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There are some movies embedded in posts on the Malefactor’s Register.

  • Arrest in Chinatown filmed by Thomas Edison
  • See Ah Gow and the Snakehead

  • Unsolved Mysteries: Dr. John Branion, Pt. 1
  • Unsolved Mysteries: Dr. John Branion, Pt. 2
  • Unsolved Mysteries: Dr. John Branion, Pt. 3
  • See Minute by Minute

  • Laurie Tackett Interview
    See Deadly Love Triangle
  • Interview with Latin King Luis Felipe
  • See Nobody Can Care for Me Anymore Note: en Espanol.

  • Nicholas Kristoff, NY Times Columnist interview regarding the Kevin Cooper Case
  • See Another Bite at the Apple

  • Click here for a move of a Charleston, Georgia, chain gang circa 1902 from Thomas Edison.

  • For violence and hurt tangle every man in their toils, and for the most part fall on the head of him from whom they had their rise; nor is it easy for one by who his act breaks the common pact of peace to lead a a calm and quiet life.
    ~Lucretius.
    On the Nature of Things

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