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American Justice Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
19 Episodes 1998 - 1998
Episode 1
Most Wanted
Wed, Jan 7, 199860 mins
The history of the FBI's "10 Most Wanted" list and criminals who have been apprehended after making the list. Also: how criminal profiles have changed over the years. Interviewed: author Michael Newton, FBI agents and other law-enforcement officials.
Episode 2
Pizza Connection
Wed, Jan 28, 199847 mins
A report on the U.S. Government's battle to break up a mob drug operation through a mammoth FBI investigation leading to Sicily, Zurich, the Midwest and New York City pizzerias. Included: interviews with FBI agents, attorneys, drug-enforcement agents and Italian government officials.
Episode 3
The John Lennon Assassination
Wed, Feb 25, 199860 mins
Retracing the steps of John Lennon's confessed killer Mark David Chapman, who shot the ex-Beatle on Dec. 8, 1980. Included: interviews with police, doctors who tried to save Lennon, and Chapman's attorneys.
Episode 4
L.A. Mob
Wed, Mar 11, 199860 mins
The history of organized crime in Los Angeles, including its connections to Hollywood. Key figures such as Jack Dragna and Jimmy "The Weasel" Fratianno are profiled. Also: attempts by law-enforcement officials to curtail mob activity. Interviewed: former police chief Daryl Gates; a former FBI agent; mob insiders; journalists.
Episode 5
False Witness
Wed, Apr 22, 199860 mins
The case of a convicted rapist who was pardoned when his alleged victim recanted her testimony. Included: interviews with Illinois governor James Thompson, attorneys, detectives, a polygraph examiner.
Episode 6
Spree Killer
Wed, May 6, 199821 mins
1958. Charles Starkweather, a surly and rebellious 19-year-old teenage malcontent who fancied himself to be just like James Dean, embarked on a crime and killing spree across the states of Nebraska and Wyoming. His 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Fugate served as Starkweather's accomplice. The duo were responsible for the deaths of ten people altogether. They were eventually apprehended by the police in Wyoming. In the wake of their arrest Starkweather was executed on the electric chair while Fugate served seventeen and a half years in prison before being paroled.
Episode 7
Framed
Wed, May 27, 199860 mins
The case of Clarence Brandley, a west Texas man wrongfully convicted of a 1980 murder and sentenced to death. Included: alleged collusion between police, prosecutors and judges; legal appeals and two stays of execution; Brandley's second trial and release from Death Row. Interviewed: Brandley, his attorneys, the judge from the first trial, a private investigator, Brandley's brother.
Episode 8
Dead Woman Walking: The Karla Faye Tucker Story
Wed, Jul 1, 199860 mins
Karla Faye Tucker, the Texas woman who converted to Christianity while on death row. Included: her conviction and execution for two 1983 murders. Interviewed: Tucker's sister, her spiritual advisor, a victim's husband, attorneys.
Episode 9
Hunting Bambi: The Laurie Bembenek Story
Wed, Jul 8, 199860 mins
The case of Lawrencia "Bambi" Bembenek, the former Milwaukee police officer whose conviction for the 1981 murder of her then-husband's first wife was overturned in 1992. Bembenek escaped from prison in 1990, but was recaptured in Canada.
Episode 10
Charles Whitman: Austin Sniper
Sun, Aug 2, 199860 mins
Profiling Charles Whitman, who killed more than a dozen people during a shooting spree from the University of Texas tower on Aug. 1, 1966.
Episode 11
Marriage and Murder
Wed, Aug 12, 199860 mins
The stories of three people accused of murdering their spouses are chronicled. Included: the trials of Debra Hartmann, Steven Steinberg and Charline Brundidge. Interviewed: attorneys, investigators and a psychiatrist.
Episode 12
Green Beret Murder Mystery
Wed, Sep 23, 199860 mins
The case of Jeffrey MacDonald, a doctor and former Green Beret captain convicted of the murder of his family, is chronicled. Interviewed: MacDonald, investigators, attorneys, relatives of the deceased.
Episode 13
Hunt for the Unabomber
Wed, Oct 7, 199860 mins
How Ted Kaczynski, was captured following 17 years of sending mail bombs. Included: how Kaczynski's brother turned him in after reading his "manifesto" in the newspaper. Interviewed: FBI officials, friends of Kaczynski, attorneys.
Episode 14
The Heidi Fleiss Story
Mon, Oct 19, 199860 mins
Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss is chronicled. Fleiss is interviewed about her call-girl business and the sting operation that led to her prosecution. Included: her 1994 trial for pandering and cocaine possession; her Federal trial for tax evasion and money laundering.
Episode 15
High Crimes and Misdemeanors
Wed, Oct 28, 199860 mins
American Justice takes a look at the impeachment process that was pending against President Bill Clinton in 1998 by chronicling Watergate and the events that led to the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon in 1974.
Episode 16
Death Row Prostitute: Aileen Wuornos
Wed, Nov 18, 199860 mins
Featured: the case of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute sentenced to death for a series of Florida highway murders. Included: the police investigation; Wuornos's first trial; videotape of her confession and trial testimony.
Episode 17
Selena: Murder of a Star
Wed, Dec 2, 199860 mins
The 1995 murder of Tejano singer Selena, and the subsequent trial of her associate Yolanda Saldivar, is chronicled. Interviewed: Selena's father, attorneys, an eyewitness.
Episode 18
Fall from Grace
Wed, Dec 23, 199860 mins
Chronicling the celebrity trials of sportscaster Marv Albert, former congressman Mel Reynolds and one-time Miss America Bess Myerson. Interviewed: attorneys Roy Black and Raoul Felder.
Episode 19
A Civil Action
Wed, Dec 30, 199860 mins
A 1982 civil lawsuit brought by residents of Woburn, Mass., following the leukemia-related deaths of 5 children is examined. Interviewed: the plaintiffs, attorneys, and judge in the case.