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Episode 105 - Holiday Special - On Christmas Eve in 1988, after killing two security guards, gunmen burst into the Los Angeles offices of the Nakatomi Corporation in Century City at the newly opened Nakatomi Plaza building. The 30 plus hostages were all attendees of the Nakatomi Christmas party happening on the 30th floor. What at first appeared to be a terrorist incident was found out to be FAKE NEWS. Iit was actually an elaborate heist, led by German born criminal mastermind Hans Grüber. What Grüber and his group did not count on was the heroism of one partygoer, John McLane, who almost singlehandedly foiled the plan. The whole thing comes off like the plot of an action movie   Sources and Further Reading: [Breaking News - Shots Fired at Nakatomi Plaza] [Hans Gruber - Wikipedia] [John McClane - Wikipedia] [Fox Plaza (Los Angeles) - Wikipedia] [Nakatomi Plaza] [Timeline of Events] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine

Sixty years before Jack the Ripper, Burke and Hare, murdered 16 people in Scotland. Their victim's corpses were sold off to a medical school.

In this episode we meet William Lyon MacKenzie King, Canada's longest serving, and arguably the weirdest, Prime Minister.

A huge explosion levelled a vast section of the Siberian forest in 1908. The exact cause of the devastating blast is still unknown.

Episode 62, in February 1997, two men enter a North Hollywood, CA, bank and come out minutes later guns blazing, holding police at bay a full 44 minutes.

In the episode we travel to Plainfield, Wisconsin, home of one of the most depraved monsters of all time, Ed Gein.

Episode 048 commemorates the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice ending hostilities of WW1.

This is part 2 of of our first away game covering Andrei Chikatilo, one of the most prolific serial killers of all time killing as many as 56 in the USSR.

Andrei Chikatilo was one of the most prolific serial killers of all time killing as many as 56 in the USSR.