Dan Abrams

Instant New York Times bestseller! A Washington Independent Review of Books Favorite Book of 2018 A Suspense Magazine Best Book of 2018 A Mental Floss Best Book of 2018 A USA Today Top 10 Hot Book for Summer The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement-and which played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old...

No crime in history had more eyewitnesses. On November 24, 1963, two days after the killing of President Kennedy, a troubled nightclub owner named Jack Ruby quietly slipped into the Dallas police station and assassinated the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Millions of Americans witnessed the killing on live television, and yet the event would lead to questions for years to come. It also would help to spark the conspiracy theories that have continued...

The defense lawyer for Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, the Selma marchers, and other civil rights heroes reveals the true story of the historic trial that made Dr. King a national hero. Fred D. Gray was just twenty-four years old when he became the defense lawyer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young minister who had become the face of the bus boycott that had rocked the city of in Montgomery, Alabama. In this incredible history, Gray takes...

When 3-year-old Hannah Wesche dies of head trauma, the babysitter who cared for her is indicted for her murder. Lindsay Partin takes the stand to defend her innocence...and to try to explain several suspicious statements she gave to police detectives.

When a parolee is bounced from his job, he seeks retribution on a peaceful, unwitting community when he kidnaps, tortures and kills a mother and caregiver.

When a son finds his father slumped over dead near a pile of cocaine, he dismembers the body to conceal the crime. James Scandirito, Jr. takes the stand to explain why he thought he had to dismember and bury what he claims was his already deceased father.

Nancy Brophy, faces life in prison for the murder of her husband, Chef Dan Brophy. Surveillance video shows Nancy's minivan driving around the time and area of his murder. And a blog post Nancy wrote was titled "How to Murder Your Husband."

An unflinching look at emergency first responders in action. Multi-car rollover accident in Arizona, flash flood in Texas.

A defendant attempts a death defying courtroom escape with painful consequences; a judge's shocking treatment of a defendant brings an early end to her career; fists and office chairs fly in court; and more.

A wanted man attempts a daring courthouse escape; a desperate defendant appeals to a much higher power; and a judge catches a peeping Tom; and more.