This transcript is automatically generated  In the Circuit Court at the eighteenth judicial circuit in and force -- -- county Florida state of Florida courses George Zimmerman.  Verdict we the jury find George Zimmerman not guilty.  It was a murder trial that captivated the nation.  George Zimmerman and neighborhood watch volunteers shot and killed seventeen year old trade on -- In what Zimmerman claims was an act of self defense the highly politicized case brought race relations front and center.  For it on -- in the me.  On July 13 a jury found Zimmerman not guilty of second degree murder and manslaughter in the death of -- -- -- gated community in Sanford Florida.  The verdict brought relief to Zimmerman his supporters.  But anguish to the Morton -- -- the justice system failed them.  There's an -- morning yeah.  He needs to lead by air ambulance I can help -- and what's going on there.  And I remember listening yeah.  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Young woman's frantic 911 call led to a shocking discovery.  Three young women Amanda -- Michelle Knight and gene into -- rescued from the home of a former school bus driver.  The three weren't hidden and held for a decade inside aerial Castro's house of horrors.  Where they were changed raped and tortured.  Amanda Perry who gave birth to a daughter by Castro managed to escape and call police.  -- pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.  He was later found dead in his prison -- in what authorities ruled a suicide -- it is a case just -- the world for years.  Amanda Knox was twenty years old when she was convicted in 2009 and stabbing to death -- -- in the Italian city of Perugia.  Her conviction was overturned in a second trial two years later due to lack of evidence and -- returned home to the glass.  But the drama is far from over.  Italy's Supreme Court is re trying to east.  Prosecutors now pulling for thirty year sentence.  No longer in Italy eat Knox and her Italian ex boyfriend spent forty years in an Italian prison -- -- 2007 murder.  Knox is British roommate Meredith Berkshire.  To have always maintained their innocence.  In a new twist is prosecutors say an argument over -- first appointment may have led to the murder.  They claim Knox and her boyfriend were closest to another man who is already serving time for killing.  If Knox is found guilty in the retrial it is unlikely the USX for her.  She was already -- quick.  In -- -- stranger than fiction retired Illinois police sergeant Drew Peterson was sentenced in February 238 years in prison for the murder of his third wife.  Salvo was found dead in an empty bathtub in 2000 -- -- the coroner ritual it's it's an accidental drowning.  But when Peterson's fourth wife Stacy mysteriously disappeared in 2007.  Some Eagles -- was exhumed and forensic testing showed the drowning filed a struggle.  Prosecutors claim the former policeman murdered salvo -- and staged it to look like an accident.  Peterson remains the prime suspect in the disappearance of Stacy Peterson who has never been found it.  In May 33 year old Jodi Harry S was convicted for the 2008.  Who was found stabbed multiple times and shot.  Head inside his Phoenix home her story to police changed several times throughout the investigation.  She now claimed he killed Alexander in self defense.  Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty -- it took authorities sixteen years to catch.  Now notorious Boston mob leader -- -- is behind bars convicted in August on several counts of murder and racketeering.  Money laundering extortion and weapons charges the monster who once ran South Boston sits in prison.  Sentenced to consecutive life terms plus five years.  -- trial that reignited the national debate over abortion.  Doctor -- arsenal was found guilty in May of murdering babies.  In graphic testimony for workers at -- Philadelphia abortion clinic described how the 72 year old physician.  Covered up the deaths of newborns.  He was found guilty in the murders of three babies and involuntary manslaughter in the drug overdose death of -- 41 year old patient.  The former doctor is now serving life in prison.  -- the protection of the military and the nation.  Former US army psychiatrist major Nadal Hasan was convicted of killing thirteen people and wounding more than thirty -- on the -- that army base in Texas.  Was sentenced to death -- and military tribunal in August.  Hasan acting as his own attorney admitted to the 2009 shooting and people out of themselves and -- -- -- -- hunt against the US.  The sun was never charged with terrorism even though he is known to have been in contact with former senior al-Qaeda leader on -- are all lucky.  In New York Cristina Corbin Fox News.
From George Zimmerman to Jodi Arias, Fox News' Cristina Corbin reports on the top crime stories of 2013