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Crime ‑ This Day In History

Crime has been a dark and powerful undercurrent in human society throughout history. Uncover the facts behind some of the most daring robberies, brazen scams and brutal murders ever committed.

1913

Forensic evidence captures a murderous father

Crime
1975

A nurse stabs expectant mother to death, steals unborn baby

Crime
1934

Even without the corpse, a murderer is uncovered

Crime
1988

A young man turns the death of his parents into a game

Crime
1961

Yosemite killer Cary Stayner born

Crime
1984

Subway shooter Bernhard Goetz goes on the lam

Crime
1999

Three women are murdered at Yosemite

Crime
1878

Last member of Irish secret society is executed

Crime
2014

12‑year‑old Tamir Rice shot and killed by police

Crime
1940

Terrorist bomb explodes at the New York World’s Fair

Crime
1993

Lorena Bobbitt maims her husband with a kitchen knife

Crime
2015

Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s mother, Dee Dee, found stabbed to death

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