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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 Emergency (India)
The Emergency (India): 21-month suspension of democracy, 25 June 1975 to 21 March 1977, imposed by Indira Gandhi under Article 352 after the Allahabad High Court election verdict; mass detentions, press censorship, forced sterilizations, ended by the 1977 Janata election victory.
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 Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers are 85 essays by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, published as "Publius" in 1787 and 1788 to promote ratification of the United States Constitution.
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 Hague Academy of International Law
The Hague Academy of International Law (Académie de droit international de La Haye), founded 1923 with Carnegie funding at the Peace Palace, teaches public and private international law through six-week summer and three-week winter courses and publishes the Collected Courses.
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 Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013
The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 (Act 1 of 2014) is India's law creating a central Lokpal ombudsman and state Lokayuktas to inquire into corruption by the Prime Minister, ministers, MPs, and central government officers, in force from 16 January 2014.
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 Pirate Bay trial
The Pirate Bay trial: 2009 Swedish criminal copyright case against founders Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström; one-year sentences and SEK 30 million damages, reduced on appeal to SEK 46 million and shorter terms.
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 Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors
The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors: the 28 June 1919 Versailles ceremony where Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles, ending World War I; commemorated in Sir William Orpen's painting of the same name.
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.
Thelton E. Henderson
Thelton E. Henderson (Thelton Eugene Henderson), born 1933, is an American senior United States district judge in Northern California, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Thematic sanctions regimes of the United Nations Security Council
Thematic sanctions regimes of the United Nations Security Council are Chapter VII enforcement regimes targeting conduct like terrorism and proliferation rather than a named state, binding every member.
Thematic Security Council resolutions on weapons of mass destruction
Thematic Security Council resolutions on weapons of mass destruction are UN resolutions binding all member states, whose core instrument, Resolution 1540, was adopted unanimously in 2004 under Chapter VII.