On November 14, 1885, a cold autumn day in the City of Broad Shoulders, an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred watched as three Sicilians Giovanni Azari, Agos

The Rule of Justice explores a sensational homicide case that took place in Chicago in 1888. Zephyr Davis, a young African American man accused of murdering an

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The woman who allegedly committed one of history's most heinous crimes reveals for the first time--through an investigative reporter--her role in the notorious

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