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Point blank: Sgt. Cole's story
Army Sgt. Dwayne Cole was on his second tour of duty in Iraq and counting the days 37 until could return home. But everything changed that night when a bullet hit him in the neck: not by enemy fire, but at point-blank range by a member of his own unit. An accident? No, an army investigator said: ...
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Video: Video: Soldier shooting raises disturbing questions
The shooting of a soldier in Iraq by a member of his own unit raises disturbing questions. (Dateline NBC)
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Photos: To Iraq and back
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Justice halted: The murdered prosecutor
Tom Wales, a federal prosecutor for 18 years, was murdered one month after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks while in his home. The murder looked so much like a hit that investigators wondered, was the killer was someone Wales had put behind bars? If so, it would be the first time in U.S. history that a fe ...
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Hard lessons: Teacher-student love turns lethal
A Deadly Triangle: A student teacher is caught in an affair with one of her former students. And soon, the scandal becomes deadly: The student is shot- by the teacher's husband. Was it murder, or was it an accident? Read the transcript.
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Bullies caught on tape: Aggressors, or victims?
Billy Wolfe, an Arkansas high school sophomore, dreaded going to school each day. A regular punching bag for his classmates, all Billy wanted was someone on his side. But when even a videotape of kids bullying him doesn't convince his school he's a victim, Billy's family decides to sue.
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Inside the terror plot that 'rivaled 9/11'
In one of the most significant terrorism cases since 9/11, a British jury last week convicted three British citizens, accused of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners, on a charge of conspiracy to murder. The plot, which disrupted air travel at the time, led authorities to impose permanent re ...
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Clark Rockefeller: Famous name, infamous life
Transcript: Who is Clark Rockefeller? Turns out he's not who anyone thought including his wife. Read the story of Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German man who made a fake identity for himself using the famed American surname.
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How the phony French 'Rockefeller' conned Americans
How did the phony French 'Rockefeller' con Americans? And what does he have to say about his crimes? Mike Taibbi follows Christopher Rocancourt's trail, which includes Rocancourt's first TV interview.
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The crossbow incident
How often is someone shot with a cross-bow? And not just once, but twice? When a woman is found dead with an arrow through her back, her husband insists it was an accident... But the prosecutor calls it murder. Read the transcript.
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Mystery of the missing millionaire
A wealthy hedge fund manager whom the rich and powerful trusted with their fortunes suddenly disappears and the money was gone too. Turns out, all along he'd been playing a dangerous game with very high stakes. Dennis Murphy reports.
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Armed and victimized: Congo's child soldiers
Transcript: The image of two teenage boys playing serenely is a picture of peace uncommon in eastern Congo and deceptive. Because it masks some of the worst horrors of a vicious ethnic war for land and resources: a war often fought with children.
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Serbia's mental institutions a relic of the past
A generation ago, mentally disabled people were often quietly sent away to bleak government institutions, left to live out their days on the isolated fringes of society. Halfway across the world in Serbia, the conditions haven't improved.
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The devil's business
Nearly 40 years ago, Charles Manson and his cult following brutally murdered 35 people leaving California's Death Valley paralyzed with fear. Could the desert yield more Manson family murders? Scientists are looking.
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Inside our border's first line of defense
Every day, Customs and Border Protection agents at the U.S. border look for the truth about people entering this country.
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Deadly intentions
When a husband wanted a woman killed, he picked the wrong 'hitman.'
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Excerpt from ??Mistaken Identity
"Mistaken Identity" recounts the true story of two college students, Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak one buried under the wrong name, one in a coma being cared for by the wrong family and the heart-wrenching discovery five weeks later that their identities had been mistakenly reversed. An excer ...
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Murder on the mind
It was a murder plot right out of Hollywood, involving a dinner party for six, a gun with a silencer, a rented boat. But was it for real?
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Death and the millionaire drifter
After his wife's disappearance, and then his friend's mysterious death, millionaire Robert Durst seems shadowed by tragedy and suspicion.
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10 most amazing rescues caught on tape
Death, or at least disaster, seemed a sure bet for these people. They faced death by ice, fire, plane--and did we mention Niagara Falls?
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