Top 10 Most Famous Trials of the Last Century
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- The eyes of the world were upon these historic trials. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most infamous and sensational legal trials that dominated the media and cultural landscape. Our countdown of the top "trials of the century" includes The Trial of the Chicago Seven, The Manson Family Murder Trial, The Murder Trial of O. J. Simpson, and more! Did you watch any of these infamous trials live? Let us know in the comments below.
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What Famous Trials?
I would’ve loved to see the O.J. Simpson chase and trial live, but the closest thing we have is _The People vs. O.J. Simpson_ wherever you can stream it. As for Casey Anthony, whose trial I also didn’t watch, I believe she’s guilty, no doubt.
@@_dr.greenthumb_ they don't care about your pointless comment number and your comments don't count because all you do is spam all day.
I’ve watched a couple of videos recently from your channels and I’d just like to know why you guys don’t do honourable mentions anymore? Especially for top 10 videos. The top ten was one of the best parts, imo
Love It WatchMojo.
I still think Casey Anthony is guilty
I think so too.
She is
Its a travesty that she is not in prison. She killed her daughter full stop.
💯 guilty 😠
Apparently EVERYONE but the jury knows Casey is GUILTY
Casey Anthony absolutely got away with murder. The fact that she is walking free right now angers me to no end.
Im upset too, also about the little beauty queen of colo, I still think it was her brother, because of jeoulously in both cases.
I'm more mad at her then oj
Without a doubt OJ did it. Also so did Casey Anthony, her case was just completely fumbled by police incompetence.
I'm more mad about Casey Anthony
I actually believe it was OJ's son. But OJ played a part in it for sure.
The media has to have an impact on these trials. Both are obviously guilty.
OJ DID IT
I remember getting into a huge argument with my gf at the time about that Casey Anthony case. I told her that Casey was gonna be found not guilty. She was yelling that Casey murdered her daughter (which I didn’t dispute) I told her that the prosecution did a crap job of convincing me Casey was guilty
I think Casey did it. 1000% did it or knew who did and/or knows what happened. *BUT* if it was me sitting in the jury box, and I could only take in account what the prosecution presented to the court-the did a really crappy job convincing me of her guilt.
@@KeiraSims-cp2fs Why? He was 100% accurate--and the jury thought so, too. He's not saying that Casey was innocent--he's saying the prosecution did a poor job.
“Of the last century” then proceeds to put trials from 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries
I think she meant “trials of the century”. Many trials have been called a trial of the century, and it doesn’t mean it has to be limited to one century.
“I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” wasn’t even the best shit that came from that debacle. I will never forget the greatest response ever, to any question, in any situation, ever asked in all of history.
“That depends on how you define ‘is’.”
That was art.
I always believed Casey Anthony was guilty. You will never be able to convince me she didn’t kill that baby.
I know she did murder her poor daughter, because she has a narasstic personilaly disorder, it makes me sick, about what happen.
I was only seven when Casey Anthony was on trial, but I understood that she did something awful and deserved to be punished. When she was found not guilty, that was one of the first times I doubted the capabilities of our justice system.
*trial
@@michaelpalmieri7335 thanks. God I hate autocorrect
I am sure you have had many other opportunities to doubt the US justice system since then. 🤦♂
@@joshuamohlman
I'm not too fond of autocorrect myself.
@@robertpalin2161 if you read the comment you’d see I was seven when it happened, so I’ve had more than enough opportunities to doubt our justice system
Nothing compares with OJ's Trial, that really deserves to have the monicker "Trial of the Century"
I remember the day they announced the verdit on OJ Simpson's trial. It was lunchtime at school and I was standing in line waiting to purchase my lunch. Suddenly the principal came on the PA announcing to the student body that they found OJ Simpson not guilty.
It always gets me listening to the clerk getting "Orenthal" wrong in OJ's name. She had ONE JOB!
Absolute travesty of justice.
He Did It
Casey Anthony will always be guilty
Yeah they found the only twelve people in America who couldn't see that
@@CTP909 She did everything you can do that shows she was guilty and was still acquitted.
@@allisonjae3152 that's what I'm saying they found the only twelve people who couldn't see she was guilty and put them on her jury
I remember I was watching daytime TV when OJ's low-speed chase broke into regular broadcasting. If I'm not mistaken, OJ had a gun to his head. I was amazed that it was on every channel. My mother came home from work, and I excitedly filled her in on the details. We watched the action unfold, completely stunned.
He did have a gun to his head. Cowlings, the driver, was trying to talk him down.
Remember, being found not guilty is not the same as being found innocent.
The Trial of R Kelly you know this trial is famous when a Boondocks parody of it still hits the bullseye even now.
7:03 I will always and forever hear Dave Chapelle's voice in that one, along with the sniffing of the fingers lol
ew, he’s awful
No George Zimmerman/Trayvon martin? Literally got reactions from presidents, celebrities etc
They’re not trying to start a race war in the comments.
Hey, WatchMojo… “Of the last century“? The last time I checked, a century was only 100 years long; some of these entries go all the way back to the 1800s.
Lizzie Borden's trial was in 1893. How is that the last century? Smh
OJ Simpson Trial will always be the trial of the century
I never watched these trials live because I wasn’t born yet. The only one I think I watched live was the Casey Anthony trial. I still believe to this day that she did in fact kill her daughter and she got away with it. There are a few trials that I watched as they were happening, like the Johnny Depp and Lori Vallow trials. Although the trial of Johnny Depp, I only watched snippets of the trial not the whole thing.
Love the background music
👁️🗨️ Really insightful rundown on these iconic trials! 🏛️
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She really started smiling when said not guilty then snapped out of it and went straight to crying give me a break Casey Anthony was guilty as crap
OJ was guilty but the trial showed how flawed the Justice system was and a Murderer could get away with it.
"The whole world is watching," i still can't believe a judge blatantly suppressed Bobby Seale's rights with the whole world watching. He didn't even try to hide his disdain
I grew up 10 minutes from Flemington, NJ where the Lindburgh trial was held. Many of the reporters stayed in The Union Hotel which has always been known as a local haunted house. To my knowledge, the place was recently demolished to make room for 'modernity' but one night my friends and I snuck into the joint. While the rest of us were upstairs trying to find something that resembled the supernatural, my friend struck up a conversation with a sharply dressed gentleman asking for directions to the courthouse. He was genuinely confused because it was 11 at night and everything was closed downtown. It wasn't until we went to the local diner two hours later that he told us this story and the rest of us started panicking and laughing hysterically!!! I don't think any of us slept well for several nights.
*Lindbergh
Soon as i saw the title, I knew OJ Simpson would be on here.
Thank For the Top 10 Video 🙊🤯👩⚖️⚖️💗👍👌🤩💐🌟🥇🏆
Simpson and Casey were guilty as hell
The Nuremberg trials will always be interesting because I think of the study showing anyone would of done the same thing if an authority figure told us too
To a point, not women and children just because they were Jewish.
@@mrhumble2937 like look what we all did the last 2 years humans are bad
True, and I believe most of the convicted served very little time.
@@tashacooper1753
What exactly is it that we've been doing for the last two years that's convinced you that "humans are bad"? Please be specific.
@michaelpalmieri7335 I'd like to put 1000$ on they are referring to the thing that happened for 2 years 2 years ago now.
Oh wow! I definitely remember the Michael Jackson trial. I watched it live.
It's so sad that these cases were messed up so bad. Casey Anthony, Guilty! OJ Simpson, Guilty!
I also believe Lizzie Borden was guilty as she was one of the only people who was in the home.
Lizzie Borden also had two hours to wash the blood off of her clothes and the axe she allegedly used before the police arrived
“This enraged everyone who punished them severely.” Oversimplified
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The 1897 of Edward Shue was an interesting one it is the only known case in history to have used to testimony of a ghost in trial he was a blacksmith who after only three months of marriage found his wife Zona Shue dead the local Doctor who also acted as the coroner was called and it took him an hour to arrive once he got there a "grief stricken" Shue was laying over her body so the coroner just have her body a quick look and ruled her cause of death to be the everlasting faints normal custom of the time the local women would prepare a deceased woman for burial but her husband did and put a high collar dress on her and at the funeral her mother noticed that he was acting strange and about a month after her death allegedly her daughter came to her in a dream and told her mother that her husband had strangled her to death and after about four of these visits she went to the local prosecutor in Greenbrier and he was interested in the story so the case was reopened and her body was exhumed and found to have a broken neck and crushed windpipe Edward was taken to trial and after about an hour and 10 minutes of deliberation he was found guilty of her murder and was taken to the state prison in Moundsville and died in 1900
This sounds interesting. Too bad you didn't put in a period every once in awhile to make it readable. Guess I'll just Google "Edward Shue."
Never heard of that case.
I think Gabulosis talked about that case on her channel. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe Edward was guilty cause not only considering the evidence, but also how he reacted when they told him that he was being investigated for his wife's death.
The only trial I saw from start to finished was Casey Anthony and Jodi Arias.
Wish you were on the jury!
I was there at the Nuremberg trial , remember it like it yesterday 😅
The video is awesome
Scott Peterson trial was bigger than Casey Anthony trial
I would have been Seriously Disappointed if you hadn't put The Nuremberg Trial at Number 1. Although, you should have combined it with Hideki Tojo's trial in Japan. Both trials were the results of the Horrors of WWII, REGARDLESS of the Theater of Operations. ETO and PTO.
Casey Anthony almost had me with her documentary. But I'm not that stupid. She did it and so did OJ. Period.
I will always think Casey Anthony is guilty.
Perhaps maybe not as famous as some on the list, I think these trails have had a greater impact on society and the most individuals:
Scopes Monkey Trial
Brown v. Topeka Board Education
Emmet Till & Mississippi Burning Trials
My Lai Courts Martial Trials
Laramie (Matthew Shepard Murder)Trials
Kevorkian Trails
Also issues we thought settled by some of these trials are reemerging almost a century later.
*trials
The Laramie was a charade because they ignore the evidence that Matthew Shepard was a drug dealer too. And he owe them money.
#5, that's we call him "slick willie!!"
The trial of Sadaam Husein stands out to me
Bill Clinton saved SNL! John Goodman, as Linda Tripp, is still one of my favorite skits
I’m surprised Michael Jackson’s trial isn’t on here
Alot of them should be in jail absolutely shocking good list rip to the villans 🙏
Sometimes the truth will for ever be lost to history
I wonder where Casey Anthony now we haven't heard from her recently in awhile
In West Palm Beach, living with some old P.I.
Nobody knows what became of Alice Crimins either. Some say that she lives in Florida too.
By the way, I also live in Florida, although I was born in New York City, the Bronx, to be precise.
How about Richard kinball?
Casey Anthony did it
I was expecting to see McMartin/Buckey.
Well if Watch Mojo knew what a century was this might have been. Since they don't, they included Lizzy Borden's trial.
God please forgive me but I came home from NYC job and turned on TV and watched the OJ trial. When i went down to the newstand in my bldg at work, to get candy or cigs, all i ever heard people talking was the OJ trial😂😂I am ashamed that i also watched some of that Manson Family murder trial
Hon dont be hard on yourself
OJ and. The Manson trials were everywhere!
There was no escaping it
@@ohwell94 thanks for saying so🙏🏼
I was so disgusted with the over publicizing of the O.J. trial’s minutiae that when it was announced that a verdict had been reached, I went on an errand. I had the streets to myself. Yes, I cared about the verdict and the issues revealed in the case, but I could wait.
*Manson
I am very confused with the title of this video since it is supposed to be top 10 list of the trials of the last century which was from 1900 to 1999 and yet you had a trial from 2011, and from 1893. A century from what i was taught is supposed to be 100 years.
From the last century would be the last 100 years (1925-2024) but yes a couple don’t belong on this list
@@jenniferferguson1517 no it's implied that when they say last century it's from the last century in 1900 to 1999, just like some other phrases like the Trial of the century, or crime of the century
How is Lizzie Borden’s trial in 1893 one of the biggest trials of the last century?
These people can't do math.
There’s one I suggest, the trial of Jennifer Mee, aka the hiccup girl.
Never heard of that case. What was it all about?
@@michaelpalmieri7335
A girl who had uncontrollable hiccups but after some years she left home and got mixed up with the wrong crowd of people which she intended for her boyfriend and another guy to rob another man but the robbery turned into murder, but she claims she didn’t know they had a gun. But during many trial and sentencing, she got life without parole (which didn’t seem fair to many people, including her family since she didn’t kill the man). The another guys got the same sentence as well.
@@thomasm.longiii3752
I see. Where and when did all this happen?
@@michaelpalmieri7335
In Florida in I believe 2010. Her sentencing was in 2013.
@@thomasm.longiii3752
Thanks for the info.
I remember the OJ car chase. I was sick and was laying on the couch just watching these cars speeding down the road. I was just a young teenager so my sister had to explain to me who OJ Simpson even was.
I watched the oj car chase at work. the line cooks had a TV set up and we all watched it while getting people's orders ready. If you got the wrong order that day, sorry about it.
Lizzie Borden’s trial was not in “the Last Century”
The trials mentioned are from three different centuries. Even OJ and Casey Anthony aren’t the same century, if you want to get technical. 🤷🏼♀️
Who received 40 whacks?
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Two trials that stand out for me are the trials of Susan Wright and Mary Winkler. Susan Wright ended up being dubbed "the blue eyed butcher" due to her blue eyes and the fact that she tied up her husband Jeff Wright in their bed, stabbed him 193 times and buried him in the backyard of their house in the Houston, Texas suburb of White Oak Bend in January of 2003. During the trial; lead prosecutor Kelly Siegler reenacted the stabbing of Jeff Wright on the same bed where the crime occurred; bloodstained mattress and all! Susan was convicted of First Degree Murder and was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison; but her sentence was reduced to twenty years on appeal due to receiving ineffective assistance of counsel. In July of 2020; Susan was granted parole and released in December of the same year. In March of this year her parole will be completed. Mary Winkler gained attention for having shot her Preacher husband Matthew Winkler in their bedroom of their home in Selmer, Tennessee in March of 2006. In April of 2007 Mary was convicted of Manslaughter and served several months in jail. Many people who watched the trial of Mary Winkler were disgusted and enraged by the verdict and sentencing; saying that Mary got away with murder. However they were largely split on the type of sentence Mary should have received; some people believe that Mary should have been sentenced to Life in Prison and others believe the Prosecution should have sought the Death Penalty because Tennessee is a Death Penalty state. Both of these cases have been adapted into movies that aired on the Lifetime network; the movie on Mary Winkler is titled "The Pastor's Wife" and shares the title of a book on the case written by true crime author Diane Fanning; with Rose McGowan as Mary Winkler and Michael Shanks as Matthew Winkler. The movie on the Susan Wright case is titled "Blue Eyed Butcher" and stars Sara Paxton as Susan Wright, Lisa Edelstein as Kelly Siegler and Justin Breuning as Jeff Wright.
The GLOVES FIT. Just take off the rubber gloves
Most of these were from the USA. No mention of famous trials in the UK such as Dr Crippen, Derek Bently, Lindy Chamberlain among others
I know who Dr. Crippen and Derek Bentley were, but who was Lindy Chamberlain?
@@michaelpalmieri7335 Her baby Azaria was taken by a dingo near Uluru on the 17th of Aigust 1980. She was found guilty of the murder but later evidence appeared that proved her innocence.
@@andrewnewton2246
Oh yeah, I've heard of that case! It was the subject of the movie "A Cry In The Dark" (1988), with Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain.
@@michaelpalmieri7335 I think the film you are referring to is Evil Angels. I am glad we don't have the death penalty, because if we did, she may have been executed.
The Lindy Chamberlain one was insane. Poor woman
Why is Casey Anthony on here? Her trial was this century 🤨
WatchMojo is really playing fast and loose with the term “century”
I was only 7 when the Clinton thing happened. I never knew there was a trial
I really can't believe that these trails actually happened
Trials*
How did Ted bundy not make the list
"Lizzie Borden took an axe/She gave her mother forty whacks/When she saw what she had done/She gave her father forty-one."
Since when is 1893 the “Last Century”?
Bill Clinton: water isn't wet.
The Lizzie Borden trial was a complete hatchet job on her character.
Since when is 1893 last century? And no mention of Nicolae Ceaușescu triel? Was a trial that defined a country and more.
Casey Anthony never deserves happiness. Ever.
I’d point out this video is headed “trials of the last century”, except it includes a 19th century case and a 21st century case.
So we have 8 crimes of the last century as Borden is 19th and Anthony is 21st.😊
Kinda ironic that Canada was one of the judging nations when Canada committing war crimes as well
Bruno Hauptmann was railroaded. Lindbergh was a eugenicist convinced of his own genetic superiority, and Charlie Jr.'s health issues (moderate rickets, a large head, rumors of epilepsy) were an embarrassment to him. There's eye witness testimony, including from Charlie's grandmother, of Lindbergh being physically abusive to the kid long before he died. He had Charlie killed as soon as his wife got pregnant with another baby. Lindbergh was a monster.
And "infant" my ass. Charlie was 20 months old when he vanished. Lindbergh refused to release pictures of him at his real age to the media, so everyone in the country thought he was a literal baby when he was already walking and talking.
I'm surprised they didn't include the trials of Dr. Sam Sheppard for the murder of his wife, Marilyn, in 1954.
That case garnered a REAL media circus, even before Sheppard was arrested. That was mainly because of the influence of the local press, which practically convicted the doctor in their screaming banner headlines. In fact, the only reason "Dr. Sam," as he was called by friends and colleagues, was arrested was because of page one editorials in the powerful "Cleveland Press" entitled "Why Isn't Sam Sheppard In Jail?" (A later edition changed the question to a demand!: "Quit Stalling! Bring Him In!")
The trial itself was an even bigger circus, with vindictive reporters almost taking over the courtroom, constantly interrupting the proceedings, getting in everyone's way, snapping pictures of everything, and making it nearly impossible to conduct the trial in a fair and dignified manner.
That was mainly the fault of the judge, who was up for reelection in November (the trial lasted from October to December of 1954), and who figured that by letting the reporters do whatever they pleased during the trial, he would be insuring that they would back him up during the next election. (It must have worked because the judge was reelected, as was the District Attorney and the local coroner, Dr. Samuel Gerber, a key prosecution witness against Dr. Sheppard.)
What's more, the judge also failed to sequester the jury, who were thus allowed to read the biased newspaper reports of the trial and listen to equally biased radio and TV reports, including a broadcast by Walter Winchell claiming that Sheppard was the father of an illegitimate child, a story that was later proven to be a lie. (By this time, the damage had already been done.)
Since the jury was allowed to wander around the city, this made them valuable to remarks and influence from citizens who believed the accused to be guilty (no doubt because of the same biased press stories).
The judge's actions were not surprising, since he too was convinced that the defendant was guilty before the trial was even arranged. Before it began, the judge secretly told reporter and gossip columnist Dorothy Killgallen "It's an open and shut case. He's (Dr. Sheppard) as guilty as hell." This may explain why His Honor acted with such malice towards the accused and his lawyers, constantly hectoring the defense and making it harder and harder to protect their client's rights or to contradict the prosecution's evidence.
The verdict was a far gone conclusion. Dr. Sam Sheppard was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. But that wasn't the end of it.
Over a decade later, a fresh and new attorney, F. Lee Bailey, took up Dr. Sheppard's case, convinced that he had been wrongly convicted. He first convinced a federal court judge, and then the United States Supreme Court, that Sheppard didn't receive a fair trial because of the "prejudicial publicity" that the jury had been exposed to, and that the judge had failed to protect the jury from. (The High Court also cited "massive pretrial publicity" as a factor bearing on the inability of the defendant to get an unbiased trial.)
As a result of the Supreme Court's decision, "Dr. Sam" was retried in late 1966 -- and acquitted!
Unfortunately, even after his vindication, Sheppard was still considered a brutal wife-killer in the eyes of too many people. Forced out of the medical profession, he took up professional wrestling.
By this time, the strain and pressure of ten years of trying to prove his innocence had taken their toll. His health declined, his marriage to a German woman with whom he had a prison pen pal relationship fell apart and led to a divorce, he developed an addiction to the medical drugs he had been using lately, and even marrying the daughter of his wrestling coach didn't bring him much happiness either. Eventually, his health became worse, but he refused to get professional medical treatments, like his new wife wanted him to do.
Dr. Samuel Holmes Sheppard finally passed away in 1970. He died a broken man, practically worn out and hounded to an early grave by a society and a predatory press that was more interested in winning elections and selling newspapers than in justice and the concept of "innocent until proven guilty."
How was Casey Anthony trial last century when it happened last decade?
OJ getting away with murder is disgusting 😤
Should someone tell WatchMojo that the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries are three different centuries.
Hello good nights
Can't they check the gloves for DNA?
I can't think of the Clinton thing without thinking of Misha. What a wild ass pipeline.
Sacco and Vanzetti’s Trial should of been on this list, instead of Lizzie Borden.
Who's here after OJ died?
I don't know why the Anthonys would cover up Caylee's death if it was an accident?
@WWChampion16 u can still go to prison for child neglect, injury to a child, and child abuse
@@rayb.1180Its the same as the little colo beauty queen.
Still say the Amy Fisher story . After she shot Joey Budafuco’s wife Mary Jo . After Joey had an afair with Amy
I wasn't alive during the OJ trial but I saw that Made In America doc which really showed how huge and important that whole trial was. Amazing doc. Crazy how he got away with it.
He was acquitted on my 23rd birthday
The American Crime Story mini series was pretty good. It's told from the perspective of the lawyers
It wasn’t a documentary, it was a dramatic re-enactment. I saw a few minutes of it here and there, it was exploitive and cheezy and NOTHING like the real trial. Some of it was horribly cast. TRASH.
@@batgurrlur talking about the people vs oj simpson lol. the doc im talking about is on ESPN and isn't a reenactment.
@@AA-qb7ni okay, sorry, i never even heard of it. Not a fan of team sports but he was VERY famous. LOL. I think he did it but didn’t truly care
I think until proven otherwise that C. Anthony's father had something to do with that child's death and tried to serve his own daughter up as the guilty person
I'm sorry but how does "last century" include 1893? surely the term "last century" would either mean 1923-2023, or 1900-2000 - neither of which include 1893. fuck me, the American education system really is an utter failure isn't it.
Robobongocuckoocop twice failed to capitalize the first words of sentences in a post, so perhaps _their_ education wasn’t so good.
@@brianarbenz1329 oh piss off!
@@RoboBongoCuckooCop I will, if you will capitalize sentences!
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OJ and Casey are guilty AF
OJ plays football, so he could could not possibly be guilty.