In January 1991 the arrest of a Texas mom made headlines around the world after it was revealed she was accused of trying to hire a hitman to help her daughter win a spot on her high school cheerleading squad. Police said Wanda Holloway would stop at nothing to help her daughter but Wanda claimed she was set up by her ex-husband and his brother. In this episode of History of the 90s, a look back at the strange but true story that put Channelview, Texas and cheerleading in the spotlight.

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Jason Lapeyre, filmmaker and photographer based in Vancouver, Canada. He directed and produced the documentary The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot. It's streaming on HBO Max (US) and Crave (Canada).

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On Tuesday a judge sentenced Duane "Keefe D" Davis to 40 years to life in prison. Davis was found guilty in September for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur in 1996. Tupac's sister and step brother made victim impact statements before the judge delivered her sentenced.

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This year marks 35 years since Nirvana released their breakthrough album "Nevermind" and altered the trajectory of music history. With the words "Here we are now, entertain us," Nirvana introduced grunge to mainstream ears and almost overnight Kurt Cobain became the unwilling spokesperson for a generation. The pressure and unrelenting stomach issues led Kurt down a path of destruction that came to a devastating conclusion less than three years later.

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Alan Cross, host of The Ongoing History of New Music

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It's been 25 years since four men and four women embarked on an unprecedented mission to live inside in Biosphere 2 for two years.

On September 26, 1991 they entered the futuristic glass and metal structure in the Arizona desert marking the beginning of one of the most exciting and controversial experiments of the 20th century.

On this episode of History of the 90s we look at how the Biosphere 2 mission went from a media darling to what scientists called a colossal failure.

This episode originally aired on May 17, 2023

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Dr. Mark Nelson, ecologist, author and biospherian.

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When Svengali producer Frank Farian revealed that Milli Vanilli was a fake it nearly broke apart the world of pop music. The reaction from the media and the public was outrage tinged with racism and homophobia and the easy target for all the hate was the two young men hired to be the faces of the Euro-pop dance duo. It has taken 40 years for the world to realize that Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan weren't the only ones to blame. In this episode a look back at the History of Milli Vanilli with help from Sarah Sahagian and Sadaf Ahsan from The Reheat podcast.

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Sadaf Ahsan; writer, editor and web producer.

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Sarah Sahagian; journalist and podcaster

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After only three hours of deliberations the jury at the Tupac Murder Trial returned with a verdict finding Duane "Keffe D" Davis guilty of first degree murder in connection with the 1996 drive-by shooting death of Tupac Shakur. Davis will be sentenced on October 13, 2026.

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Coming up today at the Tupac Murder Trial closing arguments followed by jury deliberations. During testimony over the past two weeks jurors heard audio recordings of Duane Davis talking about the night Tupac was shot. Now they have to decide if he was telling the truth.

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Duane Davis’s defence attorney rested his case on Thursday after calling just three witness, all of them former Las Vegas police officers.

Davis opted not to take the stand in his own defence. The entire case put on by his lawyer Michael Sanft took just over an hour. Next up closing arguments on Monday morning.

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The prosecution rested its case on Wednesday after eight days of testimony and 25 witnesses. The Defence will begin its case on Thursday afternoon with closing arguments expected on Monday.

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A very busy day in court on Tuesday at the Tupac Murder Trial. Six witnesses took the stand including a rapper who witnessed Tupac’s shooting and a former Compton police detective who gave the jury a 101 on street gangs. Plus, jurors saw evidence removed from the Las Vegas home of Duane "Keffe D Davis house when police executed a search warrant in the summer of 2023. The evidence included newspaper clippings about Tupac’s drive-by shooting found in a plastic tub in Davis’s garage alongside what the prosecution described as scrap book.

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At the Tupac Murder Trial on Monday jurors heard an audio recording that defendant Duane "Keefe D" made during an interview he did for a Death Row Records documentary. In it Davis is asked admits being in the car with the shooter who killed Tupac. He is asked if he would like to apologize to the Shakur family and he says no because he didn't do nothing. Plus a heated rivalry between the defense and a prosecution witness over who speaks first.

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