From shocking murders to devastating acts of violence, the 1990s saw some of history's most infamous criminal cases. Join us as we examine the decade's most notorious crimes that changed laws, sparked national debates, and left an indelible mark on society. Which of these cases do you remember most vividly?
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00:00Designer to the stars Gianni Versace gunned down on the steps of his lavish South Beach home.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the most shocking crimes of the 1990s.
00:11The FBI is investigating Tanya Harding's husband in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
00:16Oh my god.
00:18The North Hollywood shootout.
00:19He saw a police car in the intersection at Laurel Canyon in Archwood.
00:23It was Sergeant Dean Haynes and a few civilians.
00:25February 28, 1997.
00:28Gunfire erupts across the streets of Los Angeles,
00:30sending people fleeing into homes, cars, anywhere protected they can find.
00:35It's not the famous scene from Heat.
00:37It's the North Hollywood shootout, when bank robbers Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mataseranu
00:42fled a Bank of America and engaged in battle with the responding police officers.
00:46The two had the weaponry of a small army and were even outfitted in homemade body armor,
00:52making incapacitation virtually impossible.
00:54But the police and SWAT found a way,
00:57with some even going to a local gun shop to purchase high-powered rifles.
01:01After 45 minutes of shooting, both robbers were killed.
01:04Twenty people were injured, and nearly 2,000 rounds of ammo littered the streets of L.A.
01:10The killing of James Byrd Jr.
01:12We learned that there was a great deal of prejudice in our community that we
01:16kind of swept under the rug.
01:17Referred to by many as a modern-day lynching,
01:20the murder of James Byrd Jr. shocked the nation in the summer of 1998.
01:24Byrd, a Black accounting executive, accepted a ride from three white men in a pickup truck,
01:30John King, Lawrence Brewer, and Sean Berry.
01:32The three men took Byrd to a remote area, assaulted him, and chained him to the truck.
01:37They then dragged Byrd for three miles, resulting in his horrific death.
01:42Aside from nationwide outrage, the crime resulted in the Matthew Shepard and James
01:46Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which was put into law by Barack Obama in 2009.
01:52Berry was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Byrd,
01:54and both King and Brewer were executed by the state of Texas.
01:58All three were convicted. One received life in prison, Sean Berry,
02:02but the other two received death sentences, and Russell Brewer has already been executed.
02:06But tonight, the convicted ringleader, John William King, is set to die by lethal injection.
02:12Mary Kay Letourneau
02:13Even now, some two decades later, you can't help but ask, what was she thinking?
02:18By the mid-1990s, Mary Kay Letourneau was teaching at Washington's Shorewood Elementary
02:23School. It's here that she met a Samoan student named Vili Fulao. Letourneau was drawn to Fulao,
02:29taking a particular interest in the child's artistic abilities. Before long, he was going
02:34over to Letourneau's house to study, and the two began a relationship. However, it was around this
02:39time that Letourneau's husband found love letters written to Fulao, and the police were contacted,
02:44resulting in Letourneau's arrest. She spent six years in prison,
02:48but she went on to marry Fulao after her release, and the two stayed together until 2019.
02:54Letourneau died of cancer the following year, and left much of her estate to her ex-partner
02:58and ex-student.
03:00So I ended up taking the bet and pursued Mary.
03:05Isn't it incredible? It's just incredible to think that what started as a bit of showing off
03:11and following through on a dare or a bet has led to, you know, where we are now.
03:17The Port Arthur Massacre
03:18Good evening. A siege is underway in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur,
03:22where at least 25 people have been shot dead in Australia's worst massacre.
03:27Martin Bryant snapped on the morning of April 28, 1996. Some years earlier, Bryant's father
03:33attempted to purchase a bed and breakfast called Seascape in Port Arthur, Tasmania,
03:37but he was beaten to the deal by couple David and Sally Martin.
03:41Around noon on April 28, Bryant murdered both of the Martins at Seascape,
03:45and proceeded to embark on an enormous massacre across the greater Port Arthur site.
03:50Equipped with two semi-automatic rifles, Bryant shot over 50 people,
03:54killing 35 of them and leaving the rest horribly injured.
03:58Following a standoff with the police that lasted over 18 hours,
04:02Bryant was arrested and given 35 life sentences, one for each victim.
04:07The man believed responsible for Australia's worst mass murder this century is sedated and
04:11under police guard in a hospital. Police say they expect to talk to him later this morning
04:16when charges can be laid.
04:18The Murder of Brandon Teena
04:19Do you think that you will be executed?
04:21Well, there was a time I'd say no, but, you know, I mean, I don't know.
04:26You may know the story of Brandon Teena from the 1999 film,
04:30Boys Don't Cry, for which Hilary Swank won the Academy Award.
04:34Teena was a transgender man in 1990s Nebraska,
04:37and he faced hostility from some members of his conservative community.
04:40He earned the particular ire of ex-convicts John Lauder and Tom Neeson.
04:44On the morning of December 31, 1993, Lauder and Neeson broke into the home of Lisa Lambert,
04:50with whom Teena had been staying.
04:52Here, they murdered Teena, Lambert, and a mutual friend, Philip Devine.
04:56The case attracted widespread outrage and underscored the lack of legal protections
05:01for transgender individuals at the time,
05:03which in turn helped lead to legal and cultural reform.
05:06When 48th Street opens in full,
05:08thousands of people will see this mural every single day.
05:12It's the first of its kind honoring Brandon Teena,
05:15and it's loud and proud at a time when trans issues
05:19are increasingly in the national and state spotlight.
05:22Gary Ray Bowles
05:24It's not hard to kill somebody.
05:27You can kill somebody pretty easy if you have the mindset for it.
05:32Perhaps better known as the I-95 killer,
05:35Gary Ray Bowles was active throughout much of 1994.
05:38His first known murder occurred on March 15th,
05:41when he strangled a man named John Roberts in Daytona Beach.
05:44Over the next eight months, Bowles would travel the country selling his body,
05:48strangling the men who picked him up and stealing their credit cards.
05:51By the end of November, he had murdered at least six people
05:55and had even found himself on the FBI's Most Wanted list.
05:58In court, it was ruled that Bowles was motivated by a need for money and homophobia,
06:03reportedly hating gay men and wishing for them to die.
06:06He was sentenced to death and executed on August 22nd, 2019.
06:11Scheduled today at 6 p.m. in accordance with Florida law,
06:15the department will carry out the sentence of the court
06:18in the state of Florida versus Gary Ray Bowles.
06:20The City Bonds Robbery
06:22Is this your first time being robbed?
06:25You're doing great.
06:26Just smile, Loretta, so you don't look like you're being held up.
06:29One of the largest bank robberies in history occurred on May 2nd, 1990.
06:33But this wasn't just a simple bank robbery.
06:36Instead, it was an enormous undertaking orchestrated by the combined efforts of the IRA,
06:41Colombian drug lords, and the New York Mafia.
06:44A courier named John Goddard was mugged at knife point in London's Nicholas Lane
06:48while carrying 301 certificates of deposit and various treasury bills.
06:53The stolen bonds were laundered through various criminal channels
06:56and totaled an astounding £292 million, about £850 million today.
07:02However, the heist turned out to be a monumental failure.
07:06All but two of the certificates were recovered,
07:08countless criminals were arrested, and some were even murdered,
07:12including Patrick Thomas, the man who carried out the mugging.
07:15You sit there with a mass murderer.
07:19A mass murderer.
07:21Your heart rate is jacked.
07:25Your hand...
07:29Steady.
07:30Thurston.
07:31Stacey Compton knows just how real it was.
07:34Flying on the floor, there's blood all over the floor, everything.
07:37There's like a pool of blood. I was standing in it.
07:40The late 1990s saw a spat of school shootings, including Thurston in 1998.
07:45Perpetrator Kipland Kinkle was losing his grip on reality,
07:48hearing voices and developing an obsession with death.
07:51He later admitted to keeping a handgun in his locker,
07:54resulting in an immediate suspension.
07:56Following a lecture by his father,
07:58Kinkle shot and murdered both of his parents with a semi-automatic rifle.
08:02The following day, he went to the high school and opened fire in the cafeteria,
08:06killing two students and injuring 25 others.
08:09Several students, including the injured Jacob Riker,
08:12heroically captured and subdued Kinkle until police arrived,
08:15and he was sentenced to 111 years in prison.
08:19Kinkle was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia,
08:22but his sentence remains unchanged.
08:24Here now in Springfield, traffic is very heavy tonight.
08:27Traffic both of cars driving back and forth on the road in front of the school,
08:31trying to figure out exactly why this happened here,
08:34and traffic of students, friends, and family
08:37who are slowly building an impromptu memorial.
08:39Carla Homolka and Paul Bernardo.
08:41So for the first time, you actually saw Homolka and heard her,
08:48heard her in that voice, that little girl voice,
08:52and she, I think, completely exposed who she was.
08:56What is arguably the most notorious crime in modern Canadian history
09:00occurred between December 1990 and April 1992.
09:04Married couple Carla Homolka and Paul Bernardo
09:06murdered three girls in that time span,
09:08beginning with Carla's younger sister Tammy on Christmas Eve 1990.
09:12Homolka drugged her sister with sedatives,
09:15and she then died after aspirating on her own vomit.
09:18Homolka later claimed that she was coerced by Bernardo,
09:20but evidence suggests that she was a willing participant.
09:24The two then proceeded to kidnap and murder both Leslie Mahaffey and Kristen French.
09:28Following their arrest,
09:29Homolka struck a very controversial plea deal with prosecutors,
09:33agreeing to testify against Bernardo in exchange for a reduced sentence.
09:37Homolka was sentenced to 12 years and Bernardo to life.
09:41She was released from prison in 2005.
09:44Since then, she's kept a low profile, going by the name Leanne Teal.
09:48And for the past two years,
09:49she has reportedly lived in this suburb south of Montreal
09:52with her husband and their three children.
09:54Aileen Wuornos.
09:55Those men were shot just, just shot.
09:58And so boom, boom, boom, you know, they weren't cut up,
10:00they weren't sliced up, no OJ jazz, you know.
10:03And he said, I did the most horrendous crime in the whole wide world.
10:08Not true?
10:10I guess not.
10:11All they were was shot and left.
10:13One of the most famous serial killers in American history,
10:16Aileen Wuornos murdered seven men in Florida while engaging in sex work.
10:20Six of those seven murders were committed between the months of May and November of 1990.
10:25Wuornos claimed that she shot the men in self-defense after they attacked her,
10:29but this argument did not hold up to scrutiny,
10:31and most believe that she killed the men in order to rob them.
10:34Wuornos was later arrested following a tip,
10:37and became increasingly unstable during her time in prison,
10:40often blaming others for her crime and engaging in nonsensical rants.
10:44She was ultimately executed on October 9, 2002, at the age of 46.
10:49It was hoped Aileen would confess all to a priest before execution,
10:53but she remained angry and defiant to the very end.
10:56Aileen sent the priest packing and then knelt down and prayed for her victims,
11:01believing they might be too evil to be accepted by God.
11:04Kidnapping of J.C. Lee Dugard.
11:06In the summer of 1991, the young J.C. Lee Dugard
11:09disappeared in Myers, California on her way to the school bus stop.
11:13She reaches the road, a gray car pulls up, a stranger rolls down the window.
11:18And his hand shoots out and I just feel numb.
11:22Witnesses, including Dugard's stepfather Carl Probin,
11:25saw a man and woman force her into a gray vehicle,
11:28and the perpetrators were later identified as Philip Garrido and his wife Nancy.
11:32For 18 years, Dugard was held in a shack behind their home in Antioch,
11:37where she gave birth to two girls.
11:39The story was featured on America's Most Wanted within days of the abduction.
11:43Dugard and her daughters were finally found in 2009
11:46after Philip was ordered to attend a parole meeting.
11:49It wasn't until two suspicious campus police officers uncovered the truth
11:53that J.C. was reunited with her mother after 18 torturous years.
11:59They're like, you can see your mom. And I'm like, I can see my mom.
12:02In 2011, he received a 431-year-to-life prison sentence,
12:07while Nancy was sentenced to 36 to life.
12:10The Murder of Phil Hartman
12:12Actor-comedian Phil Hartman was a cast member of Saturday Night Live
12:15from 1986 to 1994, earning an Emmy in 1989 for writing.
12:21Fine. But please, don't tell Mrs. Clinton.
12:24Jim, let me tell you something.
12:26There's gonna be a whole bunch of things we don't tell Mrs. Clinton.
12:31Fast food is the least of our worries, okay, buddy?
12:35Hartman married his third wife Brynn Omdahl in 1987,
12:38and the couple had two children together.
12:40Omdahl struggled with multiple substance use disorders for years,
12:44which put a strain on their marriage.
12:46She also reportedly had anger issues,
12:48leading to many fights between the couple,
12:50including one on the night of May 27, 1998.
12:53In the early hours of May 28,
12:56she shot Hartman multiple times in his sleep,
12:58then confessed to two friends before taking her own life.
13:01Distraught neighbors and friends of the couple say they had marital problems.
13:05One woman said she had feared that this would happen.
13:08Hartman's murder shocked the entertainment industry at large.
13:12Family, friends, and fans continue paying tribute to the comedian.
13:16John and Lorena Bobbitt
13:18Less than a week after their four-year anniversary,
13:20John and Lorena Bobbitt made headlines for a shocking reason.
13:24According to Lorena,
13:25her husband assaulted her the night of June 23, 1993,
13:28in their Manassas, Virginia home.
13:30When he was asleep, she took a knife from the kitchen
13:33and removed his manhood, so to speak.
13:35She went into the kitchen to get a glass of water,
13:39and she saw the knife.
13:41It was so many things coming into my mind,
13:46I don't know how to describe.
13:47Lorena alleged that John was emotionally and physically abusive.
13:51She was found not guilty due to insanity and irresistible impulse.
13:55In years since, John has been arrested and charged
13:58for several alleged instances of battery involving wives and girlfriends.
14:03He and Lorena continue to talk to the media about the incident.
14:06How quickly did you know that what happened that night
14:09was going to be a very big story?
14:13No, I knew it was big because they were trying to,
14:16you know, keep the reporters from coming out to the hospital.
14:19The shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco.
14:21In 1991, 35-year-old auto body shop owner Joey Buttafuoco
14:26allegedly began an affair with teenager Amy Fisher.
14:29When she approached his wife Mary Jo on May 19, 1992,
14:33a heated confrontation led to Fisher shooting her in the face
14:36and fleeing the scene.
14:37She is accused of an affair with a married man more than twice her age.
14:41She is in jail on charges of trying to kill his wife.
14:44But who is Amy Fisher?
14:46Mary Jo survived and was able to help officials
14:48identify the young woman who shot her.
14:50Fisher, whom the press dubbed the Long Island Lolita,
14:53was arrested and charged.
14:55Meanwhile, Mary Jo suffered partial face paralysis
14:58and lost hearing in one ear.
15:00In December 1992, Fisher was sentenced to 5 to 15 years,
15:04serving 7 before being paroled in 1999.
15:08It's not about me anymore.
15:10It's not about the person who got shot and assassinated
15:12on the front of her own home.
15:14It becomes about Joey and Amy.
15:17And it did.
15:17It took on a life of its own
15:19because that's what the public was seeing
15:21and that's what they wanted.
15:22The West Memphis Three
15:23In May of 1993,
15:25three young boys from West Memphis, Arkansas
15:28were found murdered in Robin Hood Hills.
15:30Due to the shocking nature,
15:32officials speculated there was evidence of an occult ritual.
15:3518-year-old Damian Echols, known for his interest in Wicca,
15:38was later arrested along with his friend Jason Baldwin
15:41and acquaintance Jesse Miskelley Jr.
15:43Despite a lack of evidence,
15:44Baldwin and Miskelley got life sentences,
15:46while Echols was sentenced to death.
15:48They argue that the boys' predilections,
15:50along with the strange and brutal nature of the crime scene,
15:53are proof that the murders were committed as a satanic ritual.
15:57Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky
15:59directed three HBO documentaries beginning with trial coverage.
16:02The case gained attention when Metallica
16:04allowed their music to be used in the first film,
16:07and high-profile celebrities like Johnny Depp
16:09publicly supported the boys' innocence.
16:11In 2011,
16:12the West Memphis Three were released
16:14after agreeing to an Alford plea.
16:16Today, the West Memphis Three walked free.
16:20It's been an absolute living hell.
16:22The attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
16:24On January 6th, 1994,
16:26figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was practicing
16:28for the United States Figure Skating Championships
16:30in Detroit, Michigan,
16:31when she was suddenly struck in her right leg with a baton.
16:34Kerrigan was clubbed on the right knee with a baton
16:37by an unidentified man.
16:39Why?
16:41The whack heard round the world,
16:43as it came to be known.
16:44Rival skater Tonya Harding and her ex-husband,
16:47Jeff Galuli,
16:47were suspected of orchestrating the attack
16:49to eliminate Harding's competition.
16:51The attacker was later identified as Shane Stant,
16:54an associate of Sean Eckert,
16:56who acted as Harding's bodyguard and Galuli's friend.
16:59Stant and his getaway driver, Derek Smith,
17:01accepted plea deals
17:02and were both convicted of conspiracy,
17:04while Eckert and Galuli pled guilty to racketeering.
17:07Just three weeks after the attack,
17:09her ex-husband, Jeff Galuli, pleads guilty,
17:12but accuses Tonya of being the mastermind.
17:15Tonya categorically denies those allegations.
17:18You know, I haven't done anything wrong.
17:19Harding was banned from the USFSA
17:22and didn't skate professionally again.
17:24In 2017,
17:26interest in the infamous attack was renewed
17:28with the release of the film,
17:29I, Tonya.
17:32In October of 1998,
17:3421-year-old University of Wyoming student,
17:37Matthew Shepard,
17:38was robbed and brutally attacked by two men,
17:40Aaron McKinney and Russell Henderson,
17:42who left him for dead.
17:43Shepard succumbed to his severe head injuries
17:46six days later in the hospital.
17:47The tragedy would become one of the most notorious
17:50anti-gay hate crimes in American history.
17:55Matt's funeral and the murder trials,
17:57which led to multiple life sentences,
18:00dominated the media.
18:01In December,
18:02Shepard's parents founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation.
18:05In 1999,
18:06Henderson received two life sentences
18:08after pleading guilty to murder and kidnapping charges
18:11and testifying against McKinney,
18:12who got the same sentences.
18:14While McKinney and Henderson maintained
18:16that they didn't target Shepard because he was gay,
18:18the case sparked discussions surrounding hate crimes
18:21against the LGBTQ plus community.
18:23You know, I just saw this very bright,
18:25intellectual, worldly, young person.
18:28It's one of the mysteries that keeps you going.
18:30I can't ever really know
18:32what he might've been able to accomplish,
18:34but I have a pretty good idea
18:35of what we can accomplish in his name
18:37if we keep doing it.
18:39And so we do.
18:40In October 2009,
18:41then President Barack Obama signed
18:43the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr.
18:45Hate Crimes Prevention Act into law.
18:48The assassination of Gianni Versace.
18:50After Giovanni Gianni Versace
18:52opened his first boutique in 1978,
18:54the Italian fashion designer
18:56quickly made a name for himself in the industry.
18:58I have a beautiful house.
18:59I have a beautiful life,
19:00but that isn't the media.
19:02What I desire is more.
19:03His life was cut short at 50 years old
19:06when Andrew Cunanan shot him
19:07in front of his Miami Beach home
19:09on July 15th, 1997.
19:11Eight days later,
19:12Cunanan took his own life.
19:14The cross-country spree killer
19:15had previously killed four other men before Versace,
19:18including his friend Jeffrey Trail in Minneapolis
19:21and well-known real estate developer
19:22Lee Miglin in Chicago.
19:24Andrew Cunanan makes the top 10 FBI list.
19:28You had people in all parts of the country
19:31wondering whether Andrew Cunanan
19:33was gonna show up at their house.
19:35Authorities admit that by now,
19:36Cunanan could be anywhere.
19:38While his exact motivations
19:40are ultimately unknown,
19:41experts speculate Cunanan was jealous
19:43of Versace's fame and fortune.
19:45In 2018,
19:46the second season of American Crime Story
19:48revisited the crime and the aftermath.
19:51The death of James Bulger.
19:52One of the most shocking criminal cases
19:54in British history took place
19:56on February 12th, 1993,
19:58when two of the country's youngest offenders
20:00took the life of the even younger James Bulger.
20:02After all this time, 17 years,
20:05there's no doubt in your mind
20:06that it wasn't just a prank gone wrong.
20:08It was evil.
20:10Yes, there's no doubt in my mind at all.
20:12It was complete evil intent.
20:14The now widely viewed CCTV footage
20:16shows Robert Thompson and John Venables
20:18leading Bulger out of the New Strand shopping center.
20:21Days after the boy's unspeakable acts,
20:23Bulger's body was found in Walton, Liverpool.
20:26Professionals determined
20:27Thompson and Venables knew right from wrong
20:29despite their young ages.
20:31In November that year,
20:32they were found guilty
20:33of first degree murder and kidnapping.
20:35In 2001,
20:37both were released from youth detention centers
20:39at the age of 18 and given new identities.
20:41They got no punishment whatsoever.
20:43They got rewards for murdering James.
20:45That's why I've never let it go
20:47and I won't let it go.
20:48You think they were rewarded?
20:50Of course it was a reward
20:51because they never spent no time in a prison.
20:52Venables returned to prison on several occasions
20:55for possession of explicit material involving minors.
20:58The Rodney King beating.
21:00While driving home with friends
21:01on the morning of March 3rd, 1991,
21:03Rodney King was allegedly speeding on the highway
21:06and refused to stop for police
21:08and a high-speed chase ensued.
21:10They were eventually pulled over by five officers
21:12from the Los Angeles Police Department.
21:14George Holliday, a nearby witness,
21:16filmed the officers tasing King,
21:18repeatedly striking him with batons and kicking him.
21:21Rodney King struggled in many ways
21:23for the rest of his life.
21:24He would have nightmares.
21:26I mean, you could hear him like,
21:27you know, yelling in his sleep,
21:29like kind of like moaning,
21:31like he was literally having a nightmare.
21:33According to officers,
21:34he resisted arrest,
21:36though King and witnesses denied this.
21:38The footage was sent to a local news station
21:40and ignited widespread criticism of the LAPD
21:43and law enforcement's excessive force.
21:46After the four officers avoided conviction in 1992,
21:49public outrage in the African-American community
21:52led to the six-day Los Angeles riots.
21:54Well, my reaction is shock first and then disappointment.
21:58Obviously, we feel the evidence
22:01warranted a conviction on the defendants
22:04and the jury disagreed with us
22:06and we must abide by their decision.
22:09The death of JonBenet Ramsey.
22:11On December 26th, 1996,
22:14the young JonBenet Ramsey went missing
22:16from her home in Boulder, Colorado.
22:18Her parents, Jon and Patsy,
22:19allegedly found a ransom note
22:21demanding a suspiciously specific amount of money.
22:24The note demands $118,000
22:28and threatens the immediate execution of their daughter.
22:31Just hours after she was reported missing,
22:34Jon found his daughter's lifeless body in the basement.
22:37Her death was ruled a homicide.
22:39And lo and behold, when Jon Ramsey finds the body,
22:43you now have Jon Ramsey at the crime scene.
22:46Documentaries and TV programs still revisit the case,
22:49analyzing the evidence,
22:50going over statements
22:51and uncovering secrets surrounding the family members.
22:54The persisting mystery of her death
22:56will seemingly always captivate the nation.
22:59Despite many ongoing theories and suspects,
23:01the case remains unsolved to this day.
23:04I believe there is some evidence to suggest strongly
23:07that he may have come in through a basement window.
23:10The Centennial Olympic Park tragedy.
23:12In 1996, Atlanta, Georgia hosted the Summer Olympics.
23:16Security guard Richard Jewell
23:18discovered what appeared to be a pipe bomb
23:20under a bench in the park.
23:22He immediately called the police
23:24and helped lead people to safety before the blast.
23:26The bombing resulted in one death and 100 injuries.
23:30He was hailed a hero.
23:32And I just hope that we catch the people that did it.
23:34Jewell was labeled a hero,
23:36but then quickly became the FBI's main suspect.
23:39For almost three months,
23:41the FBI investigation and the media attention ruined his life.
23:45Some of the coverage,
23:46while acknowledging that Jewell was only under investigation,
23:50still cast him in the worst possible light.
23:52His name was eventually cleared,
23:54but the real bomber, Eric Rudolph,
23:56wasn't caught until 2013.
23:59Jewell was the subject of a Clint Eastwood film,
24:02as well as season two of Discovery Channel's
24:04anthology series, Manhunt.
24:07Until the day I die,
24:08there will be people who believe that I'm a murderer.
24:10The murders of Tupac and Biggie Smalls.
24:13In the late 90s,
24:14two of hip-hop's most influential artists
24:16were killed within six months of each other.
24:19Backseat of the Cadillac unrolled the window,
24:23arm came out, opened fire,
24:24and just went rat-a-tat-tat.
24:26There were 13 shots fired.
24:28On September 7th, 1996,
24:30Tupac Shakur was gunned down,
24:33dying six days later.
24:34Then, on March 9th, 1997,
24:37Biggie Smalls,
24:38also known as The Notorious B.I.G.,
24:41a suspect in Tupac's murder,
24:42was shot and killed.
24:50The two started off as friends,
24:51but quickly became enemies
24:53in the East Coast-West Coast War.
24:55Suspects range from former Death Row Records CEO,
24:58Suge Knight,
24:59to corrupt officers in the LAPD.
25:02New theories still arise today
25:04from lifelong fans
25:06hoping to solve the murders of two young rappers
25:08at the height of their careers.
25:10You know, you don't know who's with who,
25:13how it's gonna go down.
25:15The World Trade Center Bombing
25:17Eight years before the September 11th attacks,
25:20the World Trade Center was hit with a bomb.
25:22On the afternoon of February 26th, 1993,
25:26a bomb went off inside a rental van,
25:28killing six people and injuring over a thousand.
25:32The van was located in the underground parking garage.
25:35At 12.18 p.m.,
25:37World Trade Center Tower Number One
25:39became a tower of smoke.
25:41Shockingly,
25:42one of the men who planted the bomb
25:43actually went to the rental agency
25:45to get his security deposit back.
25:47Not so shockingly,
25:49he was brought in by the FBI.
25:51Mohamed Salama and his three accomplices
25:53were arrested and later convicted.
25:55Yesterday, federal agents raided Salama's apartment,
25:58where they found the evidence that led to his arrest.
26:00The granite memorial fountain
26:02built to honor the victims was destroyed in 2001,
26:05but the names of the victims are included
26:07in the North Pool of the 9-11 Memorial.
26:1093 bombing was the powder keg.
26:13It was the start of America being vulnerable.
26:16The Murder of Selena Quintanilla Perez
26:19Selena Quintanilla Perez was just 23 years old
26:22when she was killed by her fan club president
26:24and friend Yolanda SaldÃvar on March 31st, 1995.
26:29Selena has been shot dead at a Corpus Christi motel.
26:32Yolanda was caught embezzling the singer's money,
26:35and Selena confronted her at a motel
26:37to collect tax papers.
26:39Rather than face the consequences of her crimes,
26:41Yolanda fatally shot her supposedly best friend.
26:44It's not like we thought that this person
26:47was possible of the act that she committed.
26:50Given Selena's bright and bubbly presence
26:52that touched so many,
26:53her sudden death is still a shocking reality.
26:56It's impossible to listen to Dreaming of You and not cry
27:00thinking of the heartbreaking ending of the 1997 film.
27:03Love for the iconic singer was revitalized
27:06with Netflix's Selena the Series.
27:15The Crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer
27:17He's sometimes called the Milwaukee Cannibal
27:20or the Milwaukee Monster,
27:22but everyone knows the name Dahmer.
27:25From 1978 to 1991,
27:27he killed 17 young men,
27:29doing unspeakable things to their remains.
27:31Jeffrey Dahmer was responsible for killing
27:33more than a dozen people.
27:35The killer was finally caught on July 22nd, 1991,
27:38after an intended victim escaped and flagged down police.
27:42A lot of media attention has focused on his upbringing,
27:45attempting to explain why anyone
27:47would commit such horrific crimes.
27:49Milwaukee newspaper is reporting
27:51the man has confessed to killing at least 11 people.
27:54What makes him enduringly fascinating
27:56is just how normal he looked.
27:57Ryan Murphy's Netflix original series starring Evan Peters
28:00is based on Dahmer's life,
28:01but told through the eyes of his victims.
28:04The Waco Siege
28:06Beginning February 28th, 1993,
28:09the FBI led a siege against David Koresh,
28:12leader of the Branch Davidians,
28:13and his cult followers.
28:15Suspecting that the group was stockpiling illegal weapons,
28:18ATF agents had arrived at Mount Carmel Center
28:21outside Waco, Texas, to serve a warrant.
28:24Instead, a deadly gunfight ensued,
28:26resulting in the deaths of four agents
28:28and six Branch Davidians.
28:30Even when the agents all left,
28:32we felt that they would be back that night and kill us.
28:37The siege continued for 51 days,
28:39finally ending April 19th,
28:41when the FBI flooded the building with tear gas,
28:44attempting to force everyone out.
28:46This is not an assault.
28:48We are not entering the building.
28:50A fire consumed the building,
28:52and by the end, 76 Branch Davidians were dead.
28:55Official reports alleged that cult members lit the fires,
28:58while surviving cult members blamed the FBI.
29:02Huge numbers of Americans watched this play out
29:04on their television sets,
29:06and the ending was incredibly horrifying.
29:09The Oklahoma City Attack
29:11Two years to the day after the Waco siege,
29:14a bomb went off under the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
29:17in Oklahoma City.
29:18A massive car bomb exploded
29:20outside of a large federal building
29:22in downtown Oklahoma City,
29:24shattering that building.
29:25The bombing killed at least 168 people,
29:28including 19 children,
29:30wounding over 680 others.
29:33The nine-story building contained offices
29:35of 14 federal agencies,
29:37Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols,
29:39two soldiers turned anti-government extremists,
29:42targeted this location because it housed the DEA and ATF,
29:46two of the three agencies they sought to attack.
29:49McVeigh was sentenced to death
29:51for this act of domestic terrorism,
29:53one of the worst in U.S. history.
29:56It was an act of cowardice,
29:58and it was evil.
30:00The Columbine High School Massacre
30:02When you say Columbine,
30:04everyone knows what you're referring to.
30:06Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado,
30:08became front page news on April 20th, 1999,
30:12after two heavily armed students killed 13
30:14and wounded over 20 others
30:16before taking their own lives.
30:24This wasn't the first school shooting in the U.S.
30:27There had been a string of others around the country,
30:30but at the time,
30:31it was the deadliest in U.S. history.
30:33This infamous attack forever changed
30:35how security and safety protocols
30:37are handled in schools.
30:39Victims of the shootings suffer lasting trauma,
30:42some continuing to speak about their experience,
30:44in the hopes of preventing more tragedies.
30:47It's good that school shootings are still shocking
30:49because it shows that they're really rare.
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31:08The Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson
31:10and Ronald Goldman
31:12On June 13th, 1994,
31:14the bodies of Nicole Brown Simpson
31:16and Ronald Goldman
31:17were found in front of her Brentwood home,
31:19having been stabbed to death the night before.
31:21She was absolutely terrified for her life.
31:24Nicole's ex-husband,
31:25former football star O.J. Simpson,
31:27became the number one suspect.
31:29The trial, dubbed the trial of the century,
31:32began seven months after the murders
31:34on January 24th, 1995
31:36and would last 134 days,
31:40with the shocking verdict being announced
31:41on October 3rd.
31:42We the jury in the above entitled action
31:44find the defendant Orenthal James Simpson
31:47not guilty of the crime of murder
31:49in violation of penal code section 187.
31:52In the media,
31:53it's often forgotten
31:54that it isn't all about Simpson.
31:56The families of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman
31:59lost their loved ones.
32:00The infamous Bronco chase,
32:02trying on the gloves,
32:03the theatrics in and out of court,
32:06all distract from the reality of the case.
32:08Two people were brutally killed.
32:10A mostly white jury
32:12found Simpson liable,
32:13ordering him to pay $33.5 million
32:16to the families of the murder victims in 1997.
32:20Do you remember where you were
32:21when you heard about these crimes?
32:22Let us know in the comments below.
32:24There are not words to describe
32:25just how bad this was.
32:42You