
See the trials that captivated the world and made history! Join your favorite Court TV hosts, Vinnie Politan, Julie Grant, Michael Ayala, Ted Rowlands and Ashley Willcott, and witness all the dramatic moments streaming on Court TV Legendary Trials.
As shocking as the brutal double murder committed by vampire obsessed teenaged Rod Ferrell was, nobody expected him to plead guilty at the start of his trial, leaving just the monumental question of how young is too young for the death penalty.
Mark Dippolito couldn't believe it when the police told him his new bride Dalia had hired a hitman to have him killed; he was even more surprised when she claimed in court that it was his idea.
Cynthia Sommer's world was turned upside down when her 23-year-old husband Todd died; nearly five years later she was under arrest and accused of poisoning him.
For the four LAPD cops who beat Rodney King with batons, it may have been business as usual; but then the world learned that it had been captured on video, and those 81 seconds changed everything.
When Charlie Manson and members of his family were given the death penalty for the Helter Skelter murders, people thought their reign of terror was over, but then California overturned the death penalty, making parole an option.
David Coffin's house burned down with him in it, but it wasn't the fire that killed him, it was the bullet in his head; investigators immediately focused on Scott Davis, the estranged husband of Coffin's new girlfriend.
When the bodies of Ruby Joyner and Halima Jones were discovered beaten, strangled and shot, police turned to someone they both knew; but Lewis Joyner was nowhere to be found.
Gavel-to-gavel coverage and legal analysis of the nation's most compelling trials.