Lectures tagged "crime"

Lisa Rosner: The Anatomy Murders
Lisa Rosner: The Anatomy Murders
Lisa Rosner
October 30, 2009
00:32:11
History professor Lisa Rosner investigates The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare, and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes.
James Ellroy: Blood's a Rover
James Ellroy
September 23, 2009
00:42:43
Los Angeles crime novelist James Ellroy tells the story of how, when he was a newborn, the borzoi dog of book publisher Alfred A. Knopf visited him in the hospital and told him that he had to write a great novel to save Americans from illiteracy in the year 2009.
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Karin Slaughter: Fractured
Karin Slaughter
August 16, 2008
00:51:59
Author Karin Slaughter talks off the cuff about her latest installment, Fractured. This event comes to AFN from The Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College and the Atlanta Writers Club.
Dwight "Malachi" York: Ungodly Predator
Bill Osinski
July 17, 2007
00:48:16
Bill Osinski discusses his book Ungodly. While society turned a blind eye for more than three decades, Dwight York, also known as Dr. Malachi Z. York and Imam Isa, devolved into a sexual predator of unprecedented proportions.
True Crimes in New England: Lizzie Borden
Karen Elizabeth Chaney
October 31, 2006
00:42:07
Author Karen Elizabeth Chaney examines the investigation and murder trial of Lizzie Borden, and describes Lizzie's quiet life after her acquittal.
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True Crimes in New England: The Boston Strangler
Alan Rogers
October 18, 2006
00:57:26
Alan Rogers sheds light on one of Boston's most terrifying crime sprees, one that remains unsolved to this day. Between June 14, 1962 and January 4, 1964, Boston was terrorized by a serial killer who murdered 13 women.
Boston Brothers: William and James "Whitey" Bulger
Howie Carr
June 21, 2005
01:24:34
Howie Carr tells the controversial story of the notorious Winter Hill Gang, the Bulger Brothers, and the relationships between politics, law enforcement, and crime in Boston from 1950 to the present. Two brothers from South Boston. One becomes the president of the Massachusetts Senate.
CORI: Balancing Individual Rights and Public Access
Paul S. Grogan
May 18, 2005
01:58:10
Members of the criminal justice system and community groups discuss the fairness and effectiveness of the Criminal Offender Record Information system, as a part of a Boston Foundation series on rational public policy in criminal and social justice.