Crimes Of The Century

On the 75th anniversary of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Time Magazine looks back at the notorious crimes of the past hundred years. A Top 25 list.

It was a classic Hollywood celebrity legal melodrama; a race-relations story; a marriage-gone-acrid; a foray into detective work and into genetics; a primer on the jury system; proof of the overwhelming profits to be made from tabloid TV; a domestic tragedy with feuding families; a comedy of errors with irritating consequences.

If the Crime of the Century has to be a congeries of issues and emotions, then this is the contemporary champion.

(via Neatorama)