Famous American Crimes and Trials [5 volumes]

FRANKIE Y. BAILEY is Associate Professor at the State University of New York, Albany. With Steven Chermak, she is co-editor of Media Representations of September 11 (Praeger, 2003) and Popular Culture, Crime, and Justice (1998). She is author of Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction (Greenwood, 1991), which was nominated for the Mystery Writers of America 1992 Edgar Award for Criticism and Biography, and Law Never Here: A Social History of African American Responses to Issues of Crime and Justice (Praeger, 1999). STEVEN CHERMAK is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Affairs in the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University. He is the author of Searching for a Demon: The Media Construction of the Militia Movement (2002) and Victims in the News: Crime and the American News Media (1995).

Volume I Set Foreword Series Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Quaker Mary Dyer: Twice under the Hangmans Noose 2 Witch Trials, 1692: Madness in Salem 3 Blackbeard the Pirate: Seventeenth-century Public Relations Professional 4 The Sedition Trial of John Peter Zenger: The Power of the Printed Word 5 The Boston Massacre: A Prelude to Revolution 6 Bathsheba Spooner: The Result of a Wicked and Licentious Appetite on the Life Expectancy of Husbands 7 The Whiskey Rebellion: Western Settlers Challenge Federal Power 8 The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Americas Would-be Caesar 9 The Tragic Murder of Helen Jewett: Sin and Sensationalism 10 Amistad: Slaverys Northern Dred Scott Decision 11 The Bickford Murder of 1845: The Somnambulist and the Fallen Woman 12 The Parkman Murder of 1849: The Commonwealth v. John White Webster 13 The Shadrach Courtroom Rescue: Abolitionists Free Fugitive Slave 14 The Daniel Sickles Murder Trial: A Husbands Vengeance 15 The Ordeal of Harpers Ferry and the Trial of John Brown :Madman or Martyr? Index About the Editors and the Contributors Volume II Introduction 1 Major Henry Wirz and the Andersonville Prison Trial :War Criminal or Scapegoat? 2 Alexander Campbells Molly Maguire Trial: The Miners and the Pinkertons 3 The 1875 Alienation of Affections Trial of Henry Ward Beecher: For Better or Worse 4 Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War: Villain or Hero? 5 Gunfight at the OK Corral: The Path to Conflict 6 The Murder Trial of Crow Dog: The Clash of Justice Systems 7 The Charles Guiteau Assassination Case: Arguing His Own Insanity 8 The Lizzie Borden Murder Trial: A Respectable Woman 9 H. H. Holmes, Multiple Murderer: Man or Monster? 10 The Nesbit-Thaw-White Affair: Spectacles of Sex and Violence in Old New York 11 The Case of Chester Gillette: Murder in the Adirondacks 12 The Belle Gunness Serial Murder Case: The Fiendish Widow 13 The Becker-Rosenthal Murder Case: The Cop and the Gambler Index About the Editors and the Contributors Volume III Introduction 1 Leo Frank and the Legacy of Southern Lawlessness: A Murder and a Lynching 2 The Sacco-Vanzetti Trial: Judging Anarchy 3 Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle: Cleared by the Court, Convicted by Conspiracy 4 The Incomprehensible Crime of Leopold and Loeb: Just an Experiment 5 The Scopes Monkey Trial: A Debate about Evolution 6 The Crime and Trial of Albert H. Fish: Divine Hunger 7 Bonnie and Clyde: A Mad, Dizzy Whirl 8 The Scottsboro Boys Trials: Black Men as Racial Scapegoats 9 The Lindbergh Baby Murder Case: A Crime of the Century 10 The Sleepy Lagoon Murder and the Zoot Suit Riots :Los Angeles at War 11 Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez: The Lonely Hearts Killers 12 The Barbara Graham Murder Case: The Murderess Walked to Her Death as if Dressed for a Shopping Trip 13 The Sam Sheppard Case: Do Three Trials Equal Justice? 14 The Emmett Till Murder: The Civil Rights Movement Begins Index About the Editors and the Contributors Volume IV Introduction 1 The JFK Assassination: Three Murders, Two Killers, and Four Decades 2 The Boston Strangler: A Mans Confession and a Citys Unsolved Case 3 Lenny Bruce Obscenity Trial: Free to Be Obscene 4 The Trial of the Chicago Seven: Stage against the Machine 5 The Murder of Fred Hampton: The Governments Involvement and Cover-up 6 The Angela Davis Trial: A Political or a Criminal Trial? 7 The My Lai Massacre: A Mixed Reaction to Tragedy 8 Charles Manson and the Tate-LaBianca Murders :A Family Portrait 9 The Attica Trials: A Thirty-year Pursuit of Justice 10 The Execution of Gary Gilmore: Restarting the Killing Machine 11 The Trial of Joan Little: An Inmate, a Jailer, and a First-degree Murder Charge 12 The Life and Trial of Francine Hughes: Beyond the Burning Bed 13 John Wayne Gacy Jr.: The Killer Clown 14 Ted Bundy: The Serial Killer Next Door Index About the Editors and the Contributors Volume V Introduction 1 Jack Henry Abbott: An Author from behind Bars 2 Green River Murders Case: The Hunt for a Killer 3 The Confessions of Henry Lee Lucas: High Numbers and Higher Stakes 4 The State of Texas v. Karla Faye Tucker :Death Row Inmate #777 5 The Ford Pinto Trial: The Criminal Prosecution of a Corporation 6 The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez: Oil and Water Dont Mix 7 William Willie Horton: Presidential Campaign Controversy 8 The Central Park Jogger: The Impact of Race on Rape Coverage 9 Rodney King Beating Trial: A Landmark for Reform 10 The Kidnapping and Murder of Polly Klaas :An Atypical Crime Yielding Controversial Reforms 11 Representing O.J.: The Trial of the Twentieth Century 12 The Susan Smith Case: From Victim to Child Murderer in Nine Days 13 1993 World Trade Center Attack: The Forgotten Bombing 14 Timothy McVeigh: The Oklahoma City Bombing Index About the Editors and the Contributors