On this day in 1934, outlaws Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, and Henry Methvin shot and killed two Texas highway patrolmen.

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On February 19th, 1994, a young woman from Riverside, California was rushed to the emergency room after becoming unresponsive in her home. When doctors began operating on her, they noticed something strange: crystals in her blood. Within minutes the medical staff all started to collapse one by one.

This episode premiered on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Medical Mysteries on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Born in 1849, most people know Ivan Pavlov as the man who discovered that he could condition dogs to drool when they heard a buzzer. But his experiments were further reaching—and more invasive—than that, with many of his subjects meeting tragic ends. 

WARNING: This episode contains some graphic content that may not be suitable for listeners under 13.

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It is a literal boogeyman taken from the nightmares of children across the globe. And when it decides to kill, there is nothing modern police methods can do to convict the actual suspect—because it wears the face of an innocent. In Stephen King’s The Outsider, it is known by the Spanish name of the boogeyman, El Cuco.

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On this day in 1993, 16-year-old Rayna Rison disappeared after her shift at the local animal hospital. It would take two decades for her murder to be solved.

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Today we head back to 2014, when racist comments by Donald Sterling, then owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, were made public by his mistress.

This episode premiered on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Sports Criminals on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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In the early 1900s, “Bathhouse John” Coughlin and Michael “Hinky Dink” Kenna set about rigging the city's political machine in their favor, contributing to the rise of organized crime in Chicago, and putting their careers on a collision course with the law.

This episode premiered on Tuesday, March 24, 2020. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Political Scandals on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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On this day in 1994, presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio was assassinated in Tijuana, Mexico.

This episode premiered on Monday, March 23, 2020. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Today in True Crime on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Known as “Special Agent Fifi,” British agent Marie Chilver was a smart, beautiful woman—and an expert at coaxing secrets out of unsuspecting targets. In the midst of World War II, that was just the kind of person the newly formed Special Operations Executive needed.

This episode premiered on Friday, March 20, 2020. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Espionage on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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In 1845, a fungus destroyed Ireland’s potato crops, leaving the Irish population without its main food source. The first months of the famine morphed into a bureaucratic nightmare.

This episode premiered on Thursday, March 19, 2020. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Natural Disasters on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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