Tuesday, 6 March 2007

Crimes Of The Century

On the 75th anniversary of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Time Magazine looks back at the notorious crimes of the past hundred years. A Top 25 list.


It was a classic Hollywood celebrity legal melodrama; a race-relations story; a marriage-gone-acrid; a foray into detective work and into genetics; a primer on the jury system; proof of the overwhelming profits to be made from tabloid TV; a domestic tragedy with feuding families; a comedy of errors with irritating consequences.

If the Crime of the Century has to be a congeries of issues and emotions, then this is the contemporary champion.


(via Neatorama)

2 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

"Crime of the Century" seems a bit dubious. Biggest Tabloid Crimes maybe. Crimes that turned rational people into Monday morning detectives that knew all the answers. 1 little blond girl does not compare to the Holocaust, The Killing Fields, or Rwanda. Now those are crimes.

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