The mystery surrounding the death of Caylee Anthony grips the nation; the only thing more shocking than the testimony is the verdict itself.
Years after being found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, OJ Simpson is back in a courtroom and again facing felony charges. The jury must decide if the case is legitimate or an attempt to punish Simpson for the past.
Ten years after being found guilty of the murder of her husband, Susie Mowbray's conviction was overturned, and she would once again face a jury of her peers. The prosecution try to prove she is a cold-blooded killer, once again.
While driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, Chante Mallard allegedly struck pedestrian Gregory Biggs, impaling him in the windshield; what she did and didn't do next, is what turned a terrible accident into a shocking case of murder.
Shots rang out when off-duty Dallas police officer Amber Guyger found Botham Jean in her apartment. Except it wasn't her apartment. The only thing more shocking than the revelations of Botham Jean's murder was the remarkable act of forgiveness.
Tommy Carlton owed his ex-wife Elizabeth $85,000 in back child support, so he allegedly paid a hit man $2,000 to make her go away permanently. To Tommy's surprise, the hit man was an undercover cop, and Elizabeth helped stage her demise
Aileen Wuornos sold her body to survive and along the way generated a deep-seeded rage for those who would pay for her services. That rage resulted in the deaths of seven Florida men and the labelling of Wuornos as the first female serial killer.
When ex-con Scott Nelson looked at middle-aged nanny Jennifer Fulford, he allegedly saw a target for his rage. Nelson had other plans when he entered the courtroom for his murder trial.
William Coday fell in love with Columbian immigrant Gloria Gomez. When he lived in Germany, he'd thought he had a similar love, but unfortunately, Gloria Gomez's life would come to a similarly brutal end.
No one knows why actress Lana Clarkson decided to go to music producer Phil Spector's home for a nightcap, but they do know that by the end of the night she was dead; Spector claims she committed suicide, but the evidence says otherwise.
People couldn't imagine what made Erik and Lyle Menendez brutally murder their parents; the prosecution said it was greed and the defense said something much darker; a family secret that would shock and grip the nation.
Michael Jackson's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, took an oath to first do no harm. But that's exactly what prosecutors say Murray did when Jackson died from an overdose from a powerful anaesthesia.
Rebecca Schaeffer was talented, pretty, and had her whole life ahead of her when she unknowingly opened the door of her Hollywood apartment to her killer Robert Bardo. Bardo's lawyers say his mental illness caused him to snap.
The murders of Voncile Smith and her sons John and Richard set Pensacola, Florida on edge; the courts try to decide if this was an occult ritual or something much more basic: greed.
Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi and Dharun Ravi had only been roommates for few weeks when Ravi decided to secretly film Tyler kissing another man. Soon after, Clementi took his own life and Ravi faced surprising criminal charges.
As the saying goes, he who represents himself in court has a fool for a client. But in the case of Marc Benayer, who shot a man in his synagogue parking lot, was he a fool, or did his mental illness affect whether the jury would find him guilty?
Mark Dippolito couldn't believe it when the police told him his new bride Dalia had hired a hitman to have him killed; he was even more surprised when she claimed in court that it was his idea.
As shocking as the brutal double murder committed by vampire-obsessed teenaged Rod Ferrell was, nobody expected him to plead guilty at the start of his trial, leaving just the monumental question of how young is too young for the death penalty.
Melanie McGuire made a living bringing life into the world as a fertility clinic nurse, but the police accused her of shooting her husband, dismembering his body, and disposing of it in suitcases dumped into the Chesapeake Bay.
Rabbi Fred Neulander was a pillar of his Cherry Hill, New Jersey community - the founder of a synagogue, a father and a husband. Little did anyone know, he was also an adulterer, one capable of hiring a hitman to murder his own wife.
Cynthia Sommer's world was turned upside down when her husband died. But five years later, she was convicted of poisoning him. The court tries to learn if she really murdered him or if she was wrongfully convicted.
For the four LAPD cops who beat Rodney King with batons, it may have been business as usual; but then the world learned that it had been captured on video, and those 81 seconds changed everything.
It takes a lot of planning and skill to pull off an armored car heist in broad daylight outside a mall on one of the busiest shopping days of the year; Timothy Ring and his crew pulled it off, but never planned on how to get away with it.
At one point baby Gabriel's mother claimed she killed him but later said she gave the baby to a mysterious couple somewhere in Texas. The courtroom is left to try and figure out what really happened.
In the aftermath of the Rodney King trial and Los Angeles riots, police brutality takes centre stage again when a white LAPD police officer fatally shoots a unarmed black tow truck driver.
Gina and Sunny Han's rivalry was so intense it led to a murder plot and trial filled with twists and turns that have to be seen to be believed.
Emotions ran high in the days following the 9/11 attack on the United States. For the most part, the grief and anger brought people together, but for Frank Roque, it was a motivation for killing an innocent immigrant chasing the American dream
Jennifer Luck said she was only having a little fun when she pinched Andrew Wirth's buttocks in a bar, but that pinch resulted in the deaths of Jennifer and her boyfriend, Greg Peters.
Jeffery Pyne was every parent's dream in so many ways, so many wonder what drove him to commit the brutal murder of his own mother.
Scott Falater, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, claims he was sleepwalking when he brutally stabbed and drowned his wife and mother of his children.
Mary Kay Letourneau, a married 34-year-old schoolteacher and mother, was having sex with a 12-year-old student, and the story grabbed headlines around the world, and it's only the first in a series of wild revelations.
Frank Jude nearly lost his life when a group of drunken off-duty Milwaukee police officers brutalised him over a missing badge but his real fight would be taking on the blue wall of silence in his quest for justice.
Nancy Seaman doesn't denied killing her husband Robert with a hatchet; either she planned it or the murder was a desperate attempt to save her own life after, what she claims, was three decades of physical and emotional abus
Harry wanted to do the right thing when he agreed to talk to his brother's sometimes-girlfriend Kimberly Passwaters about their relationship; when Dave Beck killed her, the right thing became being the state's star witness in Dave's murder trial.
No one argued that Naveed Haq suffered from mental health issues; he walked into the Seattle Jewish Federation office, started shooting, wounding six women and killing one; the jury has to decide if his mental health issues make it less of a crime.
Reverend Randall Foos says it was just an unfortunate accident when his car hit and killed 19-year-old Sara Casey as she rode her bicycle, but a civil suit revealed more than the eye could see, or couldn't, that turned this accident into a crime.
When 15-month-old Ava Worthington became ill with a cold, her parents Carl and Raylene did what they always did, and insisted the power of prayer was the only cure she would ever need.
Prosecutors said the death of 16-year-old Neil Beagley was completely preventable, so much so that his parents were charged with criminally negligent homicide.
Friends and family of Angie Zapata say she never hid from the men she dated the fact she was a transgender woman. Michael Andrade claims she did, and that the revelation drove him to brutally murder her.
Scott Amendure thought the 'Jenny Jones Show' was the perfect place to reveal to his friend Jonathan Schmitz that he had a crush on him. Three days later, Schmitz shot Amendure to death.
Dr. Jack Kevorkian thought it was an act of mercy to help over 130 terminally ill patients die a peaceful, pain-free death; Michigan prosecutors said it was murder and spent years trying to get a jury to agree with them.
NFL star Kellen Winslow II seemingly had it all when he left the game behind, but five women came forward to accuse him of rape and other sex crimes.
Reliving the most compelling court cases that have captured the nation's attention