The Perfect Murder? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Edgar Allan Poe

In 1838, Rogers disappeared for a few days, possibly as a publicity stunt. The 1841 murder was investigated for several months. During the investigation her fiance committed suicide. The media lost interest in the story.

Answer: Thomas C. Hindman

Postwar tensions provided plenty of opportunities to make enemies, especially
for aspiring politicians who owned newspapers. Hindman and his family had
recently returned from Texas, where they had fled when the Confederacy crumbled.
President Andrew Johnson, in an seldom used action, denied Hindman's application for a pardon. Authorities never identified Hindman's killer.

Answer: Andrew J. Jennings, Lizzie's lawyer

In September 1997 the Stanford School of Law presented a mock trial of Lizzie Borden presided over by Supreme Court Justices Rehnquist and O'Connor. Lizzie was acquitted again.

Answer: D. B. Cooper

No one was murdered in the D. B. Cooper case, which involved the hijacking of a 747 and a $200,000 ransom. The "Boy in the Box" was found in a large cardboard box by in rural area near Philadelphia. The Black Dahlia, Elizabeth Short, was found in central Los Angeles in 1947. Short was cut in half.

In 1988 Julie Ward had gone on a photo safari at Masai Mara Game Reserve, when she was murdered, dismembered, and burned. Kenyan officials originally claimed she was attacked by lions, then struck by lightning.

Answer: JonBenét Ramsey

Bobby Franks was the teenage victim of Leopold and Loeb. Nineteen year old Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped in 1963. He was released after his father paid $240,000 in ransom. The kidnappers were later captured and served short prison sentences. The Lindbergh baby kidnapping resulted in the conviction and the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann.

Answer: He wrote "Amok", a novel that recounted the 2000 murder.

"Amok", published in 2003, outlined how "Chris" stabs Mary after tying her in a similar manner to that found in the Janiszewski case. An anonymous tip off in 2005 led the police to the novel and Bala. Unlike Bala, "Chris" escapes Scott-free, having accomplished the perfect murder. "Amok" became a best seller.

Answer: Eliot Ness

J. Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Walter Winchell was a prominent newspaper and radio reporter. Pat Garrett pursued and killed Billy the Kid. Eliot Ness's inability to convict the Cleveland Torso Killer, also known as the Mad Butcher, blemished his crime fighting reputation.

Answer: Dian Fossey

Jane Goodall and Birutë Marija Filomena Galdikas, like Fossey, were urged by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study primates in Africa. The three were known as "Leakey's Angels". Sigourney Weaver portrayed Dian Fossey in the film "Gorillas in the Mist".

Answer: Taylor's dying statement

By the time the detectives arrived, studio representatives had already removed all Taylor's letters and bootleg liquor from his home, and instructed the butler to clean up the blood. Suspects included starlets Mabel Normand and Mary Miles Minter; Minter's mother Charlotte Shelby; and former houseman, thief Edward Sands.

Shelby was said have paid off District Attorneys Thomas Lee Woolwine, Asa Keyes, Buron Fitts, all of whom were accused of bribery in other cases.

Answer: A national day to remember missing children

Amber Hagerman's parents were present when President Bill Clinton signed the "Amber Hagerman Child Protection Act" into law in October 1996.