with Professor Gavin Lee, who has a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice and has thrilled students for years with his entertaining yet research-based classes. Get an expert's perspective!

All the audio from all trial days. We remove the long silences, so you hear everything the jury hears.Daniel Eric Markel was killed in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2014, in a murder for hire motivated by child custody issues following Markel's divorce from Wendi Adelson, a clinical law professor and child advocate also employed at Florida State University at the time.Four individuals were tried for the alleged murder-for-hire plot:Charlie Adelson, Wendi Adelson's brother and Markel's former brother-in-lawSigfredo GarciaKatherine MagbanuaLuis RiveraSeason 1: This is the full trial audio from ...

Delve into some of the most infamous, ghastly, and mysterious crimes of the last hundred-odd years in Crimes of the Century: A Selective History of Infamy. Taught by Professor Richard B. Spence of the University of Idaho, this enthralling course gives you a dozen case studies of murders most foul. From an intriguing Irish domestic murder to a world-shaking political assassination, this course gives you an inside look at some of the most heinous and maddeningly unknowable crimes in modern history.

In the 1960s, Don Elkins was a respected physics professor and commercial airline pilot living in Louisville, Kentucky. But behind closed doors, he was leading secretive groups who believed they were in contact with the occupants of UFOS. Decades before the term “non-human intelligence” made headlines, Elkins was recording hours of sessions with a human “instrument”—conversations he believed were real, urgent, and meant for humanity.In 1984, after years of increasingly strange behavior and growing isolation, Elkins died by suicide following a six-hour standoff with police and ...

A podcast about prisons. Hosted by Prof. Eric Bronson and Prof. Beck Strah.