After another woman goes missing in Plainfield, Wisconsin, the police make horrifying discoveries at the farm of Ed Gein. The scene is beyond their worst nightmares, and Ed’s crimes become national news. In Texas, Tobe Hooper films his movie during a brutally hot summer. It’s a trial by fire for the young, inexperienced cast and crew that sticks with them for the rest of their lives.

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After Ed Gein experiences personal tragedy, he becomes a true eccentric. His house fills with junk and squalor. He begins visiting cemeteries in the dark of night. He reads about grave robbing and murder, and then a woman goes missing in Plainfield. In Texas, Tobe Hooper raises the money to produce his film, finds his cast, and receives a brilliant piece of advice about a new title for the movie.

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In the 1920s and 1930s, Ed Gein grows up on a Wisconsin farm with a domineering mother and an alcoholic father. He’s bullied by other kids and sinks deeper into a dark mindset. In Austin, Texas in the late 1960s and early 1970s, a film student named Tobe Hooper thinks of an idea for a low-budget horror film. It sets him on a journey that becomes the stuff of myth and legend.

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Lizzie Borden goes to trial for the murder of her father and stepmother. The stakes are as high as they can get: she could face the death penalty if convicted. The prosecution presents damaging evidence, but the defense counters with a compelling case of its own. The final decision doesn’t seem easy, but the jury reaches a swift verdict in the case of the “Lizzie Borden Axe Murders.”

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The Borden murders shock the city of Fall River. The police begin their investigation and they quickly discover a potential murder weapon. They believe poison might have been involved. They question Lizzie extensively and soon arrest her for the murder of her father and stepmother. Her upcoming trial will be a media sensation. 

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August 4, 1892 is a hot day in Fall River, Massachusetts. The Borden house is quiet until 30-year-old Lizzie screams that her father has been killed. Shortly thereafter, the body of her stepmother is discovered. The murders are gruesome. There are no witnesses; no clues; and within days, suspicion falls squarely on Lizzie Borden.

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Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb begin their new lives in prison, and those lives take very different turns. They use their money and intelligence to curry favor with the prison staff, but their stories end in dramatically different ways. One ends in a pool of blood. The other ends on an island in the Caribbean.

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The families of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb hire the most famous defense attorney in America, Clarence Darrow, to keep their sons off death row. Darrow uses ingenious tactics, long-winded speeches and an army of psychiatrists in his defense of the killers. The courtroom spectacle is dubbed, The Trial of the Century.

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In May of 1924, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnap 14-year-old Bobby Franks and carry out their ruthless murder plan. They believe they are supermen who are above the law. They believe they have committed the perfect crime. But they soon realize they’re not as smart as they thought, and they quickly become the prime suspects.

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Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb are young and rich. They’re highly intelligent. And they’re about to become cold-blooded killers. They meticulously plan a murder that will rock the city of Chicago during the height of the Jazz Age and the Roaring 20s. It will be called, The Crime of the Century.

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