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The Burning Bed
The Burning Bed is a 1984 NBC television film directed by Robert Greenwald, starring Farrah Fawcett as Francine Hughes, adapted from Faith McNulty's 1980 book; it drew about 75 million viewers and won a WGA Award.
The Commission (American Mafia)
The Commission, the governing council of the American Mafia (La Cosa Nostra), was formed in 1931 by Lucky Luciano with seven family bosses after Maranzano's murder; its five New York bosses were convicted in the 1985 Mafia Commission trial.
The Devil in the White City
The Devil in the White City (Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America) is Erik Larson's 2003 narrative nonfiction bestseller on Daniel Burnham's 1893 Chicago World's Fair and serial killer H.H. Holmes; National Book Award finalist with long-running film and TV adaptations.
The Family Murders
The Family Murders: unsolved sexually motivated killings of five young males in Adelaide, South Australia, 1979–1983, linked by police to a group called "The Family"; only Bevan Spencer von Einem was convicted, for Richard Kelvin's murder.
The Fugitive (2020 TV series)
The Fugitive (2020) is a Quibi action thriller series created by Nick Santora, starring Boyd Holbrook as wrongly accused subway bomber Mike Ferro and Kiefer Sutherland as Detective Clay Bryce; 14 short episodes, later on Roku Channel, now unavailable.
The Getaway (video game)
The Getaway is a 2002 Team Soho PlayStation 2 action game set in a photorealistic recreation of London, starring Mark Hammond and Frank Carter against crime boss Charlie Jolson, with no HUD, followed by Black Monday (2004) and Gangs of London (2006).
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town is a 2006 nonfiction book by John Grisham, examining the wrongful conviction of Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz.
The Kelly Family (serial killers)
The Kelly Family: William, Kate, Billy, and Kit Kelly, a Kansas roadhouse family who killed eleven travellers near Oak City between August and December 1887 using a trapdoor and axe, and died at a posse's hands; distinct from the Benders and from Machine Gun Kelly.
The Last Podcast on the Left
The Last Podcast on the Left, also called LPOTL, is an American comedy horror podcast launched in 2011, originally hosted by Ben Kissel, Marcus Parks, and Henry Zebrowski, covering true crime, cults, and the paranormal; now on SiriusXM with hosts Parks, Ed Larson, and Zebrowski.
The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults
The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults was Geraldo Rivera's live April 21, 1986 Tribune syndicated special opening a sealed Lexington Hotel chamber in Chicago before 30 million viewers; it held only dirt and bottles.
The New Jim Crow
The New Jim Crow (2010), Michelle Alexander's book from The New Press arguing mass incarceration is a redesigned racial caste system; became a 2012 paperback best seller, was cited by Justice Sotomayor in Utah v. Strieff, and drew critiques from James Forman Jr.
The People vs. David Anthony Burke
Pending Los Angeles County Superior Court murder case (26CJCF02399) against singer David Anthony Burke, known as D4vd, charged with killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez; held to answer July 2026, no verdict yet.
The Public Enemy
The Public Enemy is a 1931 American pre-Code gangster crime drama directed by William A. Wellman and starring James Cagney, with Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, and Joan Blondell in support.
The Purple Gang
The Purple Gang (the Purples) was Detroit's dominant Jewish organized crime gang of the 1920s-1930s, led by the Burnstein brothers, built on Detroit River bootlegging, and destroyed by the 1931 Collingwood Manor Massacre.
The Smoking Gun
The Smoking Gun (thesmokinggun.com) is an American document-journalism website founded in April 1997 by William Bastone, Barbara Glauber, and Daniel Green; it publishes authentic court files, FBI records, and celebrity mug shots, known for the James Frey exposé.
The Station nightclub fire
The Station nightclub fire (February 20, 2003, West Warwick, Rhode Island) killed 100 when Great White's pyrotechnics ignited polyurethane foam; NIST's NCSTAR 2 investigation reshaped nightclub sprinkler and pyrotechnics codes.
The Stranger Beside Me
The Stranger Beside Me is Ann Rule's 1980 true-crime classic about her friendship with serial killer Ted Bundy, whom she met at a Seattle crisis clinic in 1971, combining memoir with reporting on his murders, trials, and 1989 execution.
The Tombs
The Tombs is the nickname of successive New York City jails since the 1838 Egyptian Revival Halls of Justice, through the 1902 and 1941 buildings to the Manhattan Detention Complex; also prisoners' name for Oklahoma's underground H Unit.
The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
The Untouchables (1959 TV series): American Desilu crime drama on ABC 1959-1963, piloted as The Scarface Mob; Robert Stack as Eliot Ness, Walter Winchell narrator, Quinn Martin producer, four seasons, 119 episodes.
The Watcher of Westfield, New Jersey
The Watcher of Westfield: unidentified writer of threatening anonymous letters sent 2014-2017 to the Broaddus family at 657 Boulevard, Westfield, New Jersey; case unsolved, basis of Netflix's 2022 series.
Theft
Theft, historically larceny at common law, is the dishonest appropriation of another's property with intent to permanently deprive; defined by England's Theft Act 1968 and codified in systems like the Indian Penal Code 1860.
Theresa Knorr
Theresa Jimmie Knorr (née Cross), also known as Theresa Cross, an American mother of six who tortured and murdered daughters Suesan Knorr (1984) and Sheila Sanders (1985) in Sacramento, was arrested in Utah in 1993 and sentenced in 1995 to two consecutive life terms.
Thief in law (вор в законе)
Thief in law (вор в законе) is an honorific title for elite criminal bosses who follow the thieves' code, emerging in Soviet labor camps in the late 1920s.
Thomas Bartlett Whitaker
Thomas Bartlett "Bart" Whitaker (born 1979) is a Texas prisoner serving life without parole for conspiring in the 2003 murders of his mother and brother; his death sentence was commuted by Governor Abbott in February 2018, and he founded the prison-writing site Minutes Before Six.
Thomas Capano
Thomas J. Capano, prominent Delaware lawyer and former gubernatorial counsel, convicted in 1999 of murdering his former lover Anne Marie Fahey, Governor Carper's scheduling secretary; case built without a body; death sentence later commuted to life; died in prison 2011.
Thomas DeSimone
Thomas "Two-Gun Tommy" DeSimone, Thomas Anthony or Thomas James DeSimone, was a Lucchese crime family associate of New York, tied to the 1978 Lufthansa heist and the Billy Batts murder, who disappeared in January 1979 and inspired Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas.
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo
Thomas Lubanga Dyilo is a Congolese militia leader who founded the Union of Congolese Patriots and became the first person convicted by the International Criminal Court.
Thomas Mooney
Thomas Joseph Mooney (1882–1942), American socialist labor organizer convicted of the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing on perjured testimony, death sentence commuted by Wilson's 1918 commission, pardoned by Governor Culbert Olson on January 7, 1939 after 22 years.
Thomas Pitera
Thomas "Tommy Karate" Pitera (born 1954) is a Bonanno crime family hitman convicted in 1992 of six murders and drug trafficking, serving life at USP Big Sandy; a Pete Davidson film recounts his case.
Thomas Silverstein
Thomas Silverstein (1952-2019), Aryan Brotherhood commissioner, killed three inmates and guard Merle Clutts; held 35 years in solitary, longest of any federal prisoner; Tenth Circuit upheld his isolation in 2014.