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True Crime: 365 Days

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Every family has a morning that started like any other and became the day everything changed. This is a true crime podcast about those days and the people they belonged to.

True Crime: 365 Days is hosted by Jessie Bright. Each episode follows one real case from the beginning, with what is known and what is still missing. The victims come first as people, long before they became cases. Nothing is invented, rumors stay out, and any speculation is clearly marked as speculation.

Some of the answers in cases like these are still out there. They sit with people who may not realize what they know, and one of them could be listening right now.

A new case arrives every day at 7 PM, so there is always one more story waiting. Follow True Crime: 365 Days so you never miss the next one.

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Yesterday · 44 min
MURDERED: Abraham Lincoln
On April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., setting off a twelve-day manhunt that ended in a burning barn in Virginia. The case left two questions that remain unanswered: who removed...
Saturday · 45 min
MURDERED: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
On November 22, 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in an open motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. A suspect was killed before trial, two official investigations reached opposite conclusions, and key...
Friday · 44 min
EXECUTED: Margaretha Geertruida Zelle
On 15 October 1917, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, known as Mata Hari, was executed by a French firing squad at Vincennes after a secret court-martial convicted her of espionage. The French military file, declassified only in 1985, revealed evidence so...
Thursday · 45 min
ESPIONAGE: Harold Adrian Russell Philby
Beginning in 1933 and continuing for three decades, Harold Adrian Russell Philby and four other Cambridge-educated men penetrated British intelligence at its highest levels, passing secrets to Moscow while rising through the establishment...
Wednesday · 44 min
SERIAL KILLER: Robert Philip Hanssen
For 22 years beginning in 1976, FBI supervisory special agent Robert Philip Hanssen passed thousands of classified documents and the identities of intelligence assets to Soviet and Russian intelligence, operating undetected from inside the very bureau...
Tuesday · 47 min
SERIAL KILLER: Aldrich Hazen Ames
In 1994, CIA officer Aldrich Hazen Ames was arrested in Arlington, Virginia, after nine years of selling the names of American and allied intelligence assets to the KGB, sending at least ten people to their deaths. The full count of documents he...
October 19 · 46 min
EXECUTED: Julius Rosenberg & Ethel Rosenberg
On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed at Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York, becoming the only civilians put to death for espionage in the United States during the Cold War. Decades after the trial, the key...
October 18 · 52 min
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: David Koresh
In 1993, a 51-day armed standoff between the Branch Davidian religious community at Mount Carmel Center near Waco, Texas, and federal agents ended on April 19 when fire consumed the compound, killing 76 people including 25 children. The origin of the...
October 16 · 45 min
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Order of the Solar Temple Victims
Between 1994 and 1997, 74 members of the Order of the Solar Temple died in three waves of ritual mass death spanning Switzerland, France and Canada, with victims found in a sealed underground chapel, a forest clearing and a burning house. No living...
October 15 · 45 min
MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF Heaven's Gate 39
In March 1997, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate group died over three successive days in a rented mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California, each dressed in identical black clothing and white Nike sneakers, carrying packed bags and five-dollar bills. The...
October 14 · 46 min
MASS DEATH OF: The Jonestown 918
On 18 November 1978, 918 Americans died in a single afternoon at the Peoples Temple commune in Jonestown, Guyana, after leader Jim Jones ordered followers to consume cyanide-laced liquid. No court ever heard the case, no independent forensic record...
October 13 · 58 min
FRAUD: Billy McFarland
In April 2017, thousands of ticket-holders arrived on Great Exuma in the Bahamas to find that Fyre Festival, sold to them through a massive influencer campaign as a luxury music event, did not exist as advertised. Billy McFarland was convicted of wire...
October 12 · 48 min
FRAUD: Elizabeth Holmes
In 2003, Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford University and founded what would become Theranos, a Silicon Valley blood-testing company that promised revolutionary diagnostics from a single fingerstick sample. For over a decade, the company ran...
October 11 · 45 min
CORPORATE COLLAPSE: Enron Corporation
In December 2001, Enron Corporation, once the seventh-largest company in the United States by revenue, filed for bankruptcy in Houston, Texas, erasing billions in shareholder value and the retirement savings of approximately 20,000 employees. The...
October 10 · 47 min
FRAUD: Charles Ponzi
In 1920, Italian-born Boston promoter Charles Ponzi collected millions from investors by promising 50 percent returns in 90 days, backed by a postal coupon arbitrage scheme that was mathematically impossible at the scale he claimed. The Securities...
October 9 · 45 min
FRAUD: Bernard Madoff
In December 2008, Bernard Madoff confessed to operating the largest Ponzi scheme in financial history from inside his own Wall Street firm, defrauding thousands of investors across multiple countries of billions of dollars over decades. Despite...
October 9 · 45 min
STOLEN: View of the Sea at Scheveningen & Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen
On 7 December 2002, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam through a rooftop break-in, disappearing for fourteen years before resurfacing in a Naples drug investigation in September 2016. Two men were convicted of the...
October 9 · 46 min
ART THEFT: Green Vault Dresden
In November 2019, thieves broke into the Grünes Gewölbe museum inside the Dresden Residenzschloss and stole 21 jewelled objects from the 18th-century Saxon treasury in a meticulously planned pre-dawn raid. Five defendants were convicted in January...
October 9 · 44 min
ART THEFT: The Scream
In February 1994, thieves scaled the wall of the National Gallery in Oslo and removed Edvard Munch's The Scream in approximately fifty seconds; a decade later, armed men walked into the Munch Museum in broad daylight and took a second version of the...
October 9 · 45 min
STOLEN: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Collection
On March 18, 1990, two men posing as police officers entered the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and removed thirteen works of art, including a Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas pieces, in eighty-one minutes. More than thirty-five...

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