1995- Hugh Grant is arrested for soliciting a hooker for some stress relief ?? . 1987- The skeletal remains of missing 17-year-old Cindy Anne Smith are found behind the Green River community college ?? . 1957- American serial killer Joseph "Mad Dog" Taborsky is sentenced to death for the second time in his life ⚡? . 1975- 15-year-old Susan Curtis vanished after a ball at the Brigham Young University in Utah ?? . 1850- Queen Victoria has a sixth assassination attempt on her life by an ex-British army officer named Robert Pate ?? . 2001- Comedian Paula Poundstone is arrested for lewd acts on a c ..read more

1967- Muhammad Ali is found guilty of draft refusal for refusing to go to war. 1947- American mobster, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, is shot to death in Beverley Hills. 1684- English politician, Sir Thomas Armstrong, is hanged, drawn and quartered in London. 1979- American ABC reporter, William "Bill" Stewart is assassinated by the Nicaraguan National Guard in Nicaragua. 1972- Russian serial killer and grub, Vladimir Zhukov, is born in Yaroslavl. 2003- Lil Kim has $250k worth of jewelry stolen at JFK airport in New York . . . . . . Watch the video version on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/ch ..read more

1906 - Mobster, Emanuel “Mandy” Weiss is born in NYC ? 1964 - Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested for protesting in Florida ? 2001 - Timothy McVeigh is executed in Indiana ? 1983 - Henry Lee Lucas is apprehended in Texas ? 1994 - Mattias Flink kills 7 people in Falun, Sweden ? 2007 - US Senator, Larry Craig, is arrested for attempting to solicit public sex ..read more

1853 - Alphonse Bertillon, one of the pioneers of forensic police work and the creator of the mugshot photo is born in Paris, France ??? . . . OTDIC theme song by BvBvBvets. onthisdayincrime.com ..read more

It's been so long I forgot what to do?.... No, seriously, I actually did! ? On the 17th of January in1999 the New Zealand Police were alerted to the body of missing school girl, Kirsty Bentley. The Feature story is on her unsolved crime. I was initially supposed to release this story on New Years Eve, which was the day she went missing, but got too excited by the holiday activities and failed the deadline!.... I had to chop up and mash the story around to make it fit in with today's date, so it may come across as a bit of a skitzo episode??..... Nothing a couple of glasses of red won't fix tho ..read more

Halloween Special 13 Crime Intro... Feature story on Sonny Liston, who left prison On This Day in 1952 after serving 2 years and 5 months of a 5-year sentence. A decade later, he'd be the heavyweight boxing champion of the world that nobody wanted, other than the mob.  References for feature story: Wikipedia, Biography.com, bbc.com, ESPN, BoxRec.com, dailymail.co.uk, independent.co.uk, theundefeated.com (Shaun Assael), Most Notorious Podcast ..read more

A quick thankyou and appreciation episode because On This Day In Crime hit it's first milestone! 1917- Mata Hari is executed in Paris for espionage. 2019- A gunfight in Mexico leaves 15 dead. 1997- Boxer Mitch Green is awarded $45,000 in damages from Mike Tyson. 2017- Alyssa Milano triggers the 'Me Too' movement in response to Harvey Slimesteins sexual abuse revelations. 1977- Florence Broadhurst is discovered badly bashed to death with her head in a toilet. 2007- Police raids in New Zealand recovering an enormous haul of guns and ammunition (not really!)  ..read more

1883 - Was Robert Francis Burns from Ireland,  Australia's first documented serial killer? 1828 - Simón Bolívar has an assassination attempt made on his life in Colombia. 2018 - Bill Cosby receives a 3-10 prison sentence for aggravated indecent assault. 1983 - A victim of Richard Kuklinski named Louis Masgay is discovered in Orangetown, New York. 1966 - The Bricca Family are all brutally murdered in their home in Cincinnati, Ohio. References for feature story: Wikipedia, The Gippsland Times -1883, The Argus- 1883, Mt Alexander Mail- 1883, The Burrowa News- 1883, Wagga Wagga Express- 1879 ..read more

1992- Tupac Shakur drops his gun which then kills a 6-year-old boy, and 1500 kilometres north, the Ruby Ridge incident claims the lives of an unarmed mother of 4, a 14-year-old boy and a US Marshal ..read more

1883- Executioner William Marwood's final hanging in England. 1890- William Kemmler is the debutant of the Electric Chair in New York ..read more