Today in True Crime

On this day in 2019, 42-year-old Marion Wilson Jr. was executed by lethal injection. He was the 1500th person to be executed in the United States since the return of the death penalty in 1976. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1903, one of the most infamous Italians in history, Benito Mussolini, was arrested—for neither the first, nor the last time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1984, a miner’s union strike in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, devolved into a bloody clash with local policemen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1939, kidnapper and serial murderer Eugen Wiedmann was sent to the guillotine in Versailles, France... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1944, 14-year-old George Stinney became the youngest American to be executed in the 20th century. But he may have been killed for a crime he didn’t even commit… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1648, midwife and medicine woman Margaret Jones was executed for witchcraft in Boston. She was the first woman killed for the crime in Massachusetts Bay Colony, pre-dating the infamous Salem Witch Trials by almost 50 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1940, a group of 728 Polish prisoners were forced on a train from Tarnów to Auschwitz. Less than half survived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1977, 26-year-old Sister Roberta “Robin” Elam was raped and brutally murdered on the grounds of her own convent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered outside of Nicole’s Brentwood home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2001, domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh was executed in federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped from a bus stop in Lake Tahoe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1930, Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle was murdered on the way to a horse race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2001, Marc Chagall’s painting “Study for ‘Over Vitebsk’” was stolen from New York’s Jewish Museum. Three days later, the museum received a mysterious ransom note... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2000, the U.S. Justice Department slapped Microsoft with a severe penalty following charges of breaking the law. The company stood accused of engaging in monopolistic practices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1968, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy died. His death was the result of an assassination, committed 25 hours earlier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1960, three teenagers were brutally murdered at Lake Bodom in Espoo, Finland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2000, the U.S. Justice Department slapped Microsoft with a severe penalty following charges of breaking the law. The company stood accused of engaging in monopolistic practices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1981, Paul Michael Stephani murdered Kimberly Compton in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephani called 911 and confessed to the crime in tears, earning him the nickname, “The Weepy-Voiced Killer.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2004, 71-year-old Hope Schreiner murdered her husband of 43 years, 78-year-old Robert Schreiner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2004, Terry Nichols arrived at an Oklahoma State courthouse for the first day of the penalty phase of his trial. He’d already been sentenced to life in prison by a federal jury—but state prosecutors believed he deserved worse for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 455 C.E., Emperor Petronius Maximus tried to escape Germanic Vandals. However, his own subjects murdered him before the invaders got the chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1806, future president Andrew Jackson killed a man in a duel. Despite this murder, Jackson would face no criminal charges and go on to be seen as a national hero. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2005, Texas EMT worker Jennifer Holiday was shot, abducted, tortured, and sexually assaulted—after watching her cousin, Anna Franklin, get murdered in cold blood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2014, followers of a Chinese cult, the Church of the Almighty God—also known as Eastern Lightning—killed a woman inside of a shopping mall McDonalds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1934, legendary bank robber John Dillinger underwent facial reconstructive surgery to change his appearance. Guest hosted by Richard Rossner from the Dictators podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1941, Sir Broughton stood trial for the murder of Lord Erroll. Both were English noblemen living in Kenya. And both were carrying on a relationship with one Diana Broughton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1659, Lord Richard Cromwell resigned from the Protectorate of England, ushering in a new era of unrest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1961, a group of civil rights activists rode a bus into Jackson, Mississippi. Despite federal protections, all riders were jailed, labeled “criminals” for entering a bus stop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1934, a five-day standoff began. Thirteen-hundred Ohio National Guard troops faced down six-thousand striking auto workers and unemployed civilians in Toledo, Ohio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1998, Federal Judge Norma Holloway Johnson ruled that President Bill Clinton’s Secret Service would have to testify about the Monica Lewinsky Scandal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1924, wealthy University of Chicago students Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in cold blood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1983, a bomb went off in the South African city of Pretoria, killing 19 people and wounding over a hundred more. As the dust settled, it was clear that the attack was politically motivated, and carried out by the paramilitary wing of the African National Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2015, notorious thief Brian Reader was arrested in connection with one of the largest burglaries in English history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1998, the United States Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury announced the arrests of over 20 Mexican bankers—all of them connected to drug cartel money laundering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1968, the decaying body of an unidentified young woman was found off Route 25 in backwoods Kentucky. She was dubbed “Tent Girl” by the media, thanks to the fabric her body was wrapped in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1918, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the Sedition Act of 1918, making it illegal for United States citizens to publicly criticize the government or country’s involvement in World War I. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1970, armed police forces from across Mississippi were called to the Jackson State University Campus to subdue a group of students protesting the Vietnam War. Shortly after midnight, the police opened fire on the students. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1610, King Henry IV of France was assassinated. His killer, François Ravaillac, insisted he acted alone…but did he? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1787, Captain Arthur Phillip set sail from Portsmouth, England with a fleet of eleven ships. They were bound for a new penal colony in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1932, 20-month-old Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the kidnapped son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh, was found—dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1988, Soviet spy Harold “Kim” Philby died in Moscow, at the age of 76. It was the end of one of the most storied double-agent careers in espionage history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1849, a riot erupted outside the Astor Opera House in New York City where Shakespeare’s Macbeth was being performed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1994, 18-year-old Cleashindra Hall vanished without a trace from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1973, Native American activists surrendered to federal authorities, marking the end of a historic 71-day standoff at Wounded Knee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1992, three employees of a McDonald’s in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, were murdered in an armed robbery. It was the first “fast food murder” to occur in Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1996, the body of former CIA director William Colby was found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, nine days after he disappeared. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1987, Congress commenced a joint hearing to investigate the Reagan administration’s illegal funding of the Contras, a guerilla military group in Nicaragua. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1970, a protest at Kent State University in Ohio turned deadly when four students were shot by National Guardsmen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1992, Exxon Company International president Sidney Reso died in captivity, four days after being kidnapped outside his home in Morris Township, New Jersey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1536, Henry VIII’s second wife, Queen Anne, was arrested. To her face, she was accused of adultery, but in whispers, she was accused of incest, conspiracy, and even witchcraft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices