Today in True Crime

On this day in 2009, Brian Lewis murdered his common-law wife, Hayley Jones. His motive was unthinkable; Brian claimed he killed his wife over a Facebook status. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2011, 29-year-old Brittany Norwood murdered her co-worker, 30-year-old Jayna Murray. Their place of business? Lululemon, the athletic apparel store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1919, Italian immigrants Charles Cortimiglia, his wife Rose, and their two-year-old daughter, Mary, were brutally attacked by an intruder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1945, the United States executed the single deadliest airstrike in history on the city of Tokyo, Japan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1999, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the murder conviction of Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City Bomber. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1826, 15-year-old Ellen Turner was abducted in a forced marriage plot intended to swindle her family out of their fortune. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1951, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg's espionage trial began in New York's federal court. Today, nearly 70 years after the trial, their guilt or innocence is still a matter of debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1991, 11-year-old patient Timothy Hardwick was admitted to the hospital after suffering from epileptic seizures. He would die in the care of nurse Beverley Alitt only a few hours later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1972, Kim Wendy Allen, a junior college student in Santa Rosa, California, was raped, strangled and dumped after she hitched a ride late one night. Kim was the first victim discovered in the series of slayings now known as the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2006, former British pop star Gary Glitter was convicted of molesting two underage girls in Vietnam. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1995, 28-year-old derivatives trader Nick Leeson was arrested for defrauding his superiors at Barings Bank and for cheating the Singapore exchange. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1562, Francis, Duke of Guise ordered the massacre of dozens of Protestants as they worshipped in a makeshift church. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1692, farmer Thomas Putnam accused three women of witchcraft—some of the first witchcraft accusations in Salem, Massachusetts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1921, Italian anarchist Mario Buda was arrested in his village of Savignano during an anti-Fascist protest. Little did the authorities know, they had apprehended the man suspected of a deadly bombing in New York City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1992, Austrian serial killer Jack Unterweger was caught by the authorities for the final time while hiding in Miami, Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1994, eleven members of the Branch Davidian cult were acquitted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Guest hosted by Erica Kelly from Southern Fried True Crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2000, eight-year-old Victoria Climbié died in a hospital from physical abuse at the hands of her great-aunt and her great-aunt’s boyfriend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2015, authorities raided Dell’s Maraschino Cherries Factory in Brooklyn, New York. They came looking for potential environmental violations—what they found instead was a hidden drug empire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1906, con artist Johann Hoch was executed for the murder of his wife, Marie Walcker-Hoch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1974, out-of-work tire salesman Samuel Byck murdered two people in an attempt to hijack an aircraft and crash into the White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1942, German-born Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn was convicted of spying for the Japanese. His espionage led to the devastating WWII attack on Pearl Harbor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1927, four golfers were arrested in Aiken, South Carolina for playing golf...on a Sunday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1847, the first relief party began the arduous rescue of the Donner Party, who had been snowbound beyond the Sierra Nevada mountains the entire winter. Guest hosted by Carter Roy from Parcast Network’s Killer Knowledge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2001, FBI agent Robert Philip Hanssen was arrested and charged with espionage. He’d been a double agent for the USSR and Russia for more than two decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1992, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced on 15 counts of murder. The three-week insanity trial had been a nationally-televised spectacle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1929, the 35-year-old heir to one of America’s largest fortunes, Ned Doheny, was found dead in his Beverly Hills mansion along with his secretary, Hugh Plunkett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1976, 12-year-old Mark Stebbins became the first known victim of the “Oakland County Child Killer.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1929, seven members of Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang were gunned down in Chicago, Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1542, Catherine Howard, queen of England and wife of King Henry VIII, was executed for adultery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1977, 27-year-old actress Christa Helm was stabbed and killed on the streets of West Hollywood. Guest hosted by Jami Rice from MURDERISH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1828, William Burke and William Hare launched a plan to murder Abigail Simpson of Edinburgh…and sell her body to science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1992, pro-boxer Mike Tyson was found guilty of sexually assaulting beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2006, 29-year-old Sonia Mejia was found dead inside of her Utah apartment. Her killer was responsible for two deaths: both Sonia’s and her unborn child’s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1983, champion racehorse Shergar was kidnapped during an unsolved nighttime raid on his stable in Kildare, Ireland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1995, 26-year-old terrorist Ramzi Yousef was arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan—two years after he masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1880, five members of the Irish-Canadian family known as the “Black Donnellys” were laid to rest. And the priest presiding over the funeral... may have been involved in their murders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1921, 8-year-old Freda Burnell left her home in a Welsh village and never returned. Her disappearance turned into one of England’s most nefarious murders. Guest hosted by Amanda, Kenyon, and Lucy from Wine and Crime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1974, heiress Patricia Hearst was kidnapped from her apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2008, an interview was published in which Alipio Ribeiro, then-head of Portuguese police, admitted that law enforcement had been too hasty to name Gerry and Kate McCann as suspects in their daughter Madeleine’s disappearance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 2011, 18-year-old Israel Nieves shot and killed 19-year-old Jason Rodriguez, in what he later claimed was a drug-induced blackout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1910, Dr. Hawley Crippen murdered his wife Cora in their North London home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1947, 17-year-old mill worker Rita Bouchard disappeared without a trace. Her body was found the next day, stabbed 30 times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1948, Mohandas Gandhi, better known by his honorific, Mahatma, was assassinated by a Hindu extremist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1958, teenage criminal Charlie Starkweather was apprehended outside Douglas, Wyoming with his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. The arrest ended the couples’ weeklong murder-spree. Guest hosted by Rachel and Desi from Hollywood Crime Scene. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1069, the Earl of Northumbria, Robert de Comines, was burnt alive by rebel forces in Durham, England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1955, Wall Street mogul Serge Rubenstein was murdered in his mansion in New York City’s Millionaire’s Row. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1966, three children from a suburb of Adelaide, Australia went missing, sparking the largest missing persons search the country had ever seen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1990, hitchhiker Paul Onions narrowly escaped the clutches of Australia’s most notorious serial killer—Ivan Milat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1989, serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair in a Florida penitentiary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this day in 1978, Richard Trenton Chase, “The Vampire of Sacramento,” killed his second victim, Teresa Wallin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices