Home›Landmark Cases›Case Era›By Century›20th centuryBrowse By20th centuryThis dimension groups landmark criminal cases by the era in which they were decided. Wikipedia notes that a leading case is "one that settles the law upon some important point," a point that is always settled at one particular time in legal history. Browsing by case era lets a visitor compare landmark cases decided in the same period.20th centuryComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)20th centuryFilter Results11 entriesCase StatusAllUnsolved (1)Investigating InstitutionAllFederal Bureau of Investigation (4)Leicestershire Constabulary (1)Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (1)Los Angeles Police Department (2)Metropolitan Police Service (1)New York City Police Department (1)San Francisco Police Department (1)West Memphis Police Department (1)Concept IllustratedAllChain of Custody (1)Cold Case (1)False Confession (1)Satanic Panic (1)Wrongful Conviction (2)Offense InvolvedAllAssault (1)Kidnapping (2)Murder (10)Rape (2)Serial Murder (4)Sexual Assault (1)Terrorism (1)Location or JurisdictionAllAtlanta, Georgia, United States (1)Central Park, New York City, United States (1)Leicestershire, England (1)London, England, and the North Atlantic (1)Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, United States (1)Los Angeles, California, United States (1)New Jersey, United States (1)San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States (1)United States (multiple states) (1)West Memphis, Arkansas, United States (1)Group TreeAllContested Confessions and Convictions (2)DNA Identification Cases (1)Documentary and Digital Evidence Cases (1)Fingerprint Evidence Cases (1)Modern High-Profile Murder Prosecutions (1)Trace and Physical Evidence Cases (3)Unsolved Serial Murder Investigations (1)Forensic Discipline UsedAllCriminalistics (2)Dactyloscopy (1)DNA Profiling (4)Forensic Document Examination (2)Forensic Linguistics (1)Forensic Odontology (1)Forensic Toxicology (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 11Atlanta Murders of 1979 to 198120th centuryCentral Park Jogger Case20th centuryColin Pitchfork Case20th centuryCrippen Case20th centuryLindbergh Kidnapping20th centuryNight Stalker Case20th centuryO. J. Simpson Murder Case20th centuryTed Bundy Case20th centuryUnabomber Case20th centuryWest Memphis Three Case20th centuryZodiac Killer Case20th centuryComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.