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The Pinto: A Death Trap

The Mercury Bobcat was Ford's more luxurious, but equally deadly twin. A prosecutor in Indiana named Michael Konstantino filed criminal homicide charges against the executives at Ford for that crash. It wasn't just like a flash in the pan. This trial actually, or these charges went to trial. And over three years, everybody was reporting on Ford executives on trial for murder every day.

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