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| Every year produces its share of memorable events, but 1933 will forever stand out as a year unlike any other, thanks to the Charlie Chaplin-lookalike who rose to power in Germany and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the president of the United States. They would dominate the news for the next 12 years. |
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| John Dillinger: Best known | "Machine Gun" Kelly: Overrated |
| Harvey Bailey: Most successful | Verne Sankey: Least known |
| Wilbur Underhill: Most feared | Waxey Gordon: Gypsy's friend |
| Bonnie & Clyde: Most overhyped | Gus Winkler: aka "Big Mouth |
| Verne Miller: Most underrated | Robbers often killed bystanders |
| The Kansas City Massacre | USA declares war on criminals |
| Leonard Scarnici: Unlucky in Albany |
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| Jessie Costello dazzled jurors | Weird man, weird murder |
| "Sphinx Murder" still unsolved | Abused wife or muderer? |
| No candidate for mother-in-law | Akron lawyer did the unthinkable |
| The Philandering Pharmacist | Sara Ruth Dean wasn't worried |
| Perfect for 'Forensic Files' | Murder in the cockpit |
| FDR escapes, Chicago mayor killed | Who killed Dr. Gaines? |
| Call Lieutenant Columbo | Wed today, dead tomorrow |
| Lou Neu sang at his execution | Too young? Not these three: |
| Murder on the menu | •Mary Kavala killed playmate |
| Table scraps were deadly | •Harry Murch: Society's fault? |
| It played out like a movie | •Balfe MacDonald's mom said no |
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| Mobster vs. mobster | Factor abductions were suspicious |
| 1932 tragedy set the scene | Jack Klutas: Big man off campus |
| Mary McElroy: Never the same | His kidnappers were infamous |
| Peggy McMath: dazed and confused | Somehow August Luer survived |
| Okay Charles, stick 'em up | Brewers, beware! |
| Brooke Hart case polarized country | 1921 case may have been an omen |
| This Albany gang was inept |
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| Fantastiic Flying Lindberghs | These two women flew and flew |
| It seemed like an aerial circus | Black pilot C. Alfred Anderson |
| Italo Balbo's really big show | What's with the swastika? |
| The DePinedo tragedy | Bad times for airships |
| Amelia Earhart and special friend | The Lindbergh of Canada |
| Secret flight ends in two deaths | Celebration to tragedy in days |
| Wiley Post goes around the world | Frank Hawks pioneered autopilot |
| Lost in Siberia | They survived to fly again |
| The Mollisons: Love at first flight | While several others we killed |
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| 'Empress' of the Galopagos | America's sweetheart retiring |
| First lady Eleanor Roosevelt | Did Libby Holman kill husband? |
| Ill-fated actress Edwina Booth | Eleanor Jarman: Real-life fugitive |
| This prodigy was the real deal | No comeback for Fatty Arbuckle |
| Aimee Semple McPherson | Dorothy Parker: Tattooed lady |
| The marrying Mdivani brothers | Helen Wills Moody |
| Scandalous Sally Rand | Rudy Vallee was all the rage |
| Jean Harlow's life in chaos | And we can't forget these folks |
| Lee Tracy's Mexican Misadventure |
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| The great experiment is over! | Sleeping sickness stumped experts |
| I never promised you a beer garden | Some folks just shouldn't have guns |
| A big year for labor disputes | Chicago World's Fair |
| Train disasters were all too common | Missouri safari was shamful mistake |
| Griffith Park, other disastrous fires | North Carolina's Price-Potter war |
| Mother Nature was in a bad mood | Press loved jewel thieves |
| Obvious movie ideas | Jilted? File a lawsuit! |
| Things gone horribly wrong |
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