Turn back time, more than 90 years, to a cold case that won't gather dust.

It's a classic whodunit, starting with the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl and ending in the lynching of Leo Frank some 90 years ago.

“The People v. Leo Frank,” a case surrounding an Atlanta pencil factory superintendent, is mesmerizingly recreated and explored on PBS.

NEW YORK — It’s a century-old miscarriage of justice that still haunts anyone who knows of it, and will surely disturb viewers introduced to this tragedy in “The People v. Leo Frank,” premiering Monday on PBS. In a rich blend of experts’ accounts and dramatic re-enactments, the 90-minute film by filmmaker Ben Leoterman revisits the case of Leo Frank, a young Cornell-educated Brooklyn native who ...

In this publicity image released by PBS, Leo Frank is shown. Frank, a Jewish supervisor of a pencil factory in Atlanta, was convicted of the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old laborer in the fa...

It's a century-old miscarriage of justice that still haunts anyone who knows of it, and will surely disturb viewers introduced to this tragedy in "The People v. Leo Frank," a powerful retell

'People v. Leo Frank': a century-old crime in a proud Southern city and the awful aftermath

It's a century-old miscarriage of justice that still haunts anyone who knows of it, and will surely disturb viewers introduced to this tragedy in "The People v. Leo Frank," a powerful retelling that premieres Monday on PBS at 10 p.m. EDT.

Once again Northern Jews descended upon Atlanta to make a production out of the Leo Frank case. But reconciliation, not rioting, marked this encounter between North and South as Ben Loeterman of Newton filmed "The People v. Leo Frank," which airs Monday night on Channel 2.

Margret Krakauer said that she didn't know about her great uncle Leo Frank until she spotted his headstone when her family buried her grandfather. When Krakauer, who was 20 at the time, asked her father about Frank, he hushed her, saying he would explain when they got home.