Today in True Crime

Norwegian police proudly announced the recovery of two iconic paintings by Edvard Munch that had been stolen two years earlier. Guest hosted by Greg Polcyn from Serial Killers. NOTE: This is the final episode of Today in True Crime. On behalf of Vanessa and everyone here at Parcast, thank you for listening! To hear more from Parcast, click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party shot and seriously injured Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Soviet Republic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What is thought to be the largest child sacrifice mass grave ever discovered was unearthed in a coastal town in northern Peru. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In what was a robbery plan that went tragically wrong, pizza delivery man named Brian Wells attempted to rob a bank in Pennsylvania... with a bomb fastened to his neck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Brenton Tarran was the first person in New Zealand to be sentenced to life without parole. More than a year earlier, he live-streamed his attack on two mosques where he killed 51 Muslims. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a night at a local bar together, 19-year-old Robert Chambers, also known as the "Preppy Killer," murdered 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in Central Park. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An author claiming to be a scientist published the first in a series of articles for the New York Sun about life being discovered on the moon. The public was astonished and later found that the pieces were satirical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French Catholics slaughtered protestants during the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre. It started when troops descended on the home of Admiral Gaspard II de Coligny, a French Huguenot Protestant. Guest hosted by Alastair Murden from Medical Murders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scottish rebel William Wallace resisted the English occupation in his country, and was charged with high treason. The sentence for such a crime was death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Right-wing extremists sprayed more than 140 bullets into French President Charles de Gaulle's motorcade. He and his wife would survive the attack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

U.S. Marshals were tasked with arresting a fugitive named Randy Weaver at his family cabin in the woods of Idaho. As they scouted the property, gunfire erupted, resulting in the deaths of deputy marshal Bill Degan, Randy’s teenage son Sammy, and his dog Striker. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More than 20 Africans, kidnapped from their homes in the Kingdom of Ndongo in Angola, arrived in what is now Hampton, Virginia, marking the beginnings of slavery in England's North American colonies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Wesley Hardin, a notorious Wild West gunslinger, was shot and killed by John Selman, Sr., after he threatened to kill Selman’s son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Virginia Dare became the first English child born in the Americas. Sometime later, her colony of Roanoke and everyone in it mysteriously vanished. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Australia, a family camping trip turned into a tragedy after nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain was taken from her tent by a dingo. Guest hosted by Greg Polcyn from Haunted Places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Estate manager William Harrison disappeared while out collecting rents. His servant, John Perry, and others in his family were accused of murder. Then a year later, the unthinkable happened. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After gifting a diamond necklace to Queen Marie Antoinette, Cardinal de Rohan was arrested for fraud and treason. As the scandal unfolded, it became clear he’d been scammed by a scheming countess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After trying for over two decades, French agents arrested revolutionary terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal in Khartoum, Sudan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans became the last people to be executed in the United Kingdom. Only a year later after they were hanged, the death penalty was suspended. It was fully abolished in 1998. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

James 'Whitey’ Bulger, the 83-year-old former boss of the Winter Hill Gang, was found guilty on 31 charges, including murder and racketeering. He was given two consecutive life sentences, plus an additional five years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Adolf Burger and his wife were arrested and taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp for forging documents to help Jews escape Nazi death camps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A racist mob of nearly 500 men descended upon an integrated school in New Hampshire, ripping the small two-story building from its foundation with 90 yoked oxen. Guest hosted by Carter Roy from Solved Murders, a podcast that covers true crime cases in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

15-year-old Nick Markowitz was murdered in Santa Barbara, California after being held for ransom by his half-brother’s drug dealer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hundreds were injured and twelve people died after a balcony collapsed at the Phillies’ Baker Bowl stadium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud, three McCoy family members stabbed and shot Ellison Hatfield during an election day skirmish. Ellison would die two days later, but the Hatfields would be back for revenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

New York Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Crater got into a cab in Manhattan and was never seen again. The case remains one of the strangest disappearances in the nation's history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Police showed up at 69-year-old Marie Noe's door to arrest her for killing eight of her children decades earlier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Andrew Borden and his second wife, Abby Borden, were brutally murdered in their home. Police quickly identified two suspects: the Bordens' maid, Bridget Sullivan, and Andrew's 32-year-old daughter Lizzie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Family friend James DiMaggio picked up 16-year-old Hannah Anderson from her cheerleading camp, but instead of driving her back to her home, he abducted her. Guest hosted by Alastair Murden from UK Unknown, a podcast that examines British history's most baffling mysteries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mark Hacking was arrested for murdering his wife, Lori Kay Soares. He originally called to report her missing a couple weeks earlier, claiming she went for a jog and never returned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

King Henri III of France was fatally stabbed in his villa by Jacques Clement, a Dominican friar and fiercely devoted Catholic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Five people hijacked Delta Flight 841 en route from Detroit to Miami. They received 1 million dollars in ransom in exchange for the safety of passengers. Eventually, they flew to Algiers to connect with leaders of the Black Panther Party. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vince Li repeatedly attacked and stabbed the passenger he sat next to on a Greyhound bus in Canada. Once other passengers escaped the bus, Li decapitated his victim and cannibalized the body. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

King Umberto I of Italy was shot and killed by anarchist Gaetano Bresci. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Vincent McGee pleaded guilty to killing Richard Barrett, a white supremacist and leader of the Nationalist Movement. The killing was not believed to be racially motivated. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Thirteen-year-old Craig Price snuck into the house of a neighbor and stabbed her to death after she fell asleep in front of the TV. Guest hosted by Greg Polcyn from Serial Killers. Every Monday and Thursday, get a rare glimpse into the mind, methods, and madness of the world's most notorious killers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Notorious killer Ed Gein died of complications from cancer. Decades earlier, Gein confessed that he wore the skin of the corpses he stole and made furniture from their bones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Four people died in Wakayama, Japan, and dozens more were hospitalized after eating curry laced with arsenic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Russell Weston, Jr. walked into the US Capitol and opened fire on the security teams, killing two Capitol officers and wounding a tourist. These were only the second and third Capitol police officers ever to be killed in the line of duty since its formation in 1828. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Four German tourists, two of them children, disappeared in Death Valley. It would take more than a decade and a brand new investigation to determine what happened to the missing travelers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ten people were killed, and 40 more were injured, when a bomb exploded during San Francisco's Preparedness Day Parade. City lawyers and detectives used the tragedy to ensure local union leaders were held responsible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

John Thomas Scopes, a 24-year-old teacher, was found guilty of violating Tennessee's law against teaching evolution in school. The infamous court case propelled the debate between creationism and evolution to new heights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

32-year-old writer, director, and martial arts legend Bruce Lee died suddenly at his mistress's apartment. An effort to hide the affair led to wild theories about the truth behind his death. Guest hosted by Carter Roy from Unsolved Murders. Every week, his show tells the true stories behind classic murder mysteries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ted Kennedy reported a fatal car crash he was involved in the previous night to police. His passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, died in the accident. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Anna Pou and two other nurses from her hospital were taken into police custody for alleged mercy killings at Memorial Medical Center. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sir Walter Raleigh was arrested for his alleged role in a plot to overthrow King James I. With very little evidence against him, Raleigh denied the charges and defended himself in court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twenty-six school children and their bus driver were reunited with their families after they escaped from the large pit where they were being held. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The body of author Helen Bailey, best known for the Electra Brown young adult series, was found stashed in a sewage well in her garage. Authorities arrested her fiancé, Ian Stewart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

14-year-old Jemima Boone, daughter of frontier leader Daniel Boone, and two friends were captured and held hostage by Cherokee and Shawnee warriors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After brokering a deal with Texas Rangers, Angel Resendiz, also known as the Railroad Killer, surrendered to authorities. Guest hosted by Molly Brandenburg from Conspiracy Theories, a podcast that delves into the complicated stories behind the world's most controversial cover-ups and mysteries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices