Today in True Crime

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange published classified documents that had been leaked by Chelsea Manning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Opening statements are read in the murder trial of cult leader Charles Manson and three of his followers. The four stood accused of a killing spree which took the lives of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Police in North Carolina were called to investigate a potential case of illegal adoption. A toddler’s mother had traded them for a 1992 Plymouth Laser. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

51-year-old Anthony Sowell, a registered sex offender, murdered 11 women over a two-year period. He was convicted and sentenced to death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In South Africa, Nobel laureate and ANC president Albert Luthuli died after being struck by a train. Many believe he had been assassinated. Guest hosted by Greg Polcyn from Cults, a Spotify Original from Parcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a mob killed American Robert Imbrie, Iranian commander Reza Khan declared martial law in Tehran. Imbrie had incited the riot after refusing to stop photographing a legendary well in the capital’s center. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Melanie McGuire was sentenced to life in prison for murdering her husband three years earlier. His body was found in multiple suitcases off the coast of Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot and killed by obsessed fan Robert John Bardo at her West Hollywood apartment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a small, rural town south of Orlando, three men on a catfishing excursion were brutally murdered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A large group of men pulled off a weekend-long bank heist in Nice, France. It netted the thieves 46 million francs worth of valuables. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Two teenage boys found the body of 16-year-old Wendy Lee Coffield in a Washington river. She was the first known victim of Gary Ridgway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A New Mexico sheriff tracked down Billy the Kid and fatally shot the outlaw, ending his spree of thefts and murders. Guest hosted by Carter Roy from the new special collection Devious Dads, a Spotify Original from Parcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Serial killer Richard Speck broke into a townhouse and killed eight nursing students in Chicago. It likely would have been nine had he not lost track of how many women he was holding hostage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Valerio Viccei, also known as the Wolf, was the mastermind behind Great Britain’s largest bank heist. In under two hours, his crew broke into 121 safety deposit boxes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A man posing as a delivery driver murdered attorney Marc Angelucci. Eight days later, the same shooter may have ambushed the family of Judge Esther Salas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas, Texas agreed to pay a large settlement to former altar boys who were sexually abused by Father Rudolph Kos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Neo-Nazis bombed the car of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld in retaliation for their work demanding justice for Holocaust victims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani and his niece were killed by a car bomb planted by the Mossad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Enron founder and former CEO Kenneth Lay was indicted for fraud after the company’s 2001 bankruptcy. Guest hosted by Dana Goodyear from Lost Hills, a podcast that delves into the shocking murder of scientist Tristan Beaudette. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

During a routine traffic stop, 32-year-old Philando Castile was shot and killed by St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a 6 to 3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence obtained using a faulty search warrant could still be used in court if the officers acted in good faith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

White Americans took to the streets across the nation after the world’s first Black heavyweight champion defeated former champ Jim Jeffries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A U.S. naval warship mistook Iran Air Flight 655 for an enemy aircraft and fired on it, killing all 290 civilians on board. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

23-year-old Sebastian Shaw murdered 40-year-old Jay Rickbeil in Portland, Oregon. Shaw later claimed to have killed “10 or 12 other people.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With backing from the United Nations, the International Criminal Court opened. It was an impartial, independent court whose jurisdiction reached 120 countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that top secret intelligence documents on the Vietnam War were legal to distribute to the public. Guest hosted by Wenndy Mackenzie from Unsolved Murders, a Spotify Original from Parcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

49-year-old Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane was found violently murdered in his Arizona apartment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

During a robbery in Ontario, an unknown assailant fatally shot Jacqueline McAllister and a witness who intervened. The gunman fled, leaving Jacqueline’s husband Gordon as the sole survivor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jurors weren’t sure if he pulled the trigger, but they still found Marcus Wesson responsible for the shooting deaths of nine of his children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, state laws that criminalized specific sexual acts between same-sex consenting adults were ruled to be unconstitutional. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard Robison, his wife, and four children were massacred at their vacation cottage in northern Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After killing a sex worker in Los Angeles, Austrian journalist and serial killer Jack Unterweger secured a ride-along with the LAPD station that was investigating her death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After being assaulted by her husband, Lorena Bobbitt cut off his penis and fled the scene with the severed appendage. Guest hosted by Molly Brandenburg from Unexplained Mysteries, a Spotify Original from Parcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After many months looking for the fabled Northwest Passage to Asia, an unhappy crew mutinied against Captain Henry Hudson in the icy waters of what is now Hudson Bay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the help of the local sheriff, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, James Cheney, and Andrew Goodman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

During the French Revolution, King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette fled Paris and made for the countryside, hoping to rally royalist supporters. Their plot was foiled by a postmaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Six-year-old Teresa Cormack was abducted by a stranger near her school in Napier, New Zealand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At his execution in Utah, killer Ronnie Lee Gardner declined to be executed by way of lethal injection or electric chair and instead chose a firing squad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A human foot was found on a beach in British Columbia. It wasn’t the first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After 11 years in exile, popular opposition leader Wilson Ferreira Aldunate returned to Uruguay to run for president. He was arrested upon arrival. Guest hosted by Alastair Murden from Medical Murders, a Spotify Original from Parcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the case United States vs. Alvarez-Machain, the Supreme Court ruled six to three that the American government could legally kidnap foreign suspects in their home countries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

48-year-old Dee Dee Blanchard was found stabbed to death in her home. Her daughter, Gypsy Rose, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rose Cipollone started smoking cigarettes in 1942 when she was only 16 years old. Almost 40 years later, after she was diagnosed with lung cancer, she sued the cigarette manufacturer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Jackson, Mississippi, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was assassinated in front of his home by a white supremacist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A 20-day hostage situation between a group of South Moluccan extremists and the Dutch government ended in a hail of gunfire with over 15,000 bullets being discharged. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bonnie and Clyde, along with a teenage cohort, crashed their car into a ravine in north Texas. Bonnie Parker suffered severe injuries but they received aid from an unlikely source. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An American educator spent six years in captivity after he was kidnapped by Hezbollah in Lebanon. Guest hosted by Carter Roy from Conspiracy Theories, a Spotify Original from Parcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A stranger provided documentation that billionaire Howard Hughes left 156 million dollars to him in a will. But it would be up to a jury to decide whether the will was real or a forgery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In an act of civil disobedience, Homer Plessy paid for a first-class ticket on a Louisiana train and was arrested for violating a segregationist law. The confrontation was staged by activists hoping to take the case to the Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Supreme Court ruled that federal agents were justified in destroying a California resident’s medical marijuana garden despite its legality in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices