Four men lured Michael Sandy to a remote location in an attempt to rob him. When Sandy tried to escape, he was killed in a hit-and-run. His sexuality would play a major role in the criminal trial.

21-year-old Matthew Shepard was brutally beaten by two men in an alleged hate crime. He would die five days later. His death would lead to the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

Riots broke out in North London after police indirectly caused the death of a 49-year-old woman. In the ensuing clash between police and protestors, Constable Keith Blakelock was killed. Guest hosted by Rabia Chaudry from Nighty Night.

Fifty-one bodies, including 22 children, were unearthed from a cemetery in Menden-Barge, Germany. It is believed they were victims of Aktion T4, the Nazi euthanasia program.

On a quiet night in a small New Hampshire town, Kimberly Cates and her 11-year-old daughter were brutally attacked by four unknown assailants.

Antoine Yates was arrested after NYPD officers discovered he’d been keeping a tiger in his Harlem apartment. Yates had hidden the animal there for over two years.

Leader of the Mormon church and former Utah governor Brigham Young was arrested on charges of bigamy.

News media called it the perfect crime: 21-year-old Heather Tallchief, aided by her boyfriend Roberto Solis, stole millions of dollars from an armored car in Las Vegas.

Former athlete Anthony Curcio executed an elaborate heist to steal $400,000 from a Bank of America in Monroe, Washington.

One of the UK’s most depraved killers was born on this day in Herefordshire, England.

In London, three gunmen took nine people hostage in a robbery gone wrong. Their reasons for attempting the heist were both monetary and political.

In the deadliest mass shooting in Switzerland’s history, 14 people died after 57-year-old Friedrich Leibacher opened fire in a regional government building.

While he was known more for bootlegging and bank robbing, Machine Gun Kelly was arrested one last time... for the kidnapping of oil tycoon Charles F. Urschel.

Patrick Mackay, one of the UK’s most iconic serial killers, was born on this day. Now one of Britain’s longest serving inmates, Mackay was convicted of only three murders but is likely responsible for many more.

David Heiss was taken into custody for murdering the boyfriend of a woman he had become obsessed with online.

Flying from Pakistan to the United Arab Emirates, Gulf Air Flight 771 crashed and exploded outside of Abu Dhabi after a bomb exploded in its cargo hold. All 112 people aboard the aircraft were killed.

72-year-old Martha Corey, who was accused of making a pact with the devil, was the final victim of the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts.

In one of the most legendary betrayals in U.S. history, Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold met with a British intelligence officer to surrender a U.S. military fort.

In Islamabad, Pakistan, 54 people were killed and hundreds more were injured after a truck filled with explosives detonated at a Marriott Hotel.

16-year-old Jeannette DePalma was found dead near a cliff known as Devil’s Teeth. There was no clear cause of death and police wondered if her death was part of a Satanic ritual.

During a contentious labor dispute at the Giant Mine in Yellowknife, Canada, a bomb went off killing three replacement workers and six union members who crossed the picket line.

A deadly explosion in front of the Tati clothing store in Paris, France left five dead and dozens injured. The terror that had enveloped the city for the last year reached a peak.

He was days away from premiering the first-ever moving images captured on celluloid. The family of Louis Augustin Le Prince said he boarded a train in Dijon, France headed for Paris, but never arrived.

He confessed to hundreds of murders, but police were never sure how many of them were genuine. So when Ottis Toole died in a prison hospital, so did the truth about his past.

Eight people were killed and 13 people were injured when Joseph Wesbecker showed up for work at a Kentucky printing plant with an AK-47 and opened fire.