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At one point, Baby Gabriel's mother Elizabeth Johnson claimed she killed him; at another, she said that she gave him to a mysterious couple in Texas.

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Scott Falater claims he was sleepwalking when he brutally stabbed and drowned his wife and the mother of his children.

Arizona v. Falater

It takes a lot of planning and skill to pull off an armored car heist in broad daylight outside a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year; Timothy Ring and his crew pulled it off, but never planned on how to get away with it.

Arizona v. Ring

Emotions ran high in the days following the Nov. 11, 2001 attack on the U.S.; for the most part, the grief and anger brought people together but for Frank Roque, it was a motivation for killing an innocent immigrant chasing the American dream.

Arizona v. Roque

Just weeks after a jury found four LAPD officers innocent of brutally beating Rodney King, the LAPD was once again put in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

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Gina and Sunny Han's rivalry was so intense it led to a murder plot and trial filled with twists and turns that have to be seen to be believed.

California v. Han

When Charlie Manson and members of his family were given the death penalty for the Helter Skelter murders, people thought their reign of terror was over, but then California overturned the death penalty, making parole an option.

California v. Manson

For the four LAPD cops who beat Rodney King with batons, it may have been business as usual; but then the world learned that it had been captured on video, and those 81 seconds changed everything.

California v. Powell

Cynthia Sommer's world was turned upside down when her 23-year-old husband Todd died; nearly five years later she was under arrest and accused of poisoning him.

California v. Sommer

Mark Dippolito couldn't believe it when the police told him his new bride Dalia had hired a hitman to have him killed; he was even more surprised when she claimed in court that it was his idea.

Florida v. Dippolito

Melanie McGuire made a living bringing life into the world as a fertility clinic nurse; the police accused her of shooting her husband, dismembering his body and disposing of it in suitcases dumped into the Chesapeake Bay.

New Jersey v. McGuire

Michael Jackson's personal doctor Conrad Murray takes an oath to first do no harm, but that's exactly what prosecutors argue he violates when Jackson dies from an overdose of a powerful anesthesia drug.

California v. Murray

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