Today in True Crime

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  • 9 minutes 36 seconds
    August 31, 2006: Edvard Munch Art Recovered

    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.


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    31 August 2022, 7:01 am
  • 9 minutes 54 seconds
    August 30, 1918: Attempted Assassination of Lenin

    A member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party shot and seriously injured Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Soviet Republic.

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    30 August 2022, 7:01 am
  • 8 minutes 53 seconds
    August 29, 2019: Child Sacrifice Site Discovered

    What is thought to be the largest child sacrifice mass grave ever discovered was unearthed in a coastal town in northern Peru.

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    29 August 2022, 7:01 am
  • 11 minutes 37 seconds
    August 28, 2003: The Collar Bomb Heist

    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.

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    28 August 2022, 7:01 am
  • 9 minutes 23 seconds
    August 27, 2020: Christchurch Terrorist Sentenced to Life

    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.

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    27 August 2022, 7:01 am
  • 10 minutes 37 seconds
    August 26, 1986: The “Preppy Killer” Murder

    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.

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    26 August 2022, 7:01 am
  • 11 minutes 23 seconds
    August 25, 1835: The Great Moon Hoax

    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.

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    25 August 2022, 7:01 am
  • 12 minutes
    August 24, 1572: Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

    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.

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    24 August 2022, 7:01 am
  • 12 minutes
    August 23, 1305: William Wallace Executed

    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.

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    23 August 2022, 7:01 am
  • 10 minutes 17 seconds
    August 22, 1962: Charles de Gaulle Escapes Assassination

    Right-wing extremists sprayed more than 140 bullets into French President Charles de Gaulle's motorcade. He and his wife would survive the attack.

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    22 August 2022, 7:01 am
  • 10 minutes 18 seconds
    August 21, 1992: The Siege of Ruby Ridge

    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.

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    21 August 2022, 7:01 am
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