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
On this day in 1957, “Mad Bomber” George Metesky confessed to planting over 30 explosives around New York City. Guest hosted by Sam Dingman from Family Ghosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1793, the 38-year-old former King of France, Louis XVI, was executed by guillotine in Paris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1981, 52 American hostages were released from Iran after being held captive for 444 days. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1919, gangster Arnold Rothstein held a high stakes dice game in a New York City apartment. Authorities interrupted the game and, in the ensuing chaos, three policemen were grazed with gunfire, and Rothstein was charged with the shooting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1967, Albert DeSalvo was sentenced to life in prison for armed robbery and the sexual assault of four women. DeSalvo is most notorious, however, for confessing to the brutal Boston Strangler murders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1977, 36-year-old Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad. He was the first person executed by the state after capital punishment was reinstated in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1935, the FBI killed outlaw Ma Barker, and her son Fred, in a 4-hour shootout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1976, 45-year-old Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford. Guest hosted by Tyler Allen from The Minds of Madness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1975, 17-year-old heiress Lesley Whittle was abducted from her home in the village of Highley, England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1996, 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted from a supermarket parking lot in Arlington, Texas, and murdered. While her killer has never been found, the tragedy of her disappearance sparked the creation of the Amber Alert system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1995, 34-year-old Qubilah Shabazz was arrested for plotting to assassinate Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. She was allegedly seeking revenge for the 1965 assassination of her father, Malcolm X. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1965, 15-year-olds Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt were murdered on the sand dunes off Wanda Beach, in south Sydney, Australia. Their case remains one of the most infamous unsolved murders in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1983, New York mobster Roy DeMeo was shot seven times and left dead in the trunk of his own car. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1905, a calvary of armed Russian soldiers fired into a crowd of peaceful protestors outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1937, the mutilated body of 19-year-old Pamela Werner was found outside the walls of old Peking, China. Her murder was never solved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
On this day in 1973, 23-year-old Mark Essex shot 19 people in New Orleans, Louisiana—many of them police officers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
