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Claudia Hoerig shot and killed her American husband, Air Force officer Jeff Hoerig, at their home in Ohio in 2007, then fled to Brazil, where she was shielded from extradition by her Brazilian citizenship. The case triggered a decade-long diplomatic and legal battle spanning two continents before a Brazilian court sentenced her to more than 31 years in prison in 2019.

When Nazi leaders faced trial in Nuremberg in 1945-46, the Allies pioneered a radical legal experiment: treating defeated enemies as ordinary criminals, not conquered foes. The tribunal's verdicts established principles that underpin modern human rights courts worldwide.

In October 1967, Chief Warrant Officer John Anthony Walker Jr. drove to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC, in his red sports car and offered classified US Navy documents to Soviet security personnel. What began as a single act of espionage would become the worst security breach in US naval history.