Outlaws & Gunslingers

At 3:42 a.m. on February 17, 1970, dispatchers at Fort Bragg received an emergency phone call from Jeffrey MacDonald, who faintly spoke into the receiver: "Help! Five forty-four Castle Drive! Stabbing! Five forty-four Castle Drive! Stabbing! Hurry!" When authorities arrived they found Macdonald's pregnant wife and 2 young daughters stabbed to death and Jeffrey mildly wounded. Jeffrey says it was 4...

On March 14th, 1912, Floyd Allen was accused of triggering a shootout at a courthouse where he was on trial for a separate crime. The shootout, which involved law enforcement and many members of the Allen clan killed the presiding judge, the prosecutor, the sheriff, and two others. There was confusion on who fired the first shots and who killed who, but in the end Floyd and his son were found guil...

In this episode we have a special double feature for you guys. We had two shorter subjects so we decided to put them both into one episode. In the first one, we have the abduction of one month old Peter Weinberger when he disappeared after his mother left him alone for 10 minutes on the front porch in his carriage on July 4th, 1956. In the second, and most disturbing one, 12 year old Marion Parker...

On April 15th, 1966, lifelong loser Richard Speck broke into a nursing school boarding house and slaughtered 8 nursing students. After being sentenced to death, his time in prison gets a little weird. And by a little, we mean a lot. Leave us an email at bangdangpodcast@gmail.com with any questions or comments! use code TRUECRIME for 20% off and free shipping at manscaped.com! Become a supporter of...

On October 1st, 1910, brothers John and James McNamara used dynamite to blow up the Los Angeles Times building in response to the newspaper's anti-union stance. The explosion and resulting fire killed 21 and injured another 100. It was just one of the many crimes during this era dubbed "the crime of the century." Email bangdangpodcast@gmail.com if you think we missed anything, got something wrong,...

Over the course of 100 episodes we have covered some of the meanest, deadliest, and most disgusting people, but none have come close to the disgust we had whIle covering this piece of garbage. Unfortunately we'll cover the murders that Chris Watts committed and also take a look at some interesting theories that his mistress Nichol Kessinger was actually involved. If you have something we missed or...

We cover the April 2007 shooting on the campus of Virginia Tech in which a student opened fire killing 32 people and injuring 17. We take a look at the perpetrator's childhood and his mental health issues before enrolling at VT. Of course we cover the event as well as the aftermath and the screwups from the University as well as the mental health facility and what they should have done to prevent...

We wrap up the JFK series with even more conspiracies. This time, we cover the possible connection between the CIA, the Mafia and Cuba. Then we get into whether or not Lyndon B. Johnson was the one who set the whole thing up out of fear that JFK was going to replace him as his running mate for the 1964 election. Finally, we end the episode with claims that various people connected to the Federal R...

In part 3, we take a look at the creation of the Warren Commission after the assassination and their findings. We then get into some conspiracies including claims that the commission covered up some events of the shooting. We have some not so famous conspiracy theories that we go over as well as some of the most prominent ones such as the "magic bullet" the grassy knoll, and the second shooter the...

On November 22nd, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while his motorcade traveled through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, TX. In this episode, we will cover the assassination, the killing of J.D. Tippit, the capture of Oswald and his interrogations, and his eventual killing by Jack Ruby. The events that unfold in this episode lead to a number of conspiracies, which we will cover in our ne...

In part one of this series on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, we take a look at the life of the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. We'll go through his childhood, his time in the Marines, his ties to Russia, and the immediate leadup to that fateful day in Dallas. Anything we missed or got wrong? Email us at bangdangpodcast@gmail.com and let us know! Become a supporter of this podcast: ht...

In this episode we cover the Reagon assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. We'll get into why he did it, the events during the shooting and of course the aftermath. As usual, if we missed anything or got somethiing wrong, email us at bangdangpodcast@gmail.com and let us know! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/outlaws-gunslingers--4737234/support . Subscribe t...

On November 5th, 2017, a gunman opened fire on worshippers at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, TX. A churchgoer, Stephen Willeford, then shot him twice causing him to flee the scene but not before he killed 26 people and wounded another 22. Willeford chased him down causing him to crash and when the police arrived at the scene they discovered the shooter dead from a self inflicted g...

The Tulsa Race Riot also known as the Black Wall Street Massacre started on May 30th, 1921 when 19 year old Dick Rowland was accused of assaulting a 17 year old white girl named Sarah Page in Tulsa, Oklahoma.. After he was arrested, a massive crowd showed up at the courthouse with talks of him being lynched. Just then, an elderly white man tried to disarm a black man carrying a pistol. Shots rang...

In this episode we take a look at the highly controversial 2017 Las Vegas shooting commited by Stephen Paddock. Paddock fired over 1000 rounds from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel into a crowd of 22,000 concert goers, killing 60 and wounding at least 413. Following the incident, nationwide attention was put on bump stocks and gun control with the latter still being debated to this day. 5...

In 1968 the city of Cleveland, like much of the U.S., racial tension was at an all time high. This tension came to a head on July 23rd when members of a militant group called the Black Nationalist of New Libya engaged in a shootout with Cleveland police that left 3 militants, 3 police officers, and 1 civilian dead. This led to a riot in the Glenville neighborhood that lasted until July 27th result...

On January 2nd, 2016 a far right group calling themselves the Citizens For Constitutional Freedom, lead by Ammon Bundy, took control of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon. They were seeking the release of 2 men convicted of arson of federal land as well as demanding the release of federal land back to the state. This event made headlines with the shooting of Lavoy Finicu...

The Columbine school shooting is arguably the beginning of this trend of school shootings that we are still currently in. When it happened, there was intense media coverage especially when it came to the motive. Was it bullying, or video games, or even Marilyn Manson? This event inspired many copycat incidents which led to a dramatic spike in school shootings that we still see today. We will go th...

There have been many events labeled the "crime of the century" and we have covered a few. This time, we go all the way back to 1924 when two students at the University of Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, decide they want to commit the "perfect crime" The two hatch up a plan and abduct and kill 14 year old Bobby Franks. Will they succeed? bangdangpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @OGMMPodcast Bec...

On February 6th. 1993, a truck bomb exploded under the WTC North Tower. Perpetrated by Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammed Salameh and several others, they intended for the bomb to topple the North Tower and send it crashing into the South Tower killing thousands in retaliation of the USA backing of Israel. Although that plan failed, they did manage to kill 6 and wound several hundred others...

On December 8th, 1980, Mark David Chapman stood outside of John Lennon's New York residence and asked for his autograph. Later that night as Lennon returned home from the recording studio, Chapman fired five hollow point bullets at Lennon's back, striking him four times. Lennon was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Chapman would later say that he shot Lennon because of his "bigg...

On August 1st, 1966, after stabbing his wife and mother, Charles Whitman went to the observation deck on the main building tower at the University Of Texas and started shooting. After 96 minutes he killed 14 and injured 31 people. At the time, it was the deadliest mass shooting in American history. Send your questions or comments to bangdangpodcast@gmail.com or find us on Twitter @OGMMPodcast! Bec...

It's the 30th anniversary of Ruby Ridge, which was the site of an eleven day siege in 1992 in Boundary County, Idaho. It began on August 21st, when deputies of the United States Marshals Service tried to arrest Randy Weaver for a warrant related to a firearms charge. When he resisted, the standoff began, the FBI was called in and that's when all hell breaks loose. Email us at bangdangpodcast@gmail...

The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a white supremacist terrorist act committed by four members of a local KKK chapter on September 15th, 1963. They planted 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device under the steps of the church. The bomb exploded and killed four young girls and injured 22. Due to shady work by the FBI (as usual), no prosecutions were conducted until 1977 and it was...

The 1993 Long Island Rail Road shooting occurred on December 7, 1993, aboard a Long Island Rail Road train in Garden City Park, New York. As the train arrived at Merillon Avenue station, passenger Colin Ferguson began firing at other passengers with a semi-automatic pistol killing 6 and injuring 19. The trial was one of the most bizarre in history as Ferguson chose to represent himself and even qu...