Great Crimes and Trials Season 2 Episode 16
Overview:
Although happily married, 25-year-old Charles Whitman was a worried man. He knew that he was in the grip of a terrible compulsion and on the verge of doing something appalling. Finally, on 31st July 1966 his self-control snapped and after killing his wife and mother so that they would be spared the shame he climbed the white granite tower of the University of Texas administration building, and started shooting at anyone who moved below. Fifteen people died and thirty were injured before police assault teams got close enough to gun him down.
Genre : Documentary
Actors : -
Release Date : 1996-07-15
Duration : 30 menit
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Other Episodes (Season 2)
1. Charles Starkweather - The Badlands Killer
2. Howard Hughes Autobiography Hoax
3. The Scarsdale Shooting
4. The S.L.A. Kidnap of Patty Hearst
5. Richard Speck - The Nurse Killer
6. Caryl Chessman - The Red Light Bandit
7. Roberts, Duddy and Witney - The Braybrook Street Massacre
8. The Bamber Family Murders
9. Hitler and the Nuremberg Trials
10. Stalin and the Massacre at Katyn Wood
11. The Assassination of Gandhi
12. The Assassination of Martin Luther King
13. The Assassination of John F Kennedy
14. The A6 Murder
15. Dennis Nilsen - The Kindly Killer
16. Charles Whitman - The Austin Sniper
17. The Boston Brinks Robbery
18. Richard Ramirez - The Night Stalker
19. The Rosenbergs - Atom Spies?
20. The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
21. Dan White - The City Hall Killer
22. Bonnie and Clyde
23. Wayne Williams - The Atlanta Killer
24. The Escapes from Alcatraz
25. The KKK Killings
26. New York Mafia Wars
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