Today in True Crime

Despite his numerous awards over decades of service, retired CIA analyst and translator Larry Wu-Tai Chin was caught secretly selling information to the Chinese government.

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Robert Stroud, better known as “the Birdman of Alcatraz” spent most of his prison life in solitary confinement, researching and writing about ornithology.

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Senator Alan Cranston was reprimanded by the Ethics Committee for his improper behavior surrounding the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association scandal.

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Despite a plea from President Woodrow Wilson to review the case more closely, musician and labor organizer Joe Hill was executed by firing squad in Utah after being convicted of murder.

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During the Lebanon hostage crisis, Anglican envoy Terry Waite was held captive for nearly five years before the U.N. secured his release.

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Sir Walter Raleigh went on trial for treason for his role in an assassination plot against the King of England. Guest hosted by Richard Rossner from Unexplained Mysteries, a Spotify Original from Parcast.

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The body of a woman referred to as Jane Doe 59 was found in the brush off Mulholland Drive. Her identity would remain a mystery for over 46 years until somebody finally came forward.

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After serving a 9-year sentence for murder in the United States, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was executed in England for murdering four London women and attempting to kill one more.

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Former prisoners Perry Smith and Richard Hickock drove for miles across Kansas to get to the Clutter family home. Their plan was to steal the family's hidden safe and then kill them. But things didn't go as planned.

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Kristen Gilbert worked as a nurse at a veterans hospital and earned the nickname "Angel of Death" after so many patients mysteriously died during her shifts. 

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