On this day in 1947, 17-year-old mill worker Rita Bouchard disappeared without a trace. Her body was found the next day, stabbed 30 times.

On this day in 1948, Mohandas Gandhi, better known by his honorific, Mahatma, was assassinated by a Hindu extremist.

On this day in 1958, teenage criminal Charlie Starkweather was apprehended outside Douglas, Wyoming with his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.

On this day in 1069, the Earl of Northumbria, Robert de Comines, was burnt alive by rebel forces in Durham, England.

On this day in 1955, Wall Street mogul Serge Rubenstein was murdered in his mansion in New York City’s Millionaire’s Row.

On this day in 1966, three children from a suburb of Adelaide, Australia went missing, sparking the largest missing persons search the country had ever seen.

On this day in 1990, hitchhiker Paul Onions narrowly escaped the clutches of Australia’s most notorious serial killer—Ivan Milat.

On this day in 1989, serial killer and rapist Ted Bundy was executed via electric chair in a Florida penitentiary.

On this day in 1978, Richard Trenton Chase, “The Vampire of Sacramento,” killed his second victim, Teresa Wallin.

On this day in 1957, “Mad Bomber” George Metesky confessed to planting over 30 explosives around New York City. Guest hosted by Sam Dingman from Family Ghosts.

On this day in 1793, the 38-year-old former King of France, Louis XVI, was executed by guillotine in Paris.

On this day in 1981, 52 American hostages were released from Iran after being held captive for 444 days.

On this day in 1919, gangster Arnold Rothstein held a high stakes dice game in a New York City apartment.

On this day in 1967, Albert DeSalvo was sentenced to life in prison for armed robbery and the sexual assault of four women. DeSalvo is most notorious, however, for confessing to the brutal Boston Strangler murders.

On this day in 1977, 36-year-old Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad. He was the first person executed by the state after capital punishment was reinstated in the U.S.

On this day in 1935, the FBI killed outlaw Ma Barker, and her son Fred, in a 4-hour shootout.

On this day in 1976, 45-year-old Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford.

On this day in 1975, 17-year-old heiress Lesley Whittle was abducted from her home in the village of Highley, England.

On this day in 1996, 9-year-old Amber Hagerman was abducted from a supermarket parking lot in Arlington, Texas, and murdered.

On this day in 1995, 34-year-old Qubilah Shabazz was arrested for plotting to assassinate Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. She was allegedly seeking revenge for the 1965 assassination of her father, Malcolm X.

On this day in 1965, 15-year-olds Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt were murdered on the sand dunes off Wanda Beach, in south Sydney, Australia.

On this day in 1983, New York mobster Roy DeMeo was shot seven times and left dead in the trunk of his own car.

On this day in 1905, a calvary of armed Russian soldiers fired into a crowd of peaceful protestors outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg.

On this day in 1937, the mutilated body of 19-year-old Pamela Werner was found outside the walls of old Peking, China.

On this day in 1973, 23-year-old Mark Essex shot 19 people in New Orleans, Louisiana—many of them police officers.