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Crimes That Made History
The sensational news stories recounted in this series show how our values and expectations can be set by violent crimes, accidents and suicides. Each episode in this series revisits a fascinating page of our shared history, meticulously decoding and deconstructing an event that was exploited by headline-hunting news sources. These accounts may be disdained by historians, but they have shaped society.
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