On this day in 1994, Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was assaulted after a practice session in Detroit, Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1996, Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash was assassinated by Shin Bet, Israel’s internal intelligence agency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1990, Charles Stuart, a Boston man suspected of killing his pregnant wife, committed suicide by jumping off the Tobin Bridge into the piercing cold of the Mystic River. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1980, Joy Adamson, famed Austrian wildlife conservationist, was found dead by her assistant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1800, the body of 22-year-old Elma Sands was discovered in the Manhattan Well. Elma’s death captured the attention of the city, and led to the first murder trial with a recorded transcript in the USA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1934, Alcatraz Island began its formal transformation from a benign military brig into one of the most notorious federal prisons in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1964, 27-year-old Peter Egan, his 24-year-old wife Barbara Egan, and his 19-year-old brother Gerald Egan were murdered at a rest stop. Each family member was shot twice in the head, in what was described by investigators as a Gangland revenge killing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in the year 2000, the Miyazawa family was slaughtered inside their home in the Setagaya Ward of Tokyo. Despite a large collection of available evidence, the murders have not been solved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1888, 7-year-old John Gill was found murdered about 200 miles north of London. The brutality of the killing led the police and the press to link the crime to Jack the Ripper’s Whitechapel murders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1956, 12-year-old Patricia Grimes and her 15-year-old sister Barbara left the movies and never returned home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1985, primatologist Dian Fossey was found murdered at her research camp in Rwanda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1976, police in Michigan received a tip about a body lying on the side of the road. Upon investigation, they identified it as 12-year-old Jill Robinson. She would come to be known as the second victim in the mysterious case of the “Oakland County Child Killer.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1996, JonBenet Ramsey was murdered. The death of the 6-year-old beauty queen captivated the nation and dominated headlines; it’s one of the most notorious unsolved murders in American history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1945, George and Jennie Sodder’s West Virginia home caught on fire. Five of their nine children were trapped inside the house as it burned to the ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1996, the body of 39-year-old French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier was found at her vacation home in County Cork, Ireland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot and wounded four young Black men in a subway car in New York City. The incident launched a national debate about race, crime, and vigilantism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1978, police obtained a second search warrant to enter the home of suspected serial killer John Wayne Gacy. What they found in a crawl space underneath Gacy’s house remains one of the grisliest crime scenes in American history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1973, Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco, the heir apparent to dictator Francisco Franco, was killed by a terrorist group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1983, the Jules Rimet FIFA World Cup Trophy was stolen from the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1987, Ivan Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison. When he was found guilty of insider trading. Guest Host: Hannah, co-creator & co-host, RedHanded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1938, Margaret Martin went to meet a mysterious man for a job interview. It was the last time she was seen alive. Her body turned up 4 days later—her killer never found. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1989, Federal Judge Robert Vance opened a mail bomb delivered to his house; the explosion killed him instantly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1946, Robert Manley decided to cheat on his wife—setting off a chain of events that led directly to Manley’s arrest as a suspect in one of the most gruesome murders in American history: The Black Dahlia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 835 CE, a plot hatched by China’s Emperor Wenzong to kill the court eunuchs backfired. Instead, the eunuchs used their own army to slaughter more than 1,000 government officials and their families. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1961, the widely publicized trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann reached its conclusion in Jerusalem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1982, 56-year-old Dr. Charles Scudder and his partner, 44-year-old Joseph Odom, were murdered in their house in rural Georgia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1978, over $5.8 million in cash and jewelry were stolen from the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Guest Host: Suruthi Bala, co-creator & co-host, RedHanded. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1934, Tony Mancini began his trial for the Brighton Trunk murders. But the crime itself was bound to another, eerily similar murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1963, the FBI released a five-volume report on the JFK assassination to the Warren Commission: the agency’s first official investigative statement on President Kennedy’s death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1982, nuclear disarmament activist Norman D. Mayer brought Washington D.C. to a stand-still when he claimed to have a truck full of explosives at the Washington Monument. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
