When asked why true crime is so in vogue Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times
bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter than it's always been.
Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the
seventeenth century. And these cases over the centuries have fundamentally changed our society
and shifted our legal system resulting in the laws we have today and setting the stage for new
rights and protections. From the first recorded murder trial led by the first legal dream team
to one of the earliest uses of DNA these cases will fascinate.
