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If you've been on the Internet at all in the past two years, you've probably seen some hardcore nineteen nineties nostalgia. After all, it's been twenty five years since nineteen ninety five.

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Twenty five years is a major milestone in a marriage. It's the silver anniversary and growing up, it's the year you can rent a car. Twenty five years ago, the Macarena was cool. Beanie Babies had resale value and O.J. Simpson was getting acquitted. And most of our listeners were probably paying more attention to their Beanie Babies than to true crime. So that got us thinking, ah, the shocking crimes of nineteen ninety five still shocking today. Do they feel different after so many years?

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Does nineteen ninety five have crimes we haven't heard of but need to know about.

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The answer to all of those is yes. That's why today we're counting down the top ten unforgettable crimes of nineteen ninety five. These crimes may be twenty five years in the past, but we think that they'll still shock you twenty five years from now. Hey, how you weirdo's, welcome to the podcast Original Crime Countdown.

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I'm Ash and Emelina. Every week will highlight 10 fascinating stories of history's most engaging and unsettling crimes, all picked by the podcast Research Gods.

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This episode, we're counting down the top ten unforgettable crimes of nineteen ninety five, 1995.

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So I was 10. That's crazy. So I was having a very Beanie Baby moment, but I was also watching the O.J. Simpson trial every single day I was in the womb.

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You certainly were. So I definitely wasn't watching the trial, but I'm sure I was listening to it.

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Yeah, that's right. Ash wasn't born yet. Everybody OK?

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I wasn't born yet, but I do have a great love for the 90s. Now, you do. You seem like a 90s kid. Yeah.

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Like in general, I've always been obsessed with like Kurt Cobain and I love 90s movies like Never Been Kissed and Clueless.

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You were kind of made for that decade, actually.

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I think about was I feel like I belong there because I love like tide. I love acid wash jeans. Yeah. You're all about trying to think I want I love a choker.

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Oh you do love a good show. Not only love a Choko, you wear a show where you wear it.

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Isn't it weird how history kind of repeats itself like that in these trends. Always come back. Yeah, everything always comes back around. I'm bummed that I didn't live it.

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But then again, some of these crimes make me thankful that I was woom chillin. Yeah. Today we're going to count down the top ten crimes of nineteen ninety five. Elayna has five and so do I, but neither knows which the other one has. Let's start the countdown.

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Ten. Starting off our list of unforgettable crimes of nineteen ninety five at number 10 is the Jenny Jones show murder nothing more 90s than the Jenny Jones show?

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Yeah, just the fact that it's called the Jenny Jones Show Murder. It's like, wow, 90s in March, nineteen ninety five. Twenty four year old Jonathan Schmitz shot and killed his friend Scott after Scott had revealed his secret crush on Jonathan on the Jenny Jones show just three days earlier. Each episode of the show never aired, but clips that have been made public now show Jonathan like nervously laughing, but also being cordial at the same time. I feel like, though, is everyone on these talk shows at that time, though?

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Yeah, because these talk shows were intense at the time.

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Like dear like Maury. Maury wasn't always like, you are not the father. You know what I actually had on the Jerry Springer Show this morning, of course. And it was like the topic was like, let's get freaky. And I was like, what?

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So it's perfect for this countdown. While he was on the show, Jonathan said that he wasn't gay. But according to some sources, he and Scott might have had a sexual encounter the night after the show. Intrigued. So it's like, who really knows?

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Does Jenny Jones? Jenny Jones probably does know. She really does. She knows all she knows a lot. A few days after the show was taped, Jonathan received a suggestive letter we were keeping on with the drama of the whole 90s talk show.

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And we don't get to see what happens after, like, you know, my daughter is a goth. Please make her over.

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Exactly. Well, he assumed this letter was from Scott and he made the decision right then in there to buy a gun and kill Scott. Oh, that's not good. An overreaction. Disproportionate response, right? Yes, Jonathan.

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Luckily, he turned himself in right after he shot Scott twice in the chest and he was sentenced to between twenty five and fifty years. Should have been more. I know. Well, luckily, Scott's family successfully sued the Jenny Jones show for wrongful death. Good. But the judgment was overturned by the Michigan Court of Appeals. But it doesn't really make any sense to me. But this whole thing really changed like daytime television and like talk shows like this.

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Yeah, absolutely. People were doing ambush things anymore. Ambush makeovers, the ambush, secret crushes, right?

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Yeah. Well, Jonathan Schmitz actually was released in twenty seventeen after serving twenty two years in prison. But he's not commenting on this whole thing now.

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Hate that. Nine. At number nine is the Harvard roommate murder on May 20th, 1995, 19 year old Harvard Junior Senada TDA stabbed her roommate Trang Fungo 45 times my God.

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Forty five times. She also attacked a guest before barricading herself in the bathroom and hanging herself from the shower rod.

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Wow, that's a lot. It's a lot to unpack. Imagine walking into that crime scene and just being like, what happened here? No, thank you. That's chaos.

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It's absolutely complete chaos. So Tadesse, his roommate died from her injuries at Cambridge Hospital, but her guest was able to make a recovery. So that's a silver lining. Yeah, and Teressa was a premed student from Ethiopia. She had become increasingly troubled by depression and some personality problems of late.

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Tedesco was extremely reserved by Western standards, whereas her roommate, Trang Fong Ho, was very sociable. So they were. So this is like, oh, yeah, already.

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It's just like these two personalities, either they're going to get along great or it's going to clash. Yeah. Tudorza even expressed her feelings of hopelessness, which is really sad by sending letters to local strangers. Really, that's just like so sad, really sad when her roommate shared her desire to room with a different student senior year to dusa hit a breaking point now.

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So this was literally a situation like you can't leave me. That's really scary. Yeah, no. Good.

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So Teressa missed three exams the week of the murder, then sent a note to the crims and the school paper and it had a picture of her and it promised a juicy story. Oh, no, thank you. Yeah. You feel like they should have been like, well, that's OK. We don't need that one or check into it. Maybe just a little bit. What juicy story. You want to give us a little bit of a lead here.

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I wonder if any of that movie I think like Blake Lively is in it or.

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No, it's not Blake Lively. It's the other one.

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The remake. Oh, yeah, it's not. What's her name.

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Ah, like single white female. Yeah. Of they were definitely inspired by that.

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Yeah, absolutely. Eight. Number eight on our countdown of top ten, unforgettable crimes of nineteen ninety five is the hijacking of Flight eight. Fifty seven on June 21st, nineteen ninety five, a 53 year old man hijacked the flight after it took off from Tokyo, saying he was armed with explosives, sarin gas and held a flight attendant hostage with a screwdriver to her neck.

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Oh, just that. Just all of that. Just that. Just all those things. No big deal. No one noticed. No.

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Yeah, very subtle. A lot of people noticed. So this man claimed to be from the terrorist group Shinrikyo. We know that. We've talked about you know, he apparently demanded the release of the cult leader who was already in custody on murder charges.

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Oh, so he wasn't going anywhere? No. It's like what do you think we're going to do about it on this plane? You think we're going to like, you know what? Sure. Let me call my people. Let them out. Well, along with explosives and gas, he also told authorities he had multiple henchmen seated around the plane to help him. So you're sitting on that plane and you're like, are are you a henchman? Excuse me, sir.

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Are you henchmen? Might you be a henchman? Can you imagine terror sitting on that plane, somebody sleeping on your shoulder and you're like, I'm sorry, are you a henchman? Can imagine to move because I'm feeling unsafe. After 15 to 16 hours of the standoff, the authorities determined that he was acting alone in the screwdriver with his only weapon. So while he was just a big fat liar, while riot police then stormed onto the plane and obviously arrested him, thank goodness, freeing the three hundred and sixty four people on board.

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Wow. So three hundred and sixty four people were sitting there like, what do we do? And it was just a guy with a screwdriver. Just that guy comes in. Rygiel actually denied any involvement and the hijacker then recanted his motive but didn't offer up another one. OK, and apologized. Oh, super sorry, but everything's fine now. Yeah, absolutely. If you're from the nineties, this guy is a literal poser.

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Seven. At number seven this week is the murder of Unabomber victim Gilbert Murray on April 24th in Sacramento. Gilbert Murray, the president of California's Forestry Association, a lobbying group, opened a package which exploded and killed him instantly. Oh, no.

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So Kazinsky was kind of like a really bad Ron Swanson, like the evil Ron Swanson.

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He was totally anti modern technology off the grid, totally off the grid, like he should have gone the real Ron Swanson way. It would have been much better go the path of light to go get a steak and some bacon. Exactly. But he didn't. So he was very anti modern technology. He hated seeing the forestry being torn down around him. And this is what sparked the bombing attacks.

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I mean, you literally could have done anything else about that. Make a sign, make a sign, make a call, tie yourself to the tree, go door to door. This just wasn't a good idea.

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But the Unabomber was linked to 15 attacks since the late 70s that killed two other people and injured a whopping twenty three.

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Wow. Yeah, he was really busy.

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Gilbert Murray then became the third victim killed by him since nineteen seventy eight. Now, Murray was the Unabomber. Second Sacramento victim, a computer store owner was killed in nineteen eighty five.

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The euro was born by a parcel bomb. Oh yeah. Not a good claim to fame like I was born that year.

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Hey, what a great year. But not actually a parcel bomb. He loves mail bombings. He does. He really does.

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The reason it stands out on this list, though, the Murray one is that Murray was not the intended recipient of this attack, which is so sad.

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That's a tragedy. This package was actually addressed to his predecessor, who he had just replaced. No. Uh huh. So he's, like, ready to go to work right now.

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So excited about my new job, jobs like yippee. And then opens a packet. Oh, like, that's awful.

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Can you imagine on either way, even if it was very like the other guy and he was still working at Sillerman, just As'ad, you open a package, you don't expect that now you expect something awesome from Amazon. I was just going to say that everybody loves a package. It's like Christmas, but he's trying to ruin it. He did do well. He did for a minute.

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Yeah, we got we got we got four minute quick minute. Well, Ted Kaczynski was finally arrested a year after killing Murray in April.

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Nineteen ninety six. See you later. Goodbye. The year I was born. I'd like to be linked to that.

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I'm fine, but yeah, that's a better one.

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Six. Also on our list at number six is Deborah Green on October twenty fourth nineteen ninety five, Green set her home on fire in Prairie Village, Kansas, with her three children inside. Oh, Damien, horrible woman. Oh, well, Deborah and her estranged husband, Mike, we're going through a divorce at the time. So she was really angry.

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Oh, yes. So totally justified. Yeah, obviously that's crazy.

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Well, further investigation revealed that the past years were marked by depression and frequent job losses and just all around failure. I would be shocked if it wasn't. Yeah, seriously. There was a lot of lead up to this. Her 13 year old son, Tim, and six year old daughter Kelly both died in the fire. 10 year old Kate made it to safety by climbing out a window and onto the roof. At what cost? And like just to know that your mom did that and escaped and now you have this survivor's guilt.

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That's horrible. Well, one murder attempt charge separate from the fire included the fact that Deborah had fed her husband, Mike Rice, and spiked meals. Deborah, like she was really trying to just get everybody out of there. Deborah, take a step back, like just go elsewhere how to get divorced, move away because you clearly hate everybody. You think it's like just get divorced and leave, right? You can leave your kids. It's fine.

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They're better off without you. Exactly.

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Well, Deborah was held on three million dollars bail, which was the highest bail ever required at that point in time by Johnson County, Kansas.

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She so clearly they were like, she needs to stay where she is. It's necessary. Deb appealed a few times, but luckily, it's always denied. The answer is no. Deb, goodbye forever and always. So xao the legal system.

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Wow, what a list so far. I don't know where we go from here. This whole thing has been just very sad and bleak. We have a Unabomber on here. We have Deb on here.

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Deb was not messing around. How is Deb that high up on the list? I know because we're headed to a dark, dark place, a very dark place.

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But you know what? Come with us. Join us. Join us.

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Starting off the second half of our list is the threatened and murders. On December six, 1995, three local drug dealers were lured down a deserted farm road near Rutland in Essex, England, and shot to death while they sat in their Range Rover. OK, yeah, you know this one, right? Yeah. I've never heard of this.

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No, I actually haven't. I was like, yeah, I've heard of China. I have the Range Rover. I got it. Well, the Range Rover is important because this case has also been called the Essex Boys Murders or the Range Rover murders.

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Which do you prefer, the Essex Boys murder? See, I'm the opposite. I like the Range Rover murder.

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I feel like the Range Rover murders did not do the people who committed this any favours when they were in prison. Can you imagine me going, oh, hey, I'm just the Range Rover murderer. That's true.

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I agree with I don't think you'd be high up on the powers, but if I have to go, let it be in a Range Rover. I mean, you would be the Range Rover one, but not a murderer. No, no, no, no. We digress.

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It's a crime that became one of the most notorious killings in Britain for decades, and that's been the subject of a ton of books and a few movies.

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Yeah, the victims were members of the Essex Boys gang, which is why the Essex Boys murder is at first. You're like, wonder why, though. And their murders amplified the fact that there was an underground drug war happening in Essex. I feel like this really would be a good movie. I want to watch one of these movies because it's like shining a spotlight on this now.

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The dark underbelly, you know, detectives investigating the murders called the crime scene in the car carnage. Oh. Would you know when investigators are describing it that like, poetically?

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Yeah, it's bad. A massive police investigation would eventually lead to the conviction of two men who claim innocence.

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Of course, they to their conviction relied heavily on a former friend turned police informant who many believe kind of spun a few tall tales. Oh, yeah.

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They think that he pretty much exaggerated his son. He's a rat and he's a liar and he's no good. You're not going to last long, sir.

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Before the trial, the informant had agreed to a, quote, unquote, commercial arrangement with a journalist who would become a best selling true crime writer.

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Oh, isn't that crazy? Yeah, just a casual coincidence. No horse in that race. I'm sure the whole trial and investigations reportedly exceeded one million pounds, which is nearly three million dollars in US money.

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Oh, yep. Expensive.

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Yeah. Range Rovers. For. Landing at number four this week is the murder of pop star Selena. On March 31st, the 23 year old singer was shot by Yolanda Saldivar at a dazed motel in Corpus Christi, Texas. I remember this one vividly.

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This is one of my favorite movies of all time with Jennifer Lopez. If you need a good cry, turn on Selena, who doesn't. Selena was known as the queen of Tejano music, and her first English language album was Months from Release when she was shot, Yolanda Saldivar was the president of Selena's fan club and she was also in charge of Selena's boutique business.

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She was also a card carrying bridge troll, correct.

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Great description. Well, it turns out, again, card carrying Bridgid was stealing from the business and Selena being quick witted and also a savvy businesswoman. I know, right? She was doing it all. She was well, she caught on to what was going on, of course. So she went to the hotel that Yolanda was staying at and asked her to hand over all the documents regarding her business affairs. She was like, I don't trust you with these.

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Hand them over. Yeah, she knew what was going on and she had a right to do that. It's her stuff. Absolutely.

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Well, Selena took the briefcase of documents and headed for the door on her way out. But as she was walking out, Yolanda shot her in the back with a 38 revolver d cowardice.

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But that it's like, really? She's walking out the door. I hate you.

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Selena ran out of the room and made her way to the hotel's reception, said the words Yolanda room one fifty eight and promptly fainted.

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Another example of how like genius Selena was. Even as she's bleeding out, right. She's able to be like, here's the pertinent information. She's just been shot and she's like, look who did it. Thank goodness she did. I know.

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Well she was taken to the hospital, but it was discovered that the bullet had caused irreparable damage to her lungs. During her trial, Yolanda had argued that she accidentally fired the shot. Come on. Oh, it's so incidental that all of this was happening and you accidentally shot the person who was probably going to sue you. And also, why did you point a gun at her right in the first place? Why was there a gun out in the first place?

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Exactly. Well, the jury didn't buy it, just like us. And Yolanda Saldivar was sentenced to life in prison and not see another goodbye.

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Three. Number three on our countdown of unforgettable crimes of nineteen ninety five is the AmCham recio nerve gas attack on a subway in Tokyo.

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Unlike when we mentioned the Colts at number eight during the plane hijacking, this time they really were involved. No posers, no posers. On March 20th, cult members walked onto central train lines with plastic bags of sarin gas and punctured them. Oh, my God, this is insane. That's a decent title. It's so brutal. I'm sure McKeough was a doomsday cult, of course. Founded in nineteen eighty four. It used a mixture of Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism, and they also used like yoga to draw on followers downward dog.

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So when you first read that, you're like, sounds rad, let's just meditate like this sounds great.

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And relaxing. Held a yoga class that morning instead, but that was not it at all.

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The cult was also full of top scientists like really smart, brilliant minds were part of this cult. And that's the weirdest thing about the whole thing. And like businessmen and like doctors.

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Yeah, like the most brilliant minds you can think of. Well, these top scientists were the ones who recreated the formula for sarin nerve gas, so didn't use it for good.

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The impact of the gas was immediate and victims began to choke and vomit. This is not one of those things where you just like cough and fall over.

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It is a brutal, gruesome and like slow. I would feel like awful.

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13 were killed and approximately. Are you ready? Six thousand were injured.

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And it was Japan's deadliest terrorist attack, 6000 people, 6000 people were injured on their way to work or wherever else. Exactly. Thousands were blinded or paralyzed. So thousands of people walked away from this.

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I mean, for life, there's going to be impacted for life. It's crazy. And rescue workers had to wear hazmat suits and gas masks just to deal with the victims.

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Right. Because there was probably like remnants and everything is have been just chaos.

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And what's so scary, what a like pandemonium. Yeah. Oh. The group's leader went through an eight year trial, but he never explained the motive behind the attack or even acknowledged responsibility for it.

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He was like, but just so you know, I didn't have anything to do with that plane hijacked. I definitely didn't do that plane hijacking. I can tell you this. I don't I don't remember this.

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I'm not real sure which is weird because you think going through all that trouble, these kind of dudes usually want to take responsibility for the fame and the notoriety. So it's strange. This whole thing is strange, to be honest. Their leader, along with six of his followers, were executed following the attack.

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What do you think is going to make the final two? Well, I didn't even realize that Solino was 1995. Yeah, I don't know what year I thought that was, but I remember it so vividly. I thought it was later. But that one I'm glad that's on the list. I think the movies came out.

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Yeah. I think the movie came out like the following year. I was probably I think it was ninety seven. Yeah. I think that's why I remember it like when I was born.

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Seriously though, I watch that movie and I had never heard of the rended murders. No I hadn't either. And so I want to see a movie about that now too. I know now I'm like going to look into that. I think you meant the Range Rover murders, though. Excuse me, the Essex boys. Let's fight about it. I don't know what the top two are going to be.

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Well, I know what one's going to be, but I don't know what the other one is. Me too. I feel exactly the same. So crazy. All right. Well, let's just do it. Let's do it.

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Two more down to the final two spots on our countdown of unforgettable crimes of 1995 landing. At number two is the bombing attacks on Paris in retaliation to France's involvement in the Algerian civil war.

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Oh, that old thing. Yeah. You know, that huge war. Yeah. While the bombers wanted to punish the French for supporting Algerian authorities who scrapped multiparty elections in 1992, an Islamist party had been poised to win that election. So this was like their retaliation for not letting that happen. Oh, no. Like, listen, this is the outcome we wanted and we didn't get it.

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So we're pissed. That's a very overreactive punishment. Again, I think that's a lot of people just getting very theatrical. The attacks began July 25th, which was the deadliest of all of them. So their first attack was the deadliest.

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She's right out of the gate, killing eight people. The bombers packed nails and bolts around gas cylinders just to maximize the injuries in the blasts.

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They did that at the marathon bombing in Boston, the Boston bombing. Yeah, we all remember that here. My God, I was at drivers at that day, that one little specific detail where they said that there was like shrapnel packed in there just to cause maximum damage, always, like, haunted me. And they did.

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So hearing it again is like there would be eight different bombings here in total, wounding over one hundred and fifty people is. The final attack took place on October 17. So this happened from July to October. Oh, I didn't even think of that, that that's such a long period of time. Yeah. And on October 17th, a bomb injured twenty nine people, five of them severely. Two additional bombs were thankfully diffused by the police and one actually misfired.

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Can you imagine what damage would have happened even more? Yeah. Algeria's radical armed Islamic group ultimately claimed responsibility for the whole thing. They usually do make sense.

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One. And that brings us to number one on our countdown of the top ten unforgettable crimes of nineteen ninety five. Are you ready? I'm ready.

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The Oklahoma City bombing. Oh, yes, I remember this one. I didn't think this would be on the letter. I can't believe I forgot it.

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On the morning of April 19th, Timothy McVeigh parked a truck filled with explosives outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City and detonated it, killing one hundred and sixty eight.

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Yeah, this one's really sad. I can see why this is that.

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Number one, there was so many little details that come out about this one that we're just like it just like adds. And yeah, I mean, these people just went to work like that's always just Timothy McVeigh fled the scene and detonated the device at around 9:00 a.m., which demolished a third of the building.

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I know if you picture a building in three parts of it, basically getting just completely demolished is so scary.

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It's insane. And I remember seeing it on TV and it was just catastrophic. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

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168 people were killed, including nineteen children.

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Oh, no. Yeah, hundreds more were injured. And the children I remember hearing about it, there was a daycare for the employees.

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Oh that's. Yeah. Which Oh.

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McVeigh was arrested less than two hours after the blast because already his vehicle did not have a license plate.

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You're serious. I am serious. His getaway car was not equipped with a license plate. These guys always make the stupidest decisions afterwards, which I'm glad I was.

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I was going to say I'm glad, but like, wow. Like really not a real thing. You were able to create, like, an explosive that that much damage and you can put a license plate on your car. It's like book smart versus commonsense. It absolutely is. Two days after the attack, McVeigh's accomplice, Terry Nichols, turned himself in to authorities.

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I see. I was wondering if he I couldn't remember if he me that worked with him.

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I thought so, absolutely. McVeigh met Terry Nichols during Nichols brief stint in the U.S. Army, and the two represented the Patriot Movement, which is a militant right wing movement that rejects government and any sort of law enforcement which seems to fit here.

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Yeah, McVeigh wanted to avenge the raid on the Branch Davidian in Waco. We talked about that. We did. And attack a building with as many federal government agents as possible.

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But you're also getting like everyone's innocent. But it's like you're trying to go after these certain people for your revenge. You're also killing kids. Nothing to do with this. And it's like he didn't care on that. Last night, Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison while McVeigh was sentenced to death and he was executed by lethal injection in 2001.

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See, I'm like in between on the death penalty, like, I can see both sides. And for this one, I'm like, yeah, OK, sure.

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You deserve it. Goodbye, I. Wow, what a list. That is definitely number one. Yeah, yeah, I can't think of anything else that one could have been number one or two that the park has research gods missed. Yeah, I don't think they missed anything. I think that was a very thorough list, which I'm a little upset about. I need to, like, decompress after I was heavy.

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Everybody just take a deep breath, do some yoga, not the Marinko kind of yoga, different kind, do some real yoga and just, you know, love.

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Just love each other. Yeah. Stop doing this stuff.

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Just make a sign and protest instead of you don't like something because that's cool. Yeah. Well, thanks for listening. We'll be back next week with another great episode. Remember to follow Crime Countdown on Spotify to get brand new episodes delivered.

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