America's journey from a collection of colonies to a union of states has produced a whole cast of the famous and the infamous, the latter usually ending up on the wrong side of a jury. Join us as we walk through the pages of America's past to visit some of the most celebrated "trials of the century" which, if you believe the press, they all were.

9/9 - Conspirators Condemned: Vengeance is mine, sayeth Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who would not rest until all the 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassination conspirators lie a moldin' in their graves.
9/16 - Ax Me Tomorrow: It is said that in 1892, Lizzie Borden, a little off center, picked up a household hatchet one August morning and "gave her mother 40 whacks, and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41." It looked like a slam dunk conviction, but looks can be deceiving.
9/23 - All Thawed Out: In 1906 New York high society held its breath after one of its own, railroad heir Harry K. Thaw, shouting "He ruined my wife!", pulled out a pistol and shot and killed famed architect Stanford White.
9/30 - Pass the Italian: Italian immigrants Bartolemo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco were accused of the murder of two people during a payroll robbery. But thousands across the country coalesced to cry out on their behalf - and in plain English.
10/7 - The Whole Hog: The bodies of Eleanor Mills and the married Edward Hall were found in 1922 amid pieces of their love letters scattered around them. And a mule-riding female hog farmer said she knew who killed 'em.
10/14 - Nobody's Perfect: Two teenage friends from the University of Chicago, convinced their "superhuman intelligence" could transcend and outwit the law, kidnapped and killed a 14-year-old in 1924 to prove it. (Leopold & Loeb)