The rise and fall of the “Vince of Darkness,” former Pennsylvania Senator Vincent J. Fumo, who personified a bare-knuckles, take-no-prisoners style of politics, and reigned for nearly a generation as a power broker. 

The epic saga of John Veasey, a former Mafia hit man who survived three gunshots in the head to become a federally protected witness who brought down the Philly mob.

The law school at Temple University is named after Beasley, a legendary Philadelphia trial lawyer who, before he went to college on the GI Bill, was a high school dropout driving a Greyhound bus.