Today in True Crime

The anarchist Giovanni Passannante attempted to assassinate the king of Italy, whose reign had proved contentious. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Canadian rebel had led a group of the native Métis people in an uprising against the government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

43-year-old Gennero Rubino was a spy before he became an anarchist. To prove his loyalty to the anarchist cause, he tried to assassinate the king of Belgium, Leopold II. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield. It was the first high-profile case where the insanity plea was seriously considered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dariusz Janiszewski’s body was found four weeks after his disappearance, with a noose around his neck. A graphic novel provided clues for the investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The former Prime Minister of Japan was found guilty of committing war crimes during WWII, and sentenced to death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The man who became a notorious criminal was born to a young mother in Cincinnati, Ohio. Guest hosted by Tim Johnson from Today In Music History, a Spotify Original from Parcast, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

White supremacists sparked deadly riots in Wilmington, North Carolina. Their hateful actions resulted in the only successful coup d’etat ever to take place on American soil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nazi diplomat Ernst vom Rath died after being shot by Polish-German Jew Herschel Grynszpan. His death became the pretext for Kristallnacht, one of the most violent attacks against Jewish people in Nazi Germany. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A massive art heist in Sweden’s Museum of Modern Art saw thieves plundering works by Picasso and Braque, valued altogether at $52 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Abolitionist and newspaper editor Elijak Lovejoy was killed in Alton, Illinois by a mob of white supremacists. His murder emboldened others to speak out against slavery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This musician moved to LA and became involved with the infamous Manson Family. Two years later, he was charged for the murder of fellow artist Gary Hinman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Risking jail time and a steep fine, Susan B. Anthony cast her ballot in a U.S. federal election. It was part of a law-breaking strategy to help women gain the right to vote. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When high-level KGB officer Vitaly Yurchenko announced his return to the Soviet Union just three months after defecting to the U.S., many questioned whether his defection was a ploy. Guest hosted by Greg Polcyn from Haunted Places, a Spotify Original from Parcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A group of Klansmen and Neo-Nazies attacked protestors at a 1979 anti-Klan rally in North Carolina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Still suffering the fallout of a car accident twenty years earlier, disgruntled Xerox technician Byran Uyesugi murdered several of his coworkers in 1999. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1950, two members of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. Their ultimate gameplan was to secure Puerto Rican independence from America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1984, India’s first female P.M., Indira Gandhi, was assassinated outside of her home in New Delhi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1831, Nat Turner was apprehended in Southampton County, Virginia, weeks after leading the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1901, 28-year-old Leon Czolgosz was executed via electric chair for fatally shooting U.S. President William McKinley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1895, serial killer H.H. Holmes went on trial for murder in Philadelphia. He refused a court appointed lawyer, opting to defend himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1659, William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson became the first Quakers to be executed for their religion in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2007, Lisa Montgomery was given the death penalty for murdering 8-months-pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and cutting the baby from her womb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1929, President Harding’s interior secretary, Albert B. Fall, was found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1986, the British government cut diplomatic ties with Syria over a failed airplane bombing — an attack that was allegedly planned by Syrian intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1982, police in southern Arizona engaged in a deadly shootout with members of the Christ Miracle Healing Center and Church. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1934, Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd died after a shootout with the police. He was wanted for the Kansas City Massacre, a violent altercation in July 1933 that took the lives of three police officers and one FBI agent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2009, Alyssa Bustamante killed her 9-year-old next-door neighbor, Elizabeth Olten. Bustamante was only 15 when she committed the murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2003, 40-year-old Kirk Jones threw himself over Niagara Falls... and miraculously survived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2000, serial killer Robert Lee Yates, Jr. pled guilty to thirteen murders. It marked an end to Yates’ nearly 25-year murder spree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1985, South African authorities executed Black activist Benjamin Moloise after he was convicted of murdering a police officer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1931, 32-year-old gangster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion, finally ending his violent reign as ‘Public Enemy Number One.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1965, British police found the body of missing 10-year-old girl, Lesley Ann Downey. Lesley was one of the five young victims of serial killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1991, Clarence Thomas was narrowly confirmed to the Supreme Court — despite allegations of sexual harassment by Thomas’s former aide, Anita Hill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1912, saloonkeeper John Schrank shot U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. The bullet remained lodged in Roosevelt’s chest for the rest of his life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in the year 54 CE, Roman Emperor Claudius was poisoned by his wife Agrippina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1978, 20-year-old Nancy Spungen — the girlfriend of former Sex Pistols’ bassist Sid Vicious — was found dead. She had succumbed to a stab wound on a hotel bathroom floor… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2002, a Black businessman named Kenneth Bridges died in a random shooting. His murderers came to be known as the Beltway Snipers for their senseless three-week killing spree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2003, the Associated Press first reported on a dangerous Mexican drug cartel known as the Zetas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2002, serial killer Aileen Wuornos was executed by the state of Florida. Twelve years earlier, Aileen murdered as many as seven men in cold blood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1987, the town of Hungerford in Berkshire, England held a memorial service for 16 residents—all of whom were slain in a vicious shooting spree. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2019, four students attacked their classmate, 14 year-old Devan Bracci-Selvey. Devan was stabbed to death outside of his high school in Hamilton, Ontario. Guest hosted by Alastair Murden, host of Superstitions, the new Spotify Original from Parcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1866, the notorious Reno Brothers and their gang committed the first successful peacetime train robbery in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1945, police clashed with striking workers outside of the Warner Brothers Studio. The incident forever changed labor relations in the Motion Picture Industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1936, the British Union of Fascists violently clashed with antifascist organizations. Over 150 people were injured in the confrontation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1981, Northern Ireland’s H-Block Hunger Strike ended after 217 days. The movement sought better treatment for inmates at Long Kesh Prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1780, a British spy named John André was hanged by American revolutionaries. He had been caught conspiring with the notorious Benedict Arnold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1982, the seventh victim of the Tylenol Murderer was found dead in her Chicago, Illinois home. The killer’s crime would forever change the way medication is packaged. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1986, Gennadi Zakharov, a Soviet spy, spent four minutes in a Brooklyn Courtroom before promptly being let go. Guest hosted by Alastair Murden from Haunted Places: Ghost Stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1979, Francisco Macías Nguema, the brutal dictator of Equatorial Guinea, was executed for crimes against humanity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices